Victorian Poetry: An Annotated Anthology
Book Details
PublisherWiley-Blackwell
ISBN / ASIN0631234365
ISBN-139780631234364
AvailabilityUsually ships in 24 hours
Sales Rank1,091,812
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
Victorian Poetry: An Annotated Anthology is a fully annotated and illustrated collection of Victorian poetry.
- Features a generous selection of work by all the major figures of the age, including Matthew Arnold, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Alfred Tennyson, and Oscar Wilde
- Presents several long poems in their entirety, such as Arnold’s ‘Empedocles on Etna’, Clough’s Amours de Voyage, Meredith’s Modern Love and Tennyson’s In Memoriam AHH
- Each poet is introduced by a biographical headnote
- Each poem is introduced by a headnote giving publication details, biographical facts, contextual material, and other information
- The poems themselves are all fully annotated
- Extensive introductory material enables readers to read across the volume chronologically, thematically, or by individual author
- Features twelve black and white illustrations of images referred to in or relevant to the poetry
