"The Scholar-Gipsy" and the Continuous Life of Victorian Poetry.(Critical Essay)

From: Victorian Poetry | Date: September 22, 2005| Author: Farrell, John P. | Copyright information

My title alludes to one of the most compelling volumes of poetry published in the last quarter century, Mark Strand's The Continuous Life (1990). Strand has in common with Matthew Arnold a fundamental preoccupation with the sheer presence and persistence of poetic discourse as a sign of the continuity of human culture even in periods where vertiginous change seems dominant. But trust in this continuity does not go unshaken in either poet. In Arnold's case--and also in Strand's--it ...

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