Dante Gabriel Rossetti And The Late Victorian Sonnet Sequence

Author : John Holmes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351946339

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Late Victorian Sonnet Sequence by John Holmes Pdf

In 1870, Dante Gabriel Rossetti published the first version of his sonnet sequence The House of Life. The next thirty years saw the greatest flourishing of the sonnet sequence since the 1590s. John Holmes's carefully researched and eloquent study illuminates how leading sonneteers, including the Rossettis, John Addington Symonds, Wilfrid Blunt and Augusta Webster, and their early twentieth-century successors Rosa Newmarch and Rupert Brooke, addressed the urgent questions of selfhood, religious belief and doubt, and sexual and national identity which troubled late Victorian England. Drawing on the heritage of the sonnet sequence, the poetic self-portraits they created are unsurpassed in their subtlety, complexity, courage, and honesty.

Author : Brian Donnelly
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317071259

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Reading Dante Gabriel Rossetti by Brian Donnelly Pdf

A revolutionary figure throughout his career, Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s work provides a distinctly revolutionary lens through which the Victorian period can be viewed. Suggesting that Rossetti’s work should be approached through his poetry, Brian Donnelly argues that it is both inscribed by and inscribes the development of verbal as well as visual culture in the Victorian era. In his discussions of modernity, aestheticism, and material culture, he identifies Rossetti as a central figure who helped define the terms through which we approach the cultural productions of this period. Donnelly begins by articulating a method for reading Rossetti’s poetry that highlights the intertextual relations within and between the poetry and paintings. His interpretations of such poems as the 'Mary’s Girlhood' sonnets, the sonnet sequence The House of Life, and 'The Orchard-Pit' in relationship to paintings such as The Girlhood of Mary Virgin and Ecce Ancilla Domini! shed light on Victorian ideals of femininity, on consumer culture, and on the role of gender hierarchies in Victorian culture. Situating Rossetti’s poetry as the key to all of his work, Donnelly also makes a case for its centrality in its representation of the dominant discourses of the late Victorian period: faith, sex, consumption, death, and the nature of representation itself.

Author : Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : English poetry
ISBN : EHC:148101046431X

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The House of Life by Dante Gabriel Rossetti Pdf

Author : Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:02025883

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The House of Life by Dante Gabriel Rossetti Pdf

Author : Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1903
Category : Sonnets, English
ISBN : UCSC:32106008499896

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The House of Life by Dante Gabriel Rossetti Pdf

Author : Marianne Van Remoortel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317104018

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Lives of the Sonnet, 1787–1895 by Marianne Van Remoortel Pdf

In a series of representative case studies, Marianne Van Remoortel traces the development of the sonnet during intense moments of change and stability, continuity and conflict, from the early Romantic period to the end of the nineteenth century. Paying particular attention to the role of the popular press, which served as a venue of innovation and as a site of recruitment for aspiring authors, Van Remoortel redefines the scope of the genre, including the ways in which its development is intricately related to issues of gender. Among her subjects are the Della Cruscans and their primary critic William Gifford, the young Samuel Taylor Coleridge and his circle, Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese, George Meredith's Modern Love, Dante Gabriel Rossetti's House of Life and Augusta Webster's Mother and Daughter. As women became a force to be reckoned with among the reading public and the writing community, the term 'sonnet' often operated as a satirical label that was not restricted to poetry adhering to the strict formalities of the genre. Van Remoortel's study, in its attentiveness to the sonnet's feminization during the late eighteenth century, offers important insights into the ways in which changing attitudes about gender and genre shaped critics' interpretations of the reception histories of nineteenth-century sonnet sequences.

Author : Michael J. Allen
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 2036 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-15
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780857288547

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The Anthem Anthology of Victorian Sonnets by Michael J. Allen Pdf

‘The Anthem Anthology of Victorian Sonnets’ is a comprehensive collection of three thousand sonnets written by poets between 1836 and the early years of the twentieth century. The work contains a representative selection of sonnets for each individual poet, in order to display the diversity and innovation brought to the sonnet form by Victorian poets.

Author : William T. Going
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783111637082

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Scanty plot of ground by William T. Going Pdf

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Author : Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1282185535

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House of Life: A Sonnet-sequence by Dante Gabriel Rossetti Pdf

Author : Matthew Bevis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 913 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199576463

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The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Poetry by Matthew Bevis Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Poetry offers an authorative collection of original essays and is an essential resource for those interested in Victorian poetry and poetics.

Author : Isobel Armstrong
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-30
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781317688808

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Victorian Poetry by Isobel Armstrong Pdf

In Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics and Politics, Isobel Armstrong rescued Victorian poetry from its longstanding sepia image as ‘a moralised form of romantic verse' and unearthed its often subversive critique of nineteenth-century culture and politics. In this uniquely comprehensive and theoretically astute new edition, Armstrong provides an entirely new preface that notes the key advances in the criticism of Victorian poetry since her classic work was first published in 1993. A new chapter on the alternative fin de siècle sees Armstrong discuss Michael Field, Rudyard Kipling, Alice Meynell and a selection of Hardy lyrics. The extensive bibliography acts as a key resource for students and scholars alike.

