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Media type:
E-Book
Title:
Victorian Poetry and the Poetics of the Literary Periodical
Contains:
Frontmatter
Contents
List of Figures
Series Editor’s Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Poetry, Popularity and the Periodical Press
Chapter 1. Middle-Class Audiences, Literary Weeklies and the Inaugural Poem: Household Words, All the Year Round and Once a Week
Chapter 2. The New Shilling Monthlies: Macmillan’s Magazine and The Cornhill
Chapter 3. Devotional Reading and Popular Poetry in Good Words
Chapter 4. The Poetics of Popular Poetry in the Argosy
Conclusion: Where Do We Go From Here?
Appendix: Biographies of Significant Contributors, Illustrators and Publishers
Works Cited
Index
Description:
Redrawing the conventional map of Victorian PoeticsVictorian Poetry and the Poetics of the Literary Periodical offers an alternative history of Victorian poetry that asserts the fundamental importance of popular periodical poetry to our understanding of Victorian poetics. Reading the poetry of un-anthologised, unnamed and underappreciated poets alongside that of Tennyson, Barrett Browning and Rossetti, Ehnes argues that the popular poet is not a marginal poet: he, and especially she, occupies the centre of literary culture, producing the poetry consumed by the majority of Victorian readers.Key FeaturesProvides an invaluable index of the poetry published in the periodicalsIncludes brief biographic entries for each major figure discussedAnalyses periodicals including Macmillan’s Magazine, Charles Dickens’s Household Words and All the Year Round, Once a Week, William Thackeray’s Cornhill, the religious periodical Good Words, and the Argosy