Penguin Book of Victorian Verse

"[U]nderstanding Victorian poetry today may well be a way to redeem sincerity and melancholy as legitimate poetic modes, and to show us how these subjects may be dealt with in a way that is intellectually honest and artistically satisfying....Daniel Karlin's...anthology of Victorian poetry is an excellent starting point for such an understanding....His collection does include many 'representative' bad poems, but it also has room for some valuable poems that usually do not make it, at least in their entirety, into period anthologies."Karlin, Daniel is the author of 'Penguin Book of Victorian Verse', published 1999 under ISBN 9780140445787 and ISBN 0140445781.