Gardens and Grim Ravines : : The Language of Landscape in Victorian Poetry / / Pauline Fletcher.

This book is the first systematic examination of the significance of landscape in Victorian poetry. Pauline Fletcher divides poetic landscapes into two categories: antisocial" landscapes of isolation or retreat, and "social" landscapes that reflect the life of man in community.Origina...

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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017]
©1983
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 5181
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Physical Description:1 online resource (298 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • I. Tennyson: The Primal Wilderness
  • II. Tennyson: From Escapist Paradise to Social Landscape
  • III. Arnold: The Forest Glade
  • IV. Browning: The Human Landscape
  • V. Rossetti: The Embowered Consciousness
  • VI. Morris: The Field Full of Folk
  • VII. Swinburne: The Sublime Recovered
  • VIII. Hardy: The Chastened Sublime
  • Conclusion
  • List of Works Consulted
  • Index