Victorian Literature: An Anthology

Machine-generated contents note: Victorian Representations and Misrepresentations --
\"The Terrific Burning\" --
The Battle of the Styles --
\"The Best of Times, the Worst of Times\" --
Demographics and Underlying Fears --
Power, Industry, and the High Cost of Bread and Beer --
The Classes and the Masses --
The Dynamics of Gender --
Religion and the Churches --
Political Structures --
Empire --
Genres and Literary Hierarchies --
The Fine Arts and Popular Entertainment --
Revolutions in Mass Media and the Expansion of Print Culture --
The Condition of England --
Introduction --
1. The Victorian Social Formation --
Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803-73): Pelham (1828) --
From Chapter 1 --
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881): Chartism (1840) --
From Chapter 1: \"Condition-of-England Question\" --
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881): Past and Present (1843) --
From Book 1, Chapter 1: \"Midas\" --
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-81): Sybil (1845) --
From Book 2, Chapter 5 [The Two Nations] --
George Cruikshank (1792-1878): The British Bee Hive. Process engraving (1867) --
Matthew Arnold (1822-88): Culture and Anarchy (1869) --
From III [Chapter 3: \"Barbarians, Philistines, Populace\"] --
2. Education and Mass Literacy --
Illustrated London News (1842): From \"Our Address\" --
Illustrated London News (1843): Dedicatory Sonnet --
Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (1815-81): Lift and Correspondence of Thomas Arnold, D.D. (1844) --
From \"Letter of Inquiry for a Master\" by Thomas Arnold (1795-1842) --
From \"Letter to a Master on his Appointment\" --
William Wordsworth (1770-1850): \"Illustrated Books and Newspapers\" (1846) --
Anon. [Thomas Peckett Prest (1810-59)]: \"The String of Pearls: A Romance\" (1846-47) --
From Chapter 38 [Sweeney Todd] --
From Chapter 39 --
The Society for Promoting Working Men\'s Associations: \"Lectures for April, 1853\" --
Charles Dickens (1812-70): Hard Times (1854) --
Chapter 1: \"The One Thing Needful\" --
Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake (1809-93): From \"The Englishwoman at School\" (July 1878) --
Introduction --
1. Constructing Genders --
Kenelm Digby (1800-80): The Broad Stone of Honour: or, the True Sense and Practice of Chivalry ([1822] 1877) --
From Part 1, Section 14: \"Godefridus\" --
Sarah Stickney Ellis (1799-1872): The Daughters of England (1842) --
From Chapter 1: \"Important Inquiries\" --
From Chapter 9: \"Friendship and Flirtation\" --
Marion Kirkland Reid (c.1839-89): From A Plea for Woman (1843) --
Richard Pilling (1799-1874): From \"Defence at his Trial\" (1843) --
Isabella Beeton (1836-65): The Book of Household Management (1859-61) --
From Chapter I: \"The Mistress\" --
Eliza Lynn Linton (1822-98): From \"The Girl of the Period\" in the Saturday Review (14 Mar. 1868) --
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936). \"If\" (1910) --
2. The Woman Question --
Sarah Stickney Ellis (1799-1872): The Women of England (1838) --
From Chapter 2: \"The Influence of the Women of England\" --
Harriet Taylor (1807-58): From \"The Enfranchisement of Women\" in Westminster Review (July 1851) --
Caroline Norton (1808-77): From A Letter to the Queen on Lord Chancellor Cranworth\'s Marriage and Divorce Bill (1855) --
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) --
Sarah Grand (1854-1943): From \"The New Aspect of the Woman Question\" in North American Review (Mar. 1894) --
Sydney Grundy (1848-1914): The New Woman (1894) --
From Act I --
Introduction --
1. Debates about Literature --
Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812-52): Contrasts (1836) --
From Chapter 1: \"On the Feelings which Produced the Great Edifices of the Middle Ages\" --
George Eliot (1819-8o): From \"Silly Novels by Lady Novelists\" in Westminster Review (Oct. 1856) --
Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835-1915): Lady Audley\'s Secret (1862) --
