A companion to Victorian poetry

Author(s)

• Cronin, Richard
• Chapman, Alison
• Harrison, Antony H.

Bibliographic Information

A companion to Victorian poetry

edited by Richard Cronin, Alison Chapman and Antony H. Harrison

（Blackwell companions to literature and culture, 15）

Blackwell, 2002

• : hardback

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This Companion brings together specially commissioned essays by distinguished international scholars that reflect both the diversity of Victorian poetry and the variety of critical approaches that illuminate it. Approaches Victorian poetry by way of genre, production and cultural context, rather than through individual poets or poems Demonstrates how a particular poet or poem emerges from a number of overlapping cultural contexts. Explores the relationships between work by different poets Recalls attention to a considerable body of poetry that has fallen into neglect Essays are informed by recent developments in textual and cultural theory Considers Victorian women poets in every chapter

Table of Contents

Editors' Preface viii Notes on Contributors x Chronology xv Introduction: Victorian Poetics 1 Carol T. Christ PART ONE Varieties and Forms 23 1 Epic 25 Herbert F. Tucker 2 Domestic and Idyllic 42 Linda H. Peterson 3 Lyric 59 Matthew Rowlinson 4 Dramatic Monologue 80 E. Warwick Slinn 5 Sonnet and Sonnet Sequence 99 Alison Chapman 6 Elegy 115 Seamus Perry 7 Hymn 134 J. R. Watson 8 Nonsense 155 Roderick McGillis 9 Verse Novel 171 Dino Felluga 10 Verse Drama 187 Adrienne Scullion 11 Working-Class Poetry 204 Florence Boos 12 The Classical Tradition 229 Richard Jenkyns 13 Arthurian Poetry and Medievalism 246 Antony H. Harrison 14 Poetry in Translation 262 J.-A. George 15 Tractarian Poetry 279 Stephen Prickett 16 The Spasmodics 291 Richard Cronin 17 The Pre-Raphaelite School 305 David Riede 18 The Poetry of the 1890s 321 Chris Snodgrass PART TWO Production, Distribution and Reception 343 19 The Market 345 Lee Erickson 20 Anthologies and the Making of the Poetic Canon 361 Natalie M. Houston 21 Reviewing 378 Joanne Shattock 22 Poetry and Illustration 392 Lorraine Janzen Kooistra PART THREE Victorian Poetry and Victorian Culture 419 23 Nationhood and Empire 421 Margaret Linley 24 Poetry in the Four Nations 438 Matthew Campbell 25 Poetry and Religion 457 W. David Shaw 26 Poetry and Science 475 Alan Rauch 27 Landscape and Cityscape 493 Pauline Fletcher 28 Vision and Visuality 510 Catherine Maxwell 29 Marriage and Gender 526 Julia F. Saville 30 Sexuality and Love 543 John Maynard Index 567

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Details

• NCID: BA59530756
• ISBN:
  • 9780631222071
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Oxford
• Pages/Volumes: xiv, 602 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • DC21 : 821.809
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : English poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA33407255