"Because Beneath the Lake a Treasure Sank": Dolben as Johnson's Uranian Heir
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| Year of publication | 2008 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Brno Studies in English 32 |
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| Field | Mass media, audiovision |
| Keywords | Digby Dolben; William Johnson; William Johnson Cory; Uranian poetry; Uranians; Victorian poetry; pederasty |
| Description | This article considers the influence of William Johnson (later Cory) on his former Eton pupil Digby Mackworth Dolben, as well as the ways that Dolben's poem "A Vocation" responds to Johnson's poem "An Invocation." The result is a close reading that displays the intertextual strategies, mostly Classical in their allusiveness, employed by Uranian writers to disclose their desires to their congenial coterie as well as to render those desires opaque to general readers. |