Victorian Literature is a comprehensive and fully annotated anthology with a flexible design that allows teachers and students to pursue traditional or innovative lines of inquiry from the canon to its extensions and its contexts.

List of Plates and Illustrations xlii Preface xlv Abbreviations li Introduction 1 Victorian Representations and Misrepresentations 1 “The Terrific Burning” 2 The Battle of the Styles 3 “The Best of Times, the Worst of Times” 4 Demographics and Underlying Fears 5 Power, Industry, and the High Cost of Bread and Beer 5 The Classes and the Masses 7 The Dynamics of Gender 8 Religion and the Churches 9 Political Structures 11 Empire 12 Genres and Literary Hierarchies 12 The Fine Arts and Popular Entertainment 13 Revolutions in Mass Media and the Expansion of Print Culture 17 Part One Contexts 19 The Condition of England 21 Introduction 21 1. The Victorian Social Formation 27 Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803–73): Pelham (1828) 27 From Chapter 1 27 Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881): Chartism (1840) 29 From Chapter 1: “Condition-of-England Question” 29 Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881): Past and Present (1843) 30 From Book I, Chapter 1: “Midas” 30 Benjamin Disraeli (1804–81): Sybil (1845) 32 From Book 2, Chapter 5 [The Two Nations] 32 George Cruikshank (1792–1878): The British Bee Hive. Process engraving (1867) 34 Matthew Arnold (1822–88): Culture and Anarchy (1869) 35 From III [Chapter 3: “Barbarians, Philistines, Populace”] 35 2. Education and Mass Literacy 37 Illustrated London News (1842): From “Our Address” 37 Illustrated London News (1843): Dedicatory Sonnet 39 Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (1815–81): Life and Correspondence of Thomas Arnold, D.D. (1844) 39 From “Letter of Inquiry for a Master” by Thomas Arnold (1795–1842) 39 From “Letter to a Master on his Appointment” 40 William Wordsworth (1770–1850): “Illustrated Books and Newspapers” (1846) 40 Anon. [Thomas Peckett Prest (?) (1810–59)]: “The String of Pearls: A Romance” (1846–47) 41 From Chapter 38 [Sweeney Todd] 41 From Chapter 39 42 The Society for Promoting Working Men’s Associations: “Lectures for April, 1853” 43 Charles Dickens (1812–70): Hard Times (1854) 44 Chapter 1: “The One Thing Needful” 44 Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake (1809–93): From “The Englishwoman at School” (July 1878) 45 Gender, Women, and Sexuality 49 Introduction 49 1. Constructing Genders 56 Kenelm Digby (1800–80): The Broad Stone of Honour: or, the True Sense and Practice of Chivalry ([1822] 1877) 56 From Part 1, Section 14: “Godefridus” 56 Sarah Stickney Ellis (1799–1872): The Daughters of England (1842) 57 From Chapter 1: “Important Inquiries” 57 From Chapter 9: “Friendship and Flirtation” 58 Marion Kirkland Reid (c.1839–89): From A Plea for Woman (1843) 59 Richard Pilling (1799–1874): From “Defence at his Trial” (1843) 61 Isabella Beeton (1836–65): The Book of Household Management (1859–61) 62 From Chapter 1: “The Mistress” 62 Eliza Lynn Linton (1822–98): From “The Girl of the Period” in the Saturday Review (14 Mar. 1868) 65 Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936). “If—” (1910) 67 2. The Woman Question 68 Sarah Stickney Ellis (1799–1872): The Women of England (1838) 68 From Chapter 2: “The Influence of the Women of England” 68 Harriet Taylor (1807–58): From “The Enfranchisement of Women” in Westminster Review (July 1851) 70 Caroline Norton (1808–77): From A Letter to the Queen on Lord Chancellor Cranworth’s Marriage and Divorce Bill (1855) 71 Harriet Martineau (1802–76), Florence Nightingale (1820–1910), Josephine Butler (1828–1906), and others: “Manifesto” of “The Ladies’ National Association for the Repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts” in Daily News (31 Dec. 1869) 74 Sarah Grand (1854–1943): From “The New Aspect of the Woman Question” in North American Review (Mar. 1894) 76 Sydney Grundy (1848–1914): The New Woman (1894) 78 From Act 1 78 Literature and the Arts 81 Introduction 81 1. Debates about Literature 87 Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812–52): Contrasts (1836) 87 From Chapter 1: “On the Feelings which Produced the Great Edifices of the Middle Ages” 87 George Eliot (1819–80): From “Silly Novels by Lady Novelists” in Westminster Review (Oct. 1856) 89 Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835–1915): Lady Audley’s Secret (1862) 91 From Chapter 1: “Lucy” 91 From Chapter 37: “Buried Alive” 93 Colin Henry Hazlewood (1820–75): Lady Audley’s Secret (1863) 94 From Act V 94 Henry James (1843–1916): From “The Art of Fiction” in Longman’s Magazine (Sept. 1884) 96 2. Pre-Raphaelitism, Aestheticism, and Decadence 98 William Michael Rossetti (1829–1919): The Germ: Or Thoughts Toward Nature in Poetry, Literature, and Art (1850) 98 From “Introduction” 98 Charles Dickens (1812–70): From “Old Lamps for New Ones” in Household Words (15 June 1850) 100 Christina Rossetti (1830–94): Two Poems on the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood [1853] 102 The P.R.B. [I] 102 The P.R.B. [II] 103 John Ruskin (1819–1900): “The Præ-Raphaelites” Letter to The Times (25 May 1854) 103 Walter Pater (1839–94): From “The Poems of William Morris” [“Æsthetic Poetry”] in Westminster Review (Oct. 1868) 105 James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834–1903): From “Mr. Whistler’s ‘Ten O’Clock’” (20 Feb. 1885) 109 Religion and Science 113 Introduction 113 1. Geology and Evolution 122 Robert Chambers (1802–71): Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844) 122 From Chapter 12: “General Considerations Respecting the Origin of the Animated Tribes” 122 Hugh Miller (1802–56): The Foot-Prints of the Creator: or, the Asterolepis of Stromness (1849) 124 From “Stromness and its Asterolepis. The Lake of Stennis 124 Philip Henry Gosse (1810–88): Omphalos: An Attempt to Untie the Geological Knot (1857) 125 From Chapter 12: “The Conclusion” 125 Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913): From “On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely from the Original Type” (20 Aug. 1858) 127 Charles Darwin (1809–82): On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life (1859) 130 From “Introduction” 130 From Chapter 3: “Struggle for Existence” 133 From Chapter 4: “Natural Selection” 133 From Chapter 15: “Recapitulation and Conclusion” 136 Agnes Mary Frances Robinson (1857–1944) 140 Darwinism 140 Empire 142 Introduction 142 1. Celebration and Criticism 148 Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881): From “Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question” in Fraser’s Magazine (Dec. 1849) 148 John Stuart Mill (1806–73): From “The Negro Question” in Fraser’s Magazine (Jan. 1850) 150 John Ruskin (1819–1900): From Inaugural Lecture (1870) 151 George William Hunt (c.1839–1904): “MacDermott’s War Song” [“By Jingo”] (1877) 153 J. R. Seeley (1834–95): The Expansion of England (1883) 154 From Course II, Lecture I: “History and Politics” 154 Alfred Tennyson (1809–92): “Opening of the Indian and Colonial Exhibition” (1886) 156 Alfred Tennyson (1809–92): “Carmen Sæculare: An Ode in Honour of the Jubilee of Queen Victoria” (1887) 157 Henry Labouchère [?] (1831–1912): “The Brown Man’s Burden” (1899) 160 J. A. Hobson (1858–1940): Imperialism: A Study (1902) 162 From Part 2, Chapter 4: “Imperialism and the Lower Races” 162 Arthur Christopher Benson (1862–1925): “Land of Hope and Glory” (1902) 163 Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1840–1922): From My Diaries: Being a Personal Narrative of Events, 1888–1914 (1919) 165 2. Governing the Colonies 166 2.1 India 166 Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–59): From Minute on Indian Education (1835) 166 Proclamation by the Queen in Council, to the Princes, Chiefs, and People of India (1858) 169 G. A. Henty (1832–1902): With Clive in India: Or, The