Victorian Poetry

About this eBook

Author

Drinkwater, John, 1882-1937

Original Publication

United States: George H. Doran Company,1924.

Credits

Charlene Taylor, Karin Spence and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

PR: Language and Literatures: English literature

Subject

English poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism

Category

Text

eBook-No.

67894

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67894

Release Date

April 21, 2022

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.Untitled
3. 3.VICTORIAN POETRY
4. 4.Untitled
5. 5.Untitled
6. 6.GENERAL INTRODUCTION
7. 7.PREFACE
8. 8.CONTENTS
9. 9.Part I : THE MANNER OF VICTORIAN POETRY — Chapter I The Poet and His Age
10. 10.Chapter II Diction in English Poetry
11. 11.Chapter III The Problems of the Victorians
12. 12.Chapter IV Tennyson’s Diction
13. 13.Chapter V Browning’s Diction
14. 14.Chapter VI Tennyson’s Influence—The Diction of Arnold, Rossetti, Morris and Swinburne
15. 15.Chapter VII Browning’s Influence—R. H. Horne—Alfred Domett—T. E. Brown—Coventry Patmore — INVISIBLE SIGHTS
16. 16.Chapter VIII Conclusion of Part I
17. 17.Part II: THE MATERIAL OF VICTORIAN POETRY
18. 18.Chapter I Intellectual Fashions
19. 19.Chapter II Subjective and Objective Poetry—Narrative Poetry—Macaulay—Morris—Poetic Drama
20. 20.Chapter III “The Idylls of the King”—Tennyson’s Critics—His Method—A Debatable Element in Tennyson’s Work—Moral Judgment in Poetry—Tennyson’s Public Authority
21. 21.Chapter IV The Range of Subject Matter in Victorian Poetry—The Occasional Element—Mrs. Browning—Christina Rossetti—FitzGerald—Spiritual Ecstasy
22. 22.Chapter V Love Poetry and the Victorian Use of Nature
23. 23.Chapter VI Conclusion
24. 24.INDEX — FOOTNOTES:

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