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Introduction: The Place of Victorian Poetry Victorian Poetry (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 John B. Lamb
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Introduction: The Place of Victorian Poetry John B. Lamb “The future of poetry is immense.” So claimed Matthew Arnold in “The Study of Poetry” originally published in 1880 as the general introduction to The English Poets, edited by T. H. Ward. Arnold went on to encourage his readers to “conceive of [poetry] as capable of higher uses, and
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Keeping Faith in Victorian Poetry Victorian Poetry (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Erik Gray
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Keeping Faith in Victorian Poetry Erik Gray (bio) I felt honored to be one of the young scholars invited in 2003 to contribute to the special issue of this journal, “Whither Victorian Poetry?” on the current and future state of the field. Taking its title from Tennyson, my essay, “A Bounded Field: Situating Victorian Poetry in the Literary
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Reflections on Twenty Years in Victorian Poetry Victorian Poetry (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Stephanie Kuduk Weiner
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reflections on Twenty Years in Victorian Poetry Stephanie Kuduk Weiner (bio) When I received the invitation to contribute to this special issue, I did three things. Inspired by John Lamb’s idea, borrowed from Tim Ingold, that “we know as we go, not before we go,” I diagrammed my journey as a scholar and teacher over the last twenty years
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Victorian Women's Poetry and the Near-Death Experience of a Category Victorian Poetry (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Lee O'Brien
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Victorian Women’s Poetry and the Near-Death Experience of a Category Lee O’Brien (bio) Whatever we plan, the future will deal with it in its own way. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak In her introduction to “Whither Victorian Poetry?” Linda K. Hughes formulated the purpose of the special edition as a collective endeavor to “conceive and reconfigure
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Undisciplining Art Sisterhood Victorian Poetry (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Michele Martinez
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Undisciplining Art Sisterhood Michele Martinez (bio) When asked to contribute to “Whither Victorian Poetry?” in 2003, I was fortunate to benefit from feminist scholarship that sought to understand the networks of support and collaboration between Romantic and Victorian women poets and visual artists.1 Additionally, cultural studies on
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Photography, Novelty, and Victorian Poetry Victorian Poetry (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Helen Groth
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Photography, Novelty, and Victorian Poetry Helen Groth (bio) Returning to my essay—“Consigned to Sepia: Remembering Victorian Poetry”—takes me back to a significant moment in the history of Victorian poetry criticism. It was a moment crystallized in many ways by Isobel Armstrong’s generative provocation to think Victorian poetry anew in
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Poetry, Politics, Possibilities Victorian Poetry (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Monique R. Morgan
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Poetry, Politics, Possibilities Monique R. Morgan (bio) My title is meant both as an homage to the subtitle of Isobel Armstrong’s foundational study, Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics, Politics, and as an evocation of the possibilities this group of scholars saw twenty years ago and those we see today. In preparing to write this essay
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Reaching Wider: Anecdotes from a Victorianist in the Australian Archive Victorian Poetry (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Jason Rudy
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reaching Wider: Anecdotes from a Victorianist in the Australian Archive Jason Rudy (bio) Twenty years ago, when asked where the field of Victorian poetry was headed, my answer focused on methodology and a term—“cultural neoformalism”—that seemed useful in situating my own doctoral work in relation to the field.1 I was just young enough
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Women and Light Verse: On May Kendall Victorian Poetry (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Lee Behlman
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Women and Light Verse: On May Kendall Lee Behlman (bio) Several years ago, I wrote in Victorian Poetry about the long history and shifting critical conceptions of light verse, or what for much of the nineteenth century was called vers de société.1 This was verse typically set in a refined social milieu, with a male speaker, and having
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Reading Victorian Poetry as the World Burns Victorian Poetry (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Marion Thain
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reading Victorian Poetry as the World Burns Marion Thain (bio) I write this in summer 2023 as an unprecedented heatwave burns up nearby southern Europe and beyond. Climate change has become a frightening reality in data that has already, this year, provided evidence of endless “firsts” or “highests.” In this context, why read Victorian
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Analog Intelligence Victorian Poetry (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Andrew M. Stauffer
