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Tennyson |
In memoriam |
Exploration if doubts, as it is an assertion of faith Following HALLAM's traumatic death Elegiac "mechanic exercises" |
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Pre-raphaelites |
Poetry of sensation rather than reflection Alternative interest in "ordinary life" and "community" |
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Tennyson |
Many of the Poems deal with death-like states or with death itself as a climatic and releasing experience. Hypnotic echoes, repetitions, and the subtle lyricism of the poems also reinforce the impression they convey of a protective and isolating artifice. |
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Tennyson |
Poems |
Revision of certain key Poems Balanced the old mood of narcotic drowsiness with urgent simplicity |
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Tennyson |
The princess: a Medley |
Ambiguous narrative poem, moving from a present-day prologue to a story set to an undefined Medieval past Exploring the modern subject of women's education |
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Christina Rossetti |
Giddin Market & other Poems |
Lizzie |
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Christina Rossetti |
Sing song: a nursery rhyming back |
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Christina Rossetti |
The Prince's progress and other poems |
use of allitteration and assonance both in its title-poem, an allegory which describes the unhappy, uncertainty of emotional commitment, and a sequence of lyric poems, secular and devotional |
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Christina Rossetti |
A pageant and other poems |
Contains the religious sequence of Petrarchian sonnets "MONNA INNOMINATA" |
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Elizabeth Browning |
Sonnets from the Portuguese |
Love from woman to man Powerful, private emotional awakening No Portuguese original |
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Elizabeth Browning 1851 |
Casa Guidi Windows |
The poems confront Italian political flux & the contradictory nature of nationalist aspirations |
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Elizabeth Browning 1856 |
Aurora Leigh: a poem in nine books |
Long blank-verse "novel" Feminist statement: Aurora Leigh traces 2 careers, one male, the other female; one philanthropic, the other artistic. Digression into other lives and other circumstances beyond the comfortable world of the heroine. |
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Robert Browning 1860 |
The ring and the book |
Verse novel 4 volumes Narrative lines require exploration rather than mere imaginative sympathy or suspension or disbelief. Reader obliged to play the role of an investigating magistrate Truth can be objective&subjective, external&experiencial Source of this poem: documents concerning a Roman murder trial of 1698. Exploring the self-justifying contortions of the minds of sinners and criminals |
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Robert Browning |
Dramatic lyrics
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Volumes of verses |
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Robert Browning |
Dramatic romances and lyrics |
Volumes of verses |
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Robert Browning |
Dramatis Personae |
The characters of his poetry do not necessarily have to interact with others. Physical context through selected details, references,... |
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Robert Browning |
Stafford |
Play |
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Robert Browning |
In memoriam A.H.H. |
Tribute to Hallam (mortal victim, immortal spiritual pioneer) Recurrent images Seasonal and calendar events Utterly different view of love and education |
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Robert Browning |
Maud and other poems |
Love-poem shot through w/violence, failure, horror Exalted passion + incipient breakdown Passages of Lyrical imagining countered by equally telling diatribes against social injustice Anguished accounts of mental distress |
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Robert Browning |
The idyllis of the King |
Arthurian cycle |
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Robert Browning |
Each & Other Poems |
Parnassian language, lexical complacency |
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Pre-raphaelites' journal |
The Germ |
Experimental amalgam of poetry+prose+essay Wolner Patmore Swinburne Rossetti (Dante Gabriel) Morris |
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The Germ's authors |
Wolner Rossetti Dante Gabriel Morris Patmore Swinburne |
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Thomas Wolner |
My beautiful lady |
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
The hour of life |
Decorative & descriptive poetry Fascination w/ female body and face |
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Patmore |
The angel in the house |
Uxoriously adoring love poem |
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Swinburne |
Songs before sunrise |
1871 Defined paganism & instinctive libertarianism, shaped by ・ profound understanding of the forms and styles of classical culture ・distaste for christian narrowness |
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Swinburne |
Poems and ballads |
Metrical echoes + variation of Greek poetry |
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Morris |
Earthly Paradise |
Popular narrative art akin to Chaucer's Intermixes retold tales from classical and northern sources ICELANDIC SAGAS |
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Morris |
A dream of John Ball News from Nowhere |
Both use past to project an ideal into the FUTURE World freed from machine in favour of creativity |
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Bulwer-Lytton |
The lady of lyo or Love and Pride |
The author is a historical novelist |
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Bulwer-Lytton |
Richelieu |
Historical novel |
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Jerrold |
Paul Pry |
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Jerrold |
Black-eyed Susan |
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Boucicault |
The Colleen Bawn Arrah-na-Pogue The Shaugh rain |
Irish roots Figure of the resilient "Stage Irishman" 3 witty admixtures of comedy, crime, nationalist politics, and love-interest |
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Boucicault |
London assurance |
English 5-acts comedy PLAGIARISM ( Goldsmith & Sheridan ) |
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Robertson |
David Garrick |
Novel |
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Robertson |
Society Caste School |
+ 3 other comedies (1865-1870) Innovatory in their rejection of BOMBAST in favour of delicacy, observation, and anti-sentimental presentation of love |
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Victorian melodrama |
From a popular taste for spectacle, folk-stories and press reports, accounts of criminal enterprise/deviation, from Gothic and historical fiction, continental romantic theatre and native romantic sentiment |
Fraught amatory interests Heroines Misrepresentations of Shakespeare |
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Reade |
It is never too late to mend |
Prison story |
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Reade |
White Lies |
Novel (turned into a play, "The double marriage") |
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Reade |
The double marriage |
Play Original script is the novel "White Lies" by the same author |
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Collins |
The frozen deep |
Set in England and in the Arctic wastes |
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Collins 1850 |
The lighthouse |
In collaboration w/ Dickens |
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Collins |
No Thoroughfare |
Acting version of Dickens' short story |
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Collins |
No name |
Stage version of his own novel w/ same title |
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Collins |
Pioneer interest in detective stories "Sensation fiction" |
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Collins |
The woman in white |
Insanity, selfishness and guilty secrets Victorian villain: Italian exiled mixed ip in secret societies Story told through series of juxtaposed eye-witness accounts |
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Collins 1868 |
Multiple narrative which subtly explores the nature of detection & the vagaries of memory and observation ・element of Exotic: opium + Oriental background |
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Braddon |
Lady Audley's secret |
Story of an ambitious murderess intent on covering up both her crime & her earlier career. Lady Audley is a highly distinctive villain/heroine who, despite her beauty and her social grace, displays few of the idealized qualities, and none of the passivity, that many Victorian readers and writers associated w/ women |