From Chapter 1: \"Lucy\" --
From Chapter 37: \"Buried Alive\" --
Colin Henry Hazlewood (1820-75): Lady Audley\'s Secret (1863) --
From Act V --
Henry James (1843-1916): From \"The Art of Fiction\" in Longman\'s Magazine (Sept. 1884) --
2. Pre-Raphaelitism, Aestheticism, and Decadence --
William Michael Rossetti (1829-1919): The Germ: Or Thoughts Toward Nature in Poetry, Literature, and Art (1850) --
From \"Introduction\" --
Charles Dickens (1812-70): From \"Old Lamps for New Ones\" in Household Words (15 June 1850) --
Christina Rossetti (1830-94): Two Poems on the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood [1853] --
The P.R.B. [I] --
The P.R.B. [II] --
John Ruskin (1819-1900): \"The Pre-Raphaelites\" Letter to The Times (25 May 1854) --
Walter Pater (1839-94): From \"The Poems of William Morris\" [\"Æsthetic Poetry\"] in Westminster Review (Oct. 1868) --
James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903): From \"Mr. Whistler\'s \'Ten O\'Clock\'\" (20 Feb. 1885) --
Introduction --
1. Geology and Evolution --
Robert Chambers (1802-71): Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844) --
From Chapter 12: \"General Considerations Respecting the Origin of the Animated Tribes\" --
Hugh Miller (1802-56): The Foot-Prints of the Creator: or, the Asterolepis of Stromness (1849) --
From \"Stromness and its Asterolepis. The Lake of Stennis --
Philip Henry Gosse (1810-88): Omphalos: An Attempt to Untie the Geological Knot (1857) --
From Chapter 12: \"The Conclusion\" --
Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913): From \"On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely from the Original Type\" (20 Aug. 1858) --
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) --
From \"Introduction\" --
From Chapter 3: \"Struggle for Existence\" --
From Chapter 4: \"Natural Selection\" --
From Chapter 15: \"Recapitulation and Conclusion\" --
Agnes Mary Frances Robinson (1857-1944) --
Darwinism --
Introduction --
1. Celebration and Criticism --
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881): From \"Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question\" in Fraser\'s Magazine (Dec. 1849) --
John Stuart Mill (1806-73): From \"The Negro Question\" in Fraser\'s Magazine (Jan. 1850) --
John Ruskin (1819-190o): From Inaugural Lecture (1870) --
George William Hunt (c.1839-19o4): \"MacDermott\'s War Song\" [\"By Jingo\"] (1877) --
J.R. Seeley (1834-95): The Expansion of England (1883) --
From Course II, Lecture I: \"History and Politics\" --
Alfred Tennyson (1809-92): \"Opening of the Indian and Colonial Exhibition\" (1886) --
Alfred Tennyson (1809-92): \"Carmen Scrculare: An Ode in Honour of the Jubilee of Queen Victoria\" (1887) --
Henry Labouchere (1831-1912): \"The Brown Man\'s Burden\" (1899) --
J.A. Hobson (1858-1940): Imperialism: A Study (1902) --
From Part 2, Chapter 4: \"Imperialism and the Lower Races\" --
Arthur Christopher Benson (1862-1925): \"Land of Hope and Glory\" (1902) --
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1840-1922): From My Diaries: Being a Personal Narrative of Events, 1888-1914 (1919) --
2. Governing the Colonies --
2.1. India --
Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-59): From Minute on Indian Education (1835) --
Proclamation by the Queen in Council, to the Princes, Chiefs, and People of India (1858) --
G.A. Henty (1832-1902): With Clive in India: On The Beginnings of an Empire (1884) --
From \"Preface\" --
Flora Annie Steel (1847-1929) and Grace Gardiner (d. 1919): The Complete Indian Housekeeper and Cook (1888) --
From \"Preface to the First Edition\" --
From Chapter I: \"The Duties of the Mistress\" --
Behramji Malabari (1853-1912): The Indian Eye on English Life, or Rambles of a Pilgrim Reformer (1893) --
From Chapter 2: \"In and About London\" --
Ham Mukasa (1870-1956): Uganda\'s Katikiro in England (1904) --
From Chapter 5 --
From Chapter 6 --
Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864) --
To Robert Browning --
\"You smiled, you spoke, and I believed\" --
Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher --
\"I entreat you, Alfred Tennyson\" --
Charlotte Elliott (1789-1871) --
\"Him That Cometh to Me I Will in No Wise Cast Out.\" [Just As I Am] --
John Keble (1792-1866) --
From National Apostasy Considered --
Felicia Hemans (1793-1835) --
Casabianca --
The Indian Woman\'s Death-Song --
The Indian With His Dead Child --
The Rock of Cader-Idris --
The Last Song of Sappho --
Janet Hamilton (1795-1873) --
A Lay of the Tambour Frame --
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) --
Past and Present --
\"Hero-Worship\" --
\"Captains of Industry\" --
Maria Smith Abdy (1797-1867) --
A Governess Wanted --
Mary Howitt (1799-1888) --
The Spider and the Fly --
The Fossil Elephant --
Thomas Hood (1799-1845) --
The Song of the Shirt --
The Bridge of Sighs --
Sarah Stickney Ellis (1799-1872) --
From Pictures of Private Life --
\"An Apology for Fiction\" --
Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-59) --
The History of England from the Accession of James the Second (1848-61) --
From Chapter I: \"Before the Restoration\" --
[Introduction] --
From Chapter 3: \"The State of England in 1685\" --
[The Clergy] --
John Henry Newman (1801-90) --
The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated --
From Discourse V: \"Knowledge Its Own End\" --
From Discourse VII: \"Knowledge Viewed in Relation to Professional Skill\" --
William Barnes (1801-86) --
My Orchet in Linden Lea --
Childhood --
The Wife a-Lost --
Zummer An\' Winter --
From \"Old Bardic Poetry\" [Two Translations from the Welsh] in Macmillan\'s Magazine (Aug. 1867). --
I. Cynddyl\'an\'s Hall --
II. An Englyn on a Yellow Greyhound --
Harriet Martineau (1802-76) --
Society in America (1837) --
From Chapter 3: \"Morals of Politics\" --
Section VI: \"Citizenship of People of Colour\" --
Section VII: \"Political Non-Existence of Women\" --
L.E.L. [Letitia Elizabeth Landon] (1802-38) --
Sappho\'s Song --
Revenge. Note continued: Stanzas on the Death of Mrs. Hemans --
The Factory --
The Princess Victoria [I] --
The Princess Victoria [II] --
Elizabeth Duncan Campbell (1804-78) --
The Windmill of Sebastopol --
The Crimean War --
The Schoolmaster --
The Death of Willie, My Second Son --
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-61) --
Stanzas Addressed to Miss Landon, --
L.E.L.\'s Last Question --
A Musical Instrument --
John Stuart Mill (1806-73) --
On Liberty --
From \"Introductory\" --
The Subjection of Women --
From Chapter 1 --
Caroline Norton (1808-77) --
From A Voice from the Factories --
The Picture of Sappho --
Charles Darwin (1809-82) --
From Autobiography --
Edward FitzGerald (1809-83) --
The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, The Astronomer-Poet of Persia --
Alfred Tennyson (1809-92) --
Mariana --
The Kraken --
The Lady of Shalott --
Ulysses --
[\"Break, break, break\"] --
In Memoriam A.H.H. --
The Eagle --
The Charge of the Light Brigade --
To Virgil --
\"Frater Ave atque Vale\" --
Crossing the Bar --
Robert Browning (1812-89) --
Porphyria\'s Lover --
From Pippa Passes --
Song --
My Last Duchess --
Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister --
The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed\'s Church --
Meeting at Night --
Parting at Morning --
Love Among the Ruins --
Fra Lippo Lippi --
Andrea del Sarto --
From Asolando --
Epilogue --
Edward Lear (1812-88) --
From A Book of Nonsense --
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat --
How Pleasant to Know Mr. Lear --
Samuel Smiles (1812-1904) --
Self-Help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct --
From Chapter 1: \"Self-Help: National and Individual\" --
From Chapter 2: \"Leaders of Industry --
Inventors and Producers\" [James Watt] --
Charlotte Brontë (1816-55) --
The Missionary --
\"My feet they are sore, and my limbs they are weary\" --
Eventide [\"The house was still, the room was still\"] --
Dec 24 [1848] [On the Death of Emily Brontë] --
June 21 1849 [On the Death of Anne Brontë] --
