The Longman Anthology of British Literature, Volume 2B: The Victorian Age

The Victorian AgeIllustration: Gustave Doré, Ludgate Hill 1044THE VICTORIAN AGE AT A GLANCE 1045INTRODUCTION 1049VICTORIA AND THE VICTORIANS 1049Illustration: Sunlight Soap advertisement commemorating the 1897 Jubilee ofVictoria’s reign 1050THE AGE OF ENERGY AND INVENTION 1052Illustration: Robert Howlett, Portrait of Isambard Kingdom Brunel andLaunching Chains of the Great Eastern, 1857 1053THE AGE OF DOUBT 1055Illustration: The Crystal Palace 1058THE AGE OF REFORM 1059THE AGE OF EMPIRE 1063Illustration: “The Formula of British Conquest,” Pears’ Soapadvertisement 1065THE AGE OF READING 1066Color Plate 11: Sir John Everett Millais, MarianaColor Plate 12: William Holman Hunt, The Awakening ConscienceColor Plate 13: Ford Madox Brown, WorkColor Plate 14: Augustus Egg, Past and Present, No. 1Color Plate 15: Augustus Egg, Past and Present, No. 3Color Plate 16: William Morriss, Guenevere, or La Belle IseultColor Plate 17: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Blessed DamozelColor Plate 18: James McNeill Whistler, Nocturne in Black and Gold: TheFalling RocketColor Plate 19: John Williams Waterhouse, The Lady of ShalottColor Plate 20: Sir Edward Burne-Jones, Love Among the RuinsTHE AGE OF SELF-SCRUTINY 1068Illustration: Cartoon from Punch magazine, 1867 1068THOMAS CARLYLE 1074Illustration: Julia Margaret Cameron, Thomas Carlyle, 1867 1075Past and Present 1076Midas [The Condition of England] 1076from Gospel of Mammonism [The Irish Widow] 1079from Labour [Know Thy Work] 1080from Democracy [Liberty to Die by Starvation] 1081Captains of Industry 1083PERSPECTIVESThe Industrial Landscape 1088Illustration: John Leech, Horseman pursued by a train engine named“Time” 1089THE STEAM LOOM WEAVER 1090FANNY KEMBLE 1091from Record of a Girlhood 1091THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY 1092from A Review of Southey’s Colloquies 1092PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS (“BLUE BOOKS”) 1094Testimony of Hannah Goode, a Child Textile Worker 1095Testimony of Ann and Elizabeth Eggley, Child Mineworkers 1095CHARLES DICKENS 1097from Dombey and Son 1097from Hard Times 1098BENJAMIN DISRAELI 1100from Sybil 1100FRIEDRICH ENGELS 1101from The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844 1101Illustration: Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, Catholic Town in 1440 /SameTown in 1840 1103HENRY MAYHEW 1108from London Labour and the London Poor 1108Illustration: The Boy Crossing-Sweepers 1112JOHN STUART MILL 1113On Liberty 1115from Chapter 2. Of the Liberty of Thought and Discussion 1115from Chapter 3. Of Individuality, as One of the Elements of Well-Being 1117The Subjection of Women 1121from Chapter 1 1121Statement Repudiating the Rights of Husbands 1129Autobiography 1129from Chapter 1. Childhood, and Early Education 1129from Chapter 5. A Crisis in My Mental History. One Stage Onward 1132ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING 1138The Cry of the Children 1140To George Sand: A Desire 1144To George Sand: A Recognition 1144A Year’s Spinning (Web)Sonnets from the Portuguese 11451 (“I thought once how Theocritus had sung”) 114513 (“And wilt thou have me fashion into speech”) 114514 (“If thou must love me, let it be for nought”) 114521 (“Say over again, and yet once over again”) 114622 (“When our two souls stand up erect and strong”) 114624 (“Let the world’s sharpness, like a clasping knife”) 114728 (“My letters! all dead paper, mute and white!”) 