Author : Paula R. Feldman,Daniel Robinson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2002-12-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198027539

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A Century of Sonnets by Paula R. Feldman,Daniel Robinson Pdf

A Century of Sonnets is a striking reminder that some of the best known and most well-respected poems of the Romantic era were sonnets. It presents the broad and rich context of such favorites as Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Ozymanidas," John Keats's "On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer," and William Wordsworth's "Composed Upon Westminster Bridge" by tracing the sonnet revival in England from its beginning in the hands of Thomas Edwards and Charlotte Smith to its culmination in the poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Expertly edited by Paula R. Feldman and Daniel Robinson, this volume is the first in modern times to collect the sonnets of the Romantic period--many never before published in the twentieth century--and contains nearly five hundred examples composed between 1750 and 1850 by 81 poets, nearly half of them women. A Century of Sonnets includes in their entirety such important but difficult to find sonnet sequences as William Wordsworth's The River Duddon, Mary Robinson's Sappho and Phaon, and Robert Southey's Poems on the Slave Trade, along with Browning's enduring classic, Sonnets from the Portuguese. The poems collected here express the full sweep of human emotion and explore a wide range of themes, including love, grief, politics, friendship, nature, art, and the enigmatic character of poetry itself. Indeed, for many poets the sonnet form elicited their strongest work. A Century of Sonnets shows us that far from disappearing with Shakespeare and the English Renaissance, the sonnet underwent a remarkable rebirth in the Romantic period, giving us a rich body of work that continues to influence poets even today.

Author : Pearl Chaozon Bauer,Erik Gray
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780821425459

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Love among the Poets by Pearl Chaozon Bauer,Erik Gray Pdf

British literature of the Victorian period has always been celebrated for the quality, innovativeness, and sheer profusion of its love poetry. Every major Victorian poet produced notable poems about love. This includes not only canonical figures, such as Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Christina Rossetti, but also lesser-known poets whose works have only recently become widely recognized and studied, such as Augusta Webster and the many often anonymous working-class poets whose verses filled the pages of popular periodicals. Modern critics have claimed, convincingly, that love poetry is not just one strain of Victorian poetry among many; it is arguably its representative, even definitive, mode. This collection of essays reconsiders the Victorian poetry of love and, just as importantly, of intimacy—a more inclusive term that comprehends not only romance but love for family, for God, for animals, and for language itself. Together the essays seek to define a poetics of intimacy that arose during the Victorian period and that continues today, a set of poetic structures and strategies by which poets can represent and encode feelings of love. There exist many studies of intimate relations (especially marriage) in Victorian novels. But although poetry rivals the novel in the depth and diversity of its treatment of love, marriage, and intimacy, that aspect of Victorian verse has remained underexamined. Love among the Poets offers an expansive critical overview. With its slate of distinguished contributors, including scholars from the US, Canada, Britain, and Australia, the volume is a wide-ranging account of this vital era of poetry and of its importance for the way we continue to write, love, and live today.

Author : Richard Cronin
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781119121411

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Reading Victorian Poetry by Richard Cronin Pdf

Reading Victorian Poetry “Richard Cronin’s exceptionally fine book carries out just what its title promises – reading. The pleasure of his adroit, meticulously imaginative insights into verbal and metrical effects is constant … One of the best general readings of Victorian poetry in the last ten years.” Victorian Studies “Reading Victorian Poetry will make an excellent introduction to Victorian poetry and gives a good account of a number of key issues.” English Studies Reading Victorian Poetry offers close readings of poems from the Victorian era, carefully selected by the author to reflect the breadth and diversity of nineteenth-century poetry. Richard Cronin’s outstanding consideration of a wide range of poets reflects the unusual diversity of Victorian poetry, which includes, amongst others, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti, D.G. Rossetti, and Gerard Manley Hopkins. The book investigates key concerns of the era in which poetry was ousted by the novel from the culturally central position that it had enjoyed for centuries. The result is an important and exciting contribution to the understanding of nineteenth-century poetry, and a crucial resource for anyone interested in Victorian literature.

Author : Elizabeth Ludlow
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472514769

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Christina Rossetti and the Bible by Elizabeth Ludlow Pdf

Through theologically-engaged close readings of her poetry and devotional prose, this book explores how Christina Rossetti draws on the Bible and encourages her Victorian readers to respond to its radical message of grace. Structured chronologically, each chapter investigates her participation in the formation of Tractarian theology and details how her interpretative strategies changed over the course of her lifetime. Revealing how her encounter with the biblical text is informed by devotional classics, Christina Rossetti and the Bible highlights the influence of Thomas a' Kempis, John Bunyan, George Herbert and John Donne and describes how Rossetti adapted the teaching of the Ancient and Patristic Fathers and medieval mystics. It also considers the interfaces that are established between her devotional poems and the anthology and periodical pieces alongside which they were published throughout the second half of the nineteenth-century.