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List of Plates and Illustrations xlii Preface xlv Abbreviations li
List of Web Plates and Illustrations xlii Prcjaic xliii Mfirfvicilion.s xlix
Introduction 1
Victorian Representations and Misrepresentations i "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
William Cobbett 1763-1835): l-rom Rimi/J<iifc\«''.1S30; 3 Victoria !.i8[g 1901 k From Letters (20 June, 1837: "1,1111 Queen" '• 4
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) , , ?2
From Book 2, Chapter 5 [The Two Nations] 32
Friedrich Engels '1X2(1-95'': The Condition of the Working-Chits in Hnghiwl in 1 *44 1845 '• From Chapter 2: "The Great Towns" Manchester slums'
Elizabeth Gaskell ;I8IO Miiry Barton C1 S.-jS;: "Preface" Henry Mayhew (1812 87;: London l.iihouriind the London Poor '.1851'1
From Volume 1: "Statement of a Prostitute" Walter Bagehot; 1826 771: /Vic linglish Constitution ' 1867j
From Chapter 2: "The Pie-Requisites of Cabinet Government" From Chapter 3: "The Monarchy"
(1 ti 8 o g it 11 11
George Cruikshank (1792-1878): The British Bee Hive. Process engraving (18 67)
Matthew Arnold (1822-88): Culture and Anarchy (1869) From III [Chapter 3: "Barbarians, Philistines, Populace"]
34 35 35
Ada Nield Chew :'i 870-1045'-: "A l iving Wage for Factory Girls at Crewe"' in 94;
Fliza Davis Aria ; 1866-10*1:: "My I ady s Evening in I .ondon" in Living London •: IQOI 5 •
12
14
2. Education and Mass Literacy 37
Statistical Society of I.ondon: "Newspapers and Other Publications in Colfee. Public, and Haling I louses" < 1819".'
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
Thomas Hughes (1822-96): Tom Brown's Schooldays (1857) 17 From Part 1, Chapter 8: 'A War of Independence" 17
Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake (1809-93): From "The Englishwoman at School" (July 1878) 45
3. Progress, Industrialization, and Reform 18 Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-59): From "[Review of]
Sir Thomas More; or Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society" (1830) 18
Ebenezer Elliott (1781-1849): Song ["Child, is thy father dead?"] (1831) 20 John Grimshaw (dates unknown): "The Hand-Loom
Weaver's Lament" (1835?) 21 [Anon.] "The Factory Workers' Song" (1842) 22 Charles Dickens (1812-1870): Dombey and Son (1848) 24
From Chapter 6 "Paul's Second Deprivation" [The Coming of the Railroad] 24
Albert, Prince Consort (1819-61): From Speech at the Lord ~ . Mayor's Banquet (1850) [On the Great Exhibition] 26 ;
Charlotte Bronte (1816-55): Three Letters on the Great Exhibition (1851) 28 To Patrick Bronte (30 May). 28 To Patrick Bronte (7 June) 28 1
To Miss Wooler (14 July) 29 Edward Sloan (1830-74): "The Weavers Triumph" (1854) 29 Charles Kingsley (1819-75): From "Cheap Clothes and Nasty" (1850) 31 Ford Madox Brown (1821-93): From The Exhibition of Work,
and other Paintings by Ford Madox Brown (1865) 32 :
Sonnet 33
John Ruskin (1819-1900): The Crown of Wild Olive (1866) 36 From "Traffic" 36
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881): From Shooting Niagara: and After? (1867) 37 Coventry Patmore (1823-96): From "1867" (1877) 38 George Eliot (1819-80): prom 'Address to Working Men, by Felix Holt" (1868) 39 Matthew; Arnold (1822-88): Culture and Anarchy 40
