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Love in a Time of Extinction: Poetic Category and Temporal Impasse in Robert Browning's "Love Among the Ruins" Victorian Poetry Pub Date : 2023-12-19 John McBratney
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Love in a Time of Extinction: Poetic Category and Temporal Impasse in Robert Browning’s “Love Among the Ruins” John McBratney (bio) As the first poem in Men and Women (1855), Robert Browning’s “Love Among the Ruins” sets the main theme for the collection, establishing (so it seems) in its final line—“Love is best”—a scale of value in heterosexual
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"The child's sob in the silence curses deeper": Language of Voice and Dialogue of Reform in Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "The Cry of the Children" Victorian Poetry Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Reilly L. Fitzpatrick
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: “The child’s sob in the silence curses deeper”: Language of Voice and Dialogue of Reform in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “The Cry of the Children” Reilly L. Fitzpatrick (bio) Like many of her literary contemporaries, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and her poetic work have been reevaluated in recent years to determine whether her status as
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Unique Forms of Ekphrasis: The Keepsake and the Illustrative Poetry of the Literary Annuals Victorian Poetry Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Michael Carelse
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Unique Forms of Ekphrasis: The Keepsake and the Illustrative Poetry of the Literary Annuals Michael Carelse (bio) Introduction The poems that appear alongside engravings in the literary annuals of the 1820s–1850s have frequently been described as “ekphrastic” works, in that they describe the engravings they accompany.1 However, the term
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General Materials Victorian Poetry Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Albert D. Pionke
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: General Materials Albert D. Pionke (bio) This year’s survey of general materials features four monographs and one substantial chapter from a broader genre history. All are committed to positioning Victorian poetry relative to its many predecessors—from gothic fictions and forms, to Enlightenment debates about speech, to classical Greek
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning Victorian Poetry Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Beverly Taylor
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Elizabeth Barrett Browning Beverly Taylor (bio) Once again, the most important contribution this year to EBB studies is a new volume of The Brownings’ Correspondence (Wedgestone Press, 2023). With volume 29 of the series, gathering the Brownings’ correspondence for February 1861 through November 1861, general editor Philip Kelley and his
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Robert Browning Victorian Poetry Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Suzanne Bailey
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Robert Browning Suzanne Bailey (bio) Romantic legacies, Browning and Orientalism, Browning’s language and poetic practice, gender, and materialist approaches to Browning’s poetry are some of the themes that emerge in publications on Browning this year. A new book on the Brownings and the Shelleys by Reiko Suzuki suggests a novel perspective
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Thomas Hardy Victorian Poetry Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Galia Benziman
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Thomas Hardy Galia Benziman (bio) Aspects of language, sound, and poetic form, alongside themes related to evolution, animals, and posthumanism, continued to engage critics of Thomas Hardy’s poetry this year. Hardy’s numerous intertextual relations and poetic influence were also an ongoing object of interest. Gender, marriage, and their
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Gerard Manley Hopkins Victorian Poetry Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Veronica Alfano
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Gerard Manley Hopkins Veronica Alfano (bio) Last year’s Hopkins scholarship provided a pleasing balance between close attention to the subtleties of the poet’s language and wide-ranging claims about his legacy. Emma Mason’s article “Reading Christian Experience” (Modern Language Quarterly 83, no. 4 [2022]: 521–537) is provocative and powerfully
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Dante Rossetti, Pre-Raphaelitism, and the Morris Circle Victorian Poetry Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Florence Boos
