Ed. Cristina Artenie
In My Own Land’s Sins, the chronological order of poems suggests that poetical forms advanced through the efforts of a multitude of authors over long periods of time. The reader can glimpse at the state of English poetry at any given moment during the Victorian age. The poems included form a continuous narrative both about the advancement of English poetry and about the social history of Britain under Victoria. The selection of the poems was based on three criteria: their modernity; their preoccupation with the social circumstances of the era; and their usefulness in the classroom.
My Own Land’s Sins is slenderer than most anthologies of Victorian poetry because it attempts to show more with less. There is less text, but more poets (90) than in most anthologies. The poems, some of which have never before been anthologised, are more modern, more socially oriented, better suited as instruments in a cultural-studies analysis of the Victorian era, at graduate and undergraduate levels. They are also more varied thematically than ever before, which should allow for a more complete perspective and a more profitable array of interpretations.
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In My Own Land’s Sins, the chronological order of poems suggests that poetical forms advanced through the efforts of a multitude of authors over long periods of time. The reader can glimpse at the state of English poetry at any given moment during the Victorian age. The poems included form a continuous narrative both about the advancement of English poetry and about the social history of Britain under Victoria.
The selection of the poems was based on three criteria: their modernity; their preoccupation with the social circumstances of the era; and their usefulness in the classroom.
My Own Land’s Sins is slenderer than most anthologies of Victorian poetry because it attempts to show more with less. There is less text, but more poets (90) than in most anthologies. The poems, some of which have never before been anthologised, are more modern, more socially oriented, better suited as instruments in a cultural-studies analysis of the Victorian era, at graduate and undergraduate levels. They are also more varied thematically than ever before, which should allow for a more complete perspective and a more profitable array of interpretations.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword
1837 – The Shafts of Song, John Sterling
The Old Arm-Chair, Eliza Cook
1838 – Jenny Kissed Me, Leigh Hunt
Coronation Ode for Queen Victoria I, James Montgomery
1839 – Song of the Colonists Departing for New Zealand, Thomas Campbell
[I Know Not How It Falls on Me], Emily Brontë
1840 – Songs of Our Land, Frances Browne
The Weaver (Sonnet XIII), Caroline Norton
Fortuna, Thomas Carlyle
1841 – Nearer, My God, to Thee, Sarah Flower Adams
Pippa’s Song (from Pippa Passes), Robert Browning
1842 – Ulysses, Alfred Tennyson
My Last Duchess, Robert Browning
My World, Frederick William Faber
The Best Thing in the World, Elizabeth Barrett Browning
1843 – The Song of the Shirt, Thomas Hood
The Cry of the Children, Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Donne, Hartley Coleridge
1844 – Song, Fanny Kemble
1845 – Meeting at Night, Robert Browning
Parting at Morning, Robert Browning
1846 – [No Coward Soul Is Mine], Emily Brontë
A Reminiscence, Anne Brontë
Autumn, William Barnes
You Smiled, You Spoke and I Believed, Walter Savage Landor
1847 – [Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal, Now the White], Alfred Tennyson
1848 – I Am!, John Clare
Autumn Song, Dante Gabriel Rossetti
1849 – The Hayswater Boat, Matthew Arnold
Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher, Walter Savage Landor
“Blank Misgivings of a Creature Moving about in Worlds Not Realised,”
Arthur Hugh Clough
1850 – The Cry of the Unemployed, Gerald Massey
In Memoriam (XVII) [I Envy Not in Any Moods], Alfred Tennyson
In Memoriam (CVI) [Ring Out Wild Bells], Alfred Tennyson
In the Train, William Allingham
Sonnet XLIII [How Do I Love Thee], Elizabeth Barrett Browning
1851 – To the Queen, Alfred Tennyson
The Three Fishers, Charles Kingsley
1852 – To Marguerite: Continued, Matthew Arnold
[Some Future Day When What Is Now Is Not], Arthur Hugh Clough
1853 – Perché Pensa? Pensando s’Invecchia, Arthur Hugh Clough
Sorrows of Werther, William Makepeace Thackeray
1854 – The Charge of the Light Brigade, Alfred Tennyson
1855 – A Curse for a Nation (Prologue), Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Cradle Song of the Poor, Adelaide Anne Procter
[Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth], Arthur Hugh Clough
My Star, Robert Browning