From ["Conclusion"] 40 Thomas Given (1850-1917): "The Weaver Question (| 1878?] 1900 ; 41 Joseph Skipsey (1832-1903) 43
"Get Up!" 43
Mother Wept 43
Willy to Jinny 44
C. Duncan Lucas (dates unknown): From "Scenes from Factory London" in Living London (1901-3) ; 44
4. Working-Class Voices 45 ! "Marcus" : The Book of Murder! (1838) 45
From "To the Reader of the Following Diabolical; Work" 45 John Smithson (fl. 1830s): "Working Men s Rhymes—No. 1" (1838) 48 T B. Smith (fl. 1830S-1840S): "The Wish" (1839) 49 Charles Davlin (C.1804-C.1860): "On a Cliff which O'erhung" (1839) 50 ; National Charter Association Membership Card (c. 1843) 53 Ernest Jones (1819-69): "Our Trust" (1848) 54
Charles Fleming (1804-57): "Difficulties of Appearing in Print" (1850) 55 William Billington (1825-84): "Gerald Massey" (1861) 57 I
Thomas Cooper (1805-92): The Life of Thomas Cooper Written b y H i m s e l f ( 1 8 7 2 ) . 5 7 From Chapter 24 57
Thomas Cooper (1805-92): "Chartist Song" (1877) 59
5. Pollution, Protection, and Preservation ' ' , 61 Robert Southey (1774-1843): Sir Thomas More; or, Colloquies on the Progress
and Prospects of Society (1829) 61 From Colloquy 7, Part 2 61
Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-59): From "[Review of] Sir Thomas More; or Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society" (1830) . 63
William Youatt (1776-1847): The Obligation and Extent of Humanity to Brutes (1839) 64 From "The Repositories" 64
John Stuart Mill (1806-73): The Principles of Political Economy (1848) 65 From Bbok 4, Chapter 6 65
Marion Bernstein (1846-1906) 66
"A Song of Glasgow Town" (1876) 66 "Manly Sports" (1876) 67
Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell (1857-1941): Pigsticking or Hoghunting (1889) 68 From Chapter 1 "Pigsticking Is Introduced" 68 From Chapter 5 "Comparisons" [of pigsticking and fox-hunting] 69 From Chapter 11 "Powers of the Pig" 69
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: "Godefiridus" 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
Sarah Stickney Ellis (1799-1872): The Mothers of England (1843) : * From Chapter 10: "On the Training of Boys"
From Chapter 11: "On the Training of Girls"
70 70 71
Marion Kirkland Reid (c.1839-89): From A Plea for Woman (1843) Richard Pilling (1799-1874): From "Defence at his Trial" (1843)
59 61
Anne Bronte (1820-49): The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) From Chapter 33: "Two Evenings"
72 72
Isabella Beeton (1836-65): The Book of Household Management (1859-61) From Chapter 1: "The Mistress"
62 62
Harriet Martineau (1802-76): From "Middle-Class Education in England: Boys" (1864)
Harriet Martineau (1802-76): From "Middle-Class Education in England: Girls" (1864)
John Ruskin (1819-1900): Sesame and Lilies (1862) From "Of Queen's Gardens"
73
75 77 77
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 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)
68 68 68
70
71
74
Margaret Oliphant (1828-97): From "[Review of] Mill's Subjection of Women" (1869)
[Anon.] "The Woman of the Future: A Lay of the Oxford Victory" (1884) 79 81
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
Ouida LMarie Louise de la Ramee] (1839-1908): From "The New Woman" (1894) 82
3. Sex and Sexuality 84 Elizabeth; Barrett Browning (1806-61) and Robert Browning (1812-89):
