A Companion to Victorian Poetry

Editors’ Preface viii

Notes on Contributors x

Chronology xv

Introduction: Victorian Poetics 1
Carol T. Christ

PART ONE Varieties and Forms 23

1 Epic 25
Herbert F. Tucker

2 Domestic and Idyllic 42
Linda H. Peterson

3 Lyric 59
Matthew Rowlinson

4 Dramatic Monologue 80
E. Warwick Slinn

5 Sonnet and Sonnet Sequence 99
Alison Chapman

6 Elegy 115
Seamus Perry

7 Hymn 134
J. R. Watson

8 Nonsense 155
Roderick McGillis

9 Verse Novel 171
Dino Felluga

10 Verse Drama 187
Adrienne Scullion

11 Working-Class Poetry 204
Florence Boos

12 The Classical Tradition 229
Richard Jenkyns

13 Arthurian Poetry and Medievalism 246
Antony H. Harrison

14 Poetry in Translation 262
J.-A. George

15 Tractarian Poetry 279
Stephen Prickett

16 The Spasmodics 291
Richard Cronin

17 The Pre-Raphaelite School 305
David Riede

18 The Poetry of the 1890s 321
Chris Snodgrass

PART TWO Production, Distribution and Reception 343

19 The Market 345
Lee Erickson

20 Anthologies and the Making of the Poetic Canon 361
Natalie M. Houston

21 Reviewing 378
Joanne Shattock

22 Poetry and Illustration 392
Lorraine Janzen Kooistra

PART THREE Victorian Poetry and Victorian Culture 419

23 Nationhood and Empire 421
Margaret Linley

24 Poetry in the Four Nations 438
Matthew Campbell

25 Poetry and Religion 457
W. David Shaw

26 Poetry and Science 475
Alan Rauch

27 Landscape and Cityscape 493
Pauline Fletcher

28 Vision and Visuality 510
Catherine Maxwell

29 Marriage and Gender 526
Julia F. Saville

30 Sexuality and Love 543
John Maynard

Index 567