This study considers why and how the heart became a vital image in Victorian poetry. It argues that the intense focus on heart imagery in the period highlights

Victorian Poetry in Context offers a lively and accessible introduction to the diverse range of poetry written in the Victorian period. Considering such issues

Explores work of Felicia Hemans, L.E.L. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon), Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christine Rossetti, Augusta Webster, Michael Field, Alice Meynel

Many people in Great Britain and the United States can recall elderly relatives who remembered long stretches of verse learned at school decades earlier, yet mo