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- Title
E. C. Stedman and the Invention of Victorian Poetry.
- Authors
Cohen, Michael
- Abstract
Discusses the views of Edmund Clarence Stedman about the American writers' efforts in helping to create British poetic models as paradigms for American poetry by theorizing and defining Victorian poetry. Ideas of poetry and criticism; Foreign paradigm; Stedman's 1875 "Victorian Poets"; Review of the course of American poetry; Transatlantic interdependence of nineteenth-century poetry; First major synthetic treatments of Victorian poetry; Emergence of literary criticism as a profession; Significance of Stedman's theoretical book "The Nature and Elements of Poetry" (1892), along with the "Library of American Literature" series (1888-90).
- Subjects
STEDMAN, Edmund Clarence, 1833-1908; AMERICAN poetry; AMERICAN poets; 19TH century English literature; ENGLISH poets; ENGLISH poetry; VICTORIAN Poets (Book); NATURE &; Elements of Poetry (Book); VICTORIAN (Literary period)
- Publication
Victorian Poetry, 2005, Vol 43, Issue 2, p165
- ISSN
0042-5206
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1353/vp.2005.0022