An examination of the critical receptions received by five major Victorian poets - Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Swinburne and Clough. The text includes a supplementary chapter on developments in recent critical theory.
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.