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Midsummer Night Dreams and Related Poems

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Midsummer Night Dreams and Related Poems comprises ten of Hogg''s poems which, in very different ways, explore the visionary and supernatural, and one writer''s portrayal of them, echoing the subject and title of Shakespeare''s famous play. Chief among these poems is The Pilgrims of the Sun, a visionary journey which seeks to demonstrate Hogg''s command not only of his native Scottish tradition of poetry but also of English and even European traditions, including those of Milton and Pope, Dante and Byron. Its counterpart is the hellish visionary journey of the weirdly brilliant ''Connel of Dee''. In another poem Hogg reflects upon the carnage of ''The Field of Waterloo''. He recounts the departure of the fairies from Scotland in ''The Gyre Caryl'', and challenges the Enlightenment dismissal of the supernatural in ''Superstition''. From his dramatic sketch ''The Haunted Glen'' to his commemoration of the famous comet of 1811, and from the plaintive balladry of ''The Mermaid'' to the rumbustious comic delusions of ''T
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
344
ISBN-13:
9780748624409
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0748624406
Udg. Dato:
15 dec 2008
Længde:
30mm
Bredde:
241mm
Højde:
168mm
Forlag:
Edinburgh University Press
Oplagsdato:
15 dec 2008
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