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- Title
Pastoral Elegy into Romantic Lyric: Generic Transformation in Matthew Arnold's "Thyrsis".
- Authors
CLAUSSON, NILS
- Abstract
A literary criticism is presented of the poem "Thyrsis: A Monody to Commemorate the Author's Friend, Arthur Hugh Clough, Who Died at Florence, 1861" by Matthew Arnold, which has typically been classified by scholars as a pastoral elegy. The author argues that the poem may not be of that genre and is dissimilar from others of the same type by Arnold. The genre of pastoral elegies is considered and it is argued that the poem is a way in which Arnold transitions from that genre to Romantic lyrics.
- Subjects
THYRSIS: A Monody to Commemorate the Author's Friend, Arthur Hugh Clough, Who Died at Florence 1861 (Poem); CRITICISM; ARNOLD, Matthew, 1822-1888; LITERARY criticism; ENGLISH poetry; LITERARY form; PASTORAL poetry; ELEGIAC poetry; VICTORIAN (Literary period)
- Publication
Victorian Poetry, 2010, Vol 48, Issue 2, p173
- ISSN
0042-5206
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1353/vp.0.0101