Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-169) and index
Performing "The solitary reaper" and "Tears, idle tears" -- Victorian poems on paintings -- Indefinitiveness of meaning in parabolic poems -- Aesthetic and ethical value in Bigg's "An Irish picture" -- The cruxes of Whitman's "The sleepers" -- Grief as a lyric subject in Dickinson -- Hopkins' Godless poems -- Influence and resistance in Hardy's poetry -- Afterword : two Browning poems