Beginnings of an Empire (1884) 171 From “Preface” 171 Flora Annie Steel (1847–1929) and Grace Gardiner (d. 1919): The Complete Indian Housekeeper and Cook (1888) 172 From “Preface to the First Edition” 172 From Chapter 1: “The Duties of the Mistress” 173 Behramji Malabari (1853–1912): The Indian Eye on English Life, or Rambles of a Pilgrim Reformer (1893) 176 From Chapter 2: “In and About London” 176 Ham Mukasa (1870–1956): Uganda’s Katikiro in England (1904) 178 From Chapter 5 178 From Chapter 6 179 Part Two Authors 181 Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864) 183 To Robert Browning 183 “You smiled, you spoke, and I believed” 184 Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher 184 “I entreat you, Alfred Tennyson” 184 Charlotte Elliott (1789–1871) 185 “Him That Cometh to Me I Will in No Wise Cast Out.” [Just As I Am] 185 John Keble (1792–1866) 186 From National Apostasy Considered 187 Felicia Hemans (1793–1835) 190 Casabianca 191 The Indian Woman’s Death-Song 192 The Indian With His Dead Child 194 The Rock of Cader-Idris 195 The Last Song of Sappho 196 Janet Hamilton (1795–1873) 198 A Lay of the Tambour Frame 198 Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) 200 Past and Present 201 “Hero-Worship” 202 “Captains of Industry” 205 Maria Smith Abdy (1797–1867) 210 A Governess Wanted 211 Mary Howitt (1799–1888) 212 The Spider and the Fly 213 The Fossil Elephant 214 Thomas Hood (1799–1845) 216 The Song of the Shirt 216 The Bridge of Sighs 219 Sarah Stickney Ellis (1799–1872) 222 From Pictures of Private Life 222 “An Apology for Fiction” 222 Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–59) 225 The History of England from the Accession of James the Second (1848–61) 225 From Chapter 1: “Before the Restoration” 226 [Introduction] 226 From Chapter 3: “The State of England in 1685” 228 [The Clergy] 228 John Henry Newman (1801–90) 230 The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated 231 From Discourse V: “Knowledge Its Own End” 233 From Discourse VII: “Knowledge Viewed in Relation to Professional Skill” 237 William Barnes (1801–86) 239 My Orchet in Linden Lea 240 Childhood 240 The Wife a-Lost 241 Zummer An’ Winter 242 From “Old Bardic Poetry” [Two Translations from the Welsh] in Macmillan’s Magazine (Aug. 1867). 243 I Cynddyl´an’s Hall 243 II An Englyn on a Yellow Greyhound 244 Harriet Martineau (1802–76) 244 Society in America (1837) 245 From Chapter 3: “Morals of Politics” 245 Section VI: “Citizenship of People of Colour” 245 Section VII: “Political Non-Existence of Women” 246 L. E. L. [Letitia Elizabeth Landon] (1802–38) 248 Sappho’s Song 248 Revenge 249 Stanzas on the Death of Mrs. Hemans 250 The Factory 253 The Princess Victoria [I] 255 The Princess Victoria [II] 257 Elizabeth Duncan Campbell (1804–78) 258 The Windmill of Sebastopol 258 The Crimean War 261 The Schoolmaster 263 The Death of Willie, My Second Son 264 Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–61) 266 Stanzas Addressed to Miss Landon, 266 L. E. L.’s Last Question 268 A Musical Instrument 270 John Stuart Mill (1806–73) 272 On Liberty 273 From “Introductory” 274 The Subjection of Women 280 From Chapter 1 280 Caroline Norton (1808–77) 285 From A Voice from the Factories 285 The Picture of Sappho 290 Charles Darwin (1809–82) 293 From Autobiography 294 Edward FitzGerald (1809–83) 301 The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, The Astronomer-Poet of Persia 302 Alfred Tennyson (1809–92) 318 Mariana 319 The Kraken 321 The Lady of Shalott 321 Ulysses 326 [“Break, break, break”] 328 In Memoriam A. H. H. 329 The Eagle 415 The Charge of the Light Brigade 416 To Virgil 418 “Frater Ave atque Vale” 419 Crossing the Bar 420 Robert Browning (1812–89) 420 Porphyria’s Lover 421 From Pippa Passes 423 Song 423 My Last Duchess 423 Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister 424 The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed’s Church 427 Meeting at Night 431 Parting