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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      July 2022
      August 2022
      ISBN:
      9781009200189
      9781009200202
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009200189
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.47kg, 218 Pages
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      • Subjects:
      Literature, English Literature 1830-1900
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
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    Subjects:
    Literature, English Literature 1830-1900
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
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    Conversing in Verse considers poems of conversation from the late eighteenth into the twentieth centuries – the very period when a more restrictive conception of poetry as the lyric product of the poet's solitary self-communing became entrenched. With fresh insight, Elizabeth Helsinger addresses a range of questions at the core of conversational poetry: When and why do poets turn to conversation to explore poetry's potential? How do conversation's forms and intentions shape the figures, rhythms, and prosody of poems to alter the reader's experience? What are the ethical and political stakes of conversing in verse? Coleridge, Clare, Landor, Tennyson, Robert Browning, Christina and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Swinburne, Michael Field, and Hardy each composed poems that open difficult or impossible conversations with phenomena outside themselves. Helsinger unearths an unfamiliar lyric history that produced some of the most interesting formal experiments of the nineteenth century, including its best known, the dramatic monologue.

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    ‘When I follow Helsinger’s knowledge of poetic genres and nineteenth-century poetry through these chapters and think about the conversations she is having with these poems - that she is reading into them - the book sparkles with excitement and refreshing perspective.’

    Meredith Martin Source: Victorian Studies

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