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Socialism and Victorian Poetry
Author(s) -
Livesey Ruth
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
literature compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.158
H-Index - 4
ISSN - 1741-4113
DOI - 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2004.00057.x
Subject(s) - poetry , socialism , politics , literature , identity (music) , aesthetics , political radicalism , history , art , political science , law , communism
This article outlines the intimate relationship between socialism and poetry, politics and aesthetics during the revival of socialist activism in Britain from the early 1880s as exemplified in the work of, among others, William Morris. It also traces the development of dialogue between historians interested in language and literary scholars concerned with political identity and the consequent formation of a canon of radical poetry from the Chartist decades of the mid‐nineteenth century.