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British Literature in the Age of Industrialism
Path 1 Poetry Recordings

“She made three paces thro' the room . . ." (l.110)

Alfred Tennyson's "The Lady of Shalott" (1832, 1842)

Matthew Arnold "Dover Beach" (ca.1851; 1867) “The Buried Life” (1852) "Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse" (c.1852; 1855) "Isolation" (1857)    
Alfred Lord Tennyson "The Lady of Shalott" (1831-32; 1832 & 1842) "Ulysses" (1833; 1842) "In Memoriam," excerpt (1850) "Tithonus" (1860)    
Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Insufficiency" (1844) Sonnets from the Portugese (1845-47; 1850): 13, 14, 28 "The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point" (1849) "A Musical Instrument" (1860; 1860) "Mother and Poet" (1862)  
Robert Browning "Porphyria's Lover" (c.1835; 1836, 1842) "Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister" (ca. 1839, 1842) "My Last Duchess" (1842; 1842) "The Bishop Orders His Tomb at St. Praxed's Church" (1845) "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" (1852; 1855) "Abt Vogler" (1864)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti "The Blessed Damozel" (1846; 1850)          
Christina Rossetti "In an Artist's Studio" (1856) “Winter: My Secret” (1857; 1862) Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market” (1859; 1862), Monna Innominata: A Sonnet of Sonnets (1881)    
William Morris "The Defence of Guenevere" (1858) “The Tune of Seven Towers” (1858)        
Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Leper" (1866) "The Triumph of Time" (1866) "Hymn to Proserpine" (1866)      
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1) "God's Grandeur" (1877; 1918) "As Kingfishers Catch Fire" (1877; 1918) "Hurrahing in Harvest" (1877; 1918) "Pied Beauty" (1877; 1918)    
Gerard Manley Hopkins (2) "[Carrion Comfort]" (1885; 1918) "No worst, there is none" (1885; 1918) "Thou art indeed just, Lord" (1889; 1918) "That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire . . ." (1888; 1918)    
Oscar Wilde "The Withered Arm" (1888) "The Harlot's House" (1885)        
Thomas Hardy "Hap" (1898) "The Darkling Thrush" (Dec 31, 1900) "The Convergence of the Twain" (1912; 1912) "Channel Firing" (April 1914; 1914 "In Time of 'The Breaking of Nations'" (1915; 1916)  
William Butler Yeats (1890s) "When You Are Old" (1891; 1892, 1899) "The Rose of the World" (1892, 1895) "To Ireland In the Coming Times" (1893) "Cap and Bells" (1899)    




"The Lady of Shalott" (1853)
Elizabeth Siddal



Dr. Paul Marchbanks
pmarchba@calpoly.edu