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Dante Rossetti, Pre-Raphaelitism, and the Morris Circle Florence Boos (bio) Dante G. Rossetti and Pre-Raphaelitism The year 2022 was a banner year for articles placing Dante Rossetti’s poetry in relation to the sister arts of music and painting. Several of these have been conveniently gathered in a special issue of the Journal of Victorian
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Algernon Charles Swinburne Victorian Poetry Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Justin A. Sider
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Algernon Charles Swinburne Justin A. Sider (bio) In these pages, a little over a decade ago, Alan Young-Bryant joked aptly that Algernon Charles Swinburne was “the most neglected recovered poet of the period” (“Swinburne: ‘The Sweetest Name,’” VP 49, no. 3 [2011]: 301). He meant that our narrow vision of the poet stinted the sheer scope
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Tennyson Victorian Poetry Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Linda K. Hughes
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Tennyson Linda K. Hughes (bio) No book-length study of Alfred Tennyson appeared during 2022, but The Crimean War in Victorian Poetry by Tai-Chun Ho (Peter Lang, 2021) offers sustained engagement with Tennyson’s poetry. This sociohistorical, intertextual literary study considers the troubled role of the noncombatant poet (or “armchair”
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Victorian Women Poets Victorian Poetry Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Heather Bozant Witcher
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Victorian Women Poets Heather Bozant Witcher (bio) What does it mean to read, analyze, and interpret poetry at varying scales? In 2018, Natalie Houston showed how humanities research problematizes questions of scale and noted that “[f]or Victorian studies, the problems of innumerable things and how to interpret them manifest doubly as
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Going Back and Going On: The Uses of Re-encounter Victorian Poetry Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Dominique Gracia, Fergus McGhee
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Going Back and Going On: The Uses of Re-encounter Dominique Gracia (bio) and Fergus McGhee (bio) The world,” wrote Robert Browning, “is not to be learned and thrown aside, but reverted to and relearned.”1 Browning’s words insist on the enduring interest of the disowned objects of our encounters, but they also hint at the value of re- encounter
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Christ Among the Decadents: Re-encountering Religion in Edwin Arnold's The Light of the World Victorian Poetry Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Joshua Brorby
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Christ Among the Decadents: Re-encountering Religion in Edwin Arnold’s The Light of the World Joshua Brorby (bio) In 1879, Edwin Arnold completed the poem that would make him famous, his epic life of Gau ta ma Bud dha, The Light of Asia. Published in over thirty editions in the first six years of its existence, Arnold’s bestseller constitutes
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"Having dared to touch with bloody hands the verses": Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Embodied Approach to the Homeric Corpus Victorian Poetry Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Allison Scheidegger Reising
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: “Having dared to touch with bloody hands the verses”: Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Embodied Approach to the Homeric Corpus Allison Scheidegger Reising (bio) In an 1845 letter to Anne Thomson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (hereafter EBB) expresses serious reservations about the value of classical learning, particularly for women: the Greek
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Ghostly Selves in Augusta Webster's Poetry Victorian Poetry Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Andrea Selleri
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Ghostly Selves in Augusta Webster’s Poetry Andrea Selleri (bio) And now it seems a jest to talk of me / as if I could be one with her.”1 Thus Eulalie, the high-end prostitute featured in Augusta Webster’s most famous poem, “A Castaway,” thinking about herself as she was as a young girl. Eulalie has stumbled on a philosophical and existential
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Hopkins Unselved Victorian Poetry Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Jack L Hart
