Victorian Poetry and the Culture of the Heart (Oxford English Monographs)
Victorian Poetry and the Culture of the Heart is a significant and timely study of nineteenth-century poetry and poetics. It considers why and how the heart became a vital image in Victorian poetry, and argues that the intense focus on heart imagery in many major Victorian poems highlights anxieties in this period about the ability of poetry to act upon its readers.
Each volume of Poetry for Students provides analysis of approximately 20 poems that teachers and librarians have identified as the most frequently studied in literature courses. Some of the poems covered in this volume include:
Each volume of Poetry for Students provides analysis of approximately 20 poems that teachers and librarians have identified as the most frequently studied in literature courses. Some of the poems covered in this volume include:
"Bidwell Ghost" by Louis Erdrich "Last Request (Exactly What Happened)" by Joel Brouwer "In the Suburbs" by Louis Simpson "Courage" by Anne Sexton "She Walks in Beauty" by Lord Byron And more
Each volume of Poetry for Students provides analysis of approximately 20 poems that teachers and librarians have identified as the most frequently studied in literature courses. Some of the poems covered in this volume include:
"Birches" by Robert Frost "Blood Oranges" by Lisel Mueller "For the White Poets Who Would be Indians" by Wendy Rose "I Felt a Funeral in My Brain" by Emily Dickinson "Leda and the Swan" by William Butler Yeats And more
Each volume of Poetry for Students provides analysis of approximately 20 poems that teachers and librarians have identified as the most frequently studied in literature courses. Some of the poems covered in this volume include:
"The Base Stealer" by Robert Francis "Filling Station" by Elizabeth Bishop "Having a Coke with You" by Frank O'Hara "The Lamb" by William Blake "The Rape of the Lock" by Alexander Pope And more
