Böcker av Isobel Armstrong

Poetry Poets and Politics. In a comprehensive and theoretically astute study, Armstrong rescues Victorian poetry from its images as a moralised form of romantic verse and unearths its often subversive critique of nineteenth-century culture and politics.

First published in 1969, this edition collection brings together a series of essaysnbspoffering a nbspre-evaluation ofnbspVictorian poetry in the light of early 20th Century criticism.nbsp

Armstrong proposes a theory of the language of 19th- century poetry derived from Romantic philosophy in this highly original and important new study. Partial contents: ^R Wordsworth's complexity: Prelude (1805), Book VI; Blakes's simplicity: Jerusalem, Chapter 1; Shelley's perplexity: ^R Prometheus Unbound; Browning, the fracture of subject and object: Sordello, Book III; Tennyson, the collapse of object and subject: ^R In Memor

Essays, short stories and poems by eminent creative writers, critics and scholars from three continents celebrate the literary achievements of Barbara Hardy, the foremost exponent of close critical reading in the latter half of the twentieth century and today.