Overview
Focuses on four poets – John Clare, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Edward Thomas, and Ivor Gurney
Reveals how their writing conveys a decidedly individual quality of feeling, perception, and experience
Takes a closer look at the vitality and intricacy of the poets’ language, the personal candour of their subject matter, and their sense, obdurate but persuasive, of their own strangeness
Examines the virtues of a lyric individualism whose qualities reverberate in the work of later poets
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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John Clare: Striving to Be Himself
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Gerard Manley Hopkins: Oddity and Obscurity
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Edward Thomas: A Personal Accent
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Ivor Gurney: Unquiet Achings
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About this book
This book attends to four poets – John Clare, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Edward Thomas, and Ivor Gurney – whose poems are remarkable for their personal directness and distinctiveness. It shows how their writing conveys a potently individual quality of feeling, perception, and experience: each poet responds with unusual commitment to the Romantic idea of art as personal expression. The book looks closely at the vitality and intricacy of the poets’ language, the personal candour of their subject matter, and their sense, obdurate but persuasive, of their own strangeness. As it traces the tact and imagination with which each of the four writers realises the possibilities of individualism in lyric, it affirms the vibrancy of their contributions to nineteenth and twentieth-century poetry.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Andrew Hodgson is Lecturer in Romanticism at the Department of English Literature, University of Birmingham, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Poetry of Clare, Hopkins, Thomas, and Gurney
Book Subtitle: Lyric Individualism
Authors: Andrew Hodgson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30971-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-30970-1Published: 30 January 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-30973-2Published: 26 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-30971-8Published: 31 December 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 337
Topics: Nineteenth-Century Literature, Poetry and Poetics, British and Irish Literature