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The Spasmodic Poets
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Author : Lori A. Paige
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2022-10-14
The Spasmodic Poets written by Lori A. Paige and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-14 with Literary Criticism categories.
Few stories capture the unique interplay of critical theory, mass media and public taste better than the story of the Spasmodics. These earnest, youthful and largely self-educated neo-Romantics hoped to become prophets who would influence literary society on a grand scale. From about 1850 to 1860, the Spasmodics successfully cast a long shadow over virtually every serious discussion of Victorian poetry. Many mid-nineteenth-century writers, including Tennyson, both Brownings and Matthew Arnold, were either adherents or outspoken detractors of the Spasmodic School. This work documents, in appropriate social contexts, the trajectory of the Spasmodic School in both its original incarnation and subsequent appraisals. Examining the various personalities and aesthetic principles that fashioned the movement, the author does not champion any particular critical stance or verdict. The scholarly apparatus cites a number of competing Victorianist interpretations, approaches and judgments with varying degrees of expertise.
The Spasmodic Poets
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Author : Lori A. Paige
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2022-10-25
The Spasmodic Poets written by Lori A. Paige and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-25 with Literary Criticism categories.
Few stories capture the unique interplay of critical theory, mass media and public taste better than the story of the Spasmodics. These earnest, youthful and largely self-educated neo-Romantics hoped to become prophets who would influence literary society on a grand scale. From about 1850 to 1860, the Spasmodics successfully cast a long shadow over virtually every serious discussion of Victorian poetry. Many mid-nineteenth-century writers, including Tennyson, both Brownings and Matthew Arnold, were either adherents or outspoken detractors of the Spasmodic School. This work documents, in appropriate social contexts, the trajectory of the Spasmodic School in both its original incarnation and subsequent appraisals. Examining the various personalities and aesthetic principles that fashioned the movement, the author does not champion any particular critical stance or verdict. The scholarly apparatus cites a number of competing Victorianist interpretations, approaches and judgments with varying degrees of expertise.
The Spasmodic Career Of Sydney Dobell
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Author : Martha Westwater
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
The Spasmodic Career Of Sydney Dobell written by Martha Westwater and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The Smasmodic Career of Sydney Dobell opens up a tantalizing but neglected twenty-year period of British literary history in the mid-Victorian era. Dobell, one of the few poetic theorists of his day, fell victim to a literary hoax that robbed him of his rightful place as an important transition figure between Romantic and Victorian poetry. Contents: A Footnote in Literary History; Mother Church and Child Bride; Father and Master; Liberty and Power: The Roman; Balder: Power and Horror; Downfall at Edinburgh; Last Attempts: Sonnets on the WaróEngland in Time of War; Dobell's Theory of Poetry: In Defense of Spasmodism; A Matter of Influence.
Specimens With Memoirs Of The Less Known British Poets Part 1 Esprios Classics
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Author : George Gilfillan
language : en
Publisher: Blurb
Release Date : 2022-03-24
Specimens With Memoirs Of The Less Known British Poets Part 1 Esprios Classics written by George Gilfillan and has been published by Blurb this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-24 with categories.
Rev George Gilfillan (30 January 1813 - 13 August 1878) was a Scottish author and poet. One of the spasmodic poets, Gilfillan was also an editor and commentator, with memoirs, critical dissertations in many editions of earlier British poetry. Gilfillan published a volume of his discourses in 1839, and shortly afterwards another sermon on Hades, which brought him under the scrutiny of his co-presbyters, and was ultimately withdrawn from circulation. Gilfillan next contributed a series of sketches of celebrated contemporary authors to the Dumfries Herald, then edited by Thomas Aird; these, with several new ones, formed his first Gallery of Literary Portraits, which appeared in 1846 and had a wide circulation. It was quickly followed by a Second and a Third Gallery.
Specimens With Memoirs Of The Less Known British Poets Part 1 Dodo Press
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Author : George Gilfillan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007-06-01
Specimens With Memoirs Of The Less Known British Poets Part 1 Dodo Press written by George Gilfillan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-06-01 with categories.
Comprehensive study by the Scottish author. He is now remembered as the subject of An Address to the Rev. George Gilfillan, the first of William McGonagall's poetic productions. He was one of the spasmodic poets.
