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- catalog abstract ""This study is the first to provide detailed and wide-ranging accounts of all of the varieties of long poem - epic, romance, verse-novel and sequences - published in the Romantic and Victorian periods. From famous works (The Prelude, In Memoriam, The Ring and the Book) to lesser-known marvels (Erasmus Darwin's The Loves of the Plants or Edward Lytton's King Poppy: a story without an end), this study provides a detailed book-by-book precis, relevant contextual information, biographical entries on authors and critical entries on the categories of long poem. A critical introduction examines why it was that the long poem was so central to Romantic and Victorian art and why 'epic' remains one of the weightiest modes of writing."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11387949.
- catalog created "c1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "c1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1999.".
- catalog description ""This study is the first to provide detailed and wide-ranging accounts of all of the varieties of long poem - epic, romance, verse-novel and sequences - published in the Romantic and Victorian periods. From famous works (The Prelude, In Memoriam, The Ring and the Book) to lesser-known marvels (Erasmus Darwin's The Loves of the Plants or Edward Lytton's King Poppy: a story without an end), this study provides a detailed book-by-book precis, relevant contextual information, biographical entries on authors and critical entries on the categories of long poem. A critical introduction examines why it was that the long poem was so central to Romantic and Victorian art and why 'epic' remains one of the weightiest modes of writing."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [218]-219) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction -- Main author and title list.".
- catalog extent "223 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "1859281567 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "c1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Aldershot, England ; Brookfield, Vt. : Ashgate,".
- catalog subject "016.821/030907 21".
- catalog subject "English poetry 19th century Bibliography.".
- catalog subject "Epic poetry, English Bibliography.".
- catalog subject "Narrative poetry, English Bibliography.".
- catalog subject "Z2014.P7 R67 1999 PR581".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction -- Main author and title list.".
- catalog title "Romantic and Victorian long poems : a guide / Adam Roberts.".
- catalog type "Bibliography. fast".
- catalog type "text".