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Elizabeth Barrett 1806-46 -- 'Glimpses Into My Own Literary Character' / Religious Imagination / More 'Glimpses' / 'Happy influences' / 'Dearest Papa would be sorry to think how much he grieved me' / 'My first acquaintance with Elizabeth Barrett' / 'The fatal event which saddened her bloom of youth' / Miss Barrett at Thirty-Five / 'The duties belonging to my femineity' / On Poetry I: 'the object of the intellectual part of me' / On Poetry II: 'I want to write a new poem of a new class' / On Poetry III: 'relations ... higher than the naked eye of the cold reasoning intellect can discern at all' / 'I look everywhere for grandmothers and see none' / Mr Browning's Poetry: 'A palpable power' / 'I was as a man dying who had not read Shakespeare' / 'I was repulsed too often' / Robert Browning 1812-46 -- Childhood Memories / The Poet's History / Music / An Unpoetical Nose / 'Robert talks immensely' / 'Lemon-coloured kid-gloves and such things' / 'Long ringlets and no neck-cloth' / Browning's 'lion-like ruff' / Browning and Thomas Carlyle / 'Little Paracelsus Browning' / Browning and Jane Carlyle / Browning, Macready and Forster I: Strafford / Pippa Passes / Browning, Macready and Forster II: The Return of the Druses / Browning, Macready and Forster III: A Blot on the 'Scutcheon / 'Conversation ... as remarkably good as his books' / The Brownings 1846-61 -- Marriage / The Journey to Italy / The Brownings, 1847 / Story's First Impression of the Brownings / Casa Guidi / Florence / Browning and the Anglo-Florentines / 'Better than any poem' / Recollections of Mrs Browning / The Brownings: a Child's View / Browning and his Beard / 'A countenance of April shine and shower' / 'A face corresponding with delicate exactness to the tone of her poems' / Browning Portraits / 'I'll fling you down the stairs': Browning and Mr Sludge / Tennyson and Browning perform / 'This generous humility of nature' / Browning at Bellosguardo / Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Conversation / Browning's 'celerity' ... or immediateness' / The Brownings, 1850 / 'What Mignon might be in maturity and maternity' / 'The delight of the encounter' / 'She talks no commonplaces' / 'We mustn't leave the great Elizabeth alone in such a state' / A Retrograde Step for Women / 'Our close, stifling, corrupt system' / 'A noble devotion to and faith in the regeneration of Italy' / The 'logical and common-sensible' poet and the 'good and kind fairy' / Spiritualism: 'Mrs Browning kept trying to stem his flow of eager, funny talk' / 'The corruption of our society requires not shut doors and windows, but light and air' / 'All poetry being a putting the infinite within the finite': Men and Women / Writing Aurora Leigh / With Landor at Siena / Rome in 1853-4: 'They did not come back with the usual impressions' / Rome in 1859: 'plenty of distraction, and no Men and Women' / Browning in 1861: 'the brain stratifies and matures creatively, even in the pauses of the pen' / 'She has genius; I am only a painstaking fellow' / The Death and Funeral of Elizabeth Barrett Browning / Robert Browning 1861-89 -- Browning's Return to London / 'No man was ever more free from bardic pose' / Browning and Forster: 'I will pitch this bottle of claret at your head' / Browning's Conversation in 1872: port, a pun and financial matters / 'Browning's talk had not much intellectual resemblance to his poetry' / Browning at King Lear / 'A constant flow of anecdotes and social allusions' / Tennyson and Browning / 'He talks everybody down with his dreadful voice' / Exerting himself 'for the amusement of his fellow-guests at a dinner-table' / The Companionable Sage / 'An exception to his broad liberal principles' / 'An enviably happy man' / 'On some of the great subjects ... he scarcely seemed to have thought at all' / Browning's 'loathing and contempt for poor Walt' / 'The pretty nothings, the subtle flatteries of the poet's talk' / 'He was a rich banker, he was a perfected butler' / Encounters with Browning / Browning at Home / 'As far a dandy as a sensible man can be' / 'Browning and his Lady Admirers' / Impromptus and a Reading / At the Desk / 'His skill in fence was very great' / Showing the Old Yellow Book / 'I've forgotten my own verses': Browning's 'marvellous memory' and its 'funny failure' / 'A wise and reflective man guides himself aright' / Personalia / 'Browning in Venice' / 'Browning in Asolo' / 'Never say of me that I am dead' / 'One who never turned his back but marched breast forward' / Death and Funeral /
