{"product_id":"the-new-oxford-book-of-victorian-verse-oxford-books-of-verse","title":"The New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse (Oxford Books of Verse)","description":"One of the great ages of poetry speaks for itself in this compendious anthology: the variety and power of Victorian verse  the innovation and creativity with which poets both reflected and resisted the attitudes of their era are keenly demonstrated. The New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse brings out in its introduction by Christopher Ricks  and brings home in its selections that the old pleasure of condescending to Victorian poetry is paltry in comparison with the ever-new pleasures of being delighted  moved  and touched by it. Ricks shows how misguided this narrow and pejorative view of Victorianism has been  affecting our conception of the kind of poetry appropriate to the age. By taking a simple definition of Victorian verse  as that written during the reign of Victoria  he demonstrates what a great variety of poetry and poets the period produced. Dramatic monologue  nonsense verse  light verse  nature poetry  and the \"poetry of feeling \" were all written at this time; and alongside such great figures as Browning  Tennyson  Swinburne and Hopkins  we also find the likes of Thomas Hardy  Emily Bronte  John Clare  Matthew Arnold  William Barnes  Oscar Wilde  and Edward Lear. An unprecedented feature of the anthology is the respect shown to the integrity of the 560 poems: poems are here printed in their entirety  excerpts being made only of those lines to which the poet gave a distinct autonomy. And four substantial masterpieces are reproduced in full: Lewis Carrolls The Hunting of the Snark  Edward Fitzgeralds Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam  Christina G. Rossettis Goblin Market  and Arthur Hugh Cloughs superb verse-novel of love  society  and revolution  Amours de Voyage.","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44653235863605,"sku":"ByrdShop_0192141546","price":36.42,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/ByrdShop_0192141546_e1014429-5071-4db7-8c83-db33f8fc05f0.jpg?v=1770687812","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-new-oxford-book-of-victorian-verse-oxford-books-of-verse","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}