Includes bibliographical references (pages 509-530) and index.
Contents:
Two systems of concentric circles -- Experiments of 1830: Tennyson and the formation of subversive, conservative poetry -- 1832: critique of the poetry of sensation -- Experiments in the 1830s: Browning and the Benthamite formation -- The politics of dramatic form -- Individualism under pressure -- The radical in crisis: Clough -- The liberal in crisis: Arnold -- A new radical aesthetic : the grotesque as cultural critique: Morris -- Tennyson in the 1850s: new experiments in conservative poetry and the type -- Browning in the 1850s and after: new experiments in radical poetry and the grotesque -- 'A music of thine own': women's poetry : an expressive tradition? -- Swinburne: agonistic Republican : the poetry of sensation as democratic critique -- Hopkins: agonistic reactionary : the grotesque as conservative form -- Meredith and others: hard, gem-like dissidence -- James Thomson: atheist, blasphemer and anarchist : the grotesque sublime -- Alternative fins de siècles: Rudyard Kipling, Michael Field, Thomas Hardy, Alice Meynell.
Summary:
"In Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics and Politics, Isobel Armstrong rescues Victorian poetry from its longstanding sepia image as 'a moralised form of romantic verse', and unearths its often subversive critique of nineteenth-century culture and politics. In this uniquely comprehensive and theoretically astute new edition, Armstrong provides an entirely new preface that notes the key advances in the criticism of Victorian poetry since her classic work was first published in 1993. A new chapter on the alternative Fin de Siècle sees Armstrong discuss Michael Field and Vernon Lee, the late epics of Swinburne and Morris, as well as a selection of Hardy lyrics. The extensive bibliography acts as a key resource for student and scholars alike"-- Provided by publisher.
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