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2010]
9780801894626 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
Preface Introduction A American historian / Swiss-American naturalist / American author and educator / Russian Yiddish author and satirist / English science writer and novelist / Irish poet / Duke of Argyll (see George Douglas Campbell) -- English poet and critic / English prime minister / English journalist / B English political theorist / Scottish philosopher / American psychologist / English prime minister / American historian / American editor and satirist / American circus impresario / English naturalist / English geneticist / English suffragist and botanist / American clergyman / English art critic / American novelist / American anthropologist / French philosopher / English philosopher and historian / English social reformer / American poet / German statesman / American anthropologist / English naturalist and science writer / German nature writer / English economist / American philosopher / American clergyman and reformer / Austrian philosopher / English poet / French anatomist and anthropologist / English poet / American essayist and editor / French author and critic / American politician / American poet / English jurist and statesman / German materialist / English historian / English author and science popularizer / English novelist and politician / American botanist and horticulturalist / American naturalist / English historian / English novelist / English clergyman / C American social reformer / Scottish politician and author / Swiss botanist / English woman of letters / English author / English naturalist and physiologist / English author / Spanish politician and president / American novelist / American Unitarian minister / Russian author / English author / English prime minister / Austrian zoologist / French statesman / English mathematician and philosopher / English banker and author / Irish social reformer and animal-rights activist / German biologist / American biologist and eugenicist / American clergyman / American president / American paleontologist / English historian and prelate / Brazilian poet / D American geologist / American author and lawyer / Russian naturalist / Canadian geologist and paleobotanist / Dutch botanist / American philosopher / English novelist / American poet / English prime minister / German zoologist / American novelist and politician / Russian novelist / English author / Russian Jewish historian / Dutch anatomist and paleontologist / German physiologist, and Albert Wigand, German botanist / French philosopher of science / English novelist / French sociologist / E German zoologist / German-American physicist / English novelist / English poet / English sociologist / American philosopher / English critic and poet / German political theorist / English politician and historian / F French entomologist / English physicist / English prelate / Hungarian psychoanalyst / American social philosopher / English author and translator / American novelist / French novelist / American journalist / Italian novelist and senator / English naturalist / English novelist, critic, and editor / English novelist / American clergyman / French novelist / English historian / Austrian psychoanalyst / American poet / G English psychometrician and eugenicist / Indian statesman / American president / American author / American editor and author / African American leader / English novelist / English biologist and social scientist / German anatomist / Scottish geologist / Scottish geologist / French zoologist / French marine biologist / American prelate / French author / English poet and lyricist / American novelist and feminist / English novelist / English prime minister / American novelist / English poet / American paleontologist / Scottish politician and author / American botanist / English historian / American missionary and naturalist / Polish-Austrian sociologist / H Russian Jewish essayist / German zoologist / American mining engineer / English biologist / American psychologist / English novelist and poet / Irish botanist / American plant breeder /