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Analog Intelligence Andrew M. Stauffer (bio) Twenty summers, with the length of twenty long winters: it’s a little epoch, the two decades that have passed since the “Whither Victorian Poetry?” issue appeared. Back then, I stressed the importance of physical books and their place within our institutions and our field, with a weather eye
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Victorian Poetry in an Age of Cultural Secularization Victorian Poetry (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Charles LaPorte
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Victorian Poetry in an Age of Cultural Secularization Charles LaPorte (bio) Twenty years ago, as a graduate student about to test the academic job market, I was thrilled to be invited to speculate about the future of Victorian poetry alongside a set of brilliant early-career scholars. Looking back on that special issue today as a middle-aged
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Whithering: Or 'Tis Twenty Years Since Victorian Poetry (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Linda K. Hughes
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Whithering: Or ’Tis Twenty Years Since Linda K. Hughes (bio) I open by paying tribute to John Lamb, the outgoing editor of Victorian Poetry, who suggested the idea—a brilliant one—for this special issue back in 2022. The collected essays it gathers comprise a fitting capstone to his editorship of Victorian Poetry from 2005 to 2023. This
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Contributors Victorian Poetry (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-25
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Contributors Lee Behlman (behlmanl@montclair.edu) is a Professor of English at Montclair State University. He co-edited the collections Victorian Verse: The Poetics of Everyday Life (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) with Olivia Loksing Moy, and Victorian Literature: Criticism and Debates (Routledge, 2016) with Anne Long-muir. He has published
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Love in a Time of Extinction: Poetic Category and Temporal Impasse in Robert Browning's "Love Among the Ruins" Victorian Poetry (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 John McBratney
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Love in a Time of Extinction: Poetic Category and Temporal Impasse in Robert Browning’s “Love Among the Ruins” John McBratney (bio) As the first poem in Men and Women (1855), Robert Browning’s “Love Among the Ruins” sets the main theme for the collection, establishing (so it seems) in its final line—“Love is best”—a scale of value in heterosexual
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"The child's sob in the silence curses deeper": Language of Voice and Dialogue of Reform in Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "The Cry of the Children" Victorian Poetry (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Reilly L. Fitzpatrick
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: “The child’s sob in the silence curses deeper”: Language of Voice and Dialogue of Reform in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “The Cry of the Children” Reilly L. Fitzpatrick (bio) Like many of her literary contemporaries, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and her poetic work have been reevaluated in recent years to determine whether her status as
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Unique Forms of Ekphrasis: The Keepsake and the Illustrative Poetry of the Literary Annuals Victorian Poetry (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Michael Carelse
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Unique Forms of Ekphrasis: The Keepsake and the Illustrative Poetry of the Literary Annuals Michael Carelse (bio) Introduction The poems that appear alongside engravings in the literary annuals of the 1820s–1850s have frequently been described as “ekphrastic” works, in that they describe the engravings they accompany.1 However, the term
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General Materials Victorian Poetry (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Albert D. Pionke
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: General Materials Albert D. Pionke (bio) This year’s survey of general materials features four monographs and one substantial chapter from a broader genre history. All are committed to positioning Victorian poetry relative to its many predecessors—from gothic fictions and forms, to Enlightenment debates about speech, to classical Greek
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning Victorian Poetry (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Beverly Taylor
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Elizabeth Barrett Browning Beverly Taylor (bio) Once again, the most important contribution this year to EBB studies is a new volume of The Brownings’ Correspondence (Wedgestone Press, 2023). With volume 29 of the series, gathering the Brownings’ correspondence for February 1861 through November 1861, general editor Philip Kelley and his
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Robert Browning Victorian Poetry (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Suzanne Bailey
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Robert Browning Suzanne Bailey (bio) Romantic legacies, Browning and Orientalism, Browning’s language and poetic practice, gender, and materialist approaches to Browning’s poetry are some of the themes that emerge in publications on Browning this year. A new book on the Brownings and the Shelleys by Reiko Suzuki suggests a novel perspective