Grace Aguilar (1816-47) --
The Vision of Jerusalem --
Edwin Waugh (1817-90) --
Come Whoam to Thy Childer an\' Me --
Eawr Folk --
Emily Jane Brontë (1818-48) --
Remembrance --
Song [\"The Linnet in the rocky dells\"] --
To Imagination --
Plead for Me --
The Old Stoic --
\"Shall Earth no more inspire thee?\" --
\"Ay --
there it is! it wakes to-night\" --
\"No coward soul is mine\" --
Eliza Cook (1818-89) --
The Old Arm-Chair --
Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-61) --
Qui Laborat, Orat --
\"Duty --
that\'s to say complying\" --
The Latest Decalogue --
The Struggle --
Ah! Yet Consider it Again! --
Epi-Strauss-ium --
John Ruskin (1819-1900) --
Modern Painters --
From \"Of Water, as Painted by Turner\" --
From \"Of Pathetic Fallacy\" --
The Stones of Venice --
From \"The Nature of Gothic\" --
Queen Victoria (1819-1901) --
Speech to Parliament 8 August 1851 --
From Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands from 1848 to 1861 --
Love for Balmoral --
Visits to the Old Women --
George Eliot (1819-80) --
\"O May I Join the Choir Invisible\" --
Anne Brontë (1820-49) --
Appeal --
The Captive Dove --
\"O, they have robbed me of the hope\" --
Domestic Peace --
[Last Lines] \"I hoped that I was brave and strong\" --
Jean Ingelow (1820-97) --
Remonstrance --
Like a Laverock in the Lift --
On the Borders of Cannock Chase --
Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) --
Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not --
Preface --
[Introduction] --
\"Note Upon Some Errors in Novels\" --
From Cassandra --
Dora Greenwell (1821-82) --
A Scherzo --
To Elizabeth Barrett Browning in 1851 --
To Elizabeth Barrett Browning in 1861 --
To Christina Rossetti --
Matthew Arnold (1822-88) --
The Forsaken Merman --
Memorial Verses --
[Isolation] To Marguerite --
To Marguerite, in Returning a Volume of the Letters of Ortis --
The Buried Life --
Lines Written in Kensington Gardens --
Philomela --
Requiescat --
Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse --
East London --
West London --
Dover Beach --
Growing Old --
Preface to Poems (1853) --
Coventry Patmore (1823-96) --
From The Angel in the House --
Book I: The Prologue --
III Honoria: The Accompaniments --
The Lover --
Book II: \"The Espousals\" --
X The Epitaph: The Accompaniments --
3 The Foreign Land --
XI The Departure: The Accompaniments --
I Womanhood --
Idyl XI: The Departure --
The Epilogue --
Sydney Dobell (1824-74) --
To the Authoress of \"Aurora Leigh\" --
Two Sonnets on the Death of Prince Albert --
William Topaz McGonagall (1825-1902) --
The Tay Bridge Disaster --
The Death of the Queen --
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895) --
From \"\'On a Piece of Chalk.\' A Lecture to Working Men\" --
Adelaide Anne Procter (1825-64) --
Envy --
A Woman\'s Question --
A Woman\'s Answer --
A Lost Cord --
A Woman\'s Last Word --
Eliza Harriet Keary (1827-1918) --
Disenchanted --
Renunciation --
A Mother\'s Call --
Old Age --
A Portrait --
Samuel Laycock (1826-93) --
To My Owd Friend, Thomas Kenworthy --
John Bull an\' His Tricks! --
Emily Pfeiffer (1827-90) --
Peace to the Odalisque [I] --
[Peace to the Odalisque II] --
Any Husband to Many a Wife --
Studies from the Antique --
Kassandra I --
Kassandra II --
Klytemnestra I --
Klytemnestra II --
Ellen Johnston (c.1827-74) --
The Working Man --
The Last Sark --
Nelly\'s Lament for the Pirnhouse Cat --
Wanted, a Man --
The Last Lay of \"The Factory Girl\" --
George Meredith (1828-1909) --
Lucifer in Starlight --
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-82) --
The Girlhood of Mary Virgin --
The Blessed Damozel --
The Woodspurge --
Jenny --
The Ballad of Dead Ladies --
Sunset Wings --
\"Found\" --
Spheral Change --
Proserpina --
Gerald Massey (1828-1907) --
The Cry of the Unemployed --
The Red Banner --
The Awakening of the People --
Elizabeth Siddal (1829-62) --
Dead Love --
Love and Hate --
Lord, May I Come? --
Christina Rossetti (1830-94) --
Sappho --
Goblin Market --
A Birthday --
Remember --
After Death --
