Papers by Julia Guernsey-Pitchford
This unpublished paper abandoned a decade ago argues that the poetic form in "Lycidas" represents... more This unpublished paper abandoned a decade ago argues that the poetic form in "Lycidas" represents the body of Edward King, at first displaced and decaying but later understood as held and harmonized by the Resurrected Christ, an Orphic figure in Renaissance terms and a maternal figure in the terms of psychoanalyst D. W. Winnicott. Thus the prosody of the poem is not as chaotic as many critics once argued. There is a hidden order which comes together as the poem concludes.
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Papers by Julia Guernsey-Pitchford