The Anthem Anthology of Victorian Sonnets

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A comprehensive collection consisting of over three thousand Victorian sonnets written by Victorian poets between 1836 and the early years of twentieth century.

This publication provides - for the first time since the late 1800s - a comprehensive anthology of sonnets written by Victorian poets. Covering both canonical and largely forgotten poets, the coverage ranges from single sonnets to complete sonnet sequences. Rather than restricting itself to a small number of sonnets from a limited list of poets, as in general Victorian poetry anthologies, this five-volume set includes a representative selection of sonnets for each individual poet in order to display the diversity and innovation brought to the sonnet form by Victorian poets. More than one hundred poets and over three thousand sonnets are included.

The anthology fills an important gap in the field of Victorian anthologies by making available a large number of examples of a poetic form that was one of the most important in nineteenth-century poetry. The sonnets are ordered chronologically by date of publication. This enables the reader to trace developments over a period of seventy years, during which a fundamental re-appraisal of the sonnet, in both structural and thematic forms, occurred.

VOLUME I - List of Poets, Volumes 1-5; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Suggested Further Reading; Changing Times; Textual Notes 1836-1850; Sonnets 1836-1850; Sources and Indexes; VOLUME II - List of Poets, Volumes 1-5; Textual Notes 1851-1869; Sonnets 1851-1869; Sources and Indexes; VOLUME III - List of Poets, Volumes 1-5; Textual Notes 1870-1876; Sonnets 1870-1876; Sources and Indexes; VOLUME IV - List of Poets, Volumes 1-5; Textual Notes 1877-1888; Sonnets 1877-1888; Sources and Indexes; VOLUME V - List of Poets, Volumes 1-5; Textual Notes 1889 and Beyond; Sonnets 1889-1923; Sources and Indexes

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• Publié par: Anthem Press
• Date de parution: 15 février 2011
• Nombre de lectures: 2
• EAN13: 9780857288547
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 4 Mo

