Abstract:Adam Mazel, “The Age of Rhyme: The Verse Culture of Victorian Cambridge” (pp. 374–401)
This essay introduces the verse culture of the Victorian-era University of Cambridge. While Cambridge verse covers a range of matters and manners, time is its master-theme and rhyme is its master-scheme. Seemingly sophomoric, Cambridge verse is significant as a case of verse doing social work for its writers and readers: versifying helped distinguish students and alumni as refined, cultivated members of the Vi… Show more
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