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- Title
Literature by Design Since 1790.
- Authors
MCGANN, JEROME J.
- Abstract
The essay explores the role of design in 18th and 19th century poetry. It notes the control exercised by poet William Blake through creating the books entirely by himself, poet Emily Dickinson's equally total control through refusal to publish, poet Walt Whitman's close involvement with printers, and the interest of Alfred Lord Tennyson in the look of his poems in print. Poems by Dickinson, Whitman and Tennyson are analyzed for the role of textual design in their meanings.
- Subjects
ESSAYS; BOOK design; BLAKE, William, 1757-1827; DICKINSON, Emily, 1830-1886; WHITMAN, Walt, 1819-1892; TENNYSON, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892; VICTORIAN (Literary period)
- Publication
Victorian Poetry, 2010, Vol 48, Issue 1, p11
- ISSN
0042-5206
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1353/vp.0.0095