Influence and Resistance in Nineteenth-Century English Poetry

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction....Pages 1-17
Romantic to Victorian Iconography of Nature....Pages 18-38
Shelley’s Adonais and Arnold’s Thyrsis: Words of Power in Pastoral Elegy....Pages 39-59
Aurality and Re-vision: The Case of Wordsworth and Tennyson....Pages 60-75
Swinburne’s Tristram of Lyonesse as Assimilationist Epic....Pages 76-90
Hardy’s Poetic Antecedents....Pages 91-111
The Return of a Native Singer: Keats in Hardy’s Dorset....Pages 112-130
Christina Rossetti and the Romantics: Influence and Ideology....Pages 131-149
‘Verses with a Good Deal about Sucking’: Percy Bysshe Shelley and Christina Rossetti....Pages 150-165
Robert Browning and Romantic Allegory....Pages 166-187
The House (of Cards) that Rome Built: Shelley’s The Cenci and Browning’s The Ring and the Book....Pages 188-202
In Wordsworth’s Shadow: Ruskin and Neo-Romantic Ecologies....Pages 203-232
Arnold and the Romantics....Pages 233-247
Seeing Through a Glass Darkly: Perspective in Romantic and Victorian Landscape....Pages 248-268
Back Matter....Pages 269-306