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Victorian poetry and the culture of the heart

Kirstie Blair considers why and how the heart became a vital image in Victorian poetry, arguing that it highlights anxieties about the ability of poetry to act upon its readers. She covers poems by authors such as Tennyson and the Brownings and contextualises them with reference to lesser-known works

eBook, English, 2006
Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, Oxford, Oxford, 2006