The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry

This book provides an introduction to Victorian poetry, and will interest scholars and students alike.

Notes on contributors; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Note on the texts; Chronology of publications and events; Chronology of poets; 1. Reforming Victorian poetry: poetics after 1832 Joseph Bristow; 2. 'The Lady of Shalott' and the critical fortunes of Victorian poetry Kathy Alexis Psomiades; 3. Experimental form in Victorian poetry E. Warwick Slinn; 4. The dramatic monologue Cornelia D. J. Pearsall; 5. Victorian meters Yopie Prins; 6. Victorian poetry and historicism Hilary Fraser; 7. Victorian poetry and science Daniel Brown; 8. Victorian poetry and religious diversity Cynthia Scheinberg; 9. The Victorian poetess Susan Brown; 10. The poetry of Victorian masculinities Thaïs E. Morgan; 11. Aesthetic and decadent poetry Karen Alkalay-Gut; 12. Victorian poetry and patriotism Tricia Lootens; 13. Voices of authority, voices of subversion: poetry in the late nineteenth century John Lucas; Glossary; Guide to further reading; Index.