Victorian Poetry 1 -- Intro with poems by R. Browning, Beddoes, Patmore, Meynell, C. Rossetti

Published: Jan. 18, 2023, 9:23 p.m.

b"First class on Victorian Poetry.\\xa0 The best and largest corpus of really good poetry in English -- really good because the novel is the bid for greatness now.\\xa0 But really good is\\xa0really good.\\xa0 The Victorians' relationship to some modernists (just a little) and to the Romantics, especially Shelley and Wordsworth, illustrated in poems by Robert Browning, Beddoes, Patmore, Meynell, and Christina Rossetti.\\xa0\\xa0\\nN.B. Text will be Christopher Ricks, ed.\\xa0New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse."