The Crimean War in Victorian Poetry

ISBN-13: 9781788741798 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 304 str.

Tai-Chun Ho

Opis

This is the first book-length study to examine the predicaments and achievements of mid-Victorian war poets. Confronted with news of suffering soldiers during the Crimean War (1854-6), these 'armchair poets' engaged with the politics of war by composing lines of verse at home, reworking established traditions of war poetry.

Spis treści

CONTENTS: Reframing the Armchair Poet - The Victorian Tyrtaeus - The Afterlives of Campbell and «The Soldier's Dream» - The People's War: Challenging the Governing Classes - Scenes of Suffering: Dobell's Spasmodic War Poetry - Echoes of War-Cries: Tennyson's Maud - Eastern Fantasies: Costello's The Lay of the Stork - The Afterlives of Crimean War Poetry.

O autorze

Tai-Chun Ho is Assistant Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan. He completed his PhD in English Literature at the University of York in 2015 and has published articles in 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century, Tennyson Research Bulletin and Journal of Victorian Culture.