{"title":"Pre-Raphaelitism, D. G. Rossetti, and the Morris Circle","authors":"F. Boos","doi":"10.1353/vp.2021.0023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/vp.2021.0023","url":null,"abstract":"with the church building: the plural noun “denote[s] a collectively shared experience of bliss,” as Mariaconcetta Costantini puts it (“Food Meta phors in Gerard Manley Hopkins,” VP 55, no. 3 [Fall 2017]: 265). However, Scholl’s remark that “the individual must become proximate to the people” (p. 120) chimes with what Costantini calls the worshipers’ “socialized identity” (p. 265). Lesa Scholl’s interpretations confirm the fecundity of the critic’s own approach, while showing that Hopkins’s pre– “Wreck of the Deutschland” poems more than repay the kind of attention Scholl brings to them. These poems, written several years before Hopkins de cided to take holy orders, already reveal a pastoral concern for the poor and needy that Scholl shows was as much material as spiritual. Work such as Scholl’s confirms that 2020 saw the publication of highquality work on Hopkins, and we look forward to further indepth research into Hopkins’s early poetry in par tic u lar, especially the longer poems like “The Escorial,” “Il Mystico,” and A Vision of the Mermaids.”","PeriodicalId":54107,"journal":{"name":"VICTORIAN POETRY","volume":"59 1","pages":"348 - 368"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43251070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Swinburne","authors":"J. Sider","doi":"10.1353/vp.2021.0024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/vp.2021.0024","url":null,"abstract":"Hatherley and notes and an editor’s introduction by Owen Holland, author of William Morris’s Utopianism (2017). The collaboration works well, as Hatherley provides an overview of Morris’s relevance for con temporary socialist efforts and Holland offers a succinct po liti cal biography of Morris and clear account of the distinctiveness of his demo cratic, antiimperialist vision within the context of his time. Many of the volume’s se lections are of lesserknown yet significant essays, such as the 1884 “The Housing of the Poor,” the 1885 “Ireland and Italy: A Warning,” and the eloquent 1887 “Why We Celebrate the Commune of Paris.” Holland’s annotations are admirably detailed, so that even those who are familiar with Morris’s essays from other editions, such as the Collected Works, will want to own this compact and valuable volume. In conclusion, 2020 brought many skillful and original contributions to an understanding of PreRaphaelite literary art in general, as well as of specific works by D. G. Rossetti and William Morris, who were viewed as anticipating the anx i eties, aspirations, and critical sensibilities of the pre sent day.","PeriodicalId":54107,"journal":{"name":"VICTORIAN POETRY","volume":"59 1","pages":"368 - 372"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42054070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Miscellany as Method: A Trio of Approaches to \"The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point\" and the 1848 Liberty Bell Gift Book","authors":"Lucy Sheehan, Jennifer Sorensen, Sarah Allison","doi":"10.1353/vp.2021.0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/vp.2021.0018","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54107,"journal":{"name":"VICTORIAN POETRY","volume":"59 1","pages":"261 - 308"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46428610","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tennyson","authors":"Linda K. Hughes","doi":"10.1353/vp.2021.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/vp.2021.0015","url":null,"abstract":"Before concluding, it is worth noting two smaller contributions to the study of Swinburne this past year that join Helsinger’s essay, mentioned earlier, in connecting Swinburne with latenineteenthcentury art and music. In a comprehensive book on Wagner’s artistic legacy, Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021), Alex Ross devotes a section of one chapter to Wagner’s role in PreRaphaelite art and poetry with brief readings of Tennyson, Arnold, Morris, and Swinburne. Citing “Laus Veneris” and Tristram of Lyonesse, Ross catches the Wagnerian ele ments in Swinburne’s incantatory verse. Though Wagner seemed to some British artists an interloper on their own cultural property, Ross notes just how completely Wagner’s version of the Tristan legend had taken over by the time of Tristram. Ross also tells us of two German immigrants whose reviews and essays paved the way for Wagner’s British reception. One was Francis Hueffer, who married Catherine Madox Brown, the daughter of Ford Madox Brown, and whose son would become the poet and novelist Ford Madox Ford. The other was Edward Dannreuther, founder of the London Wagner Society, whose affiliation with Swinburne is also addressed this year by Michael Craske in “Dannreuther’s Hidden Swinburne