Victorian Poetry

In a comprehensive and theoretically astute study, Armstrong rescues Victorian poetry from its images as a 'moralised form of romantic verse' and unearths its often subversive critique of nineteenth-century culture and politics.

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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.