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 Victorian Poetry (1837-1901)

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning;
pastel drawing by Eliza Fox Bridell

Nineteenth-Century Britain Timeline

Study Questions

Created by Professor Florence Boos

Elizabeth Barrett Browning                    

Robert Browning

Augusta Webster

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, "Jenny," "Hand and Soul"

Christina Rossetti

Matthew Arnold

Alfred Tennyson

Amy Levy

William Morris, "The Defence of Guenevere," A Dream of John Ball, News from Nowhere

Algernon Swinburne

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Mary Coleridge

Oscar Wilde

Thomas Hardy

Charlotte Mew

Alice Meynell

Working-Class Poets: Hamilton and Laycock

 

Bibliographies

Compiled by Professor Florence Boos

Victorian Women Poets Bibliography

Victorian Literature

Victorian Gender Issues

Victorian Poetry 1990-2001

Databases

English Poetry - Includes the works of nearly 1,350 poets from 600-1900 with emphasis on the actual text of the poems and including the poet's own notes but excluding the following: translations into English verse after 1800, hymns published after 1800, works in languages other than English, poems never published or only published in contemporary newspapers, journals or miscellanies, verse dramas intended for stage. Features include keyword, title, first line, poet and period searches and custom printing options. Part of Literature Online (LION). (UI access only)

Modern Language Association Bibliography (MLAB), 1963 - present. Indexes books, chapters of books, dissertations, journal articles, conference proceedings and more. (UI access only)

Periodicals Contents Index (PCI) - Scanned contents pages of about 2100 magazines and journals, some back to 1770. Excellent resource for book reviews. For example, Edinburgh Review (1802-1929). (UI access only)

Literature Online (LION) - A fully searchable library of over 300,000 works of English and American literature. Includes Abell (The Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature), which contains over 500,000 records covering monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews, collections of essays and doctoral dissertations published anywhere in the world from 1920 onwards. (UI access only)

OED online (UI access only)

Authors - Biographic and Bibliographic Information

Sources in the following list are from The Dictionary of Literary Biography

Matthew Arnold

Elizabeth Barret Browning

Robert Browning

Janet Hamilton

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Amy Levy

William Morris

Christina Rossetti

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Algernon Swinburne

Alfred Tennyson

Oscar Wilde

Specialized Web Pages

The Victorian Web

An encyclopedia of brief entries on Victorian culture including sections for economics, religion, philosophy, visual arts, literature, science, politics, and more.

The William Morris Home Page

The Pre-Raphaelite Critic

A bibliographic guide to critical reactions to paintings and writings of the Pre-Raphaelites.

Victoria Research Web

The Victoria Research Web, "dedicated to the scholarly study of the nineteenth century in Britain, and to aiding researchers, teachers, and students in their investigations of any and all aspects of this fascinating period." Archives, journals, links, discussion, and more.

The D.G. Rossetti Archive

The complete writings and pictures of Dante Gabriel Rossetti: a hypermedia archive.

Victorian Periodicals, Aids to Research

A Selected Bibliography by Rosemary T. VanArsdel.

Resources for the study of Victorian Art in Britain

Victorian Women Writers Project

Highly accurate transcriptions of works by British women writers of the 19th century. Works include anthologies, novels, political pamphlets, religious tracts, children's books, and volumes of poetry and verse drama.

Religion in Victorian Britain (part of Victorian Web)

Northeast Victorian Studies Association (NVSA)

An excellent pathfinder for interdisciplinary Victorian resources on the Web.

 

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