The Spasmodic Career of Sydney Dobell

• Author(s): Martha Westwater,
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Pages: 167
• ISBN_10: 0819185795
  ISBN_13: 9780819185792
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Biography & Autobiography / General , Literary Criticism / Poetry ,

Description:... The Smasmodic Career of Sydney Dobell opens up a tantalizing but neglected twenty-year period of British literary history in the mid-Victorian era. Dobell, one of the few poetic theorists of his day, fell victim to a literary hoax that robbed him of his rightful place as an important transition figure between Romantic and Victorian poetry. Contents: A Footnote in Literary History; Mother Church and Child Bride; Father and Master; Liberty and Power: The Roman; Balder: Power and Horror; Downfall at Edinburgh; Last Attempts: Sonnets on the WaróEngland in Time of War; Dobell's Theory of Poetry: In Defense of Spasmodism; A Matter of Influence.