The Heart's Events
The Victorian Poetry of Relationships
1st Edition
Published on 13. January 2014
227 pages
978-1-4725-0707-5 (ISBN)
Description
Dr Ball offers an analysis and evaluation of a number of Victorian long poems and groups of lyrics which trace the course of close personal relationships. Her argument is that whereas Romantic treatment of such material was limited, the Victorian poets not only made this emotional territory their own but explored it with vigour, variety and enterprise, and great technical resource. This is apparent, as Dr Ball shows, whether the poets concern themselves with crises such as loss through death - In Memoriam, Patmore's odes of bereavement - or breakdown - Modern Love, Maud, James Lee's Wife - or whether they portray the intricate flux of mutual attraction and courtship, as in Amours de Voyage, The Bothie of Tober-na-Vuolich and The Angel in the House. The Heart's Events brings out strongly the experimental vitality and range of Victorian poetry and, in particular, its sensitive imaginative response to the subtleties of psychological time and change in its records of the inner histories of love.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-4725-0707-5 (9781472507075)
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Book
11/2013
Bloomsbury Academic
€192.70
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Person
Patricia M. Ball was Lecturer in English at the University of Leeds. She is the author of The Central Self and The Science of Aspects.
Content
Introduction: 'Let us be true to one another'
I. 'The Difference to Me'
Wordsworth: the Lucy Poems;
Byron: Poems of the Separation
II. 'The Fates, It Is Clear, Are Against Us'
Arnold: the Marguerite Poems;
Clough: Amours de Voyage
III. 'Till All My Widowed Race Be Run'
Patmore: Odes of Bereavement;
Tennyson: In Memoriam
IV. 'If I Be Dear to Someone Else'
Meredith: Modern Love; Tennyson: Maud;
Browning: James Lee's Wife
V. 'To Marry Her and Take Her Home'
Clough: The Bothie of Tober-na-Vuolich;
Patmore: The Angel in the House
Conclusion: The Heart's Events
Index
I. 'The Difference to Me'
Wordsworth: the Lucy Poems;
Byron: Poems of the Separation
II. 'The Fates, It Is Clear, Are Against Us'
Arnold: the Marguerite Poems;
Clough: Amours de Voyage
III. 'Till All My Widowed Race Be Run'
Patmore: Odes of Bereavement;
Tennyson: In Memoriam
IV. 'If I Be Dear to Someone Else'
Meredith: Modern Love; Tennyson: Maud;
Browning: James Lee's Wife
V. 'To Marry Her and Take Her Home'
Clough: The Bothie of Tober-na-Vuolich;
Patmore: The Angel in the House
Conclusion: The Heart's Events
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