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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Helsinger, Elizabeth K

Titel

Conversing in verse : conversation in nineteenth-century English poetry

Ist Teil von

• Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture : 139 (Alle Bände)

Ort / Verlag

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY ; Port Melbourne ; New Delhi ; Singapore : Cambridge University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Includes bibliographical references and index
• Introduction: A Poetics of Encounter -- Dialogue and the Idyll: Tennyson and Landor -- Performing Conversation: Swinburne and Robert Browning -- Projects of Animation: Coleridge and Clare -- Ecphrastic Questions: Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Michael Field -- Cruel Intimacies: Christina Rossetti and Thomas Hardy -- Epilogue: Louise Glück's Secret Conversations.
• "In this pioneering study, Elizabeth Helsinger reframes lyric poetry as a social form. Taking nineteenth-century poetry as her focus, she explores varied historical and philosophical contexts to address the question of when and why poets adopt conversational forms, and how doing so might ultimately expand readers' ethical and political horizons"--