A Self-divided Poet : Form and Texture in the Verse of Thomas Hood
ISBN: 9781443806497
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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Subjects: Literature;

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 con...


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