Victorian Verse: A Critical Anthology (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 0140421106 ISBN 13: 9780140421101

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1986

Synopsis

Gathers poems by Browning, Tennyson, Lear, Arnold, Meredith, Rosetti, Carroll, Morris, Hardy, Hopkins, Stevenson, Wilde, Housman, Kipling, and Yeats

About this title

About the Author:

Daniel Karlin is Professor of English Literature at University College London. He is co-editor, with John Woolford, of The Poems of Browning and editor of the selection of Browning's poetry published in the Penguin Poetry Library.

Review:

By And By, We Shall Meet by William Allingham
The Fairy King by William Allingham
In Snow by William Allingham
Writing by William Allingham
Railway Dreamings by Alexander Anderson
Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold
Growing Old by Matthew Arnold
Isolation: To Marguerite - Continued by Matthew Arnold
Lines Written In Kensington Gardens by Matthew Arnold
Philomela by Matthew Arnold
Resignation by Matthew Arnold
Revolutions by Matthew Arnold
Rugby Chapel by Matthew Arnold
The Sick King In Bokhara by Matthew Arnold
Give Me October's Meritative Haze by Alfred Austin
La Mort D'arthur by William Edmonstoune Aytoun
Honey-harvest by Jane Barlow
Evenen In The Village by William Barnes
To Me by William Barnes
Dream-pedlary by Thomas Lovell Beddoes
A Night-scene by Thomas Lovell Beddoes
The Phantom-lover [or, Wooer] by Thomas Lovell Beddoes
The Slight And Degenerate Nature Of Man by Thomas Lovell Beddoes
Song On The Water (2) by Thomas Lovell Beddoes
The Camelopard by Hilaire Belloc
The Dodo by Hilaire Belloc
The Llama by Hilaire Belloc
The Marmozet by Hilaire Belloc
The Ant-heap by Arthur Christopher Benson
Thomas Gray by Arthur Christopher Benson
'egoisme A Deux' by Louisa S. Bevington
Sonnet: One More Bruised Heart by Louisa S. Bevington
As I Walked Through London by Laurence Binyon
A Song Of Contrdictions by Samuel Laman Blanchard
On Reading The 'rubaiyat' Of Omar Khayyam In A Kentish Rose Garden by Mathilde Blind
A Curling Thread by Katherine Harris Bradley
Cyclamens by Katherine Harris Bradley
Irises by Katherine Harris Bradley
It Was Deep April by Katherine Harris Bradley
L'indifferent; Watteau; The Louvre by Katherine Harris Bradley
On A Dead Child by Robert Seymour Bridges
Song by Anne Bronte
Diving by Charlotte Bronte
On The Death Of Emily Bronte by Charlotte Bronte
Stanzas by Charlotte Bronte
High Waving Heather, 'neath Stormy Blasts Bending by Emily Jane Bronte
How Still, How Happy! Those Are Words by Emily Jane Bronte
I'm Happiest When Most Away by Emily Jane Bronte
The Night Is Darkening Round Me by Emily Jane Bronte
No Coward Soul Is Mine by Emily Jane Bronte
Remembrance by Emily Jane Bronte
Upon Her Soothing Breast by Emily Jane Bronte
The Mud-fish, By An Indignant Tory Footman by Charles William Shirley Brooks
A Sermon At Clevedon; Good Friday by Thomas Edward Brown
Mother And Poet; Turin, After The News From Gaeta, 1861 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
My Heart And I by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Peasants' Blessings by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Runaway Slave At Pilgrim's Point by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sonnets From The Portuguese (1-44, Complete) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Andrea Del Sarto (called The Faultless Painter) by Robert Browning
Asolando: Dubiety by Robert Browning
Asolando: Prologue by Robert Browning
Asolando: Speculative by Robert Browning
The Bishop Orders His Tomb At Saint Praxed's Church by Robert Browning
Caliban Upon Setebos; Or, Natural Theology In The Island by Robert Browning
'childe Roland To The Dark Tower Came' by Robert Browning
Fra Lippo Lippi by Robert Browning
A Grammarian's Funeral by Robert Browning
Home-thoughts, From Abroad by Robert Browning
The Lost Leader by Robert Browning
My Last Duchess by Robert Browning
Never The Time And The Place by Robert Browning
Pan And Luna by Robert Browning
Spring Song by Robert Browning
A Toccata Of Galuppi's by Robert Browning
Two In The Campagna by Robert Browning
Waring by Robert Browning
Youth And Art by Robert Browning
Seaward by Edward Robert Bulwer-lytton
Aeschylus Homer And Shakespeare, Souls by Caerleon [pseud.]
Heraclitus by Callimachus
Peace; A Study by Charles Stuart Calverley
The Crow by William Canton
The Haunted Bridge by William Canton
The Unnamed Women, Sels. by Elizabeth Rundell Charles
The Gipsy Camp by John Clare
I Am by John Clare
An Invite To Eternity by John Clare
