The Penguin Book of Victorian Verse

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Penguin UK, 1998 M10 19 - 928 pages
Daniel Karlin has selected poetry written and published during the reign of Queen Victoria, (1837-1901). Giving pride of place to Tennyson, Robert Browning, and Christina Rossetti, the volume offers generous selections from other major poets such asArnold, Emily Bronte, Hardy and Hopkins, and makes room for several poem-sequences in their entirety. It is wonderful, too, in its discovery and inclusion of eccentric, dissenting, un-Victorian voices, poets who squarely refuse to 'represent' their period. It also includes the work of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Meredith, James Thomson and Augusta Webster.
 

Contents

On the Projected Kendal and Windermere Railway
The unremitting voice of nightly streams
Sonnet To an Octogenarian
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR 17751864
A NightScene 50 The PhantomWooer
Song on the Water
The Slight and Degenerate Nature of
ROBERT STEPHEN HAWKER 180375
JAMES CLARENCE MANGAN 180349
SAMUEL LAMAN BLANCHARD 180445
R E EGERTONWARBURTON 180491
CHARLES WHITEHEAD 180462
GEORGE OUTRAM 180556
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING 180661
The Runaway Slave at Pilgrims Point
Mother and Poet
My Heart and I
THOMAS MILLER 180774
CHARLES TURNER 180879
Joy Came from Heaven
Wind on the Corn 68 Welsh Lucy
EDWARD FITZGERALD 180983
THOMAS GORDON HAKE 180995
JOHN HANMER 180981
Poetry by the WaySide
ALFRED TENNYSON 180992
Break break break
Ulysses
Tithonus
Audley Court
Morte dArthur
The Eagle SONGS FROM THE PRINCESS 80 Tears idle tears I know not what they mean
Now sleeps the crimson petal now the white
from In Memoriam
The Charge of the Light Brigade
from Maud
In the Valley of Cauteretz 86 The Voyage of Maeldune
Crossing the
ALFRED DOMETT 181187
GEORGE ELIOT 181980
ERNEST JONES 181968
CHARLES KINGSLEY 181975
Airly Beacon 140 A Lament
The Last Buccaneer
Song We know where deepest lies the snow
ANNE EVANS 182070
JEAN INGELOW 182097
EBENEZER JONES 182060
MENELLA BUTE SMEDLEY 182077
DORA GREENWELL 182182
A Valentine
FREDERICK LOCKERLAMPSON 182195
MATTHEW ARNOLD 182288
To Marguerite Continued
Resignation
Dover Beach
Lines Written in Kensington Gardens
Revolutions
Philomela
Rugby Chapel
Growing
ROBERT LEIGHTON 182269
ELIZA OGILVY 18221912
WILLIAM JOHNSON CORY 182392
COVENTRY PATMORE 182396
Everything passes and vanishes
SYDNEY THOMPSON DOBELL 182474
SMITH 18241908
ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER 182564
HENRY SEPTIMUS SUTTON 18251901
A LoveLetter
MORTIMER COLLINS 182776
EMILY PFEIFFER 182790
ELIZABETH CHARLES 182896
GEORGE MEREDITH 18281909
ARTHUR MUNBY 18281910
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Song Two doves upon the selfsame branch 216 A Dirge
An Immurata Sister
A Christmas Carol
from SingSong
My Mouse
Summer Is Ended 222 Pastime
A Frogs Fate
Johnny Sands
The Way to Live
S CALVERLEY 183184
EDWARD ROBERT BULWER LYTTON 183191
LEWIS CARROLL 183298
The Walrus and the Carpenter
JOSEPH SKIPSEY 18321903
Mother Wept 233 A Golden
RICHARD WATSON DIXON 18331900
The Mystery of the Body
AUGUSTA WEBSTER 183794
DAVID GRAY 183861
JOHN TODHUNTER 18391916
THOMAS HARDY 18401928
Neutral Tones 261 Her Dilemma
I look into my glass
The Dead Drummer Drummer Hodge
In the Old Theatre Fiesole
At the Pyramid of Cestius near the Graves of Shelley and Keats
In Gibbons Old Garden 1112 p m
An August Midnight
The Darkling Thrush
The Ruined Maid
The Respectable Burgher
The SelfUnseeing 272 De Profundis I In Tenebris
HARRIET ELEANOR HAMILTON KING 18401920
COSMO MONKHOUSE 18401901
MATHILDE BLIND 184196
The Haunted Bridge
The Crow
EUGENE LEEHAMILTON 18451907
MICHAEL FIELD Katherine Harris Bradley 18461914 and Edith Emma Cooper 18621913
A curling thread 299 Cyclamens
Irises 301 It was deep April and the morn
JAMES LOGIE ROBERTSON 18461922
A BackLying Farm
ALICE MEYNELL 18471922
A Dead Harvest
Parentage 307 Renouncement
CradleSong at Twilight
DIGBY MACKWORTH DOLBEN 184867
W E HENLEY 18491903
Interior 312 Music
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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.

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