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The Lyric in Victorian Memory: Poetic Remembering and Forgetting from Tennyson to Housman

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The Lyric in Victorian Memory: Poetic Remembering and Forgetting from Tennyson to Housman - Alfano, Veronica
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This book is a study of nineteenth-century poems that remember, yearn for, fixate on, and forget the past. Reflecting the current critical drive to reconcile formalist and historicist approaches to literature, it uses close readings to trace the complex interactions between memory as a theme and the (often-memorable) formal traits - such as brevity, stanzaic structure, and sonic repetition - that appear in the lyrics examined. This book considers the interwoven nature of remembering and forgetting in the work of four ...

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The Lyric in Victorian Memory: Poetic Remembering and Forgetting from Tennyson to Housman 2017, Palgrave MacMillan, Cham

ISBN-13: 9783319513065

2017 edition

Hardcover