The Spasmodic Career of Sydney DobellUniversity Press of America, 1992 - 167 pagine The Smasmodic Career of Sydney Dobell opens up a tantalizing but neglected twenty-year period of British literary history in the mid-Victorian era. Dobell, one of the few poetic theorists of his day, fell victim to a literary hoax that robbed him of his rightful place as an important transition figure between Romantic and Victorian poetry. Contents: A Footnote in Literary History; Mother Church and Child Bride; Father and Master; Liberty and Power: The Roman; Balder: Power and Horror; Downfall at Edinburgh; Last Attempts: Sonnets on the WaróEngland in Time of War; Dobell's Theory of Poetry: In Defense of Spasmodism; A Matter of Influence. |
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Mother Church and Child Bride | 21 |
Father and Master | 33 |
The Roman | 47 |
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