1st Edition

Routledge Revivals: English Poetry in the Later Nineteenth Century (1933)

By B. Ifor Evans Copyright 1933
514 Pages
by Routledge

514 Pages
by Routledge

514 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1933, this study, which underwent revision in the 1960s, is a comprehensive survey of the verse of English nineteenth-century poets whose work appeared after 1860. A special feature is the full and critical treatment of minor writers. In no other book is their work so carefully evaluated. There is a full account of the minor Pre-Raphaelites, of James Thomson, the poet of The... Read more

Preface

Introduction

1. Dante Gabriel Rossetti

2. Algernon Charles Swinburne

3. Christina Georgina Rossetti

4. William Morris

5. Minor Pre-Raphaelite Poets

6. Coventry Patmore and Allied Poets: Coventry Patmore, Francis Thomson, and Mrs. Alice Meynell

7. George Meredith

8. Thomas Hardy

9. James Thomson

10. Robert Bridges and His Associates

11. Gerard Manley Hopkins

12. Lighter Verse

13. Minor Poets: I 1

4. Minor Poets: II

15. William Ernest Henley and Robert Louis Stevenson

16. John Davidson

17. Oscar Wilde, Ernest Dowson, Lionel Johnson, and the Poetry of the Eighteen-Nineties

18. Rudyard Kipling

19. Alfred Edward Housman

Notes

Index.

 

Biography

B. Ifor Evans