A Companion to Victorian Poetry [Paperback]

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• 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

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