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The Broadview Anthology of Victorian Poetry and Poetic Theory, Concise Edition is less than half the length of the full anthology, but preserves the main principles of the larger work. A number of longer poems (such as Tennyson's In Memoriam) are included in their entirety; there are generous selections from the work of all major poets, and a representative selection of other work; the work of Victorian women poets features very prominently; and a substantial selection of poetic theory is included to round out the volume.

Trade Review

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

“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

“A comprehensive and intelligent selection … fills a long-standing need.” — Thomas Hoberg, Northeastern Illinois University

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



Table of Contents

POETRY

FELICIA HEMANS

  • The Suliote Mother
    The Lady of The Castle
    To Wordsworth
    Casabianca
    The Grave of a Poetess
    The Image In Lava
    The Indian With His Dead Child
    The Rock of Cader Idris

LETITIA E. LANDON

  • from The Improvisatrice
    • Advertisement
      Sappho’s Song
  • “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

ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING

  • The Cry of the Children
    Sonnets From the Portuguese
    • III
      XXII
      XXIX
      XLIII
  • The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point
    Aurora Leigh
    • First Book
      Second Book
      Fifth Book
  • A Curse for a Nation
    A Musical Instrument

CAROLINE NORTON

  • From Voice From the Factories
    The Creole Girl
    The Poet’s Choice

EDWARD FITZGERALD

  • Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

ALFRED TENNYSON

  • 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 [The Palace of Art]
    The Palace of Art
    The Hesperides
    The Lotos-Eaters
    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
    The Charge of the Light Brigade
    Maud
    Tithonus
    Crossing the Bar

ROBERT BROWNING

  • My Last Duchess
    Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister
    Johannes Agrνcola in Meditation
    Porphyria’s Lover
    Pictor Ignotus
    The Lost Leader
    The Bishop Orders His Tom 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
    Saul
    Cleon
    Abt Vogler
    Rabbi Ben Ezra
    Caliban upon Setebos; or, Natural Theology in the Island

EDWARD LEAR

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

CHARLOTTE BRONTË

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

EMILY JANE BRONTË

  • “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 diey did smile”

ELIZA COOK

  • The Waters
    The Ploughshare of Old England
    Song of the Red Indian
    Song of the Ugly Maiden
    A Song For The Workers

ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH

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

SPERANZA (LADY WILDE)

  • The Voice of the Poor
    A Lament For the Potato
    Tristan and Isolde

MATTHEW ARNOLD

  • 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
    Thyrsis

DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI

  • The Blessed Damozel
    My Sister’s Sleep
    Jenny
    “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

ARTHUR MUNBY

  • The Serving Maid
    Woman’s Rights

ELIZABETH SIDDAL

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

CHRISTINA ROSSETTI

  • Goblin Market
    A Birthday
    After Death
    An Apple Gathering
    Echo
    “No, Thank you, John”
    Song
    Uphill
    A Better Resurrection
    “The Iniquity of the Fathers Upon the Children”
    Monna Innominata
    • 1
      2
      3
      4
      5
      6
      7
      8
      9
      10
      11
      12
      13
      14
  • “For Thine Own Sake, O My God”
    In an Artist’s Studio

LEWIS CARROLL

  • Jabberwocky
    The Walrus and the Carpenter

WILLIAM MORRIS

  • The Defence of Guenevere
    The Haystack in the Floods

ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE

  • The Triumph of Time
    Itylus
    Anactoria
    Hymn to Proserpine
    The Leper
    The Garden of Proserpine
    A Forsaken Garden
    At A Month’s End
    Ave Atque Vale

AUGUSTA WEBSTER

  • Circe
    A Castaway
    Mother and Daughter Sonnets
    • VI
      VII
      IX
      XIV
      XII
      XIII
      XIV
      XV
      XVI
      XVII

THOMAS HARDY

  • 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

GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS

  • The Wreck of the Deutschland
    God’s Grandeur
    The Windhover
    Felix Randal
    “As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame”
    The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo
    Carrion Comfort
    “No worst, there is none”
    Tom’s Garland
    Harry Ploughman

