Victorian Poetry - Poetry, Poetics and Politics (Hardcover, 2nd edition)

In this 2nd edition of her classic work Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics and Politics, Isobel Armstrong provides:

• a new preface that notes key directions in Victorian poetry criticism the turn to form, the turn to affect and the emotions, cosmopolitan and global impulses, and the attention to optical culture
• an afterword devoted to the Fin de Siecle, discussing Michael Field and Vernon Lee, the late epics of Swinburne and Morris, and a selection of Hardy lyrics
• a full bibliography for the last twenty years, taking into account in particular the work of Herbert Tucker, Yopie Prins, Cornelia Pearsall, Catherine Robson, Mike Sanders, Danny Karlin, Ana Vadillo and Marion Thain.