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.
Comments
“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
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
- 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
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
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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
- 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
ROBERT BROWNING
- “Introductory Essay” [“Essay on Shelley”]
ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH
- Recent English Poetry: A Review of Several Volumes of Poems by
Alexander Smith, Matthew Arnold, and Others
MATTHEW ARNOLD
- Preface to the First Edition of Poems
JOHN RUSKIN
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
WALTER PATER
- The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS
ALICE MEYNELL
- Tennyson
Robert Browning
The Rhythm of Life
INDEXES
INDEX OF FIRST LINES
INDEX OF AUTHORS AND TITLES
Vivienne J. Rundle, Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Calgary, has also written extensively on Victorian literature.
