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Christopher Rick's anthology succeeds triumphantly. (The Observer )
(Christopher Ricks) has done for Victorian poetry what Sir John Betjeman did for Victorian architecture. He has made it live again. (The Times )
A formidable volume. (Irish Times )
A masterly survey of a gigantic age, this anthology is indispensable. (Oxford Times )
(Christopher Ricks) has done for Victorian poetry what Sir John Betjeman did for Victorian architecture. He has made it live again. (The Times )
A formidable volume. (Irish Times )
A masterly survey of a gigantic age, this anthology is indispensable. (Oxford Times )
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A great age of poetry speaks for itself in Christopher Ricks's celebrated anthology: the variety and power of Victorian verse, the innovation and creativity with which poets resisted the bad propensities of the era through which they lived. The great figures are of course strongly represented - Tennyson and Browning, Swinburne and Hopkins - but not so as to crowd out the less expected but equally rewarding facets of light verse and nonsense, of grotesque and protest. At long last justice is done to the poignant directness of 'the true voice of feeling', from William Barnes and John Clare, through Emily Jane Bronte and Christina G. Rossetti, to Thomas Hardy.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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....for an exceptionally rich and generous volume of verse - generous in the ample selections of G.M. Hopkins, Hardy, Browning, etc, but also in the precious nuggets tucked in here and there, like the ghostly little poem by Andrew Lang. Christopher Ricks is an original and imaginative anthologist, but also meticulous and scholarly. The selection is based on strictly chronological criteria, all coming within Victoria's reign, and eloquently demonstrating that the choronology is often all the poets had in common; as Ricks points out in his brief but illuminating introduction, there was an extraordinary variety, ranging from dramatic monologues to nonsense, and we even have a lengthy extract from E.B. Browning's verse novel 'Aurora Leigh' - an excellent opportunity to sample it. All in all, another contribution to demolishing the anti-Victorian prejudice that led to so much vandalistic demolition in the last century. This was, after all, a time that saw a vast blossoming in literature and the arts - Baudelaire and Verlaine (who were evidently read by many of our Victorians), the great novels, symphonies, the luminous production of the impressionists - and there is much that is luminous and vital in this anthology, too.
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As an English Literature student this collection of Victorian poetry will be an invaluable book for my course and for study, as well as reading for pleasure. It contains 560 poems and even some of John Clare's poems which often seem to be omitted from the other collections and anthologies of Victorian poetry, even the excellent "Annotated Anthology". The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse is a wide ranging book with several poems which I have had difficulty finding. Excellent book for students and poetry lovers alike. In fact, it is a good book for anyone who enjoys reading.
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10 April 2000
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By far, one of the best poetry anthologies I own - and well worth the money. What's so wonderful about Ricks' anthology is it's attention to the greats of Victorian poetry, as well as highlighting some lesser-known poets, like Swinburne, Ruskin, John Henry Newman, and the not-so-widely read poetry of Hardy, Dickens, and Clough.
If you're a true fan of this era, you'll appreciate the attention payed to the big greats: Tennyson, Arnold, Hopkins, Browning, and the Rossettis.
I give this four-and-a-half stars, actually. There are no annotations in this anthology, which does make reading some of the poetry a bit difficult, especially for a newcomer to the genre/period.
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