Victorian Poetry

Victorian Poetry is a major re-evaluation of the genre by one of the foremost scholars of the period. In an exciting, uniquely comprehensive and theoretically astute work, Isobel Armstrong rescues Victorian poetry from its image as chocolate - box sentimentality. She unearths the often subversive critiques of nineteenth - century culture and politics. The poetry of working - class and female writers is compared to that of familiar figures such as Tennyson, Swinburne, Hopkins and Thomson.