Period pains: the changing body of Victorian poetry.

From: Victorian Poetry | Date: March 22, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

THE BIGGEST SINGLE CHANGE TO THE BODY OF VICTORIAN POETRY IN THE LAST fifteen years has come from the long overdue restoration of women poets to the canon. So profound and far-reaching are the implications of this change that the subject can never again be viewed as it was during most of the twentieth century. The subject itself has metamorphosed, it has grown up, it has gone through its menarche. My student years in the 1960s, first in Australia and then at Oxford, saw Victorian poetry defined as a syllabus and therefore as a subject almost entirely within the parameters of men's ...

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