Victorian Poetry

By Mrs I Armstrong

Subjects: English poetry (collections), 19th century, Chefs-d'œuvre (Littérature), Politics and literature, Poésie anglaise, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Politique et littérature, English poetry, General, Histoire, POETRY, Canon (Literature), LITERARY CRITICISM, Fiction, Théorie, History and criticism, Histoire et critique, Poetry, History, English poetry, history and criticism, 19th century, Theory

Description: In a work that is uniquely comprehensive and theoretically astute, 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.