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Journal articles on the topic "Victorian Poem"
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Levine, Naomi. "VictorianPearl: Tennysonian Elegy and the Return of a Medieval Poem." Victoriographies 6, no. 3 (2016): 238–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/vic.2016.0240.
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In 1904, medievalist critic William Henry Schofield declared that the fourteenth-century poem Pearl was not an elegy, overturning an assumption that had persisted since the poem's first publication in 1864. This article focuses on the question of Pearl's genre and its relation to the Victorian literary culture into which the poem was reborn. I argue that Victorian critics did not read Pearl simply as an elegy, but as a Victorian elegy, a genre with a very particular cluster of thematic and formal attributes – and, indeed, a heightened sensitivity to the fit between theme and form. Although Pearl is five centuries older than In Memoriam, its long latency as a manuscript and its subsequent revival fourteen years into the In Memoriam craze created the impression that the medieval poem followed and was somehow derived from the Victorian one. This article proposes that Victorian models of form and genre were powerful enough to work backward. Pearl's late-century reception demonstrates how thoroughly In Memoriam defined Victorian poetics not only by instigating new prosodic fashions, but also by shaping the reading practices with which Victorians approached their literary historical past.
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Morton, John. "Science in Neo-Victorian Poetry." Victoriographies 6, no. 2 (2016): 131–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/vic.2016.0228.
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This article considers the work of three contemporary poets and their engagement, in verse, with nineteenth-century science. Beginning with the outlandish ‘theories’ of Mick Imlah's ‘The Zoologist's Bath’ (1983), it moves on to two works of biografiction – Anthony Thwaite's poem ‘At Marychurch’ (1980), which outlines Philip Henry Gosse's doomed attempts to unite evolution and Christianity, and Ruth Padel's Darwin: A Life in Poems (2009). Starting off with John Glendening's idea that science in neo-Victorian fiction, if fully embraced, provides an opportunity for self-revelation to characters, this article explores the rather less happy resolutions of each of these poems, while in addition discussing the ways in which the poems perform the formal changes and mutability of nature.
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Dwoskin, Beth. "‘Dos Lid funem Hemd’: A Yiddish Translation of a Classic Victorian Poem." Zutot 12, no. 1 (2015): 79–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18750214-12341273.
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Yiddish proletarian poet Morris Winchevsky translated ‘Song of the Shirt,’ a classic Victorian poem by Thomas Hood. This article examines Winchevsky’s Yiddish translation verse by verse, looking at Winchevsky’s choice of Yiddish words that convey, enhance, or alter Hood’s meaning. The article demonstrates Winchevsky’s facility in language and translation, and his ability to create a distinctly Yiddish version of a classic English poem.
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Heera B, Balu Das P S, and Dr Shibani Chakraverty Aich. "‘A Musical Instrument’ as an Autobiographical Poem of Elizabeth Barrett Browning." GIS Business 15, no. 1 (2020): 142–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.26643/gis.v15i1.17960.
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The poem “A Musical Instrument” written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning is being discussed in the paper. The poem is viewed as it contains autobiographical elements. The poet indirectly describes how she fights against the conventional society of Victorian period. She reveals how she disturbed the river of rules with her pen. The poem represents the mythical story of god Pan and the syrinx. She compares herself with the Pan who created music out of reed. She struggled against societal themes just like Pan tore out reeds from the river. She made the best art like Pan made beautiful music from with the instrument. Like Pan modified reed into a musical instrument she reshape the modern thinking and attitudes. She fought for literary freedom in her poetic battle against a society that denied women all freedoms. Victorian society never accepted any art form from women rather they only considered for being a mother. Sufferings of Victorian women can be seen in Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles. Art was hidden from women by the Victorian society like Syrinx was hidden from Pan by the water nymphs.
 The poem portrays the story that Pan once tried to chase the nymph Syrinx. She ran away from him and went near a river then she asked the water nymphs to save her. They turned her into a reed so as to hide her in the river. Pan never found her. So, in a rage, he jumped into the water and walked briskly, thus disturbing the calmness of the river. By the end, he made a musical instrument out of the reed, and its music was haunting and mind-blowing. . Just as Pan did, she worked hard to polish her art to bring the best poetry to the literary world .The poem describes the power and control over women in the society but we are giving a new notion that it contains autobiographical elements.
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Arafat, Faisal. "Robert Browning’s Poem Porphyria’s Lover: Viewed from the Perspective of a Short Story." International Journal of Language and Literary Studies 3, no. 1 (2021): 170–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.36892/ijlls.v3i1.521.
