Selected Poems (Broadview Literary Texts) Book

Broadview?s collection of Augusta Webster's poetry is the first since 1895. This welcome edition will again bring Webster?s extraordinarily vital work to readers. Writing in the second half of the 19th century, Augusta Webster was very highly acclaimed in her own day. Christina Rossetti thought her "by far the most formidable" woman poet. Her work has again come into favour, so much so that Isobel Armstrong and her co-editors of the influential anthology, Nineteenth-Century Women Poets, declare that "there can be no doubt that Augusta Webster ranks as one of the great Victorian poets." This collection is a selection of her best work, emphasizing her powerful dramatic monologues and including a substantial selection of her sonnets and other lyrics. With an introduction and background documents that highlight the distinctiveness of her work, this edition will help to re-establish Augusta Webster as a major figure of nineteenth-century English literature.Read More