Introduction: Lyric Individualism
The Personal Voice in Nineteenth-Century Poetry: Standing Single
Part I: John Clare: Striving to be Himself
Clare I: ‘A Helplessness in the Language’
Clare II: ‘Oddly Real and His Own’
Part II: Gerard Manley Hopkins: Oddity and Obscurity
Hopkins I: ‘Unlike Itself’
Hopkins II: ‘To Seem the Stranger’
Part III: Edward Thomas: A Personal Accent
Thomas I: ‘Myriad-Minded Lyric’
Thomas II: ‘Intimate Speech’
Part IV: Ivor Gurney: Unquiet Achings
Gurney I: ‘The Light of Newness’
Gurney II: ‘A Person Named Myself’
Epilogue: Three Later Instances.