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Barking Dogs And Deaf Ears: The Mysterious Unheeded Scottish Origin Of Tennyson's In Memoriam, Patrick G. Scott
Barking Dogs And Deaf Ears: The Mysterious Unheeded Scottish Origin Of Tennyson's In Memoriam, Patrick G. Scott
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This paper records two specific sources for Tennyson's poems "Tears, idle tears" and In Memoriam, both in James Macpherson's Ossian, identifies the edition of Ossian that Tennyson used, and discusses the significance of Ossian for Tennyson in late 1833 in the immediate aftermath of Arthur Hallam's death. The discussion of Tennyson is framed to fit the theme, "The Mysteries at Our Own Doors," at the 43rd Victorians Institute, Charlotte, NC, October 24, 2014.
'Mother, Wife, And Queen': Tennyson's (Varying) Dedication To Queen Victoria, Patrick G. Scott
'Mother, Wife, And Queen': Tennyson's (Varying) Dedication To Queen Victoria, Patrick G. Scott
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Discusses the literary precedents, manuscripts, composition, and biographical context for Tennyson's poem "To the Queen," first published in Match 1851, and argues that Tennyson's attitudes toward Queen Victoria and to his role as Poet Laureate were more nuanced and more conflicted than most critics have recognized.
'Favored In My Birthplace': Local Roots And Cultural Identity In Victorian Writing, Patrick G. Scott
'Favored In My Birthplace': Local Roots And Cultural Identity In Victorian Writing, Patrick G. Scott
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Discusses the vocabularies in which literary critics since Matthew Arnold have described writing about place ("local," "regional," "national," "cosmopolitan," "peripheral," "central," "universal," "parochial," and "provincial"), and the differing perspectives of writers from Wordsworth to Thomas Hardy, to argue that the Victorian recognition of and ambivalence about provinciality is of lasting significance for understanding cultural identity in complex societies.
A Few Still Later Words On Translating Homer, Or C. S. Calverley And The Victorian Parodic, Patrick G. Scott
A Few Still Later Words On Translating Homer, Or C. S. Calverley And The Victorian Parodic, Patrick G. Scott
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Argues (largely in the style of Matthew Arnold) that the Victorian verse parodist C.S. Calverley can best be understood through 19th century ideas of verse translation, and especially through the writing on parody of the Scottish lawyer Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee, in his Essay on the Principles of Translation (1792).
Divergent Composition Patterns And Editorial Problems In Clough's Poetry, Patrick G. Scott
Divergent Composition Patterns And Editorial Problems In Clough's Poetry, Patrick G. Scott
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Describes the characteristic ways in which the Victorian poet Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861) wrote and revised his poetry, arguing that Clough's most creative works came when his revision pattern diverged from his original idea, rather than refining it (converging), and explores the implications of Clough's divergent composition method for the editing of his major poems, including "Adam and Eve" ("The Mystery of the Fall") and "Dipsychus." Originally presented at the Textual and Bibliographical Studies section of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Atlanta, October 1982.
A Study Of Re-Writing In The Poetry Of Arthur Hugh Clough, Patrick G. Scott
A Study Of Re-Writing In The Poetry Of Arthur Hugh Clough, Patrick G. Scott
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A 365-page study of how the Victorian poet Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861) created the distinctive self-conscious voice and multiple ironies of his poetry, with eight chapters providing (1), p. 1, an introduction arguing that the apparent problem of unfinishedness in much of his best poetry is closely linked to his creativity, followed by detailed accounts of his writing process in (2), p. 26, his early poetry at Rugby school; (3), p. 49, his shorter poetry written as a student and teacher in Oxford, including the poems collected in the volume Ambarvalia [1849]; (4), p. 101, his unfinished poem on the …
Tennyson's "Enoch Arden": A Victorian Best-Seller, Patrick G. Scott
Tennyson's "Enoch Arden": A Victorian Best-Seller, Patrick G. Scott
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Examines the reception, sources, composition and publication history, and narrative structure of Tennyson's bestselling narrative poem Enoch Arden (1864), discussing particularly the poem's relation to the sensation novel and the way it was interpreted by its first illustrators, in adaptation for the stage, and in early film versions by D.W. Griffiths and J. M. East.