Table of Contents

Notes on contributors; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Note on the texts; Chronology of publications and events; Chronology of poets; 1. Reforming Victorian poetry: poetics after 1832 Joseph Bristow; 2. 'The Lady of Shalott' and the critical fortunes of Victorian poetry Kathy Alexis Psomiades; 3. Experimental form in Victorian poetry E. Warwick Slinn; 4. The dramatic monologue Cornelia D. J. Pearsall; 5. Victorian meters Yopie Prins; 6. Victorian poetry and historicism Hilary Fraser; 7. Victorian poetry and science Daniel Brown; 8. Victorian poetry and religious diversity Cynthia Scheinberg; 9. The Victorian poetess Susan Brown; 10. The poetry of Victorian masculinities Thaïs E. Morgan; 11. Aesthetic and decadent poetry Karen Alkalay-Gut; 12. Victorian poetry and patriotism Tricia Lootens; 13. Voices of authority, voices of subversion: poetry in the late nineteenth century John Lucas; Glossary; Guide to further reading; Index.

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This book provides an introduction to Victorian poetry, and will interest scholars and students alike.

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"[This book] offers a useful overview not only of the more familiar poets of the era, and their social, political, and economic context, but also of the critical heritage that has contributed to recent approaches to the subject... The editor has ensured that a variety of approaches is represented." Nineteenth Century Contexts