Victorian poetry now : poets, poems, poetics / Valentine Cunningham. [electronic resource] Cunningham, Valentine. English poetry 19th century History and criticism. Poetics History 19th century. Poetry Authorship History 19th century. Literature and society Great Britain History 19th century. PR591 .C86 2011eb 821/.809 22 Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record. "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. Approaching the poets and poems in the light of both Victorian and modern critical concerns, this absorbing book places poetry written during the nineteenth century in its personal, aesthetic, historical, and ideological contexts, and considers the poets' major anxieties, such as self, body, and melancholy. The author insists that rhyming and repetition are the major formal features of this (or any) poetry and focuses on the Victorian obsession with small subjects in small poems. The Victorians, at the helm of a global empire, were innovative and ambitious, and the poetry of the age reflects the aspirations and self-consciousness of Victorian society. Esteemed critic, Valentine Cunningham, exhibits encyclopedic knowledge of the poetry produced in this period and, with dazzling close readings of a number of poems, cuts through the often complex Victorian poetic form to reveal the key themes and contexts of the poems and the passions that drove the men and women who wrote them"-- Provided by publisher. Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, Mass. : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. 2011. 2011 Text 1 online resource (xiii, 537 pages) http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781444340440 eng Victorian poetry now. Victorian poetry now. Great Britain. fast (OCoLC)fst01204623 Great Britain