Valentine Cunningham 
Victorian Poetry Now [PDF ebook] 
Poets, Poems and Poetics

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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