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Victorian Poetry

Books on: victorian poems

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A Tradition of Subversion: The Prose Poem in English from Wilde to Ashbery

Book by Margueritte S. Murphy; University of Massachusetts Press, 1992

Subjects:

American Poetry--20th Century--History And Criticism, American Prose Literature--20th Century--History And Criticism, Ashbery, John--Poems--Selections, Prose Poems, American--History And Criticism, Social Norms In Literature, Stein, Gertrude--1874-1946--Tender Buttons, Williams, William Carlos--1883-1963--Poems

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...embodied, although, ironically, his prose poems depict the failure of discipleship while...astray. More to the point, these prose poems may stem from some intuition of the limits of the artist within Victorian society who takes refuge from coarse...
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The American Prose Poem: Poetic Form and the Boundaries of Genre

Book by Michel Delville; University Press of Florida, 1998

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Literary Form, Poetics, Prose Poems, American--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...undermines the general atmosphere of Victorian cleanliness and propriety that pervades...aseptic decency and "custom" of Victorian interiors goes hand in hand with her refusal to write the kind of prose poems that would meet the usual criteria...
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Such Rare Citings: The Prose Poem in English Literature

Book by N. Santilli; Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2002

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English Drama--History And Criticism, Prose Poems, English--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...fragment, that the prose poem collection can be seen...aesthetics of the prose poem collection. Bridging the Romantic and Victorian periods, De Quincey...first legitimate prose poems. The fact that Baudelaire...was composing his prose poems is rarely recorded and...connection with the prose poem. Baude- laire claims...
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Victorian People and Ideas

Book by Richard D. Altick; W.W. Norton, 1973

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England--Civilization--19th Century, English Literature--19th Century--History And Criticism

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

confessional of Victorian poems, In Memoriam, appeared in the same...greatest romantic autobiographical poem, Wordsworths Prelude, was first...When one realizes how many memorable Victorian poems are outpourings of the poets soul...
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Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics, and Politics

Book by Isobel Armstrong; Routledge, 1993

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...is not to argue neatly that Victorian poetry should be studied because...of movable type, the double poem confronts the scepticism of...and challenges it. Victorian poems are sceptical and affirmative...created by the terms of the poem itself. The active reader is compelled to be internal to the poems contradictions and recomposes...

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Journal Articles on: victorian poems

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Victorian Murder Poems: Law and Literature from the Scaffold to the Hearth

Journal article by Cathrine O. Frank; Papers on Language & Literature, Vol. 46, 2010

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Books--Book reviews, Victorian Murder Poems: Law and Literature from the Scaffold to the Hearth (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews

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Victorian Murder Poems: Law and Literature from...her project of examining Victorian poetry as both a literary...her work in contemporary Victorian poetry studies that restore...makes its contributions to Victorian conceptions of crime so interesting...puts it simply: for the Victorians, murder was "a narrative...
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"In Louring Hindostan":Chartism and Empire in Ernest Jones's the New World, A Democratic Poem

Journal article by Ronald Paul; Victorian Poetry, Vol. 39, 2001

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English literature, 1837-1901 (Victorian age)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Political parties--19th century, Working class--Literature

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...World, A Democratic Poem. by RONALD PAUL THE...critics concerned with the Victorian period, not only because...novels, stories, and poems published regularly...World, A Democratic Poem, which first appeared...tradition of Romantic Victorian poetry: "Jones was able, in his prison poems, and The New World...whose own long narrative poem The Pilgrims of Hope...
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Doing Things with Poems: Performativity and Cultural Form

Journal article by Anne Hartman; Victorian Poetry, Vol. 41, 2003

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British poetry--Criticism and interpretation, English literature, 1837-1901 (Victorian age)--Criticism and interpretation, Poetic techniques--Analysis, Poetics--Analysis, Victorian period literature, 1832-1901--Criticism and interpretation, Women poets--Criticism and interpretation

