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Love's Last Lesson 973 Revenge 976 The Little Shroud 977
The Victorian Age (1830-1901) 979
Introduction 979 Timeline 1000
THOMAS CARLYLE (1795-1881) 1002 Sartor Resartus 1006 The Everlasting No 1006 Centre of Indifference 1011 The Everlasting Yea 1017 Past and Present 1024 Democracy 1024 Captains of Industry 1029
JOHN HENRY CARDINAL NEWMAN (1801-1890) 1033 The Idea of a University 1035 From Discourse 5. Knowledge Its Own End 1035 From Discourse 7. Knowledge Viewed in Relation to Professional Skill 1036 From Discourse 8. Knowledge Viewed in Relation to Religion 1041
JOHN STUART MILL (1806-1873) 1043 What Is Poetry? 1044 On Liberty 1051 From Chapter 3. Of Individuality as One of the Elements of Weil- Being 1051 The Subjection of Women 1060 From Chapter 1 1061 Autobiography 1070 From Chapter 5. A Crisis in My Mental History. One Stage Onward 1070
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING (1806-1861) 1077 The Cry of the Children 1079 To George Sand: A Desire 1083 To George Sand: A Recognition 1083 Sonnets from the Portuguese 1084 21 ('Say over again, and yet once over again') 1084 22 ('When our two souls stand up erect and strong') 1084 32 ('The first time that the sun rose on thine oath') 1084 43 ('How do I love thee? Let me count the ways') 1085 The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point 1085 Aurora Leigh 1092 Book 1 1092 [The Education of Aurora Leigh] 1092 Book 2 1097 [Aurora's Aspirations] 1097
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[Aurora's Rejection of Romney] 1100 Book 5 1104 [Poets and the Present Age] 1104 Mother and Poet 1106
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON (1809-1892) 1109 Mariana 1112 The Lady of Shalott 1114 The Lotos-Eaters 1119 Ulysses 1123 Tithonus 1125 Break, Break, Break 1126 The Epic [Morte d'Arthur] 1127 Locksley Hall 1129
THE PRINCESS 1135
Tears, Idle Tears 1135 Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal 1136 ['The woman's cause is man's'] 1136
From In Memoriam A. H. H. 1138 The Charge of the Light Brigade 1188
IDYLLS OF THE KING 1 1 89
The Coming of Arthur 1190 The Passing of Arthur 1201
Crossing the Bar 1211
EDWARD FITZGERALD (1809-1883) 1212 Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam 1213
ELIZABETH GASKELL (1810-1865) 1221 The Old Nurse's Story 1222
CHARLES DICKENS (1812-1870) 1236 A Visit to Newgate 1239
ROBERT BROWNING (1812-1889) 1248 Porphyria's Lover 1252 Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister 1253 My Last Duchess 1255 The Lost Leader 1256 How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix 1257 The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church 1259 A Toccata of Galuppi's 1262 Love among the Ruins 1264 'Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came' 1266 Fra Lippo Lippi 1271 Andrea del Sarto 1280 A Grammarian's Funeral 1286 An Epistle Containing the Strange Medical Experience of Karshish, the Arab Physician 1289 Caliban upon Setebos 1296
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Abt Vogler 1303 Rabbi Ben Ezra 1305
EMILY BRONTE (1818-1848) 1311 I'm happiest when most away 1311 The Night-Wind 1312 Remembrance 1313 Stars . 1314 The Prisoner. A Fragment 1315 No coward soul is mine 1317
JOHN RUSKIN (1819-1900) 1317 Modern Painters 1320 [A Definition of Greatness in Art] 1320 ['The Slave Ship'] 1321 From Of the Pathetic Fallacy 1322 The Stones of Venice 1324 [The Savageness of Gothic Architecture] 1324
GEORGE ELIOT (1819-1880) 1334 Margaret Fuller and Mary Wollstonecraft 1337 From Silly Novels by Lady Novelists 1342
MATTHEW ARNOLD (1822-1888) 1350 Isolation. To Marguerite 1354 To Marguerite?Continued 1355 The Buried Life 1356 Memorial Verses 1358 Lines Written in Kensington Gardens 1360 The Scholar Gypsy 1361 Dover Beach 1368 Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse 1369 Preface to Poems (1853) 1374 From The Function of Criticism at the Present Time 1384 Culture and Anarchy 1398 From Chapter 1. Sweetness and Light 1398 From Chapter 2. Doing As One Likes 1399 From Chapter 5. Porro Unum Est Necessarium 1402 From The Study of Poetry 1404 Literature and Science 1415
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY (1825-1895) 1427 Science and Culture 1429 [The Values of Education in the Sciences] 1429 Agnosticism and Christianity 1436 [Agnosticism Defined] 1436
GEORGE MEREDITH (1828-1909) 1440 Modern Love 1440 1 ('By this he knew she wept with waking eyes') 1440 2 ('It ended, and the morrow brought the task') 1440 17 ('At dinner, she is hostess, I am host') 1441
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49 ('He found her by the ocean's moaning verge') 1441 50 ('Thus piteously Love closed what he begat') 1441
DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI (1828-1882) 1442 The Blessed Damozel 1443 My Sister's Sleep 1447 Jenny 1449 The House of Life 1457 The Sonnet 1457 Nuptial Sleep 1458