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Robert Browning quite as an exception to his contemporary Victorian poets opted for the psychoanalysis of his characters in his poems. His obsession of delving deeper into the psyche of his characters most often lent his poems with the essence and atmosphere of a story, to be more accurate – a short story. Browning’s readers still today hovers in the labyrinth created in his poetic world. He leaves his readers in such a juncture from where the readers time and again look back into the plot of his poems to find answers of the mysteries invested by the poet. Stylistically being much ahead of the contemporary trend of poetry, Browning’s poems could be labeled as futuristic. His artistic faculty in his poems can only be somewhat explained and understood if analyzed from the perspectives of a short story. Only then the crossroads where Browning leaves his readers in his poems can find a destination and provide a literary solution. One of the most extraordinary poems of Robert Browning is ‘Porphyria’s Lover’. This paper is an analysis of the poem from the perspective of the features of a short story. The plot and theme of the poem is quite obscure especially the ending of the poem leaves the readers with a feeling of puzzle and incompleteness. In order to explain this puzzle and incompleteness this study presents an elaborate discussion of the characteristics of short story. Then it discusses the storytelling ability of Browning in his poems and finally based on the findings presents an analysis of the poem to determine the matching characteristics of a short story in the poem. The study is completely based on a qualitative analysis.
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Morlier, Margaret M. "The Death of Pan: Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the Romantic Ego." Browning Institute Studies 18 (1990): 131–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s009247250000290x.
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During the past two decades Elizabeth Barrett Browning has become most appreciated for her 1856 feminist epic Aurora Leigh, a poem in which she asserted her “highest convictions upon Life and Art.” Before publishing Aurora Leigh, however, she said that one of her most important poems was “The Dead Pan.” When she published her two-volume collection of Poems in 1844, she insisted that “The Dead Pan” be placed last for emphasis. This poem of thirty-nine stanzas, each ending with some variation of the phrase “Pan is dead,” is often overlooked today in discussions of Barrett Browning's development probably because its theme appears outdated to modern readers. Beginning with a catalogue of classical deities—such as Juno, Apollo, and Cybele—shocked by the crucifixion of Christ, the poem depicts the death of these classical gods along with their representative, Pan. In the final third of the poem they are replaced by the Christian god and his martyred son. Then the refrain “Pan is dead” changes in meaning: no longer the lament of the classical gods, the refrain becomes a joyful proclamation of the Christian poet. On a first reading, “The Dead Pan” seems simply to celebrate orthodox Christianity; it is still generally remembered as a Victorian expression of pietism or, in Douglas Bush's facetious words of 1937, a poem in which the “Greek gods are brought face to face with Christian truth and put to rout” (268).
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Farhana, Jannatul. "Revolutionary Poetic Voices of Victorian Period: A Comparative Study between Elizabeth Barrette Browning and Christina Rossetti." English Language and Literature Studies 6, no. 1 (2016): 69. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ells.v6n1p69.
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<p>This article is an attempt to provide a comparative study between Elizabeth Barrette Browning and Christina Rossetti, two famous authors in the Victorian period. As the first female poet Browning throws a challenge by dismantling and mingling the form of epic and novel in her famous creation <em>Aurora Leigh. </em>This epic structurally and thematically offers a new form that questions the contemporary prejudices about women. Being influenced and inspired by Browning, Rossetti shows her mastery on sonnets in <em>Monna Innominata: A Sonnet of Sonnets</em>. Diversity in the themes of her poem allows Rossetti to demonstrate her intellect and independent thinking, which represents the cultural dilemma of Victorian women. Though Browning is addressed as the ‘first female poet’ and the pioneer of revolutionary female poets, her <em>Aurora Leigh </em>recognizes and celebrates the success of a female poet in that period but at the same time acknowledges the importance of traditional romance as well as marriage union at the end of the poem. On the other hand, in <em>Mona Innominata, </em>Rossetti mingles the traditional idea of romance with High Anglican belief to establish and uphold the position of women in the society as an individual and self sufficient one. She is the first poet in Victorian period who boldly denies the dominance of men in a woman’s life by celebrating sisterhood in her another famous work <em>Goblin Market</em>. Though Browning and Rossetti belong to the same period, Rossetti is quite advanced than Browning in terms of experimenting with forms, themes and breaking the conventions of Victorian era.</p>
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Teodorski, Marko. "After Death, Death: The Mechanics of Longing in Henry Carrington's «The Siren»." Amaltea. Revista de mitocrítica 11 (June 25, 2019): 71–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.5209/amal.62903.
