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- W956150089 abstract "Since the early years of the Victorian era, Shakespeare'spre-eminence as a dramatist has itself prompted much of theattention paid to his Sonnets, because their celebratedbiographical 'hints' suggest knowledge of the 'real life' ofthis most universal of English creative geniuses. Indeed it wassimply the fact that Shakespeare was the author of these poemsthat induced several influential Victorians to read them atall. Five of the major poets of Victorian England wrote lyricsequences which have suffered a like fate. Tennyson's InMemoriam, Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnets from thePortuguese, Christina Rossetti's Manna Innominata, Dante GabrielRossetti's The ttouse of Life and George Meredith's Modern Love -all of these have been read as autobiography, as thinlydisguised, or even transparent, confessions of actual experience..This dissertation takes the view that poetry must stand onits own, independent of the poets' biographies. It con tendsthat what makes Shakespeare's sonnets and these Victoriansequences lastingly valuable is the central consciousness ofeach one, regarded as an artistic creation, not as anautobiographical sketch of the poet. This central consciousness,this poetic protagonist, I call the 'sequence persona'.To demonstrate the presence of a persona proper to each ofthese five Victorian sequences, I have adopted a quite newcritical approach. Chapter I demonstrates the existence inShakespeare's Sonnets of what I call the Shakespearean persona.This involves close textual analysis of a number of the poemsand includes some differentiation of Shakespeare's methods from(vi)those of other Elizabethans such as Sir Philip Sidney andEdmund Spenser. Out of this comes a thesis to the effect thatShakespeare's sonnets are unconventional in their content andlanguage because they cumulatively create an individual ratherthan a Petrarchan sensibility.Chapter I offers, in itself, a contribution to the studyof Shakespeare's Sonnets, but its main purpose in thedissertation is to locate a crucible in which the poeticemotions of the Victorians were refined to produce a new yieldof artistic gold. Chapters II-V demonstrate the existenceof an equally distinct persona, akin to that of Shakespeare'sSonnets, in each of the named Victorian sequences. I accompanythis analysis with, and indeed often conduct it through, acomparison of individual Victorian poems and particularShakespearean sonnets. The Conclusion codifies, clear ofpoetic analysis, the usefulness of reading these majornineteenth-century sequences with the Shakespearean model inmind, and suggests that the method adopted in this dissertationmight well be used for fresh study of other less unified andless important examples of Vi~torian love poetry." @default.
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- W956150089 title "The refining crucible : Shakespeare and lyric sequences in Victorian England" @default.
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