Title: What's the import? : nineteenth-century poems and contemporary critical practice /
Authors: McSweeney, Kerry, 1941-
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press,
Year: 2007
Subjects: English poetry History and criticism Theory, etc.; American poetry History and criticism Theory, etc.; Criticism.; Aesthetics.; Poésie anglaise Histoire et critique Théorie, etc.; Poésie américaine Histoire et critique Théorie, etc.; Critique.; Esthétique.
Contents: Performing "The solitary reaper" and "Tears, idle tears" -- Victorian poems on paintings -- Indefinitiveness of meaning in parabolic poems -- Aesthetic and ethical value in Bigg's "An Irish picture" -- The cruxes of Whitman's "The sleepers" -- Grief as a lyric subject in Dickinson -- Hopkins' Godless poems -- Influence and resistance in Hardy's poetry -- Afterword : two Browning poems.