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This essay deals with the mechanics of longing in a late Victorian siren poem by Henry Carrington, The Siren. Although Victorian literature was teeming with short stories, poems and novels on sirens, this genre, that builds upon and reverses Homeric siren tradition, remains neglected in literary discussions. With the translation of The Little Mermaid into English in 1872, the image of a "longing siren" was born. No longer were these the stories of Odysseus who had survived the siren song: now they were about the sirens’ own sorrows, griefs and desires. Sirens became profoundly human – they became desiring subjects themselves.
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Sokolova, Natalia I. "The ancient poet and philosopher in M. Arnold’s dramatic poem “Empedocles on Etna”." Science and School, no. 4, 2020 (2020): 18–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.31862/1819-463x-2020-4-18-25.
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„Empedocles on Etna”, called by Arnold „dramatic poem”, was not meant to be staged. In a work with three actors (Empedocles, his pupil Pausanias and the poet Callicles) there is almost no action, the predominant role is given to the monologues of the famous philosopher. The article analyzes the image of the main character of the poem. The state of the man of transition era in Ancient Greece, suffering from disappointments, doubts, loneliness, Arnold considered consonant with modernity. Lonely, disillusioned in the world Empedocles is contrasted in the poem with Callicles, who joyfully accepts life. Episodes of Ancient Greece mythology are interwoven into the text of the poem, contributing to the understanding of the image of Empedocles, the nature of the relationship between the characters. Empedocles’ monologues touch upon the problems relevant to the Victorian era, connected with the new attitude to the universe, to nature, to the problems of faith. Empedocles with his “congestion of the brain” is close to the author (according to Arnold himself). Thus, without deviating from the facts of the biography of the ancient poet and philosopher, Arnold, in essence, creates a portrait of his contemporary.
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Wahyudiputra, Alexei. "DEATH AS THE “REAL”: A PSYCHOANALYTIC READING OF MATTHEW ARNOLD’S YOUTH AND CALM." Poetika 9, no. 1 (2021): 43. http://dx.doi.org/10.22146/poetika.v9i1.63325.
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Matthew Arnold was one of the poets who paid special attention to youth and the dynamics of youth culture in the Victorian era. Living in an era that stimulated modern times, Arnold produced writings that can be classified as historical records, although not factual, of society's reactions to the fundamental social and cultural changes of the time. The literary arena was particularly affected, as the Victorian era marked the beginning for poets and artists alike to shed the romantic spirit that they had breathed into their works and adapt to the technological and industrial realities around them. This article explores Matthew Arnold's poem entitled “Youth and Calm”. The poem explores a stream of consciousness that contemplates “the youth" and their dreams. This study aims to uncover the meaning of the poem based on its textual composition without correlating it with Arnold's other works. Using theoretical phenomenology tools to dissect language phenomena and the Freudo-Lacanian method in interpreting the theme, this study led to the revelation that the poem talks of “death” as a symbolically repressed object. Matthew Arnold merupakan salah satu penulis puisi yang menaruh atensi lebih pada pemuda dan juga dinamika kebudayaan muda-mudi pada era Victoria. Hidup di dalam yang era mendasari kultur modern, Arnold menghasilkan karya-karya yang dapat diklasifikasikan sebagai catatan historis, meskipun tidak faktual secara absolut, terkait reaksi masyarakat dalam menghadapi perubahan sosial dan kultural yang begitu mendasar di kala itu. Terlebih dalam arena literatur, kehadiran era Victorian merupakan awal penanda bagi penyair dan produser seni lainnya untuk mulai menanggalkan jiwa romantisme yang mereka hembuskan pada tiap karya dan beralih pada realita teknologi dan industri di sekitar mereka. Dalam artikel ini, puisi Matthew Arnold yang ditelaah secara mendalam berjudul “Youth and Calm”. Puisi tersebut mengeksplorasi arus pemikiran yang berisikan kontemplasi terhadap figur “pemuda” dan apa yang mereka impikan. Penulisan ini bertujuan untuk menggali makna puisi berdasarkan komposisi tekstualnya dan tanpa menghubungkannya dengan karya Arnold lainnya. Menggunakan paradigma fenomenologi untuk membedah struktur kebahasaan serta Freudo-Lacanian dalam menginterpretasi tema menghasilkan sebuah makna bahwa “Death” atau kematian merupakan objek yang secara simbolis dipendam oleh subjek youth yang dibahas pada puisi ini.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Victorian Poem"
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Riley, Susan. "A speaking monument : the Victorian sequence poem." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.309948.
