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British literature of the Victorian period has always been celebrated for the quality, innovativeness, and sheer profusion of its love poetry. Every major Victorian poet produced notable poems about love. This includes not only canonical figures, such as Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Christina Rossetti, but also lesser-known poets whose works have only recently become widely recognized and studied, such as Augusta Webster and the many often anonymous working-class poets whose verses filled the pages of popular periodicals. Modern critics have claimed, convincingly, that love poetry is not just one strain of Victorian poetry among many; it is arguably its representative, even definitive, mode.
This collection of essays reconsiders the Victorian poetry of love and, just as importantly, of intimacy-a more inclusive term that comprehends not only romance but love for family, for God, for animals, and for language itself. Together the essays seek to define a poetics of intimacy that arose during the Victorian period and that continues today, a set of poetic structures and strategies by which poets can represent and encode feelings of love.
There exist many studies of intimate relations (especially marriage) in Victorian novels. But although poetry rivals the novel in the depth and diversity of its treatment of love, marriage, and intimacy, that aspect of Victorian verse has remained underexamined. Love among the Poets offers an expansive critical overview. With its slate of distinguished contributors, including scholars from the US, Canada, Britain, and Australia, the volume is a wide-ranging account of this vital era of poetry and of its importance for the way we continue to write, love, and live today.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Counting the Ways of Love in Victorian Poetry
Erik Gray and Pearl Chaozon Bauer
I. Dualities
Christina Rossetti's Echoes
Eros and the Victorian Double Poem
Stephanie L. Johnson
The Revival of Courtly Love, 1850-1870
Allegory, Anachronism, and Violence
Matthew Rowlinson
Love Charms
Herbert F. Tucker
The Erotics of Sprung Rhythm
Erik Gray
II. Courtship and Marriage
Love on the Factory Floor
Working-Class Poets and Factory Courtship Verse
Kirstie Blair
"All on the Threshold"
Christina Rossetti's Revisionary Epithalamia
Pearl Chaozon Bauer
The Mathematics of Marriage
Augusta Webster's Combinatory and Fractional Intimacy
Amy Kahrmann Huseby
III. Beyond Erotic Intimacy
Intimacy and the Neologistic Imagination in Hardy and Hopkins
Veronica Alfano
The Secret History of the Sonnet
The Poetics of Maternal Love in Augusta Webster's Mother and Daughter
Josie Billington
The Poetics of Cross-Species Love
Julia F. Saville
Yeats's Intimacies
Francis O'Gorman
Contributors
Index
