Victorian Poetry

PREFACE There is, beyond all question, in this long period and among the crowd of lesser singers, an amount of diffused poetry w ...

PREFACE five women writers. Similar limitations appear in The Oxford Book of Nineteenth-Century English Verse (1964), which - in ...

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry began to take shape when I held a Senior External Research Fellowshi ...

ABBREVIATIONS ACS Algernon Charles Swinburne, The Poems of Algernon Charles Swinburne, 6 vols. (London: Chatto and Windus, 1904) ...

ABBREVIATIONS GM George Meredith, The Poems of George Meredith, ed. Phyllis B. Bartlett, 2 vols. (New Haven, CT: Yale University ...

NOTE ON THE TEXTS For the sake of consistency, all of the contributors to this volume quote from the same editions of poetry. To ...

CHRONOLOGY OF PUBLICATIONS AND EVENTS 1820 Elizabeth Barrett, The Battle of Marathon 1824 L.E.L. [Letitia Elizabeth Landon], The ...

CHRONOLOGY OF PUBLICATIONS AND EVENTS House of Commons (October) House of Lords rejects Reform Bill; riots in Nottingham, Derby, ...

CHRONOLOGY OF PUBLICATIONS AND EVENTS 1841 Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (August) Second Peel admi ...

CHRONOLOGY OF PUBLICATIONS AND EVENTS Ruskin, The Stones of Venice (completed 1853) Census of Religious Worship in England and W ...

CHRONOLOGY OF PUBLICATIONS AND EVENTS i860 Wilberforce-Huxley controversy at the British Association, Oxford Elizabeth Barrett B ...

CHRONOLOGY OF PUBLICATIONS AND EVENTS 186 8 Robert Browning, The Ring and the Book (completed 1869) Morris, The Earthly Paradise ...

CHRONOLOGY OF PUBLICATIONS AND EVENTS 1875 Robert Browning, The Inn Album Christina Rossetti, Goblin Market, The Prince's Progre ...

CHRONOLOGY OF PUBLICATIONS AND EVENTS (May) Franchise Bill (Third Reform Bill) introduced into House of Commons (November) Third ...

CHRONOLOGY OF PUBLICATIONS AND EVENTS 1890 Christina Rossetti, Poems First British mosque, Woking, Surrey 1891 Morris, Chants fo ...

CHRONOLOGY OF PUBLICATIONS AND EVENTS National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies founded; Millicent Fawcett (President) (June) ...

CHRONOLOGY OF POETS Ebenezer Elliott (1781-1849) R.H. Barham (1788-1845) John Keble (1792-1866) John Clare (1793-1864) Felicia H ...

CHRONOLOGY OF POETS Alexander Smith (i 829-1867) T.E. Brown (1830-1897) Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) Charles Stuart Calverley ...

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JOSEPH BRISTOW Reforming Victorian poetry: poetics after 1832 1 Historians of nineteenth-century British writing sometimes claim ...