Victorian Poetry

by Paul Driver (editor)

Victorian Poetry - bk1368; Penguin Books; Paul Driver; pocket_book; 1996

Genres: Poetry, Classics, British Literature

114 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1995

Reviews

[J★ · Rating 4 out of 5]

Elizabeth Barrett Browning's love for her dog made me cry 🥺

[Lucy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Twenty-four pages devoted to Lewis Carroll, and four to Gerard Manley Hopkins. Quantities of both Brownings, and Emily Bronte, but no Kipling or Yeats. It's a very limited and rather unbalanced selection, with no introduction to explain it, and annoyingly no index of first lines.

[Katrine Engelhardt Thomsen · Rating 2 out of 5]

Strange mix and badly in need of some sort of editorial organizing after authors, topics, themes etc. There are some great poems in this collection, but its a constant feeling of stop-start-stop-start again when reading, because the poems just follow one another without introduction or even year of conception. Would however be great for backpacking travellers who need a lot of poetry in a slim volume.

[Katrin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Everything you could possibly want in poems.
From short to long, from sad to fun, from understandable to huh?
My favourite is the "four ducks on a pond"

[Gerchia · Rating 4 out of 5]

3/5 - 4 Stars

[den · Rating 5 out of 5]

my physical copy is covered with annotations . .

[Melanie · Rating 4 out of 5]

A lovely collection of Victorian poetry that I read by reading a few poems a day.
A great collection and interesting reading.