Victorian Poetry: An Anthology
Edited by Erik Gray and Veronica Alfano

The first new anthology of its kind in over twenty years, this book includes all the poetry found in the Victorian volume of the Broadview Anthology of British Literature but adds hundreds of new poems and nearly two dozen new poets. It also includes a new introduction, expanded annotation, and a companion website featuring additional poetry, critical prose, and thematic appendices.

Additionally, as a teaching tool that many will find useful, Broadview has made our annotated selection of Hopkins’s poetry freely available online. You can access and download it here.

Erik Gray specializes in poetry, particularly of nineteenth-century Britain. In addition to numerous books, he has published articles on a range of poets, including Homer, Virgil, Sidney, Milton, Pope, and Gray, as well as Romantic and Victorian poets. For many years he has taught Columbia’s introduction to the English major (Literary Texts and Critical Methods), as well as lectures and seminars on nineteenth-century British literature and transhistorical courses on poetry.

Veronica Alfano is a Lecturer in the Discipline of Literature at Macquarie University. She specializes in Victorian poetry and poetics, with particular interests in lyric theory, gender and sexuality, memory, and media studies. Her first book is titled The Lyric in Victorian Memory: Poetic Remembering and Forgetting from Tennyson to Housman; she is currently working on a monograph that examines neologisms in the work of Thomas Hardy, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Edward Lear, and others. From 2020 until 2023, she led the NAVSA Poetry Caucus. 

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