Details

Subject(s)

• English poetry—19th century—History and criticism—Handbooks, manuals, etc [Browse]

Editor

• Bevis, Matthew [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Literary criticism [Browse]
• Handbooks and manuals [Browse]

Series

Oxford handbooks of literature. [More in this series]

Summary note

This volume explores the history, functions and forms of poetry in Victorian England. It examines the syntax, rhyme, rhythm and metre in Victorian poetry and describes different types of poems and poetry publishing. It also analyses the works of several Victorian poets including Gerard Manley Hopkins, James Thomson, A. E. Housman, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Augusta Webster, Christian Rossetti and Michael Field. This volume also examines how church-going, music and arts were reflected in Victorian poetry.

Notes

Includes index.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 15, 2013).

Language note

English

Contents

• Rhythm / Michael Hurley
• Beat / Derek Attridge
• Address / Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
• Rhyme / Matthew Campbell
• Diction / Garrett Stewart
• Syntax / Isobel Armstrong
• Story / Herbert Tucker
• Victorian Poetry and The Classics / Isobel Hurst
• Victorian Medievalisms / Matthew Townend
• Victorian Miltons / Erik Gray
• Victorian Shakespeares / Bharat Tandon
• The Romantic Bequest : Arnold and Others / Michael O'Neill
• American Intersections : Poetry in the United States 1837-1901 / Elisa New
• The Poetry of Modern Life : On the Pavement / Peter Robinson
• Modernist Victorianism / Adam Piette
• 'Dispatched Dark Regions Far Afield and Farther' : Contemporary Poetry and Victorianism / David Wheatley
• Rhyme, Rhythm, Violence : Elizabeth Barrett Browning on Slavery / Caroline Levine
• Tennyson : Echo and Harmony, Music, and Thought / Ruth Padel
• Browning's Balancing Acts / Ross Wilson
• Edward Lear and 'The fiddlediddlety of representation' / Hugh Haughton
• Crime and Conjecture : Emily Brontë's Poems / Michael Wood
• Arthur Hugh Clough : The Reception and Conception of Amours de Voyage / Adam Phillips
• Matthew Arnold, Out of Time / Jane Wright
• Modern Men and Women : Meredith's challenge to Browning / Andrew Elfenbein
• Raising The Dead : Dante Gabriel Rossetti's 'Willowwood' sonnets / J.B. Bullen
• Christina Rossetti : Ravens, Cockatoos and Range / Constance W. Hassett
• William Barnes : Views of Field Labour in Poems of Rural Life / Marcus Waithe
• Dreaming Reality : The Poetry of William Morris / Clive Wilmer
• City of Pain : The Poetry of James Thomson / Mark Ford
• Augusta Webster : Time and the Lyric Ideal / Emily Harrington
• Swinburne : The Insuperable Sea / Simon Jarvis
• Hardy's Imperfections / Seamus Perry
• Hopkins's Beauty / Martin Dubois
• Michael Field (Katherine Bradley & Edith Cooper) : Sight and Song and Significant Form / Linda K. Hughes
• Alice Meynell, Again and Again / Meredith Martin
• Housman's Difficulty / Janet Gezari
• Rudyard Kipling plays the Empire / Peter Howarth
• Victorian Yeats / Peter McDonald
• The Passion of Charlotte Mew / Tim Kendall
• Marketplaces / Samantha Matthews
• Inner Space : Bodies and Minds / Stephanie Kuduk Weiner
• Outer Space : Physical Science / Anna Henchman
• City and Street / Rolf P. Lessenich
• In The Artist's Studio / Catherine Maxwell
• On Not Hearing : Victorian Poetry and Music / Francis O'Gorman
• Church Going / Kirstie Blair
• Irish Poetry in the Victorian Age / Justin Quinn
• Empire and Orientalisms / Joe Phelan
• The Jokes in the Machine : Comic Verse / James Williams
• 'The song-bird whose name is Legion' : Bad Verse and its Critics / Danny Karlin.

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Other title(s)

• Handbook of Victorian poetry
• Victorian poetry

ISBN

• 9780191653032
• 0191653039
• 9780191750168
• 0191750166
• 9780191653025
• 0191653020

OCLC

958577922

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