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The verse of Charles Dickens /

The Verse of Charles Dickens reveals Charles Dickens's complex, tortured relationship from 1830 to 1870 with the form and function of verse, a highly influential literary medium in the nineteenth century. Renowned as a prose writer, not as a poet, Dickens's various engagements with the gen...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 (Author)
Other Authors: Craig, Lydia (Editor), Middleton, Emily (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2025]
Subjects:
Dickens, Charles, > 1812-1870 > Criticism and interpretation.
English poetry > 19th century.
Poésie anglaise > 19e siècle.
Poetry.
Literary criticism.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Dickens as Poet
  • The Autograph Albums of Maria and Anne Beadnell
  • O'Thello (1833-4)
  • The Autograph Album of Ellen Beard
  • The Autograph Album of Anna Maria Carter Hall
  • The Strange Gentleman (1836)
  • The Village Coquettes (1836)
  • The Autograph Album of Georgina Ross
  • The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (1836-7)
  • Is She His Wife? Or, Something Singular! (1837)
  • The Lamplighter (1838)
  • The Autograph Album of Priscilla Horton
  • The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-1)
  • Martin Chuzzlewit (1843-4)
  • The Autograph Album of Christiana Weller
  • The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In (December 1844)
  • The Autograph Album of Henry Riley Bradbury
  • Dombey and Son (1846-8)
  • Songs Incidental to the Character of 'Tom Thumb', as Represented by Mr H (6 January 1854)
  • The Lighthouse (May 1855)
  • The Frozen Deep (1856)
  • Unknown Autograph Album
  • Little Dorrit (1855-7)
  • Great Expectations (1860-1)
  • 'Romance. From the Pen of Lieutenant-Colonel Robin Redforth', Holiday Romance, Our Young Folks (March 1868)
  • The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870)
  • Appendix A: Poems Attributed to Charles Dickens
  • Appendix B: Poems Potentially Authored by Charles Dickens
  • Appendix C: Poems Incorrectly Attributed to Charles Dickens.