Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Introduction: Lyric Individualism.- The Personal Voice in Nineteenth-Century Poetry: Standing Single.- Part I: John Clare: Striving to be Himself.- Clare I: 'A Helplessness in the Language'.- Clare II: 'Oddly Real and His Own'.- Part II: Gerard Manley Hopkins: Oddity and Obscurity.- Hopkins I: 'Unlike Itself'.- Hopkins II: 'To Seem the Stranger'.- Part III: Edward Thomas: A Personal Accent.- Thomas I: 'Myriad-Minded Lyric'.- Thomas II: 'Intimate Speech'.- Part IV: Ivor Gurney: Unquiet Achings.- Gurney I: 'The Light of Newness'.- Gurney II: 'A Person Named Myself'.- Epilogue: Three Later Instances.