Victorian Poetry

GUIDE TO FURTHER READING

Morgan, Thai's E., "Male Lesbian Bodies: The Construction of Alternative Mascu-

linities in Courbet, Baudelaire, and Swinburne," Genders 15 (1992), 37-57.

Morgan, Thai's E., "Swinburne's Dramatic Monologues: Sex and Ideology," Vic-

torian Poetry 22 (1984), 175-95.

Rooksby, Rikky, A.C. Swinburne: A Poet's Life (Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1997).

Rooksby, Rikky and Nicholas Shrimpton, eds., The Whole Music of Passion: New

Essays on Swinburne (Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1993).

Alfred Tennyson
Culler, A. Dwight, The Poetry of Tennyson (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press,
T-9JJ)-
Hair, Donald S., Tennyson's Language (Toronto: University of Toronto Press,
1991).
Hughes, Linda K., The Manyfaced Glass: Tennyson's Dramatic Monologues
(Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 1987).
Jordan, Elaine, Alfred Tennyson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998).
Joseph, Gerhard, Tennyson and the Text: The Weaver's Shuttle (Cambridge: Cam-
bridge University Press, 1992). Post-structuralist study.
Martin, Robert Bernard, Tennyson: The Unquiet Heart (Oxford: Clarendon Press,
1980). Standard biography.
Ricks, Christopher, Tennyson (London: Macmillan, 1972).
Rowlinson, Matthew, Tennyson's Fixations: Psychoanalysis and the Topics of the
Early Poetry (Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1994).
Shaw, Marion, Alfred Lord Tennyson (Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf,
1988). Feminist study.
Shaw, W. David, Tennyson's Style (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1976).
Sinfield, Alan, Alfred Tennyson (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1986). Materialist study.
Stott, Rebecca, ed., Alfred Tennyson: A Critical Reader (Harlow: Addison Wesley
Longman, 1997). Collection of recent criticism.
Tucker, Herbert F., ed., Critical Essays on Alfred Lord Tennyson (New York: G.K.
Hall, 1993). Collection of recent criticism.
Tucker, Herbert F., Tennyson and the Doom of Romanticism (Cambridge, MA:
Harvard University Press, 1988). Focuses on Tennyson's writings up to and
including Maud.

Oscar Wilde

Alkalay-Gut, Karen, "The Thing He Loves: Murder as an Aesthetic Experience in

'The Ballad of Reading Gaol,'" Victorian Poetry 35 (1997), 349-66.

Buckley, Jerome H., "Echo and Artifice: The Poetry of Oscar Wilde," Victorian

Poetry 28 (1990), 19-31.

Gagnier, Regenia, Idylls of the Marketplace: Oscar Wilde and the Victorian Public

(Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1986). Includes discussion of "The

Ballad of Reading Gaol."

Nathan, Leonard, "The Ballads of Reading Gaol: At the Limits of Lyric," in Critical

Essays on Oscar Wilde, ed. Regenia Gagnier (New York: G.K. Hall, 1991),

213-22.

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