The Broadview Anthology of British Literature Volume 5: The Victorian Era - Second Edition (Paperback, 2, Revised)

Preface

Acknowledgments

THE VICTORIAN ERA

• INTRODUCTION TO THE VICTORIAN ERA
  • A Growing Power
    Grinding Mills, Grinding Poverty
    Corn Laws, Potato Famine
    “The Two Nations”
    The Politics of Gender
    Empire
    Faith and Doubt
    Victorian Domesticity
    Cultural Trends
    Technology
    Cultural Identities
    Realism
    The Victorian Novel
    Poetry
    Drama
    Prose Non-Fiction and Print Culture
    The English Language in the Victorian Era

• HISTORY OF THE LANGUAGE AND PRINT CULTURE

• THOMAS CARLYLE
  • from Sartor Resartus
    • from Book 1 (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)
      • Chapter 11: Prospective
    • from Book 2
      • Chapter 6: Sorrows of Teufelsdröckh
        Chapter 7: The Everlasting No (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)
        Chapter 8: Centre of Indifference (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)
    • from Book 3
      • Chapter 8: Natural Supernaturalism
  • from The French Revolution (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)
    • Volume 1, Book 6, Chapter 6: The Fourth Estate
      Volume 2, Book 3, Chapter 7: Death of Mirabella
      Volume 3, Book 4, Chapter 7: Marie-Antoinette
      Volume 3, Book 7, Chapter 8: Finis
  • from Past and Present
    • from Book 1
      • Chapter 1: Midas
        Chapter 6: Hero-Worship
    • from Book 3
      • Chapter 1: Phenomena
        Chapter 2: Gospel of Mammonism
        Chapter 11: Labour
        Chapter 13: Democracy
    • from Book 4
      • Chapter 4: Captains of Industry

• THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY
  • from The History of England
    • from Chapter 3: State of England in 1685
  • from Milton (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)

• CONTEXTS: WORK AND POVERTY
  • Anonymous, “The Steam Loom Weaver”
    from Elizabeth Bentley, Testimony before the 1832 Committee on the Labour of Children in Factories
    from Andrew Ure, The Philosophy of Manufactures
    from William Dodd, A Narrative of the Experience and Sufferings of William Dodd, a Factory Cripple, Written by Himself
    from Joseph Adshead, Distress in Manchester, Chapter 3: Narratives of Suffering
    Thomas Hood, “Song of the Shirt”
    from Friedrich Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844, Chapter 3: The Great Towns
    from Reverend Sidney Godolphin Osborne, Letters of S.G.O.
    from Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Barton, Chapter 6
    from Charles Dickens, Hard Times, Chapter 5: The Key-Note
    from Henry Morley, “Ground in the Mill,” Household Words No. 213 [22 April 1854]
    from Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, “Boy Crossing-Sweepers and Tumblers”

• HARRIET MARTINEAU (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)
  • from Cousin Marshall
    from Prison Discipline
    from Society in America
    from How to Observe Manners and Morals
    from Retrospect of Western Travel
    from Household Education
    from Autobiography

• JOHN HENRY CARDINAL NEWMAN (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)
  • from The Idea of a University

• SUSANNA MOODIE (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)
  • from Roughing It in the Bush
    • Introduction
      Chapter 15: The Wilderness, and our Indian Friends
      from Chapter 22: The Fire
  • IN CONTEXT: Sample of Susanna Moodie’s 1839 Correspondence
    • A “Crossed” Letter
  • from Life in the Clearings versus the Bush
    • Chapter 1: Belleville
      Chapter 7: Camp Meetings
      Chapter 8: Wearing Mourning for the Dead

• MARY SEACOLE (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)
  • from Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands
    • Chapter 1: My Birth and Parentage
      Chapter 8: I Long to Join the British Army Before Sebastopol
      Chapter 9: Voyage to Constantinople
      from Chapter 13: My Work in the Crimea

