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Author:

Tate, Gregory, 1983-

Title:

The poet's mind : the psychology of Victorian poetry, 1830-1870 / Gregory Tate.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2012

Description:

201 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

English poetry--19th century--History and criticism.
Psychology in literature.
Thought and thinking in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-198) and index.

Contents:

Tennyson, Browning, and the poetry of reflection -- Clough, Arnold, and the dialogue of the mind -- Tennyson's unquiet brain -- George Eliot's twofold mind -- Browning's epic psychology.

Summary:

"The Poet's Mind is a major study of how Victorian poets thought and wrote about the human mind. It argues that Victorian poets, inheriting from their Romantic forerunners the belief that subjective thoughts and feelings were the most important materials for poetry, used their writing both to give expression to mental processes and to scrutinize and analyse those processes. In this volume Gregory Tate considers why and how psychological analysis became an increasingly important element of poetic theory and practice in the mid-nineteenth century, a time when the discipline of psychology was emerging alongside the growing recognition that the workings of the mind might be understood using the analytical methods of science. The writings of Victorian poets often show an awareness of this psychology, but, at the same time, the language and tone of their psychological verse, and especially their ambivalent use of terms such as 'brain', 'mind', and 'soul', voice an unresolved tension, felt throughout Victorian culture, between scientific theories of psychology and metaphysical or religious accounts of selfhood. The Poet's Mind considers the poetry of Browning, Tennyson, Arnold, Clough, and George Eliot, offering detailed readings of several major Victorian poems and presenting new evidence of their authors' interest in contemporary psychological theory. Ranging across lyric verse, epic poetry, and the dramatic monologue, the book explores the ways in which poetry simultaneously drew on, resisted, and contributed to the spread of scientific theories of mind in Victorian Britain."--Dust jacket.

Series:

Oxford English monographs

ISBN:

0199659419
9780199659418

OCLC:

(OCoLC)794367172

LCCN:

2012532081

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)