Decadent Verse: An Anthology of Late-Victorian Poetry, 1872-1900

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This volume is both an essential resource for undergraduates and graduates studying Victorian and Decadent literature and an instructive work for enthusiastic readers of verse. The wide span of the 1872-1900 epoch enables readers to appreciate in great depth the literary developments that led to the fin de siecle, unlike most studies of this period, which focus solely on the 1890s, with no relation to cultural and historical developments in the previous two important decades.

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'It is a strength of "Decadent Verse" that it sets out to reconfigure the familiar precincts of Decadence by offering up a panoply of new (and old) poets as potential members of the movement.' -Jamie Horrocks, 'English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920' 'It is a strength of "Decadent Verse" that it sets out to reconfigure the familiar precincts of Decadence by offering up a panoply of new (and old) poets as potential members of the movement.' -Jamie Horrocks, 'English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920'

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Caroline Blyth teaches English at Royal Holloway, University of London, and is Visiting Fellow at St Edmund's College, Cambridge, where she was formerly Fellow and Director of Studies in English.