Suggested Contents by Theme and Genre

xii

Alphabetical List of Authors

xxvi

List of Plates

xxvii

Abbreviations

xxviii

Chronology

xxix

Acknowledgements

xxxvi

Introduction

xxxvii

Thomas Babington (First Baron) Macaulay (1800--1859)

(17)

`Horatius: A Lay made about the Year of the City CCCLX'

(17)

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806--1861)

(44)

`Bertha in the Lane'

(7)

`The Cry of the Children'

(4)

`Rime of the Duchess May'

(15)

`The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point'

(7)

`Hiram Powers' Greek Slave'

(2)

Sonnets from the Portuguese (selection)

`I thought once how Theocritus had sung'

(1)

`I never gave a lock of hair away'

(1)

`If I leave all for thee'

(1)

`How do I love thee? Let me count the ways'

(1)

`Beloved, thou has brought me many flowers'

(1)

`Lord Walter's Wife'

(2)

`A Musical Instrument'

(2)

`Amy's Cruelty'

(3)

Alfred Tennyson (Lord Tennyson) (1809--1892)

(109)

`The Dying Swan'

(2)

`Mariana'

(2)

`The Lotos-Eaters'

(5)

`The Lady of Shalott'

(5)

`The Epic/Morte d'Arthur'

(9)

`Ulysses'

(2)

`Now sleeps the crimson petal'

(1)

In Memoriam A.H.H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII

(77)

`The Charge of the Light Brigade'

165

(2)

`To the Marquis of Dufferin and Ava'

167

(2)

`Crossing the Bar'

169

(2)

Robert Browning (1812--1889)

171

(46)

`Porphyria's Lover'

171

(2)

`My Last Duchess'

173

(2)

`The Bishop Orders his Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church'

175

(4)

`Fra Lippo Lippi'

179

(10)

`Andrea del Sarto'

