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Victorian Literature is a comprehensive and fully annotated anthology with a flexible design that allows teachers and students to pursue traditional or innovative lines of inquiry--from the canon to its extensions and its contexts. * Represents the period's major writers of prose, poetry, drama, and more, including Tennyson, Arnold, the Brownings, Carlyle, Ruskin, the Rossettis, Wilde, Eliot, and the Brontës * Promotes an ideologically and culturally varied view of Victorian society with the inclusion of women, working-class, colonial, and gay and lesbian writers * Incorporates recent…mehr
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Preface xlv
Abbreviations li
Introduction 1
Victorian Representations and Misrepresentations 1
"The Terrific Burning" 2
The Battle of the Styles 3
"The Best of Times, the Worst of Times" 4
Demographics and Underlying Fears 5
Power, Industry, and the High Cost of Bread and Beer 5
The Classes and the Masses 7
The Dynamics of Gender 8
Religion and the Churches 9
Political Structures 11
Empire 12
Genres and Literary Hierarchies 12
The Fine Arts and Popular Entertainment 13
Revolutions in Mass Media and the Expansion of Print Culture 17
Part One Contexts 19
The Condition of England 21
Introduction 21
1. The Victorian Social Formation 27
Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803-73): Pelham (1828) 27
From Chapter 1 27
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881): Chartism (1840) 29
From Chapter 1: "Condition-of-England Question" 29
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881): Past and Present (1843) 30
From Book I, Chapter 1: "Midas" 30
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-81): Sybil (1845) 32
From Book 2, Chapter 5 [The Two Nations] 32
George Cruikshank (1792-1878): The British Bee Hive. Process engraving
(1867) 34
Matthew Arnold (1822-88): Culture and Anarchy (1869) 35
From III [Chapter 3: "Barbarians, Philistines, Populace"] 35
2. Education and Mass Literacy 37
Illustrated London News (1842): From "Our Address" 37
Illustrated London News (1843): Dedicatory Sonnet 39
Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (1815-81): Life and Correspondence of Thomas Arnold,
D.D. (1844) 39
From "Letter of Inquiry for a Master" by Thomas Arnold (1795-1842) 39
From "Letter to a Master on his Appointment" 40
William Wordsworth (1770-1850): "Illustrated Books and Newspapers" (1846)
40
Anon. [Thomas Peckett Prest (?) (1810-59)]: "The String of Pearls: A
Romance" (1846-47) 41
From Chapter 38 [Sweeney Todd] 41
From Chapter 39 42
The Society for Promoting Working Men's Associations: "Lectures for April,
1853" 43
Charles Dickens (1812-70): Hard Times (1854) 44
Chapter 1: "The One Thing Needful" 44
Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake (1809-93): From "The Englishwoman at School"
(July 1878) 45
Gender, Women, and Sexuality 49
Introduction 49
1. Constructing Genders 56
Kenelm Digby (1800-80): The Broad Stone of Honour: or, the True Sense and
Practice of Chivalry ([1822] 1877) 56
From Part 1, Section 14: "Godefridus" 56
Sarah Stickney Ellis (1799-1872): The Daughters of England (1842) 57
From Chapter 1: "Important Inquiries" 57
From Chapter 9: "Friendship and Flirtation" 58
Marion Kirkland Reid (c.1839-89): From A Plea for Woman (1843) 59
Richard Pilling (1799-1874): From "Defence at his Trial" (1843) 61
Isabella Beeton (1836-65): The Book of Household Management (1859-61) 62
From Chapter 1: "The Mistress" 62
Eliza Lynn Linton (1822-98): From "The Girl of the Period" in the
Saturday Review (14 Mar. 1868) 65
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936). "If-" (1910) 67
2. The Woman Question 68
Sarah Stickney Ellis (1799-1872): The Women of England (1838) 68
From Chapter 2: "The Influence of the Women of England" 68
Harriet Taylor (1807-58): From "The Enfranchisement of Women" in
Westminster Review (July 1851) 70
Caroline Norton (1808-77): From A Letter to the Queen on Lord Chancellor
Cranworth's Marriage and Divorce Bill (1855) 71
Harriet Martineau (1802-76), Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), Josephine
Butler (1828-1906), and others: "Manifesto" of "The Ladies' National
Association for the Repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts" in Daily News
(31 Dec. 1869) 74
Sarah Grand (1854-1943): From "The New Aspect of the Woman Question" in
North American Review (Mar. 1894) 76
Sydney Grundy (1848-1914): The New Woman (1894) 78
From Act 1 78
Literature and the Arts 81
Introduction 81
1. Debates about Literature 87
Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812-52): Contrasts (1836) 87
From Chapter 1: "On the Feelings which Produced the Great Edifices of the
Middle Ages" 87
George Eliot (1819-80): From "Silly Novels by Lady Novelists" in
Westminster Review (Oct. 1856) 89
Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835-1915): Lady Audley's Secret (1862) 91
From Chapter 1: "Lucy" 91
From Chapter 37: "Buried Alive" 93
Colin Henry Hazlewood (1820-75): Lady Audley's Secret (1863) 94
From Act V 94
Henry James (1843-1916): From "The Art of Fiction" in Longman's Magazine
(Sept. 1884) 96
2. Pre-Raphaelitism, Aestheticism, and Decadence 98
William Michael Rossetti (1829-1919): The Germ: Or Thoughts Toward Nature
in Poetry, Literature, and Art (1850) 98
From "Introduction" 98
Charles Dickens (1812-70): From "Old Lamps for New Ones" in Household Words
(15 June 1850) 100
Christina Rossetti (1830-94): Two Poems on the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
[1853] 102
The P.R.B. [I] 102
The P.R.B. [II] 103
John Ruskin (1819-1900): "The Præ-Raphaelites" Letter to The Times
(25 May 1854) 103
Walter Pater (1839-94): From "The Poems of William Morris" ["Æsthetic
Poetry"] in Westminster Review (Oct. 1868) 105
James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903): From "Mr. Whistler's 'Ten
O'Clock'" (20 Feb. 1885) 109
Religion and Science 113
Introduction 113
1. Geology and Evolution 122
Robert Chambers (1802-71): Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
(1844) 122
From Chapter 12: "General Considerations Respecting the Origin of the
Animated Tribes" 122
Hugh Miller (1802-56): The Foot-Prints of the Creator: or, the Asterolepis
of Stromness (1849) 124
From "Stromness and its Asterolepis. The Lake of Stennis 124
Philip Henry Gosse (1810-88): Omphalos: An Attempt to Untie the Geological
Knot (1857) 125
From Chapter 12: "The Conclusion" 125
Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913): From "On the Tendency of Varieties to
Depart Indefinitely from the Original Type" (20 Aug. 1858) 127
Charles Darwin (1809-82): On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural
Selection, or The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
(1859) 130
From "Introduction" 130
From Chapter 3: "Struggle for Existence" 133
From Chapter 4: "Natural Selection" 133
From Chapter 15: "Recapitulation and Conclusion" 136
Agnes Mary Frances Robinson (1857-1944) 140
Darwinism 140
Empire 142
Introduction 142
1. Celebration and Criticism 148
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881): From "Occasional Discourse on the Negro
Question" in Fraser's Magazine (Dec. 1849) 148
John Stuart Mill (1806-73): From "The Negro Question" in
Fraser's Magazine (Jan. 1850) 150
John Ruskin (1819-1900): From Inaugural Lecture (1870) 151
George William Hunt (c.1839-1904): "MacDermott's War Song" ["By Jingo"]
(1877) 153
J. R. Seeley (1834-95): The Expansion of England (1883) 154
From Course II, Lecture I: "History and Politics" 154
Alfred Tennyson (1809-92): "Opening of the Indian and Colonial Exhibition"
(1886) 156
Alfred Tennyson (1809-92): "Carmen Sæculare: An Ode in Honour of the
Jubilee of Queen Victoria" (1887) 157
Henry Labouchère [?] (1831-1912): "The Brown Man's Burden" (1899) 160
J. A. Hobson (1858-1940): Imperialism: A Study (1902) 162
From Part 2, Chapter 4: "Imperialism and the Lower Races" 162
Arthur Christopher Benson (1862-1925): "Land of Hope and Glory" (1902) 163
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1840-1922): From My Diaries: Being a Personal
Narrative of Events, 1888-1914 (1919) 165
2. Governing the Colonies 166
2.1 India 166
Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-59): From Minute on Indian Education (1835)
166
Proclamation by the Queen in Council, to the Princes, Chiefs, and People of
India (1858) 169
G. A. Henty (1832-1902): With Clive in India: Or, The Beginnings of an
Empire (1884) 171
From "Preface" 171
Flora Annie Steel (1847-1929) and Grace Gardiner (d. 1919): The Complete
Indian Housekeeper and Cook (1888) 172
From "Preface to the First Edition" 172
From Chapter 1: "The Duties of the Mistress" 173
Behramji Malabari (1853-1912): The Indian Eye on English Life, or Rambles
of a Pilgrim Reformer (1893) 176
From Chapter 2: "In and About London" 176
Ham Mukasa (1870-1956): Uganda's Katikiro in England (1904) 178
From Chapter 5 178
From Chapter 6 179
Part Two Authors 181
Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864) 183
To Robert Browning 183
"You smiled, you spoke, and I believed" 184
Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher 184
"I entreat you, Alfred Tennyson" 184
Charlotte Elliott (1789-1871) 185
"Him That Cometh to Me I Will in No Wise Cast Out." [Just As I Am] 185
John Keble (1792-1866) 186
From National Apostasy Considered 187
Felicia Hemans (1793-1835) 190
Casabianca 191
The Indian Woman's Death-Song 192
The Indian With His Dead Child 194
The Rock of Cader-Idris 195
The Last Song of Sappho 196
Janet Hamilton (1795-1873) 198
A Lay of the Tambour Frame 198
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) 200
Past and Present 201
"Hero-Worship" 202
"Captains of Industry" 205
Maria Smith Abdy (1797-1867) 210
A Governess Wanted 211
Mary Howitt (1799-1888) 212
The Spider and the Fly 213
The Fossil Elephant 214
Thomas Hood (1799-1845) 216
The Song of the Shirt 216
The Bridge of Sighs 219
Sarah Stickney Ellis (1799-1872) 222
From Pictures of Private Life 222
"An Apology for Fiction" 222
Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-59) 225
The History of England from the Accession of James the Second (1848-61) 225
From Chapter 1: "Before the Restoration" 226
[Introduction] 226
From Chapter 3: "The State of England in 1685" 228
[The Clergy] 228
John Henry Newman (1801-90) 230
The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated 231
From Discourse V: "Knowledge Its Own End" 233
From Discourse VII: "Knowledge Viewed in Relation to Professional Skill"
237
William Barnes (1801-86) 239
My Orchet in Linden Lea 240
Childhood 240
The Wife a-Lost 241
Zummer An' Winter 242
From "Old Bardic Poetry" [Two Translations from the Welsh] in Macmillan's
Magazine (Aug. 1867). 243
I Cynddyl¿an's Hall 243
II An Englyn on a Yellow Greyhound 244
Harriet Martineau (1802-76) 244
Society in America (1837) 245
From Chapter 3: "Morals of Politics" 245
Section VI: "Citizenship of People of Colour" 245
Section VII: "Political Non-Existence of Women" 246
L. E. L. [Letitia Elizabeth Landon] (1802-38) 248
Sappho's Song 248
Revenge 249
Stanzas on the Death of Mrs. Hemans 250
The Factory 253
The Princess Victoria [I] 255
The Princess Victoria [II] 257
Elizabeth Duncan Campbell (1804-78) 258
The Windmill of Sebastopol 258
The Crimean War 261
The Schoolmaster 263
The Death of Willie, My Second Son 264
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-61) 266
Stanzas Addressed to Miss Landon, 266
L. E. L.'s Last Question 268
A Musical Instrument 270
John Stuart Mill (1806-73) 272
On Liberty 273
From "Introductory" 274
The Subjection of Women 280
From Chapter 1 280
Caroline Norton (1808-77) 285
From A Voice from the Factories 285
The Picture of Sappho 290
Charles Darwin (1809-82) 293
From Autobiography 294
Edward FitzGerald (1809-83) 301
The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, The Astronomer-Poet of Persia 302
Alfred Tennyson (1809-92) 318
Mariana 319
The Kraken 321
The Lady of Shalott 321
Ulysses 326
["Break, break, break"] 328
In Memoriam A. H. H. 329
The Eagle 415
The Charge of the Light Brigade 416
To Virgil 418
"Frater Ave atque Vale" 419
Crossing the Bar 420
Robert Browning (1812-89) 420
