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Christina Rossetti

belief in exerting a double vision - perspective and personal account

Blank verse

suited the changing society - no natural centre or comfortable resting place

Robert Browning's 'Essay on Shelley'

shift from the "objective poet ... whose endeavour has been to reproduce things external"

Loy D. Martin

all monologues tend to project and fantasise a speaker

Origins of the form

post-Romanticism - fear among Victorians that poetry no longer had a place in the literary world due to the rise of the novel form

Robert Langbaum

tension between sympathy and judgement (N.B. affected by 3rd person narrator in 'Mariana')


Robert Langbaum (3)

"a longing for rest through oblivion"




"the literary equivalent of the scientific attitude"




"empiricism in literature"

Tennyson - 'Mariana' - refrain

She only said, 'My life is dreary,


He cometh not,' she said;


She said, 'I am aweary, aweary,


I would that I were dead!'

Tennyson - 'Mariana' - final refrain

He will not come

Tennyson - 'Mariana' - conflict of movement and inertia

rusted nails ... broken sheds vs. grange

Tennyson - 'Mariana' - potentiality

unlifted was the clinking latch

Christopher Ricks (2)

"movement is to and fro"




"the art of the penultimate"

Tennyson - 'Ulysses'

to sail beyond the sunset

Tennyson - 'Crossing the Bar' (2)

tide => flood




And one clear call for me!

Robert Browning

poetry "will find its consolidation ... and stay"

Matthew Arnold

"the dialogue of the mind with itself"

Browning - 'Two in the Campagna'

I wonder do you feel today