Victorian Poetry

TRICIA LOOTENS graves as with dragons' teeth: "These Dead be seeds of life, and shall encumber / The sad heart of the land, unti ...

Victorian poetry and patriotism But the birth-pangs of nations will wring us at length Into wail such as this - and we sit on fo ...

TRICIA LOOTENS "mangled, and flattened, and crushed" (I. 7); here the orphaned son fears he too may someday "creep" to commit su ...

Victorian poetry and patriotism sordid and mean, / And myself so languid and base" (I. 178-79); remembering it, he longs for "a ...

TRICIA LOOTENS the coming wars" and to promise "I tarry for thee" (III. 11-12). In this longed-for restoration of patriotic auth ...

Victorian poetry and patriotism under which the speaker has imagined his own sentient and thwarted dust blossoming "in purple an ...

TRICIA LOOTENS "The song that nerves a nation's heart, / Is in itself a deed" (79-80). Whatever his later doubts about "The Char ...

Victorian poetry and patriotism called it 'inalienably mine.'" 41 Like England's official Laureate, the Anglo- Indian Kipling ho ...

TRICIA LOOTENS little things behind him" (RK 457) - including his home, and perhaps his wife, children, or sweetheart. "His weak ...

Victorian poetry and patriotism popular Victorian poetry took particular pleasure in dramatizing such ties within the context of ...

TRICIA LOOTENS An' some graves by a barb-wire fence, An' a Dutchman I've fought 'oo might give Me a job were I ever inclined To ...

Victorian poetry and patriotism could keep even the poet's own literary dreams of a British warrior-empire alive. VI "The voice ...

TRICIA LOOTENS Heroica: A Book of Verse for Boys (1891) - which opens with a notorious warmongering passage from Maud - was repr ...

Victorian poetry and patriotism Vaster battalions press for further strands, To argue in the selfsame bloody mode Which this lat ...

TRICIA LOOTENS tion. It only remained for First World War poets such as Siegfried Sassoon or Wilfred Owen to strike the death bl ...

Victorian poetry and patriotism University Press, 1910), 409. Walker quotes Tennyson, In Memoriam, CIX, 16 and CXXVII, 7. 3 G.K. ...

TRICIA LOOTENS Salon and Romantic Education," in Lessons of Romanticism, ed. Thomas Pfau and Robert F. Gleckner (Durham, NC: Duk ...

Victorian poetry and patriotism 47 Armstrong, Victorian Poetry, 482. 48 Francis H. Doyle, "The Red Thread of Honour," in War Son ...

13 JOHN LUCAS Voices of authority, voices of subversion: poetry in the late nineteenth century i With the publication of Poems i ...

Poetry in the late nineteenth century Jacobinism, Jacquerie: the names are meant to chill the blood. The Irish, those unruly Cel ...