ABSTRACT

This popular anthology provides a collection of the most significant Victoran verse xxx; including some minor figures notably John Clare, Emily Bronte and James Thomson. Fully annotated, this collection contains introductions to individual poets, headnotes to the poems and full and informative footnotes. It represents Victorian poetic taste at its best and is the ideal companion for everyone interested in poetry of the period.

chapter |27 pages

John Clare

chapter |11 pages

William Barnes

chapter |10 pages

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

chapter |146 pages

Alfred Tennyson

chapter |10 pages

Edward FitzGerald

chapter |77 pages

Robert Browning

chapter |7 pages

Emily Brontë

chapter |40 pages

Arthur Hugh Clough

chapter |61 pages

Matthew Arnold

chapter |11 pages

Coventry Patmore

chapter |30 pages

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

chapter |17 pages

George Meredith

chapter |13 pages

William Morris

chapter |8 pages

James Thomson (B.V.)

chapter |10 pages

Algernon C. Swinburne

chapter |18 pages

Thomas Hardy

chapter |40 pages

Gerard Manley Hopkins

chapter |6 pages

Francis Thompson