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The 10 pages that link to Victorian poetry, each with the reason it gives.

• Modernist poetryCompared with: Modernist departures become clearer against Victorian conventions of meter, rhetoric, and poetic subject.

• John KeatsNarrower topic: Victorian poets inherited and reworked Keats’s sensuous style and formal practice.

• Georgian poetryCompared with: Georgian poets inherited Victorian forms while reacting against some of its poetic conventions.

• Christina RossettiNarrower topic: Rossetti’s work engages the era’s religious, social, and literary conventions.

• Gerard Manley HopkinsNarrower topic: Hopkins’s formal experiments emerged within, and departed from, this literary period.

• Leaves of GrassCompared with: Whitman’s unrhymed, conversational lines departed from many dominant poetic conventions of his era.

• Robert BridgesNarrower topic: Bridges began publishing within this period, while developing an individual formal style.

• Edward FitzGeraldNarrower topic: FitzGerald’s English poem reached its major readership within the Victorian literary world.

• Alfred AustinRelated: Austin’s verse was judged against the major poets and changing styles of this period.

• John Keats's 1819 odesNarrower topic: Victorian poets inherited and revised the odes’ meditations on beauty, transience, and poetic art.