Corinna, from Athens, to Tanagra ; The yacht ; Ianthe ; Her name ; The gifts return'd ; The maid's lament ; The dragon-fly ; To Miss Arundell ; Rose Aylmer ; On a child ; To his verse ; The kiss ; The wall-flower ; On the death of Southey ; On his own death ; His epitaph ; Finis / A wish / Plaint / To spring : on the banks of the Cam / The nun ; Jenny kiss'd me ; Abou Ben Adhem / Champagne rosée / Hermione ; For a fountain / Last lines / The right use of prayer / On his friend, Joseph Rodman Drake / Balaam ; November / Graves of infants ; Song ; Written in Northampton County asylum / Lines / The forest maid ; Thanatopsis / Song ; The phoenix ; Love's likeness ; The lyre ; On the death of a recluse ; Song / The sower's song / Song ; To a lofty beauty from her poor kinsman ; May, 1840 / Ode to the moon ; Fair Ines ; Time of roses ; The death-bed ; Ruth ; The bridge of sighs ; The song of the shirt / A Jacobite's epitaph / Elena's song ; Song ; Women singing / Conflict / Woodlands ; The oak-tree ; The old house ; The turnstile ; The wife a-lost ; Evening, and maidens ; The head-stone / Rest ; Chorus of the elements ; The vicar ; Mater desiderata / The mother ; Song / Eileen Aroon / Dark Rosaleen ; The fair hills of Eirk, O ; The Karamanian exile ; The three Khalandeers; Gone in the wind ; To Amine ; Advice against travel ; The world : a Ghazel ; The nameless one / Mariners' song ; Dirge ; Dream-pedlary ; Bridal song to Amala ; Wolfram's song / Absent yet present ; Nydia's song / The field-path / Wood-notes ; Fore-runners ; Days ; Give all to love ; Brahma / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- The plough ; Solitude and the life / The lamp / The first fathers ; The song of the western men ; Death song ; King Arthur's waes-hael / Wellington / Lament / The bells of Shandon / The true martyr / Farewells from paradise ; Cowper's grave ; Praise of earth ; Confessions ; The mask ; Grief ; Mystery ; A musical instrument ; Sonnets from the Portuguese ; Inclusions ; My Kate ; The best ; The North and the South /
Alice Adams (1926-1999) / Betty Adcock (1938-) / James Agee (1909-1955) / Conrad Aiken (1889-1973) / James Lane Allen (1849-1925) / Dorothy Allison (1949-) / Washington Allston (1779-1843) / George Alsop (1636?-1673?) / Lisa Alther (1944-) / A. R. Ammons (1926-2001) / Raymond Andrews (1934-1991) / Maya Angelou (1928-) / Tina McElroy Ansa (1949-) / James Applewhite (1935-) / Harriette Arnow (1908-1986) / Daphne Athas (1923-) / Marilou Awiakta (1936-) / Thomas Bacon (1700?-1768) / George William Bagby (1828-1883) / Joseph Glover Baldwin (1815-1864) / Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806) / Gerald W. Barrax (1933-) / John Barth (1930-) / Frederick Barthelme (1943-) / William Bartram (1739-1823) / Rick Bass (1958-) / John Spencer Bassett (1867-1928) / Hamilton Basso (1904-1964) / Richard Bausch (1945-) / Frances Courtenay Baylor (1848-1920) / John Beecher (1904-1980) / Madison Smartt Bell (1957-) / Katherine Bellamann (1877-1956) / Lerone Bennett (1928-) / Wendell Berry (1934-) / Doris Betts (1932-) / Robert Beverley (ca. 1673-1722) / John Peale Bishop (1892-1944) / Arthur Blackamore (ca. 1679-post-1722) / James Blair (1655?/1656?-1743) / Richard Bland (1710-1776) / Albert Taylor Bledsoe (1809-1877) / Joseph Blotner (1923-) / Roy Blount, Jr. (1941-) / Robert Bolling (1738-1775) / John Henry Boner (1845-1903) / Sherwood Bonner (1849-1883) / Arna Wendell Bontemps (1902-1973) / Kate Langley Bosher (1865-1932) / David Bottoms (1949-) / Jonathan Boucher (1738-1804) / James Boyd (1888-1944) / Roark Bradford (1898-1948) / John Ed Bradley (1958-) / Rick Bragg (1959-) / Taylor Branch (1947-) / Benjamin Griffith Brawley (1882-1939) / Cleanth Brooks (1906-1994) / Larry Brown (1951-2004) / Rita Mae Brown (1944-) / Sterling A. Brown (1901-1989) / William Garrott Brown (1868-1913) / William Wells Brown (1814-1884) / William Hand Browne (1828-1912) / James Lee Burke (1936-) / Thomas Burke (ca. 