at Morning 431 Love Among the Ruins 431 Fra Lippo Lippi 434 Andrea del Sarto 444 From Asolando 450 Epilogue 450 Edward Lear (1812–88) 451 From A Book of Nonsense 452 The Owl and the Pussy-Cat 453 How Pleasant to Know Mr. Lear 454 Samuel Smiles (1812–1904) 455 Self-Help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct 455 From Chapter 1: “Self-Help: National and Individual” 455 From Chapter 2: “Leaders of Industry—Inventors and Producers” [James Watt] 456 Charlotte Brontë (1816–55) 457 The Missionary 458 “My feet they are sore, and my limbs they are weary” 462 Eventide [“The house was still, the room was still”] 463 Dec 24 [1848] [On the Death of Emily Brontë] 463 June 21 1849 [On the Death of Anne Brontë] 464 Grace Aguilar (1816–47) 464 The Vision of Jerusalem 465 Edwin Waugh (1817–90) 467 Come Whoam to Thy Childer an’ Me 467 Eawr Folk 468 Emily Jane Brontë (1818–48) 470 Remembrance 470 Song [“The Linnet in the rocky dells”] 471 To Imagination 472 Plead for Me 473 The Old Stoic 474 “Shall earth no more inspire thee?” 475 “Ay—there it is! it wakes to-night” 476 “No coward soul is mine” 477 Eliza Cook (1818–89) 477 The Old Arm-Chair 478 Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–61) 479 Qui Laborat, Orat 480 “Duty—that’s to say complying” 480 The Latest Decalogue 482 The Struggle 482 Ah! Yet Consider it Again! 483 Epi-strauss-ium 483 John Ruskin (1819–1900) 484 Modern Painters 485 From “Of Water, as Painted by Turner” 487 From “Of Pathetic Fallacy’’ 490 The Stones of Venice 493 From “The Nature of Gothic” 495 Queen Victoria (1819–1901) 506 Speech to Parliament 8 August 1851 506 From Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands from 1848 to 1861 508 Love for Balmoral 508 Visits to the Old Women 508 George Eliot (1819–80) 509 “O May I Join the Choir Invisible” 510 Anne Brontë (1820–49) 511 Appeal 512 The Captive Dove 512 “O, they have robbed me of the hope” 513 Domestic Peace 513 [Last Lines] “I hoped that I was brave and strong” 514 Jean Ingelow (1820–97) 516 Remonstrance 516 Like a Laverock in the Lift 517 On the Borders of Cannock Chase 517 Florence Nightingale (1820–1910) 518 Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not 519 Preface 519 [Introduction] 519 “Note Upon Some Errors in Novels” 522 From Cassandra 524 Dora Greenwell (1821–82) 529 A Scherzo 529 To Elizabeth Barrett Browning in 1851 530 To Elizabeth Barrett Browning in 1861 531 To Christina Rossetti 531 Matthew Arnold (1822–88) 532 The Forsaken Merman 532 Memorial Verses 536 [Isolation] To Marguerite 538 To Marguerite, in Returning a Volume of the Letters of Ortis 539 The Buried Life 540 Lines Written in Kensington Gardens 542 Philomela 544 Requiescat 545 Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse 545 East London 551 West London 552 Dover Beach 552 Growing Old 553 Preface to Poems (1853) 554 Coventry Patmore (1823–96) 564 From The Angel in the House 565 Book I: The Prologue 565 III Honoria: the Accompaniments 568 1 The Lover 568 Book II: “The Espousals” 570 X the Epitaph: the Accompaniments 570 3 The Foreign Land 570 XI the Departure: the Accompaniments 570 1 Womanhood 570 Idyl XI: The Departure 571 The Epilogue 572 Sydney Dobell (1824–74) 572 To the Authoress of “Aurora Leigh” 573 Two Sonnets on the Death of Prince Albert 573 William Topaz McGonagall (1825–1902) 574 The Tay Bridge Disaster 575 The Death of the Queen 577 Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895) 578 From “‘On a Piece of Chalk.’ A Lecture to Working Men” 579 Adelaide Anne Procter (1825–64) 583 Envy 583 A Woman’s Question 584 A Woman’s Answer 585 A Lost Cord 586 A Woman’s Last Word 587 Eliza Harriet Keary (1827–1918) 588 Disenchanted 588 Renunciation 589 A Mother’s Call 589 Old Age 590 A Portrait 590 Samuel Laycock (1826–93) 591 To My Owd Friend, Thomas Kenworthy 591 John Bull an’ His Tricks! 