From The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1898) 84 Letters of 1845-46 84
William Rathbone Greg (1809-81): From "Prostitution" (1850) " 87 Hannah Gullwick (1833-1909): From Diaries (1863-73) 89 Arthur Joseph Munby (1828-19x0): From Diaries (1873) 93 Thomas Hardy (1840-1928): Desperate Remedies (1871) 96
From Volume i, Chapter 6: "The Events of Twelve Hours" 96 [Anon.] The Pearl: A Journal of Facetice and Voluptuous Reading (18 79) 98
"AN APOLOGY FOR OUR TITLE" 98 W T. Stead (1849-1912): From "Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon" (1885) 99
"A Child of Thirteen Bought for £5" 99 Henry Labouchere (1831-1912): Amendment to the Criminal
Law Amendment Act 1885 102 John Addington Symonds (1840-93): A Problem in Modern Ethics (1891) 103
From Chapter 10: "Suggestions on the Subject of Sexual Inversion in Relation to Law and Education" 103
Henry Havelock Ellis (1859-1939): Man and Woman: A Study of Human Secondary Sexual Characters (1894) 105
From Chapter i8: "Conclusion" ; Lord Alfred Douglas (1870-1945): From The Chameleon
"Two Loves" (1894) "In Praise of Shame (1894)
The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1895) The Libel Trial * The First Criminal Trial , The Second Criminal Trial
105 107 107 109 110 110 113 115
Literature and the Arts 81 Introduction 81
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"
87
87
87
Charles Dickens (1819-1870): Oliver Twist (1838) From Chapter XLV: "Fatal Consequences" [Bill Sikes murders Nancy]
116 116
George Eliot (1819-80): From "Silly Novels by Lady Novelists" in Westminster Review (Oct. 1856) 89
Margaret Oliphant (1828-1897): From "Sensation Novels" (1862) 119
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
91 91 93 94 94
George Meredith (1828-1909): From "On the Idea of Comedy and the Uses of the Comic Spirit" (1877) 121
Henry James (1843-1916): From "The Art of Fiction" in Longman's Magazine (Sept. 1884) 96
George Moore (1852-1933): From Literature at Nurse, or, Circulating Morals (1885)
Bennett George Johns (1820/21-1900): From "The Literature of the Streets" (1887)
123
126
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 Prae-Raphaelites" Letter to The Times (25 May 1854) 103
Walter Pater (1839-94): From "The Poems of William Morris" ["./Esthetic Poetry"] in Westminster Review (Oct. 1868) 105
Robert Williams Buchanan (1841-1901): From "The Fleshly School of Poetry: Mr. D. G. Rossetti" (1871) 128 ;
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-82): From "The Stealthy School of Criticism" (1871) 13T
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909): From Under the Microscope (1872) 133
James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903): From "Mr. Whistler's 'Ten O'clock"' (20 Feb. 1885) 109
Arthur Symons (1865-1945): From "The Decadent Movement in Literature" (1893) 134
Richard Le Gallienne (1866-1947) 'A Ballad of London" (1895) 137 : W. B. 1 eats (18 55-1939): From "The Symbolism of Poetry" (1900) 139
I ; 139 : III 140 i
Olive Custance, Lady Douglas (1874-1944) 141 A Mood (1896) 141 The White Statue (1896) 142 Peacocks: A Mood (1902) 143
3. Literature and New Technologies 144 ; 3.1 Book Publishing 144 : Charles Dickens (1812-70): From "Address" (1847) [Prospectus
for the Cheap Edition] 144 ; Charles Knight (1791-1873): The Old Printer and the Modern Press (1854) 146 !
