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Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. ELEANOR HALL: Australia's richest literary prize has been awarded to poet Jennifer Maiden. Rachael ...

In 2004, BYU English professor Leslee Thorne-Murphy spearheaded the Victorian Short Fiction Project, a research venture to get her British literature undergrads more involved in exploring the ...

Christina Rossetti's "Spring," "Restive," and "Acme" deserve greater recognition as effective poems lyrically dramatizing three distinct phases of the poet's theme of disillusionment and loss. In ...

Part of Emily Dickinson’s traditional mystique derives from her supposed isolation from the world. The image persists of her as a reclusive genius, living in her big house in the sleepy little western ...

The Victorian period was a time of tremendous poetic experiment. Browning and Tennyson are credited with inventing the dramatic monologue, and innovations in the verse novel and the epic by Barrett ...

Victorian Poetry examines the poetry of the Victorian Period (1830-1914) from a broad range of theoretical/critical angles, including but not confined to new historicism, feminism, and social/cultural ...

Natalie M. Houston, Ph.D. Natalie M. Houston’s current book project, "Distant Reading Nineteenth-Century Poetry," applies machine learning to uncover the stylistic conventions that structured the ...