The Realms of Verse 1830-1870: English Poetry in a Time of Nation-Building

ISBN-13: 9780198187127 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 312 str.

Matthew Reynolds

Opis

Robert and Elizabeth Browning, Tennyson, and Clough lived and wrote in a time of "nation-building." The Realms of Verse brings that political and intellectual context to life, and traces its influence on the narratives, language, and form of their poetry. Theoretically astute and historically detailed, this study is the most far-reaching reassessment of Victorian poetry to have been published in recent years.

Recenzje

The core of Matthew Reynold's book is a series of close readings of major poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Arthur Hugh Clough, Robert Browning and Alfred Tennyson. These readings are often brilliant - the closer the better. On metre, rhyme, enjambment, turn of phrase, Reynolds is acute and persuasive. The best critics, like the best poets (in Browning's words) "impart the gift of seeing to the rest". Reynolds has this gift of seeing and imparting.