Victorian Poetry

THAIS E. MORGAN to joy, and loss to gain. But notice how Tennyson revises Dante. By placing the poetic persona in the lover's po ...

The poetry of Victorian masculinities legitimize the homoerotic overtones of In Memoriam by referring the bond between Tennyson ...

THAIS E. MORGAN Iseult." Victorian critics objected to Arnold's "The Scholar-Gipsy" (1853) because its main figure rejects the m ...

The poetry of Victorian masculinities especially in Maud (1855), whose "hysteric" speaker and "overloaded style" anticipate thos ...

THAIS E. MORGAN 14 Cited in Edgar F. Shannon, Jr., Tennyson and the Reviewers: A Study of His Literary Reputation and of the Inf ...

The poetry of Victorian masculinities 29 Richard Dellamora places Swinburne's "poetic perversities" in relation to representatio ...

II KAREN ALKALAY-GUT Aesthetic and Decadent poetry When John Morley sharply criticized Algernon Charles Swinburne for "gloating" ...

Aesthetic and Decadent poetry social purpose. Swinburne's conscious renunciation of Arnold's moral imperative in the name of art ...

KAREN ALKALAY-GUT desire as a means of resisting oppressive moral attitudes. Time and again, their work engages with the pleasur ...

Aesthetic and Decadent poetry interests - as the opening lines indicate with their grammatical parallels - are equally distribut ...

KAREN ALKALAY-GUT remarks, the "'grim web' conveys the sinister rapaciousness of Jenny's greed; the dead insects, the dirty prof ...

Aesthetic and Decadent poetry the 1866 pamphlet that he published defending his poetry, where he describes Dolores as "No Virgin ...

KAREN ALKALAY-GUT and Ballads, including "Laus Veneris" (1866): Tannhauser's dramatic monologue about his entrapment by Venus. I ...

Aesthetic and Decadent poetry Swinburne's ritualistic poetics. Yet it was left to George Meredith - who for a short time in 1862 ...

KAREN ALKALAY-GUT many English sonnets, where a concluding sestet sets out to resolve both quatrains of the octave, Meredith's s ...

Aesthetic and Decadent poetry Be the green grass above me With showers and dewdrops wet; And if thou wilt, remember, And if thou ...

KAREN ALKALAY-GUT world could be used to explore urgent Victorian anxieties about sexual fidelity. In Arthurian legend, Guenever ...

Aesthetic and Decadent poetry Figure i William Morris, Queen Guenevere (1858), © Tale Gallery, London 1999. 2-39 ...

KAREN ALKALAY-GUT design of the angel's cloths than the actions and events that comprise Guenevere's narrative. Many of the preo ...

Aesthetic and Decadent poetry III But, of course, it did not. Certainly, FitzGerald's transformation of "Wild- erness" into "Par ...