Overview: It helps to fulfil a still-extant critical need as it presents a sustained and wide-ranging discussion of Victorian lyric, examining the authorial anxieties and aspirations such poetry reveals, ratherThis book is a study of nineteenth-century poems that remember, yearn for, fixate on, and forget the past. Reflecting the current critical drive to reconcile formalist and historicist approaches to literature, it uses close readings to trace the complex interactions between memory as a theme and the (often-memorable) formal traits – such as brevity, stanzaic structure, and sonic repetiti
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