Redrawing the conventional map of Victorian Poetics
Victorian Poetry and the Poetics of the Literary Periodical
offers an alternative history of Victorian poetry that asserts the fundamental importance of popular periodical poetry to our understanding of Victorian poetics. Reading the poetry of un-anthologised, unnamed and underappreciated poets alongside that of Tennyson, Barrett Browning and Rossetti, Ehnes argues that the popular poet is not a marginal poet: he, and especially she, occupies the centre of literary culture, producing the poetry consumed by the majority of Victorian readers.
Key Features
Provides an invaluable index of the poetry published in the periodicalsIncludes brief biographic entries for each major figure discussedAnalyses periodicals including
Macmillan’s Magazine
, Charles Dickens’s
Household Words
and
All the Year Round
,
Once a Week
, William Thackeray’s
Cornhill
, the religious periodical
Good Words
, and the
Argosy
each as separate case study