Nineteenth-Century Poetry

Jonathan Herapath is College Chaplain and Tutor in English on the Sarah Lawrence Programme at Wadham College, Oxford, UK.Emma Mason is Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick, UK.

• Introduction, Emma MasonPart 1: PeriodizationIntroduction, Francis O’Gorman1. Preface to Poems, Matthew Arnold2. Romanticism as a "Modern Tradition", Robert Langbaum3. Poetry and its Times, Matthew Reynolds4. Rhythm and Will, Matthew Campbell5. E. C. Stedman and the Invention of Victorian Poetry, Michael C. CohenPart 2: ‘What is poetry?’Introduction, Rosie Miles6. A Defence of Poetry, P. B. Shelley7. What is poetry?, J. S. Mill8. Introduction, Eric Griffiths9. What kind of a critical category is "women’s poetry"?, Marion Thain10. Female Picturesque and Colonial Settings in the Gift Books, Serena BaiesiPart 3: PoliticsIntroduction, Ankhi Mukherjee11. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Angela Leighton12. Introduction, Isobel Armstrong13. Introduction, Mike Sanders14. Introduction, Matthew Bevis15. Introduction, Mary Ellis GibsonPart 4: ProsodyIntroduction, Natalie Hoffman16. XVIII: Language of Metrical Composition, S. T. Coleridge17. English Metrical Law, Coventry Patmore18. Investigation of Sound as Artistic Material, Sidney Lanier19. Prosody Wars, Meredith Martin20. Rhyme's End, Adela PinchPart 5: FormsIntroduction, Martin Dubois21. Poetics, E. S. Dallas22. Ancient or Modern, Ancient and Modern, J. R. Watson23. Introduction, Herbert Tucker24. The Sonnet and the Lyric Sequence, Joseph Phelan25. The Divided Self and the Dramatic Monologue, Richard CroninPart 6: Emotion, feeling, affectIntroduction: Emma Mason26. Preface to the Lyrical Ballads, William Wordsworth27. Lecture 1, John Keble28. The role and treatment of emotion in Victorian criticism of poetry, Isobel Armstrong29. Coleridge to Wilde, Adam Potkay30. Soul: Inside Hopkins, William CohenPart 7: ReligionIntroduction: Jonathan Herapath31. Tracts 80 and 87: On Reserve, Isaac Williams32. The Face of the Deep, Christina Rossetti33. Hopkins, J. Hillis Miller34. Robert Browning’s Sacred and Legendary Art, Charles LaPorte35. Introduction, Kirstie BlairPart 8: SexualityIntroduction, Stefano Evangelisto36. The Poetry of Sorrow, Manley Hopkins37. The Fleshly School of Poetry, Robert Buchanan38. Sexual Inversion: Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Havelock Ellis39. Wilde’s fatal effeminacy, Joseph Bristow40. Introduction, Yopie PrinsPart 9. ScienceIntroduction, Gregory Tate41. Science Versus Poetry, William Chambers and Robert Chambers42. Thoughts on a Pebble, or a First Lesson in Geology, G. A. Mantell43. Helmholtz, Tyndall, Gerard Manley Hopkins: Leaps of the Prepared Imagination, Gillian Beer44. Introduction, Jason Rudy45. Poetry and Science & Nature as Culture, Culture as Society, Ashton Nichols