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Poetry and the Thought of Song in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Victorian Literature and Culture Series)
Elizabeth Helsinger
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Description for Poetry and the Thought of Song in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Victorian Literature and Culture Series)
Hardcover. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 206 x 25. Weight in Grams: 825.
In arguing for the crucial importance of song for poets in the long nineteenth century, Elizabeth Helsinger focuses on both the effects of song on lyric forms and the mythopoetics through which poets explored the affinities of poetry with song. While she considers poets long described as “musical""—Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Gerard Manly Hopkins, Emily Brontë, and Algernon Charles Swinburne—she also examines the more surprising importanceof song for those poets who rethought poetry through the medium of visual art: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Morris, and Christina Rossetti. Helsinger’s close readings incorporate the philosophical and scientific discourses prevalent at the time and ... Read more
In arguing for the crucial importance of song for poets in the long nineteenth century, Elizabeth Helsinger focuses on both the effects of song on lyric forms and the mythopoetics through which poets explored the affinities of poetry with song. While she considers poets long described as “musical""—Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Gerard Manly Hopkins, Emily Brontë, and Algernon Charles Swinburne—she also examines the more surprising importanceof song for those poets who rethought poetry through the medium of visual art: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Morris, and Christina Rossetti. Helsinger’s close readings incorporate the philosophical and scientific discourses prevalent at the time and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Series
Victorian Literature and Culture Series
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813938004
SKU
V9780813938004
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Ref
99-15
About Elizabeth Helsinger
Elizabeth K. Helsinger, author of Poetry and the Pre-Raphaelite Arts: Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Morris, is John Matthews Manly Distinguished Service Professor Emerita of English, Art History, and Visual Arts at the University of Chicago, USA.
Reviews for Poetry and the Thought of Song in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Victorian Literature and Culture Series)
“Through its subtle and philosophically tinged readings in the history of the Victorian lyric, Helsinger’s work reclaims an underappreciated part of the literary tradition and provides an inspiring model for readers and critics of Victorian poetry."" —Florence Boos, University of Iowa