Victorian poetry.
Series: Stratford-upon-Avon studies,; 15
Publisher: Edward Arnold
Published: 1972
Place of publication: [London]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
Subjects: English poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Table of contents: title: Gent, M. "To flinch from modern varnish": the appeal of the past to the Victorian imagination.; title: DeLaura, D. J. Matthew Arnold and the nightmare of history.; title: Harper, J. W. "Eternity our due": time in the poetry of Robert Browning.; title: Hunt, J. D. The poetry of distance: Tennyson's Idylls of the King.; title: Buckley, J. H. Pre-Raphaelite past and present: the poetry of the Rossettis.; title: Ellison, R. C. "The undying glory of dreams": William Morris and the "Northland of old."; title: Preyer, R. "The fine delight that fathers thought.": Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Romantic survival.; title: Goldman, A. The oeuvre takes shape: Yeats early poetry.; title: Miller, J. H. History as repetition in Thomas Hardy's poetry: the example of "Wessex heights."; title: Sage, L. Hardy, Yeats, and tradition.; title: Peckham, M. Afterword: reflections on historical modes in the nineteenth century.