Download or read book On Form written by Angela Leighton and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Form assesses both the legacy of Victorian aestheticism and the nature of the literary. It tracks the development of the word 'form' since the Romantics and offers readings of, among others, Tennyson, Yeats, Stevens, and Plath. Original readings of poetry are combined with a powerful argument about the nature of aesthetic pleasure.