Description - Victorian Poetry Now by Valentine Cunningham
This book is the definitive guide to Victorian poetry, which its
author approaches in the light of modern critical concerns and
contemporary contexts.
Valentine Cunningham exhibits encyclopedic knowledge of the
poetry produced in this period and offers dazzling close readings
of a number of well-known poems
Draws on the work of major Victorian poets and their
works as well as many of the less well-known poets and poems
Reads poems and poets in the light of both Victorian and modern
critical concerns
Places poetry in its personal, aesthetic, historical, and
ideological context
Organized in terms of the Victorian anxieties of self, body,
and melancholy
Argues that rhyming/repetition is the major formal feature of
Victorian poetry
Highlights the Victorian obsession with small subjects in small
poems
Shows how Victorian poetry attempts to engage with the modern
subject and how its modernity segues into modernism and
postmodernism
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