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Doing Things with Poems: Performativity and...the terms Romantic and Victorian. Whither Victorian...insistence on the "double poem"--a reading attentive...chapter on women poets in Victorian Poetry, Isobel Armstrong...simpler the surface of the poem, the more likely it...Felicia Hemans: Selected Poems, Letters, Reception...on the source of the poem was written by Hemans...
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"Every Man Who Is Hanged Leaves a Poem": Criminal Poets in Victorian Street Ballads

Journal article by Ellen L. O'Brien; Victorian Poetry, Vol. 39, 2001

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Criminals--Literature, English literature, 1837-1901 (Victorian age)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Working class--Literature

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...Wrights case mobilized working-class Victorians as outspoken witnesses to the criminal...two decades earlier mobilized elite Victorians as the curious and horrified potential...victim brought Courvoisier fame in Victorian England and brought members of the...the scaffold. Divisions between Victorians and the criminal Other collapsed...claimed that the criminal was the Victorian (and a poet too), and as they...
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The "Homely Muse" in Her Diurnal Setting: The Periodical Poems of "Marie," Janet Hamilton, and Fanny Forrester

Journal article by Florence S. Boos; Victorian Poetry, Vol. 39, 2001

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English literature, 1837-1901 (Victorian age)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Women poets--19th century, Working class--Literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...recurred in the poetry of Victorian women of all classes...urban poor.41 In the poems conclusion, Forrester...Forrester wrote a poem in which she varied...Scottish Culture," Victorian Urban Settings, ed...Class Women Poets in Victorian Scotland," VP 33...author of Night: A Poem (London, 1867...woman Janet Hamiltons poems for the Dundee Advertiser...

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Magazine Articles on: victorian poems

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James Burnley: A Victorian for Today

Magazine article by Stephen Wade; Contemporary Review, Vol. 271, August 1997

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Authors--United Kingdom, Burnley, James H., IV--Works

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James Burnley: a Victorian for today by Stephen...of humour, sketches, poems, advertisements and...indicative of the mid-Victorian preoccupation with creating...in understanding the Victorian mind than ever before...Animals. The following poem was the winner for Year...
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Matthew Arnold: Modern Victorian

Magazine article by Michael Timko; World and I, Vol. 26, September 2011

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Arnold, Matthew (British poet)--Criticism and interpretation, Arnold, Matthew (British poet)--Works, Poets--Criticism and interpretation, Poets--Works

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...Matthew Arnold: Modern Victorian. by Michael Timko...essays and many of his poems, especially "The...his famous elegiac poem, represents Arnold...Cromwell, A Prize Poem." To the shock...Reveller and Other Poems, the volume that...in 1858, and New Poems in 1867. His critical...in his most famous poem, Dover Beach. Written...
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Eminent Victorian

Magazine article by Michael Timko; World and I, Vol. 26, October 2011

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Poets--Appreciation, Poets--Works, Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron--Appreciation, Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron--Works

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...Tennyson: Eminent Victorian. by Michael Timko When one thinks about the Victorians, two figures immediately...representative of the Victorian age in poetry." It...Tennysons greatest poem, "In Memoriam...called the "mistitled" Poems by Two Brothers, and...one of the favorite poems of Queen Victoria who...Prince Albert. The poem also demonstrates why...although an eminent Victorian, is not bound by his...
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The Tramp of a Fly's Footstep or, the Shriek, Rattle, and Roar of a Victorian Sound Track

Magazine article by John M. Picker; American Scholar, Vol. 71, Spring 2002

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Auscultation--Appreciation, Microphones--Appreciation, Sound--Appreciation, United Kingdom

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...common-life" sounds of the Victorian city. Several publications...Trumpet" (1841), his comic poem about a peddlers sale of...technological discoveries, Victorians went a long way toward dispelling...bridge between Romantic and Victorian aural sensibilities, between...later. Though technically a Victorian work, the Ninth Bridgewater...better-known fragmentary poems of Byron and Shelley, Babbages...
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Amy Levy: A Tragic Victorian Novelist

Magazine article by Richard Whittington-Egan; Contemporary Review, Vol. 280, January 2002

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Levy, Amy--Conduct of life, Women authors--Conduct of life

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...was also gestating future poems, novels and essays of her...with a small pamphlet of poems, Xantippe and Other Verse. The title poem, which had already been printed...Poet and Other Verse. The poems are all sad, many about death...irony -- rare indulgence in a Victorian woman poet -- runs through...possibly from syphilis. The Victorians believed this to be a disease...

