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Gent, M. "To flinch from modern varnish": the appeal of the past to the Victorian imagination.--DeLaura, D. J. Matthew Arnold and the nightmare of history.--Harper, J. W. "Eternity our due": time in the poetry of Robert Browning.--Hunt, J. D. The poetry of distance: Tennyson's Idylls of the King.--Buckley, J. H. Pre-Raphaelite past and present: the poetry of the Rossettis.--Ellison, R. C. "The undying glory of dreams": William Morris and the "Northland of old."--Preyer, R. "The fine delight that fathers thought": Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Romantic survival.--Goldman, A. The oeuvre takes shape: Yeats early poetry.--Miller, J. H. History as repetition in Thomas Hardy's poetry: the example of "Wessex heights."--Sage, L. Hardy, Yeats, and tradition.--Peckham, M. Afterword: reflections on historical modes in the nineteenth century. |