Download or read book Victorian Parlour Poetry written by Michael R. Turner and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 1992 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features 117 gems by Longfellow, Tennyson, Browning and many lesser-known poets. "The Village Blacksmith," "Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight," "Only a Baby Small," more, often difficult to find elsewhere. Index of poets, titles, first lines.

Download or read book The Victorian Parlour written by Thad Logan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-07-05 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The parlour was the centre of the Victorian home and, as Thad Logan shows, the place where contemporary conflicts about domesticity and gender relations were frequently played out. In The Victorian Parlour: A Cultural Study, Logan uses an interdisciplinary approach that combines the perspectives of art history, social history and literary theory to describe and analyse the parlour as a cultural artefact. She offers a detailed investigation of specific objects in the parlour, and argues that these things articulated social meaning and could present symbolic resolutions to disturbances in the social field. The book concludes with a discussion of how representations of the parlour in literature and art reveal the pleasures and anxieties associated with Victorian domestic life.

Download or read book Victorian Poetry and the Culture of the Heart written by Kirstie Blair and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2006-04-27 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victorian Poetry and the Culture of the Heart is a significant and timely study of nineteenth-century poetry and poetics. It considers why and how the heart became a vital image in Victorian poetry, and argues that the intense focus on heart imagery in many major Victorian poems highlights anxieties in this period about the ability of poetry to act upon its readers. In the course of the nineteenth century, this study argues, increased doubt about the validity of feeling led to the depiction of the literary heart as alienated, distant, outside the control of mind and will. This coincided with a notable rise in medical literature specifically concerned with the pathological heart, and with the development of new techniques and instruments of investigation such as the stethoscope. As poets feared for the health of their own hearts, their poetry embodies concerns about a widespread culture of heartsickness in both form and content. In addition, concerns about the heart's status and actions reflect upon questions of religious faith and doubt, and feed into issues of gender and nationalism. This book argues that it is vital to understand how this wider culture of the heart informed poetry and was in turn influenced by poetic constructs. Individual chapters on Barrett Browning, Arnold, and Tennyson explore the vital presence of the heart in major works by these poets - including Aurora Leigh, 'Empedocles on Etna', In Memoriam, and Maud - while the wide-ranging opening chapters present an argument for the mutual influence of poetry and physiology in the period and trace the development of new theories of rhythm as organic and affective.

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Download or read book Victorian Poetry written by Clarence Edward Andrews and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Columbia Granger s Guide to Poetry Anthologies written by William A. Katz and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reference guide to poetry anthologies with descriptions and evaluations of each anthology.

Download or read book The Romance of the Lyric in Nineteenth Century Women s Poetry written by Lee Christine O'Brien and published by University of Delaware. This book was released on 2012-10-05 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Romance of the Lyric in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Poetry: Experiments in Form offers a new account of the nature of the lyric as nineteenth-century women poets developed the form. It offers fresh assessments of the imaginative and aesthetic complexity of women’s poetry. The monograph seeks to redefine the range and cultural significance of women’s writing using the work of poets who have not, heretofore, been part of critical accounts of nineteenth-century lyric poetry. These new voices are set beside new readings of the poetry of established figures: for example, Christina Rossetti’s Goblin Market and Augusta Webster’s “Medea in Athens” and “Circe." The monograph draws substantially on the poetry of Rosamund Marriott Watson – who was lost to literary history before the restoration of her oeuvre through the scholarly and critical work of Professor Linda K. Hughes – to make the case that once neglected and lost voices provide new ways of determining the cultural centrality of women and the poetry they produced in one of the richest periods of poetic experimentation in the Western literary tradition. This monograph contends that Watson’s poetry and prose provide new ways of analyzing the complex and frequently transgressive nature of the lyric engagement of women with folklore and myth and with the growing understanding in the nineteenth century of the fragmented, fluid self in general and of the writer in particular.

Download or read book Famous Poems from Bygone Days written by Martin Gardner and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-02-20 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 80 poems from the 19th and early 20th centuries, including works about love and war, ships and the sea, farms and family, life and death, heaven and hell.

Download or read book An Anthology of Pure Poetry written by George Moore and published by New York, Boni. This book was released on 1924 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Pure Poetry written by George Moore and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Anthology of Victorian Poetry written by Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Romantic and Victorian Poetry written by Clarence Edward Andrews and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Psychology written by William James and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Written in a rich, vivid style, the Briefer Course examines a wide range of topics: the importance and physical basis of habit; stream of consciousness ( a frame coined by James); self and the sense of personal identity; discrimination and association; the sense of time; memory; perception; imagination; reasoning; emotions compared to instincts; the will and voluntary acts; and a host of other subjects. (The book's long-outdated first nine chapters, dealing with such sensory processes as vision, hearing, and touch, have been omitted from this edition.) An enormous amount of what James wrote in the fledging days of psychology is still true, relevant, and thought-provoking today." -- Back cover.

Download or read book The Sacred Wood and Major Early Essays written by T. S. Eliot and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1997-07-10 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of poetry's great voices reviews the creations of his literary forebears with essays on the works of Dante, Shakespeare, Blake, the Metaphysical Poets, and other authors. Plus 4 essays from The Times Literary Supplement.

Download or read book Celtic Gods and Heroes written by Marie-Louise Sjoestedt and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2000-09-18 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noted French scholar and linguist discusses gods of the continental Celts, beginnings of mythology in Ireland, Irish mother-goddesses and chieftain-gods, and heroes.

Download or read book The Medieval Scene written by G. G. Coulton and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-01-23 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vivid, eminently readable account provides fascinating insights into the Church's role in village life, the development of towns, the growth of chivalry, monasticism, trade, more. "...admirable and entirely trustworthy." — Saturday Review.