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Hopkins Unselved Jack L Hart (bio) In a well-known note, Hopkins identifies a characteristic he terms “Parnas-sian.” This “language of verse,” he says, “can only be written spoken by poets”; it is “ wrspoken on and from the level of a poet’s mind.” Resisting the fickleness of “inspiration,” this “Parnassian” way of composing relies on
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On Peacocks: Feathered Re-encounters in the 1890s Victorian Poetry Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Mark Llewellyn
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: On Peacocks: Feathered Re-encounters in the 1890s Mark Llewellyn (bio) Introduction: Devouring the Bird In January 1914, a group of modernists, including William Butler Yeats and Ezra Pound, ate a peacock at an honorary dinner for the Victorian poet Wilfred Scawen Blunt. As recounted in Lucy McDiarmid’s Poets & the Peacock Dinner (2014)
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Understanding Media with L.E.L.: Women Poets, New Media, and the Petrarchan Gaze Victorian Poetry Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Christie Debelius
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Understanding Media with L.E.L.: Women Poets, New Media, and the Petrarchan Gaze Christie Debelius (bio) At the beginning of Letitia Elizabeth Landon’s “The Improvisatrice” (1824), the poem’s titular speaker— a talented painter and poet-performer— sings of her first painting, a representation of the meeting between the Italian poet Petrarch
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Contributors Victorian Poetry Pub Date : 2023-09-25
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Contributors Joshua Brorby (jmbh38@missouri.edu) is a visiting assistant professor of English at the University of Missouri, where he teaches courses in Victorian literature and critical theory. His current manuscript in progress focuses on the sensual style of comparative religious writing and the fluidity of identity as imagined in instances
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Named Places in Lear's Limericks Victorian Poetry Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Thomas Dilworth
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Named Places in Lear's Limericks Thomas Dilworth (bio) The first-published and largest portion of Edward Lear's "nonsense" is his limericks. They have remained in print since first publication, have long been popular, and are now eliciting a surge in Lear criticism.1 Commentators have begun to analyze them rigorously as discreet works
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Keble Quoting: Citations, Invention, and Poetry Victorian Poetry Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Ash Faulkner
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Keble Quoting:Citations, Invention, and Poetry Ash Faulkner (bio) A boy tries to cut the sunlight with his knife—and succeeds, and puts the sunlight in his pocket. Some time later, a rainbow takes on human form on a beach in Sicily, and looks me right in the eye. Such moments give life and structure to the lectures of John Keble. In tracing
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Dissonant Poetics in George Eliot's "A College Breakfast Party" Victorian Poetry Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Hee Eun Helen Lee
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Dissonant Poetics in George Eliot's "A College Breakfast Party" Hee Eun Helen Lee (bio) The Scots critic John Skelton spoke for many subsequent Victorian poetry critics when in Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country he dismissed George Eliot's first volume of poetry, The Spanish Gypsy (1868), as a mere curiosity, a prose writer's labored
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Haunting Voices: Thomas Hardy's Boer War Poetry Victorian Poetry Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Tai-Chun Ho
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Haunting Voices:Thomas Hardy's Boer War Poetry Tai-Chun Ho (bio) Having completed eleven war poems intended for the forthcoming volume Poems of the Past and the Present (November 1901), Thomas Hardy told Florence Henniker in a letter on Christmas Eve 1900: "I am happy to say that not a single one is Jingo or Imperial—a fatal defect according
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Project Muse: Ernest Dowson and "the Right Type of Girl" Victorian Poetry Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Robert Stark
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Project Muse:Ernest Dowson and "the Right Type of Girl" Robert Stark (bio) Remember, if you can,Not him who lingers, but that other man,Who loved and sang, and had a beating heart,— (Ernest Dowson, "In Tempore Senectutus" c. October 26, 1892) Aside from the innocuous sonnet "My Lady April," Ernest Dowson selected only poems written after