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Thomas Hardy Victorian Poetry (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Galia Benziman
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Thomas Hardy Galia Benziman (bio) Aspects of language, sound, and poetic form, alongside themes related to evolution, animals, and posthumanism, continued to engage critics of Thomas Hardy’s poetry this year. Hardy’s numerous intertextual relations and poetic influence were also an ongoing object of interest. Gender, marriage, and their
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Gerard Manley Hopkins Victorian Poetry (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Veronica Alfano
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Gerard Manley Hopkins Veronica Alfano (bio) Last year’s Hopkins scholarship provided a pleasing balance between close attention to the subtleties of the poet’s language and wide-ranging claims about his legacy. Emma Mason’s article “Reading Christian Experience” (Modern Language Quarterly 83, no. 4 [2022]: 521–537) is provocative and powerfully
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Dante Rossetti, Pre-Raphaelitism, and the Morris Circle Victorian Poetry (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Florence Boos
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Dante Rossetti, Pre-Raphaelitism, and the Morris Circle Florence Boos (bio) Dante G. Rossetti and Pre-Raphaelitism The year 2022 was a banner year for articles placing Dante Rossetti’s poetry in relation to the sister arts of music and painting. Several of these have been conveniently gathered in a special issue of the Journal of Victorian
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Algernon Charles Swinburne Victorian Poetry (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Justin A. Sider
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Algernon Charles Swinburne Justin A. Sider (bio) In these pages, a little over a decade ago, Alan Young-Bryant joked aptly that Algernon Charles Swinburne was “the most neglected recovered poet of the period” (“Swinburne: ‘The Sweetest Name,’” VP 49, no. 3 [2011]: 301). He meant that our narrow vision of the poet stinted the sheer scope
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Tennyson Victorian Poetry (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Linda K. Hughes
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Tennyson Linda K. Hughes (bio) No book-length study of Alfred Tennyson appeared during 2022, but The Crimean War in Victorian Poetry by Tai-Chun Ho (Peter Lang, 2021) offers sustained engagement with Tennyson’s poetry. This sociohistorical, intertextual literary study considers the troubled role of the noncombatant poet (or “armchair”
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Victorian Women Poets Victorian Poetry (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Heather Bozant Witcher
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Victorian Women Poets Heather Bozant Witcher (bio) What does it mean to read, analyze, and interpret poetry at varying scales? In 2018, Natalie Houston showed how humanities research problematizes questions of scale and noted that “[f]or Victorian studies, the problems of innumerable things and how to interpret them manifest doubly as
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Going Back and Going On: The Uses of Re-encounter Victorian Poetry (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Dominique Gracia, Fergus McGhee
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Going Back and Going On: The Uses of Re-encounter Dominique Gracia (bio) and Fergus McGhee (bio) The world,” wrote Robert Browning, “is not to be learned and thrown aside, but reverted to and relearned.”1 Browning’s words insist on the enduring interest of the disowned objects of our encounters, but they also hint at the value of re- encounter
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Christ Among the Decadents: Re-encountering Religion in Edwin Arnold's The Light of the World Victorian Poetry (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Joshua Brorby
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Christ Among the Decadents: Re-encountering Religion in Edwin Arnold’s The Light of the World Joshua Brorby (bio) In 1879, Edwin Arnold completed the poem that would make him famous, his epic life of Gau ta ma Bud dha, The Light of Asia. Published in over thirty editions in the first six years of its existence, Arnold’s bestseller constitutes
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"Having dared to touch with bloody hands the verses": Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Embodied Approach to the Homeric Corpus Victorian Poetry (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Allison Scheidegger Reising
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: “Having dared to touch with bloody hands the verses”: Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Embodied Approach to the Homeric Corpus Allison Scheidegger Reising (bio) In an 1845 letter to Anne Thomson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (hereafter EBB) expresses serious reservations about the value of classical learning, particularly for women: the Greek
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Ghostly Selves in Augusta Webster's Poetry Victorian Poetry (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Andrea Selleri
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Ghostly Selves in Augusta Webster’s Poetry Andrea Selleri (bio) And now it seems a jest to talk of me / as if I could be one with her.”1 Thus Eulalie, the high-end prostitute featured in Augusta Webster’s most famous poem, “A Castaway,” thinking about herself as she was as a young girl. Eulalie has stumbled on a philosophical and existential