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The Anthem Anthology
of Victorian SonnetsThe Anthem Anthology
of Victorian Sonnets
Volume I: 1836 –1850
Edited and with an Introduction by
Michael J. AllenAnthem Press
An imprint of Wimbledon Publishing Company
www.anthempress.com
This edition fi rst published in UK and USA 2011
by ANTHEM PRESS
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Introduction, editorial matter and selection © 2011 Michael J. Allen
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The anthem anthology of Victorian sonnets / edited and with an introduction by Michael J. Allen.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-84331-848-4 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1. Sonnets, English. 2. English poetry –19th century. 3. English poetry –20th century.
I. Allen, Michael J.
PR1195.S5A58 2011
821.04208–dc22
2010050444
ISBN-13: 978 1 84331 848 4 (Hbk)
ISBN-10: 1 84331 848 2 (Hbk)
Also available as an eBook.To my mother who could still recite poems learnt in her childhood despite
the debilitation of dementia. And to my wife, Angela, who gets on with
the important things in life while I beaver away in my study. The Sonnet’s Voice (A Metrical Lesson by the Seashore)
Yon silvery billows breaking on the beach
Fall back in foam beneath the star-shine clear,
The while my rhymes are murmuring in your ear
A restless lore like that the billows teach;
For on these sonnet-waves my soul would reach
From its own depths, and rest within you, dear,
As, through the billowy voices yearning here,
Great nature strives to fi nd a human speech.
A sonnet is a wave of melody:
From heaving waters of the impassion’d soul
A billow of tidal music one and whole
Flows in the “octave;” then returning free,
Its ebbing surges in the “sestet” roll
Back to the deeps of Life’s tumultuous sea.
Theodore Watts-DuntonContents
Volume I (1836–1850)
List of Poets and Years xiiiVolumes xv
Preface xvii
Acknowledgements xix
Introduction xxi
Suggested Further Reading xlv
Changing Times xlix
Textual Notes 1836–1850 1
1836
Alfred Tennyson 3
1837
Josiah Conder 6
Alfred Tennyson 11
1838
Richard Monckton Milnes 13
John Saunders 15
Martin Tupper 17
Isaac Williams 23
Emmeline Wortley 44
1839
Arthur Hugh Clough 50
Henry Ellison 50
John Hanmer 51
Martin Tupper 54
Emmeline Wortley 65
1840
Frederick William Faber 70
John Hanmer 73
Richard Monckton Milnes 76
Caroline Norton 76
William Wordsworth 79x Contents
1841
Henry Alford 81
John Clare 87
Thomas Miller 89
1842
John Clare 90
Aubrey de Vere 92
John Critchley Prince 109
William Wordsworth 110
1843
Aubrey de Vere 130
1844
Elizabeth Barrett [Browning] 131
John Clare 135
Henry Ellison 136
Frances Kemble 146
Richard Monckton Milnes 151
Coventry Patmore 152
1845
Henry Alford 153
Martin Tupper 155
William Wordsworth 157
1846
William Barnes 161
Robert Stephen Hawker 167
1847
Christina Rossetti 168
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 171
Isaac Williams 172
1848
Ebenezer Elliott 206
Dora Greenwell 225
Christina Rossetti 227
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 228
1849
Matthew Arnold 229
Arthur Hugh Clough 229Contents xi
Christina Rossetti 235
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 238
1850
William Allingham 243
Elizabeth Barrett Browning 244
Robert Leighton 263
Christina Rossetti 266
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 268
Martin Tupper 271
Sources – Volume I 281
Index of Poets and Sonnet Titles – Volume I 283
Index of Poets and Sonnet First Lines – Volume I 291
Index of Sonnet Titles – Volume I 307
Index of Sonnet First Lines – Volume I 315Poets and the Years in which their Sonnets
Appear in the Anthology
Acton, Philip – 1875, 1889 Eliot, George – 1874
Alford, Henry – 1841, 1845 Elliott, Ebenezer – 1848
Allingham, William – 1850, 1854, 1855, Ellison, Henry – 1839, 1844
