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Edgecombe, Rodney Stenning was born on April 5, 1952 in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Son of Henry Stenning and Lilian Ruth (Robinson) Edgecombe.
(John Keble and John Henry Newman conceived poetry as thou...)
John Keble and John Henry Newman conceived poetry as though it were the instrument of religious persuasion. Keble's Christian Year was hailed as the Oxford Movement's Baptist cry, and Newman's contributions to Lyre Apostolica were more aggressive. The nature of Tractarian poetry is discussed, and details of the two collections are presented in this work.
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(Whereas Thomas Hood has long been regarded as a minor com...)
Whereas Thomas Hood has long been regarded as a minor comic poet, this book--the first to devote itself exclusively to his verse--provides a detailed analysis of two 'serious' poems ('Hero and Leander' and 'The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies') so as to give a better sense of his range. Most commentators have pointed to the influence of Keats on such occasions, but close examination reveals an even greater debt to Elizabethan and Metaphysical poets, whose sometimes playful deployment of the conceit struck a chord in his sensibility. At the same time, the book gives Hood's comic genius its due, supplying detailed accounts of the deftness and panache of his light-hearted oeuvre. One chapter examines his excursion into the mock-heroic mode (Odes and Addresses to Great People), and another his reliance on that airiest of forms, the capriccio (Whims and Oddities). The study concludes with an extensive examination of 'Miss Kilmansegg and Her Precious Leg,' showing how Hood was here able to inflect a jeu d'esprit with a fine Juvenalian passion.
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(This work argues that Hunt's poetry, which often suffers ...)
This work argues that Hunt's poetry, which often suffers from invidious comparisons, ought to be regarded as a manifestation of rococo art, using this category to justify its lightness and decorativeness.
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Selecting novels representative of distinct phases in Muriel Spark's career, Rodney Stenning Edgecombe explores their themes, style, and structure in a detailed way for the first time. Edgecombe's approach brings to life the delicate nuances, rich allusions, and complicated ironies of Spark's fiction. His careful reading of the novels makes this a penetrating assessment of an important writer.
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(Edwin Morgan was born in 1920 in Glasgow and studied at G...)
Edwin Morgan was born in 1920 in Glasgow and studied at Glasgow University where he later taught literature. He is much admired for his experimental writings, his social poems, as well as for the diversity of his output. The present book comprises a chapter on Morgan s early vision poems (which have received scant critical attention hitherto); two on his hodoiporika, The Cape of Good Hope and The New Divan; a chapter on his deployment of the grotesque mode, centred chiefly on the Instamatic Poems and The Whittrick; another on his adaptations of the elegy, in which Edgecombe propose a new genre called the thanasimon; and, finally, an examination of his various monologic poems, read in terms of his avowed enterprise of voicing the universe. The study is topped by a prologue that sets out the consistency of Morgan s vision over time, and tailed by an epilogue that connects his various critical pronouncements to his remarkably diverse output.
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Edgecombe, Rodney Stenning was born on April 5, 1952 in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Son of Henry Stenning and Lilian Ruth (Robinson) Edgecombe.
Bachelor with 1 class honors, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa, 1974. Master of Arts with distinction, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa, 1978. Doctor of Philosophy, University Cambridge, England, 1981.
Junior lecturer University Cape Town, South Africa, 1975-1977, lecturer South Africa, 1982-1988. Senior lecturer, 1988-1992. Associate professor English literature University Cape Town, South Africa, since 1992.
Tutor Trinity College, Cambridge, 1978-1979. Temporary lecturer University Stellenbosch, South Africa, 1980-1981. Music critic Cape Times, Cape Town, 1976.
Ballet critic Arabesque, Johannesburg, South Africa, 1981-1985.
(Whereas Thomas Hood has long been regarded as a minor com...)
(This work argues that Hunt's poetry, which often suffers ...)
( Selecting novels representative of distinct phases in M...)
(Edwin Morgan was born in 1920 in Glasgow and studied at G...)
(John Keble and John Henry Newman conceived poetry as thou...)
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