Allegories of one's own mind : melancholy in Victorian poetry

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Allegories of one's own mind : melancholy in Victorian poetry

Title remainder

melancholy in Victorian poetry

Statement of responsibility

David G. Riede

Creator

• Riede, David G

Subject

• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• English poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism
• Melancholy in literature

Genre

• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

"Perhaps because major Victorians like Thomas Carlyle and Matthew Arnold proscribed Romantic melancholy as morbidly diseased and unsuitable for poetic expression, critics have neglected or understated the central importance of melancholy in Victorian poetry. Allegories of One's Own Mind re-directs our attention to a mode that Arnold was rejecting as morbid but also acknowledging when he disparaged the widely current idea that the highest ambition of poetry should be to present an allegory of the poet's own mind. This book shows how early Victorian poets suffered from and railed against what they perceived to be a "disabling post-Wordsworthian melancholy" - we might refer to it as depression - and yet benefited from this self-absorbed or love-obsessed state, which ironically made them more productive."--BOOK JACKET

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

821/.809353

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Index

index present

LC call number

PR595.M34

LC item number

R54 2005

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography