Poetics en passant: Redefining the Relationship between Victorian and Modern Poetry (Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters)

Poetics en passant presents a cross-Channel poetics to redefine the relationship between Victorian and Modern poetry. Reading Charles Baudelaire with—and against—Christina Rossetti, Jamison helps readers re-think the relationship of nineteenth-century poetry to modernity. A rich re-evaluation of poetic intersections emerges from this critical juxtaposition and shows how questions of gender, social and material context, place and poetic praxis spur debate and upend long-standing critical assumptions.