References Signal Artistic Kinship” (Notes and Queries 66, no. 2 [2019]: 300–302). Dannreuther’s articles on Beethoven and Wagner in the early 1870s contain, as Craske shows, numerous small borrowings from Swinburne’s published criticism that create “a hidden statement of artistic fraternity” (p. 300). If work on Swinburne in 2020–2021 was somewhat scant, the scholarship nonetheless testifies to the curious centrality of this poet—to lateVictorian poetry and culture, to the prehistory of modernism, and to our field’s present concerns with identity, sexuality, and po liti cal vio lence. In these essays, Swinburne emerges as a crucial figure of Victorian modernism, gathering elements of nineteenthcentury artistic culture and innovating on them in ways that extend his reach well into the twentieth.","PeriodicalId":54107,"journal":{"name":"VICTORIAN POETRY","volume":"59 1","pages":"372 - 381"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44112222","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"I Sappho\": A Case for Character in the Early Writings of Algernon Swinburne","authors":"C. Valentine","doi":"10.1353/vp.2021.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/vp.2021.0001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54107,"journal":{"name":"VICTORIAN POETRY","volume":"59 1","pages":"23 - 47"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/vp.2021.0001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41364735","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"Faithful...In My Fashion[ing]\": Shades of Association in Ernest Dowson's Poetry","authors":"R. Stark","doi":"10.1353/vp.2021.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/vp.2021.0003","url":null,"abstract":"He seemed a lost creature, a youthful ghost strayed amongst the haunts of men, an object of pity. Pale, emaciated, in clothes that were almost ragged, poor Ernest flittered from bar to bar in search of someone with whom to talk. When he found a friend, his face would light up with a singular and penetrating sweetness that made one forget his untidiness— to use no other word— which verged on offence. He was never penniless, was always the first to pay for others, and when the drink was served he would sometimes take a little gold cross from his waistcoat pocket and dip it in the glass before he drank. Someone who did not know the circumstances said, “Ernest, were you ever in love?” The poet answered in the words of Voltaire. “Vous me demandez si j’ai aimé: oui! C’est une histoire singulière et terrible.”1","PeriodicalId":54107,"journal":{"name":"VICTORIAN POETRY","volume":"59 1","pages":"75 - 96"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/vp.2021.0003","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45172080","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Walking Sideways into Paradise: Desire and Degeneration in Lord Alfred Douglas's Animal Nonsense","authors":"V. Smith","doi":"10.1353/vp.2021.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/vp.2021.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Lord Alfred Douglas is remembered as Oscar Wilde’s lover, his Hyacinthus, a goldenhaired youth whose father’s accusations led to Wilde’s public undoing. Douglas is not remembered for writing children’s lit er a ture.1 However, his first book of nonsense— Tails with a Twist (1898), published under the pseudonym The Belgian Hare, featuring illustrated verses that describe the comic be hav iors of creatures from whales to weasels— was received as such. One of the early poems in the collection cautions readers to avoid the antelope:","PeriodicalId":54107,"journal":{"name":"VICTORIAN POETRY","volume":"59 1","pages":"49 - 73"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/vp.2021.0002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42523145","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Queer Poetry and Darwin at the fin de siècle: Mathilde Blind, Constance Naden, and Laurence Hope","authors":"Barbara Barrow","doi":"10.1353/vp.2021.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/vp.2021.0004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54107,"journal":{"name":"VICTORIAN POETRY","volume":"59 1","pages":"118 - 97"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/vp.2021.0004","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49043130","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Excelsior! Inspirational Verse, the Victorian Working-Class Poet, and the Case of Longfellow","authors":"K. Blair","doi":"10.1353/vp.2021.0000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/vp.2021.0000","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54107,"journal":{"name":"VICTORIAN POETRY","volume":"59 1","pages":"1 - 21"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/vp.2021.0000","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44589236","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}