English poetry in the later nineteenth century

First published in 1933, this study, which underwent revision in the 1960s, is a comprehensive survey of the verse of English nineteenth-century poets whose work appeared after 1860.

A special feature is the full and critical treatment of minor writers.

In no other book is their work so carefully evaluated.

There is a full account of the minor Pre-Raphaelites, of James Thomson, the poet of The City of Dreadful Night, of Henley, Stevenson and George MacDonald.

John Davidson is the subject of a long and revealing study.

Evans suggests that poetry from the late nineteenth century is neglected in scholarly study, and that Victorian Romanticism deserves more attention than it has recently received.