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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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      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
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          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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