114732 (“The first time that the sun rose on thine oath”) 114738 (“First time he kissed me, he but only kissed”) 114843 (“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways”) 1148The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point 1148Aurora Leigh 1155Book 1 1155[Self-Portrait] 1155Illustration: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, frontispiece of Aurora Leigh 1156[Her Mother’s Portrait] 1157[Aurora’s Education] 1158[Discovery of Poetry] (Web)Book 2 1162[Woman and Artist] 1162[No Female Christ] 1165[Aurora’s Rejection of Romney] 1166Book 3 1170[The Woman Writer in London] 1170Book 5 1171[Epic Art and Modern Life] 1171from A Curse for a Nation (Web)A Musical Instrument 1174The Best Thing in the World (Web)ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON 1175Illustration: Max Beerbohm, Tennyson Reading “In Memoriam” to his Sovereign,1904 1178The Kraken 1178Mariana 1179The Lady of Shalott 1181Illustration: William Holman Hunt, The Lady of Shalott 1182The Lotos-Eaters 1185Ulysses 1189Tithonus 1191Break, Break, Break 1193The Epic [Morte d’Arthur] 1194The Eagle: A Fragment (Web)Locksley Hall 1196from THE PRINCESS 1201Sweet and Low (Web)The Splendour Falls 1201Tears, Idle Tears 1202Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal 1202Come Down, O Maid (Web)[The Woman’s Cause Is Man’s] 1203from In Memoriam A. H. H. 1204The Charge of the Light Brigade 1235Idylls of the King 1237The Coming of Arthur 1237Pelleas and Ettarre (Web)The Passing of Arthur 1247The Higher Pantheism 1257RESPONSEAlgernon Charles Swinburne: The Higher Pantheism in aNutshell 1258hFlower in the Crannied Wall (Web)Crossing the Bar 1259EDWARD FITZGERALD (Web)The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám of Naishápúr (Web)CHARLES DARWIN 1260Illustration: Linley Sambourne, Man is But a Worm 1261The Voyage of the Beagle 1262from Chapter 10. Tierra Del Fuego 1262Illustration: Thomas Landseer, after a drawing by C. Martens, A Fuegian atPortrait Cove 1263from Chapter 17. Galapagos Archipelago 1269On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection 1272from Chapter 3. Struggle for Existence 1272The Descent of Man 1277from Chapter 21. General Summary and Conclusion 1277from Autobiography 1283PERSPECTIVESReligion and Science 1291THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY 1292from Lord Bacon 1292CHARLES DICKENS 1293from Sunday Under Three Heads 1293DAVID FRIEDRICH STRAUSS 1296from The Life of Jesus Critically Examined 1296CHARLOTTE BRONTË 1299from Jane Eyre 1299ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH 1301Epi-strauss-ium 1301The Latest Decalogue 1302from Dipsychus 1302JOHN WILLIAM COLENSO 1303from The Pentateuch and Book of Joshua Critically Examined 1304JOHN HENRY CARDINAL NEWMAN 1305from Apologia Pro Vita Sua 1305THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY 1313from Evolution and Ethics 1313SIR EDMUND GOSSE 1317from Father and Son 1317ROBERT BROWNING 1322Illustration: Julia Margaret Cameron, Robert Browning, 1866 1322Porphyria’s Lover 1325Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister 1326My Last Duchess 1328How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix 1330Home-Thoughts, from Abroad 1331Home-Thoughts, from the Sea 1332The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed’s Church 1332Meeting at Night 1335Parting at Morning 1336A Toccata of Galuppi’s 1336Memorabilia 1337Love Among the Ruins 1338“Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came” 1340RESPONSEStevie Smith: Childe Rolandine 1346hFra Lippo Lippi 1347The Last Ride Together 1355Andrea del Sarto 1358Two in the Campagna (Web)A Woman’s Last Word 1364Caliban Upon Setebos 1366Epilogue to Asolando 1372CHARLES DICKENS 1373A Christmas Carol 1376Illustration: Hablot K. Browne, Mr Scrooge Extinguishing the Spirit 1399from A Walk in a Workhouse 1425COMPANION READINGSDickens at Work: Recollections by His Children and Friends (Web)Kate Field: Dickens Giving a Reading of A Christmas Carol 1430 hPOPULAR SHORT FICTION 1431ELIZABETH GASKELL 1432Our Society at Cranford 1432THOMAS HARDY 1447The Withered Arm 1448SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE 1466A Scandal in Bohemia 1467Illustration: Sidney Paget, Good-night Mr Sherlock Holmes 1480EMILY BRONTË 1482“High waving heather ’neath stormy blasts bending” 1484“The night is darkening round me” 1484“And first an hour of mournful musing” 1485“I’m happiest when most away” 1485“There are two trees in a lonely field” 1485Stanzas 1485Plead for me 1486Stars 1487The Prisoner (A Fragment) 1488Remembrance 1490“No coward soul is mine” 1491JOHN RUSKIN 1492Modern Painters 1493from Definition