From Chapter 6 146
Mason Jackson (1819-1903): The Pictorial Press: Its Origin and Progress (1885) 147 From Chapter 1 i 147
William Morris (1834-96): From A Note by William. Morris on His Aims in Founding the Kelmscott Press (1898) | 148
John Southward (1840-1902): Progress in Printing and the Graphic Arts During the Victorian Era (1897) , 149 From Chapter 1 149 From Chapter 2 150 From Chapter 3 151 From Chapter 12 151
3.2 Aural Culture 152 [Anon.J The Edison Phonograph" in Illustrated London News (1888) 152 Recordings of Victorian Voices and Sounds 154
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759): Israel in Egypt (1739; recorded 1888) 154 Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900): "The Lost Chord" (piano and cornet) (1888) 155 Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900): After-Dinner Toast (1888) 155 Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931): 'Around the World on
the Phonograph" (1888) 156 William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898): "The Phonograph's Salutation" (1888) 156 Robert Browning (1812-1889): "How They Brought the Good
News from Ghent to Aix" (1889) 157 Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892): "The Charge of the Light Brigade" (1890) 158 "Big Ben": Sounding the Hours at the Palace of Westminster (1890) 158 Florence Nightingale (1820-1910): Speech in Support of the
Balaclava Relief Fund (1890) 158 Martin Leonard Landfried (1834-1902): "Charge" (1890) 158 P. T. Barnum (1810-1891): 'Address to;the Future" (17 Feb. 1890) 159 Oscar Wilde [?] (1854-1900): From The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1900?) 159 Enrico Caruso (1873-1921): "The Lost Chord" (1912) 160 Rudyard; Kipling (1865-1936): "France" (1921) 160 W B. Yeats (1865-1939): "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" (1932) 160
3.3 Photography and Cinema William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877): The Pencil of Nature (1844-46)
From Introductory Remarks [Anon.] "Photography" in Illustrated London News (1853) Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832-1898): From
"Hiawatha's Photographing" in The Train (1857) ; Victorian Photographers and Photographs
Thomas Annan (1829-87) Francis Bedford (1816-94) Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-79) Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832-98) Peter Henry Emerson (1856-1936) Frederick H. Evans (1853-1943) : Roger Fenton (1819-69) Francis Frith (1822-98)
161 164 164 165
167 170 170 170 170 171 172 172 172 173
174 175
175 175 176 176 176 177 177 178 178 179 179 179 179.
Religion and Science 113
Introduction "3
1. Geology and Evolution 122
Charles Lyell (1797-1875): Principles of Geology (1830-33) 180 From Book 1, Chapter 1 (1830) 180 From Book 3, Chapter 26 (1833) 181 '
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) 130 From "Introduction" 130 From Chapter 3: "Struggle for Existence" 133 From Chapter 4: "Natural Selection" 133 From Chapter 15: "Recapitulation and Conclusion" 136
David Octavius Hill (1802-70) and Robert Adamson (1821-48) Robert Howlett (1831-58) William J. Johnson (fl. 1850-60) and William Henderson
(fl. 1850-60) William Edward Kilburn (1818-91) John Dillwyn Llewelyn (1810-82) Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904) Oscar Gustave Rejlander (1813-75 Henry Peach Robinson (1830-1901) William Lewis Henry Skeen (1847-1903) William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-77) John Thomson (1837-1921) Benjamin Brecknell Turner (1815-94)
Victorian Cinema Films from c.1890 to 1910 The Funeral of Queen Victoria (1901)
122
122
124 124
125 125
127
The Oxford Debate (30 June i860): From Leonard Huxley, The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry H-uxley (1900) 182
Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913): From "The Origin of Human Races and the Antiquity of Man Deduced from the Theory of 'Natural Selection'" (1864) 188
Samuel Kinns (1826-1903): From Moses and Geology: Or, the Harmony of the Bible with Science (1882) 191 From Chapter 1: "The Word is Truth" 191
May Kendall (1861-1943): "The Lay of the Trilobite" (1885) 193
Agnes Mary Frances Robinson (1857-1944) 140 Darwinism 140
2. Religious Faith and Uncertainty 196 Henry Francis Lyte (1793-1847): "Abide with me!"(i847) 196 W J. Conybeare (1815-1857): From "Church Parties" (1853) 197 John Ruskin (1819-1900): Letter to The Times (1854) [on Hunt's Light
of the World] 202 Thomas Hughes (1822-1896): Tom Brown's Schooldays (1857) 204
From Part 2, Chapter 9: "Finis" 204 Benjamin Jowett (1817-1893): From "On the Interpretation
of Scripture" in Essays and Reviews (i860) 206 John William Burgon (1813-1888): Inspiration and Interpretation (1861) 210