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Hopkins Unselved Victorian Poetry (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Jack L Hart
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Hopkins Unselved Jack L Hart (bio) In a well-known note, Hopkins identifies a characteristic he terms “Parnas-sian.” This “language of verse,” he says, “can only be written spoken by poets”; it is “ wrspoken on and from the level of a poet’s mind.” Resisting the fickleness of “inspiration,” this “Parnassian” way of composing relies on
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On Peacocks: Feathered Re-encounters in the 1890s Victorian Poetry (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Mark Llewellyn
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: On Peacocks: Feathered Re-encounters in the 1890s Mark Llewellyn (bio) Introduction: Devouring the Bird In January 1914, a group of modernists, including William Butler Yeats and Ezra Pound, ate a peacock at an honorary dinner for the Victorian poet Wilfred Scawen Blunt. As recounted in Lucy McDiarmid’s Poets & the Peacock Dinner (2014)
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Understanding Media with L.E.L.: Women Poets, New Media, and the Petrarchan Gaze Victorian Poetry (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Christie Debelius
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Understanding Media with L.E.L.: Women Poets, New Media, and the Petrarchan Gaze Christie Debelius (bio) At the beginning of Letitia Elizabeth Landon’s “The Improvisatrice” (1824), the poem’s titular speaker— a talented painter and poet-performer— sings of her first painting, a representation of the meeting between the Italian poet Petrarch
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Contributors Victorian Poetry (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-09-25
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Contributors Joshua Brorby (jmbh38@missouri.edu) is a visiting assistant professor of English at the University of Missouri, where he teaches courses in Victorian literature and critical theory. His current manuscript in progress focuses on the sensual style of comparative religious writing and the fluidity of identity as imagined in instances
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Named Places in Lear's Limericks Victorian Poetry (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Thomas Dilworth
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Named Places in Lear's Limericks Thomas Dilworth (bio) The first-published and largest portion of Edward Lear's "nonsense" is his limericks. They have remained in print since first publication, have long been popular, and are now eliciting a surge in Lear criticism.1 Commentators have begun to analyze them rigorously as discreet works
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Keble Quoting: Citations, Invention, and Poetry Victorian Poetry (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Ash Faulkner
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Keble Quoting:Citations, Invention, and Poetry Ash Faulkner (bio) A boy tries to cut the sunlight with his knife—and succeeds, and puts the sunlight in his pocket. Some time later, a rainbow takes on human form on a beach in Sicily, and looks me right in the eye. Such moments give life and structure to the lectures of John Keble. In tracing
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Dissonant Poetics in George Eliot's "A College Breakfast Party" Victorian Poetry (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Hee Eun Helen Lee
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Dissonant Poetics in George Eliot's "A College Breakfast Party" Hee Eun Helen Lee (bio) The Scots critic John Skelton spoke for many subsequent Victorian poetry critics when in Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country he dismissed George Eliot's first volume of poetry, The Spanish Gypsy (1868), as a mere curiosity, a prose writer's labored
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Haunting Voices: Thomas Hardy's Boer War Poetry Victorian Poetry (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Tai-Chun Ho
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Haunting Voices:Thomas Hardy's Boer War Poetry Tai-Chun Ho (bio) Having completed eleven war poems intended for the forthcoming volume Poems of the Past and the Present (November 1901), Thomas Hardy told Florence Henniker in a letter on Christmas Eve 1900: "I am happy to say that not a single one is Jingo or Imperial—a fatal defect according
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Project Muse: Ernest Dowson and "the Right Type of Girl" Victorian Poetry (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Robert Stark
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Project Muse:Ernest Dowson and "the Right Type of Girl" Robert Stark (bio) Remember, if you can,Not him who lingers, but that other man,Who loved and sang, and had a beating heart,— (Ernest Dowson, "In Tempore Senectutus" c. October 26, 1892) Aside from the innocuous sonnet "My Lady April," Ernest Dowson selected only poems written after
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Introduction: Poetry and the Victorian Visual Imagination Victorian Poetry (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Jill R. Ehnenn, Heather Bozant Witcher
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Introduction:Poetry and the Victorian Visual Imagination Jill R. Ehnenn (bio) and Heather Bozant Witcher (bio) What might it mean to "see" poetry of the nineteenth century? Certainly, it might mean an act of generic visibility: reorienting conceptions of the Victorian age as equivalent to the rise of the novel to reconsider the centrality
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Seeing Inversnaid: Gerard Manley Hopkins, "Inversnaid," and the Ecological Eye Victorian Poetry (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Kate Flint
