Rhythms of Feeling in Edward Lear, T. S. Eliot, and Stevie Smith

A study of affect in the poetry of Edward Lear, T. S. Eliot, and Stevie Smith that offers a new understanding of feeling and emotion in poetry, and illustrates a feedback-effect between poetic composition and real-life affects.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: Lear's Tears


• 2: Eliot's Nerves


• 3: Smith's Scratches


• Coda: Dancing Feeling


• Bibliography

About the author

Jasmine Jagger is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Roehampton. She has published articles in Victorian Poetry, Romanticism, Literary Imagination, The Cambridge Quarterly, Apollo, and The Carrollian.

Summary

A study of affect in the poetry of Edward Lear, T. S. Eliot, and Stevie Smith that offers a new understanding of feeling and emotion in poetry, and illustrates a feedback-effect between poetic composition and real-life affects.

Product details

• Authors: Jasmine Jagger, Jasmine (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow Jagger
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2022
• EAN: 9780198868804
• ISBN: 978-0-19-886880-4
• No. of pages: 262
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: poetry and poets