The Consolation of Otherness: The Male Love Elegy in Milton, Gray and TennysonMcFarland, Incorporated, Publishers, 6 черв. 2002 р. - 184 стор. The social and religious constraints of their time may have prevented John Milton, Thomas Gray, and Alfred Tennyson from conscious expression or even unconscious recognition of the true extent of their love and devotion to their young male friends, but it lies at the heart of their emotional lives and poetry. Connected by the extraordinary coincidence that each of their loved ones died young, Milton, Gray, and Tennyson are also connected by the male-love elegies that sprang from their grief. This work examines the relationships between John Milton and Charles Diodati, Thomas Gray and Richard West, and Alfred Tennyson and Arthur Hallam through a critical study of Milton's "Epitaphium Damonis," Gray's "Elegy," and Tennyson's "In Memoriam." It shows how their concepts of otherness and difference from the people around them provided comfort after the loss of their loved ones. It discusses Milton's use of Latin to mourn his friend and screen the most resounding expressions of his love while keeping at bay those not ready to understand his concept of otherness, how Gray used both Latin and the vernacular to express his grief while conforming to social and religious constraints by also addressing larger concerns; and Tennyson's ability to use the vernacular with complete security to speak out and yet hold back private thoughts about the person he loved more than almost any other in his life. |
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... living through grief and growing stronger by it : Tennyson's white funeral . The song of happiness that follows is a recovery of that identity once secured in his relationship with Charles . That loss has been thought through too , and ...
... living out of the deceased's virtue . The cross of four cardinal virtues in West's nature , " Pietas , Fidesque , amor Veri et Hones- tum " ( 1.9 ) centers on the verb " spirabat . " The imperfect aspect bears pre- cisely the sense of ...
... living . The con- trast to this image of right living follows immediately . Riotous disorder and injustice reign as ruthless self - concern is unleashed . No one can read this passage without seeing at once the connectedness to the ...
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Introduction | 1 |
CHAPTER TWOA Secret Sympathy | 45 |
CHAPTER THREE Points of Resistance | 90 |
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