Victorian Poetry

Francis O’Gorman is Senior Lecturer in Victorian Literature at the University of Leeds, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and a Companion of the Guild of St George. He has written widely on the Victorian period, including the books John Ruskin (1999) and Late Ruskin: New Contexts (2001) and is the editor of The Victorian Novel (Blackwell Publishing, 2002).

"This is an excellent guide to the poetry of the period, and a teaching tool of obvious integrity, offering both help where it is needed and the kind of challenges that are essential to a meaningful learning experience." Modern Language Review

• Suggested Contents by Theme and Genre. Alphabetical List of Authors.List of Plates.Abbreviations.Chronology.Acknowledgements.Introduction.Poetry included (short titles).Thomas Macaulay (1800-59).‘Horatius: A Lay made about the Year of the City CCCLX’.Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-61).‘Bertha in the Lane’.‘The Cry of the Children’.‘Rime of the Duchess May’.‘The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point’.‘Hiram Powers’ Greek Slave’.Sonnets from the Portuguese (selection):.‘I thought once how Theocritus had sung’.‘I never gave a lock of hair away’.‘If I leave all for thee’.‘How do I love thee? Let me count the ways’.‘Beloved, thou has brought me many flowers’.‘Lord Walter’s Wife’.‘A Musical Instrument’.‘Amy’s Cruelty’.Alfred Tennyson (1809-92).‘The Dying Swan’.‘Mariana’.‘The Lotos-Eaters’.‘The Lady of Shalott’.‘The Epic/Morte d’Arthur’.‘Ulysses’.‘Now sleeps the crimson petal’.In Memoriam A.H.H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII.‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’.‘To the Marquis of Dufferin and Ava’.‘Crossing the Bar’.Robert Browning (1812-89).‘Porphyria’s Lover’.‘My Last Duchess’.‘The Bishop Orders his Tomb at Saint Praxed’s Church’.‘Fra Lippo Lippi’.‘Andrea del Sarto’.‘“Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”’.‘A Toccata of Galuppi’s’.‘Two in the Campagna’.‘Caliban upon Setebos’.‘Eurydice to Orpheus: A Picture by Leighton’.‘Inapprehensiveness’.Emily Brontë (1818-48).‘High waving heather’.‘The Night-Wind.‘Shall earth no more inspire thee[?]’.‘To Imagination’.‘Remembrance’.‘The Prisoner: A Fragment’.‘No coward soul is mine’.Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-61).‘Say not the struggle nought availeth’.Amours de Voyage.‘The Latest Decalogue’.Matthew Arnold (1822-88).‘A Summer Night’.‘To Marguerite – Continued’.‘Empedocles on Etna’.‘The Buried Life’.‘The Scholar-Gipsy’.‘Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse’.‘Dover Beach’.Adelaide Anne Procter (1825-64).‘Philip and Mildred’.‘A Legend of Provence’.George Meredith (1828-1909).Modern Love.Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-82).‘The Burden of Nineveh’.‘Sestina. Of the Lady Pietra degli Scrovigni’.‘Jenny’.‘Nuptial Sleep’.‘Song 8: The Woodspurge’.Christina G. Rossetti (1830-94).‘In an Artist’s Studio’.‘An Apple-Gathering’.‘A Birthday’.‘Goblin Market’.‘Song: When I am dead, my dearest’.‘Winter: My Secret’.‘The Lambs of Grasmere, 1860’.‘Shut Out’.‘The World’.‘A Christmas Carol: In the bleak mid-winter’.‘In life our absent friend’.‘Resurgam’.‘Babylon the Great’.James Thomson, ‘B. V.’ (1834-82).The City of Dreadful Night.William Morris (1834-96).‘The Haystack in the Floods’.‘The Defence of Guenevere’.‘Concerning Geffray Teste Noire’.‘Iceland First Seen’.Alfred Austin (1835-1913).‘Henry Bartle Edward Frere’.Augusta Webster (1837-94).‘Circe’.‘A Castaway’.‘Faded’.Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909).‘Hymn to Proserpine’.‘Anactoria’.‘Laus Veneris’.‘Ave Atque Vale: In Memory of Charles Baudelaire’.‘A Forsaken Garden’.Thomas Hardy (1840-1928).‘Hap’.‘Drummer Hodge’.‘The Darkling Thrush’.‘In the Old Theatre, Fiesole’.‘The Ruined Maid’.‘The Self-Unseeing’.‘In Tenebris I’.‘Shelley’s Skylark’.‘Lausanne: In Gibbon’s Old Garden’.‘The Revisitation’.Gerard M[anley] Hopkins (1844-89).‘Spring and Fall’.‘The Wreck of the Deutschland’.‘As kingfishers catch fire’.‘God’s Grandeur’.‘Pied Beauty’.‘The Windhover’.‘Inversnaid’.‘That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of the Resurrection’.‘Harry Ploughman’.‘Binsey Poplars’.‘No worst, there is none’.‘My own heart let me more have pity on’.Eugene Lee-Hamilton (1845-1907).‘The New Medusa’.Imaginary Sonnets: ‘Laura to Petrarch’.‘Carmagnola to the Republic of Venice’.‘Fallopius to his Dissecting Knife’.‘Charles Edward to his Last Friend’.Michael Field (Katherine Bradley [1846-1914] and Edith Cooper [1862-1913]).‘Maids, not to you my mind doth change’.‘La Gioconda’.‘A Portrait: Bartolommeo Veneto’.‘A Girl’.‘Cyclamens’.‘Sometimes I do despatch my heart’.‘It was deep April’.‘Nests in Elms’.Four Victorian Hymns.‘The day thou gavest’ (Ellerton).‘Take my life and let it be’ (Havergal).‘Onward Christian soldiers’ (Baring-Gould).‘My God how wonderful thou art’ (Faber).W[illiam] E[rnest] Henley (1849-1903).In Hospital.Oscar Wilde (1854-1900).‘Fantaisies Décoratives: II. Les Ballons’.‘Symphony in Yellow’.The Ballad of Reading Gaol.John Davidson (1857-1909).‘Thirty Bob a Week’.‘A Woman and her Son’.‘Snow’.‘The Crystal Palace’.May Kendall (1861-?1943).‘Lay of the Trilobite’.Amy Levy (1861-89).‘Xantippe: A Fragment’.‘A Minor Poet’.‘A Ballad of Religion and Marriage’.Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936).‘Fuzzy Wuzzy’.‘Gunga Din’.‘Tommy’.‘Recessional, A Victorian Ode’.‘The White Man’s Burden’.‘If – ’.‘The Way through the Woods’.Arthur Symons (1865-1945).‘From Théophile Gautier: Posthumous Coquetry’.‘The Absinthe Drinker’.‘Javanese Dancers’.‘Prologue’.‘Paris’.‘Hands’.‘White Heliotrope’.‘Stella Maris’.Ernest Dowson (1867-1900).‘Nuns of the Perpetual Adoration’.‘Extreme Unction’.‘Nun Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae’.‘Vitae summa brevis spem nos vetat incohare longam’.Lionel Johnson (1867-1902).‘Oxford’.‘By the Statue of King Charles at Charing Cross’.‘The Dark Angel’.Charlotte Mew (1869-1928).‘The Forest Road’.‘Madeleine in Church’.‘The Trees are Down’.Select Bibliography.Index of titles.Index of First Lines