Rhythm and Will in Victorian Poetry
Rhythm and Will in Victorian Poetry By Matthew Campbell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press 1999 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 0521642957 | PDF | 1 MB
Publisher: Cambridge University Press 1999 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 0521642957 | PDF | 1 MB
Matthew Campbell explores the work of four Victorian poets--Tennyson, Browning, Hopkins and Hardy--in the context of their concern with questions of human agency and will. Through close study of meter, rhyme and rhythm, Campbell reveals how closely, for these poets, questions of poetics are related to issues of psychology, ethics and social change. He goes on to discuss more general questions of poetics, from Milton through Romanticism and into contemporary critical debate, making a major contribution to the current renewal of interest in formalist readings of poetry.