TY - BOOK ID - 78139071 TI - Victorian scrutinies: reviews of poetry, 1830-1870. PY - 1972 SN - 1281783463 9786611783464 0567136744 9780567136749 9780485111316 0485111314 9781281783462 6611783466 PB - London : Athlone Press, DB - UniCat KW - English poetry KW - Poetry, Modern KW - Poetry KW - History and criticism KW - English poetry - 19th century - History and criticism UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78139071 AB - In the years covered by this volume high Victorian poetry reached it's prolific peak and stimulated a corresponding abundance of critical comment. As poets turned to new themes and new modes of presenting them, critics sought to redifine the function of poetry in their time and nowhere with greater immediacy and sense of the cultural issues at stake than in the periodicals. Two occasions when discussion was particularly lively - in relation to Tennyson's early poems and Arnold's 1853 Preface - are here used by Dr. Armstrong as focal points and with them in mind she has selected and annotated t ER -