A Companion to Victorian Poetry: Cronin/Companion

Content: Chapter 1 Epic (pages 23–41): Herbert F. Tucker Chapter 2 Domestic and Idyllic (pages 42–58): Linda H. Peterson Chapter 3 Lyric (pages 59–79): Matthew Rowlinson Chapter 4 Dramatic Monologue (pages 80–98): E. Warwick Slinn Chapter 5 Sonnet and Sonnet Sequence (pages 99–114): Alison Chapman Chapter 6 Elegy (pages 115–133): Seamus Perry Chapter 7 Hymn (pages 134–154): J. R. Watson Chapter 8 Nonsense (pages 155–170): Roderick McGillis Chapter 9 Verse Novel (pages 171–186): Dino Felluga Chapter 10 Verse Drama (pages 187–203): Adrienne Scullion Chapter 11 Working?Class Poetry (pages 204–228): Florence Boos Chapter 12 The Classical Tradition (pages 229–245): Richard Jenkyns Chapter 13 Arthurian Poetry and Medievalism (pages 246–261): Antony H. Harrison Chapter 14 Poetry in Translation (pages 262–278): J.?A. George Chapter 15 Tractarian Poetry (pages 279–290): Stephen Prickett Chapter 16 The Spasmodics (pages 291–304): Richard Cronin Chapter 17 The Pre?Raphaelite School (pages 305–320): David Riede Chapter 18 The Poetry of the 1890s (pages 321–341): Chris Snodgrass Chapter 19 The Market (pages 343–360): Lee Erickson Chapter 20 Anthologies and the Making of the Poetic Canon (pages 361–377): Natalie M. Houston Chapter 21 Reviewing (pages 378–391): Joanne Shattock Chapter 22 Poetry and Illustration (pages 392–418): Lorraine Janzen Kooistra Chapter 23 Nationhood and Empire (pages 419–437): Margaret Linley Chapter 24 Poetry in the Four Nations (pages 438–456): Matthew Campbell Chapter 25 Poetry and Religion (pages 457–474): W. David Shaw Chapter 26 Poetry and Science (pages 475–492): Alan Rauch Chapter 27 Landscape and Cityscape (pages 493–509): Pauline Fletcher Chapter 28 Vision and Visuality (pages 510–525): Catherine Maxwell Chapter 29 Marriage and Gender (pages 526–542): Julia F. Saville Chapter 30 Sexuality and Love (pages 543–566): John Maynard

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. The volume opens with an introductory essay on Victorian poetics by Carol Christ that offers a commanding overview of the whole period. The remaining contributions are organized into three parts. The first surveys the variety of schools and styles in Victorian poetry; in the second, the focus shifts from the form and content of the poetry to the means of its production and distribution; the final part positions Victorian verse in its contexts and explores its interactions with dominant cultural discourses.

The Companion as a whole does more than map the existing state of scholarship in the field; it sets out an agenda for future research.

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. The volume opens with an introductory essay on Victorian poetics by Carol Christ that offers a commanding overview of the whole period. The remaining contributions are organized into three parts: the first surveys the variety of schools and styles in Victorian poetry: in the second, the focus shifts from the form and content of the poetry to the means of its production and distribution: the final part positions Victorian verse in its contexts and explores its interactions with dominant cultural discourses. The Companion as a whole does more than map the existing state of scholarship in the field: it sets out an agenda for future research "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.". "The volume opens with an introductory essay on Victorian poetics by Carol Christ that offers a commanding overview of the whole period. The remaining contributions are organized into three parts: the first surveys the variety of schools and styles in Victorian poetry; in the second, the focus shifts from the form and content of the poetry to the means of its production and distribution; the final part positions Victorian verse in its contexts and explores its interactions with dominant cultural discourses."--BOOK JACKET. 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 Readers of Aurora Liegh, Idylls of the King or The Ring and the Book rightly wonder that epic poetry presisted so long after notices of generic expiration had been clearly posted by Milton, then by Dryden and Pope, and then by several generations of public-spirited novelist.