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Book SynopsisVictorian Poets: A Critical Reader features a collection of critical essays focusing on various aspects of Victorian-era poetry from the 1830s to the 1890s.
Table of ContentsContributors vii
Introduction 1
1 The Echo and the Mirror en abîme in Victorian Poetry 15
Gerhard Joseph
2 The Mirror's Secret: Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Double Work of Art 27
J Hillis Miller
3 Browning's Anxious Gaze 46
Ann Wordsworth
4 The Pragmatics of Silence, and the Figuration of the Reader in Browning's Dramatic Monologues 56
Jennifer A Wagner-Lawlor
5 Dramatic Monologue and the Overhearing of Lyric 75
Herbert F Tucker
6 Matthew Arnold's Gipsies: Intertextuality and the New Historicism 95
Antony Harrison
7 A New Radical Aesthetic: The Grotesque as Cultural Critique: Morris 118
Isobel Armstrong
8 Alienated Majesty: Gerard M Hopkins 143
Geoffrey Hill
9 Fact and Tact: Arnoldian Fact-finding and Q Tactlessness in the Reading of Gerard Hopkins 160
Valentine Cunningham
10 'A Thousand Times I'd be a Factory Girl': Dialect, Domesticity, and Working-Class Women's Poetry in Victorian Britain 174
Susan Zlotnick
11 'The fruitful feud of hers and his': Sameness, Difference, and Gender in Victorian Poetry 199
Dorothy Mermin
12 'Eat me, drink me, love me': The Consumable Female Body in Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market 221
Mary Wilson Carpenter
13 Browning's Corpses 243
Carol T Christ
14 A E Housman and 'the colour of his hair' 255
Christopher Ricks
15 Tennyson's 'Little Hamlet' 268
David G Riede
16 The Disappointment of Christina G Rossetti 286
Eric Griffiths
17 Stirring 'a Dust of Figures': Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Love 316
Angela Leighton
18 'Love, let us be true to one another': Matthew Arnold, Arthur Hugh Clough and 'our Aqueous Ages' 333
Joseph Bristow
19 'Poets and lovers evermore': The Poetry and Journals of Michael Field 358
Chris White
20 Swinburne at Work: The First Page of 'Anactoria' 380
Timothy A J Burnett
21 Naming and Not Naming: Tennyson and Mallarmé 390
Mary Ann Caws and Gerhard Joseph
Index 411
