Gerard Manley Hopkins's poetic art as "current language heightened" : (with reference to selected sonnets and in the light of contemporary stylistic theory)
- Authors: McDermott, Lydia Eva
- Date: 1985
- Subjects: Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 1844-1889 , English poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Language: English
- Type: text , Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:2337 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002019
- Description: The aim of this thesis is twofold: To examine Hopkins's writings on poetics and to relate these to modern theories of poetic stylistics; and to show, through an examination of two sets of Hopkins sonnets, the ways in which Hopkins's writings on language and poetics are reflected in his verse (Introductory outline, p. 5)
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- Date Issued: 1985
A study of the numinous presence in Tennyson's poetry
- Authors: Louw, Denise Elizabeth Laurence
- Date: 1985
- Subjects: Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892 -- Criticism and interpretation , English poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:2268 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1005891 , Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892 -- Criticism and interpretation , English poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Description: From Preface: A reader looking to this study for a charting of the diverse religious views held by Tennyson at different periods in his life may be disappointed. My primary concern has been not with religious forms, but with the numinous impulse. However, though I approached the topic with a completely open mind, I find my own Christian convictions have been strengthened through the study of Tennyson's poetry. As the title indicates, I have not attempted to deal with the plays. To explore both the poetry and the plays in a study of this length would have been impossible. I have perhaps been somewhat unorthodox in attempting to combine several disciplines, especially since I cannot claim to be a specialist in the areas concerned. However, I felt it necessary to approach the subject from a number of points of view, and to see to what extent the results could be said to converge on some sort of central "truth". When I have despaired of being able to do justice to a particular aspect within the imposed limits, I have sometimes found comfort in the words of Alan Sinfield (The Language of Tennyson's "In Memoriam", p.211): "We can only endeavour continually to approach a little closer to the central mystery; the ma j or advances will be infrequent, but most attempts should furnish one or two hints which others will develop. "
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- Date Issued: 1985