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Modern love and Poems of the English roadside, with poems and ballads / George Meredith ; edited by Rebecca N. Mitchell and Criscillia Benford.
LIBRA PR5008 .M6 2012
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Meredith, George, 1828-1909.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- xlv, 390 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, in association with the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, [2012]
- Contents:
- Modern Love and Poems of the English Roadside, with Poems and Ballads
- Grandfather Bridgeman 3
- The Meeting 19
- Modern Love 21
- Roadside Philosophers 73
- Juggling Jerry 75
- The Old Chartist 80
- The Beggar's Soliloquy 87
- The Patriot Engineer 93
- Poems and Ballads 99
- Cassandra 101
- The Young Usurper 107
- Margaret's Bridal-Eve 108
- Marian 116
- The Head of Bran 118
- By Morning Twilight 122
- Autumn Even-Song 124
- Unknown Fair Faces 126
- Phantasy 127
- Shemselnihar 135
- [A roar thro' the tall twin elm-trees] 138
- [When I would image her features] 139
- [I chafe at darkness in the night] 140
- By the Rosanna 141
- Ode to the Spirit of Earth in Autumn 148
- The Doe: A Fragment (From "Wandering Willie") 157
- Contexts
- Contemporary Reactions 175
- Unsigned Review, Parthenon (1862) 176
- R. H. Hutton, Spectator (1861) 180
- J. W. Marston, Athenaeum (1862) 185
- A. C. Swinburne, Spectator (1862) 189
- Frederick Maxse, Morning Post (1862) 193
- From Unsigned Review, Westminster Review (1862) 199
- Unsigned Review, Saturday Review (1863) 201
- William Sharp, from Sonnets of This Century (1886) 206
- Arthur Symons, from Westminster Review (1887) 208
- From Unsigned Review, Travelers Record (1892) 211
- Advice Manuals and Social Commentary 215
- Sarah Stickney Ellis, from The Wives of England (1843) 217
- William Cobbett, from Advice to Young Men, and (Incidentally) to Young Women, in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life (1862) 226
- John Paget, from "The English Law of Divorce" (1856) 234
- John Ruskin, from Sesame and Lilies (1865) 241
- John Smart Mill, from The Subjection of Women (1869) 247
- On The Senses 251
- Alexander Bain, from The Senses and the Intellect (1855) 253
- A. B. Johnson, from The Physiology of the Senses (1856) 260
- George Wilson, from The Five Senses (1860) 268
- Nineteenth-Century Poetics 277
- Arthur Henry Hallam, from "On Some of the Characteristics of Modern Poetry" (1831) 280
- Matthew Arnold, from "Preface" to Poems (1853) 285
- Gerald Massey, from "Poetry-The Spasmodists" (1858) 296
- Henry James, from "Charles Baudelaire" (1876) 308
- Gerard Manley Hopkins, "Author's Preface" (1883) 315
- Gerard Manley Hopkins, Letter on "Harry Ploughman" (1887) 320
- Other Poetry 323
- John Keats, from "Woman! when I behold thee flippant, vain ..." (1817) and "On the Sea" (1817) 325
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning, from Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850) 328
- Coventry Patmore, from The Angel in the House (1854-62) 331
- Charles Baudelaire, "Causerie" (1857) 341
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, from Maud (1859) 344
- Christina Rossetti, from "Monna Innominata: A Sonnet of Sonnets" (1881) 348
- Gerard Manley Hopkins, "Harry Ploughman" (1887) 353.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9780300173178
- 0300173172
- OCLC:
- 783520943
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