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 scholarship with 5 contextual sections and innovative sub-sections on topics like environmentalism and animal rights; mass literacy and mass media; sex and sexuality; melodrama and comedy; the Irish question; ruling India and the Indian Mutiny and innovations in print culture
* Emphasizes the interdisciplinary nature of the field with a focus on social, cultural, artistic, and historical factors
* Includes a fully annotated companion website for teachers and students offering expanded context sections, additional readings from key writers, appendices, and an extensive bibliography

List of Plates and Illustrations xlii

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

Victor Shea is Associate Professor of Humanities and English at York University, Canada. He holds degrees from University of Prince Edward Island, University of Toronto, and York University. His research interests include Victorian culture and literature, British Empire and imperialism, American Studies, and literary theory. With William Whitla, he is co-editor of Essays and Reviews: The 1860 Text and its Readings (2000) and co-author of Foundations: Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing (2^nd edition, 2005).

William Whitla is Professor Emeritus and Senior Scholar in English and Humanities at York University, Canada.  He holds degrees from University of Toronto, TrinityCollege, and University of Oxford. His research interests include Victorian culture and literature, literary theory, and interdisciplinary studies in medieval and Renaissance studies. He is the author of The English Handbook: A Guide to Literary Studies (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010). With Victor Shea, he is co-editor of Essays and Reviews: The 1860 Text and its Readings (2000) and co-author of Foundations: Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing (2^nd edition, 2005).