189

(6)

```Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came'''

195

(7)

`A Toccata of Galuppi's'

202

(2)

`Two in the Campagna'

204

(3)

`Caliban upon Setebos'

207

(7)

`Eurydice to Orpheus: A Picture by Leighton'

214

(1)

`Inapprehensiveness'

215

(2)

Emily (Jane) Bronte (1818--1848)

217

(10)

`High waving heather'

217

(1)

`The Night-Wind'

218

(1)

`Shall Earth no more inspire thee[?]'

219

(1)

`To Imagination'

220

(2)

`Remembrance'

222

(1)

`The Prisoner: A Fragment'

223

(2)

`No coward soul is mine'

225

(2)

Arthur Hugh Clough (1819--1861)

227

(37)

`Say not the struggle nought availeth'

227

(1)

Amours de Voyage

228

(34)

`The Latest Decalogue'

262

(2)

Matthew Arnold (1822--1888)

264

(50)

`A Summer Night'

264

(3)

`To Marguerite -- Continued'

267

(1)

`Empedocles on Etna'

268

(28)

`The Buried Life'

296

(2)

`The Scholar-Gipsy'

298

(7)

`Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse'

305

(7)

`Dover Beach'

312

(2)

Adelaide Anne Procter (1825--1864)

314

(14)

`Philip and Mildred'

314

(6)

`A Legend of Provence'

320

(8)

George Meredith (1828--1909)

328

(22)

Modern Love

328

(22)

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828--1882)

350

(20)

`The Burden of Nineveh'

350

(6)

`Sestina. Of the Lady Pietra degli Scrovigni'

356

(2)

`Jenny'

358

(9)

`Nuptial Sleep'

367

(1)

`Song 8: The Woodspurge'

368

(2)

Christina G. Rossetti (1830--1894)

370

(24)

`In an Artist's Studio'

370

(1)

`An Apple-Gathering'

371

(1)

`A Birthday'

372

(1)

`Goblin Market'

373

(12)

`Song: When I am dead, my dearest'

385

(1)

`Winter: My Secret'

386

(1)

`The Lambs of Grasmere, 1860'

387

(1)

`Shut Out'

388

(1)

`The World'

389

(1)

`A Christmas Carol: In the bleak mid-winter'

390

(1)

`In life our absent friend'

391

(1)

`Resurgam'

392

(1)

`Babylon the Great'

393

(1)

James Thomson, `B. V.' (1834--1882)

394

(29)

The City of Dreadful Night

394

(29)

William Morris (1834--1896)

423

(25)

`The Haystack in the Floods'

423

(5)

`The Defence of Guenevere'

428

(10)

`Concerning Geffray Teste Noire'

438

(7)

`Iceland First Seen'

445

(3)

Alfred Austin (1835--1913)

448

(2)

`Henry Bartle Edward Frere'

448

(2)

(Julia) Augusta Webster (1837--1894)

450

(26)

`Circe'

450

(6)

`A Castaway'

456

(15)

`Faded'

471

(5)

Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837--1909)

476

(34)

`Hymn to Proserpine'

476

(4)

`Anactoria'

480

(7)

`Laus Veneris'

487

(13)

`Ave Atque Vale: In Memory of Charles Baudelaire'

500

(6)

`A Forsaken Garden'

506

(4)

Thomas Hardy (1840--1928)

510

(15)

`Hap'

510

(1)

`Drummer Hodge'

511

(1)

`The Darkling Thrush'

512

(1)

`In the Old Theatre, Fiesole'

513

(1)

`The Ruined Maid'

514

(2)

`The Self Unseeing'

516

(1)

`In Tenebris I'

516

(1)

`Shelley's Skylark'

517

(2)

`Lausanne: In Gibbon's Old Garden'

519

(1)

`The Revisitation'

520

(5)

Gerard M[anley] Hopkins (1844--1889)

525

(20)

`The Wreck of the Deutschland'

525

(9)

`Spring and Fall'

534

(1)

`As kingfishers catch fire'

535

(1)

`God's Grandeur'

536

(1)

`Pied Beauty'

537

(1)

`The Windhover'

538

(1)

`Inversnaid'

539

(1)

`That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of the Resurrection'

540

(1)

`Harry Ploughman'

541

(1)

`Binsey Poplars'

542

(1)

`No worst, there is none'

543

(1)

`My own heart let me more have pity on'

544

(1)

Eugene (Jacob) Lee-Hamilton (1845--1907)

545

(12)

`The New Medusa'

545

(8)

Imaginary Sonnets: `Laura to Petrarch'

553

(4)

`Carmagnola to the Republic of Venice'

554

(1)

`Fallopius to his Dissecting Knife'

555

(1)

`Charles Edward to his Last Friend'

556

(1)

Michael Field (Katherine Harris Bradley [1846--1914] and Edith Emma Cooper [1862--1913]

557

(9)

`Maids, not to you my mind doth change'

557

(1)

`La Gioconda'

558

(2)

`A Portrait: Bartolommeo Veneto'

560

(2)

`A Girl'

562

(1)

`Cyclamens'

563

(1)

`Sometimes I do despatch my heart'

563

(1)

`It was deep April'

564

(1)

`Nests in Elms'

565

(1)

Four Victorian Hymns

566

(5)

`The day thou gavest' (Ellerton)

566

(1)

`Take my life, and let it be' (Havergal)

567

(1)

`Onward, Christian soldiers' (Baring-Gould)

567

(2)

`My God, how wonderful Thou art' (Faber)

569

(2)

W[illiam] E[rnest] Henley (1849--1903)

571

(16)

In Hospital

571

(16)

Oscar (Fingal O'Flahertie Wills) Wilde (1854--1900)

587

(19)

`Fantaisies Decoratives: II. Les Ballons'

587

(1)

`Symphony in Yellow'

588

(1)

The Ballad of Reading Gaol

588

(18)

John Davidson (1857--1909)

606

(21)

`Thirty Bob a Week'

606

(3)

`A Woman and her Son'

609

(7)

`Snow'

616

(2)

`The Crystal Palace'

618

(9)

May Kendall (1861--?1943)

627

(3)

`Lay of the Trilobite'

627

(3)

Amy Levy (1861--1889)

630

(14)

`Xantippe: A Fragment'

630

(6)

`A Minor Poet'

636

(6)

`A Ballad of Religion and Marriage'

642

(2)

Rudyard Kipling (1865--1936)

644

(13)

`Fuzzy-Wuzzy'

644

(2)

`Gunga Din'

646

(3)

`Tommy'

649

(1)

`Recessional, A Victorian Ode'

650

(2)

`The White Man's Burden'

652

(2)

`If--'

654

(1)

`The Way through the Woods'

655

(2)

Arthur (William) Symons (1865--1945)

657

(10)

`From Theophile Gautier: Posthumous Coquetry'

657

(1)

`The Absinthe Drinker'

658

(1)

`Javanese Dancers'

659

(1)

`Prologue'

660

(2)

`Paris'

662

(1)

`Hands'

663

(1)

`White Heliotrope'

663

(1)

`Stella Maris'

664

(3)

Ernest (Christopher) Dowson (1867--1900)

667

(5)

`Nuns of the Perpetual Adoration'

667

(1)

`Extreme Unction'

668

(2)

`Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae'

670

(1)

`Vitae summa brevis spem nos vetat incohare longam'

671

(1)

Lionel (Pigot) Johnson (1867--1902)

672

(8)

`Oxford'

672

(2)

`By the Statue of King Charles at Charing Cross'

674

(3)

`The Dark Angel'

677

(3)

Charlotte Mew (1869--1928)

680

(10)

`The Forest Road'

680

(2)

`Madeleine in Church'

682

(5)

`The Trees are Down'

687

(3)

Select Bibliography

690

(4)

Index of Titles

694

(2)

Index of First Lines

696

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