Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics and Politics (Routledge Critical History of Victorian Poetry)

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Victorian Poetry - Poetry, Poetics and Politics......Page 1
Preface......Page 2
Acknowledgements......Page 4
Introduction - Rereading Victorian Poetry......Page 5
Part I - Conservative and Benthamite Aesthetics of the Avant-Garde - Tennyson and Browning in the 1830s......Page 25
1 - Two Systems of Concentric Circles......Page 26
2 - Experiments of 1830 - Tennyson and the formation of subversive, conservative poetry......Page 41
3 - 1832: Critique of the Poetry of Sensation......Page 76
4 - Experiments in the 1830s - Browning and the Benthamite formation......Page 110
5 - The Politics of Dramatic Form......Page 134
Part II - Mid-Century: European Revolution and Crimean War - Democratic, liberal, radical and feminine voices......Page 160
6 - Individualism Under Pressure......Page 161
7 - The Radical in Crisis: Clough......Page 174
8 - The Liberal in Crisis: Arnold......Page 200
9 - A New Radical Aesthetic - The Grotesque as cultural critique: Morris......Page 226
10 - Tennyson in the 1850s - New experiments in conservative poetry and the Type......Page 245
11 - Browning in the 1850s and After - New experiments in radical poetry and the Grotesque......Page 276
12 - \'A Music of Thine Own\' - Women\'s poetry--an expressive tradition?......Page 308
Part III - Another Culture? Another Poetics?......Page 366
Introduction - The 1860s and After - Aesthetics, language, power and high finance......Page 367
13 - Swinburne: Agonistic Republican - The poetry of sensation as democratic critique......Page 387
14 - Hopkins: Agonistic Reactionary - The Grotesque as conservative form......Page 405
15 - Meredith and Others - Hard, gem-like dissidence......Page 424
16 - James Thomson: Atheist, Blasphemer and Anarchist - The Grotesque sublime......Page 443
Postscript......Page 460
Notes......Page 472
Index......Page 516