592 Emily Pfeiffer (1827–90) 594 Peace to the Odalisque [I] 595 [Peace to the Odalisque II] 595 Any Husband to Many a Wife 596 Studies from the Antique 596 Kassandra I 596 Kassandra II 597 Klytemnestra I 597 Klytemnestra II 598 Ellen Johnston (c.1827–74) 598 The Working Man 599 The Last Sark 599 Nelly’s Lament for the Pirnhouse Cat 600 Wanted, a Man 601 The Last Lay of “The Factory Girl” 603 George Meredith (1828–1909) 605 Lucifer in Starlight 605 Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–82) 606 The Girlhood of Mary Virgin 607 The Blessed Damozel 608 The Woodspurge 614 Jenny 614 The Ballad of Dead Ladies 623 Sunset Wings 625 “Found” 626 Spheral Change 626 Proserpina 627 Gerald Massey (1828–1907) 628 The Cry of the Unemployed 628 The Red Banner 629 The Awakening of the People 630 Elizabeth Siddal (1829–62) 631 Dead Love 632 Love and Hate 632 Lord, May I Come? 633 Christina Rossetti (1830–94) 634 Sappho 635 Goblin Market 635 A Birthday 649 Remember 649 After Death 650 An Apple Gathering 650 Echo 651 My Secret 652 “No, Thank You, John” 653 Song 654 Up-Hill 654 A Better Resurrection 655 L. E. L. 655 From Sing-Song 656 Monna Innominata: A Sonnet of Sonnets 658 A Life’s Parallels 667 “For Thine Own Sake, O My God” 667 Birchington Churchyard 668 Cobwebs 668 In an Artist’s Studio 669 An Echo from Willow-Wood 669 Sleeping at Last 670 Lewis Carroll (1832–98) 671 From Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland 672 [Prefatory Poem] “All in the golden afternoon” 672 From Through the Looking-Glass 673 [Prefatory Poem] “Child of the pure unclouded brow” 673 Jabberwocky 674 The Walrus and the Carpenter 676 [Concluding Poem] “A boat, beneath a sunny sky” 678 William Morris (1834–96) 679 Riding Together 680 The Defence of Guenevere 682 The Haystack in the Floods 693 In Prison 697 From The Earthly Paradise: An Apology 698 James Thomson [B. V.] (1834–82) 700 The City of Dreadful Night 700 Proem 701 I “The City is of Night; perchance of Death” 703 II “because He Seemed to Walk with An Intent” 704 VI “i Sat Forlornly by the River-side” 704 VII “some Say That Phantoms Haunt Those Shadowy Streets” 706 IX “it Is Full Strange to Him Who Hears and Feels” 707 XIII “of All Things Human Which Are Strange and Wild” 708 xiv “Large glooms were gathered in the mighty fane” 709 xvi “Our shadowy congregation rested still” 712 xix “The mighty river flowing dark and deep” 713 xx “I sat me weary on a pillar’s base” 715 xxi “Anear the centre of that northern crest” 716 E. B. B. 719 William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911) 720 From Patience 720 Bunthorne’s Recitative and Song [“Am I alone, and unobserved?”] 720 Bunthorne and Grosvenor’s Duet [“When I go out of door”] 722 From Iolanthe 724 Lord Mountararat’s Solo [“When Britain really ruled the waves”] 724 From The Gondoliers 725 Quartet [“Then one of us will be a Queen”] 725 Giuseppe’s Solo [“Rising early in the morning”] 727 Augusta Webster (1837–94) 729 A Castaway 730 Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) 746 From Atalanta in Calydon 747 Chorus [“When the hounds of spring are on winter’s traces”] 747 Chorus [“Before the beginning of years”] 749 The Leper 751 Before the Mirror 755 Nephelidia 757 From “A Sequence of Sonnets on the Death of Robert Browning” 759 Walter Horatio Pater (1839–94) 759 Studies in the History of the Renaissance 760 Preface 762 Conclusion 766 Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) 769 Hap 769 Neutral Tones 770 Nature’s Questioning 770 A Christmas Ghost-Story 771 The Dead Drummer [Drummer Hodge] 772 The Darkling Thrush 773 The Ruined Maid 774 De Profundis [In Tenebris] I 775 De Profundis [in Tenebris] II 776 Mathilde Blind (1841–96) 776 Winter 777 The Dead 777 Manchester by Night 778 The Red Sunsets, 1883 [I] 778 The Red Sunsets, 1883 [II] 779 Violet Fane (1843–1905) 779 Lancelot and Guinevere 780 Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–89) 783 The Wreck of the Deutschland 784 God’s Grandeur 796 The Starlight Night 796 Spring 797 The Windhover 797 Pied Beauty 798 Hurrahing in Harvest 798 Binsey