Whether "Victorian" poetry: a genre and its period.

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

WHITHER VICTORIAN POETRY? LINDA K. HUGHES'S SHREWDLY PHRASED question could not be timelier, since the academic field in question is one which has undergone so much change of late that it is highly appropriate to look closely at the various intellectual directions that research is currently taking. The diversifying contents of the last ten volumes of Victorian Poetry make it plain to see that there have been startling transformations in the academic study of English poetic works pr...

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