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Rhythm and will in Victorian poetry /

"In Rhythm and Will in Victorian Poetry, Matthew Campbell explores the work of four Victorian poets - Tennyson, Browning, Hopkins and Hardy - as they show a consistent and innovative concern with questions of human agency and will. The Victorians saw the virtues attendant upon a strong will as...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Campbell, Matthew (Matthew J. B.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Series:Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 22.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: two decisions
  • Rhythms of will
  • Tennyson, Browning and the absorbing soul
  • Browning and the element of action
  • ''Tis well that I should bluster': Tennyson's monologues
  • The drift of In memoriam
  • Incarnating elegy in The wreck of the Deutschland
  • The mere continuator: Thomas Hardy and the end of elegy.