Poplars 799 Duns Scotus’s Oxford 800 Felix Randal 800 Spring and Fall: 801 “As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies dráw fláme” 801 [Carrion Comfort] 802 Tom’s Garland 803 Harry Ploughman 804 That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of the Resurrection 805 [“Thou art indeed just, Lord”] 805 Louisa Sarah Bevington (1845–95) 806 Morning 806 Afternoon 807 Twilight 808 Midnight 809 Marion Bernstein (1846–1906) 810 Woman’s Rights and Wrongs 810 A Rule to Work Both Ways 811 Wanted A Husband 812 Human Rights 813 A Dream 813 Married and “Settled” 814 Michael Field [Katharine Harris Bradley (1846–1914) and Edith Cooper (1862–1913)] 815 An Æolian Harp 816 xiv [My Darling] 817 xxxv [“Come, Gorgo, put the rug in place”] 818 [“O free me, for I take the leap”] 818 Praise of Thanatos 819 In Memoriam 820 Mona Lisa—Leonardo da Vinci (The Louvre) 820 To Correggio’s Holy Sebastian (Dresden) 821 Cupid’s Visit [“I lay sick in a foreign land”] 821 The Birth of Venus 822 [“Sometimes I do dispatch my heart”] 823 [“Ah, Eros doth not always smite”] 823 Cyclamens 824 [“Already to mine eyelids’ shore”] 824 [“A Girl”] 824 [“I sing thee with a stock-dove’s throat”] 825 Unbosoming 825 [“It was deep April”] 826 [“Solitary Death, make me thine own”] 826 Walter Pater 827 Constancy 827 To Christina Rossetti 828 Penetration 828 To the Winter Aphrodite 829 “I love you with my life” 829 A Palimpsest 829 “Beloved, my glory in thee is not ceased” 830 “Lo, my loved is dying” 830 Alice Meynell (1847–1922) 830 Renouncement 831 Unlinked 831 Parentage 832 Maternity 832 William Hurrell Mallock (1849–1923) 833 Christmas Thoughts, by a Modern Thinker 833 William Ernest Henley (1849–1903) 836 From In Hospital 836 I Enter Patient 836 II Waiting 837 xiv Ave, Caesar! 837 IV to R. T. H. B. [invictus] 838 We Shall Surely Die 838 When You Are Old 839 Double Ballade of Life and Fate 839 Remonstrance 841 Pro Rege Nostro 841 Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–94) 843 From Treasure Island 843 To the Hesitating Purchaser 843 A Child’s Garden of Verses 844 [From the first section] 844 I Bed in Summer 844 V Whole Duty of Children 845 xxviii Foreign Children 845 From Underwoods 846 xxi Requiem 846 “A Plea for Gas Lamps” 846 Arthur Clement Hilton (1851–77) 849 Octopus 849 Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) 850 Requiescat 851 Impression du Matin 852 Helas! 852 Impressions 853 I Le Jardin 853 II La Mer 853 Symphony in Yellow 854 The Harlot’s House 854 A Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray 855 John Davidson (1857–1909) 857 Thirty Bob a Week 857 A Northern Suburb 860 Battle 861 Constance Naden (1858–89) 861 The Lady Doctor 862 Love Versus Learning 864 To Amy, On Receiving Her Photograph 866 The New Orthodoxy 866 Natural Selection 868 A. E. Housman (1859–1936) 869 A Shropshire Lad 870 I 1887 870 II “loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now” 871 XIII “when I Was One-and-twenty” 872 xix To an Athlete Dying Young 872 xxvii “Is my team ploughing?” 873 xxx “Others, I am not the first” 874 xxxi “On Wenlock Edge the wood’s in trouble” 875 xxxv “On the idle hill of summer” 875 xlv “If by chance your eye offend you” 876 liv “With rue my heart is laden” 876 lxii “Terence, this is stupid stuff ” 877 Additional Poems 879 xviii “Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrists?” 