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Reading Victorian Poetry

Name: Reading Victorian Poetry
Author: Richard Cronin
ISBN: 9781405193924

by Richard Cronin

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Overview

Reading Victorian Poetry offers close readings of poems from the Victorian era by a renowned scholar. The selection includes a range of canonical and lesser known writers

Skilfully conveys the breadth and diversity of nineteenth-century poetry
Offers an ideal balance of canonical and less well-known writers

Allows readers to explore the poetry of the Victorian era, through the eyes of one of the most renowned scholars in the field

Poets covered include Matthew Arnold, Emily Brontë, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Lewis Carroll, A. H. Clough, G. M. Hopkins, Edward Lear, Christina Rossetti, D. G. Rossetti, A. C. Swinburne, Arthur Symons, Alfred Tennyson, Oscar Wilde

About the Author, Richard Cronin

Professor Richard Cronin lectures in nineteenth-century literature in the department of English Literature at the University of Glasgow. His publications include 1798: The Year of the Lyrical Ballads (1998), The Politics of Romantic Poetry: In Search of the Pure Commonwealth (2000), Romantic Victorians: English Literature, 1824–1840 (2000), A Companion to Victorian Poetry (co-edited with Antony H. Harrison and Alison Chapman, Blackwell, 2002), and Paper Pellets: British Literary Culture after Waterloo (2010).

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“It is a definite strength of Cronin’s approach that his own book’s attempt to recover ways of appreciating and understanding Victorian poetry overlaps with the techniques Victorian poets themselves used to address and forestall their anxieties about the meaning and value of their work . . . . To repeat the question, however, proves to be a good way of tuning in to the distinctive music of the Victorian poetry.” (The Tennyson Society, 1 December 2012)