Thomas Hood and nineteenth-century poetry: Work, play, and politicsManchester University Press, 16 mai 2016 - 232 pages This is the first modern critical study of Thomas Hood, the popular and influential nineteenth-century poet, editor, cartoonist and voice of social protest. Acclaimed by Dickens, the Brownings and the Rossettis, Hood’s quirky, diverse output bridges the years between 1820 and 1845 and offers fascinating insights for Romanticists and Victorianists alike. |
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... Dream of Eugene Aram', a poem about an eighteenth-century murderer, who, undetected, worked as a school usher for over a decade until finally incriminated by an accomplice. Beautifully presented and packaged as gift selections, annuals ...
... other similar parallel ' . Other readers revelled chiefly in the grotesque energies of Hood's narrative poems , which submerge the reader in the fantastical world of nightmare . Poems such as ' The Dream of Eugene Aram ' , ' Introduction.
Work, play, and politics Sara Lodge. as ' The Dream of Eugene Aram ' , ' The Last Man ' and ' The Haunted House ' impressed writers including Robert Browning and Robert Louis Stevenson.9 All who knew Hood's work also knew his ' protest ...
... Dream of Eugene Aram ' , a poem about an eighteenth - century murderer , who , undetected , worked as a school usher for over a decade until finally incriminated by an accomplice . Beautifully presented and packaged as gift selections ...
... Dream of Eugene Aram ' is marked ' Best ' in his handwriting - a preference that may reflect the Jekyll - and - Hyde quali- ties that Aram foreshadows . 10 See William Morris , News from Nowhere and Other Writings , ed . Clive Wilmer ...
Table des matières
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the audience as subject | 73 |
Hood and the grotesque | 99 |
Hoods tied trope | 141 |
work play and criticism | 176 |
Select bibliography | 203 |
Autres éditions - Tout afficher
Thomas Hood and Nineteenth-Century Poetry: Work, Play and Politics Sara Lodge Affichage d'extraits - 2007 |
Thomas Hood and Nineteenth-Century Poetry: Work, Play and Politics Sara Lodge Aucun aperçu disponible - 2007 |
Thomas Hood and Nineteenth-Century Poetry: Work, Play, and Politics Sara Lodge Aucun aperçu disponible - 2013 |