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- Title
Rhythmic Numinousness: Sydney Dobell and "The Church".
- Authors
Mason, Emma
- Abstract
This article presents information related to the poet Sydney Dobell. When writer George Gilfiallan called for "a tutor to the rising age," he had in mind several young, ardent and gifted spirits" who wrote poetry to inspire religious feeling in their readers. Poet Philip Bailey seemed a likely candidate, but lacked forcefulness; Poet Alexander Smith was regarded as a poet in possession of a profound mode of expression but failed to direct it into religious contemplation. Only poet Sydney Dobell who had employed to great effect the current trend for spasmodic feeling in poetics, appeared to lay true claim to Gilfillan's vacant laurel.
- Subjects
POETRY (Literary form); DOBELL, Sydney, 1824-1874; POETS; RELIGION; CONTEMPLATION; POETICS; VICTORIAN (Literary period)
- Publication
Victorian Poetry, 2004, Vol 42, Issue 4, p537
- ISSN
0042-5206
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1353/vp.2005.0009