What's the import? : nineteenth-century poems and contemporary critical practice

Publication Data

• Title What's the import? : nineteenth-century poems and contemporary critical practice
• Author Kerry McSweeney
• Publisher McGill-Queen's University Press
• Publication date 2007
• Publication location Montréal, Québec
• Language English

Contents

Performing "The solitary reaper" and "Tears, idle tears"
Victorian poems on paintings
Indefinitiveness of meaning in parabolic poems
Aesthetic and ethical value in Bigg's "An Irish picture"
The cruxes of Whitman's "The sleepers"
Grief as a lyric subject in Dickinson
Hopkins' Godless poems
Influence and resistance in Hardy's poetry
Afterword : two Browning poems.

Topics

• English poetry :: 19th century :: History and criticism :: Theory, etc.
• American poetry :: 19th century :: History and criticism :: Theory, etc.
• Criticism
• 013704607

What's the import? : nineteenth-century poems and contemporary critical practice by Kerry McSweeney. ISBN 9780773532021. Published by McGill-Queen's University Press in 2007. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.