The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry

This book provides an introduction to Victorian poetry, and will interest scholars and students alike.

Joseph Bristow (Edited by)

9780521641159, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 26 October 2000

360 pages

23.7 x 16 x 2.8 cm, 0.677 kg

\""[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

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-kno]