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Victorian Poetry: Forms and Fashions
A Conference in Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Victorian Poetry
19-20 April 2013
West Virginia University
Please send 300-500 word proposals for papers and a 1-page
c.v. via email to
John.Lamb@mail.wvu.edu by 15 November 2012. Papers on any aspect of Victorian Poetry and Poetics are invited, especially those devoted to: the reconsideration
of poetic forms and formal innovations; fashions, trend, and modes in poetry; the
publication and commerce of poetry; poetry book history; and Victorian prosody
and stanzaic forms. Papers devoted to
the “fashions” of scholarship on Victorian poetry for the last fifty years are
also invited.
Keynote address
by Linda K. Hughes, Addie Levy Professor of Literature at Texas Christian University. Professor
Hughes’ books include The Cambridge
Introduction to Victorian Poetry, Graham R.: Rosamund
Mariott Watson, Woman of Letters,
and The Manyfaced Glass: Tennyson’s Dramatic
Monologues.
