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The Broadview Anthology of Victorian Poetry and Poetic Theory is the most comprehensive collection of poetry from the period ever published. Included are generous selections from the work of all major poets, and a representation of the work of virtually every poet of significance, from Thomas Ashe at the beginning of the era to Charlotte Mew at its end. The work of Victorian women poets features very prominently, with extensive selections not only from canonical poets such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Christina Rossetti, but also from poets such as Augusta Webster for which high claims have recently been made by critics. The anthology reflects (and will contribute to) the ongoing reassessment of the canon that is central to English Studies today; in all, sixty-six poets are represented.

The editors have included complete works wherever feasible — including the complete texts of Tennyson’s In Memoriam and of a number of other long poems. A headnote by the editors introduces the work of each poet, and each selection has been newly annotated.

The inclusion of twenty-five selections of the poetic theory from the period is an important feature rounding out the anthology.

This anthology is also available in a concise edition.

Trade Review
“What we have needed has been the Victorian poetic texts, by many writers—and here they are, splendidly assembled! Thank you.” — William N. Rogers, San Diego State University

“I’m excited about the appearance of this comprehensive anthology—especially about its inclusion of so many full-text long poems.” — Peter W. Sinnema, University of Alberta

“A long overdue collection that balances representative and canonical works with traditionally under-represented ones.” — Barbara Gates, University of Delaware



Table of Contents

POETRY

Anonymous

  • A New Song on the Birth of the Prince of Wales

Ashe, Thomas (1770-1835)

  • Corpse-Bearing
    To Two Bereaved

Landor, Walter Savage (1775-1864)

  • For An Epitaph At Fiesole
    Ianthe Leaves
    Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher
    Death’s Language
    Her Name
    A Foreign Ruler

Clare, John (1793-1864)

  • “I Am”
    An Invite to Eternity
    The Old Year
    The Yellowhammer
    Sonnet: “I Am”
    Stanzas “The passing of a dream”
    “There is a charm in Solitude that cheers”
    Stanzas “Black absence hides upon the past”
    The Winters Spring
    An Anecdote of Love
    To Miss B.
    “The thunder mutters louder…”

Hemans, Felicia (1793-1835)

  • The Suloite Mother
    The Lady of The Castle
    To Wordsworth
    Casabianca
    Properzia Rossi
    The Memorial Pillar
    The Grave of a Poetess
    The Image In Lava
    The Indian With His Dead Child
    The Rock of Cader Idris

Henry, James

  • “Two hundred men and eighteen killed … ”

Hood, Thomas (1799-1845)

  • The Song of the Shirt

Barnes, William (1801-1886)

  • Uncle an’ Aunt
    Polly Be-En Upzides Wi’ Tom
    The Vaïces that Be Gone
    Childhood
    The Turnstile
    Jay A-Pass’d

Landon, Letitia .E. (1802-1838)

  • from The Improvisatrice
    • Advertisement
      Sappho’s Song
  • Erinna
    “Preface” to The Venetian Bracelet, The Lost Pleiad, A History of the Lyre, and Other Poems
    The Nameless Grave
    The Factory
    Carthage
    Felicia Hemans
    Rydal Water and Grasmere Lake
    Infanticide in Madagascar

R.E. Egerton Warburton (1804-1891)

  • Past and Present

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)

  • The Romaunt of the Page
    Lady Geraldine’s Courtship
    The Dead Pan
    The Cry of the Children
    A Man’s Requirements
    Sonnets From the Portuguese
    • III
      XXII
      XXIX
      XLIII
  • The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point
    Aurora Leigh
    • 1st Book
      2nd Book
      5th Book
  • A Curse for a Nation (Prologue)
    A Musical Instrument

Frederick Tennyson (1807-1898)

  • Old Age

Caroline Norton (1808-1877)

  • from Voice From the Factories
    The Creole Girl
    The Poet’s Choice
    Sonnet IV
    Sonnet VIII (To My Books)
    Sonnet XI The Weaver
    Edward Fitzgerald
    Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892)

  • Mariana
    Supposed Confessions of a Second-Rate Sensitive Mind
    The Poet
    The Poet’s Mind
    The Mystic
    The Kraken
    The Lady of Shalott
    To ——. With the following Poem [Palace of Art]
    The Palace of Art
    The Hesperides
    The Lotos-Eaters (107)
    The Two Voices
    St Simeon Stylites
    Ulysses
    Tiresias
    The Epic [Morte d’Arthur]
    Morte d’Arthur
    “Break, break, break”
    Locksley Hall
    The Vision of Sin
    In Memoriam A.H.H. (33)
    The Charge of the Light Brigade
    Maud
    Tithonus
    The Higher Pantheism
    “Flower in the crannied wall”
    Crossing the Bar
    Idylls of the King
    The Coming of Arthur
    Lancelot and Elaine

Browning, Robert (1812-1889)

  • My Last Duchess
    Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister
    Johannes Agricola in Meditation
    Porphyria’s Lover
    Pictor Ignotus
    the Lost Leader
    The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed’s Church
    The Laboratory
    Love Among the Ruins
    Fra Lippo Lippi
    A Toccata of Galuppi’s
    By the Fire-Side
    An Epistle Containing the Strange Medical Experience of Karshish, the Arab Physician
    ”Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”
    The Statue and the Bust
    How It Strikes a Contemporary
    The Last Ride Together
    Bishop Blougram’s Apology
    Andrea del Sarto
    Old Pictures in Florence
    In a Balcony
    Saul
    Cleon
    Two in the Campagna
    A Grammarian’s Funeral
    Dîs Aliter Visum or Le Byron de Nos Jours
    Abt Vogler
    Rabbi Ben Ezra
    Caliban Upon Setebos; or, Natural Theology in the Island
    The Ring and the Book
    The Ring and the Book: Book I
    • Count Guido Franceschini: Book V
      Pompilia: Book VI
      Guido: Book XI
  • Prologue (to Asolando)
    Development

