A Victorian Reader

From "On some of the characteristics of modern poetry", 1831, Arthur Henry Hallam; "the two kinds of poetry", 1833; from a review of Tennyson's poems, 1835, John Stewart Mill; the preface to Philip van Artevelde, 1834, Henry Taylor; "on art in fiction", 1838, Edward Bulwer Lytton; from "the hero as man of letters", 1841, Thomas Carlyle; the author's introduction to the third edition of "Oliver Twist", 1841, Charles Dickens; the preface to the second edition of "Jane Eyre", 1847; from a letter of W.S.Williams, 1850; the editor's preface to the new edition of "Wuthering Heights", 1850, Charlotte Bronte; from "Catherine", 1839-40; from a letter to Mark Lemmon, 1847; the preface to "Pendennis", 1850; from "The Newcomes", 1855, William Makepeace Thackeray; the preface to "Mary Barton", 1818; from a letter to the author of "The Three Paths", 1859, Elizabeth Gaskell; from "Essay on Shelley", 1852, Robert Browning; from a review of recent poetry, 1853, Arthur Hugh Clough; from letters to A.H.Clough 1848-50; the preface to the first edition of "Poems", 1853; the preface to the second edition, 1854; from Heine in "Essays in Criticism", 1865, Matthew Arnold; on the "Pathetic Fallacy", 1856; from a letter to Tennyson, 1859; Mary Ann Evans (George Eliot); from "The Natural History of German Life", 1856; from "Silly Novels by Lady Novelists", 1854, John Ruskin; from "Aurora Leigh", 1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning; from "Realism in Art", 1858, George Henry Lewes; preface to the 1861 edition of "The Woman in White", 1861, Wilkie Collins; from "Sterne and Thackeray", 1862; from "Pure, Ornate and Grotesque Poetry", 1864, Walter Bagehot; from a review of Baudelaire, 1862; from "Notes on Poems and Reviews", 1866, Algernon Charles Swinburne; from "Mr Swinburne's New Poems", 1866, John Morley; from "Poems by William Morris", 1868, Walter Pater.