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• catalog abstract "Stephen Gurney's British Poetry of the Nineteenth Century fills a void in recent intellectual history. It is a deft examination of the British poetic tradition during an era encompassing the romantic and Victorian poets. Gurney expertly distills current scholarship within the context of a broad historical survey that is neither too superficial in its discussion of individual poets nor incomplete in its analysis of literary movements and periods. The author uses his thorough knowledge of the British romantic and Victorian poets to enable the reader to grasp the poet's relationship to his precursors, his peers, and the intellectual climate of his age. Gurney's study achieves a breadth of historical awareness and defends the notion that despite the limitations of any historical period, a great poet touches upon that which is timeless and universal in human experience. The critical assumption of British Poetry of the Nineteenth Century is that, while the history of English letters constantly expands and changes, the study of the past has an intrinsic value inasmuch as it enables us to rise above the often restrictive or reductive vantage point of our present moment. Gurney is articulate and convincing when, for example, he argues that Milton is not only of historical value insofar as some knowledge of his works is necessary to understand the reactions he engendered in romantic poets like Blake, Shelley, and the Brontes, but also for the foothold that he gives us outside the constricting circle of our age. For the themes he explores and the sensitivities he fosters are precisely those that our age may have forgotten - and that, therefore, we have the greatest need to hear and consider. This same assumption underpins Gurney's analysis of the principal poets who inform this study: Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Hopkins, and other major writers of the nineteenth century. Gurney's perspective is clearly in accord with that of Wordsworth who observed, "Poets are the rock of defense of human nature." They appeal to what is "permanent, elementary, and enduring" in human experience.".
• catalog alternative "British poetry of the 19th century.".
• catalog contributor b5795390.
• catalog created "c1993.".
• catalog date "1993".
• catalog date "c1993.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1993.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-334) and index.".
• catalog description "Stephen Gurney's British Poetry of the Nineteenth Century fills a void in recent intellectual history. It is a deft examination of the British poetic tradition during an era encompassing the romantic and Victorian poets. Gurney expertly distills current scholarship within the context of a broad historical survey that is neither too superficial in its discussion of individual poets nor incomplete in its analysis of literary movements and periods. The author uses his thorough knowledge of the British romantic and Victorian poets to enable the reader to grasp the poet's relationship to his precursors, his peers, and the intellectual climate of his age. Gurney's study achieves a breadth of historical awareness and defends the notion that despite the limitations of any historical period, a great poet touches upon that which is timeless and universal in human experience. ".
• catalog description "The critical assumption of British Poetry of the Nineteenth Century is that, while the history of English letters constantly expands and changes, the study of the past has an intrinsic value inasmuch as it enables us to rise above the often restrictive or reductive vantage point of our present moment. Gurney is articulate and convincing when, for example, he argues that Milton is not only of historical value insofar as some knowledge of his works is necessary to understand the reactions he engendered in romantic poets like Blake, Shelley, and the Brontes, but also for the foothold that he gives us outside the constricting circle of our age. For the themes he explores and the sensitivities he fosters are precisely those that our age may have forgotten - and that, therefore, we have the greatest need to hear and consider. ".
• catalog description "The romantic ethos -- William Blake -- Wordsworth and Coleridge -- Byron and Shelley -- John Keats -- The Victorian ethos -- Tennyson and the Brownings -- Four Oxonians -- The Pre-Raphaelite circle -- Hardy, Housman and the nineties.".
• catalog description "This same assumption underpins Gurney's analysis of the principal poets who inform this study: Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Hopkins, and other major writers of the nineteenth century. Gurney's perspective is clearly in accord with that of Wordsworth who observed, "Poets are the rock of defense of human nature." They appeal to what is "permanent, elementary, and enduring" in human experience.".
• catalog extent "xiv, 341 p. ;".
• catalog hasFormat "British poetry of the nineteenth century.".
• catalog identifier "0805784527 (alk. paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "British poetry of the nineteenth century.".
• catalog isPartOf "Twayne's critical history of poetry series. British literature".
• catalog issued "1993".
• catalog issued "c1993.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New York : Twayne Publishers ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International,".
• catalog relation "British poetry of the nineteenth century.".
• catalog subject "821/.809 20".
• catalog subject "English poetry 19th century History and criticism.".
• catalog subject "PR451 .G87 1993".
• catalog tableOfContents "The romantic ethos -- William Blake -- Wordsworth and Coleridge -- Byron and Shelley -- John Keats -- The Victorian ethos -- Tennyson and the Brownings -- Four Oxonians -- The Pre-Raphaelite circle -- Hardy, Housman and the nineties.".
• catalog title "British poetry of the 19th century.".
• catalog title "British poetry of the nineteenth century / Stephen Gurney.".
• catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
• catalog type "text".