Victorian Poetry

GUIDE TO FURTHER READING

INDIVIDUAL POETS

Arnold

Culler, A. Dwight, Imaginative Reason: The Poetry of Matthew Arnold (New
Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1966).
Hamilton, Ian, A Gift Imprisoned: The Poetic Life of Matthew Arnold (London:
Bloomsbury, 1998).
Honan, Park, Matthew Arnold: A Life (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1981).
Murray, Nicholas, A Life of Matthew Arnold (London: Hodder and Stoughton,
1996).
Riede, David G., Matthew Arnold and the Betrayal of Language (Charlottesville,
VA: University Press of Virginia, 1988).

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Forster, Margaret, Elizabeth Barrett Browning: The Lives and Loves of a Poet
(New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988). Biography that pays little close attention
to the poetry.
Leighton, Angela, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Bloomington, IN: Indiana Univer-
sity Press, 1986).
Lewis, Linda M., Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Spiritual Progress: Face to Face with
God (Columbia, MI, 1998).
Mermin, Dorothy, Elizabeth Barrett Browning: The Origins of a New Poetry
(Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1989).
Stone, Marjorie, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995).

Robert Browning

Bloom, Harold, ed., Robert Browning: A Collection of Critical Essays (Englewood
Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1980).
Bristow, Joseph, Robert Browning (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991).
Gibson, Mary Ellis, ed., Critical Essays on Robert Browning (New York: G.K. Hall,
1992). Collection of recent criticism.
Gibson, Mary Ellis, History and the Prism of Art: Browning's Poetic Experiments
(Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1987).
Karlin, Daniel, Browning's Hatreds (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995).
Karlin, Daniel and John Woolford, Robert Browning (Harlow: Longman, 1996).
Slinn, E. Warwick, Browning and the Fictions of Identity (Basingstoke: Macmillan,
1982).
Shaw, W. David, The Dialectical Temper: The Rhetorical Art of Robert Browning
(Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1968).
Tucker, Herbert F., Browning's Beginnings: The Art of Disclosure (Minneapolis,
MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1980). Covers the early poetry.
Tucker, Herbert F., "Epiphany and Browning: Character Made Manifest," PMLA
107 (1992), 1208-21.
Tucker, Herbert F., "Wanted Dead of Alive: Browning's Historicism," Victorian
Studies 38 (1994), 25-39.

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