Victorian Poetry

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Janowitz, Anne, Lyric and Labour in the Romantic Tradition (Cambridge: Cam-
bridge University Press, 1998). Includes studies of Chartist, Republican, and
socialist poets such as Ernest Jones, W.J. Linton, and Morris.
Leighton, Angela, ed., Victorian Women Poets: A Critical Reader (Oxford: Basil
Blackwell, 1996). Contains studies of Hemans, Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
Emily Bronte, George Eliot, Procter, Christina Rossetti, Michael Field, Rosa-
mund Marriott Watson (Graham R. Tomson), and M.E. Coleridge.
Leighton, Angela, Victorian Women Poets: Writing against the Heart (Charlottes-
ville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1992). Includes chapters on Hemans,
L.E.L., Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti, Webster, Michael Field,
Alice Meynell, and Charlotte Mew.
Lootens, Tricia, Lost Saints: Silence, Gender, and Victorian Literary Canonization
(Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1996). Features studies of
Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Christina Rossetti.
Lucas, John, England and Englishness (London: Hogarth Press, 1990). Includes
discussions of Arnold, Robert Browning, Clough, and Tennyson.
McSweeney, Kerry, Supreme Attachments: Studies in Victorian Love Poetry (Alder-
shot: Ashgate, 1998). Includes studies of Robert Browning, Clough, Hardy,
Meredith, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Patmore, and Tennyson
Mellor, Anne K., Romanticism and Gender (New York: Routledge, 1993). Includes
discussions of Hemans and L.E.L.
Mermin, Dorothy, The Audience in the Poem: Five Victorian Poets (New Bruns-
wick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1983). Focuses on speakers and auditors in
the works of Arnold, Robert Browning, Clough, Meredith, and Tennyson.
Prins, Yopie, Victorian Sappho (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999).
Contains chapters on Michael Field and Swinburne.
Psomiades, Kathy Alexis, Beauty's Body: Femininity and Representation in British
Aestheticism (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1997). Includes analyses
of Tennyson, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Swinburne.
Shaw, W. David, The Lucid Veil: Poetic Truth in the Victorian Age (London:
Athlone Press, 1987). Links poetry to major philosophical debates of the
era.
Shaw, W. David, "Lyric Displacement in the Victorian Monologue: Naturalizing the
Vocative," Nineteenth-Century Literature 52 (1997), 302-25.
Slinn, E. Warwick, The Discourse of Self in Victorian Poetry (Charlottesville, VA:
University Press of Virginia, 1991). Contains chapters on Robert Browning,
Clough, and Tennyson.
Sussman, Herbert L., Victorian Masculinities: Manhood and Masculine Poetics in
Early Victorian Literature and Art (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1995). Includes studies of the Pre-Raphaelites and Robert Browning.
Tennyson, G.B., Victorian Devotional Poetry: The Tractarian Mode (Berkeley, CA:
University of California Press, 1981). Elucidates the works of John Keble,
among other religious writers.
Thesing, William B., The London Muse: Victorian Poetic Responses to the City
(Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1982). Wide-ranging book that
includes analyses of Morris and Tennyson, among many other poets.
Tucker, Herbert F., "Of Monuments and Moments: Spacetime in Nineteenth-
Century Poetry," Modern Language Quarterly 58 (1997), 269-97.


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