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Title: The Victorians: An Anthology of Poetry & Poetics (Blackwell Anthologies) by Valentine Cunningham ISBN: 0-631-19915-2 Publisher: Blackwell Publishers Pub. Date: 01 December, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $92.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)

Rating: 4
Summary: Intriguing, sometimes quirky, anthology
Comment: Along with the Collins & Rundle anthology from Broadview, this new entry in the Blackwell series will be high on most college instructors' "must-see" lists. Cunningham manages a good combination of canonical and minor poets; indeed, when it comes to the minor poets, he appears to have deliberately excluded their most "canonical" poems. (No "Circe" from Augusta Webster? No "Xantippe" from Amy Levy?) There is astonishingly little overlap between this anthology and the Broadview endeavor. There can be few arguments about the actual choice of poems, although it would have been nice to see Swinburne's "The Leper" (as a pair with Browning's "Porphyria's Lover"). But why only excerpts from Meredith's *Modern Love*, which many of us would like to teach? The introduction is strong and, as usual with Blackwell anthologies, the headnotes are full and thoughtful. On the other hand, we really *do* need better annotations: most students do not come equipped to deal with the mythological, Biblical, and literary allusiveness of Victorian poetry, and the instructor cannot spend all of his or her time writing footnotes to supplement the anthology! I must also add that the book is printed in a miniscule font that makes reading the poems a more formidable chore than absolutely necessary. Perhaps a magnifying glass might be in order?