The Facts on File Companion to British Poetry, 19th Century (Electronic book text)

The Facts On File Companion to British Poetry: 19th Century is a new encyclopedic guide to the 19th-century authors, poetry, historical places, and themes common to this literary period. This essential A-to-Z reference boasts a comprehensive and accessible format.

Coverage includes:

-Poets, including the great romantics and Victorians, as well as Rudyard Kipling, Robert Louis Stevenson, W.B. Yeats, and many more

-Major poems and books of poetry, such as "Ode to the West Wind" by Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

-Important movements in poetry, such as romanticism and the Pre-Raphaelite poetry

-Influential journals

-Terms and concepts, such as sublime and negative capability.