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Introduction: Poetry and the Victorian Visual Imagination Victorian Poetry Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Jill R. Ehnenn, Heather Bozant Witcher
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Introduction:Poetry and the Victorian Visual Imagination Jill R. Ehnenn (bio) and Heather Bozant Witcher (bio) What might it mean to "see" poetry of the nineteenth century? Certainly, it might mean an act of generic visibility: reorienting conceptions of the Victorian age as equivalent to the rise of the novel to reconsider the centrality
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Seeing Inversnaid: Gerard Manley Hopkins, "Inversnaid," and the Ecological Eye Victorian Poetry Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Kate Flint
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Seeing Inversnaid:Gerard Manley Hopkins, "Inversnaid," and the Ecological Eye Kate Flint (bio) inversnaid This darksome burn, horseback brown,His rollrock highroad roaring down,In coop and in comb the fleece of his foamFlutes and low to the lake falls home. A windpuff-bonnet of fáwn-fróth 5Turns and twindles over the brothOf a pool so
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Verse Arabesque Victorian Poetry Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Ewan Jones
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Verse Arabesque Ewan Jones (bio) In the long list of things that John Ruskin did not like, Raphael's Vatican loggias come near the top: "Raphael's arabesque," he writes in the third volume of The Stones of Venice, "is mere elaborate idleness. It has neither meaning nor heart in it; it is an unnatural and monstrous abortion."1 In condemning
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"Thunders of White Silence": Racialized Ways of Seeing and "Hiram Powers' Greek Slave" Victorian Poetry Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Tricia Lootens
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: "Thunders of White Silence":Racialized Ways of Seeing and "Hiram Powers' Greek Slave" Tricia Lootens (bio) Victorian poetry, visuality, race, racialization: where better to explore these topics' convergence than in this special issue of Victorian Poetry? Now, as students of Victorian studies are increasingly challenging disciplinary traditions
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"A larger vision": William Blake, Phoebe Anna Traquair, and the Visual Imagination in EBB's Sonnets from the Portuguese Victorian Poetry Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Clare Broome Saunders
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: "A larger vision":William Blake, Phoebe Anna Traquair, and the Visual Imagination in EBB's Sonnets from the Portuguese Clare Broome Saunders (bio) In the 1888 essay "English Poetesses," Oscar Wilde considers that the chief qualities of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's1 work is its "sincerity and strength" and hails EBB as "an imperishable
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Christina Rossetti's Sing-Song: Three Illustrators, Three Readings of Image and Text Victorian Poetry Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Isobel Armstrong
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Christina Rossetti's Sing-Song:Three Illustrators, Three Readings of Image and Text Isobel Armstrong (bio) How does one think about an illustrated poem? Does the illustration belong to the poem or the poem to the illustration? The etymological derivation of "illustration" is from Latin illustrare—il + lustrare—to shed light, to illuminate
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Poetry and the Visual Dynamics of Race in the West Indian Readers Victorian Poetry Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Casie Legette
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Poetry and the Visual Dynamics of Race in the West Indian Readers Casie Legette (bio) This essay takes as its object of study the West Indian Readers, a set of Caribbean schoolbooks first published in the 1920s and reprinted throughout the twentieth century. Though these texts may seem an unlikely choice for an analysis of poetry and the
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Disabled Visions: Eugene Lee-Hamilton, Physical Disability, and Poetic Identity in the Later Victorian Imagination Victorian Poetry Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Heather Tilley
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Disabled Visions:Eugene Lee-Hamilton, Physical Disability, and Poetic Identity in the Later Victorian Imagination Heather Tilley (bio) In the 1860s–1870s, a curious phenomenon dubbed "railway spine" exposed ruptures in the mid-Victorian male psyche. Hundreds of people claimed debilitating illnesses resulting from shock experienced in railway
