The Everyman Book of Victorian Verse: The Post-Romantics

by Donald Serrell Thomas (Editor)

The Post-Romantics include five major Victorian poets, Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Cough and Swinburne, inheritors and developers of the Romantic Revival. Nourished by the macabre, the exotic and the aberrant, their art was practiced on what Browning called "the dangerous edge of things."

Genres: Poetry

288 pages, Paperback

First published April 15, 1991

About the author

aka Francis Selwyn

Donald Serrell Thomas is an English author of (primarily) Victorian-era historical, crime and detective fiction, as well as books on factual crime and criminals, in particular several academic books on the history of crime in London. He has written a number of biographies, two volumes of poetry, and has also edited volumes of poetry by John Dryden and the Pre-Raphaelites.

Reviews

[Stephen Dallimore]

When told we were doing poetry at school... Wasn't overly impressed as a 15 year old.
Make it Post Romantic, inspired by Macabre, murder, interest, exotic.... The Dangerous edge of things as browning called it.... Amazing. Still read to this day

[Ivan]

One cool-lection