Victorian Verse: A Critical Anthology (Penguin Classics)

By George MacBeth

From Tennyson's "Charge of the Light Brigade" to Arnold's "Dover Beach", works from all of the great victorian poets are collected in this anthology, which features a short biography on each poet and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140421106
• ISBN13: 9780140421101
• Release Date: September 1986
• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.0" x 1.0" x 7.0"

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.