Author:
Ehnes, Caley, author.
ImprintEdinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2019]
Imprint2019.
Descriptionxii, 238 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Note:Introduction: Poetry, popularity and the periodical press -- 1. Middle-class audiences, literary weeklies and the inaugural poem : household words, all the year round and once a week -- 2. New shilling monthlies : 'Macmillan's Magazine' and 'The Cornhill' -- 3. Devotional reading and popular poetry in 'Good Words' -- 4. Poetics of popular poetry in the 'Argosy' -- Conclusion: Where do we go from here? -- Appendix: Biographies of significant contributors, illustrators and publishers.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-228) and index.
Note:"'Victorian 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." -- From page [4] of cover.
Note:Recommended in Resources for College Libraries.