Lear, Edward (1812-1888)

  • The Owl and the Pussycat
    The Dong with a Luminous Nose
    How Pleasant to Know Mr. Lear

Brontë, Charlotte (1816-1855)

  • The Missionary
    Master and Pupil
    On the Death of Emily Jane Brontë
    On the Death of Anne Brontë
    Reason
    “The house was still—the room was still”
    The Lonely Lady
    "Is this my tomb, this humble stone”
    "Obscure and little seem my way”

Brontë, Emily Jane (1818-1848)

  • “Riches I hold in light esteem”
    To Imagination
    Plead For Me
    Remembrance
    The Prisoner
    “No coward soul is mine”
    Stanzas—“Often rebuked, yet always back returning”
    A Farewell to Alexandria
    “Long neglect has worn away”
    “The night is darkening round me”
    “What winter floods, what showers of spring”
    “She dried her tears, and they did smile”

Cook, Eliza (1818-1889)

  • Lines
    The Waters
    The Ploughshare of Old England
    The Old Arm-Chair
    Song of the Red Indian
    Song of The Ugly Maiden
    My Old Straw Hat
    Lines Written for the Sheffield Mechanics Exhibition, 1846
    A Song For The Workers
    My Ladye Love

Clough, Arthur Hugh (1819-1861)

  • Duty—that’s to say complying
    Qui Laborat, Orat
    The Latest Decalogue
    “Say not the struggle nought availeth”
    Amours de Voyage

Eliot, George (1819-1880)

  • “O, May I Join the Choir Invisible”
    The Spanish Gypsy
    • Book I
      Book III
  • Armgart
    Brother and Sister Sonnets
    • I
      II
      III
      IV
      V
      VI
      VII
      VIII
      IX
      X

Brontë, Anne (1820-1849)

  • A Fragment—“Maiden, thou wert thoughtless once”
    Lines Written at Thorp Green
    “My soul is awakened, my spirit is soaring”
    A Word to the Calvinists
    The Captive Dove
    Views of Life
    Self-Communion
    The Bluebell
    Dreams
    A Voice from the Dungeon

Ingelow, Jean (1820-1897)

  • Supper At The Mill
    Remonstrance
    A Lily And A Lute
    Gladys And Her Island
    On The Borders of Cannock Chase

Greenwell, Dora (1821-1882)

  • The Singer
    The Railway Station
    The Picture and the Scroll
    The Broken Chain
    Old Letters
    To Elizabeth Barrett Browning in 1851
    To Elizabeth Barrett Browning in 1861
    One Flower
    A Scherzo
    A Song to Call to Remembrance

Speranza (Lady Wilde) (1821?-1896)

  • The Voice of the Poor
    A Remonstrance
    A Lament For the Potato
    Fatality
    Corinne’s Last Love-Song
    Tristan and Isolde
    The Poet’s Destiny
    An Appeal to Ireland

Arnold, Matthew (1822-1888)

  • To a Gipsy Child by the Sea-Shore
    The Strayed Reveller
    Resignation
    The Forsaken Merman
    To Marguerite—Continued
    Stanzas in Memory of the Author of “Obermann”
    Empedocles on Etna
    Memorial Verses
    Dover Beach
    The Buried Life
    Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse
    The Scholar-Gipsy
    Philomela
    Thyrsis

Patmore, Coventry (1823-1896)

  • The Toys
    Magna est Veritas
    The Angel in the House

Allingham, William (1824-1889)

  • The Fairies
    “Four Ducks on a Pond”
    Writing
    Express

Dobell, Sydney (1824-1874)

  • The Botanist’s Vision
    To the Authoress of “Aurora Leigh”
    Perhaps
    Two Sonnets on the Death of Prince Albert

MacDonald, George (1824-1905)

  • Professor Noctutus
    No End of No-Story

Procter, Adelaide Anne (1825-1864)

  • The Cradle Song of the Poor
    Incompleteness
    My Picture Gallery
    An Appeal
    The Jubilee of 1850
    Homeless
    A Woman’s Question
    A Woman’s Answer
    A Woman’s Last Word
    Envy
    A Legend of Provence
    Philip and Mildred

Collins, Mortimer

  • Lotos Eating

Bigg, J. Stantyon (1828-1865)

  • An Irish Picture

Massey, Gerald (1828-1907)

  • Hope On, Hope Ever
    The Cry of the Unemployed
    A Song in the City
    “As proper mode of quenching legal lust…”
    Womankind

Meredith, George (1838-1909)

  • Modern Love
    Lucifer in Starlight

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)

  • The Blessed Damozel
    My Sister’s Sleep
    Jenny
    The Portrait
    The Woodspurge
    The Ballad of Dead Ladies
    A Last Confession
    The Sea-Limits
    Found
    At the Sunrise in 1848
    The House of Life: A Sonnet Sequence
    • “A Sonnet is a moment’s monument,—”
      Nuptial Sleep
      The Portrait
      Silent Noon
      Willowwood
      The Soul’s Sphere
      The Landmark
      Autumn Idleness
      The Hill Summit
      Old and New Art
      Soul’s Beauty
      Body’s Beauty
      A Superscription
      The One Hope

