Victorian Poetry articles from March 2007

Victorian Poetry archives from March 2007

Back to the future: Lionel Trilling, "The Scholar-Gipsy," and the state of Victorian poetry.
March 22, 2007... Now that both a new generation of Victorianists and a group of senior scholars have had their say in the "Whither Victorian poetry?" debate, an outsider's view of some of the issues raised might prove useful. Many specialists in contiguous...

Shaping the self: critical perspective and community in Sohrab and Rustum.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2007... To thee only God granted A heart ever new-- To all always open, To all always true. ("Parting," ll. 79-82) (1) Most critics agree that Sohrab and Rustum marks a turn in Arnold's work from the exploration of the...

"A church of himself": liberal skepticism and consistent character in Bishop Blougram's Apology.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2007... What or who is it that is "out," made manifest and fully disclosed, when and if I reveal myself as lesbian? What is it that is now known, anything? What remains permanently concealed by the very linguistic act that offers up the promise of a...

Poetry in the Victorian marketplace: the illustrated Princess as a Christmas gift book.
March 22, 2007... In December 1859 Emily Tennyson recorded the arrival at Farringford of the illustrated Princess (1) whose complicated, prolonged, and treacherous birth had almost killed Tennyson's decades-long relationship with the House of Moxon the previous...

"Pagan Moore": poetry, painting, and passive masculinity in George Moore's Flowers of Passion (1877) and Pagan Poems (1881).(Critical essay)
March 22, 2007... Criticism and the public taste have, following George Moore's own lead, tended to neglect his poetic work. (1) At the publication of Flowers of Passion in autumn 1877, literary voices were united in their disgust toward Moore's blatant...