Victorian Poetry in Context offers a lively and accessible introduction to the diverse range of poetry written in the Victorian period. Considering such issues

Introduces the poetry of the Victorian era (including writers like Browning, Rossetti and Tennyson) and its social, cultural and political contexts.

In a work that is uniquely comprehensive and theoretically astute, Isobel Armstrong rescues Victorian poetry from its longstanding sepia image as `a moralised f

This book provides an introduction to Victorian poetry, and will interest scholars and students alike.

An overview of British poetry from 1830 to 1901, with a glossary of literary terms and guide to further reading.