of Greatness in Art 1493from Of Water, As Painted by Turner 1494The Stones of Venice 1495from The Nature of Gothic 1495Illustration: John Ruskin, Windows of the Early Gothic Palaces 1496The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century 1505Praeterita (Web)Preface (Web)from The Springs of Wandel (Web)from Herne-Hill Almond Blossoms (Web)from Schaffhausen and Milan (Web)from The Grande Chartreuse (Web)from Joanna’s Care (Web)FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE 1510from Cassandra 1511PERSPECTIVESVictorian Ladies and Gentlemen 1520Illustration: The Parliamentary Female, from Punch magazine, 1853 1521FRANCES POWER COBBE 1522from Life of Frances Power Cobbe As Told by Herself 1522SARAH STICKNEY ELLIS 1525from The Women of England: Their Social Duties and Domestic Habits 1525CHARLOTTE BRONTË 1528from Letter to Emily Brontë 1528Illustration: Richard Redgrave, The Poor Teacher, 1844 1529ANNE BRONTË 1529from Agnes Grey 1530JOHN HENRY CARDINAL NEWMAN 1531from The Idea of a University 1531CAROLINE NORTON 1532from A Letter to the Queen 1533GEORGE ELIOT 1535Margaret Fuller and Mary Wollstonecraft 1535THOMAS HUGHES 1540from Tom Brown’s School Days 1540ISABELLA BEETON 1542from The Book of Household Management 1542JOHN RUSKIN 1544from Sesame and Lilies 1544Of Queens’ Gardens 1544QUEEN VICTORIA 1547Letters and Journal Entries on the Position of Women 1547Illustration: Edwin Landseer, Windsor Castle in Modern Times, 1841—1845 1549SARAH GRAND 1552from The New Aspect of the Woman Question 1552SIR HENRY NEWBOLT 1553Vitaï Lampada 1554MONA CAIRD 1554from Does Marriage Hinder a Woman’s Self-Development? 1555RUDYARD KIPLING 1556If 1556MATTHEW ARNOLD 1557Illustration: Matthew Arnold and his wife Frances Wightman Arnold 1557Isolation. To Marguerite 1560To Marguerite–Continued 1561Dover Beach 1562RESPONSEAnthony Hecht: The Dover Bitch 1563hLines Written in Kensington Gardens 1564The Buried Life 1565Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse 1567The Scholar-Gipsy 1572East London 1578West London 1579Thyrsis 1579from The Function of Criticism at the Present Time 1585from Culture and Anarchy 1595from Sweetness and Light 1595from Doing as One Likes 1597from Hebraism and Hellenism 1600from Porro Unum Est Necessarium 1601from Conclusion 1603from The Study of Poetry 1604DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI 1611The Blessed Damozel 1612The Woodspurge 1615The House of Life 1616The Sonnet 16164. Lovesight 16166. The Kiss 1617Nuptial Sleep 1617The Burden of Nineveh 1618Jenny 1622RESPONSESAugusta Webster: from A Castaway 1633Thomas Hardy: The Ruined Maid 1642 hCHRISTINA ROSSETTI 1642Song (“She sat and sang alway”) 1644Song (“When I am dead, my dearest”) 1644Remember 1645After Death 1645A Pause 1645Echo 1646Dead Before Death 1646Cobwebs 1647A Triad 1647In an Artist’s Studio 1647A Birthday 1648An Apple-Gathering 1648Winter: My Secret 1649Up-Hill 1650Goblin Market 1650Illustration: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, frontispiece to Goblin Market 1651“No, Thank You, John” 1663Promises Like Pie-Crust 1664In Progress 1664What Would I Give? 1665A Life’s Parallels 1665Later Life 166517 (“Something this foggy day, a something which”) 1665Sleeping at Last 1666WILLIAM MORRIS 1666The Defence of Guenevere 1667The Haystack in the Floods 1675from The Beauty of Life 1679ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE 1684The Leper 1685The Triumph of Time 1689I Will Go Back to the Great Sweet Mother 1689Hymn to Proserpine 1690A Forsaken Garden (Web)WALTER PATER 1693from The Renaissance 1694Preface 1694from Leonardo da Vinci 1697Conclusion 1698from The Child in the House (Web)GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS 1701God’s Grandeur 1702The Starlight Night 1703Spring 1703The Windhover 1704Pied Beauty 1704Hurrahing in Harvest 1705Binsey Poplars 1705Duns Scotus’s Oxford 1706Felix Randal 1706Spring and Fall: to a young child 1707As Kingfishers Catch Fire 1707[Carrion Comfort] 1708No Worst, There Is None 1708I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark, Not Day 