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The Poet's Mind
The Psychology of Victorian Poetry 1830-1870
Gregory Tate
224 pages
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3 black-and-white halftones
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216x138mm
978-0-19-965941-8
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Hardback
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08 November 2012
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- Studies Victorian poetry in relation to contemporary psychological theory, helping the reader to understand poetry's place in the exchange of ideas between literature and science
- Combines a study of the historical and intellectual contexts surrounding Victorian poetry with close readings of the form and language of specific poems
- Provides new and unpublished evidence, gathered through archival research, of Victorian poets' interest in psychology and psychological theory
- Gives fresh perspectives on canonical Victorian poems, particularly In Memoriam and Maud, which are regularly studied on undergraduate courses on Victorian literature
- Combines readings of canonical poems with considerations of less well-known works, such as the writings of the spasmodic poets and the poetry of George Eliot
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 scrutinise 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.Readership: Students and scholars of Victorian literature; students and scholars of the history of psychology.
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Gregory Tate, Lecturer in English Literature, University of Surrey Gregory Tate was born in Kingston upon Thames in 1983. He studied English literature as an undergraduate at the University of Sheffield, where he first developed his passion for Victorian poetry. After finishing his BA degree, and after a year working in a bank, he studied for a masters degree in Victorian literature, and then a doctorate, at Linacre College, Oxford. He is now a Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Surrey, and his research focuses on the inter-relations between literature and science in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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"[a] lucidly argued study ... a very readable and timely reminder that Victorian poets' engagement with contemporary science went well beyond that staple of undergraduate courses, evolutionary theory." - Britta Martens, Times Higher Education
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Introduction
1: Tennyson, Browning, and the Poetry of Reflection
2: Clough, Arnold, and the Dialogue of the Mind
3: Tennyson's Unquiet Brain
4: George Eliot's Twofold Mind
5: Browning's Epic Psychology
Conclusion
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