03962cam a2200637Ma 4500 ocn747412445 OCoLC 20171116113241.0 m o d cr cn||||||||| 101119s2011 enk ob 001 0 eng d 9781444340440 (electronic bk.) 1444340441 (electronic bk.) 9781444340419 (electronic bk.) 1444340417 (electronic bk.) 9781444340426 1444340425 9780631208266 (hardback) HEBIS 290106362 NZ1 15916221 (OCoLC)747412445 (OCoLC)743205103 E7B eng pn E7B OCLCQ YDXCP CDX UIU DG1 EBLCP REDDC OCLCQ N$T OCLCQ OCLCF OCLCQ IDEBK VLB OCLCO OCLCQ COO OCLCO OCL OCLCQ OCLCO e-uk--- MAIN PR591 .C86 2011eb POE 005020 bisacsh 821/.809 22 Cunningham, Valentine. Victorian poetry now : poets, poems, poetics / Valentine Cunningham. [electronic resource] Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, Mass. : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. 1 online resource (xiii, 537 pages) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. pt. 1. So far as the words are concerned -- pt. 2. Contents and discontents of the forms. "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. Print version record. 1800-1899 fast English poetry 19th century History and criticism. Poetics History 19th century. Poetry Authorship History 19th century. Literature and society Great Britain History 19th century. POETRY English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. bisacsh English poetry. fast (OCoLC)fst00912278 Literature and society. fast (OCoLC)fst01000096 Poetics. fast (OCoLC)fst01067682 Poetry Authorship. fast (OCoLC)fst01067694 Great Britain. fast (OCoLC)fst01204623 Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast (OCoLC)fst01411635 History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628 Print version: Cunningham, Valentine. Victorian poetry now. Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, Mass. : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011 (DLC) 2010049294 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781444340440 Wiley Online Library ddc BK 205239 205239