English Victorian Poetry: An Anthology

by Negri, Paul

• ISBN13: 9780486404257
• ISBN10: 0486404250
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-06-18
• Publisher: Dover Publications

Summary

This outstanding, modestly priced anthology presents over 170 poems by the major poets of the 19th century, including Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Arthur Hugh Clough, Edward FitzGerald, Matthew Arnold, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Christina Rossetti, Coventry Patmore, George Meredith, William Ernest Henley, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Rudyard Kipling, and many others. An introduction and brief biographical notes on the poets are included.

Table of Contents

Alfred, Lord Tennyson
  The Kraken
  Mariana
  The Lady of Shalott
  The Lotos-Eaters
  Ulysses
  Tithonus
  Locksley Hall
  Break, Break, Break
  Sweet and Low
  The Splendor Falls
  Tears, Idle Tears
  Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal
  The Charge of the Light Brigade
  Flower in the Crannied Wall
  Crossing the Bar
  From In Memoriam A. H. H.

Thomas Hood
  The Song of the Shirt
  The Bridge of Sighs
  Time of Roses
  The Death-bed 

Edward Lear
  How Pleasant to Know Mr. Lear
  The Jumblies

Robert Browning
  My Last Duchess
  Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister
  Porphyia's Lover
  "How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix"
  The Lost Leader
  Home-Thoughts from Abroad
  The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church
  Meeting at Night
  Parting at Morning
  Fra Lippo Lippi
  A Toccata of Galuppi's
  The Last Ride Together
  Adrea del Sarto
  Rabbi Ben Ezra
  Caliban upon Setebos

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  Sonnets from the Portuguese
    I I thought once how Theocritus had sung
    V I lift my heavy heart up solemnlym
    XIV If thou must love me, let it be for nought
    XX Belovèd, my Belovèd, when I think
    XXI Say over again, and yet once over again,
    XXII When our two souls stand up erect and strong,
    XXXV If I leave all for thee, wilt thou exchange
    XLI I thank all who have loved me in their hearts,
    XLIII How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
    XLIV Belovèd, thou hast brought me many flowers
  Grief
  To George Sand: A Desire
  To George Sand: A Recognition
  A Musical Instrument

Edward FitzGerald
  From The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám

Emily Brontë
  Stars
  Remembrance
  Song
  The Prisoner: A Fragment
  Hope
  How Clear She Shines
  The Old Stoic
  The Night-Wind
  No Coward Soul Is Mine

Arthur Hugh Clough
  Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth
  The Latest Decalogue

Matthew Arnold
  Dover Beach
  To a Friend
  The Foresaken Merman
  Lines Written in Kensington Gardens
  The Buried Life
  The Scholar Gipsy
  To Marguerite
  The Last World

Coventry Patmore
  Departure
  The Toys
  A Farewell
  Magna Est Veritas
  Woman
  Thoughts
  The Kiss
  Auras of Delight

George Meredith
  Lucifer in Starlight
  Seed-Time
  From Modern Love
    I By this he knew she wept with waking eyes:
    II It ended, and the morrow brought the task.
    III This was the woman; what now of the man?
    V A message from her set his brain aflame.
    XVI In our old shipwrecked days there was an hour,
    XXXIV Madam would speak with me. So, now it comes:
    XLV It is the season of the sweet wild rose,
    XLVI At last we parely: we so strangely dumb
    XLIX He found her by the ocean's moaning verge,
    L Thus piteously Love closed what he begat.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti
  The Blessèd Damozel
  The Choice
  The Woodspurge
  Penumbra
  The Sea-Limits
  From The House of Life
    A Sonnet
    III Love's Testament
    IV Lovesight
    XI The Love-Letter
    XIX Silent Noon
    XXVII Heart's Compass
    XLIII Love and Hope
    XLVIII Death-in-Love
    XLIX Willowwood 1
    L Willowwood 2
    LI Willowwood 3
    LII Willowwood 4
    XCVII A Superscription
    CI The One Hope

Christina Rossetti
  A Triad
  A Birthday
  Remember
  After Death
  An Apple Gathering
  Winter: My Secret
  "No, Thank You, John"
  Song
  A Portrait

Lewis Carroll
  Jabberwocky
  The Walrus and the Carpenter

James Thomson
  The Bridge
  Midsummer Courtship
  Art
  In the Room

William Morris
  The Message of the March Wind
  Summer Dawn
  Shameful Death
  The Sailing of the Sword
  Love Is Enough

Algernon Charles Swinburne
  The Garden of Proserpine
  Hymn to Proserpine
  Chorus from 'Atalanta'
  Super Flumina Babylonis
  Love and Sleep
  Child's Song
  A Ballad of Life
  A Ballad of Death

Gerard Manley Hopkins
  God's Grandeur
  The Starlight Night
  Spring
  The Windhover
  Pied Beauty
  Duns Scotus's Oxford
  Felix Randal
  As Kingfishers Catch Fire
  Spring and Fall
  (Carrion Comfort)
  No Worst, There Is None, Pitched Past Pitch of Grief
  Tom's Garland
  I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark, Not Day
  Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord, If I Contend

William Ernest Henley
  Invictus
  On the Way to Kew

Oscar Wilde
  Hélas!
  Impression du Matin
  E Tenebris
  Impressions
    1. Les Silhouettes
    2. La Fuite de la Lune
  The Harlots House
  Symphony in Yellow

Francis Thompson
  The Hound of Heaven

Rudyard Kipling
  Danny Deever
  Gunga Din
  The Widow at Windsor
  If-
  Recessional
  The Female of the Species

Ernest Dowson
  Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae
  To One in Bedlam
  A Last Word