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Moore, Natasha Lee. "The unpoetical age : modern life and the mid-Victorian long poem." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.610158.
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Khalil, Jihad. "Love as Seen in selected poems of Robert Browning." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för språkstudier, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-128877.
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This study explores the concept of love in some of Browning`s poems during the Victorian era in which he tried to discuss love from his own perspective. Thus the study explains the concept of love which has been a main theme in some of Browning`s poems. My study will illustrate using the feminist theory. This theory was founded in 1792 when the struggle for women’s equality was much in demand. Thus, I will try to explain Browning`s poems by application of this theory. Browning sees love as a basic need for the human soul; therefore, the study reveals how Browning saw love from his religious perspective through which he tried to tell his readers that love is a gift of God and that women are allowed to love and be loved despite the concept of the Victorian age that treated women as inferiors in comparison to men.
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Lodge, Sara. "Changing the literary note : parodies, puns and pence in the work of Thomas Hood." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.325151.
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Rodriguez, Mia U. "Medea in Victorian Women's Poetry." University of Toledo Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=uthonors1355934808.
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Wall, Brian Robert. "The Man in the Transatlantic Crowd: The Early Reception of Edgar Allan Poe in Victorian England." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2008. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/1422.
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An important anomaly in transatlantic criticism is the contrast between transatlantic theory and the applied criticism of literature through a transatlantic lens. While most transatlantic scholars assert the value of individual strands of thought throughout the globe and stress the importance of overcoming national hegemonic barriers in literature, applied criticism generally favors an older model that privileges British literary thought in the nineteenth century. I claim that both British and American writers can influence each other, and that mutations in thought can travel both ways across the Atlantic. To argue this claim, I begin by analyzing the influence of Blackwood's Magazine on the literary aesthetic of Edgar Allan Poe. While Poe's early works read very similar to Blackwood's articles, he positioned himself against Blackwood's in the middle of his career and developed a different, although derivative, approach to psychological fiction. I next follow this psychological strain back across the Atlantic, where Oscar Wilde melded aspects of Poe's fiction to his own unique form of satire and social critique.
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Stamou-Papastamou, Constantina. "Dating Victorians : an experimental approach to stylochronometry." Thesis, University of Bedfordshire, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10547/322883.
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The writing style of a number of authors writing in English was empirically investigated for the purpose of detecting stylistic patterns in relation to advancing age. The aim was to identify the type of stylistic markers among lexical, syntactical, phonemic, entropic, character-based, and content ones that would be most able to discriminate between early, middle, and late works of the selected authors, and the best classification or prediction algorithm most suited for this task. Two pilot studies were initially conducted. The first one concentrated on Christina Georgina Rossetti and Edgar Allan Poe from whom personal letters and poetry were selected as the genres of study, along with a limited selection of variables. Results suggested that authors and genre vary inconsistently. The second pilot study was based on Shakespeare's plays using a wider selection of variables to assess their discriminating power in relation to a past study. It was observed that the selected variables were of satisfactory predictive power, hence judged suitable for the task. Subsequently, four experiments were conducted using the variables tested in the second pilot study and personal correspondence and poetry from two additional authors, Edna St Vincent Millay and William Butler Yeats. Stepwise multiple linear regression and regression trees were selected to deal with the first two prediction experiments, and ordinal logistic regression and artificial neural networks for two classification experiments. The first experiment revealed inconsistency in accuracy of prediction and total number of variables in the final models affected by differences in authorship and genre. The second experiment revealed inconsistencies for the same factors in terms of accuracy only. The third experiment showed total number of variables in the model and error in the final model to be affected in various degrees by authorship, genre, different variable types and order in which the variables had been calculated. The last experiment had all measurements affected by the four factors. Examination of whether differences in method within each task play an important part revealed significant influences of method, authorship, and genre for the prediction problems, whereas all factors including method and various interactions dominated in the classification problems. Given the current data and methods used, as well as the results obtained, generalizable conclusions for the wider author population have been avoided.
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Tamai(Nagamori), Akemi. "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Victorian Woman: Representation of Sexuality in Thomas Hardy's Last Three Novels and Balladic Poems." Kyoto University, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/245326.
