Abstract
Songs, written for the occasion, appear in a surprising number of Victorian poems and novels. Tennyson and Swinburne composed many such song poems. Their songs appear, of course, simply as texts, yet they are presented as sung, asking readers to believe in their fictions of musical performance. Why are these interludes of visible song present? What light can these poets' embedded songs cast on their many freestanding songs and ballads, on what is 'musical' in their poetry more generally, and on Swinburne's broader claims that poetry — lyric poetry as he understands it — is song?
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