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Seeing Inversnaid:Gerard Manley Hopkins, "Inversnaid," and the Ecological Eye Kate Flint (bio) inversnaid This darksome burn, horseback brown,His rollrock highroad roaring down,In coop and in comb the fleece of his foamFlutes and low to the lake falls home. A windpuff-bonnet of fáwn-fróth 5Turns and twindles over the brothOf a pool so
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Verse Arabesque Victorian Poetry (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Ewan Jones
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Verse Arabesque Ewan Jones (bio) In the long list of things that John Ruskin did not like, Raphael's Vatican loggias come near the top: "Raphael's arabesque," he writes in the third volume of The Stones of Venice, "is mere elaborate idleness. It has neither meaning nor heart in it; it is an unnatural and monstrous abortion."1 In condemning
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"Thunders of White Silence": Racialized Ways of Seeing and "Hiram Powers' Greek Slave" Victorian Poetry (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Tricia Lootens
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: "Thunders of White Silence":Racialized Ways of Seeing and "Hiram Powers' Greek Slave" Tricia Lootens (bio) Victorian poetry, visuality, race, racialization: where better to explore these topics' convergence than in this special issue of Victorian Poetry? Now, as students of Victorian studies are increasingly challenging disciplinary traditions
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"A larger vision": William Blake, Phoebe Anna Traquair, and the Visual Imagination in EBB's Sonnets from the Portuguese Victorian Poetry (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Clare Broome Saunders
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: "A larger vision":William Blake, Phoebe Anna Traquair, and the Visual Imagination in EBB's Sonnets from the Portuguese Clare Broome Saunders (bio) In the 1888 essay "English Poetesses," Oscar Wilde considers that the chief qualities of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's1 work is its "sincerity and strength" and hails EBB as "an imperishable
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Christina Rossetti's Sing-Song: Three Illustrators, Three Readings of Image and Text Victorian Poetry (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Isobel Armstrong
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Christina Rossetti's Sing-Song:Three Illustrators, Three Readings of Image and Text Isobel Armstrong (bio) How does one think about an illustrated poem? Does the illustration belong to the poem or the poem to the illustration? The etymological derivation of "illustration" is from Latin illustrare—il + lustrare—to shed light, to illuminate
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Poetry and the Visual Dynamics of Race in the West Indian Readers Victorian Poetry (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Casie Legette
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Poetry and the Visual Dynamics of Race in the West Indian Readers Casie Legette (bio) This essay takes as its object of study the West Indian Readers, a set of Caribbean schoolbooks first published in the 1920s and reprinted throughout the twentieth century. Though these texts may seem an unlikely choice for an analysis of poetry and the
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Disabled Visions: Eugene Lee-Hamilton, Physical Disability, and Poetic Identity in the Later Victorian Imagination Victorian Poetry (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Heather Tilley
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Disabled Visions:Eugene Lee-Hamilton, Physical Disability, and Poetic Identity in the Later Victorian Imagination Heather Tilley (bio) In the 1860s–1870s, a curious phenomenon dubbed "railway spine" exposed ruptures in the mid-Victorian male psyche. Hundreds of people claimed debilitating illnesses resulting from shock experienced in railway
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"The passion-flower at the gate": Tennyson's Poetry in the "Annals" of Julia Margaret Cameron Victorian Poetry (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Michele Martinez
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: "The passion-flower at the gate":Tennyson's Poetry in the "Annals" of Julia Margaret Cameron Michele Martinez (bio) Whereas the title "Annals of My Glass House" might suggest a multivolume history of an artist, the text is a twenty-seven-hundred-word essay by the celebrated Victorian photographer Julia Margaret Cameron. "Annals" was written
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Contributors Victorian Poetry (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-23
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Contributors Isobel Armstrong is Emeritus Professor of English (Geoffrey Tillotson Chair) at Birkbeck, University of London, Senior Research Fellow of the Institute of English Studies, a Fellow of the British Academy and International Scholar of the American Academy. Over the past few years, she has taught at Harvard, the Bread Loaf School
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Victorian Poetry Index: Volume 60, 2022 Victorian Poetry (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-23
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Victorian Poetry IndexVolume 60, 2022 193 Veronica Alfano Socializing Maud: Tennyson's Recitations 547 Isobel Armstrong Christina Rossetti's Sing-Song: Three Illustrators, Three Readings of Image and Text 215 Mary Arseneau The Victorian Salon and Pre-Raphaelite Melopoetics 521 Clare Broome Saunders "A larger vision": William Blake
