Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Late Victorian Sonnet Sequence
Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Late Victorian Sonnet Sequence

Author: John Holmes

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-03-02

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 1351946331

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In 1870, Dante Gabriel Rossetti published the first version of his sonnet sequence The House of Life. The next thirty years saw the greatest flourishing of the sonnet sequence since the 1590s. John Holmes's carefully researched and eloquent study illuminates how leading sonneteers, including the Rossettis, John Addington Symonds, Wilfrid Blunt and Augusta Webster, and their early twentieth-century successors Rosa Newmarch and Rupert Brooke, addressed the urgent questions of selfhood, religious belief and doubt, and sexual and national identity which troubled late Victorian England. Drawing on the heritage of the sonnet sequence, the poetic self-portraits they created are unsurpassed in their subtlety, complexity, courage, and honesty.

Great Sonnets
Great Sonnets

Author: Paul Negri

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2012-03-02

Total Pages: 115

ISBN-13: 0486112160

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Treasury of over 170 English and American sonnets by more than 70 poets, from the Renaissance to the 20th century. Masterpieces by Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth, Keats, Shelley, Blake, Swinburne, Yeats, Frost, Poe, many more.

The Anthem Anthology of Victorian Sonnets
The Anthem Anthology of Victorian Sonnets

Author: Michael J. Allen

Publisher: Anthem Press

Published: 2011-02-15

Total Pages: 2036

ISBN-13: 0857288547

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‘The Anthem Anthology of Victorian Sonnets’ is a comprehensive collection of three thousand sonnets written by poets between 1836 and the early years of the twentieth century. The work contains a representative selection of sonnets for each individual poet, in order to display the diversity and innovation brought to the sonnet form by Victorian poets.

Outsiders Looking In
Outsiders Looking In

Author: David Clifford

Publisher: Anthem Press

Published: 2004-01-29

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 0857287494

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This new interdisciplinary collection of writing explores the achievements of the Rossettis in the context of the Victorian era and in the light of modern cultural and literary criticism. 'Outsiders Looking In' considers the position that the Anglo-Italian Rossettis occupied in the cultural melee of mid-Victorian London, a status that was both central and fringe owing to their dual nationality.

A Critic in Pall Mall
A Critic in Pall Mall

Author: Oscar Wilde

Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand

Published: 2023-10-02

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13:

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"A Critic in Pall Mall" is not a work by Oscar Wilde. Instead, it is a collection of essays and reviews written by Oscar Wilde that was published in 1885 under the title "The Critic As Artist." This collection includes two dialogues: "The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing" and "The Decay of Lying: An Observation." In "The Critic As Artist," Wilde explores the role of the critic and the artist in society, arguing that the critic plays an essential role in shaping public opinion about art. He discusses the importance of individualism, aesthetics, and the idea that the critic's subjective response to art is as valuable as objective analysis. In "The Decay of Lying," Wilde satirically examines the relationship between art and reality. He argues that life imitates art far more than art imitates life, advocating for the value of artistic expression and imagination over strict adherence to reality. Both essays are known for their wit, humor, and paradoxical statements, which are characteristic of Wilde's writing style. These essays are considered significant contributions to the fields of literary criticism and aesthetics.