1865, 1883, 1884, 1889
Anderson, Alexander – 1873, 1875, 1879 Faber, Frederick William – 1840
Arnold, Matthew – 1849, 1852, 1867 Fane, Julian – 1852
Askham, John – 1863, 1866, 1875 Fane, Violet – 1876, 1889, 1896, 1900
Austin, Alfred – 1872, 1882, 1885, 1891, Field, Michael – 1892, 1908
1897, 1908
Garnett, Richard – 1859
Barlow, George – 1871, 1873, 1875, 1878, Gosse, Edmund – 1870, 1873, 1879, 1885,
1880, 1882, 1883, 1884, 1885, 1901, 1904, 1894, 1909
1908 Gray, David – 1862
Barnes, William – 1846 Gray, John – 1893, 1896
Bevington, Louisa – 1882 Greenwell, Dora – 1848, 1861
Blind, Mathilde – 1881, 1889, 1893, 1895
Blunt, Wilfred Scawen – 1875, 1881, 1889 Hake, Thomas – 1890
Bridges, Robert – 1876 Hanmer, John – 1839, 1840
Browning, Elizabeth [Barrett] – 1844, 1850 Hardy, Thomas – 1866, 1867, 1901, 1909,
Bro Robert – 1870, 1883, 1884, 1917
1885 Hawker, Robert Stephen – 1846
Buchanan, Robert – 1870 Henley, William Ernest – 1875, 1888,
1899
Clare, John – 1841, 1842, 1844, 1861 Hickey, Emily – 1881, 1889, 1891, 1896
Clarke, Herbert E. – 1879, 1882, 1895, 1896 Hopkins, Gerard Manley – 1877, 1879,
Clough, Arthur Hugh – 1839, 1849, 1869 1880, 1882, 1885, 1889
Coleridge, Hartley – 1851
Collins, Mortimer – 1855, 1860 Inchbold, John – 1876
Conder, Josiah – 1837
Craik, Dinah – 1859 Kemble, Frances – 1844, 1859, 1866
Knox, Lucy – 1872, 1884
Dalby, John Watson – 1866
De Vere, Aubrey – 1842, 1843, 1855, 1861, L. M. S. – 1857
1893 Lang, Andrew – 1872, 1880, 1888, 1894
Dixon, Richard Watson – 1861, 1864 Lee-Hamilton, Eugene – 1882, 1884, 1888,
Dobell, Sydney and Smith, 1894, 1899, 1908
Alexander – 1855 Lefroy, Edward Cracroft – 1883, 1884
Dobson, Austin – 1885 Leighton, Robert – 1850
Dowden, Edward – 1876 Levy, Amy – 1881, 1889
Dowson, Ernest – 1896, 1899 Lindsay, Caroline – 1890, 1894, 1896xiv List of Poets and Years
Marston, Philip Bourke – 1871, 1875, 1883, Rossetti, Dante Gabriel – 1847, 1848, 1849,
1891, 1892 1850, 1855, 1859, 1860, 1861, 1869, 1870,
Massey, Gerald – 1855 1871, 1881
Meredith, George – 1851, 1862, 1867, 1870,
1883, 1885, 1888, 1889, 1896, 1898, 1899 Saunders, John – 1838
Meynell, Alice – 1875, 1893, 1923 Scott, William Bell – 1854, 1875, 1882
Miller, Thomas – 1841 Sharp, William – 1884
Milnes, Richard Monckton – 1838, 1840, Stockall, Harriett – 1879
1844 Swinburne, Algernon Charles – 1859, 1866,
Minchin, James Innes – 1858 1871, 1875, 1878, 1880, 1882, 1884, 1894,
Monkhouse, William Cosmo – 1865, 1890, 1904
1901 Symonds, John Addington – 1878, 1880,
Mulholland, Rosa – 1886 1882, 1884
Symons, Arthur – 1889, 1892, 1895
Naden, Constance – 1881, 1887
Nesbit, Edith – 1886, 1888, 1892, 1898 Tennyson, Alfred – 1836, 1837, 1851, 1876,
Nicholson, John – 1892, 1896 1877, 1885, 1892
Norton, Caroline – 1840 Todhunter, John – 1876, 1881
Trench, Richard Chenevix – 1855, 1856
Patmore, Coventry – 1844 Tupper, Martin – 1838, 1839, 1845, 1850,
Payne, John – 1871, 1872, 1880, 1903, 1904, 1854, 1855, 1860
1908, 1909, 1920 Turner, Charles – 1864, 1868, 1873, 1880
Pfeiffer, Emily – 1876, 1878, 1880, 1882, Tynan, Katharine – 1885, 1887
1886, 1889
Plarr, Victor – 1896 Waddington, James – 1862
Prince, John Critchley – 1842, 1856, 1861 W Samuel – 1884
Probyn, May – 1881 Watson, Rosamund Marriott – 1889,
1891
Raffalovich, Mark – 1885, 1886, 1895 Watson, William – 1880, 1890, 1894, 1895,
Rawnsley, Hardwicke Drummond – 1877, 1896, 1897, 1904, 1909, 1913, 1917
1881, 1887, 1893, 1894, 1899, 1900 Watts-Dunton, Theodore – 1898
Robinson, Agnes Mary – 1878, 1881, 1886, Webster, Augusta – 1895
1888, 1893, 1923 Wilde, Oscar – 1881
Roscoe, William Caldwell – 1860 Williams, Isaac – 1838, 1847
Rossetti, Christina – 1847, 1848, 1849, Wordsworth, William – 1840, 1842,
1850, 1853, 1855, 1856, 1862, 1866, 1869, 1845
1870, 1875, 1881, 1882, 1890, 1893, 1896 Wor