A great era of poetry speaks for itself in the acclaimed anthology by Christopher Ricks: the variety and strength of Victorian poetry, the innovation and creativity with which poets resisted the bad predispositions of their time.

The great creators are of course strongly present - Tennyson and Browning, Swinburne and Hopkins - but not in such a way as to overshadow the less expected yet equally rewarding aspects of light verse and nonsense, the dreadful and the protest. Finally, justice is served to the intense immediacy of the 'true voice of emotion', from William Barnes and John Clare, to Emily Jane Bronte and Christina G. Rossetti, culminating in Thomas Hardy.

Pages: 688, Dimensions: 12.9x12.9cm