The Ghost Behind the Masks: The Victorian Poets and Shakespeare

by W. David Shaw

In The Ghost behind the Masks, W. David Shaw traces Shakespeare's influence on nine Victorian poets: Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Christina Rossetti, Thomas Hardy, Matthew Arnold, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Algernon Swinburne, Arthur Hugh Clough, and George Meredith. Often, he writes, the transparency of Shakespeare's influence on Victorian poets and the degree of their engagement with Shakespeare exist in inverse ratio. Instead of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081393544X
• ISBN13: 9780813935447
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.8"