From Sermon 3. [On the literal inspiration of the Bible] 210 Sabine Baring-Gould (1834-1924): "Onward Christian Soldiers" (1864) 214 John Henry Newman (1801-90): Apologia Pro Vita Sua 216
From "Part V. History of My Religious Opinions [from 1839 to 1841]" 216
Mrs Humphrey Ward [Mary Augusta Arnold Ward] (1851-1920): Robert Elsmere (1888) 220 From Book 4, Chapter 26: "Crisis" 220
Empire 142
Introduction 142
i. 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) T53 J. R. Seeley (1834-95): The Expansion of England (1883) 154
From Course II, Lecture I: "History and Politics" 154
Walter Crane (1845-1915): "Imperial Federation Map of the World! Showing the Extent of the British Empire in 1886" (1886) 223
Alfred Tennyson (1809-92): "Opening of the Indian and Colonial Exhibition" (1886) 156
Alfred Tennyson (1809-92): "Carmen Sceculare: An Ode in Honour of the Jubilee of Queen Victoria" (1887) 157
Mrs Ernest Ames [Mary Frances Ames] (1853-1929): An ABC for Baby Patriots (1899) 226
Henry Labouchere [?] (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
2.2 White Colonies and Dependencies 229 I Introduction 229 John George Lambton, first Earl of Durham (1792 -1840): From
Report on the Affairs of British North America (1839) 230 James Anthony Froude (1818-1894): The English and the
West Indies, or, The Bow of Ulysses (1888) 232 > From Chapter 17 232 •
2.3 Ireland 234 ; Introduction 234 Jane Francesca Agnes ["Speranza"], Lady Wilde (1821-96):
"The Famine Year" (1847) 235
Charles Trevelyan (1807-86): From The Irish Crisis (1848) 237 ' Presbyterian Prayer on the Irish in Toronto (c. 1850) 240 Dion Boucicault (1820-90): From The Colleen Bawn, or The Brides
of Garryowen (i860) 240 Matthew Arnold (1822-88): On the Study of Celtic Literature (1867) ; 243
From Lecture 4 243
2.4 Africa 245 Introduction 245 "The Rudd Concession" (30 October 1888): From Lewis Mitchell,
The Life of the Rt. Hon. Cecil John Rhodes, 1&53-1902 (1910) '247 Lobengula Khumalo (1845-1894): From a Letter to Queen Victoria
(23 Aug. 1893) ; 248 Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904): In Darkest Africa: Or, the Quest,
Rescue, and Retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria (1890) 249 From Chapter IX: "Ugarrowwa's to Kilonga-Longa's" 249
William Booth (1829-1912): In Darkest England and the Way Out (1890) ; 252 Part 1. The Darkness. Chapter 1: "Why 'Darkest England'?" 252
3. Imperial Travellers 254 Elizabeth Rigby (Lady) Eastlake (1809-1893): From "Lady Travellers" (1845) 254 Francis Galton (1822-1911): The Art of Travel: Shifts and Contrivances
Available in Wild Countries (1855) . . 257 William Howard Russell (1821-1907): From "The Cavalry Action at
Balaklava" in '['he Times (14 Nov. 1854) ; ' 258 Isabella Bird (1831-1904): Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan (2 vols, 1891) 261
Prom Vol. 1, Letter n; 26 March 1880 26I
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" I76
Mary Kingsley (1862-1900): Travels in West Africa (1897) f 262 From Chapter VIII "From Ncovi to Esoon" : 262
Ham Mukasa (1870-1956): Uganda's Katikiro in England (1904) 178 From Chapter 5 178 From Chapter 6 179
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948): An Autobiography, or, The Story of My Experiments with Truth (1927) 263 From Chapter 15: "Playing the English Gentleman" 263
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
Sartor Resartus 269 From "Symbols" [bk. 3. ch. 3] 269 From "Natural Supernaturalism" [bk. 3. ch. 8] 273
Past and Present 201 "Hero-Worship" 202 "Captains of Industry" 205
Past and Present 277 From "The Gospel of Mammonism" [bk. 3. ch. 2] 277
Maria Smith Abdy (1797-1867)
A Governess Wanted
210 211
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
Lays of Ancient Rome 280;
From "Horatius" ! , 280
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
James Dawson Burn (I8OI?-C.I889) 283 From Autobiography of a Beggar Boy 284
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. CLetitia 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
From "The Life of My Childhood" 287
William Dodd (1804-c. 1850) 291 From A Narrative of the Experiences and Sufferings cf William Dodd,
A Factory Cripple, Written by Himself 291
Maryjane Seacole (1805-81) 295 The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands 296
From Chapter 8:1 Long to Join the British Army Before Sebastopol 296 From Chapter 13: My Work in the Crimea 299 1
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-61)
Stanzas Addressed to Miss Landon,
L. E. L.'s Last Question
266 266
268
The Cry of the Children : ,301 "Sonnets from the Portuguese" I 306 !
