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The Poet's Mind - The Psychology of Victorian Poetry 1830-1870 (Hardcover, New)
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The Poet's Mind - The Psychology of Victorian Poetry 1830-1870 (Hardcover, New)
Series: Oxford English Monographs
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The Poet's Mind is a major study of how Victorian poets thought and
wrote about the human mind. It argues that Victorian poets,
inheriting from their Romantic forerunners the belief that
subjective thoughts and feelings were the most important materials
for poetry, used their writing both to give expression to mental
processes and to scrutinise and analyse those processes. In this
volume Gregory Tate considers why and how psychological analysis
became an increasingly important element of poetic theory and
practice in the mid-nineteenth century, a time when the discipline
of psychology was emerging alongside the growing recognition that
the workings of the mind might be understood using the analytical
methods of science. The writings of Victorian poets often show an
awareness of this psychology, but, at the same time, the language
and tone of their psychological verse, and especially their
ambivalent use of terms such as 'brain', 'mind', and 'soul', voice
an unresolved tension, felt throughout Victorian culture, between
scientific theories of psychology and metaphysical or religious
accounts of selfhood. The Poet's Mind considers the poetry of
Browning, Tennyson, Arnold, Clough, and George Eliot, offering
detailed readings of several major Victorian poems, and presenting
new evidence of their authors' interest in contemporary
psychological theory. Ranging across lyric verse, epic poetry, and
the dramatic monologue, the book explores the ways in which poetry
simultaneously drew on, resisted, and contributed to the spread of
scientific theories of mind in Victorian Britain.
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