Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry

Name: Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry
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ISBN: 9780521646802

ISBN-10: 0521646804

ISBN-13: 9780521646802

Edition: 2000

Authors: Joseph Bristow

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This Companion to Victorian Poetry provides an introduction to many of the pressing issues that absorbed the attention of poets from the 1830s to the 1890s. It introduces readers to a range of topics - including historicism, patriotism, prosody, and religious belief. The thirteen specially-commissioned chapters offer insights into the works of well-known figures such as Matthew Arnold, Robert Browning and Alfred Tennyson, and the writings of women poets - like Michael Field, Amy Levy and Augusta Webster - whose contribution to Victorian culture has in more recent years been acknowledged by modern scholars. Revealing the breadth of the Victorians experiments with poetic form, this Companion…

Book details

List price: $35.99
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 10/26/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English



Notes on contributors


Preface


Acknowledgments


Abbreviations


Note on the texts


Chronology of publications and events


Chronology of poets



Reforming Victorian poetry: poetics after 1832




"The Lady of Shalott" and the critical fortunes of Victorian poetry




Experimental form in Victorian poetry




The dramatic monologue




Victorian meters




Victorian poetry and historicism




Victorian poetry and science




Victorian poetry and religious diversity




The Victorian poetess




The poetry of Victorian masculinities




Aesthetic and Decadent poetry




Victorian poetry and patriotism




Voices of authority, voices of subversion: poetry in the late nineteenth century



Glossary


Guide to Further Reading


Index