The Political Sonnet
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23440195 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joseph Phelan (0000-0002-9815-1071, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Pages | 61-84 |
| Publication date | 2005-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Nineteenth-Century Sonnet (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1057/9780230512627_4 |
| OpenAlex | W2489702737 |
| ISBN | 9780230512627 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
Matthew Arnold’s response to the French Revolution of 1848 was articulated in part through a pair of sonnets addressed ‘To a Republican Friend’, the friend in question being his close confidant and poetic rival Arthur Hugh Clough. The first of these sonnets expresses a mild if not entirely convincing enthusiasm for the general aims of the revolution, while the second voices an altogether more detached and sceptical view of events: Yet, when I muse on what life is, I seem Rather to patience prompted, than that proud Prospect of hope which France proclaims so loud — France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme; Seeing this vale, this earth, whereon we dream, Is on all sides o’ershadowed by the high Uno’erleaped Mountains of Necessity, Sparing us narrower margin than we deem. Nor will that day dawn at a human nod, When, bursting through the network superposed By selfish occupation — plot and plan, Lust, avarice, envy — liberated man, All difference with his fellow-mortal closed, Shall be left standing face to face with God. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Art · Enthusiasm · Epistemology · Literature · Poetry · Political science · Politics · Skepticism · Sonnet · Theology · French Literature and Poetry · Law · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy · Poetry Analysis and Criticism
| Highly cited | No |
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