Second sight: the visionary imagination in late Victorian literature

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Acknowledgements A note on the texts Introduction 1. 'An aching pulse of melodies': Dante Gabriel Rossetti's poetic magnetism 2. 'Walter Pater's 'strange veil of sight' 3. Of Venus, vagueness, and vision: Vernon Lee, Eugene Lee-Hamilton, and 'the spell of the fragment' 4. Theodore Watts-Dunton's Aylwin and the reduplications of Romanticism 5. Thomas Hardy's poetry: 'the intenser stare of the mind' References Index -- .