THE relative importance of the same thing at different times opens long vistas of inquiry. When William Jones Hoppin of Providence and New York found himself dining in London on a November evening of ...

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{{youtube:medium|wMO8627aE60, Meyers discusses the process of publishing online "The Poetry of Sidney A. Alexander."}} It was the mention of the 1887 Newdigate Prize for poetry that first caught Terry ...

It's a handle Algernon Charles Swinburne would probably relish. He loved to push opposites to the point where they would meet--where pain becomes pleasure, where love becomes hate. But it's been ...

The Victorian period was a time of tremendous poetic experiment. Browning and Tennyson are credited with inventing the dramatic monologue, and innovations in the verse novel and the epic by Barrett ...

Nettie Palmer’s ’s 1916 poem, Birds, was a love song from a wife to a soldier-husband. photographer unknown. State Library of Victoria Just as fiction’s George Smiley made sense of the world - and ...

Not many periods in history are as at odds with themselves as England’s Victorian era, when contradiction was the norm, and—were you a poet—the basis of a heady challenge. In a time of prosperity and ...

If asked to picture the Victorian poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892), a reader is likely to imagine an old man with an enormous beard wearing a Spanish cape and black sombrero. The widely ...

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Explore the historical, societal and literary influences on Victorian poetry with this short lesson. Focusing on the Brontës, the Brownings and Tennyson, you can use this resource to build upon ...