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National Poetry Month: Victorian

National Poetry Month is in April. This guide provides resources available for your research and for leisure reading.

Female poets

Christina Rossetti: the poetry of endurance by Dolores Rosenblum
Call Number: PR 5238.R813
Publication Date: 1987
Essays and studies, 2003: Victorian Women Poets by Alison Chapman (Editor)
Call Number: PR 13.E58 n.s. v.56
Publication Date: 2005
Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 1932
Also held in print: PR 4189.A1 1932

Poetry of the Victorian Period

The shorter poems of Robert Browning by Robert Browning
Call Number: PR 4202.D48
Publication Date: 1934
Arnold's Poetic Landscapes by Alan Roper
Call Number: PR 4024.R78
Publication Date: 1987-06-01
The Lady of Shalott by Alfred Lord Tennyson; Charles Keeping (Illustrator)
Call Number: PR 5563.L15 1986
Publication Date: 1987
Hopkins Re-Constructed: life, poetry, and the tradition by Justus George Lawler
Call Number: PR 4803.H5 Z716
Publication Date: 2000
Complete Works of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde; Merlin Holland (Introduction by)
Call Number: PR 5810.H65 2003
Publication Date: 2003-08-04
Collected Poetry and Prose by Dante Gabriel Rossetti; Jerome McGann (Editor)
Call Number: PR 5242.M38
Publication Date: 2003-06-10
The poetry of Thomas Hardy by James Granville Southworth
Call Number: PR 4754.S72
Publication Date: 1947

Crtiticism

Victorian Poets and the Changing Bible by Charles LaPorte
Call Number: PR 595.R4 L37 2011
Publication Date: 2011
Sex and Marriage in Victorian Poetry by Wendell S. Johnson
Call Number: PR 469.S5 J66
Publication Date: 1975
The Culture of Christina Rossetti: female poetics and Victorian contexts by Mary Arseneau; Antony H. Harrison (Contribution by); Lorraine Janzen Kooistra (Contribution by)
Call Number: PR 5238.C85
Publication Date: 1999