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Birthdate: 1917-08-30
Date of death: 2003-01-28
Gender: male
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Place of death: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Education: Humberside Collegiate Institute
University of Toronto (Victoria College)
Harvard University (Ph.D.)
Occupations: professor emeritus (English)
Organizations: Harvard University
Columbia University
University of Wisconsin

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The Victorian Temper: A Study in Literary Culture by Jerome Hamilton Buckley

A weirdly engaging study of various (mostly minor, mostly horrible) movements in Victorian aesthetics: Spasmodic poetry, Gothic revival, etc. Vividly captures the cycles of angst and reaction between romanticism and decadence, making modernism seem like a good idea without condescending to what came before. Highly recommended to someone who doesn't want to read Tennyson or Browning themselves but still wonders why someone might read them.

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