1747-1783) / Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924) / Olive Ann Burns (1924-1990) / Jack Butler (1944-) / Robert Olen Butler (1945-) / Kathryn Stripling Byer (1944-) / William Byrd II of Westover (1674-1744) / James Branch Cabell (1879-1958) / George Washington Cable (1844-1925) / Erskine Caldwell (1903-1987) / Frances Boyd Calhoun (1867-1909) / Will D. Campbell (1924-) / Truman Capote (1924-1984) / Forrest Carter (1925-1979) / Hodding Carter (1907-1972) / Jimmy Carter (1924-) / William Alexander Caruthers (1802-1846) / W. J. Cash (1900-1941) / Clarence Cason (1896-1935) / Madison Julius Cawein (1865-1914) / Fred Chappell (1936-) / Brainard Cheney (1900-1990) / Kelly Cherry (1940-) / Mary Boykin Chesnut (1823-1886) / Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) / Alice Childress (1916-1994) / Mark Childress (1957-) / Thomas Holley Chivers (1809-1858) / Kate Chopin (1850-1904) / Emily Tapscott Clark (1893-1953) / John Henrik Clarke (1915-1998) / John Bell Clayton (1906-1955) / Pearl Cleage (1948-) / Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb (1876-1944) / Pat Conroy (1945-) / Moncure Daniel Conway (1832-1907) / J. Gordon Coogler (1865-1901) / Ebenezer Cooke [Cook] (1667?-post-1732) / John Esten Cooke (1830-1886) / Philip Pendleton Cooke (1816-1850) / Anna J. Cooper (1858?-1964) / Patricia Cornwell (1956-) / John William Corrington (1932-1988) / John Cotton of Queen's Creek, Va. (1643?-post-1680) / Vicki Covington (1952-) / Alfred Leland Crabb (1884-1979) / Thomas Cradock (1718-1770) / Hannah Crafts (18?-?) / William Crafts (1787-1826) / Hubert Creekmore (1907-1966) / Harry Crews (1935-) / Davy Crockett (1786-1836) / Hal Crowther (1945-) / George Washington Parke Custis (1781-1857) / James McBride Dabbs (1896-1970) / Richard Dabney (1787-1825) / Thomas Dale (1700-1750) / Danske Dandridge (1854-1914) / Olive Tilford Dargan (1869-1968) / Guy Davenport (1927-2005) / Donald Davidson (1893-1968) / Samuel Davies (1723-1761) / James Paxton Davis, Jr. (1925-1994) / Ossie Davis (1917-2005) / Rebecca Harding Davis (1831-1910) / William Dawson (1704-1752) / James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow (1820-1867) / Edwin De Leon (1818-1891) / Thomas Cooper De Leon (1839-1914) / Babs H. Deal (1929-2004) / Borden Deal (1922-1985) / James Dickey (1923-1997) / Samuel Henry Dickson (1798-1872) / R. H. W. Dillard (1937-) / Thomas Dixon (1864-1946) / J. Frank Dobie (1888-1964) / Ellen Douglas (1921-) / Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) / Rita Dove (1952-) / Clifford Dowdey (1904-1979) / Harris Downey (1907-1979) / Andre Dubus (1936-1999) / James Duff (1955-) / John Dufresne (1948-) / Daniel Dulany, the Elder (1685-1753) / Daniel Dulany, the Younger (1722-1797) / Henry Dumas (1934-1968) / Joseph Dumbleton (fl. 1740-1750) / Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935) / Wilma Dykeman (1920-) / Tony Earley (1961-) / Charles Edward Eaton (1916-) / William Eddis (1738-1825) / Clyde Edgerton (1944-) / Randolph Edmonds (1900-1983) / Murrell Edmunds (1898-1981) / Harry Stillwell Edwards (1855-1938) / George Cary Eggleston (1839-1911) / John Ehle (1925-) / Lonne Elder III (1931-1996) / Sarah Barnwell Elliott (1848-1928) / William Elliott (1788-1863) / Ralph Ellison (1913?-1994) / Percival Everett (1956-) / William Clark Falkner (1825-1889) / John Wesley Thompson Faulkner III (1901-1963) / William Faulkner (1897-1962) / Jessie Redmond Fauset (1886-1961) / Peter Steinam Feibleman (1930-) / Roberto G. Fernandez (1952-) / Julia Fields (1938-) / John Finlay (1941-1991) / Zelda Fitzgerald (1900-1948) / George Fitzhugh (1806-1881) / William Fitzhugh (1651-1701) / Fannie Flagg (1941-) / Inglis Fletcher (1879-1969) / John Gould Fletcher (1886-1950) / Horton Foote (1916-) / Shelby Foote (1916-2005) / Jesse Hill Ford (1928-1996) / Richard Ford (1944-) / Alcee Fortier (1856-1914) / John Fox, Jr. (1862 or 1863-1919) /
Refugees, renegades, and misrepresentation: Edward Bulwer Lytton and Eliza Lynn Linton -- Dangerous sympathies: Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Anne Thackeray Ritchie, and Margaret Oliphant -- "Dreams of the coming revolution": George Gissing's Workers in the dawn -- Revolution and ressentiment: Henry James's The Princess Casamassima -- The uses of tragedy: Alfred Austin's The human tragedy and William Morris's The pilgrims of hope -- "It had to come back": H. G. Wells's When the sleeper wakes --
