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 Features
- Provides an invaluable index of the poetry published in the periodicals
- Includes brief biographic entries for each major figure discussed
- Analyses 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 each as separate case study
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