Porphyria's Lover 421
From Pippa Passes 423
Song 423
My Last Duchess 423
Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister 424
The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church 427
Meeting at Night 431
Parting at Morning 431
Love Among the Ruins 431
Fra Lippo Lippi 434
Andrea del Sarto 444
From Asolando 450
Epilogue 450
Edward Lear (1812-88) 451
From A Book of Nonsense 452
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat 453
How Pleasant to Know Mr. Lear 454
Samuel Smiles (1812-1904) 455
Self-Help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct 455
From Chapter 1: "Self-Help: National and Individual" 455
From Chapter 2: "Leaders of Industry-Inventors and Producers" [James Watt]
456
Charlotte Brontë (1816-55) 457
The Missionary 458
"My feet they are sore, and my limbs they are weary" 462
Eventide ["The house was still, the room was still"] 463
Dec 24 [1848] [On the Death of Emily Brontë] 463
June 21 1849 [On the Death of Anne Brontë] 464
Grace Aguilar (1816-47) 464
The Vision of Jerusalem 465
Edwin Waugh (1817-90) 467
Come Whoam to Thy Childer an' Me 467
Eawr Folk 468
Emily Jane Brontë (1818-48) 470
Remembrance 470
Song ["The Linnet in the rocky dells"] 471
To Imagination 472
Plead for Me 473
The Old Stoic 474
"Shall earth no more inspire thee?" 475
"Ay-there it is! it wakes to-night" 476
"No coward soul is mine" 477
Eliza Cook (1818-89) 477
The Old Arm-Chair 478
Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-61) 479
Qui Laborat, Orat 480
"Duty-that's to say complying" 480
The Latest Decalogue 482
The Struggle 482
Ah! Yet Consider it Again! 483
Epi-strauss-ium 483
John Ruskin (1819-1900) 484
Modern Painters 485
From "Of Water, as Painted by Turner" 487
From "Of Pathetic Fallacy'' 490
The Stones of Venice 493
From "The Nature of Gothic" 495
Queen Victoria (1819-1901) 506
Speech to Parliament 8 August 1851 506
From Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands from 1848 to 1861
508
Love for Balmoral 508
Visits to the Old Women 508
George Eliot (1819-80) 509
"O May I Join the Choir Invisible" 510
Anne Brontë (1820-49) 511
Appeal 512
The Captive Dove 512
"O, they have robbed me of the hope" 513
Domestic Peace 513
[Last Lines] "I hoped that I was brave and strong" 514
Jean Ingelow (1820-97) 516
Remonstrance 516
Like a Laverock in the Lift 517
On the Borders of Cannock Chase 517
Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) 518
Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not 519
Preface 519
[Introduction] 519
"Note Upon Some Errors in Novels" 522
From Cassandra 524
Dora Greenwell (1821-82) 529
A Scherzo 529
To Elizabeth Barrett Browning in 1851 530
To Elizabeth Barrett Browning in 1861 531
To Christina Rossetti 531
Matthew Arnold (1822-88) 532
The Forsaken Merman 532
Memorial Verses 536
[Isolation] To Marguerite 538
To Marguerite, in Returning a Volume of the Letters of Ortis 539
The Buried Life 540
Lines Written in Kensington Gardens 542
Philomela 544
Requiescat 545
Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse 545
East London 551
West London 552
Dover Beach 552
Growing Old 553
Preface to Poems (1853) 554
Coventry Patmore (1823-96) 564
From The Angel in the House 565
Book I: The Prologue 565
III Honoria: the Accompaniments 568
1 The Lover 568
Book II: "The Espousals" 570
X the Epitaph: the Accompaniments 570
3 The Foreign Land 570
XI the Departure: the Accompaniments 570
1 Womanhood 570
Idyl XI: The Departure 571
The Epilogue 572
Sydney Dobell (1824-74) 572
To the Authoress of "Aurora Leigh" 573
Two Sonnets on the Death of Prince Albert 573
William Topaz McGonagall (1825-1902) 574
The Tay Bridge Disaster 575
The Death of the Queen 577
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895) 578
From "'On a Piece of Chalk.' A Lecture to Working Men" 579
Adelaide Anne Procter (1825-64) 583
Envy 583
A Woman's Question 584
A Woman's Answer 585
A Lost Cord 586
A Woman's Last Word 587
Eliza Harriet Keary (1827-1918) 588
Disenchanted 588
Renunciation 589
A Mother's Call 589
Old Age 590
A Portrait 590
Samuel Laycock (1826-93) 591
To My Owd Friend, Thomas Kenworthy 591
John Bull an' His Tricks! 592
Emily Pfeiffer (1827-90) 594
Peace to the Odalisque [I] 595
[Peace to the Odalisque II] 595
Any Husband to Many a Wife 596
Studies from the Antique 596
Kassandra I 596
Kassandra II 597
Klytemnestra I 597
Klytemnestra II 598
Ellen Johnston (c.1827-74) 598
The Working Man 599
The Last Sark 599
Nelly's Lament for the Pirnhouse Cat 600
Wanted, a Man 601
The Last Lay of "The Factory Girl" 603
George Meredith (1828-1909) 605
Lucifer in Starlight 605
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-82) 606
The Girlhood of Mary Virgin 607
The Blessed Damozel 608
The Woodspurge 614
Jenny 614
The Ballad of Dead Ladies 623
Sunset Wings 625
"Found" 626
Spheral Change 626
Proserpina 627
Gerald Massey (1828-1907) 628
The Cry of the Unemployed 628
The Red Banner 629
The Awakening of the People 630
Elizabeth Siddal (1829-62) 631
Dead Love 632
Love and Hate 632
Lord, May I Come? 633
Christina Rossetti (1830-94) 634
Sappho 635
Goblin Market 635
A Birthday 649
Remember 649
After Death 650
An Apple Gathering 650
Echo 651
My Secret 652
"No, Thank You, John" 653
Song 654
Up-Hill 654
A Better Resurrection 655
L. E. L. 655
From Sing-Song 656
Monna Innominata: A Sonnet of Sonnets 658
A Life's Parallels 667
"For Thine Own Sake, O My God" 667
Birchington Churchyard 668
Cobwebs 668
In an Artist's Studio 669
An Echo from Willow-Wood 669
Sleeping at Last 670
Lewis Carroll (1832-98) 671
From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 672
[Prefatory Poem] "All in the golden afternoon" 672
From Through the Looking-Glass 673
[Prefatory Poem] "Child of the pure unclouded brow" 673
Jabberwocky 674
The Walrus and the Carpenter 676
[Concluding Poem] "A boat, beneath a sunny sky" 678
William Morris (1834-96) 679
Riding Together 680
The Defence of Guenevere 682
The Haystack in the Floods 693
In Prison 697
From The Earthly Paradise: An Apology 698
James Thomson [B. V.] (1834-82) 700
The City of Dreadful Night 700
Proem 701
