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THE LONDON MUSE VICTORIAN POETIC RESPONSES TO THE CITY

by William B. Thesing

Published by The University of Georgia Press. Circa. 1982

Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper. Burgundy cloth with gilt title to spine.

Wrapper is faded to spine and a couple of edges; some edge-tears and creasing.

ISBN: 0820306193
Stock no. 2134290

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TOPOGRAPHY (UK)
LONDON
POETRY

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Contents

Chapter One. Romantic Versions of the City
I. The Celestial City in the Poetry of Blake, Wordsworth, and Tennyson
II. Blake's Urban Vision: The Poetry of /communal Renewal
III. Wordsworth's Urban Vision: Distant Glimpses
IV. Tennyson's Urban Vision: Historical Tremors and Hysterical Tremblings
Chapter Two. Realism Versus Escapism, 1850 - 1870
I. The Call to Teat the City Realistically
II. The Indeterminacy of Clough's Poetry about the City
III. Alexander Smith: The City and the Country
IV. Matthew Arnold: The Promise of Urban Repose in the Future
V. Walker and Buchanan: groping and Coping in the City
Chapter Three. The Urban Volcano, 1870 - 1890
I. Society's Equilibrium Challenged by Depression and Riots
II. Hopkins and Patmore: The Active Crater
III. Noel and Morris: From Observation to Revolution
IV. James Thomson: The City as Wasteland
Chapter Four. The Poetry of the Nineties
I. New Ways to Write Poetry about the City
II. Forms and Types of Poetry about London
III. Locker-Lampson, Dobson, and Binyon: Dim8inished Visions
IV. Wilde and Symons: The Cult of Artifice and Impressionism
V. Henley and Davidson: London's Energies
Epilogue
Continuities: The Urban Responses of D. H. Lawrence and T. S. Eliot

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