A Self-Divided Poet: Form and Texture in the Verse of Thomas Hood by Edgecombe, Rodney Stenning

A Self-Divided Poet: Form and Texture in the Verse of Thomas Hood (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781847189363)

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A Self-Divided Poet: Form and Texture in the Verse of Thomas Hood by Edgecombe, Rodney Stenning

A Self-Divided Poet: Form and Texture in the Verse of Thomas Hood

$33.95
A Self-Divided Poet: Form and Texture in the Verse of Thomas Hood by Edgecombe, Rodney Stenning

A Self-Divided Poet: Form and Texture in the Verse of Thomas Hood

$33.95
Format: Paperback
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Whereas Thomas Hood has long been regarded as a minor comic poet, this book--the first to devote itself exclusively to his verse--provides a detailed analysis of two serious poems (Hero and Leander and The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies) so as to give a better sense of his range. Most commentators have pointed to the influence of Keats on such occasions, but close examination reveals an even greater debt to Elizabethan and Metaphysical poets, whose sometimes playful deployment of the conceit struck a chord in his sensibility. At the same time, the book gives Hood's comic genius its due, supplying detailed accounts of the deftness and panache of his light-hearted oeuvre. One chapter examines his excursion into the mock-heroic mode (Odes and Addresses to Great People), and another his reliance on that airiest of forms, the capriccio (Whims and Oddities). The study concludes with an extensive examination of Miss Kilmansegg and Her Precious Leg, showing how Hood was here able to inflect a jeu d'esprit with a fine Juvenalian passion.

Author: Rodney Stenning Edgecombe
ISBN-10: 1847189369
ISBN-13: 9781847189363
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2008
Pages: 252
Format: Paperback
By Rodney Stenning Edgecombe
By Rodney Stenning Edgecombe
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Rodney Stenning Edgecombe is Associate Professor of English at the University of Cape Town. He took his MA at Rhodes University, where he won the Royal Society of St George Prize for English, and his PhD at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was awarded the Members' English Prize 1978/1979. He has published ten books and over two hundred and thirty articles on topics that range from Shakespeare to nineteenth-century ballet and opera. In 2001, UCT presented him with a Distinguished Teacher's Award.

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