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Record Nr.

UNISA996205072503316

Titolo

The Cambridge companion to Victorian poetry / / edited by Joseph Bristow [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2000

ISBN

1-139-81590-3

0-511-99903-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxxvii, 321 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cambridge companions to literature

Disciplina

821/.809

Soggetti

English poetry - 19th century - History and criticism

Poesia anglesa

Llibres electrònics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).

Nota di contenuto

Reforming Victorian poetry : poetics after 1832 / Joseph Bristow -- "Lady of Shalott" and the critical fortunes of Victorian poetry / Kathy Alexis Psomiades -- Experimental form in Victorian poetry / E. Warwick Slinn -- Dramatic monologue / Cornelia D.J. Pearsall -- Victorian meters / Yopie Prins -- Victorian poetry and historicism / Hilary Fraser -- Victorian poetry and science / Daniel Brown -- Victorian poetry and religious diversity / Cynthia Scheinberg -- Victorian poetess / Susan Brown -- Poetry of Victorian masculinities / Thaïs E. Morgan -- Aesthetic and Decadent poetry / Karen Alkalay-Gut -- Victorian poetry and patriotism / Tricia Lootens -- Voices of authority, voices of subversion : poetry in the late nineteenth century / John Lucas.

Sommario/riassunto

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 also discloses the extent to which their writings addressed the prominent intellectual and social questions of the day. The volume, which will be of interest to scholars and students alike, features a detailed chronology of the Victorian period and a comprehensive guide to further reading.