The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry

Notes on contributors Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations Note on the texts Chronology of publications and events Chronology of poets 1. Reforming Victorian poetry: poetics after 1832 Joseph Bristow 2. "The Lady of Shalott" and the critical fortunes of Victorian poetry Kathy Alexis Psomiades 3. Experimental form in Victorian poetry E. Warwick Slinn 4. The dramatic monologue Cornelia D. J. Pearsall 5. Victorian meters Yopie Prins 6. Victorian poetry and historicism Hilary Fraser 7. Victorian poetry and science Daniel Brown 8. Victorian poetry and religious diversity Cynthia Scheinberg 9. The Victorian poetess Susan Brown 10. The poetry of Victorian masculinities Thaïs E. Morgan 11. Aesthetic and decadent poetry Karen Alkalay-Gut 12. Victorian poetry and patriotism Tricia Lootens 13. Voices of authority, voices of subversion: poetry in the late nineteenth century John Lucas Glossary Guide to further reading Index.