What's the import? : nineteenth-century literary works and contemporary critical practice
Print Book, English, ©2007
McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal, ©2007
Criticism, interpretation, etc
x, 177 pages ; 24 cm
9780773532021, 0773532021
1019936555
1. Introduction
2. Performing "The solitary reaper" and "Tears, idle tears"
3. Victorian poems on paintings
4. Indefinitiveness of meaning in parabolic poems
5. Aesthetic and ethical value in Bigg's "An Irish picture"
6. The cruxes of Whitman's "The sleepers"
7. Grief as a lyric subject in Dickinson
8. Hopkins' godless poems
9. Influence and resistance in Hardy's poetry
10. Afterword : two Browning poems