Beschreibung:
Faced with the chaos and banality of modern, everyday life, a number of Victorian poets sought innovative ways of writing about the unpoetic present in their verse. Their varied efforts are recognisably akin, not least in their development of mixed verse-forms that fused novel and epic to create something equal to the miscellaneousness of the age.
Faced with the chaos and banality of modern, everyday life, a number of Victorian poets sought innovative ways of writing about the unpoetic present in their verse. Their varied efforts are recognisably akin, not least in their development of mixed verse-forms that fused novel and epic to create something equal to the miscellaneousness of the age.
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
Notes
Works Cited
Index