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The consolation of otherness : the male love elegy in Milton, Gray and Tennyson / Matthew Curr.

Title: The consolation of otherness : the male love elegy in Milton, Gray and Tennyson / Matthew Curr.
Author: Curr, Matthew
Publication: Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2002.

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vii, 176 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"The social and religious constraints of their time may have prevented John Milton, Thomas Gray, and Alfred Tennyson from conscious expression or even unconscious recognition of the true extent of their love and devotion to their young male friends, but it lies at the heart of their emotional lives and poetry. Connected by the extraordinary coincidence that each of their loved ones died young, Milton, Gray, and Tennyson are also connected by the male-love elegies that sprang from their grief." "This work examines the relationships between John Milton and Charles Diodati, Thomas Gray and Richard West, and Alfred Tennyson and Arthur Hallam through a critical study of Milton's "Epitaphium Damonis," Gray's "Elegy," and Tennyson's "In Memoriam." It shows how their concepts of otherness and difference from the people around them provided comfort after the loss of their loved ones."--Jacket.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-174) and index.

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committed to retain

Contents

The Phoenix / Charles Diodati and John Milton -- A secret sympathy / Richard West and Thomas Gray -- Points of resistance / Gray's letters -- A deeper voice / Arthur Hallam and Alfred Tennyson.

ISBN

0786412399 (softcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

2002004809 ^

OCLC

49519119
SCSB-11642497

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Harvard Library