Many of the greatest love poems in English date from the Victorian period, yet this is the first scholarly book in decades to consider the whole range of Victorian love poetry by authors such as Christina Rossetti, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Augusta Webster, Thomas Hardy, and William Butler Yeats. It includes contributions by many of the leading scholars of Victorian poetry.
Many of the greatest love poems in English date from the Victorian period, yet this is the first scholarly book in decades to consider the whole range of Victorian love poetry by authors such as Christina Rossetti, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Augusta Webster, Thomas Hardy, and William Butler Yeats. It includes contributions by many of the leading scholars of Victorian poetry.
Acknowledgments Introduction Counting the Ways of Love in Victorian Poetry Erik Gray and Pearl Chaozon Bauer I. Dualities Christina Rossetti’s Echoes Eros and the Victorian Double Poem Stephanie L. Johnson The Revival of Courtly Love, 1850–1870 Allegory, Anachronism, and Violence Matthew Rowlinson Love Charms Herbert F. Tucker The Erotics of Sprung Rhythm Erik Gray II. Courtship and Marriage Love on the Factory Floor Working-Class Poets and Factory Courtship Verse Kirstie Blair “All on the Threshold” Christina Rossetti’s Revisionary Epithalamia Pearl Chaozon Bauer The Mathematics of Marriage Augusta Webster’s Combinatory and Fractional Intimacy Amy Kahrmann Huseby III. Beyond Erotic Intimacy Intimacy and the Neologistic Imagination in Hardy and Hopkins Veronica Alfano The Secret History of the Sonnet The Poetics of Maternal Love in Augusta Webster’s Mother and Daughter Josie Billington The Poetics of Cross-Species Love Julia F. Saville Yeats’s Intimacies Francis O’Gorman Contributors Index
Acknowledgments Introduction Counting the Ways of Love in Victorian Poetry Erik Gray and Pearl Chaozon Bauer I. Dualities Christina Rossetti’s Echoes Eros and the Victorian Double Poem Stephanie L. Johnson The Revival of Courtly Love, 1850–1870 Allegory, Anachronism, and Violence Matthew Rowlinson Love Charms Herbert F. Tucker The Erotics of Sprung Rhythm Erik Gray II. Courtship and Marriage Love on the Factory Floor Working-Class Poets and Factory Courtship Verse Kirstie Blair “All on the Threshold” Christina Rossetti’s Revisionary Epithalamia Pearl Chaozon Bauer The Mathematics of Marriage Augusta Webster’s Combinatory and Fractional Intimacy Amy Kahrmann Huseby III. Beyond Erotic Intimacy Intimacy and the Neologistic Imagination in Hardy and Hopkins Veronica Alfano The Secret History of the Sonnet The Poetics of Maternal Love in Augusta Webster’s Mother and Daughter Josie Billington The Poetics of Cross-Species Love Julia F. Saville Yeats’s Intimacies Francis O’Gorman Contributors Index
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