Mid-Victorian Poetry, 1860-1879

Mid-Victorian Poetry, 1860-1879
Author: Catherine Reilly
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 583
Release: 2000-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0720123186

These two volumes list late-and mid-Victorian poets, with brief biographical information and bibliographical details of published works. The major strength of the works is the 'discovery' of very many minor poets and their work, unrecorded elsewhere.

The Blank-Verse Tradition from Milton to Stevens

The Blank-Verse Tradition from Milton to Stevens
Author: Henry Weinfield
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2012-06-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1107025400

Blank verse has been central to English poetry since the Renaissance, most famously in Shakespeare's plays and in Paradise Lost. Henry Weinfield's detailed readings of the masterpieces of English blank verse focus on Milton, Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson and Stevens, tracing what lies behind their choice of form.

A Study of the Place of Women in the Poetry and Prose Works of John Milton

A Study of the Place of Women in the Poetry and Prose Works of John Milton
Author: David N. Dickey
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2000
Genre: Women and literature
ISBN: 9780773477308

This study outlines the origins of Milton's idiosyncratic ambivalence towards woman and charts its developmental character in and out of poetry and prose. It includes an introductory survey of influential critical opinion on the subject, including feminist readings.