The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne: Bearing BlindnessManchester University Press, 2001 - 279 pagina's This innovative study of vision, gender and poetry traces Milton's mark on Shelley, Tennyson, Browning and Swinburne to show how the lyric male poet achieves vision at the cost of symbolic blindness and feminisation. Drawing together a wide range of concerns including the use of myth, the gender of the sublime, the lyric fragment, and the relation of pain to creativity, this book is a major re-evaluation of the male poet and the making of the English poetic tradition.The female sublime from Milton to Swinburne examines the feminisation of the post-Miltonic male poet, not through cultural history, but through a series of mythic or classical figures which include Philomela, Orpheus and Sappho. It recovers a disfiguring sublime imagined as an aggressive female force which feminises the male poet in an act that simultaneously deprives and energises him. This book will be required reading for anyone with a serious interest in the English poetic tradition and Victorian poetry. |
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Pagina 19
... Spirit usually claimed as the inspiring force of the Bible ( 2 Tim . 3.16 ) . At line 17 , another invocation occurs : ' O Spirit ' . Is this addressee still Urania , or is it her sister Wisdom ? for like them , ' thou from the first ...
... Spirit usually claimed as the inspiring force of the Bible ( 2 Tim . 3.16 ) . At line 17 , another invocation occurs : ' O Spirit ' . Is this addressee still Urania , or is it her sister Wisdom ? for like them , ' thou from the first ...
Pagina 20
... Spirit is here tied more closely to God , although we know that Milton privately did not believe the Holy Spirit to be so much a person as a divine power . However , in spite of the masculine pronoun , the lines communicate once more ...
... Spirit is here tied more closely to God , although we know that Milton privately did not believe the Holy Spirit to be so much a person as a divine power . However , in spite of the masculine pronoun , the lines communicate once more ...
Pagina 86
... spirit receives the impress of the Medusa face so that either her characters are grown into his spirit or his characters are absorbed or grown into the dead face . Either way gazer and Medusa face merge but the Medusa's inscrutable ...
... spirit receives the impress of the Medusa face so that either her characters are grown into his spirit or his characters are absorbed or grown into the dead face . Either way gazer and Medusa face merge but the Medusa's inscrutable ...
Inhoudsopgave
Orpheus Sappho and the feminised | 11 |
Milton and Shelley | 47 |
from Sappho to Satan | 88 |
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Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
A. C. Swinburne Anactoria androgynous associated Barrett Browning beauty becomes bird blindness Browning's castration chapter classical critics dark death desire disfiguration dream Duchess Duke Elizabeth Barrett emotions English epipsyche Epipsychidion Essays Eurydice eyes female sublime feminine figure fragment Freud gaze gender hermaphrodite heterosexual Ibid ideal identified identity imagination inspiration Itylus Keats language lesbian Letters literary London look lover lyric male poet mark masculine Medusa Milton mirror muse myth Narcissism nature nightingale notes Orpheus Ovid Oxford Ozymandias Paglia pain painting Paradise Lost passion Philomela Plato poem poet's poetic poetry Porphyria's Lover Princess Pygmalion readers Robert Browning Romantic Romanticism Sapphic Sappho scene seems seen sexual Shakespeare Shelley Shelley's sight song sonnet soul speaker stanza suggests Swinburne Swinburne's symbolic T. S. Eliot Tennyson Thamuris tion tradition University Press Urania veiled verse Victorian vision visionary voice woman poet women word writing