THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY (1825-1895) 1427 Science and Culture 1429 [The Values of Education in the Sciences] 1429 Agnosticism and Christianity 1436 [Agnosticism Defined] 1436
GEORGE MEREDITH (1828-1909) 1440 Modern Love 1440 1 ("By this he knew she wept with waking eyes") 1440 2 ("It ended, and the morrow brought the task") 1440 17 ("At dinner, she is hostess, I am host") 1441
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49 ("He found her by the ocean's moaning verge") 1441 50 ("Thus piteously Love closed what he begat") 1441
DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI (1828-1882) 1442 The Blessed Damozel 1443 My Sister's Sleep 1447 Jenny 1449 The House of Life 1457 The Sonnet 1457 Nuptial Sleep 1458
19. Silent Noon 1458
77. Soul's Beauty 1458
78. Body's Beauty 1459
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI (1830-1894) 1459 Song ("She sat and sang alway") 1460 Song ("When I am dead, my dearest") 1461 After Death 1461 Dead before Death 1462 Cobwebs 1462 A Triad 1462 In an Artist's Studio 1463 A Birthday 1463 An Apple-Gathering 1464 Winter: My Secret 1464 Up-Hill 1465 Goblin Market 1466 "No, Thank You, John" 1478 Promises Like Pie-Crust 1479 In Progress 1479 A Life's Parallels 1480 Later Life 1480 17 ("Something this foggy day, a something which") 1480 Cardinal Newman 1480 Sleeping at Last 1481
WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896) 1481 The Defence of Guenevere 1483 How I Became a Socialist 1491
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE (1837-1909) 1494 Hymn to Proserpine 1496 Hermaphroditus 1499 Ave atque Vale 1500
WALTER PATER (1839-1894) 1505 Studies in the History of the Renaissance 1507 Preface 1507 ["La Gioconda"] 1510 Conclusion 1511
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS (1844-1889) 1513 God's Grandeur 1516
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The Starlight Night 1516 As Kingfishers Catch Fire 1517 Spring 1517 The Windhover 1518 Pied Beauty 1518 Hurrahing in Harvest 1519 Binsey Poplars 1519 Duns Scotus's Oxford 1520 Felix Randal 1520 Spring and Falclass="underline" to a young child 1521 [Carrion Comfort] 1521 No worst, there is none 1522 I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day 1522 That Nature Is a Heraclitean Fire 1523 Thou art indeed just, Lord 1524 From Journal 1524
LIGHT VERSE 1527
EDWARD LEAR (1812-1888) 1527 Limerick ("There was an Old Man who supposed") 1528 The Jumblies 1528
LEWIS CARROLL (1832-1898) 1529 Jabberwocky 1530 [Humpty Dumpty's Explication of "Jabberwocky"] 1530 The White Knight's Song 1532
W. S. GILBERT (1836-1911) 1534 When I, Good Friends, Was Called to the Bar 1534 If You're Anxious for to Shine in the High Aesthetic Line 1534
VICTORIAN ISSUES 1538
EVOLUTION 1538 Charles Darwin: The Origin of Species 1539 From Chapter 3. Struggle for Existence 1539 From Chapter 15. Recapitulation and Conclusion 1541 Charles Darwin: The Descent of Man 1 545 [Natural Selection and Sexual Selection] 1546 Leonard Huxley: The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley 1549 [The Huxley-Wilberforce Debate at Oxford] 1550 Sir Edmund Gosse: From Father and Son 1553
INDUSTRIALISM: PROGRESS OR DECLINE? 1556 Thomas Babington Macaulay: A Review of Southey's Colloquies 1557 [Evidence of Progress] 1557 The Children's Employment Commission: From First Report of the Commissioners, Mines 1563 [Child Mine-Worker in Yorkshire] 1563 Friedrich Engels: From The Great Towns 1565 Charles Kingsley: Alton Locke 1 572