A Companion To Victorian Poetry
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Author : Ciaran Cronin
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2008-04-15
A Companion To Victorian Poetry written by Ciaran Cronin and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-04-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
This Companion brings together specially commissioned essays by distinguished international scholars that reflect both the diversity of Victorian poetry and the variety of critical approaches that illuminate it. Approaches Victorian poetry by way of genre, production and cultural context, rather than through individual poets or poems Demonstrates how a particular poet or poem emerges from a number of overlapping cultural contexts. Explores the relationships between work by different poets Recalls attention to a considerable body of poetry that has fallen into neglect Essays are informed by recent developments in textual and cultural theory Considers Victorian women poets in every chapter
Auto Poetica
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Author : Darby Lewes
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2006
Auto Poetica written by Darby Lewes and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Literary Criticism categories.
A work of art written about an artist creating a work of art is, in a sense, a novel in which the author is a character. The essays in this collection examine nineteenth-century texts that attempted to merge fiction and reality into a unified whole.
Victorian Poetry And The Culture Of Evaluation
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Author : Clara Dawson
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2020-02
Victorian Poetry And The Culture Of Evaluation written by Clara Dawson and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Victorian Poetry and the Culture of Evaluation argues that the dialectic and dynamic relationship between the periodical review and poetry creates a culture of evaluation which shapes Victorian poetic form. The mediation of poetry by the periodical review orients poets towards public readership and reception, heightening their self-consciousness about their audience and generating a poetics of publicness. Using methodologies associated with historical poetics and new formalism, the book examines the dialogues between poets and periodical reviews from the 1830s to the 1860s. It juxtaposes male and female poets and canonical and uncanonical texts. Challenging the critical binaries of fame and celebrity, the culture of evaluation posits a new way of reading Victorian poetry. It illuminates poets' engagement with the immediacy and inevitability of writing for the present and for the contemporary media through which poetry was read and disseminated. New patterns of reception were created by mass print culture and both poets and reviewers were preoccupied with reaching the newly constituted mass audience. The changes to the material forms of poetry (e.g. through the periodical or gift-book) and the subjection to the commercial imperatives of the literary marketplace encouraged bold experiment with verse. The book identifies three poetic strategies for articulating the preoccupation with a mass audience and the demands of mass media: voice, style and address. Chapters on voice, style, and address explore the development of poetic form in dialogue with periodical reviews.
Victorian Poetry And The Culture Of The Heart
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Author : Kirstie Blair
language : en
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Release Date : 2006-04-27
Victorian Poetry And The Culture Of The Heart written by Kirstie Blair and has been published by Clarendon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-04-27 with Literary Criticism categories.
Victorian Poetry and the Culture of the Heart is a significant and timely study of nineteenth-century poetry and poetics. It considers why and how the heart became a vital image in Victorian poetry, and argues that the intense focus on heart imagery in many major Victorian poems highlights anxieties in this period about the ability of poetry to act upon its readers. In the course of the nineteenth century, this study argues, increased doubt about the validity of feeling led to the depiction of the literary heart as alienated, distant, outside the control of mind and will. This coincided with a notable rise in medical literature specifically concerned with the pathological heart, and with the development of new techniques and instruments of investigation such as the stethoscope. As poets feared for the health of their own hearts, their poetry embodies concerns about a widespread culture of heartsickness in both form and content. In addition, concerns about the heart's status and actions reflect upon questions of religious faith and doubt, and feed into issues of gender and nationalism. This book argues that it is vital to understand how this wider culture of the heart informed poetry and was in turn influenced by poetic constructs. Individual chapters on Barrett Browning, Arnold, and Tennyson explore the vital presence of the heart in major works by these poets - including Aurora Leigh, 'Empedocles on Etna', In Memoriam, and Maud - while the wide-ranging opening chapters present an argument for the mutual influence of poetry and physiology in the period and trace the development of new theories of rhythm as organic and affective.
Inspiration And Insanity In British Poetry
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Author : Joseph Crawford
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2019-07-24
Inspiration And Insanity In British Poetry written by Joseph Crawford and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-24 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book explores the ways in which poetic inspiration came to be associated with madness in early nineteenth-century Britain. By examining the works of poets such as Barrett, Browning, Clare, Tennyson, Townshend, and the Spasmodics in relation to the burgeoning asylum system and shifting medical discourses of the period, it investigates the ways in which Britain’s post-Romantic poets understood their own poetic vocations within a cultural context that insistently linked poetic talent with illness and insanity. Joseph Crawford examines the popularity of mesmerism among the writers of the era, as an alternative system of medicine that provided a more sympathetic account of the nature of poetic genius, and investigates the persistent tension, found throughout the literary and medical writings of the period, between the Romantic ideal of the poet as a transcendent visionary genius and the ‘medico-psychological’ conception of poets as mere case studies in abnormal neurological development.