Reaping Something New: African American Transformations of Victorian Literature by Daniel Hack

Author:Daniel Hack [Hack, Daniel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Literary Criticism, General, American, African American & Black, Semiotics & Theory, Books & Reading, Modern, 19th Century, 20th Century, Subjects & Themes, Historical Events, Social Science, Black Studies (Global)
ISBN: 9780691169453
Google: G26YDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: PrincetonUP
Published: 2017-07-15T19:35:40+00:00

When Will proposes to Sappho, Hopkins turns to Tennyson to mark the moment Sappho accepts him, quoting for the first time from The Princess—as we saw, the same poem she cites to end the novel. (I will return to both these passages below.) Similarly, when Sappho and Will are reunited after their three-year-long separation, Hopkins again calls on Tennyson to mark this climax:

She saw and recognized him at the same instant. With a mighty cry of joy and thanksgiving he clasped her in his arms.

“O, that ’twere possible,

After long grief and pain,

To find the arms of my true love

Round me once again!” (394)

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