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The New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse brings to life a great age of poetry which past generations have viewed with condescension because of its supposed prudery, sentimentality, and lack of irony. Christopher Ricks' selection of 560 poems written by 115 different poets offers our generation a wonderful opportunity to reevaluate the Victorians.
Bringing together the best and most inspiring verse written between 1837 and 1901, this marvelous anthology presents inspiring selections by the great figures—Tennyson, Wordsworth, Browning, Swinburne, and Hopkins among them—as well as the less well-known, but equally rewarding, verse by William Barnes, Coventry Patmore, Elizabeth Siddal, and others. Demonstrating unprecedented respect for the integrity of the poems, Ricks uses excerpts only in cases where the poet provided distinct breaks in a work, and he also reproduces a number of longer masterpieces in their entirety. Readers will find this anthology a source of delight and surprise as they discover that the Victorians are not so very different from ourselves.
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Todd Hirsch
reviewed The New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse on August 27, 2016
The New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse
A reprint of a classic 1879 translation of legends, myths, folktales and fairy tales from ancient Ireland. I found this book super interesting, as I'd not heard/read any of these tales before. Many of them are based on actual historical figures - kings, warriors, etc. - but mixed with magic, fantastical creatures, bloody battles and incredible feats of strength, and passed down over thousands of years. I do wish there was a bit more flow and emotion to the tales, however. I know the author translated these from old gaelic texts, but since he "modernized" them somewhat by using common English and rewording phrases that wouldn't have made much sense in literal translation, perhaps he could've smoothed out the rough edges a bit (re-worded some of the abrupt scene change/endings, etc.). It also would've been helpful to have the dictionary at the front of the book so we readers could've gotten a glance at some of the unfamiliar terms first, rather than at the end (especially for us e-book readers, where navigation isn't always easy).
*Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC, provided by the author and/or the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
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