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'Romantic Ghosts: the Refusal of Mourning in Emily Brontë's Poetry'
Steven Vine
Victorian Poetry, Volume: 37, Issue: 1, Pages: 99 - 117
Swansea University Author: Steven Vine
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The essay examines the logic of the spectral and ‘ghostly’ in Emily Brontë’s poetry. It sees the phantoms that populate the poems as figures of loss and mourning – specifically, as mirages of poetic power and visionary sublimity. As spectral wraiths, these elusive figures embody both power and depri...
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The essay examines the logic of the spectral and ‘ghostly’ in Emily Brontë’s poetry. It sees the phantoms that populate the poems as figures of loss and mourning – specifically, as mirages of poetic power and visionary sublimity. As spectral wraiths, these elusive figures embody both power and deprivation, and the essay argues that they denote the spectral sur-vival and irrecoverable loss of Romantic visionary power in Brontë. The essay contends that a process of mourning and refused mourning governs Brontë’s relationship as a Victorian woman poet to the legacy of male Romanticism, and that Wordsworth’s ‘visionary gleam’ of imaginative power haunts her work. |
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