First published in 1969, this edition collection brings together a series of essaysnbspoffering a nbspre-evaluation ofnbspVictorian poetry in the light of early 20th Century criticism.nbsp
This volume presents the work of Barbara Hardy's essays encompassing 19th and 20th centuries British fiction, poetry, and Shakespeare. It also presents a short biography of her and an extensive bibliography of her work.
In this 2nd edition of her classic work Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics and Politics, Isobel Armstrong provides a new preface that notes key directions in Victorian poetry criticism, an afterword devoted to the Fin de Siècle, and a full bibliography for the last twenty years.
Poetry Poets and Politics. 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.