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“VICTORIAN” POETRY AT THE PRESENT TIME

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 2008

Linda M. Shires*
Affiliation:
Syracuse University

Extract

Since our categories of thought produce what they claim to categorize, how are we conceptualizing Victorian Poetry today and what is the Victorian poetry we are producing? The two journal volumes and online essays under review, Victorian Poetry Spring 2004 (42.1) and Winter 2003 (41.4) and Literary Compass: Victorian online 2003–2004, feature discussions about the field's identity and new directions, while appraising where it has been. It is useful to see how recent books by Constance Hassett, Amy Billone, Ana Parejo Vadillo, Helen Groth, E. Warwick Slinn, and David Riede might be located in this larger moving picture.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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