Victorian Poetry

This review offers appreciation and understanding of Victorian poetry by one of the leading scholars of the period. Isobel Armstrong re-evaluates the genre from the midst of contemporary critical debate.

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In a work that is uniquely comprehensive and theoretically astute, Isobel Armstrong rescues Victorian poetry from its longstanding sepia image as `a moralised form of romantic verse', and unearths its often subversive critique of nineteenth-century culture and politics.