This Companion brings together specially commissioned essays by distinguished international scholars that reflect both the diversity of Victorian poetry and the variety of critical approaches that illuminate it.

• Approaches Victorian poetry by way of genre, production and cultural context, rather than through individual poets or poems
• Demonstrates how a particular poet or poem emerges from a number of overlapping cultural contexts.
• Explores the relationships between work by different poets
• Recalls attention to a considerable body of poetry that has fallen into neglect
• Essays are informed by recent developments in textual and cultural theory
• Considers Victorian women poets in every chapter