I "I thought once how Theocritus had sung" ; 306 II "But only three in all God's universe" 307 ! III "Unlike are we, unlike, O princely Heart!" 307 ; V "I lift my heavy heart up solemnly" 307 ; XII "Indeed this very love which is my boast" 308 XIII 'And wilt thou have me fashion into speech" 308 : XIV "If thou must love me, let it be for naught" 309 XXII "When our two souls stand up erect and strong" 309 :
XXVIII "My letters! all dead paper,.'. mute and white!" 310 : XXIX "I think of thee!—my thoughts do twine and bud" 310 ] XLIII "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways" 310 XLIV "Beloved, thou hast brought me many flowers" 311
The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point. 311
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
Autobiography 320 From Chapter 1: "Childhood and Early Education" 320 From Chapter 5: "A Crisis in My Mental History. One Stage Onward" 324
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 Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, The Astronomer-Poet of Persia 302
Alfred Tennyson (1809-92) 318
Mariana 319
The Kraken 321
The Lady of Shalott 321
The Lotos-Eaters 330: Choric Song 331:
Ulysses 326
["Break, break, break"] 328
Locksley Hall 335 Songs from The Princess 341
["O Swallow, Swallow, flying, flying South] 341 ["Tears, idle tears"] 342 ["Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white"] 343; ["Come down, O maid"] 343: ["Sweet and low, sweet and low"] 344 ["The splendour falls on castle walls"] 345
In Memoriam A. H. H. 329
The Eagle 415
The Charge of the Light Brigade 416
The Higher Pantheism 345
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 43i
Parting at Morning
Love Among the Ruins
Fra Lippo Lippi
43i
431
434
"Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" 346
Andrea del Sarto 444
Caliban Upon Setebos 354
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 Bronte (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 Bronte] 463
June 211849 [On the Death of Anne Bronte] 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 Bronte (1818-48) 470
Remembrance 470
Song ["The Linnet in the rocky dells"] 47i
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
"Of Ideas of Beauty" 361
From "Of Water, as Painted by Turner" 487 From "Of Pathetic Fallacy" 49°
The Stones of Venice 493
From "St. Mark's" 364
From "The Nature of Gothic"
Queen Victoria (1819-1901)
Speech to Parliament 8 August 1851
495
506
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 Bronte (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
Dion Boucicault (1820-96) r 366 The Octoroon; or Life in Louisiana. A Play in Four Acts _ 367
From ACT 3 [The Auction] 368 From ACT 4 [The Trial] 371
Bill the Navvy (b. 1820?) 375 From'Autobiography of a Nawy" 375
Dora Greenwell (1821-82)
A Scherzo
To Elizabeth Barrett Browning in 1851
529
529
530
To Elizabeth Barrett Browning in 1861 53i
To Christina Rossetti 53i
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
Rugby Chapel 379
Preface to Poems (1853) 554
From "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time" 384 Culture and Anarchy 391
From [Chapter 1: "Sweetness and Light"] 391 From [Chapter 2: "Doing as One Likes"] 395 From [Chapter 4: "Hebraism and Hellenism"] 398
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
V From 'Autobiography of Ellen Johnston, 'The Factory Girl'" 399
George Meredith (1828-1909) 605
Modern Love i ' ' V ' 402 Sonnets I VI ; 403 Sonnet XVII , I 405 Sonnet XXXIII > 406 Sonnets XLIX-L ; 406
Lucifer in Starlight 605
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-82) 606
Songs of One Household. No. i. My Sister's Sleep 407
The Girlhood of Mary Virgin 607
The Blessed Damozel 608
The Woodspurge 614
Jenny 614
The Ballad of Dead Ladies 623
The House of Life: A S&nnet Sequence <! 409 "A Sonnet is a moment's monument"—[Introductory Sonnet] 409 VI Nuptial Sleep 410 IX The Portrait 410 XIII Love-Sweetness 411 XVI Life-in-Love: , 411 XIX Silent Noon . 412 XXIV-XXVII Willow wood 412 XXVIII Stillborn Love ; 414 XXXI The Landmark 414 XXXII The Hill Summit 415