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"The passion-flower at the gate": Tennyson's Poetry in the "Annals" of Julia Margaret Cameron Victorian Poetry Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Michele Martinez
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: "The passion-flower at the gate":Tennyson's Poetry in the "Annals" of Julia Margaret Cameron Michele Martinez (bio) Whereas the title "Annals of My Glass House" might suggest a multivolume history of an artist, the text is a twenty-seven-hundred-word essay by the celebrated Victorian photographer Julia Margaret Cameron. "Annals" was written
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Contributors Victorian Poetry Pub Date : 2023-05-23
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Contributors Isobel Armstrong is Emeritus Professor of English (Geoffrey Tillotson Chair) at Birkbeck, University of London, Senior Research Fellow of the Institute of English Studies, a Fellow of the British Academy and International Scholar of the American Academy. Over the past few years, she has taught at Harvard, the Bread Loaf School
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Victorian Poetry Index: Volume 60, 2022 Victorian Poetry Pub Date : 2023-05-23
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Victorian Poetry IndexVolume 60, 2022 193 Veronica Alfano Socializing Maud: Tennyson's Recitations 547 Isobel Armstrong Christina Rossetti's Sing-Song: Three Illustrators, Three Readings of Image and Text 215 Mary Arseneau The Victorian Salon and Pre-Raphaelite Melopoetics 521 Clare Broome Saunders "A larger vision": William Blake
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Locomotive Breath: The Living Machines and Railway Dreams of Alexander Anderson's Working-Class Verse Victorian Poetry Pub Date : 2023-03-18 Ethan Taylor Stephenson
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Locomotive Breath:The Living Machines and Railway Dreams of Alexander Anderson's Working-Class Verse Ethan Taylor Stephenson (bio) By the turn of the twentieth century, the British railway system had left its mark on both the landscape and the literary imagination.1 The proliferation of rail lines and new railway technologies, what Wolfgang
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"I trust that I am a Liberal": The Politics and Poetics of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Early Antislavery Verse Victorian Poetry Pub Date : 2023-03-18 Jerome S. Wynter
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: "I trust that I am a Liberal":The Politics and Poetics of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Early Antislavery Verse Jerome S. Wynter (bio) In 1821, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861, hereafter EBB) wrote in her autobiographical essay "Glimpses of My Own Character and Life": "I trust that I am a Liberal for bigotry and prejudice I detest
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Gerard Manley Hopkins in Dialogue with Felicia Hemans Victorian Poetry Pub Date : 2023-03-18 Harriet Kramer Linkin
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Gerard Manley Hopkins in Dialogue with Felicia Hemans Harriet Kramer Linkin (bio) Gerard Manley Hopkins spent three of his most fruitful years at St. Bueno's College near St. Asaph in Wales (1874–1877), where he not only completed the studies that resulted in his ordination but also began to write poetry again, after a silence that commenced
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General Materials Victorian Poetry Pub Date : 2023-03-18 Albert D. Pionke
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: General Materials Albert D. Pionke (bio) This year's survey of general materials features chapters from four books. These three edited collections and one monograph position Victorian poets and poetry with respect to the particular writerly legacies of Byron and Keats and the broader scientific and artistic developments in medicine and
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning Victorian Poetry Pub Date : 2023-03-18 Beverly Taylor
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Elizabeth Barrett Browning Beverly Taylor (bio) The latest volume of The Brownings' Correspondence (Wedgestone, 2022) is once again the greatest boon of the year to Browning scholarship. The delay of volume 28, covering correspondence from both Brownings in the period spanning May 1860–February 1861, caused by a change in printers, kept
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Robert Browning Victorian Poetry Pub Date : 2023-03-18 Suzanne Bailey
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Robert Browning Suzanne Bailey (bio) Philip Kelly, Edward Hagan, and Linda M. Lewis's new volume 28 of The Brownings' Correspondence has been several years in the making and offers one of the more intriguing glimpses into the Brownings' lives. We hear more of Robert Browning's voice in the surviving letters from this period and can follow
