The New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse - Softcover

Ricks, Christopher

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0192827782 ISBN 13: 9780192827784

Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks, 1990

Synopsis

The New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse

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Review

...almost everywhere you turn in Mr Ricks's selection you are likely to be struck by the scope of Victorian poetry, by its humour, musicality, and most of all its frank appeal to the feelings and emotional power.' ObserverThis is an anthology that serious people can take seriously. It is not a candle flame in a ruined garden and night, but a reliable searchlight.' SpectatorIt is a magnificent piece of imaginative editing, a book to give real excitement and pleasure.' The Times ...almost everywhere you turn in Mr Ricks's selection you are likely to be struck by the scope of Victorian poetry, by its humour, musicality, and most of all its frank appeal to the feelings and emotional power.' Observer This is an anthology that serious people can take seriously. It is not a candle flame in a ruined garden and night, but a reliable searchlight.' Spectator It is a magnificent piece of imaginative editing, a book to give real excitement and pleasure.' The Times ...almost everywhere you turn in Mr Ricks's selection you are likely to be struck by the scope of Victorian poetry, by its humour, musicality, and most of all its frank appeal to the feelings and emotional power.' Observer This is an anthology that serious people can take seriously. It is not a candle flame in a ruined garden and night, but a reliable searchlight.' Spectator It is a magnificent piece of imaginative editing, a book to give real excitement and pleasure.' The Times ...almost everywhere you turn in Mr Ricks's selection you are likely to be struck by the scope of Victorian poetry, by its humour, musicality, and most of all its frank appeal to the feelings and emotional power.' ObserverThis is an anthology that serious people can take seriously. It is not a candle flame in a ruined garden and night, but a reliable searchlight.' SpectatorIt is a magnificent piece of imaginative editing, a book to give real excitement and pleasure.' The Times

Synopsis

This anthology displays the variety and power of Victorian verse, and the innovation and creativity with which poets resisted the bad propensities of the era through which they lived. The great figures are strongly represented - Tennyson and Browning, Swinburne and Hopkins - but not so as to crowd out the equally rewarding facets of light verse and nonsense, of grotesquerie and protest. Justice is done to the poignant directness of "the true voice of feeling", from William Barnes and John Clare, through Emily Jane Bronte and Christina G. Rossetti, to Thomas Hardy. An unprecedented feature of the anthology is the respect shown to the integrity of the 560 poems: poems are here printed in their entirety, excerpts being made only of those units to which the poet gave a distinct autonomy. Four substantial masterpieces are reproduced in full: Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark", Edward FitzGerald's "Rubiyat of Omar Khayyam", Christina G. Rossetti's "Goblin Market" and Arthur Hugh Clough's superb verse-novel of love ,society and revolution, "Amours de Voyage".

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0192827782
• ISBN 13: 9780192827784
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 688