Victorian Poetry articles from September 2007

Victorian Poetry archives from September 2007

Hopkins' affective rhythm: Grace and intention in tension.(poet Gerard Manley Hopkins)(Critical essay)
September 22, 2007... "Why do I employ sprung rhythm at all?" the Victorian poet and Jesuit priest Gerard Manley Hopkins asks fellow poet Robert Bridges in 1877. (1) Hopkins' question remains largely unanswered. I do not, however, intend yet another contribution to...

In Memoriam: Margot K. Louis (1954-2007).(University of Victoria associate professor)(Obituary)
September 22, 2007... Students of Victorian poetry and especially students of A. C. Swinburne suffered a great loss with the passing in August 2007 of Margot K. Louis, Associate Professor at the University of Victoria. Margot's brilliance was apparent immediately...

Dionysian music, patriotic sentiment, and Tennyson's Idylls of the King.(Alfred Lord Tennyson)(Critical essay)
September 22, 2007... In The Coming of Arthur, the first idyll in the narrative sequence of Idylls of the King, (1) the youthful Gawain, who is not yet a knight, wanders a terrain that is not yet Arthur's: And Gawain went, and breaking into song Sprang...

George Meredith's early verse: a new manuscript in his first wife's hand.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2007... Although his first collection of Poems (1851) received a fair measure of raise from reviewers and a handsome compliment from Tennyson, George Meredith soon came to regard the book as an embarrassment and later wished he could suppress it...

General materials.(Victorian Poetry and the Culture of the Heart)(Nostalgia in Transition, 1780-1917)(Epic and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Britain)(Original Copy: Plagiarism and Originality in Nineteenth-Century Literature)(The English Cult of Literature: Devoted Readers, 1774-1880)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Taken together, this year's books in Victorian studies demonstrate the continuing ascendancy of historical contextualization as a critical mode. Two of them explore a dialectical relation between mind and body, out of which some aspect of...

Matthew Arnold.(literary studies)(Bibliography)
September 22, 2007... Through the years there has been a continuous interest in Arnold and the roles he played in British cultural history, literally the part he played in developing the key term "culture" and the widespread influence of his critical ideas, while...

Elizabeth Barrett Browning.(Guide To The Year's Work)
September 22, 2007... This year's work on EBB brings the harvest of conferences and special journal issues marking the bicentenary of the poet's birth in 1806. The harvest includes scholarship on an increasing range of her output, including works little discussed in...

Robert Browning.(literary studies)(Bibliography)
September 22, 2007... While no book-length studies on Browning have appeared during this review period, the year has seen a healthy number of articles which apply a variety of critical approaches to individual poems. They demonstrate how well the poet lends himself...

Thomas Hardy.(literary studies)(Bibliography)
September 22, 2007... Hardy had his own ideas about reception theory and was well aware that readers contribute to the production of meaning in a text, that their responses are conditioned by the interplay of literary textual elements and their own culturally...

Hopkins.(literary studies on poet Gerard Manley Hopkins)(Bibliography)
September 22, 2007... On the publishing horizon are several Hopkinsian books of likely key importance--especially, the new multi-volume Oxford University Press editions of Hopkins' Collected Works--including poems, journals, sermons, and letters. Meanwhile, however,...

The poets of the nineties.(The Faiths of Oscar Wilde: Catholicism, Folklore and Ireland)(The Resurrection of Oscar Wilde: A Cultural Afterlife)(Bound for the 1890s: Essays on Writing and Publishing in Honor of James G. Nelson)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Jarlath Killeen's The Faiths of Oscar Wilde: Catholicism, Folklore and Ireland (Palgrave Macmillan 2005) will doubtless occasion revaluations of Wilde's writings, likewise elicit challenges from minimizers of Wilde's Roman Catholic heritage....

The pre-Raphaelites.(literary studies)(Bibliography)
September 22, 2007... The sixth volume of D. G. Rossetti's letters, The Correspondence of Dante Gabriel Rossetti: The Last Decade, 1873-1882 (D. S. Brewer, Cambridge and the Modern Humanities Association), offers six hundred fifty-eight annotated letters from 1873...

Swinburne.(literary studies on poet Algernon Charles Swinburne)(Bibliography)
September 22, 2007... When reviewing the Swinburnean materials published over the last five years or so, one cannot but notice the shift that has been taking place among Swinburne scholars. Together with the on-going interest in his sexuality and radical politics,...

Tennyson.(literary studies on Alfred Lord Tennyson)(Bibliography)
September 22, 2007... Books by Kathryn Ledbetter and Kirstie Blair form the most notable contributions to Tennyson studies in 2006. In Tennyson and Victorian Periodicals: Commodities in Context (Ashgate, 2007 [released December 2006]), Kathryn Ledbetter examines...