Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Series Editor’s Preface vii
4. Acknowledgements ix
5. Introduction 1
6. 1. Lyric, Aestheticism and the Later Nineteenth Century 19
7. Part I: Time
8. 2. Metre and Temporality: Between Hegel and Benjamin 55
9. 3. Painting, Music, Touch: D. G. Rossetti’s Ekphrasis and Competing Temporalities 68
10. 4. Parnassus and Commodity Time 90
11. Part II: Space
12. 5. Form and Transaction: Lyric Touch 115
13. 6. Arthur Symons and Decadent Lyric Phenomenology 130
14. 7. ‘Space, the Bound of a Solid’: Alice Meynell and Thomas Hardy 153
15. Part III: Subjectivity
16. 8. Desire Lines: Subjectivity and Collectivity 177
17. 9. A. C. Swinburne in the Round: Drama, Personae and Lyric Subjectivity 189
18. 10. Ezra Pound’s Troubadour Subject: Community, Form and ‘Lyric’ in Early Modernism 210
19. Afterword 230
20. Bibliography 237
21. Index 261