Author : Valentine Cunningham
Release : 2011-06-03
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Victorian Poetry Now - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Victorian Poetry Now write by Valentine Cunningham. This book was released on 2011-06-03. Victorian Poetry Now available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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