Munby, Arthur (1828-1910)

  • The Serving Maid
    Post Mortem
    A Husband’s Episodes
    T’ Runawaa Lass
    “Followers Not Allowed”
    Woman’s Rights

Siddal, Elizabeth (1829-1862)

  • The Lust of the Eyes
    Worn Out
    At Last
    Love and Hate

Brown, T.E. (1830-1870)

  • A Sermon at Clevedon

Rossetti, Christina (1830-1894)

  • Goblin Market
    A Birthday
    After Death
    An Apple Gathering
    Echo
    “No, Thank you, John”
    Song
    UphillA Better Resurrection
    “The Iniquity of the Fathers Upon the Children”
    Monna Innominata 1 - 14
    “For Thine Own Sake, O My God”
    In an Artist’s Studio

Carroll, Lewis (1832-1898)

  • Jabberwocky
    The Walrus and the Carpenter
    The Hunting of the Snark

Morris, William (1834-1896)

  • The Defence of Guinevere
    The Haystack in the Floods
    Riding Together
    Near Avalon
    An Apology
    A Garden by the Sea
    The End of May

Thomson, James (1834-1882)

  • The City of Dreadful Night
    E.B.B. 1861
    A Real Vision of Sin

Warren, John Leicester (Lord de Tabley) (1835-1895)

  • The Strange Parable
    A Song of Faith Forsworn
    Echoes of Hellas
    L’Envoi
    Conclusion

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth (1837-1915)

  • Queen Guinevere
    At Last
    Waiting
    Under Ground
    Waking

Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909)

  • Atalanta in Calydon
    Laus Veneris
    The Triumph of Time
    Itylus
    Anactoria
    Hymn to Proserpine
    The Leper
    Dolores
    The Garden of Proserpine
    Hertha
    A Forsaken Garden
    At A Month’s End
    Ave Atque Vale
    A Jacobite’s Farewell
    The Lake of Gaube

Webster, Augusta (1837-1894)

  • Circe
    A Castaway
    Mother and Daughter Sonnets
    • Sonnet VI - VII
      Sonnet IX
      Sonnet XII
      Sonnet XIII - XVII
  • The Wind’s Tidings In August 1870
    To-Day
    Her Memories
    A Coarse Morning
    Not To Be
    Once
    The Old Dream

Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928)

  • Hap
    Neutral Tones
    A Broken Appointment
    The Darkling Thrush
    The Self-Unseeing
    In Tenebris
    The Minute Before Meeting
    Night in the Old Home
    The Something that Saved Him
    Afterwards
    A Young Man’s Exhortation
    Snow in the Suburbs
    In a Wood

Dowden, Edward (1843-1913)

  • Burdens
    Leonardo’s “Monna Lisa”
    Europa
    Seeking God
    In a June Night

Bridges, Robert (1844-1930)

  • London Snow
    On a Dead Child

Hopkins, Gerard Manley (1844-1899)

  • The Wreck of the Deutschland
    God’s Grandeur
    The Windhover
    Pied Beauty
    Harrahing in Harvest
    The Caged Skylark
    Peace
    Felix Randal
    “As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame”
    The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo
    Spelt from Sibyl’s Leaves
    Carrion Comfort
    “No worst, there is none”
    “To seem the stranger lies my lot, my life”
    “I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day”
    “Patience, hard thing! the hard thing but to pray”
    “My own heart let me more have pity on”
    Tom’s Garland
    Harry Ploughman
    It was a hard thing to undo this knot

Lee-Hamilton, Eugene (1845-1907)

  • The Keys of the Convent
    Introduction (Picciola)
    The New Medusa
    The Raft
    To the Muse
    River Babble
    Twilight
    What the Sonnet Is
    Sunken Gold
    The Ever Young
    • I
      II
      III
  • The Mandolin

Field, Michael

  • Preface
    Drawing of Roses and Violets
    La Gioconda
    The Birth of Venus
    A Portrait
    A “Sant’ Imagine”
    The Magdalen
    A Pen-Drawing of Leda
    “Death, men say, is like a sea”
    “Ah, Eros doth not always smite”
    “Sometimes I do despatch my heart”
    An Apple-Flower
    “Solitary Death, make me thine own”
    “A curling thread”
    A Spring Morning By the Sea
    Love’rsquo;s Sour Leisure
    “It was deep April, and the morn”
    Noon
    An Aeolian Harp
    Cyclamens

Meynell, Alice (1847-1922)

  • A Letter from a Girl to Her Own Old Age
    In February
    • A Poet’s Fancies
      • The Love of Narcissus
        To Any Poet
        Unlikned
  • The Shepherdess
    Parentage
    Cradle-Song at Twilight
    In Manchester Square
    Maternity
    A Study
    • Before Light
      About Noon
      At Twilight
  • A Father of Women
    The Threshing Machine
    Reflections
    • (I) In Ireland
      (II) In “Othello”
      (III) In Two Poets

Dolben, Digby Mackworth (1848-1867)

  • A Song
    A Poem Without A Name
    After Reading Aeschylus
    Good Friday
    Sister Death
    Pro Castitate

Henley, William Ernest (1849-1903)

  • Waiting

Mallock, William H. (1849-1923)

  • Christmas Thoughts, by a Modern Thinker

Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894)

  • Bed in Summer
    Travel
    The Land of Counterpane
    The Land of Story-books
    Requiem
    The Celestial Surgeon
    “I have trod the upward and the downward slope”
    “So live, so love, so use that fragile hour”
    “I saw red evening through the rain”

Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900)

  • Requiescat
    Hélas!
    Impressions
    • le jardin
      la mer
  • Symphony in Yellow

Davidson, John (1857-1909)

  • Thirty Bob a Week
    A Ballad of a Nun
    A Ballad in Blank Verse
    A Northern Suburb
    A Woman and Her Son
    Yuletide

Robinson, A. Mary F. (1857-1944)

  • The Scape-Goat
    The Idea
    Darwinism
    An Orchard at Avignon
    Love, Death, and Art
    Art and Life
    Song
    Neurasthenia
    To My Muse

Stephen, J.K. (1859-1907)

  • In the Backs

Thompson, Francis (1859-1907)

  • The Hound of Heaven

Coleridge, Mary (1861-1907)

  • IX — The Other Side Of A Mirror
    XIV — Regina
    XXVII — Winged Words
    LX — Marriage
    LXIII — In Dispraise of the Moon
    LXXVI — The White Women
    XCVII — The Fire Lamp
    CXIV — To the writer of a poem on a bridge
    CXCI — Tar Ublia Chi Bien Eima
    CCVI — A Clever Woman

Levy, Amy (1861-1889)

  • Xantippe
    Felo De Se
    To a Dead Poet
    A Minor Poet
    Magdalen
    A London Plane-Tree
    London Poets
    On The Threshold
    In The Black Forest
    To Vernon Lee
    To E.

Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1889)

  • Gentlemen-Rankers
    In the Neolithic Age
    Recessional
    The White Man’s Burden
    If

Gray, John

  • The Barber
    Poem

Dowson, Ernest (1867-1900)

  • Nuns of the Perpetual Adoration
    Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae
    Villanelle of Sunset
    To One in Bedlam
    Benedictio Domini
    Ad Manus Puellae
    Terre Promise
    Spleen
    Vitae summa brevis spem nos vetat incohare longam

Johnson, Lionel (1867-1902)

  • The Dark Angel
    Summer Storm
    Dead
    The End
    Nihilism
    The Darkness
    In a Workhouse
    Bagley Wood
    The Destroyer of a Soul
    The Precept of Silence
    A Proselyte

Mew, Charlotte (1869-1909)

  • The Farmer’s Bride
    The Fête
    In Nunhead Cemetery
    Ken
    Madeleine In Church
    The Road To Kérity
    I Have Been Through The Gates
    The Cenotaph
    V. R. I.
    • i. January 22nd, 1901
      ii. January 2nd, 1901

POETIC THEORY

Fox, William Johnson (1786-1864)

  • Tennyson — Poems, Chiefly Lyrical — 1830 Pub. 1831

Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833)

  • On some of the Characteristics of Modern Poetry and on the Lyrical Poems of Alfred Tennyson Pub. 1831

Landon, Letitia E. (1802-1838)

  • On the Ancient and Modern Influence of Poetry Pub. 1832

Mill, John Stuart (1806-1873)

  • “What is poetry?”
    “Two kinds of poetry” Pub. January and October 1833

Taylor, Sir Henry (1800-1886)

  • Preface to Philip Van Artevelde Pub. 1834

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)

  • Hand and Soul Pub. 1850

Browning, Robert (1812-1889)

  • An Essay on Percy Bysshe Shelley Pub. 1851

Clough, Arthur Hugh

  • Recent English Poetry: A Review of Several Volumes of Poems by Alexander Smith, Mathew Arnold, and others

Arnold, Matthew (1822-1888)

  • Preface to the 1853 Edition of Poems Pub. 1853

Massey, Gerald (1828-1907)

  • Preface to the Third Edition of Babe Christabel Pub. 1854

Ruskin, John (1819-1900)

  • Of the Pathetic Fallacy Pub. 1856

Arnold, Matthew (1822-1888)

  • The Function of Criticism at the Present Time Pub. 1864

Bagehot, Walter (1826-1877)

  • Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Browning; or, Pure, Ornate, and Grotesque Art in English Poetry Pub. 1864

Morley, John

  • Mr. Swinburne’s New Poems: Poems and Ballards

Dallas, Eneas Sweetland (1828-1879)

  • The Secrecy of Art Pub. 1888

Buchanan, Robert (1841-1901)

  • The Fleshly School of Poetry: Mr. D.G. Rossetti Pub. 1871

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)

  • The Stealthy School Of Criticism Pub. 1871

Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909)

  • Under The Microscope Pub. 1872

Pater, Walter (1839-1890)

  • Preface to The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry Pub. 1873

Hopkins, Gerard Manley (1844-1889)

  • Author’s Preface Pub. 1883

Levy, Amy

  • James Thompson: A Minor Poet

Whistler, James McNeill (1834-1903)

  • Ten O’Clock Pub. 1890

Morris, William

  • Of the Origins of Ornamental Art

Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900)

  • The Critic as Artist Pub. 1890

Symons, Arthur (1865-1945)

  • The Decadent Movement in Literature Pub. 1893
    The Symbolist Movement In Literature Pub. 1899

Meynell, Alice

  • Tennyson
    Robert Browning
    The Rhythm of Life

Robins, Elizabeth

  • Woman’s Secret

Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928)

  • Apology Pub. 1922

INDEXES

Index of First Lines
Index of Authors and Titles

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    Publication Date: 30/08/1999
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    Book Synopsis
    The Broadview Anthology of Victorian Poetry and Poetic Theory is the most comprehensive collection of poetry from the period ever published. Included are generous selections from the work of all major poets, and a representation of the work of virtually every poet of significance, from Thomas Ashe at the beginning of the era to Charlotte Mew at its end. The work of Victorian women poets features very prominently, with extensive selections not only from canonical poets such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Christina Rossetti, but also from poets such as Augusta Webster for which high claims have recently been made by critics. The anthology reflects (and will contribute to) the ongoing reassessment of the canon that is central to English Studies today; in all, sixty-six poets are represented.