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Locomotive Breath: The Living Machines and Railway Dreams of Alexander Anderson's Working-Class Verse Victorian Poetry (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-03-18 Ethan Taylor Stephenson
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Locomotive Breath:The Living Machines and Railway Dreams of Alexander Anderson's Working-Class Verse Ethan Taylor Stephenson (bio) By the turn of the twentieth century, the British railway system had left its mark on both the landscape and the literary imagination.1 The proliferation of rail lines and new railway technologies, what Wolfgang
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"I trust that I am a Liberal": The Politics and Poetics of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Early Antislavery Verse Victorian Poetry (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-03-18 Jerome S. Wynter
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: "I trust that I am a Liberal":The Politics and Poetics of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Early Antislavery Verse Jerome S. Wynter (bio) In 1821, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861, hereafter EBB) wrote in her autobiographical essay "Glimpses of My Own Character and Life": "I trust that I am a Liberal for bigotry and prejudice I detest
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Gerard Manley Hopkins in Dialogue with Felicia Hemans Victorian Poetry (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-03-18 Harriet Kramer Linkin
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Gerard Manley Hopkins in Dialogue with Felicia Hemans Harriet Kramer Linkin (bio) Gerard Manley Hopkins spent three of his most fruitful years at St. Bueno's College near St. Asaph in Wales (1874–1877), where he not only completed the studies that resulted in his ordination but also began to write poetry again, after a silence that commenced
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General Materials Victorian Poetry (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-03-18 Albert D. Pionke
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: General Materials Albert D. Pionke (bio) This year's survey of general materials features chapters from four books. These three edited collections and one monograph position Victorian poets and poetry with respect to the particular writerly legacies of Byron and Keats and the broader scientific and artistic developments in medicine and
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning Victorian Poetry (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-03-18 Beverly Taylor
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Elizabeth Barrett Browning Beverly Taylor (bio) The latest volume of The Brownings' Correspondence (Wedgestone, 2022) is once again the greatest boon of the year to Browning scholarship. The delay of volume 28, covering correspondence from both Brownings in the period spanning May 1860–February 1861, caused by a change in printers, kept
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Robert Browning Victorian Poetry (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-03-18 Suzanne Bailey
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Robert Browning Suzanne Bailey (bio) Philip Kelly, Edward Hagan, and Linda M. Lewis's new volume 28 of The Brownings' Correspondence has been several years in the making and offers one of the more intriguing glimpses into the Brownings' lives. We hear more of Robert Browning's voice in the surviving letters from this period and can follow
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Thomas Hardy Victorian Poetry (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-03-18 Galia Benziman
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Thomas Hardy Galia Benziman (bio) Major themes in Thomas Hardy's work that had occupied critics for generations continued to generate interest among scholars in the past year and a half. As always in Hardy studies, motifs related to the evocation of the past in the present attracted much attention. The critical focus on the impact of living
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Gerard Manley Hopkins Victorian Poetry (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-03-18 Adrian Grafe
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Gerard Manley Hopkins Adrian Grafe (bio) Hopkins the metaphysician takes center stage in several recent studies of the poet—and rightly so. Hopkins's Oxford education, scholastic training as a Jesuit, serendipitous discovery of Duns Scotus, and speculative interest in metaphysics combine to make him the most philosophically engaged poet
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D. G. Rossetti and William Morris Victorian Poetry (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-03-18 Florence Boos
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: D. G. Rossetti and William Morris Florence Boos (bio) D. G. Rossetti Last year's publications on Dante Rossetti and William Morris were fewer than usual, but nonetheless in aggregate, these offer new insights and approaches. For Rossetti, Fergus McGhee's "Rossetti's Giorgione and the Victorian 'Cult of Vagueness' " (Cambridge Quarterly
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Swinburne Victorian Poetry (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-03-18 Justin A. Sider
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Swinburne Justin A. Sider (bio) At the end of Ezra Pound's querulous review of Edmund Gosse's biography of Algernon Charles Swinburne, he concludes his own portrait of the poet—alternately admiring and exasperated—with this summary: "At any rate we can, whatever our verbal fastidiousness, be thankful for any man who kept alive some spirit