The Broadview Anthology of Victorian Poetry and Poetic Theory: Concise Edition

The Broadview Anthology of Victorian Poetry and Poetic Theory, Concise Edition is less than half the length of the full anthology, but preserves the main principles of the larger work. A number of longer poems (such as Tennyson’s In Memoriam) are included in their entirety; there are generous selections from the work of all major poets, and a representative selection of other work; the work of Victorian women poets features very prominently; and a substantial selection of poetic theory is included to round out the volume.

Table of Contents:
POETRY FELICIA HEMANS The Suliote Mother The Lady of The Castle To Wordsworth Casabianca The Grave of a Poetess The Image In Lava The Indian With His Dead Child The Rock of Cader Idris LETITIA E. LANDON from The Improvisatrice Advertisement Sappho’s Song “Preface” to The Venetian Bracelet, The Lost Pleiad, A History of the Lyre, and Other Poems The Nameless Grave The Factory Carthage Felicia Hemans Rydal Water and Grasmere Lake Infanticide in Madagascar ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING The Cry of the Children Sonnets From the Portuguese III XXII XXIX XLIII The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point Aurora Leigh First Book Second Book Fifth Book A Curse for a Nation A Musical Instrument CAROLINE NORTON From Voice From the Factories The Creole Girl The Poet’s Choice EDWARD FITZGERALD Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám ALFRED TENNYSON Mariana Supposed Confessions of a Second-Rate Sensitive Mind The Poet The Poet’s Mind The Mystic The Kraken The Lady of Shalott To —. With the Following Poem [The Palace of Art] The Palace of Art The Hesperides The Lotos-Eaters The Two Voices St Simeon Stylites Ulysses Tiresias The Epic [Morte d’Arthur] Morte d’Arthur “Break, break, break” Locksley Hall The Vision of Sin In Memoriam A.H.H The Charge of the Light Brigade Maud Tithonus Crossing the Bar ROBERT BROWNING My Last Duchess Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister Johannes Agrνcola in Meditation Porphyria’s Lover Pictor Ignotus The Lost Leader The Bishop Orders His Tom at Saint Praxed’s Church The Laboratory Love Among the Ruins Fra Lippo Lippi A Toccata of Galuppi’s By the Fire-Side An Epistle Containing the Strange Medical Experience of Karshish, the Arab Physician “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came” The Statue and the Bust How It Strikes a Contemporary The Last Ride Together Bishop Blougram’s Apology Andrea del Sarto Saul Cleon Abt Vogler Rabbi Ben Ezra Caliban upon Setebos; or, Natural Theology in the Island EDWARD LEAR The Owl and the Pussy-Cat The Dong with a Luminous Nose How Pleasant to Know Mr. Lear CHARLOTTE BRONTË The Missionary Master and Pupil On the Death of Emily Jane Brontë On the Death of Anne Bronte Reason “The house was still—the room was still” The Lonely Lady “Is this my tomb, this humble stone” “Obscure and little seen my way” EMILY JANE BRONTË “Riches I hold in light esteem” To Imagination Plead For Me Remembrance The Prisoner “No coward soul is mine” Stanzas—“Often rebuked, yet always back returning” A Farewell to Alexandria “Long neglect has worn away” “The night is darkening round me” “What winter floods, what showers of spring” “She dried her tears, and diey did smile” ELIZA COOK The Waters The Ploughshare of Old England Song of the Red Indian Song of the Ugly Maiden A Song For The Workers ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Duty—that’s to say complying Qui Laborat, Orat The Latest Decalogue “Say not the struggle nought availeth” SPERANZA (LADY WILDE) The Voice of the Poor A Lament For the Potato Tristan and Isolde MATTHEW ARNOLD To a Gipsy Child by the Sea-Shore The Strayed Reveller Resignation The Forsaken Merman To Marguerite—Continued Stanzas in Memory of the Author of “Obermann” Empedocles on Etna Memorial Verses Dover Beach The Buried Life Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse The Scholar-Gipsy Thyrsis DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI The Blessed Damozel My Sister’s Sleep Jenny “A Sonnet is a moment’s monument,—” Nuptial Sleep The Portrait Silent Noon Willowwood The Soul’s Sphere The Landmark Autumn Idleness The Hill Summit Old and New Art Soul’s Beauty Body’s Beauty A Superscription The One Hope ARTHUR MUNBY The Serving Maid Woman’s Rights