‘Thousands of throbbing hearts' - Sentimentality and community in popular Victorian poetry: Longfellow's Evangeline and Tennyson's Enoch Arden
This essay explores the function of sentimentality in popular nineteenth-century narrative poetry by focusing on Tennyson's 'Enoch Arden' and Longfellow's 'Evangeline', two poems that have suffered relative critical neglect due to their status as sentimental verse. It a...
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| Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities
2007-04-01
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| Series: | 19 : Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century |
| Online Access: | http://www.19.bbk.ac.uk/articles/455 |