The Romantic Impulse in Victorian FictionMr. Stone takes an innovative approach to the Victorian novelists, examining their debt to the writers of the previous generation. Confronting the diversity of the Romantic movement and of the Victorians' responses to it, he discovers strong and unexpected affinities between the novelists and the Romantics. |
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Donald David Stone. Introduction - feminate , school of poetry , " other Victorians saw Shelley as the incarnation of Carlyle's hero as poet : he alone among the Eng- lish Romantics , according to Lewes , was a " seer " offering the ...
Donald David Stone. Introduction - feminate , school of poetry , " other Victorians saw Shelley as the incarnation of Carlyle's hero as poet : he alone among the Eng- lish Romantics , according to Lewes , was a " seer " offering the ...
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... poetry ( a confusion which is reflected in her own painfully well - meaning poetry ) ; and the passages she marked from The Prelude are al- most invariably ones that speak of the ties that bind nature to men and men to men , of the ...
... poetry ( a confusion which is reflected in her own painfully well - meaning poetry ) ; and the passages she marked from The Prelude are al- most invariably ones that speak of the ties that bind nature to men and men to men , of the ...
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... poetry " ( p . 434 ) . Skimpole's cruelest act , however , occurs when he sells Richard to the lawyer Vholes ( who undertakes to look after his interests in the Chancery suit ) and then prates about his friend's " youthful poetry " of ...
... poetry " ( p . 434 ) . Skimpole's cruelest act , however , occurs when he sells Richard to the lawyer Vholes ( who undertakes to look after his interests in the Chancery suit ) and then prates about his friend's " youthful poetry " of ...
Contents
ONE Introduction | 1 |
TWO Trollope Byron and the Conventionalities | 46 |
THREE Benjamin Disraeli and the Romance of the Will | 74 |
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