The Major Victorian Poets

First published in 1969, this edition collection brings together a series of essays offering a re-evaluation of Victorian poetry in the light of early 20th Century criticism.

Isobel Armstrong

1. Patterns of Morbidity: Repetition in Tennyson's Poetry Martin Dodsworth 2. Feminism and Femininity in The Princess Bernard Bergonzi 3. Matter-Moulded Forms of Speech: Tennyson's Use of Language in In Memoriam Alan Sinfield 4. The Lyric Structure of Tennyson's Maud A. S. Byatt 5. Browning and the 'Grotesque' Style Isobel Armstrong 6. The Importance of Sordello Michael Mason 7. Browning's 'Modernity': The Ring and the Book, and Relativism John Killham 8. The Ring and the Book: The Uses of Prolixity Isobel Armstrong 9. Matthew Arnold and the Passage of Time: A Study of The Scholar-Gipsy and Thyrsis Philip Drew 10. The Importance of Arnold's Merope Gabriel Pearson 11. Clough's Self-Consciousness Barbara Hardy 12. Amours de Voyage: The Aqueous Poem John Goode 13. G. M. Hopkins: Victorian A. R. Jones