Victorian poetry and modern life : the unpoetical age /

"Today it goes without saying that any and all aspects of life are open to poets to write about. In the middle of the nineteenth century, however, the proper subject matter for poetry was a controversial question. Should poets turn to the more congenial, more heroic, more malleable past for the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Moore, Natasha, 1983- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Series:	Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture.
Subjects:	English poetry > 19th century > History and criticism. Great Britain > Intellectual life > 19th century. Modernism (Literature) > Great Britain. LITERARY CRITICISM / General. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry.

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Introduction: A Poem of the Age
1. The Modern and the Everyday
2. The Long Narrative Poem
3. The Marriage Plot
4. The Uses of Genre
Ends
Postscript: Finding a form for modern love.