Victorian Poetry

GUIDE TO FURTHER READING

Litzinger, Boyd and Donald Smalley, eds., Browning: The Critical Heritage
(London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1970).
Roberts, Gerald, ed., Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Critical Heritage (London:
Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1987).
Thorpe, Michael, ed., Clough: The Critical Heritage (London: Routledge and
Kegan Paul, 1972).
Williams, loan, ed., Meredith: The Critical Heritage (London: Routledge and Kegan
Paul, 1971).

MODERN CRITICISM OF VICTORIAN POETRY

General studies

Armstrong, Isobel and Virginia Blain, eds., Women's Poetry, Late Romantic to Late
Victorian: Gender and Genre, 1830-1900 (New York: St. Martin's Press,

Armstrong, Isobel, Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Politics, Poetics (London: Routledge,
1993). Comprehensive study that includes detailed readings of poems by broad
range of poets.
Campbell, Matthew, Rhythm and Will in Victorian Poetry (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1999). Chapters explore the works of Robert Browning,
Hopkins, and Tennyson.
Christ, Carol T., Victorian and Modern Poetics (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago
Press, 1984). Clarifies connections and distinctions between Victorian and
Modernist poetic methods.
Dellamora, Richard, Masculine Desire: The Sexual Politics of Victorian Aestheti-
cism (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1990). Includes
chapters on Hopkins, Swinburne, and Tennyson.
Edmond, Rod, Affairs of the Hearth: Victorian Poetry and Domestic Narrative
(London: Routledge, 1988). Includes studies of Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
Clough, Meredith, Christina Rossetti, and Tennyson.
Elfenbein, Andrew, Byron and the Victorians (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1995). Study of intertextual relations between an influential Romantic
poet and his Victorian successors.
Faas, Ekbert, Retreat into the Mind: Victorian Poetry and the Rise of Psychiatry
(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1988). An inclusive study that
concentrates attention on the dramatic monologue.
Griffiths, Eric, The Printed Voice of Victorian Poetry (Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1989). Includes chapters on Robert Browning, Hopkins, and Ten-
nyson.
Harrison, Antony H., Victorian Poets and the Politics of Culture: Discourse and
Ideology (Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1998). Includes
studies of Arnold, Robert Browning, Christina Rossetti, and Tennyson.
Harrison, Antony H., Victorian Poets and Romantic Poems: Intertextuality and
Ideology (Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1990). Features
chapters on relations between Romantic poets and Arnold, Robert Browning,
Morris, Christina Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Swinburne, and Ten-
nyson.

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