    The editors have included complete works wherever feasible — including the complete texts of Tennyson’s In Memoriam and of a number of other long poems. A headnote by the editors introduces the work of each poet, and each selection has been newly annotated.

    The inclusion of twenty-five selections of the poetic theory from the period is an important feature rounding out the anthology.

    This anthology is also available in a concise edition.

    Trade Review
    “What we have needed has been the Victorian poetic texts, by many writers—and here they are, splendidly assembled! Thank you.” — William N. Rogers, San Diego State University

    “I’m excited about the appearance of this comprehensive anthology—especially about its inclusion of so many full-text long poems.” — Peter W. Sinnema, University of Alberta

    “A long overdue collection that balances representative and canonical works with traditionally under-represented ones.” — Barbara Gates, University of Delaware



    Table of Contents

    POETRY

    Anonymous

    • A New Song on the Birth of the Prince of Wales

    Ashe, Thomas (1770-1835)

    • Corpse-Bearing
      To Two Bereaved

    Landor, Walter Savage (1775-1864)

    • For An Epitaph At Fiesole
      Ianthe Leaves
      Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher
      Death’s Language
      Her Name
      A Foreign Ruler

    Clare, John (1793-1864)

    • “I Am”
      An Invite to Eternity
      The Old Year
      The Yellowhammer
      Sonnet: “I Am”
      Stanzas “The passing of a dream”
      “There is a charm in Solitude that cheers”
      Stanzas “Black absence hides upon the past”
      The Winters Spring
      An Anecdote of Love
      To Miss B.
      “The thunder mutters louder…”

    Hemans, Felicia (1793-1835)

    • The Suloite Mother
      The Lady of The Castle
      To Wordsworth
      Casabianca
      Properzia Rossi
      The Memorial Pillar
      The Grave of a Poetess
      The Image In Lava
      The Indian With His Dead Child
      The Rock of Cader Idris

    Henry, James

    • “Two hundred men and eighteen killed … ”

    Hood, Thomas (1799-1845)

    • The Song of the Shirt

    Barnes, William (1801-1886)

    • Uncle an’ Aunt
      Polly Be-En Upzides Wi’ Tom
      The Vaïces that Be Gone
      Childhood
      The Turnstile
      Jay A-Pass’d

    Landon, Letitia .E. (1802-1838)

    • from The Improvisatrice
      • Advertisement
        Sappho’s Song
    • Erinna
      “Preface” to The Venetian Bracelet, The Lost Pleiad, A History of the Lyre, and Other Poems
      The Nameless Grave
      The Factory
      Carthage
      Felicia Hemans
      Rydal Water and Grasmere Lake
      Infanticide in Madagascar

    R.E. Egerton Warburton (1804-1891)

    • Past and Present

    Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)

    • The Romaunt of the Page
      Lady Geraldine’s Courtship
      The Dead Pan
      The Cry of the Children
      A Man’s Requirements
      Sonnets From the Portuguese
      • III
        XXII
        XXIX
        XLIII
    • The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point
      Aurora Leigh
      • 1st Book
        2nd Book
        5th Book
    • A Curse for a Nation (Prologue)
      A Musical Instrument

    Frederick Tennyson (1807-1898)

    • Old Age

    Caroline Norton (1808-1877)

    • from Voice From the Factories
      The Creole Girl
      The Poet’s Choice
      Sonnet IV
      Sonnet VIII (To My Books)
      Sonnet XI The Weaver
      Edward Fitzgerald
      Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

    Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892)

    • Mariana
      Supposed Confessions of a Second-Rate Sensitive Mind
      The Poet
      The Poet’s Mind
      The Mystic
      The Kraken
      The Lady of Shalott
      To ——. With the following Poem [Palace of Art]
      The Palace of Art
      The Hesperides
      The Lotos-Eaters (107)
      The Two Voices
      St Simeon Stylites
      Ulysses
      Tiresias
      The Epic [Morte d’Arthur]
      Morte d’Arthur
      “Break, break, break”
      Locksley Hall
      The Vision of Sin
      In Memoriam A.H.H. (33)
      The Charge of the Light Brigade
      Maud
      Tithonus
      The Higher Pantheism
      “Flower in the crannied wall”
      Crossing the Bar
      Idylls of the King
      The Coming of Arthur
      Lancelot and Elaine

    Browning, Robert (1812-1889)

    • My Last Duchess
      Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister
      Johannes Agricola in Meditation
      Porphyria’s Lover
      Pictor Ignotus
      the Lost Leader
      The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed’s Church
      The Laboratory
      Love Among the Ruins
      Fra Lippo Lippi
      A Toccata of Galuppi’s
      By the Fire-Side
      An Epistle Containing the Strange Medical Experience of Karshish, the Arab Physician
      ”Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”
      The Statue and the Bust
      How It Strikes a Contemporary
      The Last Ride Together
      Bishop Blougram’s Apology
      Andrea del Sarto
      Old Pictures in Florence
      In a Balcony
      Saul
      Cleon
      Two in the Campagna
      A Grammarian’s Funeral
      Dîs Aliter Visum or Le Byron de Nos Jours
      Abt Vogler
      Rabbi Ben Ezra
      Caliban Upon Setebos; or, Natural Theology in the Island
      The Ring and the Book
      The Ring and the Book: Book I
      • Count Guido Franceschini: Book V
        Pompilia: Book VI
        Guido: Book XI
    • Prologue (to Asolando)
      Development

