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. |
З цієї книги
Результати 1-3 із 39
... youth , there is some slight criticism in the description of him- self picking now violets , now the tips of myrtles . The line is too neatly symmetrical not to betray the preciousness of carefree ( careless ) youth . The following ...
... youth is for himself , and for many perhaps , to be the single sustaining moment of identifying happi- ness in his life . The pity of it has turned to gentle gratitude for at least that little given . In a way he has framed his own ...
... youth , the Eton kingdom that they once knew . Held in tension then again is the strange and threatening sphere of adult strife ( of an Elsinore ) versus the protected ( Wittenberg ) state of unsuspecting youth ; the law courts versus ...
Зміст
Introduction | 1 |
CHAPTER TWOA Secret Sympathy | 45 |
CHAPTER THREE Points of Resistance | 90 |
Авторські права | |
2 інших розділів не відображаються
Інші видання - Показати все
The Consolation of Otherness: The Male Love Elegy in Milton, Gray and Tennyson Matthew Curr Обмежений попередній перегляд - 2002 |