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Kyoto University (京都大学)<br>0048<br>新制・課程博士<br>博士(人間・環境学)<br>甲第22131号<br>人博第914号<br>新制||人||218(附属図書館)<br>2019||人博||914(吉田南総合図書館)<br>京都大学大学院人間・環境学研究科共生文明学専攻<br>(主査)教授 水野 眞理, 教授 桂山 康司, 准教授 池田 寛子, 教授 金子 幸男<br>学位規則第4条第1項該当
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Miquel, Baldellou Marta. "Symbolic transitions as modalities of aging: intertextuality in the life and works of Edward Bulwer-Lytton and Edgar Allan Poe." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Lleida, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/385365.
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L’escriptor nord-americà del segle dinou Edgar Allan Poe va publicar una sèrie de crítiques literàries de les obres de l’autor victorià Edward Bulwer-Lytton que evidencien el profund coneixement que Poe tenia d’algunes de les novel·les de Bulwer-Lytton. Atesos aquests indicis preliminars d’intertextualitat, aquesta tesi doctoral s’insereix dins el marc teòric de la literatura comparada i, en concret, dels estudis literaris transatlàntics, que es focalitzen en la influència històrica existent entre la literatura britànica i la literatura nord-americana anys després de la guerra d’independència nord-americana, així com en el marc teòric dels estudis biogràfics i dels estudis d’envelliment, especialment basats en la premissa segons la qual les percepcions d’envelliment es troben condicionades culturalment. Prenent en consideració aquests marcs teòrics, aquesta tesi doctoral té com a objectiu identificar les intertextualitats existents en les obres literàries de Poe i Bulwer-Lytton, i detectar les transicions simbòliques comunes a les vides dels autors des de la seva joventut fins als seus últims anys de vida, i que es reflecteixen en les seves ficcions, amb el propòsit final de desxifrar les diferents modalitats d’envelliment que cada autor va demostrar com a simptomàtiques de les seves respectives cultures i com a resultat de les seves circumstàncies personals.<br>El escritor norteamericano decimonónico Edgar Allan Poe publicó una serie de críticas literarias de las obras del autor victoriano Edward Bulwer-Lytton que evidencian el profundo conocimiento que Poe tenía de algunas de las novelas de Bulwer-Lytton. Dados estos indicios preliminares de intertextualidad, esta tesis doctoral se insiere dentro del marco teórico de la literatura comparada y, en concreto, de los estudios literarios transatlánticos, que se focalizan en la influencia histórica existente entre la literatura británica y la literatura norteamericana años después de la guerra de independencia norteamericana, así como en el marco teórico de los estudios biográficos y de los estudios del envejecimiento, especialmente basados en la premisa según la que las percepciones de envejecimiento se encuentran condicionadas culturalmente. Tomando en consideración estos marcos teóricos, esta tesis doctoral tiene como objetivo identificar las intertextualidades existentes en las obras literarias de Poe y Bulwer-Lytton, y detectar las transiciones simbólicas comunes en las vidas de los autores desde su juventud hasta sus últimos años de vida, y que se reflejan en sus ficciones, con el propósito final de descifrar las diferentes modalidades de envejecimiento que cada autor demostró como sintomáticas de sus respectivas culturas y como resultado de sus circunstancias personales.<br>The nineteenth-century American writer Edgar Allan Poe published a series of reviews of the literary works of the Victorian writer Edward Bulwer-Lytton that evince that Poe was particularly well-acquainted with some of Bulwer-Lytton’s novels. Given these preliminary signs of intertextuality, this doctoral thesis is grounded within the theoretical framework of comparative literature, and particularly, of transatlantic literary studies, which focus on the historical influence existing between British and American literature years after the American War of Independence, as well as the theoretical framework of biographical studies and aging studies, being especially based on the premise that the perceptions of aging are culturally conditioned. Taking into consideration these theoretical frameworks, this doctoral thesis aims to identify the intertextualities existing in the literary works of Poe and Bulwer-Lytton, and detect shared symbolic transitions in the lives of both authors from their youth until their late years, and which are reflected in their fictions, with the ultimate purpose of decoding the different modalities of aging that each author displayed as symptomatic of their respective cultures and as a result of their personal circumstances.
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Sullivan, Michael Joseph Plygawko. "Tennyson and the revision of song." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2017. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/271748.
