# Victorian Poetry

Author: Drinkwater, John, 1882-1937

Genre: Category: Poetry

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67894

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Victorian+Poetry+Drinkwater&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The division of poetry into periods is artificial and yet not without reason and its uses. If we look at the poets of an age at close quarters we shall commonly find little resemblance between one and the other. A liberal reader of poetry in 1670, for example, would be discussing the recently published _Paradise Lost_, he would know John Dryden as a poet who was establishing a reputation, he might still have bought from his booksellers the first edition of Herrick’s _Hesperides_ and have found on the poetry table the early issues of John Donne, Richard Crashaw, Henry King, Richard Lovelace and Henry Vaughan, among others. In these, his contemporaries, our reader would naturally see an imm...

## Chapters

- [Chapter VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/victorian-poetry-67894/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/victorian-poetry-67894/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Chapter II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/victorian-poetry-67894/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/victorian-poetry-67894/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/victorian-poetry-67894/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/victorian-poetry-67894/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/victorian-poetry-67894/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Chapter IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/victorian-poetry-67894/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Chapter V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/victorian-poetry-67894/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/victorian-poetry-67894/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Chapter V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/victorian-poetry-67894/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Chapter I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/victorian-poetry-67894/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Chapter I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/victorian-poetry-67894/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/victorian-poetry-67894/chapters/10/index.md)
- [PART II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/victorian-poetry-67894/chapters/2/index.md)
- [PART I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/victorian-poetry-67894/chapters/1/index.md)