An Apple Gathering --
Echo --
My Secret --
\"No, Thank You, John\" --
Song --
Up-Hill --
A Better Resurrection --
L.E.L. --
From Sing-Song --
Monna Innominata: A Sonnet of Sonnets --
A Life\'s Parallels --
\"For Thine Own Sake, 0 My God\" --
Birchington Churchyard --
Cobwebs --
In an Artist\'s Studio --
An Echo from Willow-Wood --
Sleeping at Last --
Lewis Carroll (1832-98) --
From Alice\'s Adventures in Wonderland --
[Prefatory Poem] \"All in the golden afternoon\" --
From Through the Looking-Glass --
[Prefatory Poem] \"Child of the pure unclouded brow\" --
Jabberwocky --
The Walrus and the Carpenter --
[Concluding Poem] \"A boat, beneath a sunny sky\" --
William Morris (1834-96) --
Riding Together --
The Defence of Guenevere --
The Haystack in the Floods --
In Prison --
From The Earthly Paradise: An Apology --
James Thomson [B.V.] (1834-82) --
The City of Dreadful Night --
Proem --
I. \"The City is of Night
 perchance of Death\" --
II. \"Because he seemed to walk with an intent\" --
VI. \"I sat forlornly by the river-side\" --
VII. \"Some say that phantoms haunt those shadowy streets\" --
IX. \"It is full strange to him who hears and feels\" --
XIII. \"Of all things human which are strange and wild\" --
XIV. \"Large glooms were gathered in the mighty fane\" --
XVI. \"Our shadowy congregation rested still\" --
XIX. \"The mighty river flowing dark and deep\" --
XX. \"I sat me weary on a pillar\'s base\" --
XXI. \"Anear the centre of that northern crest\" --
E.B.B. --
William Schwenck Gilbert (1836-1911) --
From Patience --
Bunthorne\'s Recitative and Song [\"Am I alone, and unobserved?\"] --
Bunthorne and Grosvenor\'s Duet [\"When I go out of door\"] --
From Iolanthe --
Lord Mountararat\'s Solo [\"When Britain really ruled the waves\"] --
From The Gondoliers --
Quartet [\"Then one of us will be a Queen\"] --
Giuseppe\'s Solo [\"Rising early in the morning\"] --
Augusta Webster (1837-94) --
A Castaway --
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) --
From Atalanta in Calydon --
Chorus [\"When the hounds of spring are on winter\'s traces\"] --
Chorus [\"Before the beginning of years\"] --
The Leper --
Before the Mirror --
Nephelidia --
From \"A Sequence of Sonnets on the Death of Robert Browning\" --
Walter Horatio Pater (1839-94) --
Studies in the History of the Renaissance --
Preface --
Conclusion --
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) --
Hap --
Neutral Tones --
Nature\'s Questioning --
A Christmas Ghost-Story --
The Dead Drummer [Drummer Hodge] --
The Darkling Thrush --
The Ruined Maid --
De Profundis [In Tenebris] I --
De Profundis [In Tenebris] II --
Mathilde Blind (1841-96) --
Winter --
The Dead --
Manchester by Night --
The Red Sunsets, 1883 [I] --
The Red Sunsets, 1883 [II] --
Violet Fane (1843-1905) --
Lancelot and Guinevere --
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-89) --
The Wreck of the Deutschland --
God\'s Grandeur --
The Starlight Night --
Spring --
The Windhover --
Pied Beauty --
Hurrahing in Harvest --
Binsey Poplars --
Duns Scotus\'s Oxford --
Felix Randal --
Spring and Fall: --
\"As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies dráw fláme\" --
[Carrion Comfort] --
Tom\'s Garland --
Harry Ploughman --
That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of the Resurrection --
[\"Thou art indeed just, Lord\"] --
Louisa Sarah Bevington (1845-95) --
Morning --
Afternoon --
Twilight --
Midnight --
Marion Bernstein (1846-1906) --
Woman\'s Rights and Wrongs --
A Rule to Work Both Ways --
Wanted A Husband --
Human Rights --
A Dream --
Married and \"Settled.\" Note continued: Michael Field [Katharine Harris Bradley (1846-1914) and Edith Cooper (1862-1913)] --
An Æohan Harp --
XIV [My Darling] --
XXXV [\"Come, Gorgo, put the rug in place\"] --
[\"O free me, for I take the leap\"] --
Praise of Thanatos --
In Memoriam --
Mona Lisa --
Leonardo da Vinci (The Louvre) --
To Correggio\'s Holy Sebastian (Dresden) --
Cupid\'s Visit [\"I lay sick in a foreign land\"] --
The Birth of Venus --
[\"Sometimes I do dispatch my heart\"] --
