Victorian Poetry Now: Poets, Poems and Poetics (Wiley by Valentine Cunningham
By Valentine Cunningham
- Valentine Cunningham shows encyclopedic wisdom of the poetry produced during this interval and provides surprising shut readings of a few recognized poems
- Draws at the paintings of significant Victorian poets and their works in addition to some of the much less recognized poets and poems
- Reads poems and poets within the gentle of either Victorian and glossy serious concerns
- Places poetry in its own, aesthetic, ancient, and ideological context
- Organized when it comes to the Victorian anxieties of self, physique, and melancholy
- Argues that rhyming/repetition is the foremost formal function of Victorian poetry
- Highlights the Victorian obsession with small topics in small poems
- Shows how Victorian poetry makes an attempt to have interaction with the fashionable topic and the way its modernity segues into modernism and postmodernism
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