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Newspaper Articles on: victorian poems

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A Victorian Junkie to Make Even Ozzy Osbourne Blanch

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), January 22, 2010

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

A Victorian Junkie to Make Even Ozzy Osbourne Blanch...the Pharmacy Act of 1868, everyone in Victorian society was hallucinating fit to bust...Raphaelite paintings are so lush, why Victorian poems are so frenzied, and why their buildings...
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The House Where NOTHING Has Been Thrown Away for 120 Years; Wartime Rations in the Larder. Fifty-Year-Old Logs in the Grate. and Love Tokens for a Victorian Mistress under the Stairs. Welcome to ..

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), July 17, 2010

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Moore, Charlotte

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Grate. and Love Tokens for a Victorian Mistress under the Stairs...nature notes, memoirs, poems, stories, and thousands and...letters. The famously efficient Victorian postal system meant that a...Tree roots have cracked the Victorian pipes. The system needs major...
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Out of the Closet, the Confessions of a Victorian Wife

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), January 13, 1996

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Further investigation revealed a Victorian sex manual by Walter de Roos...the wardrobe were two erotic poems, apparently copied by hand...giving explicit accounts of a Victorian brides honeymoon experiences...I thought married women in Victorian times didnt enjoy sex but endured...
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Memories: Visions of a Victorian; A New Exhibition Looks at the Work of Pioneering Photographers in the 1800s

Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), November 24, 2007

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Art exhibitions--Exhibitions, Art--Exhibitions

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...the traditional image of the Victorian photographer is of a man disappearing...families to act out stories and poems at home. People would dress...shadows." All images in the Victorian Visions exhibition have been...Cameron is the lead image for the Victorian Visions exhibition
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Keeping Up with a Father Appearances of Suburbia; VICTORIAN TREASURES ON THE PIONEERING TRAIL OF WILLIAM MORRIS

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), May 12, 1996

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Father Appearances of Suburbia; VICTORIAN TREASURES ON THE PIONEERING...original style of the eminent Victorian and his collaborators has been...reading aloud his interminable poems, or fishing unsuccessfully...West London, owned by the Victorian Society, has lovely Morris...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: victorian poems

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Reese, Lizette Woodworth

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...1887), A Handful of Lavender (1891), A Quiet Road (1896), Spicewood (1920), and Selected Poems (1926). See her autobiographical Victorian Village (1929) and The York Road (1931). ____________________ Copyright...
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Stedman, Edmund Clarence

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...wrote his most significant works, Victorian Poets (1876) and The Poets of America...compiled the excellent collections A Victorian Anthology (1895) and An American Anthology (1900). See his Poems (1908...
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English Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...odes of William Collins , the poems of Thomas Gray, and the Scots...masterpieces of forgery the Ossian poems of James Macpherson and the "medieval" Rowley poems of Thomas Chatterton . The...his great autobiographical poem, "The Prelude" (1805 50...satirizing the romantics. The Victorian Age The Reform Bill of 1832...
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Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...The most famous poet of the Victorian age, he was a profound spokesman...Lady, composed at 14, and poems written with his brothers Frederick and Charles but entitled Poems by Two Brothers (1827...Tennyson wrote a prizewinning poem, Timbuctoo (1829), and Poems, Chiefly Lyrical (1830...
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Rossetti, Christina Georgina

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Publication of some of her poems in her brother Williams magazine...recluse in her home. Many of her poems are religious, some melancholy...is recognized as an important Victorian-era poet. Her simple songs...include Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862), probably her best...

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