ELIZABETH SIDDAL The Lust of the Eyes Worn Out At Last Love and Hate CHRISTINA ROSSETTI Goblin Market A Birthday After Death An Apple Gathering Echo “No, Thank you, John” Song Uphill A Better Resurrection “The Iniquity of the Fathers Upon the Children” Monna Innominata 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 “For Thine Own Sake, O My God” In an Artist’s Studio LEWIS CARROLL Jabberwocky The Walrus and the Carpenter WILLIAM MORRIS The Defence of Guenevere The Haystack in the Floods ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE The Triumph of Time Itylus Anactoria Hymn to Proserpine The Leper The Garden of Proserpine A Forsaken Garden At A Month’s End Ave Atque Vale AUGUSTA WEBSTER Circe A Castaway Mother and Daughter Sonnets VI VII IX XIV XII XIII XIV XV XVI XVII THOMAS HARDY Hap Neutral Tones A Broken Appointment The Darkling Thrush The Self-Unseeing In Tenebris The Minute Before Meeting Night in the Old Home The Something that Saved Him Afterwards A Young Man’s Exhortation Snow in the Suburbs In a Wood GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS The Wreck of the Deutschland God’s Grandeur The Windhover Felix Randal “As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame” The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo Carrion Comfort “No worst, there is none” Tom’s Garland Harry Ploughman MICHAEL FIELD Preface La Gioconda The Birth of Venus “Death, men say, is like a sea” “Ah, Eros doth not always smite” “Sometimes I do despatch my heart” “Solitary Death, make me thine own” Love’s Sour Leisure “It was deep April, and the morn” An Aeolian Harp ALICE MEYNELL A Letter from a Girl to Her Own Old Age In February A Father of Women The Threshing Machine Reflections (I) In Ireland (II) In “Othello” (III) In Two Poets OSCAR WILDE Requiescat Hélas! Impressions le jardin la mer Symphony in Yellow RUDYARD KIPLING Gentlemen-Rankesr In the Neolithic Age Recessional The White Man’s Burden If LIONEL JOHNSON The Dark Angel Summer Storm Dead The End Nihilism The Darkness In a Workhouse Bagley Wood The Destroyer of a Soul The Precept of Silence A Proselyte CHARLOTTE MEW The Farmer’s Bride In Nunhead Cemetery The Road To Kιrity I Have Been Through The Gates The Cenotaph V. R. I i. January 22nd, 1901 ii. February^, 1901 POETIC THEORY WILLIAM JOHNSON FOX Tennyson – Poems, Chiefly Lyrical – 1830 ARTHUR HENRY HALLAM On Some of the Characteristics of Modern Poetry LETITIA E. LANDON On the Ancient and Modern Influence of Poetry JOHN STUART MILL “What is Poetry?” ROBERT BROWNING “Introductory Essay” [“Essay on Shelley”] ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Recent English Poetry: A Review of Several Volumes of Poems by Alexander Smith, Matthew Arnold, and Others MATTHEW ARNOLD Preface to the First Edition of Poems JOHN RUSKIN Of the Pathetic Fallacy MATTHEW ARNOLD The Function of Criticism at the Present Time WALTER BAGEHOT Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Browning; or, Pure, Ornate, and Grotesque Art in English Poetry ROBERT BUCHANAN The Fleshly School of Poetry: Mr. D.G. Rossetti DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI The Stealthy School Of Criticism ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Under The Microscope WALTER PATER The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Author’s Preface ALICE MEYNELL Tennyson Robert Browning The Rhythm of Life INDEXES INDEX OF FIRST LINES INDEX OF AUTHORS AND TITLES

About the Author :
The recent work of Thomas J. Collins, Professor of English at the University of Western Ontario, includes Browning: The Poems, 2 vols., ed. with John Pettigrew (Penguin, 3rd ed. 1996), and A Concordance to the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning, 7 vols., ed. with R.J. Shroyer (AMS Press, 1996).

Review :
“A long-overdue collection that balances representative and canonical works with traditionally under-represented ones.” — Barbara Gates, University of Delaware “What we have needed has been the Victorian poetic texts, by many writers—and here they are, splendidly assembled! Thank you.” — William N. Rogers, San Diego State University “A comprehensive and intelligent selection … fills a long-standing need.” — Thomas Hoberg, Northeastern Illinois University “I’m excited about the appearance of this anthology—especially about its inclusion of so may full-text long poems.” — Peter W. Sinnema, University of Alberta