VICTORIAN POETRY NOW by Valentine Cunningham ( 9780631208266 )

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Title:

VICTORIAN POETRY NOW
POETS, POEMS AND POETICS

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ISBN 10:

0631208267

ISBN 13:

9780631208266

Publisher:

JOHN WILEY AND SONS LTD

Pub. date:

15 July, 2011

Series:

Wiley Blackwell Guides to Literature

Pages:

552

Description:

Poised on the brink of modernism and the twentieth century, the Victorian era was the most productive period of poetry there has ever been, in any language. This book is the definitive guide to the range of Victorian poets and poems, from the famous to the less well known.

Synopsis:

This book is the definitive guide to Victorian poetry, which its author approaches in the light of modern critical concerns and contemporary contexts. * Valentine Cunningham exhibits encyclopedic knowledge of the poetry produced in this period and offers dazzling close readings of a number of well-known poems * Draws on the work of major Victorian poets and their works as well as many of the less well-known poets and poems * Reads poems and poets in the light of both Victorian and modern critical concerns * Places poetry in its personal, aesthetic, historical, and ideological context * Organized in terms of the Victorian anxieties of self, body, and melancholy * Argues that rhyming/repetition is the major formal feature of Victorian poetry * Highlights the Victorian obsession with small subjects in small poems * Shows how Victorian poetry attempts to engage with the modern subject and how its modernity segues into modernism and postmodernism

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Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)

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