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- Title
Rhythmic Intimacy, Spasmodic Epistemology.
- Authors
Rudy, Jason R.
- Abstract
This article presents information related to rhythmic intimacy and spasmodic epistemology. Among the many reasons critics in the 1850s condemned what was called the Spasmodic style, none appears to have perplexed and frustrated readers so much as the poets' seemingly irregular use of rhythm. In response to writer Sydney Dobell's 1856 volume "England in Time of War," a critic for the Saturday Review complains that the poet neither sees, feels, nor thinks like ordinary men. A writer for the National Review similarly critiques the apparent disorder of Dobell's poetry: His thoughts and fancies flow like the sounds from an instrument of music, struck by the hand of a child,-a jumble of sweet and disconnected notes, without order or harmony.
- Subjects
THEORY of knowledge; RHYTHM; DOBELL, Sydney, 1824-1874; POETRY (Literary form); THOUGHT &; thinking; MUSIC; VICTORIAN (Literary period)
- Publication
Victorian Poetry, 2004, Vol 42, Issue 4, p451
- ISSN
0042-5206
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1353/vp.2005.0010