Tennyson's Rapture
Tennyson's Rapture

Author: Cornelia D. J. Pearsall

Publisher: OUP USA

Published: 2008-01-29

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 0195150546

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This book explores Tennyson's representation of rapture as a radical mechanism of transformation--theological, social, political, or personal--and as a figure for critical processes in his own poetics. Offering a new approach to reading Victorian dramatic monologues, Pearsall probes the complex aims of these performances, showing how speakers' ambitions are both articulated in, and attained through, their consequential speech.

A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895)
A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895)

Author: George Saintsbury

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2023-07-18

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781021344977

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This classic work of literary criticism provides a comprehensive overview of the literature of the 19th century, from Romanticism to the Decadence. With detailed analysis of the works of major authors such as Dickens, Tennyson, and Wilde, this book is an essential resource for any student of literature. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Wordsworth and Welsh Romanticism
Wordsworth and Welsh Romanticism

Author: James Prothero

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2013-05-20

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 1443848867

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Popular anthologies hold that the Romantic Era in Great Britain ended promptly in 1832 and that the early Twentieth Century was the time of Modernism and the rejection of the Romantic in British letters. However, in Wales, just the opposite was true. This study traces the work of poets and novelists in Wales in the early- to mid-Twentieth Century who all found their poetic master to be William Wordsworth. In the early part of the century, W. H. Davies, John Cowper Powys and Huw Menai – a tramp, a mystic novelist and a coal miner – produce novels and poetry with Wordsworth as their acknowledged master. By mid-century, Idris Davies, a coal miner turned teacher, R. S. Thomas, an Anglican priest, and Leslie Norris, another teacher, are writing in the “mountainous shadow of William Wordsworth.” While the literary lights of London are leading the Modernist revolution, in Wales, the inspiration is still the English poet, Wordsworth. This study will illuminate this flare up of Romanticism, and show the way in which Romanticism re-emerges from unexpected quarters.