Look Through The Naked Bramble And Black Thorn by John Clare
The Red Bagged Bee On Never Weary Wing by John Clare
The Shepherd Boy (2) by John Clare
The Thunder Mutters Louder And More Loud by John Clare
Amours De Voyage: Canto 1 by Arthur Hugh Clough
Amours De Voyage: Canto 2 by Arthur Hugh Clough
Amours De Voyage: Canto 3 by Arthur Hugh Clough
Amours De Voyage: Canto 4 by Arthur Hugh Clough
Amours De Voyage: Canto 5 by Arthur Hugh Clough
The Larch Grove by David Hartley Coleridge
Think Upon Death, 'tis Good To Think Of Death by David Hartley Coleridge
L'oiseau Bleu by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
Marriage by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
Night Is Fallen Within, Without by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
The White Women by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
Winged Words by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
Hartley Coleridge by Edward James Mortimer Collins
On Seeing A Bird-catcher by Eliza Cook
The Purgatory Of Suicides: Book 7, Stanza 7 by Thomas Cooper
The Purgatory Of Suicides: Book 7, Stanza 8 by Thomas Cooper
The Purgatory Of Suicides: Book 7, Stanza 9 by Thomas Cooper
'for One Man's Pleasure' by Mary M. Singleton Currie
Victoria by Mary M. Singleton Currie
A Labourer's Wife by John Davidson
New Year's Day by John Davidson
Thirty Bob A Week by John Davidson
Dream by Richard Watson Dixon
The Mystery Of The Body by Richard Watson Dixon
Song by Richard Watson Dixon
The Botanist's Vision by Sydney Thompson Dobell
The Wounded by Sydney Thompson Dobell
Jabberwocky by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
The Walrus And The Carpenter, Fr. Alice In Wonderland by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
Sister Death by Digby Mackworth Dolben
Invisible Sights by Alfred Domett
The Pool by Edward Dowden
Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae by Ernest Dowson
Spleen; For Arthur Symons by Ernest Dowson
To William Theodore Peters On His Renaissance Cloak by Ernest Dowson
Vitae Summa Brevis Spem Nos Vetat Incohare by Ernest Dowson
Past And Present by Rowland Eyles Egerton-warburton
British Rural Cottages In 1842 by Ebenezer Elliott
Not Die? Who Saith That Nature Cannot Die? by Ebenezer Elliott
Will It Rain? by Ebenezer Elliott
Over! by Anne Evans
Brother And Sister by Mary Ann Evans
What The Trumpeter Said by Sebastian Evans
The Brooklet by David (1838-1861) Gray
Song Of The Seedling; To Arthur Sewell Butt by John Gray
Spleen by John Gray
The Vines; To Andre Chverillon by John Gray
A Scherzo (a Shy Person's Wishes) by Dora (dorothy) Greenwell
A Valentine by Dora (dorothy) Greenwell
Unrest by Thomas Gordon Hake
Poetry By The Way-side by John Hanmer
To An Eagle by John Hanmer
An August Midnight by Thomas Hardy
The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy
De Profundis 1 by Thomas Hardy
The Dead Drummer by Thomas Hardy
Friends Beyond by Thomas Hardy
Her Dilemma; In Church by Thomas Hardy
I Look Into My Glass by Thomas Hardy
In The Old Theatre, Fiesole by Thomas Hardy
Lausanne: In Gibbon's Old Garden by Thomas Hardy
Neutral Tones by Thomas Hardy
The Respectable Burgher, On 'the Higher Criticism' by Thomas Hardy
Rome. At The Pyramid Of Cestius Near The Graves Of Shelley by Thomas Hardy
The Ruined Maid by Thomas Hardy
The Self-unseeing by Thomas Hardy
V.r. 1819-1901; A Reverie by Thomas Hardy
Under The Surface by Frances Ridley Havergal
The Cornish Emigrant's Song by Robert Stephen Hawker
Back-view by William Ernest Henley
Echoes: 38 by William Ernest Henley
In Hospital: 2. Waiting by William Ernest Henley
In Hospital: 23. Music by William Ernest Henley
In Hospital: 28. Discharged by William Ernest Henley
In Hospital: 3. Interior by William Ernest Henley
To W.r. by William Ernest Henley
The Song Of The Shirt by Thomas Hood
Abyss by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Heaven-haven; A Nun Takes The Veil by Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Immanent by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Repeat That, Repeat by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Spelt From Sibyl's Leaves by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Spring And Fall: To A Young Child by Gerard Manley Hopkins
That Nature Is A Heraclitean Fire & Of The Comfort Of The Resurrection by Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Windhover: To Christ Our Lord by Gerard Manley Hopkins
A Shropshire Lad: 1. 1887 by Alfred Edward Housman
A Shropshire Lad: 13 by Alfred Edward Housman
A Shropshire Lad: 16 by Alfred Edward Housman
A Shropshire Lad: 2 by Alfred Edward Housman