    Lear, Edward (1812-1888)

    • The Owl and the Pussycat
      The Dong with a Luminous Nose
      How Pleasant to Know Mr. Lear

    Brontë, Charlotte (1816-1855)

    • The Missionary
      Master and Pupil
      On the Death of Emily Jane Brontë
      On the Death of Anne Brontë
      Reason
      “The house was still—the room was still”
      The Lonely Lady
      "Is this my tomb, this humble stone”
      "Obscure and little seem my way”

    Brontë, Emily Jane (1818-1848)

    • “Riches I hold in light esteem”
      To Imagination
      Plead For Me
      Remembrance
      The Prisoner
      “No coward soul is mine”
      Stanzas—“Often rebuked, yet always back returning”
      A Farewell to Alexandria
      “Long neglect has worn away”
      “The night is darkening round me”
      “What winter floods, what showers of spring”
      “She dried her tears, and they did smile”

    Cook, Eliza (1818-1889)

    • Lines
      The Waters
      The Ploughshare of Old England
      The Old Arm-Chair
      Song of the Red Indian
      Song of The Ugly Maiden
      My Old Straw Hat
      Lines Written for the Sheffield Mechanics Exhibition, 1846
      A Song For The Workers
      My Ladye Love

    Clough, Arthur Hugh (1819-1861)

    • Duty—that’s to say complying
      Qui Laborat, Orat
      The Latest Decalogue
      “Say not the struggle nought availeth”
      Amours de Voyage

    Eliot, George (1819-1880)

    • “O, May I Join the Choir Invisible”
      The Spanish Gypsy
      • Book I
        Book III
    • Armgart
      Brother and Sister Sonnets
      • I
        II
        III
        IV
        V
        VI
        VII
        VIII
        IX
        X

    Brontë, Anne (1820-1849)

    • A Fragment—“Maiden, thou wert thoughtless once”
      Lines Written at Thorp Green
      “My soul is awakened, my spirit is soaring”
      A Word to the Calvinists
      The Captive Dove
      Views of Life
      Self-Communion
      The Bluebell
      Dreams
      A Voice from the Dungeon

    Ingelow, Jean (1820-1897)

    • Supper At The Mill
      Remonstrance
      A Lily And A Lute
      Gladys And Her Island
      On The Borders of Cannock Chase

    Greenwell, Dora (1821-1882)

    • The Singer
      The Railway Station
      The Picture and the Scroll
      The Broken Chain
      Old Letters
      To Elizabeth Barrett Browning in 1851
      To Elizabeth Barrett Browning in 1861
      One Flower
      A Scherzo
      A Song to Call to Remembrance

    Speranza (Lady Wilde) (1821?-1896)

    • The Voice of the Poor
      A Remonstrance
      A Lament For the Potato
      Fatality
      Corinne’s Last Love-Song
      Tristan and Isolde
      The Poet’s Destiny
      An Appeal to Ireland

    Arnold, Matthew (1822-1888)

    • To a Gipsy Child by the Sea-Shore
      The Strayed Reveller
      Resignation
      The Forsaken Merman
      To Marguerite—Continued
      Stanzas in Memory of the Author of “Obermann”
      Empedocles on Etna
      Memorial Verses
      Dover Beach
      The Buried Life
      Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse
      The Scholar-Gipsy
      Philomela
      Thyrsis

    Patmore, Coventry (1823-1896)

    • The Toys
      Magna est Veritas
      The Angel in the House

    Allingham, William (1824-1889)

    • The Fairies
      “Four Ducks on a Pond”
      Writing
      Express

    Dobell, Sydney (1824-1874)

    • The Botanist’s Vision
      To the Authoress of “Aurora Leigh”
      Perhaps
      Two Sonnets on the Death of Prince Albert

    MacDonald, George (1824-1905)

    • Professor Noctutus
      No End of No-Story

    Procter, Adelaide Anne (1825-1864)

    • The Cradle Song of the Poor
      Incompleteness
      My Picture Gallery
      An Appeal
      The Jubilee of 1850
      Homeless
      A Woman’s Question
      A Woman’s Answer
      A Woman’s Last Word
      Envy
      A Legend of Provence
      Philip and Mildred

    Collins, Mortimer

    • Lotos Eating

    Bigg, J. Stantyon (1828-1865)

    • An Irish Picture

    Massey, Gerald (1828-1907)

    • Hope On, Hope Ever
      The Cry of the Unemployed
      A Song in the City
      “As proper mode of quenching legal lust…”
      Womankind

    Meredith, George (1838-1909)

    • Modern Love
      Lucifer in Starlight

    Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)

    • The Blessed Damozel
      My Sister’s Sleep
      Jenny
      The Portrait
      The Woodspurge
      The Ballad of Dead Ladies
      A Last Confession
      The Sea-Limits
      Found
      At the Sunrise in 1848
      The House of Life: A Sonnet Sequence
      • “A Sonnet is a moment’s monument,—”
        Nuptial Sleep
        The Portrait
        Silent Noon
        Willowwood
        The Soul’s Sphere
        The Landmark
        Autumn Idleness
        The Hill Summit
        Old and New Art
        Soul’s Beauty
        Body’s Beauty
        A Superscription
        The One Hope

