Victorian Poetry articles from September 2006

Victorian Poetry archives from September 2006

Hopkins the romantic? The question of empathy in "Spring and Fall".
September 22, 2006... When first reading Gerard Manley Hopkins's "Spring and Fall," one is struck by the speaker's tone of empathic tenderness towards the "young child" he addresses, whose own feeling of empathy is the subject matter of his address. Turning to...

Creating from nothing: Swinburne and Baudelaire in "Ave Atque Vale".(Algernon Charles Swinburne, Charles Baudelaire)
September 22, 2006... Algernon Charles Swinburne was among the earliest English critics to praise Charles Baudelaire's Fleurs du Mal (1857). Writing in the Spectator for September 1862, Swinburne stresses the volume's "delight in problems": It has the...

Jason Rudy wins Honorable Mention, 2005 Donald Gray Prize, NAVSA.(Brief article)
September 22, 2006... We are pleased to record that Jason Rudy's essay, "Rhythmic Intimacy, Spasmodic Epistemology," which appeared in VP 42, no. 4 (2004): 451-472), has been selected to receive the Honorable Mention of the 2005 Donald Gray Prize awarded by the...

The New Zealand Minstrelsy (1852): William Golder and the Beginnings of a national literature in New Zealand.(Victorian poetry)(essay)(Critical essay)
September 22, 2006... When William Golder (1810-1876) published by subscription in 1852 The New Zealand Minstrelsy, the first volume of poetry printed and published in New Zealand, he had been living in the Hutt Valley north of Wellington for twelve years, having...

Circles and the in-between: shaping time, space, and paradox in Swinburnian Verse.
September 22, 2006... One of the first trends that we note upon looking at Swinburne's landscape and erotic poetry is his tendency toward the use of paradox. Taking this technique as a lens through which to observe Swinburnian verse, we find ourselves caught in a...

Richard C. Tobias: October 12, 1925-September 12, 2006.(Obituary)
September 22, 2006... Victorian Poetry has lost a long-time friend and associate. "Tob" was a charter member in 1963 of the Editorial Board of the Journal. In 1967 he became, along with Gordon Pitts and Fred A. Dudley, a member of a special group of advisors to the...

General materials.(Guide to the Year's Work)(Victorian poetry)(Edward FitzGerald)(Critical essay)
September 22, 2006... "All the new thinking is about loss," writes Robert Hass in "Meditation at Lagunitas." Much recent work in Victorian studies seems evidence for such a claim, indexed by a marked increase in sightings of Edward FitzGerald. Indeed, two of this...

Matthew Arnold.(Guide to the Year's Work)(Victorian poetry)("The Scholar-Gipsy")(Critical essay)
September 22, 2006... There were several substantial new readings of individual poems by Arnold in 2005, and I will begin with two articles on "The Scholar-Gipsy," an important new poem in Arnold's well-known 1853 edition, which included a famous preface and notably...

Elizabeth Barrett Browning.(Guide to the Year's Work)(Victorian poetry)(Critical essay)(Column)
September 22, 2006... In contrast to last year's work on EBB, in which religion formed a dominant theme, 2006 has brought a return to a strong emphasis on politics--both the politics of nation and gender politics. Works on which attention seems to have converged...

Robert Browning.(Guide to the Year's Work)
September 22, 2006... As Robert Browning was not covered in "The Year's Work" for 2005, the present article reviews a selection of publications from the past two years. The three major items are the latest volumes of The Brownings' Correspondence and of the Oxford...

Thomas Hardy.(Guide to the Year's Work)
September 22, 2006... This has been another important year for Hardy biographers. Despite the advent of Thomas Hardy: A Biography Revisited (2004), in which Michael Millgate revisits the terrain he has been cultivating for some twenty years since Thomas Hardy: A...

Hopkins.(Guide to the Year's Work)(Gerard Manley Hopkins and Christina Rossetti)(Critical essay)
September 22, 2006... Although some new full-length books about Hopkins have been announced, none of these has yet appeared in general distribution. Most of the new pieces of published work available (which are all either articles or essays in book collections)...

The poets of the nineties.(Guide to the Year's Work)
September 22, 2006... Most of the significant work for this year's roundup focuses on women writers, and when the major subject centers on a male author, women writers who are linked with him are accorded importance. To take the latter type of work first, we turn to...

The pre-Raphaelites.(Guide to the Year's Work)(Victorian poetry)(Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Christina Rosetti and William Morris)(Critical essay)
September 22, 2006... The past year has brought us The Correspondence of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Chelsea Years, 1863.1872, III. 1871-72, the fifth volume of a series originally to be prepared by the late William Fredeman, and completed after his death in 1999 by...

Swinburne.(Guide to the Year's Work)(Algernon Charles Swinburne)(Victorian poetry)(Critical essay)
September 22, 2006... Following last year's edition of Terry L. Meyers' Uncollected Letters of Algernon Charles Swinburne and Jerome McGann and Charles Sligh's Major Poems and Selected Prose, this year has also seen the publication of a long anticipated work in the...

Tennyson.(Guide to the Year's Work)(Lord Alfred Tennyson)(Critical essay)
September 22, 2006... Close reading and formal analysis, sometimes coupled with psychoanalytic theory, came to the fore in work on Tennyson in 2005, extending his links to aestheticism (as in Angela Leighton's "Touching Forms: Tennyson and Aestheticism," 2001) and...