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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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