
Description
This 1888 issue of a Victorian literary magazine captures the voices of poets wrestling with modernity, loss, and aesthetic innovation in an era when poetry was still a primary way educated people processed their world. The range of styles and subjects offers a snapshot of what serious readers valued in verse before modernism fractured the consensus about poetry's purpose. Each poem is a small historical artifact revealing the preoccupations and assumptions of its moment.
About the Author
Various is a classic author whose works are in the public domain.







