The forms of Victorian poetry
Victorian experimentalism
Victorian dialogues with poetic tradition
The impress of print : poems, periodicals, novels
The rhetoric of Victorian poetry
Poetry, technology, science
Poetry and religion
Poetry and the heart's affections
Poetry and empire
Poetic liberties
Resisting rhetoric : art for art's sake
Coda : close readings
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh
Ernest Dowson, "Vitae summa brevis spem nos vetat incohare longam" and Thomas Hardy, "Friends beyond."