The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry
The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry

Author: Joseph Bristow

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2000-10-26

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 9780521646802

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This Companion to Victorian Poetry provides an introduction to many of the pressing issues that absorbed the attention of poets from the 1830s to the 1890s. It introduces readers to a range of topics - including historicism, patriotism, prosody, and religious belief. The thirteen specially-commissioned chapters offer insights into the works of well-known figures such as Matthew Arnold, Robert Browning and Alfred Tennyson, and the writings of women poets - like Michael Field, Amy Levy and Augusta Webster - whose contribution to Victorian culture has in more recent years been acknowledged by modern scholars. Revealing the breadth of the Victorians' experiments with poetic form, this Companion also discloses the extent to which their writings addressed the prominent intellectual and social questions of the day. The volume, which will be of interest to scholars and students alike, features a detailed chronology of the Victorian period and a comprehensive guide to further reading.

The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Women's Writing
The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Women's Writing

Author: Linda H. Peterson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-10-15

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 1107064848

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Innovative and comprehensive coverage of women writers' careers and literary achievements spanning many literary genres during the Victorian period.

The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary Irish Poetry
The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary Irish Poetry

Author: Matthew Campbell

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003-08-28

Total Pages: 525

ISBN-13: 113982676X

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In the last fifty years Irish poets have produced some of the most exciting poetry in contemporary literature, writing about love and sexuality, violence and history, country and city. This book, first published in 2003, provides an introduction to major figures such as Seamus Heaney, and also introduces the reader to significant precursors like Louis MacNeice or Patrick Kavanagh, and vital contemporaries and successors: among others, Thomas Kinsella, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and Paul Muldoon. Readers will find discussions of Irish poetry from the traditional to the modernist, written in Irish as well as English, from both North and South. This Companion provides cultural and historical background to contemporary Irish poetry in the contexts of modern Ireland but also in the broad currents of modern world literature. It includes a chronology and guide to further reading and will prove invaluable to students and teachers alike.

The Cambridge Companion to W. B. Yeats
The Cambridge Companion to W. B. Yeats

Author: Marjorie Elizabeth Howes

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2006-05-25

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 0521650895

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A comprehensive and accessible introduction to the major themes of this important poet's life and career.

A Companion to Victorian Poetry
A Companion to Victorian Poetry

Author: Ciaran Cronin

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2008-04-15

Total Pages: 632

ISBN-13: 1405123184

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This Companion brings together specially commissioned essays by distinguished international scholars that reflect both the diversity of Victorian poetry and the variety of critical approaches that illuminate it. Approaches Victorian poetry by way of genre, production and cultural context, rather than through individual poets or poems Demonstrates how a particular poet or poem emerges from a number of overlapping cultural contexts. Explores the relationships between work by different poets Recalls attention to a considerable body of poetry that has fallen into neglect Essays are informed by recent developments in textual and cultural theory Considers Victorian women poets in every chapter