• JOHN STUART MILL
  • What is Poetry?
    from The Subjection of Women
    • Chapter 1
  • from On Liberty (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)
    • from Chapter 2: Of the Liberty of Thought and Discussion
      Chapter 3: Of Individuality, as One of the Elements of Well-Being

• CONTEXTS: THE PLACE OF WOMEN IN SOCIETY
  • from Sarah Stickney Ellis, The Daughters of England: Their Position in Society, Character and Responsibilities
    from Anonymous, “Hints on the Modern Governess System,” Fraser’s Magazine (November 1844)
    from Harriet Taylor, The Enfranchisement of Women
    from Coventry Patmore, The Angel in the House
    from William Rathbone Greg, “Why Are Women Redundant?”
    from Frances Power Cobbe, “What Shall We Do with Our Old Maids?”
    from Eliza Lynn Linton, “The Girl of the Period,” Saturday Review (March 1868)
    from Frances Power Cobbe, “Criminals, Idiots, Women, and Minors,” Fraser’s Magazine (December 1868)
    May Probyn, “The Model” (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)
    from “Between School and Marriage,” The Girl’s Own Paper, Vol. 7 (4 September 1886)
    from Emma Brewer, “Our Friends the Servants,” The Girl’s Own Paper, Vol. 14 (25 March 1893)
    from Grant Allen, “Plain Words on the Woman Question,” Fortnightly Review 46 (October 1889)
    from Sarah Grand, “The New Aspect of the Woman Question,” North American Review 158 (March 1894)
    from Mona Caird, “Does Marriage Hinder a Woman’s Self-Development?” Lady’s Realm (March 1899)
  • Prostitution and the Contagious Diseases Act (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)
    • Thomas Hood, “The Bridge of Sighs”
      from Henry Mayhew, “Labour and the Poor: The Metropolitan Districts,” The Morning Chronicle (1849)
      from W.R. Greg, “Prostitution,” Westminster Review (January 1850)
      from The Contagious Diseases Act
      from Harriet Martineau, “The Contagious Diseases Acts – II,” Daily News (29 December 1869)
      from Josephine Butler, Personal Reminiscences of a Great Crusade
      from Josephine Butler, Some Thoughts on the Present Aspect of the Crusade Against the State Regulation of Vice
      from Sarah Grand, The Beth Book

• ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
  • The Cry of the Children
    To George Sand: A Desire
    To George Sand: A Recognition
    A Year’s Spinning
    The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point
    from Sonnets from the Portuguese
    • 1 (“I thought once how Theocritus had sung”)
      7 (“The face of all the world is changed, I think”)
      13 (“And wilt thou have me fasten into speech”)
      21 (“Say over again, and yet once over again”)
      22 (“When our two souls stand up erect and strong”)
      24 (“Let the world’s sharpness, like a clasping knife”)
      26 (“I lived with visions for my company”)
      28 (“My letters! all dead paper, mute and white!”)
      43 (“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways”)
  • from Aurora Leigh
    • Book 1
      from Book 2
      from Book 5
  • A Curse for a Nation
    A Musical Instrument
    IN CONTEXT: Books on Womanhood (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)
    • from Catherine Napier, Woman’s Rights and Duties
  • IN CONTEXT: Children in the Mines (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)
    • from Richard Hengist Horne, Report of the Children’s Employment Commission
  • IN CONTEXT: The Origin of “the Finest Sonnets” (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)
    • from Edmund Gosse, Critical Kit-Kats
    IN CONTEXT: Images of George Sand (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)

• ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON
  • Mariana
    The Palace of Art
    The Lady of Shalott
    The Lotos-Eaters
    Ulysses
    The Epic [Morte d’Arthur]
    Morte d’Arthur
    [Break, break, break]
    Locksley Hall
    from The Princess
    • [Sweet and Low]
      [The Splendour Falls]
      [Tears, Idle Tears]
      [Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal]
      [Come Down, O Maid]
      [The Woman’s Cause Is Man’s]
  • Maud (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)
    In Memoriam A.H.H.
    The Eagle
    The Charge of the Light Brigade
    from Idylls of the King (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)
    • The Holy Grail
  • [Flower in the Crannied Wall]
    Vastness
    Crossing the Bar
    IN CONTEXT: Images of Tennyson
    • from Thomas Carlyle, Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson (5 August 1844)
  • IN CONTEXT: Victorian Images of Arthurian Legend
    IN CONTEXT: Crimea and the Camera
    • Roger Fenton, Selected Photographs

• CHARLES DARWIN
  • from The Voyage of the Beagle
    • from Chapter 10: Tierra del Fuego
      from Chapter 17: Galapagos Archipelago
  • IN CONTEXT: Images from The Beagle
    from On the Origin of Species
    • Introduction
      from Chapter 3: Struggle for Existence
      from Chapter 14: Recapitulation and Conclusion
  • from The Descent of Man
    • from Chapter 19: Secondary Sexual Characters of Man
      from Chapter 21: General Summary and Conclusion
  • IN CONTEXT: Defending and Attacking Darwin
    • from Thomas Huxley, “Criticisms on The Origin of Species”
      from Thomas Huxley, “Mr. Darwin’s Critics”
      from Punch
  • IN CONTEXT: Darwin and Human Societies
    • from Herbert Spencer, Social Statics: or, the Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, and the First of Them Developed

• ELIZABETH GASKELL
  • Libbie Marsh’s Three Eras (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)
    Our Society at Cranford
    IN CONTEXT: Charles Dickens and the Publication History of “Our Society at Cranford”
    • from Charles Dickens, Letter to Elizabeth Gaskell (31 January 1850)
      from Charles Dickens, Letter to Elizabeth Gaskell (5 December 1851)
      from Charles Dickens, Letter to Elizabeth Gaskell (21 December 1851)
  • The Old Nurse’s Story (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)

• ROBERT BROWNING
  • Porphyria’s Lover
    Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister
    My Last Duchess
    Home-Thoughts, from Abroad
    The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed’s Church
    Meeting at Night
    Parting at Morning
    How It Strikes a Contemporary
    Memorabilia
    Love Among the Ruins
    “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”
    Fra Lippo Lippi
    The Last Ride Together
    Andrea del Sarto
    A Woman’s Last Word
    Two in the Campagna (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)
    Essay on Shelley
    Caliban upon Setebos (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)
    from The Ring and the Book (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)
    • from Book 12
  • IN CONTEXT: A Parody of The Ring and the Book (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)
    • Charles Stuart Calverley, The Cock and the Bull
  • Bishop Blougram’s Apology (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)

• CHARLES DICKENS
  • from Sketches by Boz (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)
    • Chapter 25: A Visit to Newgate
  • A Christmas Carol (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)
    • Preface
      Stave 1: Marley’s Ghost
      Stave 2: The First of the Three Spirits
      Stave 3: The Second of the Three Spirits
      Stave 4: The Last of the Spirits
      Stave 5: The End of It
  • IN CONTEXT: A Victorian Christmas (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)
    • from Charles Dickens, Sketches by Boz
      • Chapter 2: A Christmas Dinner
  • IN CONTEXT:The Workhouse (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)
    • Charles Dickens, “A Walk in the Workhouse,” from Household Words
  • The Quiet Poor (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)
    Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins, The Perils of Certain English Prisoners (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)
    Night Walks (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)
    The Story of Little Dombey
    Sikes and Nancy
    IN CONTEXT: The Readings of Charles Dickens (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)

• EDWARD LEAR (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)
  • The Owl and the Pussy-cat
    How pleasant to know Mr. Lear!
    Selected Limericks
    The Dong and the Luminous Nose

