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Dr. Hart's Guide for Students: Using This Anthology
For Instructors
Guide to Poetic Form
Guide to Poetic Meter
Why Should We Read Laboring- and Working-Class Writers?
Hypothesis Test Run
Publisher
Introduction to the Victorian Era
Victorianism as a Fusion of Neoclassical and Romantic Ideas and Attitudes
The Victorian Sonnet
Chartism
"Casabianca" (1826)
"The Last Song of Sappho" (1831)
"Song of the Shirt" (1843)
Simon Avery, E.B.B. and The Woman Question
"The Cry of the Children" (1843)
The Sonnets from the Portuguese (1845-46; 1850)
"The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point" (1848)
"A Curse for a Nation" (1850)
Aurora Leigh (1856): Background and Reading Questions
Aurora Leigh: First Book
Aurora Leigh: Second Book
Aurora Leigh: Third Book
Aurora Leigh: Fourth Book
Aurora Leigh: Fifth Book
Aurora Leigh: Sixth Book
Aurora Leigh: Seventh Book
Aurora Leigh: Eighth Book
Aurora Leigh: Ninth Book
"Mother and Poet" (1862)
"The Lotos-eaters" (1833)
"The Lady of Shalott" (1833, 1842)
Adaptations and Illustrations of "The Lady of Shalott"
"Locksley Hall" (1842)
"Ulysses" (1842)
In Memoriam (1850)
"The Charge of the Light Brigade" (1854)
Seamus Perry, "'The Charge of the Light Brigade’: Making Poetry from War"
Maud (1855), Background and Reading Questions
Maud, Part One
Maud, Part Two
Maud, Part Three
"Porphyria's Lover" (1836, 1842)
"My Last Duchess" (1842)
"Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister" (1842)
" 'Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came'" (1855)
"Prospice" (1864)
"The Prisoner: A Fragment" (1846)
"The Visionary" (1846)
"No coward soul is mine" (1846)
"To Imagination" (1846)
"I'm happiest now when most away" (1846)
"A Song for the Workers"
"Song of the Ugly Maiden"
"A Song for Merry Harvest"
"Snow"
"The Song of the Red Indian"
"Song of Old Time"
" 'Our Father'"
"Brother and Sister" (1874)
"Dover Beach" (1867)
"The Forsaken Merman" (1849)
"The Function of Criticism at the Present Time" (1865)
The Sorrow of Sorrows
"Cry of the Unemployed" (1864)
House of Life (1870) [excerpts]
"The Blessed Damozel" (1850)
"Goblin Market" (1862)
"In the Round Tower at Jhansi, June 8, 1857" (1862)
Monna Innominata (1881)
"The Brown Man's Burden" (1899)
"The Defence of Guenevere" (1858)
"Autobiography of Ellen Johnston, 'The Factory Girl'"
"The Last Sark" (1867)
"A Castaway" (1870)
Mother and Daughter, An Uncompleted Sonnet-Sequence
"Circe" (1870)
Modern Love (1862) [excerpts]
"Our Casuarina Tree" (1881)
"Lakshman"
"Sonnet--Baugmaree"
"The Song My Paddle Sings" (1917)
"A Prodigal"
"Canadian Born" (1917)
"Lullaby of the Iroquois" (1917)
"A Cry from an Indian Wife" (1885)
"Xantippe, A Fragment" (1881)
"Gitanjali 35"
"The White Man's Burden" (1899)
"If" (1910)
"Beloved"
"Maids, not to you my mind doth change" (1889)
"A Pen-Drawing of Leda" (1892)
Matthew Arnold, from The Function of Criticism at the Present Time
Thomas Carlyle
Robert Buchanan, "The Fleshly School of Poetry," Rev. of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Poems.
"The Stealthy School of Criticism," responses to Robert Buchanan by Sidney Colvin and Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Janet Hamilton
Amy Levy, James Thompson: A Minor Poet
John Stuart Mill, "What is Poetry?"
Arthur Henry Hallam, "On some of the Characteristics of Modern Poetry and on the Lyrical Poems of Alfred Tennyson" (1831)
Gerald Massey, Preface to the Third Edition of Babe Christabel (1854)
John Ruskin
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