Victorian Poetry

KAREN ALKALAY-GUT Are sad that they will not stay; Yet is day over long. Fruits and flowers among, What is better than they: Win ...

Aesthetic and Decadent poetry Dowson transforms Herrick's ingenuous carpe diem into a hedonistic imperative that can only ruin t ...

KAREN ALKALAY-GUT while she was a student at Cambridge. In "Xantippe" (1881), she uses the dramatic monologue to explore what it ...

Aesthetic and Decadent poetry her life in 1889, the aunt and niece (Katherine Bradley and Edith Cooper) who wrote jointly as Mic ...

KAREN ALKALAY-GUT appears everywhere. In part, this initiative can be traced back to many of Walter Pater's influential stateme ...

Aesthetic and Decadent poetry same futile energy as a dog that I once saw standing in an Irish stream, and snapping at the bubbl ...

KAREN ALKALAY-GUT frightened like "an infant crying in the night" (AT LIV, 19). Yet where Tennyson's poem moves toward a positio ...

Aesthetic and Decadent poetry view of Decadence in the 1890s. The darkness of nature coupled with the lack of divine responsibil ...

KAREN ALKALAY-GUT become known as Modernism. His poetry, however, is not quite so confident. In "Helas!" the sonnet that he plac ...

Aesthetic and Decadent poetry The poor dead woman whom he loved, And murdered in her bed. (OWi-6) Here the death of the unnamed ...

KAREN ALKALAY-GUT Victorian poetry to be responsive to his vulnerability, despite its artificiality. Later in his poetry, Yeats ...

Aesthetic and Decadent poetry 11 Bram Djikstra, Idols of Perversity Fantasies of Feminine Evil in Fin-de-Siecle Culture (New Yor ...

KAREN ALKALAY-GUT William H. O'Donnell and Douglas N. Archibald, The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats, 14 vols. (New York: Scribner ...

12 TRICIA LOOTENS Victorian poetry and patriotism i For literary critics who anticipated or experienced the devastation of the F ...

TRICIA LOOTENS dangerous heritage of Victorian patriotism, it may be no wonder that patriotic writing should have been one of th ...

Victorian poetry and patriotism Wars. Indeed, "Casabianca" (1826), whose first few words are quoted above, commemorates the 1798 ...

TRICIA LOOTENS its internal enemy." Yet it dare not fully disregard feminine law. It must, for example, return the bodies of dea ...

Victorian poetry and patriotism Yet, as Hemans's consistent reference to "father" underscores, one pre- cedent for Casabianca's ...

TRICIA LOOTENS which de Stael's myth of the doomed poetic heir to Sappho haunted aspiring women poets for the remainder of the c ...

Victorian poetry and patriotism political explicitness, her criticisms of British policies became increasingly harsh. Many Engli ...