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CONTENTS

Cover

Title Page

Epigraph

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER I: Matthew Arnold’s Pregnant Poetry

I. Introduction

II. The Future Contained: “Democracy” and Culture and Anarchy

III. “Thy Remote and Sphered Course”: Desire and Isolation in Arnold’s Marguerite Poems.

IV. The Poetics of Shame: Wragg

V. Problems with Birth

VI. “Empedocles on Etna”: The Unbirthing of the Poem

VII. Conclusion

CHAPTER II: Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Aesthetics of Emergency

I. Introduction

II. “Saint Agnes of Intercession”: The Painter of Modern Life and the Critic

III. “The Blessed Damozel” and “Bridal Birth”: The Ethics of Eros

IV. Conclusion: “The Monochord” and the Aesthetics of Emergency

CHAPTER III: Murder in Utopia: William Morris and the Surface of Desire

I. Introduction

II. The Surface of Desire

III. Murder in Utopia

IV. Conclusion: The Future of Organic Form

CHAPTER IV: Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Reck of the Moment

I. Introduction

II. Early Reception: “Undying Spirit”

III. “Spelt from Sybil’s Leaves”: The Reck of the Moment

CODA: Messianism Now, or, Other Victorians

ENDNOTES

WORKS CITED

INDEX

About the Author

Copyright

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