I "The City is of Night; perchance of Death" 703
II "because He Seemed to Walk with An Intent" 704
VI "i Sat Forlornly by the River-side" 704
VII "some Say That Phantoms Haunt Those Shadowy Streets" 706
IX "it Is Full Strange to Him Who Hears and Feels" 707
XIII "of All Things Human Which Are Strange and Wild" 708
xiv "Large glooms were gathered in the mighty fane" 709
xvi "Our shadowy congregation rested still" 712
xix "The mighty river flowing dark and deep" 713
xx "I sat me weary on a pillar's base" 715
xxi "Anear the centre of that northern crest" 716
E. B. B. 719
William Schwenck Gilbert (1836-1911) 720
From Patience 720
Bunthorne's Recitative and Song ["Am I alone, and unobserved?"] 720
Bunthorne and Grosvenor's Duet ["When I go out of door"] 722
From Iolanthe 724
Lord Mountararat's Solo ["When Britain really ruled the waves"] 724
From The Gondoliers 725
Quartet ["Then one of us will be a Queen"] 725
Giuseppe's Solo ["Rising early in the morning"] 727
Augusta Webster (1837-94) 729
A Castaway 730
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) 746
From Atalanta in Calydon 747
Chorus ["When the hounds of spring are on winter's traces"] 747
Chorus ["Before the beginning of years"] 749
The Leper 751
Before the Mirror 755
Nephelidia 757
From "A Sequence of Sonnets on the Death of Robert Browning" 759
Walter Horatio Pater (1839-94) 759
Studies in the History of the Renaissance 760
Preface 762
Conclusion 766
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) 769
Hap 769
Neutral Tones 770
Nature's Questioning 770
A Christmas Ghost-Story 771
The Dead Drummer [Drummer Hodge] 772
The Darkling Thrush 773
The Ruined Maid 774
De Profundis [In Tenebris] I 775
De Profundis [in Tenebris] II 776
Mathilde Blind (1841-96) 776
Winter 777
The Dead 777
Manchester by Night 778
The Red Sunsets, 1883 [I] 778
The Red Sunsets, 1883 [II] 779
Violet Fane (1843-1905) 779
Lancelot and Guinevere 780
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-89) 783
The Wreck of the Deutschland 784
God's Grandeur 796
The Starlight Night 796
Spring 797
The Windhover 797
Pied Beauty 798
Hurrahing in Harvest 798
Binsey Poplars 799
Duns Scotus's Oxford 800
Felix Randal 800
Spring and Fall: 801
"As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies dráw fláme" 801
[Carrion Comfort] 802
Tom's Garland 803
Harry Ploughman 804
That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of the Resurrection
805
["Thou art indeed just, Lord"] 805
Louisa Sarah Bevington (1845-95) 806
Morning 806
Afternoon 807
Twilight 808
Midnight 809
Marion Bernstein (1846-1906) 810
Woman's Rights and Wrongs 810
A Rule to Work Both Ways 811
Wanted A Husband 812
Human Rights 813
A Dream 813
Married and "Settled" 814
Michael Field [Katharine Harris Bradley (1846-1914) and Edith Cooper
(1862-1913)] 815
An Æolian Harp 816
xiv [My Darling] 817
xxxv ["Come, Gorgo, put the rug in place"] 818
["O free me, for I take the leap"] 818
Praise of Thanatos 819
In Memoriam 820
Mona Lisa-Leonardo da Vinci (The Louvre) 820
To Correggio's Holy Sebastian (Dresden) 821
Cupid's Visit ["I lay sick in a foreign land"] 821
The Birth of Venus 822
["Sometimes I do dispatch my heart"] 823
["Ah, Eros doth not always smite"] 823
Cyclamens 824
["Already to mine eyelids' shore"] 824
["A Girl"] 824
["I sing thee with a stock-dove's throat"] 825
Unbosoming 825
["It was deep April"] 826
["Solitary Death, make me thine own"] 826
Walter Pater 827
Constancy 827
To Christina Rossetti 828
Penetration 828
To the Winter Aphrodite 829
"I love you with my life" 829
A Palimpsest 829
"Beloved, my glory in thee is not ceased" 830
"Lo, my loved is dying" 830
Alice Meynell (1847-1922) 830
Renouncement 831
Unlinked 831
Parentage 832
Maternity 832
William Hurrell Mallock (1849-1923) 833
Christmas Thoughts, by a Modern Thinker 833
William Ernest Henley (1849-1903) 836
From In Hospital 836
I Enter Patient 836
II Waiting 837
xiv Ave, Caesar! 837
IV to R. T. H. B. [invictus] 838
We Shall Surely Die 838
When You Are Old 839
Double Ballade of Life and Fate 839
Remonstrance 841
Pro Rege Nostro 841
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94) 843
From Treasure Island 843
To the Hesitating Purchaser 843
A Child's Garden of Verses 844
[From the first section] 844
I Bed in Summer 844
V Whole Duty of Children 845
xxviii Foreign Children 845
From Underwoods 846
xxi Requiem 846
"A Plea for Gas Lamps" 846
Arthur Clement Hilton (1851-77) 849
Octopus 849
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) 850
Requiescat 851
Impression du Matin 852
Helas! 852
Impressions 853
I Le Jardin 853
II La Mer 853
Symphony in Yellow 854
The Harlot's House 854
A Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray 855
John Davidson (1857-1909) 857
Thirty Bob a Week 857
A Northern Suburb 860
Battle 861
Constance Naden (1858-89) 861
The Lady Doctor 862
Love Versus Learning 864
To Amy, On Receiving Her Photograph 866
The New Orthodoxy 866
Natural Selection 868
A. E. Housman (1859-1936) 869
A Shropshire Lad 870
I 1887 870
II "loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now" 871
XIII "when I Was One-and-twenty" 872
xix To an Athlete Dying Young 872
xxvii "Is my team ploughing?" 873
xxx "Others, I am not the first" 874
xxxi "On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble" 875
xxxv "On the idle hill of summer" 875
xlv "If by chance your eye offend you" 876
liv "With rue my heart is laden" 876
lxii "Terence, this is stupid stuff " 877
Additional Poems 879
xviii "Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrists?" 879
Francis Thompson (1859-1907) 880
The Hound of Heaven 880
Rosamund Marriott Watson (1860-1911) 885
Scythe Song 886
Triolet 887
Omar Khayyám 887
Dead Poets 888
In the Rain 889
A Summer Night 890
Chimæra 891
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861-1907) 892
Gone 893
The Other Side of a Mirror 893
Mortal Combat 894
The Witch 894
Marriage 895
The White Women 895
Death and the Lady 897
Amy Levy (1861-89) 897
Felo De Se 898
Magdalen 899
A Wallflower 901
The First Extra 901
At a Dinner Party 902
A Ballad of Religion and Marriage 902
Henry Newbolt (1862-1938) 903
