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"Because Beneath the Lake a Treasure Sank": Dolben as Johnson's Uranian Heir

Authors

KAYLOR Michael Matthew

Year of publication 2008
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Brno Studies in English 32
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

Citation
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.

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