Description
| Product ID: | 9780199556311 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Oxford Books of Prose & Verse |
| Title: | The New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse |
| Authors: | Author: Christopher Ricks |
| Page Count: | 688 |
| Subjects: | Poetry anthologies (various poets), Poetry anthologies (various poets), Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 , Literary studies: poetry & poets |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Christopher Ricks's celebrated anthology prsents a wonderfully varied collection of Victorian poetry, with 560 poems by 115 authors. With most poems given in their entirety, this is a lively and exciting anthology of Victorian verse selected by an expert in the field. A great age of poetry speaks for itself in Christopher Ricks''s celebrated anthology: the variety and power of Victorian verse, the innovation and creativity with which poets resisted the bad propensities of the era through which they lived. The great figures are of course strongly represented - Tennyson and Browning, Swinburne and Hopkins - but not so as to crowd out the less expected but equally rewarding facets of light verse and nonsense, of grotesque and protest. At long last justice is done to the poignant directness of ''the true voice of feeling'', from William Barnes and John Clare, through Emily Jane Bronte and Christina G. Rossetti, to Thomas Hardy. |
| Imprint Name: | Oxford University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Oxford University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2008-11-13 |