1708That Nature Is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of the Resurrection 1709Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord 1710from Journal [On “Inscape” and “Instress”] 1710from Letter to R. W. Dixon [On Sprung Rhythm] 1712LEWIS CARROLL 1713from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland 1715Chapter 1. Down the Rabbit-Hole 1715from Chapter 2. The Pool of Tears 1718Illustration: John Tenniel, illustration to Alice in Wonderland, 1865 1719You are old, Father William 1720The Lobster-Quadrille 1721from Through the Looking Glass 1721Child of the pure unclouded brow (Web)Jabberwocky 1721[Humpty Dumpty on Jabberwocky] 1722The Walrus and the Carpenter 1723The White Knight’s Song (Web)PERSPECTIVESImagining Childhood (Web)CHARLES DARWIN (Web)from A Biographical Sketch of an Infant (Web)MORAL VERSES (Web)Table Rules for Little Folks (Web)Eliza Cook: The Mouse and the Cake (Web)Heinrich Hoffmann: The Story of Augustus who would Not have any Soup (Web)Thomas Miller: The Watercress Seller (Web)William Miller: Willie Winkie (Web)EDWARD LEAR (Web)[Selected Limericks] (Web)The Owl and the Pussy-Cat (Web)The Jumblies (Web)How pleasant to know Mr. Lear! (Web)CHRISTINA ROSSETTI (Web)from Sing-Song: A Nursery Rhyme Book (Web)ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (Web)from A Child’s Garden of Verses (Web)HILAIRE BELLOC (Web)from The Bad Child’s Book of Beasts (Web)from Cautionary Tales for Children (Web)DAISY ASHFORD (Web)from The Young Visiters; or, Mr Salteena’s Plan (Web)RUDYARD KIPLING 1726Without Benefit of Clergy 1728from JUST SO STORIES (Web)How the Whale Got His Throat (Web)How the Camel Got His Hump (Web)How the Leopard Got His Spots (Web)Gunga Din 1742The Widow at Windsor 1744Recessional 1745PERSPECTIVESTravel and Empire 1746Illustration: Daylight at Last! 1746FRANCES TROLLOPE 1748from Domestic Manners of the Americans 1748THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY 1753from Minute on Indian Education 1754WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE 1758from Our Colonies 1758BENJAMIN DISRAELI 1759Illustration: New Crowns for Old 1760from Conservative and Liberal Principles 1760ALEXANDER WILLIAM KINGLAKE (Web)from Eothen (Web)SIR RICHARD FRANCIS BURTON (Web)from A Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah (Web)ISABELLA BIRD (Web)from A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains (Web)SIR HENRY MORTON STANLEY 1762from Through the Dark Continent 1762MARY KINGSLEY 1769from Travels in West Africa 1769RUDYARD KIPLING 1776The White Man’s Burden 1777ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON 1778The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde 1780OSCAR WILDE 1818Illustration: Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas, 1893 1820Impression du Matin 1821RESPONSELord Alfred Douglas: Impression de Nuit 1822hThe Harlot’s House 1822Symphony in Yellow 1823from The Decay of Lying (Web)from The Soul of Man Under Socialism 1824Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray 1828The Importance of Being Earnest 1829Aphorisms 1870from De Profundis 1872COMPANION READINGH. Montgomery Hyde: from The Trials of Oscar Wilde 1879hPERSPECTIVESAestheticism, Decadence, and the Fin de Siècle 1885Illustration: Aubrey Beardsley, J’ai baisé ta bouche, Iokanaan 1886Illustration: George Du Maurier, The Six-Mark Tea-Pot 1887W. S. GILBERT 1888If You’re Anxious for to Shine in the High Aesthetic Line 1889JAMES ABBOTT MCNEILL WHISTLER 1890from Mr. Whistler’s “Ten O’Clock” 1891“MICHAEL FIELD” (KATHARINE BRADLEY AND EDITH COOPER) 1895La Gioconda 1896A Pen-Drawing of Leda 1896“A Girl” 1897ADA LEVERSON 1897Suggestion 1898ARTHUR SYMONS 1903Pastel 1903White Heliotrope 1904from The Decadent Movement in Literature 1904from Preface to Silhouettes 1906RICHARD LE GALLIENNE 1907A Ballad of London 1907LIONEL JOHNSON 1908The Destroyer of a Soul 1909The Dark Angel 1909A Decadent’s Lyric 1911LORD ALFRED DOUGLAS 1911In Praise of Shame 1912Two Loves 1912OLIVE CUSTANCE (LADY ALFRED DOUGLAS) 1914The Masquerade 1915Statues 1915The White Witch 1916