• CONTEXTS: CHILDHOOD AND CHILDREN’S LITERATURE (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)
  • from Charlotte Mary Yonge, “A Scene in the Early Life of the May Family”
    from Thomas Hughes, “After the Match,” Tom Brown’s Schooldays
    from Charles Kingsley, “Tom’s Life as a Water Baby”
    from Thomas Hood, “London Street Boys: Being a Word About Arabia Anglicana,” The Boy’s Own Volume of Facts, Fiction, History, and Adventure
    from Austin Q. Hagerman, “Never Sulk,” The Child’s Own Magazine
    from Charles Darwin, A Biographical Sketch of an Infant
    from Walter Pater, The Child in the House
    from Hilaire Belloc, The Bad Child’s Book of Beasts
    • Introduction
      The Big Baboon
      The Frog
  • Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Peter Rabbit
    from Rudyard Kipling, “How the Camel Got His Hump,” Just So Stories for Little Children
    from Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
    • Chapter 3: Marilla Cuthbert is Surprised
  • from Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
    • Chapter 1: The River Bank

• ANTHONY TROLLOPE
  • A Ride Across Palestine
    The Turkish Bath (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)
    The Spotted Dog (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)
    from An Autobiography (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)
    • Chapter 12: On English Novels and the Art of Writing Them

• GRACE AGUILAR
  • Past, Present, and Future: A Sketch
    The Hebrew’s Appeal
    The Wanderers

• EMILY BRONTË
  • Remembrance
    Plead for Me
    The Old Stoic
    My Comforter
    [Loud without the wind was roaring]
    [A little while, a little while]
    [Shall Earth no more inspire thee]
    [No coward soul is mine]
    Stanzas
    [The night is darkening round me]
    [I’m happiest when most away]
    [If grief for grief can touch thee]

• CONTEXTS: THE NEW ART OF PHOTOGRAPHY
  • Roger Fenton, “Proposal for the Formation of a Photographic Society”
    from Charles Dickens, “Photography,” Household Words, Vol. 7 (1853)
    Photography and Immortality
    • from Elizabeth Barrett, Letter to Mary Russell Mitford
      from Sir Frederick Pollock, “Presidential Address,” Photographic Society
  • Selected Photographs

• ARTHUR HENRY CLOUGH (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)
  • Epi-strauss-ium
    To spend uncounted years of pain
    from Amours de Voyage
    • Canto 1
  • The Latest Decalogue
    “There is no God,” the Wicked Saith
    Qui Laborat, Orat
    Is it true, ye gods, who treat us
    In the Great Metropolis
    That there are powers above us I admit
    Seven Sonnets on the Thought of Death
    Duty—that’s to say complying
    Easter Day
    Easter Day II
    Jacob
    Recent English Poetry
    IN CONTEXT: Letters from Arthur Clough and Matthew Arnold

• GEORGE ELIOT (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)
  • O, May I Join the Choir Invisible
    from Brother and Sister Sonnets
    • 11 (“School parted us; we never found again”)
  • from Adam Bede
    • Chapter 17: In Which the Story Pauses a Little
  • Silly Novels by Lady Novelists
    from The Natural History of German Life (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)
    Margaret Fuller and Mary Wollstonecraft (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)

• THE SPASMODIC POETS (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)
  • Alexander Smith
    • from A Life-Drama
  • Sydney Dobell
    • from Balder
  • William Edmonstoune Aytoun
    • from Firmillian: or The Student of Badajoz. A Spasmodic Tragedy

• JOHN RUSKIN
  • from Modern Painters
    • A Definition of Greatness in Art
      Of Truth of Water
  • from The Stones of Venice
    • The Nature of Gothic
  • from Modern Manufacture and Design (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)
    Fiction Fair and Foul (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)
    The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)

• FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)
  • Cassandra

• DION BOUCICAULT (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)
  • The Octoroon
    IN CONTEXT: The Octoroon’s Alternative Ending

