Victorian Poetry articles from June 2007

Victorian Poetry archives from June 2007

"Hang there like fruit, my soul": Tennyson's feminine imaginings.(Alfred Tennyson)
June 22, 2007... Tennyson, we know, was buried with a copy of Cymbeline (as well as various wreaths, and roses from Emily), and in the days before his death on October 5, 1892, he repeatedly asked for the relevant volume, laying it "face down" on the page where...

"The history of error": Hardy's critics and the self unseen.(Thomas Hardy)
June 22, 2007... For one thing, many fine poems that have lyric moments are not entirely lyrical; many largely narrative poems are not entirely narrative; many personal reflections or meditations in verse hover across the frontiers of lyricism. --Thomas...

Elizabeth Barrett Browning's religious poetics: Congregationalist models of hymnist and preacher.
June 22, 2007... In recent work on Elizabeth Barrett Browning's conception of the poet figure, several critics have situated Aurora Leigh within the context of Victorian sage discourse. Sage discourse, defined by John Holloway as the expression of "notions...

Mastering the ineffable: Dante Gabriel Rossetti's "The Vase of Life" and the Kantian sublime.(Immanuel Kant)
June 22, 2007... Any reader of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's ekphrastic poems (that is, poems at take a work of art as their object) must be struck by the ineffability he attributes to paintings or the subjects they represent. Leonardo da Vinci's Our Lady of the...

Darwinism, doxology, and energy physics: the new sciences, the poetry and the poetics of Gerard Manley Hopkins.
June 22, 2007... In our day grand generalisations have been reached. The theory of the origin of species is but one of them. Another, of still wider grasp and more radical significance, is the doctrine of the Conservation of Energy. (1) The scientific...

Gerard Manley Hopkins and the song of songs.
June 22, 2007... Although Hopkins' biblical and devotional themes in "The Wreck of the Deutschland" (1876) have been extensively examined, there has been little discussion of the central importance to the poem of the Song of Songs and its tradition of related...