Victorian Poetry

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Anthologies of Victorian poetry

Armstrong, Isobel and Joseph Bristow with Cath Sharrock, eds., Nineteenth-
Century Women Poets: An Oxford Anthology (Oxford: Clarendon Press,
1996).
Collins, Thomas J. and Vivienne J. Rundle, eds., The Broadview Anthology of
Victorian Poetry and Poetic Theory (Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press,
1999). The most comprehensive anthology currently available.
Karlin, Daniel, ed., The Penguin Book of Victorian Verse (Harmondsworth:
Penguin Books, 1997).
Leighton, Angela and Margaret Reynolds, eds., Victorian Women Poets: An
Anthology (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1995).
Maidment, Brian, ed., The Poorhouse Fugitives: Self-Taught Poets and Poetry in
Victorian Britain (Manchester: Carcanet, 1987).

Victorian criticism of poetry

Armstrong, Isobel, Victorian Scrutinies: Reviews of Poetry, 1830-1870 (London:
Athlone, 1972).
Beckson, Karl, ed., Oscar Wilde: The Critical Heritage (London: Routledge and
Kegan Paul, 1970).
Bristow, Joseph, ed., The Victorian Poet: Poetics and Persona (Beckenham: Croom
Helm, 1987).
Cox, R.G., ed., Thomas Hardy: The Critical Heritage (London: Routledge and
Kegan Paul, 1970).
Dawson, Carl, ed., Matthew Arnold, the Poetry: The Critical Heritage (London:
Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1973).
Faulkner, Peter, ed., William Morris: The Critical Heritage (London: Routledge and
Kegan Paul, 1973).
Green, Roger Lancelyn, ed., Kipling: The Critical Heritage (London: Routledge and
Kegan Paul, 1971).
Hyder, Clyde K., ed., Swinburne: The Critical Heritage (London: Routledge and
Kegan Paul, 1970).
Jump, John D., ed., Tennyson: The Critical Heritage (London: Routledge and
Kegan Paul, 1967).

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