San Antonio College Library

Discusses Tennyson, Robert Browning, Matthew Arnold, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and A.E. Clough.

Stephen Gurney's British Poetry of the Nineteenth Century fills a void in recent intellectual history. It is a deft examination of the British poetic tradition during an era encompassing the romantic and Victorian poets. Gurney expertly distills current scholarship within the context of a broad historical survey that is neither too superficial in its discussion of individual poets nor incomplete in its analysis of literary movements and periods. The...