Allegories of Ones Own Mind: Melancholy in Victorian Poetry

by David G. Riede and David G. Riede

Perhaps because major Victorians like Thomas Carlyle and Matthew Arnold proscribed Romantic melancholy as morbidly diseased and unsuitable for poetic expression, critics have neglected or understated the central importance of melancholy in Victorian poetry. Allegories of One's Own Mind re-directs our attention to a mode that Arnold was rejecting as morbid but also acknowledging when he disparaged the widely current idea that the highest ambition of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814210082
• ISBN13: 9780814210086
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.3"