Victorian poetry.
Contributors: Bradbury, Malcolm, 1932-; Palmer, David.
Series: Stratford-upon-Avon studies -- 15
Publisher: Edward Arnold; Crane,Russak
Published: 1972
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
Subjects: English poetry -- 19th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Table of contents: value: Gent, M. "To flinch from modern varnish": the appeal of the past to the Victorian imagination.; value: DeLaura, D. J. Matthew Arnold and the nightmare of history.; value: Harper, J. W. "Eternity our due": time in the poetry of Robert Browning.; value: Hunt, J. D. THe poetry of distance: Tennyson's Idylls of the King.; value: Buckley, J. H. Pre-Raphaelite past and present: the poetry of the Rossettis.; value: Ellison, R. C. "The undying glory of dreams": William Morris and the "Northland of old."; value: Preyer, R. "The fine delight that fathers thought": Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Romantic survival.; value: Goldman, A. The oeuvre takes shape: Yeats early poetry.; value: Miller, J. H. History as repetition in Thomas Hardy's poetry: the example of "Wessex heights."; value: Sage, L. Hardy, Yeats, and tradition.; value: Peckham, M. Afterword: reflections on historical modes in the nineteenth century.