MICHAEL FIELD

  • Preface
    La Gioconda
    The Birth of Venus
    “Death, men say, is like a sea”
    “Ah, Eros doth not always smite”
    “Sometimes I do despatch my heart”
    “Solitary Death, make me thine own”
    Love’s Sour Leisure
    “It was deep April, and the morn”
    An Aeolian Harp

ALICE MEYNELL

  • A Letter from a Girl to Her Own Old Age
    In February
    A Father of Women
    The Threshing Machine
    Reflections
    • (I) In Ireland
      (II) In “Othello”
      (III) In Two Poets

OSCAR WILDE

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

RUDYARD KIPLING

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

LIONEL JOHNSON

  • 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

CHARLOTTE MEW

  • The Farmer’s Bride
    In Nunhead Cemetery
    The Road To Kιrity
    I Have Been Through The Gates
    The Cenotaph
    V. R. I
    • i. January 22nd, 1901
      ii. February^, 1901

POETIC THEORY

WILLIAM JOHNSON FOX

  • Tennyson – Poems, Chiefly Lyrical – 1830

ARTHUR HENRY HALLAM

  • On Some of the Characteristics of Modern Poetry

LETITIA E. LANDON

  • On the Ancient and Modern Influence of Poetry

JOHN STUART MILL

  • “What is Poetry?”

ROBERT BROWNING

  • “Introductory Essay” [“Essay on Shelley”]

ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH

  • Recent English Poetry: A Review of Several Volumes of Poems byAlexander Smith, Matthew Arnold, and Others

MATTHEW ARNOLD

  • Preface to the First Edition of Poems

JOHN RUSKIN

  • Of the Pathetic Fallacy

MATTHEW ARNOLD

  • The Function of Criticism at the Present Time

WALTER BAGEHOT

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

ROBERT BUCHANAN

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

DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI

  • The Stealthy School Of Criticism

ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE

  • Under The Microscope

WALTER PATER

  • The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry

GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS

  • Author’s Preface

ALICE MEYNELL

  • Tennyson
    Robert Browning
    The Rhythm of Life

INDEXES

INDEX OF FIRST LINES
INDEX OF AUTHORS AND TITLES

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      Book Synopsis
      The Broadview Anthology of Victorian Poetry and Poetic Theory, Concise Edition is less than half the length of the full anthology, but preserves the main principles of the larger work. A number of longer poems (such as Tennyson's In Memoriam) are included in their entirety; there are generous selections from the work of all major poets, and a representative selection of other work; the work of Victorian women poets features very prominently; and a substantial selection of poetic theory is included to round out the volume.

      Trade Review

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

      “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

      “A comprehensive and intelligent selection … fills a long-standing need.” — Thomas Hoberg, Northeastern Illinois University

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



      Table of Contents

      POETRY

      FELICIA HEMANS

      • The Suliote Mother
        The Lady of The Castle
        To Wordsworth
        Casabianca
        The Grave of a Poetess
        The Image In Lava
        The Indian With His Dead Child
        The Rock of Cader Idris

      LETITIA E. LANDON

      • from The Improvisatrice
        • Advertisement
          Sappho’s Song
      • “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

      ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING

      • The Cry of the Children
        Sonnets From the Portuguese
        • III
          XXII
          XXIX
          XLIII
      • The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point
        Aurora Leigh
        • First Book
          Second Book
          Fifth Book
      • A Curse for a Nation
        A Musical Instrument

      CAROLINE NORTON

      • From Voice From the Factories
        The Creole Girl
        The Poet’s Choice

      EDWARD FITZGERALD

      • Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

      ALFRED TENNYSON

      • 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 [The Palace of Art]
        The Palace of Art
        The Hesperides
        The Lotos-Eaters
        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
        The Charge of the Light Brigade
        Maud
        Tithonus
        Crossing the Bar

      ROBERT BROWNING

      • My Last Duchess
        Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister
        Johannes Agrνcola in Meditation
        Porphyria’s Lover
        Pictor Ignotus
        The Lost Leader
        The Bishop Orders His Tom 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
        Saul
        Cleon
        Abt Vogler
        Rabbi Ben Ezra
        Caliban upon Setebos; or, Natural Theology in the Island

      EDWARD LEAR

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

      CHARLOTTE BRONTË

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

      EMILY JANE BRONTË

      • “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 diey did smile”

