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02523aam a2200373 i 4500 001 D8ADBCA26B5311E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160826010517 008 150615s2015 enk b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2015018587 020 $a 1137537795 020 $a 9781137537799 035 $a (OCoLC)909321184 040 $a DLC $e rda $b eng $c DLC $d YDX $d BTCTA $d BDX $d CDX $d YDXCP $d OCLCO $d IUL $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-uk--- 050 00 $a PR585 M66 2015 100 1 $a Moore, Natasha, $d 1983- $e author. 245 10 $a Victorian poetry and modern life : $b the unpoetical age / $c Natasha Moore, Research Fellow, Centre for Public Christianity, Australia. 264 1 $a Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; $b Palgrave Macmillan, $c 2015. 300 $a vi, 239 pages ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-234) and index. 505 0 $a 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. 520 $a "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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a English poetry $y 19th century $x History and criticism. 651 0 $a Great Britain $x Intellectual life $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Modernism (Literature) $z Great Britain. 830 0 $a Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231018022609.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826040142.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D8ADBCA26B5311E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search