[\'Ah, Eros doth not always smite\"] --
Cyclamens --
[\'Already to mine eyelids\' shore\"] --
[\'A Girl\"] --
[\"I sing thee with a stock-dove\'s throat\"] --
Unbosoming --
[\"It was deep April\"] --
[\"Solitary Death, make me thine own\"] --
Walter Pater --
Constancy --
To Christina Rossetti --
Penetration --
To the Winter Aphrodite --
\"I love you with my life\" --
A Palimpsest --
\"Beloved, my glory in thee is not ceased\" --
\"Lo, my loved is dying\" --
Alice Meynell (1847-1922) --
Renouncement --
Unlinked --
Parentage --
Maternity --
William Hurrell Mallock (1849-1923) --
Christmas Thoughts, by a Modern Thinker --
William Ernest Henley (1849-1903) --
From In Hospital --
I. Enter Patient --
II. Waiting --
XIV. Ave, Caesar! --
IV To R.T.H.B. [Invictus] --
We Shall Surely Die --
When You Are Old --
Double Ballade of Life and Fate --
Remonstrance --
Pro Rege Nostro --
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94) --
From Treasure Island --
To the Hesitating Purchaser --
A Child\'s Garden of Verses --
[From the first section] --
I. Bed in Summer --
V. Whole Duty of Children --
XXVIII. Foreign Children --
From Underwoods --
XXI. Requiem --
\"A Plea for Gas Lamps\" --
Arthur Clement Hilton (1851-77) --
Octopus --
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) --
Requiescat --
Impression du Matin --
Helas! --
Impressions --
I. Le Jardin --
II. La Mer --
Symphony in Yellow --
The Harlot\'s House --
A Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray --
John Davidson (1857-1909) --
Thirty Bob a Week --
A Northern Suburb --
Battle --
Constance Naden (1858-89) --
The Lady Doctor --
Love Versus Learning --
To Amy, On Receiving Her Photograph --
The New Orthodoxy --
Natural Selection --
A.E. Housman (1859-1936) --
A Shropshire Lad --
I. 1887 --
II. \"Loveliest of trees, the cherry now\" --
XIII. \"When I was one-and-twenty\" --
XIX. To an Athlete Dying Young --
XXVII. \"Is my team ploughing?\" --
XXX. \"Others, I am not the first\" --
XXXI. \"On Wenlock Edge the wood\'s in trouble\" --
XXXV. \"On the idle hill of summer\" --
XLV. \"If by chance your eye offend you\" --
LIV. \"With rue my heart is laden\" --
LXII. \"Terence, this is stupid stuff\" --
Additional Poems --
XVIII. \"Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrists?\" --
Francis Thompson (1859-1907) --
The Hound of Heaven --
Rosamund Marriott Watson (1860-1911) --
Scythe Song --
Triolet --
Omar Khayyam --
Dead Poets --
In the Rain --
A Summer Night --
Chimæra --
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861-1907) --
Gone --
The Other Side of a Mirror --
Mortal Combat --
The Witch --
Marriage --
The White Women --
Death and the Lady --
Amy Levy (1861-89) --
Febo De Se --
Magdalen --
A Wallflower --
The First Extra --
At a Dinner Party --
A Ballad of Religion and Marriage --
Henry Newbolt (1862-1938) --
Vital Lampada --
\"He Fell Among Thieves\" --
The Dictionary of National Biography --
The Vigil --
Clifton Chapel --
Arthur Symons (1865-1945) --
Pastel --
The Absinthe Drinker --
Javanese Dancers --
Hallucination --
White Heliotrope --
Bianca --
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) --
The Stolen Child --
The Lake Isle of Innisfree --
An Old Song Re-Sung [Down by the Salley Gardens] --
When You Are Old --
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) --
Gunga Din --
The Widow at Windsor --
Mandalay --
Recessional --
The White Man\'s Burden: An Address to the United States --
Lionel Johnson (1867-1902) --
The Dark Angel --
The Destroyer of a Soul --
A Decadent\'s Lyric --
Ernest Dowson (1867-1900) --
Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae --
Nuns of the Perpetual Adoration --
Vitae Summa Brevis Spem Non Vetat Incohare Longam --
Benedictio Domini --
Spleen --
Villanelle of the Poet\'s Road --
Charlotte Mew (1869-1928) --
V.R.I. --
I. [January 22nd, 1901] --
II. [February 2nd, 1901] --
To a Little Child in Death --
At the Convent Gate --
Song [\"Oh! Sorrow\"] --
Not for that City --
Requiescat --
The Farmer\'s Bride.