      ELIZA COOK

      • The Waters
        The Ploughshare of Old England
        Song of the Red Indian
        Song of the Ugly Maiden
        A Song For The Workers

      ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH

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

      SPERANZA (LADY WILDE)

      • The Voice of the Poor
        A Lament For the Potato
        Tristan and Isolde

      MATTHEW ARNOLD

      • 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
        Thyrsis

      DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI

      • The Blessed Damozel
        My Sister’s Sleep
        Jenny
        “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

      ARTHUR MUNBY

      • The Serving Maid
        Woman’s Rights

      ELIZABETH SIDDAL

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

      CHRISTINA ROSSETTI

      • Goblin Market
        A Birthday
        After Death
        An Apple Gathering
        Echo
        “No, Thank you, John”
        Song
        Uphill
        A Better Resurrection
        “The Iniquity of the Fathers Upon the Children”
        Monna Innominata
        • 1
          2
          3
          4
          5
          6
          7
          8
          9
          10
          11
          12
          13
          14
      • “For Thine Own Sake, O My God”
        In an Artist’s Studio

      LEWIS CARROLL

      • Jabberwocky
        The Walrus and the Carpenter

      WILLIAM MORRIS

      • The Defence of Guenevere
        The Haystack in the Floods

      ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE

      • The Triumph of Time
        Itylus
        Anactoria
        Hymn to Proserpine
        The Leper
        The Garden of Proserpine
        A Forsaken Garden
        At A Month’s End
        Ave Atque Vale

      AUGUSTA WEBSTER

      • Circe
        A Castaway
        Mother and Daughter Sonnets
        • VI
          VII
          IX
          XIV
          XII
          XIII
          XIV
          XV
          XVI
          XVII

      THOMAS HARDY

      • 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

      GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS

      • The Wreck of the Deutschland
        God’s Grandeur
        The Windhover
        Felix Randal
        “As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame”
        The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo
        Carrion Comfort
        “No worst, there is none”
        Tom’s Garland
        Harry Ploughman

      MICHAEL FIELD

      • Preface
        La Gioconda
        The Birth of Venus
        “Death, men say, is like a sea”
        “Ah, Eros doth not always smite”
        “Sometimes I do despatch my heart”
        “Solitary Death, make me thine own”
        Love’s Sour Leisure
        “It was deep April, and the morn”
        An Aeolian Harp

      ALICE MEYNELL

      • A Letter from a Girl to Her Own Old Age
        In February
        A Father of Women
        The Threshing Machine
        Reflections
        • (I) In Ireland
          (II) In “Othello”
          (III) In Two Poets

      OSCAR WILDE

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

      RUDYARD KIPLING

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

      LIONEL JOHNSON

      • 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

      CHARLOTTE MEW

      • The Farmer’s Bride
        In Nunhead Cemetery
        The Road To Kιrity
        I Have Been Through The Gates
        The Cenotaph
        V. R. I
        • i. January 22nd, 1901
          ii. February^, 1901

      POETIC THEORY

      WILLIAM JOHNSON FOX

      • Tennyson – Poems, Chiefly Lyrical – 1830

      ARTHUR HENRY HALLAM

      • On Some of the Characteristics of Modern Poetry

      LETITIA E. LANDON

      • On the Ancient and Modern Influence of Poetry

      JOHN STUART MILL

      • “What is Poetry?”

      ROBERT BROWNING

      • “Introductory Essay” [“Essay on Shelley”]

      ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH

      • Recent English Poetry: A Review of Several Volumes of Poems byAlexander Smith, Matthew Arnold, and Others

      MATTHEW ARNOLD

      • Preface to the First Edition of Poems

      JOHN RUSKIN

      • Of the Pathetic Fallacy

      MATTHEW ARNOLD

      • The Function of Criticism at the Present Time

      WALTER BAGEHOT

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

      ROBERT BUCHANAN

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

      DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI

      • The Stealthy School Of Criticism

      ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE

      • Under The Microscope

      WALTER PATER

      • The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry

      GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS

      • Author’s Preface

      ALICE MEYNELL

      • Tennyson
        Robert Browning
        The Rhythm of Life

      INDEXES

      INDEX OF FIRST LINES
      INDEX OF AUTHORS AND TITLES

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