Victorian Poetry
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1. Front matter2. GENERAL INTRODUCTION3. PREFACE4. Chapter I The Poet and His Age5. Chapter II Diction in English Poetry6. Chapter III The Problems of the Victorians7. Chapter IV Tennyson’s Diction8. Chapter V Browning’s Diction9. Chapter VI Tennyson’s Influence—The Diction of Arnold, Rossetti, Morris and Swinburne10. Chapter VII Browning’s Influence—R. H. Horne—Alfred Domett—T. E. Brown—Coventry Patmore11. Chapter VIII Conclusion of Part I12. Chapter I Intellectual Fashions13. Chapter II Subjective and Objective Poetry—Narrative Poetry—Macaulay—Morris—Poetic Drama14. Chapter III “The Idylls of the King”—Tennyson’s Critics—His Method—A Debatable Element in Tennyson’s Work—Moral Judgment in Poetry—Tennyson’s Public Authority15. Chapter IV The Range of Subject Matter in Victorian Poetry—The Occasional Element—Mrs. Browning—Christina Rossetti—FitzGerald—Spiritual Ecstasy16. Chapter V Love Poetry and the Victorian Use of Nature17. Chapter VI Conclusion18. INDEX