TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cunningham,Valentine
TI  - Victorian poetry now: poets, poems, poetics 
SN  - 9781444340440
AV  - PR591 .C86 2011eb
U1  - 821/.809 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Chichester, West Sussex, Malden, Mass.
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell
KW  - English poetry
KW  - 19th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Poetics
KW  - History
KW  - Poetry
KW  - Authorship
KW  - Literature and society
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - POETRY
KW  - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; pt. 1. So far as the words are concerned -- pt. 2. Contents and discontents of the forms
N2  - "Poised on the brink of modernism and the twentieth century, the Victorian era was the most productive period of poetry there has ever been, in any language. This book is the definitive guide to the range of Victorian poets and poems, from the famous to the less well known. Approaching the poets and poems in the light of both Victorian and modern critical concerns, this absorbing book places poetry written during the nineteenth century in its personal, aesthetic, historical, and ideological contexts, and considers the poets' major anxieties, such as self, body, and melancholy. The author insists that rhyming and repetition are the major formal features of this (or any) poetry and focuses on the Victorian obsession with small subjects in small poems. The Victorians, at the helm of a global empire, were innovative and ambitious, and the poetry of the age reflects the aspirations and self-consciousness of Victorian society. Esteemed critic, Valentine Cunningham, exhibits encyclopedic knowledge of the poetry produced in this period and, with dazzling close readings of a number of poems, cuts through the often complex Victorian poetic form to reveal the key themes and contexts of the poems and the passions that drove the men and women who wrote them"--
UR  - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781444340440
ER  -