879 Francis Thompson (1859–1907) 880 The Hound of Heaven 880 Rosamund Marriott Watson (1860–1911) 885 Scythe Song 886 Triolet 887 Omar Khayyám 887 Dead Poets 888 In the Rain 889 A Summer Night 890 Chimæra 891 Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861–1907) 892 Gone 893 The Other Side of a Mirror 893 Mortal Combat 894 The Witch 894 Marriage 895 The White Women 895 Death and the Lady 897 Amy Levy (1861–89) 897 Felo De Se 898 Magdalen 899 A Wallflower 901 The First Extra 901 At a Dinner Party 902 A Ballad of Religion and Marriage 902 Henry Newbolt (1862–1938) 903 Vitaï Lampada 904 “He Fell Among Thieves” 905 The Dictionary of National Biography 906 The Vigil 907 Clifton Chapel 908 Arthur Symons (1865–1945) 909 Pastel 910 The Absinthe Drinker 910 Javanese Dancers 911 Hallucination 912 White Heliotrope 913 Bianca 913 William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) 914 The Stolen Child 915 The Lake Isle of Innisfree 916 An Old Song Re-Sung [Down by the Salley Gardens] 917 When You Are Old 917 Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) 918 Gunga Din 918 The Widow at Windsor 921 Mandalay 922 Recessional 923 The White Man’s Burden: An Address to the United States 924 Lionel Johnson (1867–1902) 926 The Dark Angel 927 The Destroyer of a Soul 928 A Decadent’s Lyric 929 Ernest Dowson (1867–1900) 929 Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae 930 Nuns of the Perpetual Adoration 931 Vitae Summa Brevis Spem Non Vetat Incohare Longam 932 Benedictio Domini 932 Spleen 933 Villanelle of the Poet’s Road 934 Charlotte Mew (1869–1928) 934 V.R.I. 935 I [January 22nd, 1901] 935 II [february 2nd, 1901] 935 To a Little Child in Death 935 At the Convent Gate 936 Song [“Oh! Sorrow”] 937 Not for that City 937 Requiescat 938 The Farmer’s Bride 939 Index of Authors and Titles 941

Victorian Literature is a comprehensive and fully annotated anthology with a flexible design that allows teachers and students to pursue traditional or innovative lines of inquiry. Included in this collection are 105 of the period’s prose, poetry, drama, and nonfiction writers, including such canonical authors as Tennyson, Arnold, the Brownings, Carlyle, Ruskin, the Rossettis, Wilde, Eliot, and the Brontës. Fifty authors are women. In addition to selections from the major authors of the period, the volume promotes an ideologically and culturally varied view of Victorian society by including women, working-class, colonial, gay and lesbian writers, and dialect poets. These selections offer readers the opportunity to study new voices beyond the canon. There are 5 contextual sections covering the Condition of England; Gender, Women, and Sexuality; Literature and the Arts; Religion and Science; and Empire. These contexts are interdisciplinary in nature and examine the social, cultural, artistic, and historical factors at play during the period. They also contain unexpected sub-sections on topics of recent scholarship, such as environmentalism and animal rights; mass literacy and mass media; sex and sexuality; Victorian childhood; melodrama and comedy; the Irish question; ruling India and the Indian Mutiny; innovations in print culture; and the science of race. The coverage is further expanded with  an extensive website for teachers and students that presents additional contextual readings (each with new sub-sections, such as Orientalism, ecclesiastical parties, literature and new technologies, law and the sexual subject), visual materials, audio recordings, maps, chronologies, and thematic indexes.  These are  fully  integrated with the text and include detailed annotations about names, places, events, allusions, and leading ideas. From the canon to its extensions to its contexts, this website is a fresh and exciting introduction to the diversity of the Victorian age.

“A fully annotated anthology of Victorian literature is a massive undertaking, and the editors are to be commended for this near-heroic level of endeavor and the inclusiveness of their selections.”—Florence Boos, University of Iowa “In Victorian Literature Shea and Whitla have created a unique anthology that continues as an online resource, extending the contents in deep and subtle ways. The reader finds a rich account of Victorian culture, from issues of industrialisation, gender, and colonial ideology to the art and architecture of the period, including the Victorian art form, the photograph. The comprehensive gathering of poems includes women's poetry and working-class poetry.”—Isobel Armstrong, Birkbeck, University of London