Vitaï Lampada 904
"He Fell Among Thieves" 905
The Dictionary of National Biography 906
The Vigil 907
Preface xlv
Abbreviations li
Introduction 1
Victorian Representations and Misrepresentations 1
"The Terrific Burning" 2
The Battle of the Styles 3
"The Best of Times, the Worst of Times" 4
Demographics and Underlying Fears 5
Power, Industry, and the High Cost of Bread and Beer 5
The Classes and the Masses 7
The Dynamics of Gender 8
Religion and the Churches 9
Political Structures 11
Empire 12
Genres and Literary Hierarchies 12
The Fine Arts and Popular Entertainment 13
Revolutions in Mass Media and the Expansion of Print Culture 17
Part One Contexts 19
The Condition of England 21
Introduction 21
1. The Victorian Social Formation 27
Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803-73): Pelham (1828) 27
From Chapter 1 27
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881): Chartism (1840) 29
From Chapter 1: "Condition-of-England Question" 29
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881): Past and Present (1843) 30
From Book I, Chapter 1: "Midas" 30
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-81): Sybil (1845) 32
From Book 2, Chapter 5 [The Two Nations] 32
George Cruikshank (1792-1878): The British Bee Hive. Process engraving
(1867) 34
Matthew Arnold (1822-88): Culture and Anarchy (1869) 35
From III [Chapter 3: "Barbarians, Philistines, Populace"] 35
2. Education and Mass Literacy 37
Illustrated London News (1842): From "Our Address" 37
Illustrated London News (1843): Dedicatory Sonnet 39
Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (1815-81): Life and Correspondence of Thomas Arnold,
D.D. (1844) 39
From "Letter of Inquiry for a Master" by Thomas Arnold (1795-1842) 39
From "Letter to a Master on his Appointment" 40
William Wordsworth (1770-1850): "Illustrated Books and Newspapers" (1846)
40
Anon. [Thomas Peckett Prest (?) (1810-59)]: "The String of Pearls: A
Romance" (1846-47) 41
From Chapter 38 [Sweeney Todd] 41
From Chapter 39 42
The Society for Promoting Working Men's Associations: "Lectures for April,
1853" 43
Charles Dickens (1812-70): Hard Times (1854) 44
Chapter 1: "The One Thing Needful" 44
Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake (1809-93): From "The Englishwoman at School"
(July 1878) 45
Gender, Women, and Sexuality 49
Introduction 49
1. Constructing Genders 56
Kenelm Digby (1800-80): The Broad Stone of Honour: or, the True Sense and
Practice of Chivalry ([1822] 1877) 56
From Part 1, Section 14: "Godefridus" 56
Sarah Stickney Ellis (1799-1872): The Daughters of England (1842) 57
From Chapter 1: "Important Inquiries" 57
From Chapter 9: "Friendship and Flirtation" 58
Marion Kirkland Reid (c.1839-89): From A Plea for Woman (1843) 59
Richard Pilling (1799-1874): From "Defence at his Trial" (1843) 61
Isabella Beeton (1836-65): The Book of Household Management (1859-61) 62
From Chapter 1: "The Mistress" 62
Eliza Lynn Linton (1822-98): From "The Girl of the Period" in the
Saturday Review (14 Mar. 1868) 65
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936). "If-" (1910) 67
2. The Woman Question 68
Sarah Stickney Ellis (1799-1872): The Women of England (1838) 68
From Chapter 2: "The Influence of the Women of England" 68
Harriet Taylor (1807-58): From "The Enfranchisement of Women" in
Westminster Review (July 1851) 70
Caroline Norton (1808-77): From A Letter to the Queen on Lord Chancellor
Cranworth's Marriage and Divorce Bill (1855) 71
Harriet Martineau (1802-76), Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), Josephine
Butler (1828-1906), and others: "Manifesto" of "The Ladies' National
Association for the Repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts" in Daily News
(31 Dec. 1869) 74
Sarah Grand (1854-1943): From "The New Aspect of the Woman Question" in
North American Review (Mar. 1894) 76
Sydney Grundy (1848-1914): The New Woman (1894) 78
From Act 1 78
Literature and the Arts 81
Introduction 81
1. Debates about Literature 87
Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812-52): Contrasts (1836) 87
From Chapter 1: "On the Feelings which Produced the Great Edifices of the
Middle Ages" 87
George Eliot (1819-80): From "Silly Novels by Lady Novelists" in
Westminster Review (Oct. 1856) 89
Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835-1915): Lady Audley's Secret (1862) 91
From Chapter 1: "Lucy" 91
From Chapter 37: "Buried Alive" 93
Colin Henry Hazlewood (1820-75): Lady Audley's Secret (1863) 94
From Act V 94
Henry James (1843-1916): From "The Art of Fiction" in Longman's Magazine
(Sept. 1884) 96
2. Pre-Raphaelitism, Aestheticism, and Decadence 98
William Michael Rossetti (1829-1919): The Germ: Or Thoughts Toward Nature
in Poetry, Literature, and Art (1850) 98
From "Introduction" 98
Charles Dickens (1812-70): From "Old Lamps for New Ones" in Household Words
(15 June 1850) 100
Christina Rossetti (1830-94): Two Poems on the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
[1853] 102
The P.R.B. [I] 102
The P.R.B. [II] 103
John Ruskin (1819-1900): "The Præ-Raphaelites" Letter to The Times
(25 May 1854) 103
Walter Pater (1839-94): From "The Poems of William Morris" ["Æsthetic
Poetry"] in Westminster Review (Oct. 1868) 105
James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903): From "Mr. Whistler's 'Ten
O'Clock'" (20 Feb. 1885) 109
Religion and Science 113
Introduction 113
1. Geology and Evolution 122
Robert Chambers (1802-71): Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
(1844) 122
From Chapter 12: "General Considerations Respecting the Origin of the
Animated Tribes" 122
Hugh Miller (1802-56): The Foot-Prints of the Creator: or, the Asterolepis
of Stromness (1849) 124
From "Stromness and its Asterolepis. The Lake of Stennis 124
Philip Henry Gosse (1810-88): Omphalos: An Attempt to Untie the Geological
Knot (1857) 125
From Chapter 12: "The Conclusion" 125
Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913): From "On the Tendency of Varieties to
Depart Indefinitely from the Original Type" (20 Aug. 1858) 127
Charles Darwin (1809-82): On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural
