CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE 617
Canto 1 617 ["Sin's Long Labyrinth"] 617 Canto 3 619 ["Once More Upon the Waters"] 619 [Waterloo] 622 [Napoleon] 625 [Switzerland] 628
Manfred 635
DON JUAN 669
Fragment 670 Canto 1 670 [Juan and Donna Julia] 670 Canto 2 697 [The Shipwreck] 697 [Juan and Haidee] 704 Canto 3 718 [Juan and Haidee] 718 Canto 4 725 [Juan and Haidee] 725
Stanzas Written on the Road between Florence and Pisa 734 January 22nd. Missolonghi 735
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LETTERS 736
To Thomas Moore (Jan. 28, 1817) 736 To Douglas Kinnaird (Oct. 26, 1819) 738 To Percy Bysshe Shelley (Apr. 26,1821) 740
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (1792-1822) 741 Mutability 744 To Wordsworth 744 Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude 745 Mont Blanc 762 Hymn to Intellectual Beauty 766 Ozymandias 768 Stanzas Written in Dejection�December 1818, near Naples 769 A Song: "Men of England" 770 England in 1819 771 To Sidmouth and Castlereagh 771 To William Shelley 772 Ode to the West Wind 772 Prometheus Unbound 775 Preface 775 Act 1 779 Act 2 802 Scene 4 802 Scene 5 806 Act 3 809 Scene 1 809 From Scene 4 811 From Act 4 814 The Cloud 815 To a Sky-Lark 817 To Night 819 To [Music, when soft voices die] 820 O World, O Life, O Time 820 Chorus from Hellas 821 The world's great age 821 Adonais 822 When the lamp is shattered 836 To Jane (The keen stars were twinkling) 836 From A Defence of Poetry 837
JOHN CLARE (1793-1864) 850 The Nightingale's Nest 851 Pastoral Poesy 853 [Mouse's Nest] 856 A Vision 856 I Am 857 An Invite to Eternity 858 Clock a Clay 859 The Peasant Poet 859 Song [I hid my love] 860 Song [I peeled bits o' straws] 860 From Autobiographical Fragments 86 1
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FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS (1793-1835) England's Dead 865 The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in New England 867 Casabianca 868 The Homes of England 870 Corinne at the Capitol 871 A Spirit's Return 872
JOHN KEATS (1795-1821) On First Looking into Chapman's Homer 880 Sleep and Poetry 881 [O for Ten Years] 881 On Seeing the Elgin Marbles 883 Endymion: A Poetic Romance 883 Preface 883 Book 1 884 [A Thing of Beauty] 884 [The "Pleasure Thermometer"] 885 On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again 887 When I have fears that I may cease to be 888 To Homer 888 The Eve of St. Agnes 888 Why did I laugh tonight? No voice will tell 898 Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art 898 La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad 899 Sonnet to Sleep 900 Ode to Psyche 901 Ode to a Nightingale 903 Ode on a Grecian Urn 905 Ode on Melancholy 906 Ode on Indolence 908 Lamia 909 To Autumn 925 The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream 926 This living hand, now warm and capable 939
LETTERS 940
To Benjamin Bailey (Nov. 22, 1817) 940 To George and Thomas Keats (Dec. 21, 27 [?], 1817) 942 To John Hamilton Reynolds (Feb. 3, 1818) 943 To John Taylor (Feb. 27, 1818) 944 To John Hamilton Reynolds (May 3, 1818) 945 To Richard Woodhouse (Oct. 27, 1818) 947 To George and Georgiana Keats (Feb. 14-May 3, 1819) 948 To Fanny Brawne (July 25, 1819) 952 To Percy Bysshe Shelley (Aug. 16, 1820) 953 To Charles Brown (Nov. 30, 1820) 954
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY (1797-1851) The Last Man: Introduction 958 The Mortal Immortal 961
LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON (1802-1838) The Proud Ladye 971
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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