1856 – Riding Together, William Morris
Old Man, James Henry
1857 – The Enchanted Rose, Frederick Locker Lampson
1858 – Rhymes at the Wrong End, William Johnson Cory
The Last Wish, Robert Bulwer-Lytton
In Prison, William Morris
1859 – The War, Alfred Tennyson
Envy, Adelaide Anne Procter
1860 – A Lost Chord, Adelaide Anne Procter
Song, Augusta Webster
1861 – A Birthday, Christina Rossetti
Robin Redbreast, William Allingham
1862 – Modern Love. XXXIV, George Meredith
Winter: My Secret, Christina Rossetti
An Irish Picture, John Stanyan Bigg
Young and Old, Charles Kingsley
1863 – Sudden Light, Dante Gabriel Rossetti
1864 – Prospice, Robert Browning
In the Valley of Cauteretz, Alfred Tennyson
[It Was a Hard Thing to Undo This Knot], Gerard Manley Hopkins
1865 – The Serving Maid, Arthur Munby
Twin-Growth, William Cosmo Monkhouse
1866 – Perhaps, Sydney Dobell
A Leave-Taking, Algernon Charles Swinburne
Peace. A Study, Charles Stuart Calverley
1867 – Dover Beach, Matthew Arnold
West London, Matthew Arnold
A Scherzo (A Shy Person’s Wishes), Dora Greenwell
A Garden by the Sea, William Morris
Farewell, John Boyle O’Reilly
1868 – Great, Wide, Beautiful, Wonderful World, William Brighty Rands
1869 – To My Beloved Vesta, Shirley Brooks
1870 – Nuptial Sleep, Dante Gabriel Rossetti
A Little While, Dante Gabriel Rossetti
1871 – Cor Cordium, Algernon Charles Swinburne
Professor Noctutus, George MacDonald
1872 – The Cloud Confines, Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Changed, Charles Stuart Calverley
Our Photographs, Frederick Locker Lampson
Love Is Enough, William Morris
1873 – Ode (We Are the Music Makers), Arthur O’Shaughnessy
The Missing Bride, Charles Tennyson Turner
1874 – O May I Join the Choir Invisible, George Eliot
Bayonet Song, Sydney Dobell
1875 – Indwelling, Thomas Edward Brown
1876 – Midnight, Sarah Louisa Bevington
The Toys, Coventry Patmore
Letty’s Globe, Charles Tennyson Turner
1877 – The Caged Skylark, Gerard Manley Hopkins
God’s Grandeur, Gerard Manley Hopkins
Past and Present, R. E. Egerton Warburton
Magna Est Veritas, Coventry Patmore
1878 – Love’s Blindness, Alfred Austin
I Bended Unto Me, Thomas Edward Brown
1879 – Binsey Poplars, Gerard Manley Hopkins
1880 – London Snow, Robert Bridges
Double Ballade of Primitive Man, Andrew Lang
1881 – [A Sonnet Is a Moment’s Monument], Dante Gabriel Rossetti
De Profundis, Christina Rossetti
The Aesthete, William S. Gilbert
1882 – Am I to Lose You?, Sarah Louisa Bevington
On the Hurry of This Time, Austin Dobson
1883 – The Roundel, Algernon Charles Swinburne
Lucifer in Starlight, George Meredith
1884 – Ballade of Literary Fame, Andrew Lang
Epitaph (On a Commonplace Person Who Died in Bed), Amy Levy
Clear the Way!, Algernon Charles Swinburne
1885 – Henry Bartle Edward Frere, Alfred Austin
1886 – Mariage de Convenance – After, Rosamund Marriott Watson
1887 – March. An Ode, Algernon Charles Swinburne
A Death Song, William Morris
1888 – Invictus, William Ernest Henley
Neurasthenia, A. Mary F. Robinson
1889 – Symphony in Yellow, Oscar Wilde
A Ballad of Religion and Marriage, Amy Levy
On the Road, Rosamund Marriott Watson
Epilogue, Robert Browning
1890 – The Last of the Light Brigade, Rudyard Kipling
The Widow at Windsor, Rudyard Kipling
The Lake Isle of Innisfree, William Butler Yeats
1891 – Soliloquy of a Maiden Aunt, Dollie Radford
A Sonnet, J. K. Stephen
I Will Make You Brooches, Robert Louis Stevenson
1892 – Babylon the Great, Christina Rossetti
Javanese Dancers, Arthur Symons
When You Are Old, William Butler Yeats
1893 – The Shortest and Sweetest of Songs, George MacDonald
Summer Past, John Gray
1894 – Thirty Bob a Week, John Davidson
Parting (II), Æ (George William Russell)
1895 – The Little Dancers, Laurence Binyon
The Destroyer of a Soul, Lionel Johnson
The Gray Folk, Edith Nesbit
1896 – A Shropshire Lad. I: 1887, A. E. Housman
The Other Side of a Mirror, Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
The Witch, Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
The Lady Poverty, Alice Meynell
Plainte Eternelle, Alfred Douglas
Vitae Summa Brevis Spem Nos Vetet Incohare Longam,
Ernest Dowson
1897 – Vitai Lampada, Henry Newbolt
Auctioneer’s Song, Ford Madox Ford
1898 – Song of the Slain, Robert Buchanan
Hap, Thomas Hardy
1899 – The White Man’s Burden, Rudyard Kipling
Impression de Nuit. London, Alfred Douglas
Haschisch, Arthur Symons
The Wind on the Hills, Dora Sigerson Shorter
1900 – The Darkling Thrush, Thomas Hardy
By the Babe Unborn, G. K. Chesterton
1901 – A Long Way (A Villanelle), Jane Barlow
Story of Lilavanti, Adela Nicolson
Drummer Hodge, Thomas Hardy
Index of authors
Index of titles
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