Routledge Revivals: English Poetry in the Later Nineteenth Century (1933)

First published in 1933, this study, which underwent revision in the 1960s, is a comprehensive survey of the verse of English nineteenth-century poets whose work appeared after 1860. A special feature is the full and critical treatment of minor writers. In no other book is their work so carefully evaluated. There is a full account of the minor Pre-Raphaelites, of James Thomson, the poet of The City of Dreadful Night , of Henley, Stevenson and George MacDonald. John Davidson is the subject of a l