    Munby, Arthur (1828-1910)

    • The Serving Maid
      Post Mortem
      A Husband’s Episodes
      T’ Runawaa Lass
      “Followers Not Allowed”
      Woman’s Rights

    Siddal, Elizabeth (1829-1862)

    • The Lust of the Eyes
      Worn Out
      At Last
      Love and Hate

    Brown, T.E. (1830-1870)

    • A Sermon at Clevedon

    Rossetti, Christina (1830-1894)

    • Goblin Market
      A Birthday
      After Death
      An Apple Gathering
      Echo
      “No, Thank you, John”
      Song
      UphillA Better Resurrection
      “The Iniquity of the Fathers Upon the Children”
      Monna Innominata 1 - 14
      “For Thine Own Sake, O My God”
      In an Artist’s Studio

    Carroll, Lewis (1832-1898)

    • Jabberwocky
      The Walrus and the Carpenter
      The Hunting of the Snark

    Morris, William (1834-1896)

    • The Defence of Guinevere
      The Haystack in the Floods
      Riding Together
      Near Avalon
      An Apology
      A Garden by the Sea
      The End of May

    Thomson, James (1834-1882)

    • The City of Dreadful Night
      E.B.B. 1861
      A Real Vision of Sin

    Warren, John Leicester (Lord de Tabley) (1835-1895)

    • The Strange Parable
      A Song of Faith Forsworn
      Echoes of Hellas
      L’Envoi
      Conclusion

    Braddon, Mary Elizabeth (1837-1915)

    • Queen Guinevere
      At Last
      Waiting
      Under Ground
      Waking

    Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909)

    • Atalanta in Calydon
      Laus Veneris
      The Triumph of Time
      Itylus
      Anactoria
      Hymn to Proserpine
      The Leper
      Dolores
      The Garden of Proserpine
      Hertha
      A Forsaken Garden
      At A Month’s End
      Ave Atque Vale
      A Jacobite’s Farewell
      The Lake of Gaube

    Webster, Augusta (1837-1894)

    • Circe
      A Castaway
      Mother and Daughter Sonnets
      • Sonnet VI - VII
        Sonnet IX
        Sonnet XII
        Sonnet XIII - XVII
    • The Wind’s Tidings In August 1870
      To-Day
      Her Memories
      A Coarse Morning
      Not To Be
      Once
      The Old Dream

    Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928)

    • Hap
      Neutral Tones
      A Broken Appointment
      The Darkling Thrush
      The Self-Unseeing
      In Tenebris
      The Minute Before Meeting
      Night in the Old Home
      The Something that Saved Him
      Afterwards
      A Young Man’s Exhortation
      Snow in the Suburbs
      In a Wood

    Dowden, Edward (1843-1913)

    • Burdens
      Leonardo’s “Monna Lisa”
      Europa
      Seeking God
      In a June Night

    Bridges, Robert (1844-1930)

    • London Snow
      On a Dead Child

    Hopkins, Gerard Manley (1844-1899)

    • The Wreck of the Deutschland
      God’s Grandeur
      The Windhover
      Pied Beauty
      Harrahing in Harvest
      The Caged Skylark
      Peace
      Felix Randal
      “As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame”
      The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo
      Spelt from Sibyl’s Leaves
      Carrion Comfort
      “No worst, there is none”
      “To seem the stranger lies my lot, my life”
      “I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day”
      “Patience, hard thing! the hard thing but to pray”
      “My own heart let me more have pity on”
      Tom’s Garland
      Harry Ploughman
      It was a hard thing to undo this knot

    Lee-Hamilton, Eugene (1845-1907)

    • The Keys of the Convent
      Introduction (Picciola)
      The New Medusa
      The Raft
      To the Muse
      River Babble
      Twilight
      What the Sonnet Is
      Sunken Gold
      The Ever Young
      • I
        II
        III
    • The Mandolin

    Field, Michael

    • Preface
      Drawing of Roses and Violets
      La Gioconda
      The Birth of Venus
      A Portrait
      A “Sant’ Imagine”
      The Magdalen
      A Pen-Drawing of Leda
      “Death, men say, is like a sea”
      “Ah, Eros doth not always smite”
      “Sometimes I do despatch my heart”
      An Apple-Flower
      “Solitary Death, make me thine own”
      “A curling thread”
      A Spring Morning By the Sea
      Love’rsquo;s Sour Leisure
      “It was deep April, and the morn”
      Noon
      An Aeolian Harp
      Cyclamens

    Meynell, Alice (1847-1922)

    • A Letter from a Girl to Her Own Old Age
      In February
      • A Poet’s Fancies
        • The Love of Narcissus
          To Any Poet
          Unlikned
    • The Shepherdess
      Parentage
      Cradle-Song at Twilight
      In Manchester Square
      Maternity
      A Study
      • Before Light
        About Noon
        At Twilight
    • A Father of Women
      The Threshing Machine
      Reflections
      • (I) In Ireland
        (II) In “Othello”
        (III) In Two Poets

    Dolben, Digby Mackworth (1848-1867)

    • A Song
      A Poem Without A Name
      After Reading Aeschylus
      Good Friday
      Sister Death
      Pro Castitate

    Henley, William Ernest (1849-1903)

    • Waiting

    Mallock, William H. (1849-1923)

    • Christmas Thoughts, by a Modern Thinker

    Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894)

