This book provides an introduction to the issues that absorbed the attention of poets from the 1830s to the 1890s. The thirteen chapters offer fresh insights into the works of well-known figures such as Robert Browning, and Alfred Tennyson and the writings of women poets--such as Amy Levy and Augusta Webster--whose contribution to Victorian culture has only recently been acknowledged by scholars. The volume, which will be of interest to scholars and students alike, features a detailed chronology of the Victorian period and a guide to further reading.
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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
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This book provides an introduction to the issues that absorbed the attention of poets from the 1830s to the 1890s. The thirteen chapters offer fresh insights into the works of well-known figures such as Robert Browning, and Alfred Tennyson and the writings of women poets--like Amy Levy, and Augusta Webster - whose contribution to Victorian culture has only recently been acknowledged by modern scholars. The volume, which will be of interest to scholars and students alike, features a detailed chronology of the Victorian period and a guide to further reading.
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metrical foot comprising, further page references, patriotic writing, fleshly school, patriotic poetry, triumphant music, heroic masculinity, metrical line, women poets, darkling plain, confused alarms, poetic identity, dramatic monologue, domestic ideology Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Barrett Browning, Matthew Arnold, Christina Rossetti, Isobel Armstrong, Victorian England, Robert Browning, Michael Field, Alfred Tennyson, Thomas Carlyle, Clarendon Press, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Dover Beach, Joseph Bristow, Oxford University Press, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Roman Catholicism, Aurora Leigh, Oscar Wilde, The Bothie, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Arthur Hugh Clough, John Ruskin, John Stuart Mill, William Wordsworth New!
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Historians of nineteenth-century British writing sometimes claim that the Victorian period properly begins some five years before Her Majesty the Queen ascended the throne. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
metrical foot comprising, further page references, patriotic writing, fleshly school, patriotic poetry, triumphant music, heroic masculinity, metrical line, women poets, darkling plain, confused alarms, poetic identity, dramatic monologue, domestic ideology Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Barrett Browning, Matthew Arnold, Christina Rossetti, Isobel Armstrong, Victorian England, Robert Browning, Michael Field, Alfred Tennyson, Thomas Carlyle, Clarendon Press, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Dover Beach, Joseph Bristow, Oxford University Press, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Roman Catholicism, Aurora Leigh, Oscar Wilde, The Bothie, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Arthur Hugh Clough, John Ruskin, John Stuart Mill, William Wordsworth New!
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- Poems and Ballads by Algernon Charles Swinburne on 16 pages
- Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poets and Politics (Routledge Critical History of Victorian Poetry) by Mrs Isobel Armstrong on 14 pages
- The Ring and the Book (Broadview literary texts) by Robert Browning on 8 pages
- Goblin Market. by music by Polly Pen, adapted from the poem by Christina Rossetti Polly Pen and Peggy Harmon on 7 pages
- Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology (Blackwell Anthologies) by Angela Leighton on 5 pages
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- The Fin-de-Siecle Poem: English Literary Culture and the 1890s by Joseph Bristow on 4 pages
- The Figure Of Music In Nineteenth-century British Poetry (Music in Nineteenth Century Britain) (Music in Nineteenth Century Britain) by Phyllis Weliver in Front Matter, page 192, and page 197
- Dramatic Monologue (The New Critical Idiom) by Glennis Byron in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Victorian Religious Discourse: New Directions in Criticism by Jude V. Nixon in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Literary Secretaries / Secretarial Culture by Leah Price on page 44, and Back Matter
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