A Companion to Victorian Poetry

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.

Richard Cronin teaches at Glasgow University. His publications include The Politics of Romantic Poetry (2000) and Romantic Victorians: English Literature 1824-1840 (2002)

Antony H. Harrison teaches at North Carolina State University. His books include Victorian Poets and Romantic Poems (1990), Victorian Poets and the Politics of Culture (1998), The Culture of Christina Rossetti (1999), and The Letters of Christina Rossetti (4 vols, 1998-2004).

Alison Chapman teaches at Glasgow University and is the author of The Afterlife of Christina Rossetti (2000), editor of Victorian Women's Poetry (2003), and co-editor of Women and Italy in the Nineteenth Century (2002).

Editors' Preface

viii

Notes on Contributors

x

Chronology

xv

Introduction: Victorian Poetics

1

(22)

Carol T. Christ

PART ONE Varieties and Forms

23

(320)

Epic

25

(17)

Herbert F. Tucker

Domestic and Idyllic

42

(17)

Linda H. Peterson

Lyric

59

(21)

Matthew Rowlinson

Dramatic Monologue

80

(19)

E. Warwick Slinn

Sonnet and Sonnet Sequence

99

(16)

Alison Chapman

Elegy

115

(19)

Seamus Perry

Hymn

134

(21)

J. R. Watson

Nonsense

155

(16)

Roderick McGillis

Verse Novel

171

(16)

Dino Felluga

Verse Drama

187

(17)

Adrienne Scullion

Working-Class Poetry

204

(25)

Florence Boos

The Classical Tradition

229

(17)

Richard Jenkyns

Arthurian Poetry and Medievalism

246

(16)

Antony H. Harrison

Poetry in Translation

262

(17)

J.-A. George

Tractarian Poetry

279

(12)

Stephen Prickett

The Spasmodics

291

(14)

Richard Cronin

The Pre-Raphaelite School

305

(16)

David Riede

The Poetry of the 1890s

321

(22)

Chris Snodgrass

PART TWO Production, Distribution and Reception

343

(76)

The Market

345

(16)

Lee Erickson

Anthologies and the Making of the Poetic Canon

361

(17)

Natalie M. Houston

Reviewing

378

(14)

Joanne Shattock

Poetry and Illustration

392

(27)

Lorraine Janzen Kooistra

PART THREE Victorian Poetry and Victorian Culture

419

(148)

Nationhood and Empire

421

(17)

Margaret Linley

Poetry in the Four Nations

438

(19)

Matthew Campbell

Poetry and Religion

457

(18)

W. David Shaw

Poetry and Science

475

(18)

Alan Rauch

Landscape and Cityscape

493

(17)

Pauline Fletcher

Vision and Visuality

510

(16)

Catherine Maxwell

Marriage and Gender

526

(17)

Julia F. Saville

Sexuality and Love

543

(24)

John Maynard

Index

567

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