Victorian Poets and the Politics of Culture

Antony H. Harrison is a professor of English and the department head at North Carolina State University. He has authored or coedited many books, including Swinburne's Medievalism, Christina Rossetti in Context, Victorian Poets and Romantic Poems, and Victorian Poets and the Politics of Culture, and The Blackwell Companion to Victorian Poetry

"Antony Harrison's approach is quite special within the field of Victorian poetry. He resists treating poems as purely aesthetic objects; instead, he sees them as cultural artifacts and, as such, as participants in contemporary cultural discourses. His strength is his ability to keep an eye on the specific language of a poem and, simultaneously, on the larger cultural discourse in which it participates." - Linda Peterson, Yale University"