Selection, or The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
(1859) 130
From "Introduction" 130
From Chapter 3: "Struggle for Existence" 133
From Chapter 4: "Natural Selection" 133
From Chapter 15: "Recapitulation and Conclusion" 136
Agnes Mary Frances Robinson (1857-1944) 140
Darwinism 140
Empire 142
Introduction 142
1. Celebration and Criticism 148
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881): From "Occasional Discourse on the Negro
Question" in Fraser's Magazine (Dec. 1849) 148
John Stuart Mill (1806-73): From "The Negro Question" in
Fraser's Magazine (Jan. 1850) 150
John Ruskin (1819-1900): From Inaugural Lecture (1870) 151
George William Hunt (c.1839-1904): "MacDermott's War Song" ["By Jingo"]
(1877) 153
J. R. Seeley (1834-95): The Expansion of England (1883) 154
From Course II, Lecture I: "History and Politics" 154
Alfred Tennyson (1809-92): "Opening of the Indian and Colonial Exhibition"
(1886) 156
Alfred Tennyson (1809-92): "Carmen Sæculare: An Ode in Honour of the
Jubilee of Queen Victoria" (1887) 157
Henry Labouchère [?] (1831-1912): "The Brown Man's Burden" (1899) 160
J. A. Hobson (1858-1940): Imperialism: A Study (1902) 162
From Part 2, Chapter 4: "Imperialism and the Lower Races" 162
Arthur Christopher Benson (1862-1925): "Land of Hope and Glory" (1902) 163
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1840-1922): From My Diaries: Being a Personal
Narrative of Events, 1888-1914 (1919) 165
2. Governing the Colonies 166
2.1 India 166
Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-59): From Minute on Indian Education (1835)
166
Proclamation by the Queen in Council, to the Princes, Chiefs, and People of
India (1858) 169
G. A. Henty (1832-1902): With Clive in India: Or, The Beginnings of an
Empire (1884) 171
From "Preface" 171
Flora Annie Steel (1847-1929) and Grace Gardiner (d. 1919): The Complete
Indian Housekeeper and Cook (1888) 172
From "Preface to the First Edition" 172
From Chapter 1: "The Duties of the Mistress" 173
Behramji Malabari (1853-1912): The Indian Eye on English Life, or Rambles
of a Pilgrim Reformer (1893) 176
From Chapter 2: "In and About London" 176
Ham Mukasa (1870-1956): Uganda's Katikiro in England (1904) 178
From Chapter 5 178
From Chapter 6 179
Part Two Authors 181
Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864) 183
To Robert Browning 183
"You smiled, you spoke, and I believed" 184
Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher 184
"I entreat you, Alfred Tennyson" 184
Charlotte Elliott (1789-1871) 185
"Him That Cometh to Me I Will in No Wise Cast Out." [Just As I Am] 185
John Keble (1792-1866) 186
From National Apostasy Considered 187
Felicia Hemans (1793-1835) 190
Casabianca 191
The Indian Woman's Death-Song 192
The Indian With His Dead Child 194
The Rock of Cader-Idris 195
The Last Song of Sappho 196
Janet Hamilton (1795-1873) 198
A Lay of the Tambour Frame 198
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) 200
Past and Present 201
"Hero-Worship" 202
"Captains of Industry" 205
Maria Smith Abdy (1797-1867) 210
A Governess Wanted 211
Mary Howitt (1799-1888) 212
The Spider and the Fly 213
The Fossil Elephant 214
Thomas Hood (1799-1845) 216
The Song of the Shirt 216
The Bridge of Sighs 219
Sarah Stickney Ellis (1799-1872) 222
From Pictures of Private Life 222
"An Apology for Fiction" 222
Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-59) 225
The History of England from the Accession of James the Second (1848-61) 225
From Chapter 1: "Before the Restoration" 226
[Introduction] 226
From Chapter 3: "The State of England in 1685" 228
[The Clergy] 228
John Henry Newman (1801-90) 230
The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated 231
From Discourse V: "Knowledge Its Own End" 233
From Discourse VII: "Knowledge Viewed in Relation to Professional Skill"
237
William Barnes (1801-86) 239
My Orchet in Linden Lea 240
Childhood 240
The Wife a-Lost 241
Zummer An' Winter 242
From "Old Bardic Poetry" [Two Translations from the Welsh] in Macmillan's
Magazine (Aug. 1867). 243
I Cynddyl¿an's Hall 243
II An Englyn on a Yellow Greyhound 244
Harriet Martineau (1802-76) 244
Society in America (1837) 245
From Chapter 3: "Morals of Politics" 245
Section VI: "Citizenship of People of Colour" 245
Section VII: "Political Non-Existence of Women" 246
L. E. L. [Letitia Elizabeth Landon] (1802-38) 248
Sappho's Song 248
Revenge 249
Stanzas on the Death of Mrs. Hemans 250
The Factory 253
The Princess Victoria [I] 255
The Princess Victoria [II] 257
Elizabeth Duncan Campbell (1804-78) 258
The Windmill of Sebastopol 258
The Crimean War 261
The Schoolmaster 263
The Death of Willie, My Second Son 264
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-61) 266
Stanzas Addressed to Miss Landon, 266
L. E. L.'s Last Question 268
A Musical Instrument 270
John Stuart Mill (1806-73) 272
On Liberty 273
From "Introductory" 274
The Subjection of Women 280
From Chapter 1 280
Caroline Norton (1808-77) 285
From A Voice from the Factories 285
The Picture of Sappho 290
Charles Darwin (1809-82) 293
From Autobiography 294
Edward FitzGerald (1809-83) 301
The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, The Astronomer-Poet of Persia 302
Alfred Tennyson (1809-92) 318
Mariana 319
The Kraken 321
The Lady of Shalott 321
Ulysses 326
["Break, break, break"] 328
In Memoriam A. H. H. 329
The Eagle 415
The Charge of the Light Brigade 416
To Virgil 418
"Frater Ave atque Vale" 419
Crossing the Bar 420
Robert Browning (1812-89) 420
Porphyria's Lover 421
From Pippa Passes 423
Song 423
My Last Duchess 423
Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister 424
The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church 427
Meeting at Night 431
Parting at Morning 431
Love Among the Ruins 431
Fra Lippo Lippi 434
Andrea del Sarto 444
From Asolando 450
Epilogue 450
Edward Lear (1812-88) 451
From A Book of Nonsense 452
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat 453
How Pleasant to Know Mr. Lear 454
Samuel Smiles (1812-1904) 455
Self-Help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct 455
