Acknowledgements; Introduction: Poetry, Popularity, and the Periodical Press; 1. Middle Class Audiences, Literary Weeklies, and the Inaugural Poem: Household Words, All the Year Round, and Once a Week; 2. The New Shilling Monthlies: Macmillan’s Magazine and The Cornhill; 3. First off the Block: Alexander Macmillan’s and Macmillan’s Magazine; 4. Devotional Reading and Popular Poetry in Good Words; 5. The Poetics of Popular Poetry in the Argosy; Conclusion: Where Do We Go From Here?; Appendix B: Biographies of Significant Contributors, Illustrators, and Publishers; Works Cited; Index.