Victorian Poetry and the Poetics of the Literary Periodical

## Redrawing the conventional map of Victorian Poetics __Victorian Poetry and the Poetics of the Literary Periodical__ offers an alternative history of Victorian poetry that asserts the fundamental importance of popular periodical poetry to our understanding of Victorian poetics. Reading the poetry of un-anthologised, unnamed and underappreciated poets alongside that of Tennyson, Barrett Browning and Rossetti, Ehnes argues that the popular poet is not a marginal poet: he, and especially she, occupies the centre of literary culture, producing the poetry consumed by the majority of Victorian readers. ## Key Features * Provides an invaluable index of the poetry published in the periodicals * Includes brief biographic entries for each major figure discussed * Analyses periodicals including __Macmillan’s Magazine__, Charles Dickens’s __Household Words__ and __All the Year Round__, __Once a Week__, William Thackeray’s __Cornhill__, the religious periodical __Good Words__, and the __Argosy__ Reads Victorian literature and science as artful practices that surpass the theories and discourses supposed to contain them