A companion to Victorian poetry / edited by Richard Cronin, Alison Chapman and Antony H. Harrison. - Oxford : Blackwell, 2007, c2002. - 602 p. : 25 cm.

Originally published: 2002.

Victorian poetics / Epic / Domestic and idyllic / Lyric / Dramatic monologue / Sonnet and sonnet sequence / Elegy / Hymn / Nonsense / Verse novel / Verse drama / Working-class poetry / Classical tradition / Arthurian poetry and medievalism / Poetry in translation / Tractarian poetry / Spasmodics / Pre-Raphaelite School / Poetry of the 1890s / Market / Anthologies and the making of the poetic canon / Reviewing / Poetry and illustration / Nationhood and empire / Poetry in the four nations / Poetry and religion / Poetry and science / Landscape and cityscape / Vision and visuality / Marriage and gender / Sexuality and love / Carol T. Christ -- Herbert F. Tucker -- Linda H. Peterson -- Matthew Rowlinson -- E. Warwick Slinn -- Alison Chapman -- Seamus Perry -- J.R. Watson -- Roderick McGillis -- Dino Felluga -- Adrienne Scullion -- Florence Boos -- Richard Jenkyns -- Antony H. Harrison -- J.-A. George -- Stephen Prickett -- Richard Cronin -- David Riede -- Chris Snodgrass -- Lee Erickson -- Natalie M. Houston -- Joanne Shattock -- Lorraine Janzen Kooistra -- Margaret Linley -- Matthew Campbell -- W. David Shaw -- Alan Rauch -- Pauline Fletcher -- Catherine Maxwell -- Julia F. Saville -- John Maynard. Introduction: PART ONE: Varieties and forms -- PART TWO: Production, distribution and reception -- PART THREE: Victorian poetry and Victorian culture --

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English poetry--History and criticism.--19th century