• MATTHEW ARNOLD
  • The Forsaken Merman
    Isolation. To Marguerite
    To Marguerite—Continued
    The Buried Life
    The Scholar-Gipsy
    Stanzas from The Grande Chartreuse
    Dover Beach
    East London
    West London
    Preface to the First Edition of Poems
    from The Function of Criticism at the Present Time
    from Culture and Anarchy
    • from Chapter 1: Sweetness and Light

• MARY ANN SHADD (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)
  • A Plea for Emigration
    IN CONTEXT: A Plea for Emigration
    • from Harriet Martineau, Society in America
      from Frederick Douglass, Life of an American Slave
      from William H. Smith, Smith's Canadian Gazetteer
      from The Fugitive Slave Act (1850)
      from The Provincial Freeman, 24 March 1854

• CONTEXTS: RELIGION AND SOCIETY (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)
  • from Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    • from Chapter 4
  • from Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Barton
    • from Chapter 37
  • from Anthony Trollope, The Warden
    • from Chapter 3
      from Chapter 5
  • from George Eliot, “Evangelical Teaching: Dr. Cumming” (Westminster Review, October 1855)
    from Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne
    • from Chapter 32: Mr. Oriel
  • from Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown at Oxford
    • from Chapter 11: Muscular Christianity
  • from Arthur Hugh Clough, Dipsychus
    • “There is No God,” the Wicked Saith
  • from John Henry Newman, Apologia pro vita sua
    • from Chapter 5: The Position of My Mind Since 1845
  • from Samuel Smiles, Character
    • from Chapter 7: Duty—Truthfulness
  • from Anthony Trollope, The Way We Live Now
    • from Chapter 22: Lord Nidderdale’s Morality
      from Chapter 60: Miss Longestaffe’s Lover
  • from Goldwin Smith, “Can Jews Be Patriots?” (The Nineteenth Century, May 1878)
    from Amy Levy, Reuben Sachs
    • from Chapter 7
      from Chapter 8
  • from Thomas Huxley, “Agnosticism and Christianity”
    from Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
    • from Part 3, Chapter 4

• WILKIE COLLINS (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)
  • The Diary of Anne Rodway

• ADELAIDE PROCTER (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)
  • A Woman’s Question
    The Cradle-Song of the Poor
    A Legend of Bregenz
    The Lesson of the War, 1855
    Thankfulness
    A Lost Chord
    A Woman’s Answer
    A Woman’s Last Word
    An Appeal
    The Jubilee of 1850
    A Desire
    The Church in 1849
    The Homeless Poor

• GEORGE MEREDITH
  • Modern Love
    Ode to the Spirit of Earth in Autumn
    The Lark Ascending

• DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI
  • The Blessed Damozel
    The Woodspurge
    Jenny
    My Sister’s Sleep
    Sibylla Palmifera
    Lady Lilith
    Mary Magdalene at the Door of Simon the Pharisee
    from Sonnets and Songs, Towards a Work to Be Called “The House of Life”
    • 1: Bridal Birth
      2: Love’s Redemption
      3: Lovesight
      4: The Kiss
      5: Nuptial Sleep
      6: Supreme Surrender
      7: Love’s Lovers
      8: Passion and Worship
      9: The Portrait
      10: The Love-Letter
      11: The Birth-Bond
      12: A Day of Love
      13: Love-Sweetness
      14: Love’s Baubles
      15: Winged Hours
      16: Life-in-Love
      17: The Love-Moon
      18: The Morrow’s Message
      19: Sleepless Dreams
      20: Secret Parting
      21: Parted Love
      22: Broken Music
      23: Death-in-Love
      24; 25; 26; 27: Willowwood
      28: Stillborn Love
      29: Inclusiveness
      30: Known in Vain
      31: The Landmark
      32: A Dark Day
      33: The Hill Summit
      34: Barren Spring
      35; 36; 37: The Choice
      38: Hoarded Joy
      39: Vain Virtues
      40: Lost Days
      41: Death’s Songsters
      42: “Retro Me, Sathana!”
      43: Lost on Both Sides
      44: The Sun’s Shame
      45: The Vase of Life
      46: A Superscription
      47: He and I
      48; 49: Newborn Death
      50: The One Hope
      Song 1: Love-Lily
      Song 2: First Love Remembered
      Song 3: Plighted Promise
      Song 4: Sudden Light
      Song 5: A Little While
      Song 6: The Song of the Bower
      Song 7: Penumbra
      Song 8: The Woodspurge
      Song 9: The Honeysuckle
      Song 10: A Young Fir-Wood
      Song 11: The Sea-Limits
  • Silent Noon
    [A Sonnet is a moment’s monument]
    The Burden of Nineveh (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)
    Hand and Soul (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)
    The Orchard Pit (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)
    IN CONTEXT: The Pre-Raphaelites (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)
    • from William Michael Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, His Family Letters, with a Memoir by William Michael Rossetti
      • from Chapter 13: The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
    • from John G. Millais, The Life and Letters of Sir John Everett Millais
      Charles Dickens, “Old Lamps for New Ones”
      from Reviews of the Royal Academy Show, The Times, 3 May, 7 May 1851
      from John Ruskin, Letters to The Times, 13 May, 26 May 1851
  • IN CONTEXT: The “Fleshly School” Controversy
    • from Robert Buchanan, “The Fleshly School of Poetry: Mr. D.G. Rossetti”
      from Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Stealthy School of Criticism

• CHRISTINA ROSSETTI
  • Goblin Market
    IN CONTEXT: Illustrating Goblin Market
    A Triad
    Remember
    A Birthday
    After Death
    An Apple-Gathering
    Echo
    Winter: My Secret
    “No, Thank You, John”
    A Pause of Thought
    Song (“She sat and sang alway”)
    Song (“When I am dead, my dearest”)
    Dead Before Death
    Monna Innominata
    Cobwebs
    In an Artist’s Studio
    Promises like Pie-Crust
    In Progress
    Sleeping at Last

• LEWIS CARROLL
  • Verses Recited by Humpty Dumpty
    Jabberwocky
    IN CONTEXT: “Jabberwocky”
    • from Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There
      • from Chapter 1: Looking-Glass House
        from Chapter 6: Humpty Dumpty
  • IN CONTEXT: The Photographs of Lewis Carroll

• JAMES THOMPSON (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)
  • The City of Dreadful Night

• WILLIAM MORRIS
  • The Defence of Guenevere
    The Haystack in the Floods
    from Hopes and Fears for Art. Five Lectures
    • The Beauty of Life
  • from News from Nowhere
    • Chapter 1: Discussion and Bed
      Chapter 2: A Morning Bath
      Chapter 17: How the Change Came (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)
  • How I Became a Socialist
    IN CONTEXT: William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones

• W.S. GILBERT (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)
  • from H.M.S. Pinafore; or, The Lass that Loved a Sailor
    • Song (“When I was a Lad”)
  • from Patience
    • Song (“If You’re Anxious for to Shine”)

• AUGUSTA WEBSTER
  • A Castaway
    By the Looking Glass (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)
    The Happiest Girl in the World (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)
    from Mother and Daughter: An Uncompleted Sonnet Sequence (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)
    • 1 (“Young Laughters, and My Music! Aye Till Now”)
      8 (“A little child she, half defiant came”)
      9 (“Oh weary hearts! Poor mothers that look back!”)
      15 (“That same day Death who has us all for jest”)
      19 (“Life on the wane: yes sudden that news breaks”)
      20 (“There’s one I miss. A little questioning maid”)
      27 (“Since first my little one lay on my breast”)

• ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE
  • The Triumph of Time
    Itylus
    Hymn to Proserpine
    The Leper
    A Forsaken Garden
    Anactoria
    Laus Veneris (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)
    Faustine (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)
    Dolores (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)
    The Garden of Proserpine (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)
    Hertha (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)
    A Nympholept (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)
    from William Blake (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)

