This collection of poetry brings to life many of the important patterns of development in the verse of the lateVictorian period and offers a fuller reflection of decadence than those anthologies confined to the 1890s. Major writers such as Tennyson Browning Hardy and Hopkins are presented alongside less wellknown poets fifty of whom are female and other traditional figures such as Stevenson William Morris and Christina Rossetti are given a fresh look. The book also contains a comparative chron