From Chapter 1: "Self-Help: National and Individual" 455
From Chapter 2: "Leaders of Industry-Inventors and Producers" [James Watt]
456
Charlotte Brontë (1816-55) 457
The Missionary 458
"My feet they are sore, and my limbs they are weary" 462
Eventide ["The house was still, the room was still"] 463
Dec 24 [1848] [On the Death of Emily Brontë] 463
June 21 1849 [On the Death of Anne Brontë] 464
Grace Aguilar (1816-47) 464
The Vision of Jerusalem 465
Edwin Waugh (1817-90) 467
Come Whoam to Thy Childer an' Me 467
Eawr Folk 468
Emily Jane Brontë (1818-48) 470
Remembrance 470
Song ["The Linnet in the rocky dells"] 471
To Imagination 472
Plead for Me 473
The Old Stoic 474
"Shall earth no more inspire thee?" 475
"Ay-there it is! it wakes to-night" 476
"No coward soul is mine" 477
Eliza Cook (1818-89) 477
The Old Arm-Chair 478
Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-61) 479
Qui Laborat, Orat 480
"Duty-that's to say complying" 480
The Latest Decalogue 482
The Struggle 482
Ah! Yet Consider it Again! 483
Epi-strauss-ium 483
John Ruskin (1819-1900) 484
Modern Painters 485
From "Of Water, as Painted by Turner" 487
From "Of Pathetic Fallacy'' 490
The Stones of Venice 493
From "The Nature of Gothic" 495
Queen Victoria (1819-1901) 506
Speech to Parliament 8 August 1851 506
From Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands from 1848 to 1861
508
Love for Balmoral 508
Visits to the Old Women 508
George Eliot (1819-80) 509
"O May I Join the Choir Invisible" 510
Anne Brontë (1820-49) 511
Appeal 512
The Captive Dove 512
"O, they have robbed me of the hope" 513
Domestic Peace 513
[Last Lines] "I hoped that I was brave and strong" 514
Jean Ingelow (1820-97) 516
Remonstrance 516
Like a Laverock in the Lift 517
On the Borders of Cannock Chase 517
Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) 518
Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not 519
Preface 519
[Introduction] 519
"Note Upon Some Errors in Novels" 522
From Cassandra 524
Dora Greenwell (1821-82) 529
A Scherzo 529
To Elizabeth Barrett Browning in 1851 530
To Elizabeth Barrett Browning in 1861 531
To Christina Rossetti 531
Matthew Arnold (1822-88) 532
The Forsaken Merman 532
Memorial Verses 536
[Isolation] To Marguerite 538
To Marguerite, in Returning a Volume of the Letters of Ortis 539
The Buried Life 540
Lines Written in Kensington Gardens 542
Philomela 544
Requiescat 545
Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse 545
East London 551
West London 552
Dover Beach 552
Growing Old 553
Preface to Poems (1853) 554
Coventry Patmore (1823-96) 564
From The Angel in the House 565
Book I: The Prologue 565
III Honoria: the Accompaniments 568
1 The Lover 568
Book II: "The Espousals" 570
X the Epitaph: the Accompaniments 570
3 The Foreign Land 570
XI the Departure: the Accompaniments 570
1 Womanhood 570
Idyl XI: The Departure 571
The Epilogue 572
Sydney Dobell (1824-74) 572
To the Authoress of "Aurora Leigh" 573
Two Sonnets on the Death of Prince Albert 573
William Topaz McGonagall (1825-1902) 574
The Tay Bridge Disaster 575
The Death of the Queen 577
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895) 578
From "'On a Piece of Chalk.' A Lecture to Working Men" 579
Adelaide Anne Procter (1825-64) 583
Envy 583
A Woman's Question 584
A Woman's Answer 585
A Lost Cord 586
A Woman's Last Word 587
Eliza Harriet Keary (1827-1918) 588
Disenchanted 588
Renunciation 589
A Mother's Call 589
Old Age 590
A Portrait 590
Samuel Laycock (1826-93) 591
To My Owd Friend, Thomas Kenworthy 591
John Bull an' His Tricks! 592
Emily Pfeiffer (1827-90) 594
Peace to the Odalisque [I] 595
[Peace to the Odalisque II] 595
Any Husband to Many a Wife 596
Studies from the Antique 596
Kassandra I 596
Kassandra II 597
Klytemnestra I 597
Klytemnestra II 598
Ellen Johnston (c.1827-74) 598
The Working Man 599
The Last Sark 599
Nelly's Lament for the Pirnhouse Cat 600
Wanted, a Man 601
The Last Lay of "The Factory Girl" 603
George Meredith (1828-1909) 605
Lucifer in Starlight 605
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-82) 606
The Girlhood of Mary Virgin 607
The Blessed Damozel 608
The Woodspurge 614
Jenny 614
The Ballad of Dead Ladies 623
Sunset Wings 625
"Found" 626
Spheral Change 626
Proserpina 627
Gerald Massey (1828-1907) 628
The Cry of the Unemployed 628
The Red Banner 629
The Awakening of the People 630
Elizabeth Siddal (1829-62) 631
Dead Love 632
Love and Hate 632
Lord, May I Come? 633
Christina Rossetti (1830-94) 634
Sappho 635
Goblin Market 635
A Birthday 649
Remember 649
After Death 650
An Apple Gathering 650
Echo 651
My Secret 652
"No, Thank You, John" 653
Song 654
Up-Hill 654
A Better Resurrection 655
L. E. L. 655
From Sing-Song 656
Monna Innominata: A Sonnet of Sonnets 658
A Life's Parallels 667
"For Thine Own Sake, O My God" 667
Birchington Churchyard 668
Cobwebs 668
In an Artist's Studio 669
An Echo from Willow-Wood 669
Sleeping at Last 670
Lewis Carroll (1832-98) 671
From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 672
[Prefatory Poem] "All in the golden afternoon" 672
From Through the Looking-Glass 673
[Prefatory Poem] "Child of the pure unclouded brow" 673
Jabberwocky 674
The Walrus and the Carpenter 676
[Concluding Poem] "A boat, beneath a sunny sky" 678
William Morris (1834-96) 679
Riding Together 680
The Defence of Guenevere 682
The Haystack in the Floods 693
In Prison 697
From The Earthly Paradise: An Apology 698
James Thomson [B. V.] (1834-82) 700
The City of Dreadful Night 700
Proem 701
I "The City is of Night; perchance of Death" 703
II "because He Seemed to Walk with An Intent" 704
VI "i Sat Forlornly by the River-side" 704
VII "some Say That Phantoms Haunt Those Shadowy Streets" 706
IX "it Is Full Strange to Him Who Hears and Feels" 707
XIII "of All Things Human Which Are Strange and Wild" 708
xiv "Large glooms were gathered in the mighty fane" 709
xvi "Our shadowy congregation rested still" 712
xix "The mighty river flowing dark and deep" 713
xx "I sat me weary on a pillar's base" 715
xxi "Anear the centre of that northern crest" 716
E. B. B. 719
William Schwenck Gilbert (1836-1911) 720