    • Bed in Summer
      Travel
      The Land of Counterpane
      The Land of Story-books
      Requiem
      The Celestial Surgeon
      “I have trod the upward and the downward slope”
      “So live, so love, so use that fragile hour”
      “I saw red evening through the rain”

    Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900)

    • Requiescat
      Hélas!
      Impressions
      • le jardin
        la mer
    • Symphony in Yellow

    Davidson, John (1857-1909)

    • Thirty Bob a Week
      A Ballad of a Nun
      A Ballad in Blank Verse
      A Northern Suburb
      A Woman and Her Son
      Yuletide

    Robinson, A. Mary F. (1857-1944)

    • The Scape-Goat
      The Idea
      Darwinism
      An Orchard at Avignon
      Love, Death, and Art
      Art and Life
      Song
      Neurasthenia
      To My Muse

    Stephen, J.K. (1859-1907)

    • In the Backs

    Thompson, Francis (1859-1907)

    • The Hound of Heaven

    Coleridge, Mary (1861-1907)

    • IX — The Other Side Of A Mirror
      XIV — Regina
      XXVII — Winged Words
      LX — Marriage
      LXIII — In Dispraise of the Moon
      LXXVI — The White Women
      XCVII — The Fire Lamp
      CXIV — To the writer of a poem on a bridge
      CXCI — Tar Ublia Chi Bien Eima
      CCVI — A Clever Woman

    Levy, Amy (1861-1889)

    • Xantippe
      Felo De Se
      To a Dead Poet
      A Minor Poet
      Magdalen
      A London Plane-Tree
      London Poets
      On The Threshold
      In The Black Forest
      To Vernon Lee
      To E.

    Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1889)

    • Gentlemen-Rankers
      In the Neolithic Age
      Recessional
      The White Man’s Burden
      If

    Gray, John

    • The Barber
      Poem

    Dowson, Ernest (1867-1900)

    • Nuns of the Perpetual Adoration
      Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae
      Villanelle of Sunset
      To One in Bedlam
      Benedictio Domini
      Ad Manus Puellae
      Terre Promise
      Spleen
      Vitae summa brevis spem nos vetat incohare longam

    Johnson, Lionel (1867-1902)

    • The Dark Angel
      Summer Storm
      Dead
      The End
      Nihilism
      The Darkness
      In a Workhouse
      Bagley Wood
      The Destroyer of a Soul
      The Precept of Silence
      A Proselyte

    Mew, Charlotte (1869-1909)

    • The Farmer’s Bride
      The Fête
      In Nunhead Cemetery
      Ken
      Madeleine In Church
      The Road To Kérity
      I Have Been Through The Gates
      The Cenotaph
      V. R. I.
      • i. January 22nd, 1901
        ii. January 2nd, 1901

    POETIC THEORY

    Fox, William Johnson (1786-1864)

    • Tennyson — Poems, Chiefly Lyrical — 1830 Pub. 1831

    Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833)

    • On some of the Characteristics of Modern Poetry and on the Lyrical Poems of Alfred Tennyson Pub. 1831

    Landon, Letitia E. (1802-1838)

    • On the Ancient and Modern Influence of Poetry Pub. 1832

    Mill, John Stuart (1806-1873)

    • “What is poetry?”
      “Two kinds of poetry” Pub. January and October 1833

    Taylor, Sir Henry (1800-1886)

    • Preface to Philip Van Artevelde Pub. 1834

    Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)

    • Hand and Soul Pub. 1850

    Browning, Robert (1812-1889)

    • An Essay on Percy Bysshe Shelley Pub. 1851

    Clough, Arthur Hugh

    • Recent English Poetry: A Review of Several Volumes of Poems by Alexander Smith, Mathew Arnold, and others

    Arnold, Matthew (1822-1888)

    • Preface to the 1853 Edition of Poems Pub. 1853

    Massey, Gerald (1828-1907)

    • Preface to the Third Edition of Babe Christabel Pub. 1854

    Ruskin, John (1819-1900)

    • Of the Pathetic Fallacy Pub. 1856

    Arnold, Matthew (1822-1888)

    • The Function of Criticism at the Present Time Pub. 1864

    Bagehot, Walter (1826-1877)

    • Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Browning; or, Pure, Ornate, and Grotesque Art in English Poetry Pub. 1864

    Morley, John

    • Mr. Swinburne’s New Poems: Poems and Ballards

    Dallas, Eneas Sweetland (1828-1879)

    • The Secrecy of Art Pub. 1888

    Buchanan, Robert (1841-1901)

    • The Fleshly School of Poetry: Mr. D.G. Rossetti Pub. 1871

    Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)

    • The Stealthy School Of Criticism Pub. 1871

    Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909)

    • Under The Microscope Pub. 1872

    Pater, Walter (1839-1890)

    • Preface to The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry Pub. 1873

    Hopkins, Gerard Manley (1844-1889)

    • Author’s Preface Pub. 1883

    Levy, Amy

    • James Thompson: A Minor Poet

    Whistler, James McNeill (1834-1903)

    • Ten O’Clock Pub. 1890

    Morris, William

    • Of the Origins of Ornamental Art

    Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900)

    • The Critic as Artist Pub. 1890

    Symons, Arthur (1865-1945)

    • The Decadent Movement in Literature Pub. 1893
      The Symbolist Movement In Literature Pub. 1899

    Meynell, Alice

    • Tennyson
      Robert Browning
      The Rhythm of Life

    Robins, Elizabeth

    • Woman’s Secret

    Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928)

    • Apology Pub. 1922

    INDEXES

    Index of First Lines
    Index of Authors and Titles

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