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Thomas Hardy Victorian Poetry Pub Date : 2023-03-18 Galia Benziman
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Thomas Hardy Galia Benziman (bio) Major themes in Thomas Hardy's work that had occupied critics for generations continued to generate interest among scholars in the past year and a half. As always in Hardy studies, motifs related to the evocation of the past in the present attracted much attention. The critical focus on the impact of living
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Gerard Manley Hopkins Victorian Poetry Pub Date : 2023-03-18 Adrian Grafe
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Gerard Manley Hopkins Adrian Grafe (bio) Hopkins the metaphysician takes center stage in several recent studies of the poet—and rightly so. Hopkins's Oxford education, scholastic training as a Jesuit, serendipitous discovery of Duns Scotus, and speculative interest in metaphysics combine to make him the most philosophically engaged poet
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D. G. Rossetti and William Morris Victorian Poetry Pub Date : 2023-03-18 Florence Boos
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: D. G. Rossetti and William Morris Florence Boos (bio) D. G. Rossetti Last year's publications on Dante Rossetti and William Morris were fewer than usual, but nonetheless in aggregate, these offer new insights and approaches. For Rossetti, Fergus McGhee's "Rossetti's Giorgione and the Victorian 'Cult of Vagueness' " (Cambridge Quarterly
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Swinburne Victorian Poetry Pub Date : 2023-03-18 Justin A. Sider
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Swinburne Justin A. Sider (bio) At the end of Ezra Pound's querulous review of Edmund Gosse's biography of Algernon Charles Swinburne, he concludes his own portrait of the poet—alternately admiring and exasperated—with this summary: "At any rate we can, whatever our verbal fastidiousness, be thankful for any man who kept alive some spirit
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Tennyson Victorian Poetry Pub Date : 2023-03-18 Linda K. Hughes
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Tennyson Linda K. Hughes (bio) This year's survey of Tennyson scholarship fittingly begins with the Summer 2021 special Tennyson issue of Victorian Poetry (59, no. 2) edited by Michael [End Page 407] Sullivan.1 It is titled "Tennyson and the Poetic Imagination" and, according to Sullivan, offers diverse approaches to Tennyson's imagination
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Victorian Women Poets Victorian Poetry Pub Date : 2023-03-18 Heather Bozant Witcher
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Victorian Women Poets Heather Bozant Witcher (bio) A. Mary F. Robinson was best known, to her English audience, for her poetry and, to her French audience, as a woman of letters. So begins the introduction to Robinson's "Anglo-French" life in Patricia Rigg's A. Mary F. Robinson (Montreal: McGill-Queen's Univ. Press, 2021). Rigg seeks to
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Introduction: A Discursive Duet Victorian Poetry Pub Date : 2022-12-07 Linda K. Hughes, Phyllis Weliver
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Introduction:A Discursive Duet Linda K. Hughes (bio) and Phyllis Weliver (bio) PW: Isn't it interesting, Linda, what happens when we think of a poem as an event as well as a work? I'm thinking about what happened on a Wednesday in March 1885 when some friends stopped by 10 Downing Street to see Prime Minister Gladstone's daughter. Two
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Poetry at the Priory: George Eliot and "Benevolent" Imperialism Victorian Poetry Pub Date : 2022-12-07 Kathleen Mccormack
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Poetry at the Priory:George Eliot and "Benevolent" Imperialism Kathleen Mccormack (bio) As George Eliot was nearing the age of fifty, she conceived a daring ambition. She wanted to become one of the superior poets of her time and place, as beloved and respected as Browning and Tennyson.1 Having finished Felix Holt in 1866, for three years
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Danger Lurks in the Darkness: The Ruskin/Burne-Jones Medieval Poetry Salon for Girls Victorian Poetry Pub Date : 2022-12-07 Vincent A. Lankewish
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Danger Lurks in the Darkness:The Ruskin/Burne-Jones Medieval Poetry Salon for Girls Vincent A. Lankewish (bio) Ruskin's Good Women In a September 8, 1863, letter, John Ruskin wrote to his friend, artist Edward Burne-Jones, to express his enthusiasm for a series of tapestries of the heroines of Chaucer's poem The Legend of Good Women (c
