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Victorian Poetry and Modern Life

The Unpoetical Age
By:Natasha Moore
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9781137537799
eText ISBN:9781137537805
Edition:0
Copyright:2015
Format:Reflowable

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Faced with the chaos and banality of modern, everyday life, a number of Victorian poets sought innovative ways of writing about the unpoetic present in their verse. Their varied efforts are recognisably akin, not least in their development of mixed verse-forms that fused novel and epic to create something equal to the miscellaneousness of the age.