The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Poetry

The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Poetry

The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Poetry

The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Poetry

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Overview

The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Poetry offers an authorative collection of original essays and is an essential resource for those interested in Victorian poetry and poetics.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780199576463
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 12/31/2013
Series: Oxford Handbooks
Pages: 912
Product dimensions: 6.70(w) x 9.80(h) x 2.40(d)

About the Author

Matthew Bevis, University Lecturer and Fellow in English, Keble College, University of Oxford

Matthew Bevis is a University Lecturer and Fellow in English at Keble College, Oxford. He is the author of The Art of Eloquence: Byron, Dickens, Tennyson, Joyce (OUP, 2007) and Comedy: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2012). He is the editor of Some Versions of Empson (OUP, 2007).

Table of Contents

Introduction: At Work with Victorian Poetry, Matthew Bevis
Form
2. : Rhythm, Michael Hurley
3. : Beat, Derek Attridge
4. : Address, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
5. : Rhyme, Matthew Campbell
6. : Diction, Garrett Stewart
7. : Syntax, Isobel Armstrong
8. : Story, Herbert Tucker
Literary Landscapes
9. : Victorian Poetry and The Classics, Isobel Hurst
10. : Victorian Medievalisms, Matthew Townend
11. : Victorian Miltons, Erik Gray
12. : Victorian Shakespeares, Bharat Tandon
13. : The Romantic Bequest: Arnold and Others, Michael O Neill
14. : American Intersections: Poetry in the United States 1837-1901, Elisa New
15. : The Poetry of Modern Life: On the Pavement, Peter Robinson
16. : Modernist Victorianism, Adam Piette
17. : Dispatched Dark Regions Far Afield and Farther : Contemporary Poetry and Victorianism, David Wheatley
Readings
18. : Rhyme, Rhythm, Violence: Elizabeth Barrett Browning on Slavery, Caroline Levine
19. : Tennyson: Echo and Harmony, Music, and Thought, Ruth Padel
20. : Browning's Balancing Acts, Ross Wilson
21. : Edward Lear and 'The fiddlediddlety of representation', Hugh Haughton
22. : Crime and Conjecture: Emily Bronte's PoemsNBNBNB, Michael Wood
23. : Arthur Hugh Clough: The Reception and Conception of Amours de Voyage, Adam Phillips
24. : Matthew Arnold, Out of Time, Jane Wright
25. : Modern Men and Women: Meredith's challenge to Browning, Andrew Elfenbein
26. : Raising The Dead: Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Willowwood sonnetsNB, J. B. Bullen
27. : Christina Rossetti: Ravens, Cockatoos and Range, Constance Hassett
28. : William Barnes: Views of Field Labour in Poems of Modern Life, Marcus Waithe
29. : Dreaming Reality: The Poetry of William Morris, Clive Wilmer
30. : City of Pain: The Poetry of James Thomson, Mark Ford
31. : Augusta Webster: Time and The Lyric Ideal, Emily Harrington
32. : Swinburne: The Insuperable Sea, Simon Jarvis
33. : Hardy's Imperfections, Seamus Perry
34. : Hopkins's Beauty, Martin Dubois
35. : Michael Field (Katherine Bradley & Edith Cooper): Sight and Song and Significant Form, Linda K. Hughes
36. : Alice Meynell, Again and Again, Meredith Martin
37. : Housman's DifficultyNB, Janet Gezari
38. : Rudyard Kipling plays the Empire, Peter Howarth
39. : Victorian YeatsNB, Peter McDonald
40. : The Passion of Charlotte Mew, Tim Kendall
The Place of Poetry
41. : Marketplaces, Samantha Matthews
42. : Inner Space: Bodies and Minds, Stephanie Kuduk Weiner
43. : Outer Space: Physical Science, Anna Henchman
44. : City and Street, Rolf Lessenich
45. : In The Artist's Studio, Catherine Maxwell
46. : On Not Hearing: Victorian Poetry and Music, Francis O Gorman
47. : Church Going, Kirstie Blair
48. : Irish Poetry in the Victorian Age, Justin Quinn
49. : Empire and Orientalisms, Joe Phelan
50. : Comic Verse, James Williams
51. : 'The song-bird whose name is Legion': Bad Verse and its Critics, Danny Karlin
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