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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
List of Plates
Note on the Text
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
George Meredith: A Brief Chronology
Introduction
Modern Love and Poems of the English Roadside, with Poems and Ballads
Grandfather Bridgeman
The Meeting
Modern Love
Roadside Philosophers
Juggling Jerry
The Old Chartist
The Beggar’s Soliloquy
The Patriot Engineer
Poems and Ballads
Cassandra
The Young Usurper
Margaret’s Bridal-Eve
Marian
The Head of Bran
By Morning Twilight
Autumn Even-Song
Unknown Fair Faces
Phantasy
Shemselnihar
[A roar thro’ the tall twin elm-trees]
[When I would image her features]
[I chafe at darkness in the night]
By the Rosanna
Ode to the Spirit of Earth in Autumn
The Doe: A Fragment (From “Wandering Willie”)
Contexts
Contemporary Reactions
Unsigned Review, Parthenon (1862)
R. H. Hutton, Spectator (1862)
J. W. Marston, Athenaeum (1862)
A. C. Swinburne, Spectator (1862)
Frederick Maxse, Morning Post (1862)
From Unsigned Review, Westminster Review (1862)
Unsigned Review, Saturday Review (1863)
William Sharp, from Sonnets of This Century (1886)
Arthur Symons, from Westminster Review (1887)
From Unsigned Review, Travelers Record (1892)
Advice Manuals And Social Commentary
Sarah Stickney Ellis, from The Wives of England (1843)
William Cobbett, from Advice to Young Men, and (Incidentally) to Young Women, in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life (1862)
John Paget, from “The English Law of Divorce” (1856)
John Ruskin, from Sesame and Lilies (1865)
John Stuart Mill, from The Subjection of Women (1869)
On the Senses
Alexander Bain, from The Senses and the Intellect (1855)
A. B. Johnson, from The Physiology of the Senses (1856)
George Wilson, from The Five Senses (1860)
Nineteenth-Century Poetics
Arthur Henry Hallam, from “On Some of the Characteristics of Modern Poetry” (1831)
Matthew Arnold, from “Preface” to Poems (1853)
Gerald Massey, from “Poetry—The Spasmodists” (1858)
Henry James, from “Charles Baudelaire” (1876)
Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Author’s Preface” (1883)
Gerard Manley Hopkins, Letter on “Harry Ploughman” (1887)
Other Poetry
John Keats, from “Woman! when I behold thee flippant, vain . . . ” (1817) and “On the Sea” (1817)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, from Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850)
Coventry Patmore, from The Angel in the House (1854–62)
Charles Baudelaire, “Causerie” (1857)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, from Maud (1859)
Christina Rossetti, from “Monna Innominata: A Sonnet of Sonnets” (1881)
Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Harry Ploughman” (1887)
Textual Variants
Suggestions for Further Reading
Index of First Lines
Subject Index
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