Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments vii
3. Contents xi
4. A Note on Documentation xiv
5. Part One. 1809–1832
6. Introduction to Part One 3
7. 1. The Measure of Doom 12
8. 2. Keen Discoveries: Originality and Tradition in the Juvenilia and Poems, Chiefly Lyrical 31
9. 3. Emergencies: Crises of Relation in Poems (1832) 93
10. Part Two. 1833–1855
11. Introduction to Part Two 177
12. 4. In Extremis: Margins of the Self in the Classical Dramatic Monologues 191
13. 5. In England: Arts of the Joiner in the Domestic Idylls 270
14. 6. Pyrrhic Victorian: The Incorporated Imagination in The Princess, In Memoriam, and Maud 346
15. Afterword 431
16. Notes Works Cited Index
17. Notes 437
18. Works Cited 457
19. Index 471