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[A London Slum] 1572 Charles Dickens: Hard Times 1573 [Coketown] 1573 Anonymous: Poverty Knock 1574 Henry Mayhew: London Labour and the London Poor 1576 [Boy Inmate of the Casual Wards] 1 576 Annie Besant: The "White Slavery" of London Match Workers 1577 Ada Nield Chew: A Living Wage for Factory Girls at Crewe 1579
THE "WOMAN QUESTION": THE VICTORIAN DEBATE ABOUT GENDEB 1581 Sarah Stickney Ellis: The Women of England: Their Social Duties and Domestic Habits 1583 [Disinterested Kindness] 1584 Coventry Patmore: The Angel in the House 1585 The Paragon 1586 John Ruskin: From Of Queens' Gardens 1 587 Harriet Martineau: From Autobiography 1589 Anonymous: The Great Social Evil 1592 Dinah Maria Mulock: A Woman's Thoughts about Women 1596 [Something to Do] 1596 Florence Nightingale: Cassandra 1598 [Nothing to Do] 1598 Mona Caird: From Marriage 1601 Walter Besant: The Queen's Reign 1605 [The Transformation of Women's Status between 1837 and 1897] 1605
EMPIRE AND NATIONAL IDENTITY 1607 Thomas Babington Macaulay: Minute on Indian Education 1610 William Howard Busselclass="underline" My Diary in India, In the Year 1858-9 1612 Eliza Cook: The Englishman 1615 Charles Mackay: Songs from "The Emigrants" 1616 Anonymous: [Proclamation of an Irish Republic] 1618 Matthew Arnold: From On the Study of Celtic Literature 1619 James Anthony Froude: From The English in the West Indies 1621 John Jacob Thomas: Froudacity 1624 From Social Revolution 1624 Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Opening of the Indian and Colonial Exhibition by the Queen 1625
T. N. Mukharji: A Visit to Europe 1627 [The Indian and Colonial Exhibition] 1627 Joseph Chamberlain: From The True Conception of Empire 1630
J. A. Hobson: Imperialism: A Study 1632 [The Political Significance of Imperialism] 1632
LATE VICTORIANS 1635
MICHAEL FIELD (Katherine Bradley: 1846-1914; and Edith Cooper: 1862-1913) 1513 [Maids, not to you my mind doth change] 1638
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[A girl] 1639 Unbosoming 1639 [It was deep April, and the morn] 1639 To Christina Rossetti 1640 Nests in Elms 1640 Eros 1641
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY (1849-1903) 1641 In Hospital 1642 Invictus 1642
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894) 1643 The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 1645
OSCAR WILDE (1854-1900) 1686 Impression du Matin 1687 The Harlot's House 1688 The Critic as Artist 1689 [Criticism Itself an Art] 1689 Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray 1697 The Importance of Being Earnest 1698 From De Profundis 1740
BERNARD SHAW (1856-1950) 1743 Mrs Warren's Profession 1746
MARY ELIZABETH COLERIDGE (1861-1907) 1790 The Other Side of a Mirror 1791 The Witch 1792
RUDYARD KIPLING (1865-1936) 1793 The Man Who Would Be King 1794 Danny Deever 1818 The Widow at Windsor 1819 Recessional 1820 The White Man's Burden 1821 If� 1822
ERNEST DOWSON (1867-1900) 1823 Cynara 1824 They Are Not Long 1825
The Twentieth Century and After 1827
Introduction 1827 Timeline 1848
THOMAS HARDY (1840-1928) 1851 On the Western Circuit 1852 Hap 1868 Neutral Tones 1869 I Look into My Glass 1869
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A Broken Appointment 1870 Drummer Hodge 1870 The Darkling Thrush 1871 The Ruined Maid 1872 A Trampwoman's Tragedy 1872 One We Knew 1875 She Hears the Storm 1876 Channel Firing 1877 The Convergence of the Twain 1878 Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave? 1879 Under the Waterfall 1880 The Walk 1881 The Voice 1882 TheWorkbox 1882 During Wind and Rain 1883 In Time of 'The Breaking of Nations' 1884 He Never Expected Much 1884
JOSEPH CONRAD (1857-1924) Preface to The Nigger of the "Narcissus" 1887 [The Task of the Artist] 1887 Heart of Darkness 1890