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"The Mournful Echo": Intimacy in American Recitations and Periodical Reprinting of "Mother and Poet," 1861–1879 Victorian Poetry Pub Date : 2022-12-07 Elizabeth Howard
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: "The Mournful Echo":Intimacy in American Recitations and Periodical Reprinting of "Mother and Poet," 1861–1879 Elizabeth Howard (bio) In Book I of Aurora Leigh, the young author Aurora asks of her sources of inspiration, "My own best poets am I one with you/That thus I love you, or but one through love?"1 While Elizabeth Barrett Browning's
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Socializing Maud: Tennyson's Recitations Victorian Poetry Pub Date : 2022-12-07 Veronica Alfano
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Socializing Maud:Tennyson's Recitations Veronica Alfano (bio) On September 27, 1855, Alfred Tennyson visited the Brownings in London. There, in front of a small audience that included Dante Gabriel and William Michael Rossetti, he read his recently published poem Maud aloud—pausing occasionally, as was his wont, to add a clarification
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The Victorian Salon and Pre-Raphaelite Melopoetics Victorian Poetry Pub Date : 2022-12-07 Mary Arseneau
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The Victorian Salon and Pre-Raphaelite Melopoetics Mary Arseneau (bio) Phyllis Weliver's Mary Gladstone and the Victorian Salon breaks new ground in describing the political, intellectual, aesthetic, and social history of the important semipublic space of the Victorian salon. As Weliver's book illustrates, Mary Gladstone's influential
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The "diaphanous veil" of Edward Lear's Tennyson Songs Victorian Poetry Pub Date : 2022-12-07 Sarah Weaver
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The "diaphanous veil" of Edward Lear's Tennyson Songs Sarah Weaver (bio) Shortly before Edward Lear visited the Isle of Wight in October 1855, Emily Tennyson wrote to ask, "Will you do me the favor to bring me down an 'Edward Gray' when you come? I am just giving mine away and I cannot do without one."1 Lear presumably complied in bringing
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Afterword: Victorian Salons and Forms of Poetic Sociability Victorian Poetry Pub Date : 2022-12-07 Alison Chapman
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Afterword:Victorian Salons and Forms of Poetic Sociability Alison Chapman (bio) What is the place of Victorian poetry in the literary salon? Given the recent turn to sociability in nineteenth-century studies, this is a timely question raised by the articles in this special issue.1 I want to start thinking about Victorian poetry and the
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Contributors Victorian Poetry Pub Date : 2022-12-07
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Contributors Veronica Alfano is a lecturer in the discipline of literature at Macquarie University. Her first book is The Lyric in Victorian Memory: Poetic Remembering and Forgetting from Tennyson to Housman. With Andrew Stauffer, she edited the essay collection Virtual Victorians: Networks, Connections, Technologies; with Lee O'Brien
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"Clutch[ing] Gold": Wives, Mothers, and Property Law in The Ring and the Book Victorian Poetry Pub Date : 2022-07-16 Jill Rappoport
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: “Clutch[ing] Gold”: Wives, Mothers, and Property Law in The Ring and the Book Jill Rappoport (bio) In Robert Browning’s epic exploration of a 1698 murder case, Count Guido Franceschini confesses to killing his wife Pompilia, confident that her alleged dishonor justifies his action and, crucially, that the money he married for will pass
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Writing for Relief: Poetry, Labor, and the Lancashire Cotton Famine (1861–1865) Victorian Poetry Pub Date : 2022-07-16 Eva Dema
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Writing for Relief: Poetry, Labor, and the Lancashire Cotton Famine (1861–1865) Eva Dema (bio) There are hands by hundred thousandsIn the crowded North,Empty, idle, yet for labour,Not for alms, stretched forth. “Hands and Hearts,” Punch, November 15, 1862 I In late December 1862, readers of the Essex Standard were met with the following
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Christina Rossetti's Questions: Riddles, Catechisms, and Mystery Victorian Poetry Pub Date : 2022-07-16 Joshua Taft
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Christina Rossetti’s Questions: Riddles, Catechisms, and Mystery Joshua Taft (bio) When do lyrics ask questions, and why? If you are a lyric reader who has adopted John Stuart Mill’s argument that poetry is something “overheard,” a form of “feeling confessing itself to itself, in moments of solitude,” questions would seem out of place