Richard Cronin

Gebundenes Buch

Reading Victorian Poetry

Beschreibung

Reading Victorian Poetry offers close readings of poems from the Victorian era by a renowned scholar. The selection includes a range of canonical and lesser known writers
Skilfully conveys the breadth and diversity of nineteenth-century poetry
Offers an ideal balance of canonical and less well-known writers

Allows readers to explore the poetry of the Victorian era, through the eyes of one of the most renowned scholars in the field

Poets covered include Matthew Arnold, Emily Brontë, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Lewis Carroll, A. H. Clough, G. M. Hopkins, Edward Lear, Christina Rossetti, D. G. Rossetti, A. C. Swinburne, Arthur Symons, Alfred Tennyson, Oscar Wilde

Autor

Professor Richard Cronin lectures in nineteenth-century literature in the department of English Literature at the University of Glasgow. His publications include 1798: The Year of the Lyrical Ballads (1998), The Politics of Romantic Poetry: In Search of the Pure Commonwealth (2000), Romantic Victorians: English Literature, 1824-1840 (2000), A Companion to Victorian Poetry (co-edited with Antony H. Harrison and Alison Chapman, Blackwell, 2002), and Paper Pellets: British Literary Culture after Waterloo (2010).

Produktdetails

• Blackwell Reading Poetry
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 147mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781405193924
• ISBN-10: 1405193921
• Artikelnr.: 34549711

Rezensionen

"Richard Cronin's exceptionally fine book carries out just what its title promises - reading. The pleasure of his adroit, meticulously imaginative insights into verbal and metrical effects is constant ... One of the best general readings of Victorian poetry in the last ten years." Victorian Studies

"Reading Victorian Poetry will make an excellent introduction to Victorian poetry and gives a good account of a number of key issues." English Studies

"[A] compelling new critical survey of the period's poems ... Cronin's deft close readings enable ... shifts and juxtapositions, and the assured breadth of his knowledge and reference ... It is a definite strength of Cronin's approach that his own book's attempt to recover ways of appreciating and understanding Victorian poetry overlaps with the techniques Victorian poets themselves used to address and forestall their anxieties about the meaning and value of their work. [It] proves to be a good way of tuning in to the distinctive music of the Victorian poem." The Tennyson Society