Journal article
"Spasm" and class: W. E. Aytoun, George Gilfillan, Sydney Dobell, and Alexander Smith
Victorian poetry, Vol.42(4), pp.553-584
12/22/2004
DOI: 10.1353/vp.2005.0002
Abstract
Boos considers the nuances of social class in the "Spasmodic" controversy and focuses primarily on opposing critics W.E. Aytoun and George Gilfillan, and the effects of the controversy on Sydney Dobell, "home-schooled" author of The Roman (1850) and Balder (1854); and Alexander Smith, a modestly educated pattern designer who published A Life-Drama (1853), City Poems (1857) and Edwin of Deira (1861). Boos also briefly reviews some of the ways in which critical savaging of the "Spasmodics" influenced canonical and semi-canonical poets such as Tennyson, the Brownings and William Morris and constrained the reception of other attempts at generic and stylistic innovation in the third quarter of the century.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- "Spasm" and class: W. E. Aytoun, George Gilfillan, Sydney Dobell, and Alexander Smith
- Creators
- Florence Boos
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Victorian poetry, Vol.42(4), pp.553-584
- Publisher
- West Virginia University
- DOI
- 10.1353/vp.2005.0002
- ISSN
- 0042-5206
- eISSN
- 1530-7190
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 12/22/2004
- Academic Unit
- International Programs; English
- Record Identifier
- 9984398045802771
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