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<p>Contributors vii</p> <p>Introduction 1</p> <p>1 The Echo and the Mirror en abîme in Victorian Poetry 15<br /><i>Gerhard Joseph</i></p> <p>2 The Mirror's Secret: Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Double Work of Art 27<br /><i>J Hillis Miller</i></p> <p>3 Browning's Anxious Gaze 46<br /><i>Ann Wordsworth</i></p> <p>4 The Pragmatics of Silence, and the Figuration of the Reader in Browning's Dramatic Monologues 56<br /><i>Jennifer A Wagner-Lawlor</i></p> <p>5 Dramatic Monologue and the Overhearing of Lyric 75<br /><i>Herbert F Tucker</i></p> <p>6 Matthew Arnold's Gipsies: Intertextuality and the New Historicism 95<br /><i>Antony Harrison</i></p> <p>7 A New Radical Aesthetic: The Grotesque as Cultural Critique: Morris 118<br /><i>Isobel Armstrong</i></p> <p>8 Alienated Majesty: Gerard M Hopkins 143<br /><i>Geoffrey Hill</i></p> <p>9 Fact and Tact: Arnoldian Fact-finding and Q Tactlessness in the Reading of Gerard Hopkins 160<br /><i>Valentine Cunningham</i></p> <p>10 'A Thousand Times I'd be a Factory Girl': Dialect, Domesticity, and Working-Class Women's Poetry in Victorian Britain 174<br /><i>Susan Zlotnick</i></p> <p>11 'The fruitful feud of hers and his': Sameness, Difference, and Gender in Victorian Poetry 199<br /><i>Dorothy Mermin</i></p> <p>12 'Eat me, drink me, love me': The Consumable Female Body in Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market 221<br /><i>Mary Wilson Carpenter</i></p> <p>13 Browning's Corpses 243<br /><i>Carol T Christ</i></p> <p>14 A E Housman and 'the colour of his hair' 255<br /><i>Christopher Ricks</i></p> <p>15 Tennyson's 'Little Hamlet' 268<br /><i>David G Riede</i></p> <p>16 The Disappointment of Christina G Rossetti 286<br /><i>Eric Griffiths</i></p> <p>17 Stirring 'a Dust of Figures': Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Love 316<br /><i>Angela Leighton</i></p> <p>18 'Love, let us be true to one another': Matthew Arnold, Arthur Hugh Clough and 'our Aqueous Ages' 333<br /><i>Joseph Bristow</i></p> <p>19 'Poets and lovers evermore': The Poetry and Journals of Michael Field 358<br /><i>Chris White</i></p> <p>20 Swinburne at Work: The First Page of 'Anactoria' 380<br /><i>Timothy A J Burnett</i></p> <p>21 Naming and Not Naming: Tennyson and Mallarmé 390<br /><i>Mary Ann Caws and Gerhard Joseph</i></p> <p>Index 411</p>

<p><b>Valentine Cunningham</b> is Professor of English Language and Literature, Oxford University, and Senior Research Fellow in English, Corpus Christi College, Oxford. His publications include <i>Reading After Theory</i> (2002), <i>Victorian Poetry Now: Poets, Poems, Poetics</i> (2011) and <i>King Lear:  the Connell Guide</i> (2012).</p>

<p>Heirs to the idealized world of the Romantics, darker themes emerged in the era of the Victorians. <i>Victorian Poets: A Critical Reader</i> features a collection of thought-provoking critical essays focusing on various aspects of Victorian-era poetry from the 1830s to the 1890s. Featuring contributions from a variety of distinguished scholars, the essays illustrate the wide range of innovative critical approaches to this extraordinary body of poetry and poetics, including attention to texts, words, forms, modes, and sub-genres. A variety of reinterpretations and critical reassessments is presented, driven by contemporary ideological interests, including questions of gender, selfhood, and body issues. The essays also reveal theoretical approaches informed by structuralism, post-structuralism, and deconstruction.</p>

<p>"A judiciously made and vigorously introduced gathering of the most telling voices in modern Victorian poetry criticism. Valentine Cunningham's selection, wide and diverse, will be an excellent first stop for the savvy student of the period."<br /> <i>—</i><b>Seamus Perry, University of Oxford</b></p> <p> </p>

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