The realms of verse, 1830-1870 : English poetry in a time of nation-building

Matthew Reynolds

The poets of the mid-nineteenth century lived in a time of 'nation-building'. The Realms of Verse brings that political and intellectual context to life. It shows that the Italian Risorgimento raised questions about community and individual liberty which were especially problematic for subjects of the multi-national United Kingdom, and argues that these questions are at the heart of the poetry of Robert and Elizabeth Browning, Tennyson, and Clough. Their long poems characteristically tell stories about marriage, investigating the symbolic and actual interactions between that personal union and national unity. Their verse as a whole exploits correspondences between formal control and political government, and is alert to its own role in fostering a common culture. Historically detailed, theoretically astute, critically nimble, and stylishly written, The Realms of Verse is the most far-reaching reassessment of Victorian poetry to have been published in recent years.

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[目次]

  • Orientations
  • poetry and its times
  • poets and nations
  • three types of unity
  • the inspiration of Italy
  • from elegy to prophecy
  • the scope of narrative: Aurora Leigh
  • repulsive Clough
  • Browning's alien pages
  • Tennyson's Britain
  • ever-broadening Britain
  • the empire of the imagination
  • the married state - idylls of the king
  • coda - after the realms of verse.

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書名 The realms of verse, 1830-1870 : English poetry in a time of nation-building
著作者等 Reynolds, Matthew
出版元 Oxford University Press
刊行年月 2001
ページ数 xi, 300 p.
大きさ 23 cm
ISBN 0198187122
NCID BA52581930
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言語 英語
出版国 イギリス
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