The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Poetry

Cover......Page 1
VICTORIAN POETRY......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Acknowledgements......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
Illustrations......Page 12
Notes on Contributors......Page 14
1. Introduction: At Work with Victorian Poetry......Page 22
PART I FORM......Page 38
2. Rhythm......Page 40
3. Beat......Page 57
4. Address......Page 77
5. Rhyme......Page 95
6. Diction......Page 114
7. Syntax......Page 133
8. Story......Page 151
PART II LITERARY LANDSCAPES......Page 168
9. Victorian Poetry and the Classics......Page 170
10. Victorian Medievalisms......Page 187
11. Victorian Miltons......Page 205
12. Victorian Shakespeares......Page 222
13. The Romantic Bequest: Arnold and Others......Page 238
14. American Intersections: Poetry in the United States 1837–1901......Page 256
15. The Poetry of Modern Life: On the Pavement......Page 275
16. Modernist Victorianism......Page 294
17. ‘Dispatched Dark Regions Far Afield and Farther’: Contemporary Poetry and Victorianism......Page 312
PART III READINGS......Page 328
18. Rhyme, Rhythm, Violence: Elizabeth Barrett Browning on Slavery......Page 330
19. Tennyson: Echo and Harmony, Music and Thought......Page 344
20. Browning’s Balancing Acts......Page 358
21. Edward Lear and ‘The fiddlediddlety of representation’......Page 372
22. Crime and Conjecture: Emily Brontë’s Poems......Page 391
23. Arthur Hugh Clough: The Reception and Conception of Amours de Voyage......Page 406
24. Matthew Arnold, Out of Time......Page 421
25. Modern Men and Women: Meredith’s Challenge to Browning......Page 437
26. Raising the Dead: Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s ‘Willowwood’ Sonnets......Page 450
27. Christina Rossetti: Ravens, Cockatoos, and Range......Page 466
28. William Barnes: Views of Field Labour in Poems of Rural Life......Page 481
29. Dreaming Reality: The Poetry of William Morris......Page 496
30. City of Pain: The Poetry of James Thomson......Page 513
31. Augusta Webster: Time and the Lyric Ideal......Page 528
32. Swinburne: The Insuperable Sea......Page 542
33. Hardy’s Imperfections......Page 557
34. Hopkins’s Beauty......Page 570
35. Michael Field (Katharine Bradley & Edith Cooper): Sight and Song and Signifi cant Form......Page 584
36. Alice Meynell, Again and Again......Page 600
37. Housman’s Diffi culty......Page 612
38. Rudyard Kipling Plays the Empire......Page 626
39. Victorian Yeats......Page 642
40. The Passion of Charlotte Mew......Page 661
PART IV THE PLACE OF POETRY......Page 674
41. Marketplaces......Page 676
42. Inner Space: Bodies and Minds......Page 694
43. Outer Space: Physical Science......Page 711
44. City and Street......Page 730
45. In the Artist’s Studio......Page 747
46. On Not Hearing: Victorian Poetry and Music......Page 766
47. Church Going......Page 783
48. Irish Poetry in the Victorian Age......Page 804
49. Empire and Orientalisms......Page 821
50. The Jokes in the Machine: Comic Verse......Page 838
51. ‘The song-bird whose name is Legion’: Bad Verse and its Critics......Page 855
Index......Page 874