A Shropshire Lad: 30 by Alfred Edward Housman
A Shropshire Lad: 40 by Alfred Edward Housman
A Shropshire Lad: 52 by Alfred Edward Housman
A Shropshire Lad: 63 by Alfred Edward Housman
The Dor-hawk by Mary (botham) Howitt
The Fish, The Man, And The Spirit (complete) by James Henry Leigh Hunt
Rondeau by James Henry Leigh Hunt
Loss And Waste by Jean Ingelow
Mopsa The Fairy: Winding-up Time by Jean Ingelow
Breathe Not A Murmur Thou Of Querulous by Henry James
The Human Skull Is Of Deceit by Henry James
Man's Universal Hymn by Henry James
The Son's A Poor, Wretched, Unfortunate Creature by Henry James
By The Statue Of King Charles At Charing Cross by Lionel Pigot Johnson
The Dark Angel by Lionel Pigot Johnson
Love's Ways by Lionel Pigot Johnson
High Summer by Ebenezer Jones
The Poet's Death by Ebenezer Jones
The Factory Town by Ernest Charles Jones
Lay Of The Trilobite by May Kendall
A Dream Maiden by Harriet Eleanor Hamilton (baille) King
Airly Beacon by Charles Kingsley
Lament by Charles Kingsley
The Last Buccaneer by Charles Kingsley
The Poetry Of A Root Crop by Charles Kingsley
Danny Deever by Rudyard Kipling
Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling
Tommy [atkins] by Rudyard Kipling
The Widow At Windsor by Rudyard Kipling
Gossiping by Letitia Elizabeth Landon
The Marriage Vow by Letitia Elizabeth Landon
The Power Of Words by Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Along This Coast I Led The Vacant Hours by Walter Savage Landor
Cottage Left For London by Walter Savage Landor
The Duke Of York's Statue by Walter Savage Landor
Dying Speech Of An Old Philosopher by Walter Savage Landor
Late Leaves by Walter Savage Landor
Malvolio by Walter Savage Landor
To A Cyclamen by Walter Savage Landor
Where Alders Rise Up Dark And Dense by Walter Savage Landor
The Nameless Doon [or, Ruin] by William Larminie
The Courtship Of The Yonghy-bonghy-bo by Edward Lear
Limerick by Edward Lear
Limerick by Edward Lear
Limerick by Edward Lear
Limerick by Edward Lear
Limerick by Edward Lear
Limerick by Edward Lear
Limerick by Edward Lear
Limerick by Edward Lear
Limerick by Edward Lear
The Owl And The Pussy Cat by Edward Lear
A Snail's Derby by Eugene Lee-hamilton
The Bunch Of Larks by Robert Leighton
Epitaph (on A Commonplace Person Who Died In Bed) by Amy Levy
Of A Bird-cage by Caroline Lindsay
Beggars by Frederick Locker-lampson
Badminton by Alfred Comyns Lyall
Hymn by Henry Francis Lyte
Siberia by James Clarence Mangan
After by Philip Bourke Marston
Grief's Aspects by Philip Bourke Marston
Speechless; Upon The Marriage Of Two Deaf And Dumb Persons by Philip Bourke Marston
Modern Love (complete) by George Meredith
Cradle Song At Twilight by Alice Meynell
A Dead Harvest (in Kensington Gardens) by Alice Meynell
The Modern Mother by Alice Meynell
Parentage by Alice Meynell
Renouncement by Alice Meynell
The Ant-lion by Thomas Miller
The Commonest Lot by Francis Burdett Money-coutts
Epitaph On A Fair Woman by Francis Burdett Money-coutts
Epitaph On An Infant by Francis Burdett Money-coutts
A Ballad Of A Shield by Cosmo Monkhouse
Echoes Of Love's House by William (1834-1896) Morris
The Haystack In The Floods by William (1834-1896) Morris
Pomona by William (1834-1896) Morris
The Serving Maid by Arthur Joseph Munby
A Ballad Of Refreshment by Robert Fuller Murray
Brekekekex Koax Koax by Robert Fuller Murray
Christ, The Nazarene by Constance Caroline Woodhill Naden
On Dit by Edith Bland Nesbit
Gillespie by Henry Newbolt
A Nightmare by Eliza Ogilvy
The Rubaiyat, 1859 Edition. (complete) by Omar Khayyam
The Annuity by George Outram
Departure by Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore
A London Fete by Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore
Magna Est Veritas by Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore
The Toys by Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore
The Wife's Tragedy by Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore
Triolet by Emily Jane (davis) Pfeiffer
Lyrics: 3 by Stephen Phillips
At Citoyenne Tussaud's by Victor Gustave Plarr
Epitaphium Citharistriae by Victor Gustave Plarr
The Imperial Prayers by Victor Gustave Plarr
On Change Of Opinions by Victor Gustave Plarr
Shadows by Victor Gustave Plarr
The Solitaires by Victor Gustave Plarr
Twilight-piece by Victor Gustave Plarr
Triolet: A Mesalliance by May Probyn
Envy by Adelaide Anne Procter
The Sexes by Bryan Waller Procter
From The Suburbs by Dollie (mait...

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0140421106
• ISBN 13: 9780140421101
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448
• Editor: Macbeth George