Seminar in Victorian Literature
Path 1 Poetry Recordings (winter '09)
“She made three paces thro' the room . . ." (l.110)
Alfred Tennyson's "The Lady of Shalott" (1832, 1842)
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Path 1 Poem List
| 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) | "Marianna" (1830) | "Ulysses" (1833; 1842) | "In Memoriam," excerpt (1850) | "Tithonus" (1860) | |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning | "Insufficiency" (1844) "The Soul's Expression" (1844) |
"Exaggeration" (1844) "The Look" (1844) |
"The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point" (1849) | "Hiram Powers's Greek Slave" (1850) | "A Musical Instrument" (1860; 1860) | "Mother and Poet" (1862) |
| Robert Browning | "Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister" (ca. 1839, 1842) | "My Last Duchess" (1842; 1842) | "Pictor Ignotus" (1845) | "Fra Lippo Lippi" (1845) | "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" (1852; 1855) | "Abt Vogler" (1864) |
| Dante Gabriel Rossetti | "The Blessed Damozel" (1846; 1850) | "The Burden of Nineveh" (1850; 1856) | ||||
| Christina Rossetti | "In an Artist's Studio" (1856; 1896) | “Winter: My Secret” (1857; 1862) | “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) | "I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark, Not Day" (1885; 1918) | "Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord" (1889; 1893) |
| 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) |
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| Poems | "Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse" | "The Lady of Shalott" "The Soul's Expression" |
"Ulysses" "Exaggeration" "The Look" |
"Marianna" "My Last Duchess" |
"A Musical Instrument" "Hiram Powers's Greek Slave" "In an Artist's Studio" |
"Dover Beach" "Pied Beauty" |
"Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister" "Hurrahing in Harvest" |
"Goblin Market" | "Abt Vogler" "Insufficiency" |
"Pictor Ignotus" "I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark, Not Day" |
"The Blessed Damozel" "As Kingfishers Catch Fire" |
"The Burden of Nineveh" |
"The Leper" |
"Hymn to Proserpine" "The Harlot's House" |
"Winter: My Secret" "Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord" |
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"Sir Galahad" (1865-70)
Arthur Hughes
Dr. Paul Marchbanks
pmarchba@calpoly.edu