• WALTER PATER
  • from The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry
    • Preface
      Conclusion
  • from Appreciations (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)
    • Aesthetic Poetry

• THOMAS HARDY
  • The Son’s Veto
    In a Wood
    A Tramp Woman’s Tragedy
    IN CONTEXT: Hardy’s Notebooks and Memoranda
    An Imaginative Woman (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)
    IN CONTEXT: Illustrations to “An Imaginative Woman” (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)

• MATHILDE BLIND
  • The Russian Student’s Tale
    A Mother’s Dream

• GERALD MANLEY HOPKINS
  • God’s Grandeur
    The Wreck of the Deutschland
    The Windhover: To Christ Our Lord
    Pied Beauty
    Felix Randal
    Spring and Fall: To a Young Child
    [As kingfishers catch fire]
    [No worst, there is none]
    [I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day]
    [Not, I’ll not, carrion comfort]
    That Nature Is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of the Resurrection
    [Thou art indeed just, Lord ]
    IN CONTEXT: The Growth of “The Windhover”
    from Journal 1870–74
    • [“Inscape” and “Instress”]
  • from Letter to Robert Bridges (25 February 1879)
    Author’s Preface

• “MICHAEL FIELD” — KATHARINE BRADLEY AND EDITH COOPER
  • Maids, Not to You My Mind Doth Change
    The Magdalen
    Saint Sebastian
    La Gioconda
    A girl
    It was deep April, and the morn
    Beloved
    xxii Broadview Anthology of British Literature[Sometimes I do despatch my heart]
    [She mingled me rue and roses]
    [Our myrtle is in flower]
    Cyclamens
    Unbosoming
    [When I grow old]
    To Christina Rossetti
    Nests in Elms
    The Mummy Invokes His Soul
    Old Ivories
    Ebbtide at Sundown
    Power in Silence
    Where the Blessed Feet Have Trod

• WILLIAM HURRELL MALLOCK (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)
  • Every Man His Own Poet; or, The Inspired Singer’s Recipe Book

• ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
  • Requiem
    from A Child’s Garden of Verses
    • Whole Duty of Children
      Looking Forward
      The Land of Nod
      Good and Bad Children
      Foreign Children
  • The Pavilion on the Links (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)

• OSCAR WILDE
  • Helas!
    Impression du Matin
    E Tenebris
    To Milton (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)
    from The Critic as Artist
    from The Decay of Lying
    Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray
    The Young King (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)
    The Importance of Being Earnest
    IN CONTEXT: Wilde and “The Public”
    • Interview with Oscar Wilde, St. James Gazette (January 1895)
  • IN CONTEXT: The First Wilde Trial (1895)
    • from The Transcripts of the Trial

• BERNARD SHAW (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)
  • Widowers’ Houses

• OLIVE SCHREINER
  • from The Story of an African Farm
    from Part 2, Chapter 1: Times and Seasons

• VERNON LEE (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)
  • The Virgin of the Seven Daggers
    Prince Alberic and the Snake Lady
    from The Handling of Words
    • Chapter 3: Aesthetics of the Novel
      from Chapter 5
      • Section C: Carlyle and the Present Tense
    • from Chapter 6
      • Section A: Meredith
        Section B: Kipling
        Section C: Stevenson
        Section D: Hardy
    • Chapter 8: Can Writing Be Taught?

• CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)
  • The Lady Doctor
    The Sister of Mercy
    Love Versus Learning
    Scientific Wooing
    The New Orthodoxy
    Natural Selection
    Solomon Redivivus, 1886

• SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
  • The Adventure of the Speckled Band

• AMY LEVY
  • Xantippe
    Magdalen
    To Lallie
    A London Plane-Tree
    London in July
    “Ballade of an Omnibus”
    London Poets: (In Memoriam)
    The Old House
    The Last Judgment
    Cambridge in the Long
    To Vernon Lee

• SIR HENRY NEWBOLT (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)
  • Vitaï Lampada
    He Fell Among Thieves

• RUDYARD KIPLING
  • The Man Who Would Be King
    Gunga Din
    The Widow at Windsor
    Recessional
    The White Man’s Burden
    If—
    The Story of Muhammad Din
    The Mark of the Beast
    Mrs. Bathurst (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)
    England and the English (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)
    IN CONTEXT: Victoria and Albert
    IN CONTEXT: The “White Man’s Burden” in the Philippines
    • Platform of the American Anti-Imperialist League

• CONTEXTS: BRITAIN, EMPIRE, AND A WIDER WORLD
  • Thomas Pringle, “Afar in the Desert”
    from Frances Trollope, Domestic Manners of the Americans
    • from Chapter 1: Entrance of the Mississippi
      from Chapter 3: Company on Board the Steam Boat
      from Chapter 34: Return to New York—Conclusion
  • from Thomas Babington Macaulay, “Minute on Indian Education”
    from Report of a Speech by William Charles Wentworth, Australian Legislative Council
    from William H. Smith, Smith’s Canadian Gazetteer
    Carlyle, Mill, and “The Negro Question”
    • from Thomas Carlyle, “Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question,” Fraser’s Magazine (1849)
      from John Stuart Mill, “The Negro Question,” Fraser’s Magazine (1850)
      • To the Editor of Fraser’s Magazine
  • The Great Exhibition of 1851
    • Prince Albert, Speech Delivered at the Lord Mayor’s Banquet, London, 1849
      from The Art Journal Illustrated Catalogue of the Great Exhibition of The Industry of All Nations
  • from Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor
    • “Hindo Beggars”
  • Dickens and Thackeray on the Race Question
    • from Charles Dickens, “The Noble Savage,” Household Words (1853)
      from William Makepeace Thackeray, Letters to Mrs. Carmichael-Smyth
  • Conservatives, Liberals, and Empire
    • from William Gladstone, “Our Colonies”
      from Benjamin Disraeli, “Conservative and Liberal Principles”
      from Cecil Rhodes, Speech Delivered in Cape Town (18 July 1899)
      from David Livingstone, “Cambridge Lecture Number 1”
      Eliza M., “Account of Cape Town,” King William’s Town Gazette (1863)
      from Agnes Macdonald, “By Car and Cowcatcher,” Murray’s Magazine (1887)
      • Henry Lawson, “The Drover’s Wife”
    • from John Ruskin, “Inaugural Lecture,” Slade Lectures (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)
      from Henry M. Stanley, In Darkest Africa (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)
      from William Booth, “Why ‘Darkest England’?” (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)
      from Sara Jeannette Duncan, “The Flippancy of Anglo-India” (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)
      from Mary Kingsley, Travels in West Africa (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)
      from W.S. Caine, “Picturesque India: A Handbook for European Travellers” (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)
      Victor Daley, “When London Calls” (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)

• WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
  • Ephemera
    The Lake Isle of Innisfree
    Into the Twilight
    The Secret Rose
    He Remembers Forgotten Beauty
    The Travail of Passion

• THE AESTHETIC MOVEMENT
  • “Michael Field”
    • From Baudelaire
      The Poet
  • John Davidson
    • A Northern Suburb
  • Constance Naden
    • Illusions
  • Ernest Dowson
    • Nuns of the Perpetual Adoration
      To One in Bedlam
      Spleen
  • Lionel Johnson
    • Plato in London
      The Dark Angel
      The Darkness

• CHARLOTTE MEW
  • The Farmer’s Bride
    Madeleine in Church
    Passed

APPENDICES

Reading Poetry

Maps

Monarchs and Prime Ministers of Great Britain

Glossary of Terms

Texts and Contexts: Chronological Chart (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)

Bibliography (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)

Permissions Acknowledgments

Index of First Lines

Index of Authors and Titles