Victorian Verse, the Penguin Book of

By Various and Editor MacBeth, George

Book Overview

Daniel Karlin has selected poetry written and published during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901). Giving pride of place to Tennyson Robert Browning and Christina Rossetti the volume offers generous selections from other major poets such asArnold Emily Bronte Hardy and Hopkins and makes room for several poem-sequences in their entirety. It is wonderful too in its discovery and inclusion of eccentric dissenting un-Victorian voices poets who squarely refuse to 'represent' their period. It also includes the work of Elizabeth Barrett Browning George Meredith James Thomson and Augusta Webster.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140445781
• ISBN13: 9780140445787
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Length: 928 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 5.1" x 7.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher

Customer Reviews

Not to yield

For the non-expert in Victorian poetry there is a rich and varied selection. Not only the heart of Victorian poetry, that is Browning and Tennyson, but also those whose place is really before but lived in the period as Wordsworth and those whose place is after but had their beginnings there, as Yeats. There are many names and poems of those whose work is not much read today. There is however also Meredith's full Sonnet sequence, and a considerable amount of Elizabeth Barret Browning, and Rossetti. I conclude the review with favorite lines of mine from my favorite Victorian Poem, Tennyson's 'Ulysses' "Thou much is taken/much abides/ And thou we are not that strength/which moved Heaven/That which we are we are/ One equal temper of heroic hearts/ Made weak by time and fate/But strong in will/To strive, to seek, to find/And not to yield.