A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895

Selections Illustrating the Editor’s Critical Review of British Poetry in the Reign of Victoria

Edited by Edmund Clarence Stedman

These 1,274 works by 343 authors represent the full course of one of the great literary ages of English verse. Organized by class, this encyclopedic collection complements Stedman’s American Anthology.

Bibliographic Record

Contents

Bibliographic Record    Introduction    Note

TO ELLEN MACKAY HUTCHINSON

CAMBRIDGE: RIVERSIDE PRESS, 1895 NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2001

Contents

I.		Early Years of the Reign
II.		The Victorian Epoch
III.		The Close of the Era
IV.		Colonial Poets

Index to Authors

Sarah Flower Adams	to	Thomas Osborne Davis
William James Dawson	to	Walter Savage Landor
Andrew Lang	to	William Caldwell Roscoe
Christina Georgina Rossetti	to	William Butler Yeats

Index to Titles

A Ballade of Playing Cards	to	Featherstone’s Doom
Fiesolan Idyl	to	Old Souls
O Lord, Thy Wing Outspread	to	The Hunter’s Song
The Inn of Care	to	Youth and Art

Index to First Lines

A baby’s feet	to	He tripp’d up
He went into the bush	to	Now this is the law
O babbling Spring	to	There is no laughter
There lies a little city	to	You take a town