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Author:

Moore, Natasha, 1983- author.

Title:

Victorian poetry and modern life : the unpoetical age / Natasha Moore, Research Fellow, Centre for Public Christianity, Australia.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

vi, 239 pages ; 23 cm.

Subject:

English poetry--19th century--History and criticism.
Great Britain--Intellectual life--19th century.
Modernism (Literature)--Great Britain.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-234) and index.

Contents:

Introduction: A Poem of the Age -- 1. The Modern and the Everyday -- 2. The Long Narrative Poem -- 3. The Marriage Plot -- 4. The Uses of Genre -- Ends -- Postscript: Finding a form for modern love.

Summary:

"Today it goes without saying that any and all aspects of life are open to poets to write about. In the middle of the nineteenth century, however, the proper subject matter for poetry was a controversial question. Should poets turn to the more congenial, more heroic, more malleable past for their materials, leaving the field of the present clear for the upstart novel? Or was it their duty to tackle their own age, to reconcile its ugliness and chaos and banality with the beauty and order of poetry? This first full-length study of an experimental, influential, and very diverse mid-Victorian school of poetry traces a number of family resemblances between long poems of the period that, combining elements of the novel and the epic to form new generic hybrids, each take up the gauntlet of representing 'unpoetical' modern, everyday life poetically"-- Provided by publisher.

Series:

Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture

ISBN:

1137537795
9781137537799

OCLC:

(OCoLC)909321184

LCCN:

2015018587

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)