From Patience 720
Bunthorne's Recitative and Song ["Am I alone, and unobserved?"] 720
Bunthorne and Grosvenor's Duet ["When I go out of door"] 722
From Iolanthe 724
Lord Mountararat's Solo ["When Britain really ruled the waves"] 724
From The Gondoliers 725
Quartet ["Then one of us will be a Queen"] 725
Giuseppe's Solo ["Rising early in the morning"] 727
Augusta Webster (1837-94) 729
A Castaway 730
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) 746
From Atalanta in Calydon 747
Chorus ["When the hounds of spring are on winter's traces"] 747
Chorus ["Before the beginning of years"] 749
The Leper 751
Before the Mirror 755
Nephelidia 757
From "A Sequence of Sonnets on the Death of Robert Browning" 759
Walter Horatio Pater (1839-94) 759
Studies in the History of the Renaissance 760
Preface 762
Conclusion 766
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) 769
Hap 769
Neutral Tones 770
Nature's Questioning 770
A Christmas Ghost-Story 771
The Dead Drummer [Drummer Hodge] 772
The Darkling Thrush 773
The Ruined Maid 774
De Profundis [In Tenebris] I 775
De Profundis [in Tenebris] II 776
Mathilde Blind (1841-96) 776
Winter 777
The Dead 777
Manchester by Night 778
The Red Sunsets, 1883 [I] 778
The Red Sunsets, 1883 [II] 779
Violet Fane (1843-1905) 779
Lancelot and Guinevere 780
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-89) 783
The Wreck of the Deutschland 784
God's Grandeur 796
The Starlight Night 796
Spring 797
The Windhover 797
Pied Beauty 798
Hurrahing in Harvest 798
Binsey Poplars 799
Duns Scotus's Oxford 800
Felix Randal 800
Spring and Fall: 801
"As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies dráw fláme" 801
[Carrion Comfort] 802
Tom's Garland 803
Harry Ploughman 804
That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of the Resurrection
805
["Thou art indeed just, Lord"] 805
Louisa Sarah Bevington (1845-95) 806
Morning 806
Afternoon 807
Twilight 808
Midnight 809
Marion Bernstein (1846-1906) 810
Woman's Rights and Wrongs 810
A Rule to Work Both Ways 811
Wanted A Husband 812
Human Rights 813
A Dream 813
Married and "Settled" 814
Michael Field [Katharine Harris Bradley (1846-1914) and Edith Cooper
(1862-1913)] 815
An Æolian Harp 816
xiv [My Darling] 817
xxxv ["Come, Gorgo, put the rug in place"] 818
["O free me, for I take the leap"] 818
Praise of Thanatos 819
In Memoriam 820
Mona Lisa-Leonardo da Vinci (The Louvre) 820
To Correggio's Holy Sebastian (Dresden) 821
Cupid's Visit ["I lay sick in a foreign land"] 821
The Birth of Venus 822
["Sometimes I do dispatch my heart"] 823
["Ah, Eros doth not always smite"] 823
Cyclamens 824
["Already to mine eyelids' shore"] 824
["A Girl"] 824
["I sing thee with a stock-dove's throat"] 825
Unbosoming 825
["It was deep April"] 826
["Solitary Death, make me thine own"] 826
Walter Pater 827
Constancy 827
To Christina Rossetti 828
Penetration 828
To the Winter Aphrodite 829
"I love you with my life" 829
A Palimpsest 829
"Beloved, my glory in thee is not ceased" 830
"Lo, my loved is dying" 830
Alice Meynell (1847-1922) 830
Renouncement 831
Unlinked 831
Parentage 832
Maternity 832
William Hurrell Mallock (1849-1923) 833
Christmas Thoughts, by a Modern Thinker 833
William Ernest Henley (1849-1903) 836
From In Hospital 836
I Enter Patient 836
II Waiting 837
xiv Ave, Caesar! 837
IV to R. T. H. B. [invictus] 838
We Shall Surely Die 838
When You Are Old 839
Double Ballade of Life and Fate 839
Remonstrance 841
Pro Rege Nostro 841
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94) 843
From Treasure Island 843
To the Hesitating Purchaser 843
A Child's Garden of Verses 844
[From the first section] 844
I Bed in Summer 844
V Whole Duty of Children 845
xxviii Foreign Children 845
From Underwoods 846
xxi Requiem 846
"A Plea for Gas Lamps" 846
Arthur Clement Hilton (1851-77) 849
Octopus 849
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) 850
Requiescat 851
Impression du Matin 852
Helas! 852
Impressions 853
I Le Jardin 853
II La Mer 853
Symphony in Yellow 854
The Harlot's House 854
A Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray 855
John Davidson (1857-1909) 857
Thirty Bob a Week 857
A Northern Suburb 860
Battle 861
Constance Naden (1858-89) 861
The Lady Doctor 862
Love Versus Learning 864
To Amy, On Receiving Her Photograph 866
The New Orthodoxy 866
Natural Selection 868
A. E. Housman (1859-1936) 869
A Shropshire Lad 870
I 1887 870
II "loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now" 871
XIII "when I Was One-and-twenty" 872
xix To an Athlete Dying Young 872
xxvii "Is my team ploughing?" 873
xxx "Others, I am not the first" 874
xxxi "On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble" 875
xxxv "On the idle hill of summer" 875
xlv "If by chance your eye offend you" 876
liv "With rue my heart is laden" 876
lxii "Terence, this is stupid stuff " 877
Additional Poems 879
xviii "Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrists?" 879
Francis Thompson (1859-1907) 880
The Hound of Heaven 880
Rosamund Marriott Watson (1860-1911) 885
Scythe Song 886
Triolet 887
Omar Khayyám 887
Dead Poets 888
In the Rain 889
A Summer Night 890
Chimæra 891
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861-1907) 892
Gone 893
The Other Side of a Mirror 893
Mortal Combat 894
The Witch 894
Marriage 895
The White Women 895
Death and the Lady 897
Amy Levy (1861-89) 897
Felo De Se 898
Magdalen 899
A Wallflower 901
The First Extra 901
At a Dinner Party 902
A Ballad of Religion and Marriage 902
Henry Newbolt (1862-1938) 903
Vitaï Lampada 904
"He Fell Among Thieves" 905
The Dictionary of National Biography 906
The Vigil 907
"In Victorian Literature Shea and Whitla have created a unique anthology that continues as an online resource, extending the contents in deep and subtle ways. The reader finds a rich account of Victorian culture, from issues of industrialisation, gender, and colonial ideology to the art and architecture of the period, including the Victorian art form, the photograph. The comprehensive gathering of poems includes women's poetry and working-class poetry." -- Isobel Armstrong, Birkbeck, University of London