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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... pastoral mode . After exhausting all the possibilities of consolation the pastoral mode offers , the deification of his friend , for instance , which here comes towards the beginning of the poem , and ranging widely in time and space ...
... pastoral with a grave sense of loss- far more intense than is ever evident in the idylls of Theocritus , for instance , taken as a whole , or Virgil's Eclogues . Particularly in Epitaphium Damonis the pastoral bears the freight of his ...
... pastoral but the coming of age of the poet . Rather , the pastoral threnody is the surety for its later dedicatory mas- terpiece , exactly as it was in Virgil . By promising a greater work , by ded- icating himself to poetry in ...
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Introduction | 1 |
CHAPTER TWOA Secret Sympathy | 45 |
CHAPTER THREE Points of Resistance | 90 |
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