Awards

• Winner of TLS Christmas Pick 2007 The Observer Christmas Pick 2007.
• Winner of TLS Christmas Pick 2007 The Observer Christmas Pick 2007.

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Angela Leighton's carefully argued defence of form and aestheticism is an extremely useful account of the debates surrounding these terms and the uses to which they have been put - by critics and poets - from 19th century France onwards, while also offering a resource for poets and teachers Ann Reckin, Writing in Education ...lovely and important new book... Jeffrey Miller Tennyson Research Bulletin ...absorbing study... beautifully written and richly rewarding book-replete with this sense of hope, surprise, and intrigue. Matthew Bevis MLR ...Leighton handles language so elegantly. ...this remarkable book instructs us throughits own practice how the dynamic expression of idea may itself be a form of literary pleasure. Michael D. Hurley, The Cambridge Quarterly With a Paterian surrender to the beautiful and a Jamesian reverence for the critical proprieties of tact and attentiveness, On Form goes about its work of inspecting the unfixing of meaning without wanting to fix or finalise. Rebekah Scott, Essays in Criticism,

Angela Leighton's carefully argued defence of form and aestheticism is an extremely useful account of the debates surrounding these terms and the uses to which they have been put - by critics and poets - from 19th century France onwards, while also offering a resource for poets and teachers Ann Reckin, Writing in Education ...lovely and important new book... Jeffrey Miller Tennyson Research Bulletin ...absorbing study... beautifully written and richly rewarding book-replete with this sense of hope, surprise, and intrigue. Matthew Bevis MLR ...Leighton handles language so elegantly. ...this remarkable book instructs us throughits own practice how the dynamic expression of idea may itself be a form of literary pleasure. Michael D. Hurley, The Cambridge Quarterly With a Paterian surrender to the beautiful and a Jamesian reverence for the critical proprieties of tact and attentiveness, On Form goes about its work of inspecting the unfixing of meaning without wanting to fix or finalise. Rebekah Scott, Essays in Criticism,

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Angela Leighton is Senior Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge. She is the author of a number of books, including Shelley and the Sublime, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Victorian Women Poets: Writing Against the Heart, as well as many essays on nineteenth and twentieth-century literature.

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