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Author Roberts, Adam (Adam Charles)

Title Romantic and Victorian long poems : a guide / Adam Roberts
Published Aldershot, Hants, England ; Brookfield, Vt. : Ashgate, [1999]
©1999

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Description 223 pages ; 25 cm
Summary "This study is the first to provide detailed and wide-ranging accounts of all of the varieties of long poem - epic, romance, verse-novel and sequences - published in the Romantic and Victorian periods. From famous works (The Prelude, In Memoriam, The Ring and the Book) to lesser-known marvels (Erasmus Darwin's The Loves of the Plants or Edward Lytton's King Poppy: a story without an end), this study provides a detailed book-by-book precis, relevant contextual information, biographical entries on authors and critical entries on the categories of long poem. A critical introduction examines why it was that the long poem was so central to Romantic and Victorian art and why 'epic' remains one of the weightiest modes of writing."--BOOK JACKET
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [218]-219) and indexes
Subject English poetry -- 19th century -- Encyclopedias.
English poetry -- 19th century -- Bibliography.
Epic poetry, English -- Encyclopedias.
Epic poetry, English -- Bibliography.
Narrative poetry, English -- Encyclopedias.
Narrative poetry, English -- Bibliography.
Poets, English -- 19th century -- Biography -- Dictionaries.
Genre/Form Encyclopedias.
Biographies.
Dictionaries.
LC no. 99018600
ISBN 1859281567 (alk. paper)