Victorian Poetry articles from September 2003

Victorian Poetry archives from September 2003

Arms and the Circassian woman: Frances Browne's "The Star of Atteghei".
September 22, 2003... IN DECEMBER 1916 A WRITER FOR THE IRISH BOOK LOVER LAMENTED THAT THE centenary of the birth of Frances Brown, once known far and wide as 'the blind girl of Donegal,' which occurred on 16th January last, did not elicit a single line in any...

The hero and the sage: Elizabeth Barrett's Sonnets "To George Sand" in Victorian context.
September 22, 2003... IN DECEMBER OF 1844 AMEDEE PICHOT, EDITOR OF REVUE BRITANNIQUE, published a French translation of To George Sand: A Desire" along with the English version. (1) Elizabeth Barrett had published her two sonnets "To George Sand" only a few months...

Two interpolated speeches in Robert Browning's A Death in the Desert.
September 22, 2003... ROBERT BROWNING'S A DEATH IN THE DESERT, WHICH FIRST APPEARED IN THE collection Dramatis Personae, published in May 1864, is a poem of exceptional interest, intimately related to the intellectual life of its time. The date of composition is...

"Death lies dead": the allusive texture of Swinburne's "A Forsaken Garden".
September 22, 2003... Swinburne's provocative dissent was not usually indirect. His controversial mode had, it is usually assumed, little place for the oblique. With the overt impatience with Christianity inscribed in Poems and Ballads first series (1866), there is...

Guide to the year's work: general materials.
September 22, 2003... Certainly one of the largest, and probably the most important, recent works on Victorian poetry is A Companion to Victorian Poetry, edited by Richard Cronin, Alison Chapman, and Antony H. Harrison, a compilation of thirty-one substantial essays...

Specialized materials.(Editorial)
September 22, 2003... We are engaged currently in an important discussion in literature and cultural studies departments about publication requirements for tenure and promotion. What constitutes significant and sufficient research, and how should our guidelines...

Matthew Arnold.
September 22, 2003... When I mentioned in last year's essay that this year I would discuss the sixth and final volume of Cecil Y. Lang's edition of Matthew Arnold's letters (University Press of Virginia), which had appeared in late 2001, I did not suspect that it...

Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
September 22, 2003... Surveying canonical transformations in the forty-four years since establishment of the journal Victorian Studies, Edward H. Cohen notes, as one significant change, that there are now "almost as many" bibliography entries each year on Elizabeth...

Robert Browning.
September 22, 2003... Recent months have brought forth various studies of Robert Browning, ranging from pleasing and careful popularization; to examinations of language, tropes, and gender; to notes and reference works. Those texts aimed at the general reader vary...

Thomas Hardy.
September 22, 2003... At some indefinable point in recent decades a significant new movement occurred in Hardy criticism. For want of a better term I would like to call it a "focalization" change for, indeed, there came a time when a greater loco-specific shape...

Gerard Manley Hopkins.
September 22, 2003... In a year that has also featured revisions of previous Hopkinsian scholarship, two new books and a number of diversified new journal articles offer varied critical opinions. Even though one can occasionally encounter in these writings some...

The poets of the nineties.
September 22, 2003... Attack permeates Germaine Greer's "The Name and Nature of Poetry" (HSJ 28 [2002]: 9-23), delivered as the Housman Lecture during the Orange World International Writers Season in London, Apollo Theatre, December 11, 2002. Choosing a title which...

The Pre-Raphaelites.
September 22, 2003... I will begin this year's review with three brief general studies of Pre-Raphaelitism. David Riede's overview of "The Pre-Raphaelite School," in the Blackwell Companion to Victorian Poetry edited by Richard Cronin, Alison Chapman, and...

Swinburne.
September 22, 2003... This has been an extremely thin year for Swinburne studies. Last year I discussed Heather Seagroatt's "Swinburne Separates the Men from the Girls: Sensationalism in Poems and Ballads" (VLC 30 [2002]: 41-59), Malcolm Hardman's "Faithful to the...

Tennyson.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2003... Preoccupations with empire and gender somewhat abated in Tennyson studies in 2002, with the slack taken up by attention to influence, a term near to hand because Robert Douglas-Fairhurst treats the subject in such resonant terms in Victorian...

The Earthly Paradise.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... by William Morris, ed. Florence Boos. 2 vols. New York and London: Routledge, 2002. xxxix + 687 pp. ; 779 + 1xv pp. Illustrated. $325.00. Florence Boos is to be commended not only for a monumental editorial effort that has led to successful...