Notes on contributors
Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Note on the texts
Chronology of publications and events
Chronology of poets
1. Reforming Victorian poetry: poetics after 1832 Joseph Bristow
2. 'The Lady of Shalott' and the critical fortunes of Victorian poetry Kathy Alexis Psomiades
3. Experimental form in Victorian poetry E. Warwick Slinn
4. The dramatic monologue Cornelia D. J. Pearsall
5. Victorian meters Yopie Prins
6. Victorian poetry and historicism Hilary Fraser
7. Victorian poetry and science Daniel Brown
8. Victorian poetry and religious diversity Cynthia Scheinberg
9. The Victorian poetess Susan Brown
10. The poetry of Victorian masculinities Thaïs E. Morgan
11. Aesthetic and decadent poetry Karen Alkalay-Gut
12. Victorian poetry and patriotism Tricia Lootens
13. Voices of authority, voices of subversion: poetry in the late nineteenth century John Lucas
Glossary
Guide to further reading
Index.