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Writing in the 1890s, in an early account of Tennyson’s poetry, the Victorian anthologist F. T. Palgrave was keen to maintain the myth of the spontaneous singer. ‘More than once’, he recorded, Tennyson’s ‘poems sprang’ from a ‘nucleus’, ‘a brief melodious phrase’ or ‘song’, which, if not transcribed immediately, ‘fled from him irrecoverably’. It has long been the case with poets of ‘lyrics’ and ‘songs’ that their skills have been depicted as improvisatory, fleeting, or inspired. Their skills have been understood, variously, as indicative either of the most dexterous of intellects, or of brilliant but uncontrolled visions, a ‘flash’ of prophetic insight or revelation – a feel of what Shelley likens to ‘the interpenetration of a diviner nature through our own’. For many poets, however, the reality is one of inspiration that gives birth to intense manuscript activity and revision. It is now well known that Tennyson revised and re-revised, even after publication, until only weeks before his death; and yet no book-length study has pursued the significance of his manuscript revisions for the development of his style. This thesis traces the poet’s stylistic evolution through his notebooks, drafts, and printed volumes. Uncovering new literary manuscripts from Harvard, Lincoln, Cambridge, and New York, the study offers a more comprehensive picture of the poet’s craft: one alert to his evolving ambitions, and to the immense shifts that he effected in the landscape of English verse. The thesis begins by excavating how the notion of poetic ‘song’ fuelled a creative process at the heart of Tennyson’s revisions. In tracing the diverging fates of ‘lyric’ and ‘song’ across his notebooks, the opening chapter restores an important discourse for Tennysonian sonority that has comparatively declined in recent years. Chapter II examines Tennyson’s aesthetic control over the Victorian lyrical canon, drawing on a new manuscript of ‘The Golden Treasury’, the most significant anthology of the nineteenth century. Chapter III studies the notebook containing Tennyson’s first collection of verse, ‘Poems, by Two Brothers’. It reveals how much of the poor punctuation that sparked vehement attacks – and which is reproduced in modern editions – was not, in fact, inserted by the poet. Chapter IV explores how Tennyson’s most famous early songs and lyrics, published in ‘Poems, Chiefly Lyrical’, developed in tandem with his blank verse style. Chapters V and VI illuminate Tennyson’s ‘ten year silence’, which witnessed profound innovations in form, the revision of his 1832 Poems into his celebrated collection of 1842, and the creation of ‘In Memoriam’. Chapters VII and VIII piece together the notebooks, proofs, drafts, and revision copies of ‘The Princess’, Tennyson’s medley of songs and voices, lyrics and blank verse. By its end, the study reveals how the ringing qualities of his works emerged through manuscript revision: in the interplay between sonorous forms and narratives that came, over decades of change, to shape the distinctive drama of Tennyson’s style.
Books on the topic "Victorian Poem"
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Cunningham, Valentine. Victorian poetry now: Poets, poems, poetics. Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
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Royal Historical Society (Great Britain), ed. Gladstone and Dante: Victorian statesman, medieval poet. Boydell Press, 2006.
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Victorian poets and romantic poems: Intertextuality and ideology. University Press of Virginia, 1990.
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Draper, David. Murder and madness: Five dramatic poems from the Victorian age. NATE, 1998.
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Secret city: The emotional life of Victorian poet James Thomson (B.V.). University Press of America, 2001.
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Moore, Natasha. "The Long Narrative Poem." In Victorian Poetry and Modern Life. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137537805_3.
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Moore, Natasha. "Introduction: A Poem of the Age." In Victorian Poetry and Modern Life. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137537805_1.
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Rosenbaum, S. P. "Poems, Plays, Parodies." In Victorian Bloomsbury. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1987. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18533-7_13.
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Rosenbaum, S. P. "Poems, Plays, Parodies." In Victorian Bloomsbury. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1987. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-13368-0_13.
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Feldman, Paula R. "The Poet and the Profits." In Women’s Poetry, Late Romantic to Late Victorian. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-27021-7_4.
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Koehler, Karin. "Epistolary Ghosts: Letters in Hardy’s Poems and Short Stories." In Thomas Hardy and Victorian Communication. Springer International Publishing, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29102-4_8.
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Leng, Andrew. "Re-interpreting Ruskin and Browning’s Dramatic ‘Art-poems’." In Ruskin, the Theatre and Victorian Visual Culture. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230236790_5.
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Hickok, Kathleen. "Why is this Woman Still Missing? Emily Pfeiffer, Victorian Poet." In Women’s Poetry, Late Romantic to Late Victorian. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-27021-7_18.
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Footprints in the snow have been unfailing provokers of sentiment ever since snow was first a white wonder in this drab-coloured world of ours. In a poetry-book presented to one of us by an aunt, there was a poem by one Wordsworth*...