XXXI
XLVIIA Superscription L The One Hope LXII The Soul's Sphere LXIX Autumn Idleness LXXIV LXXV, LXXVI Old and New Art
I LXXIV Saint Luke the Painter II LXXV Not as These III LXXVI The Husbandman
LXXVII Soul's Beauty LXXVII1 Body's Beauty
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
415 416 416 416 417 417. 417 418 418 419
c ID c o o
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
Charles Stuart Calverley (1831-84) 41? The Cock and the Bull 420
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
From "How I became a Socialist" : 421
James Thomson [B. VJ (1834-82) 700
The City of Dreadful Night 700 Proem 701 I "The City is of Night; perchance of Death" 703
X X X I I II "Because he seemed to walk with an intent" 704
X X X I I
VI "I sat forlornly by the river-side" 704 w, r-
VII "Some say that phantoms haunt those shadowy streets" 706 Ol -l-J IX "It is full strange to him who hears and feels" 707 C O XIII "Of all things human which are strange and wild" 708 CJ
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
Hymn to Proserpine 425
The Leper 75i
Before the Mirror 755
The Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell 429
Nephelidia
From "A Sequence of Sonnets on the Death of Robert Browning"
757
759
Walter Horatio Pater (1839-94)
Studies in the History of the Renaissance
759
760
Preface 762
From "Leonardo da Vinci" 430 From "The School of Giorgione" 433
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
Felix Randal
Spring and Fall:
'As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame"
[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"
Michael Field [Katharine Harris Bradley (1846-1914) and Edith Cooper (1862-1913)]
An ./Eolian 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 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
Lucy Luck (1848-1922) 437 From "A Little of My Life" 437
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
xxx\ 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 Nostra 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 Lejardin 853 II La Mer 853
Symphony in Yellow 854
The Harlot's House 854
A Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray 855
The Importance of Being Earnest 440
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 11887 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
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) 482 A Scandal in Bohemia 483
Francis Thompson (1859-1907) 880
The Hound of Heaven 880
Rosamund Marriott Watson (1860-1911) 885
Scythe Song 886
Triolet 887
Omar Khayyam 887
Dead Poets 888
In the Rain 889
A Summer Night 890
Chimasra 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
Vital Lampada 904
"He Fell Among Thieves" 905
The Dictionary of National Biography 906
The Vigil 9°7
Clifton Chapel 908
Arthur Symons (1865-1945) 909
Pastel 910
The Absinthe Drinker 910
Javanese Dancers 911
Hallucination 912
White Heliotrope 913
Bianca 913
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) 914
The Stolen Child 915
The Lake Isle of Innisfree 916
An Old Song Re-Sung [Down by the Salley Gardens] 917
When You Are Old 9*7
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) 918
Gunga Din 918
The Widow at Windsor 921
Mandalay 922
Recessional 923
The White Man's Burden: An Address to the United States 924
Lispeth 498
Lionel Johnson (1867-1902) 926
The Dark Angel 927
The Destroyer of a Soul 928
A Decadent's Lyric 92.9
Ernest Dowson (1867-1900) 929
Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae 930
Nuns of the Perpetual Adoration 931
Vitae Summa Brevis Spem Non Vetat Incohare Longam 932
Benedictio Domini 932
Spleen 933
Villanelle of the Poet's Road 934
Charlotte Mew (1869-1928) 934
VR.I. 935 I [January 22nd, 1901] 935 II [February 2nd, 1901] 935
To a Little Child in Death 935
At the Convent Gate 936
Song ["Oh! Sorrow"] 937
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