The father's house and the daughter in it : the structures of Western culture's daughter-father relationship / Filia Oedipi : father and daughter in Freudian theory / The father's seduction / The daughter's seduction : sexual violence and literary history / The evolution of daughter-father relationships in Mexican-American culture / "The permanent obliquity of an In[pha]llibly straight" : in the time of the daughters and the fathers / Engendering the exemplary daughter : the deployment of sexuality in Richardson's Clarissa / "A daughter of the Puritans" and her old master : Hawthorne, Una, and the sexuality of romance / A father's prayer, a daughter's anger : W.B. Yeats and Sylvia Plath / Life's empty pack : notes toward a literary daughteronomy / Christina Rossetti : dialogue with the Father God / The clergyman's daughters : Anne Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot / Murderous poetics : Dickinson, the father, and the text / Cam the wicked : Woolf's portrait of the artist as her father's daughter / "The skies and trees of the past" : Anne Thackeray Ritchie and William Makepeace Thackeray / Male narcissism, capitalism, and the daughter of The man who loved children / Erasing the stigma of daughterhood : Mary I, Elizabeth I, and Henry VIII /
This Something Come into my Life (1875-1877) -- Shadows of the Past (1877-1881) -- After All a Lifetime (1882-1885) -- The Lights of the Hills (1886-1889) -- My Little Dream of an Edition (1890-1893) -- That History Has Lasted On (1894-1895) -- That Divided Life (1896-1899) -- The Continuance of Love (1900-1909) -- Such a Little Time for Me (1910-1914) -- The End of a Long Day's Work (1915-1919)
This Something Come into my Life (1875-1877) -- Shadows of the Past (1877-1881) -- After All a Lifetime (1882-1885) -- The Lights of the Hills (1886-1889) -- My Little Dream of an Edition (1890-1893) -- That History Has Lasted On (1894-1895) -- That Divided Life (1896-1899) -- The Continuance of Love (1900-1909) -- Such a Little Time for Me (1910-1914) -- The End of a Long Day's Work (1915-1919).
Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1985.
0192820737 (paperback)
'Fowls in the frith' -- 'Lord, Thou Clèpedest me' -- 'When I see on Rood' -- 'Why have you no ruth?' -- Roundel ('Now welcome, summer') from The Parliament of Fowls -- Unto Adam, His Own Scrivèyn -- Roundel ('Since I from Love escapèd am') from Merciless Beauty -- 'I shall say what inordinate love is' -- 'Onmes gentes plaudite!' -- 'Blessed Mary' -- 'Peace maketh plenty' -- 'Hail, Queen of Heaven' -- 'I have been a foster' -- 'Western wind' -- 'Though ye suppose' -- 'Madam, withouten many words' -- 'Who hath heard' -- 'The enemy of life' -- 'Sighs are my food' -- 'Lux, my fair falcon' -- 'Throughout the world' -- The Spouse to the Younglings -- 'Thou sleepest fast' -- To an Old Gentlewoman that Painted Her Face -- 'The lowest trees have tops' -- Epigram ('Were I a king') -- To His Son -- 'What is our life?' -- 'Even such is time' -- 'Sleep, baby mine, Desire' -- 'Like those sick folks' -- 'Whenas man's life' -- Bathsabe's Song ('Hot sun, cool fire') from David and Bethsabe -- Bridal Song ('Now, Sleep, bind fast') from The Masque of the Middle Temple and Lincoln's Inn -- 'Thyrsis, sleepest thou?' -- 'A sparrow-hawk proud' -- 'Thule' -- 'My love in her attire' -- 'Since first I saw your face' -- 'Love me not' -- 'Sweet, let me go!' -- 'He that hath no mistress' -- 'Sweet Cupid, ripen her desire' -- To His Wife, for Striking Her Dog -- Song ('O mistress mine') from Twelfth Night -- Song ('When daffodils begin to peer') from The Winter's Tale -- song ('Jog on, jog on') from The Winter's Tale -- Song ('Full fathom five') from The Tempest -- Song ('The master, the swabber, the boatswain and I') from The Tempest -- Song ('Where the bee sucks') from The Tempest -- A Remembrance of My Friend Mr. Thomas Morley -- 'Happy were he' -- 'Happy were he' -- De Puero Balbutiente -- 'Fair summer droops' -- 'When thou must home' -- 'Never weather-beaten sail' 'Thrice toss these oaken ashes in the air' -- 'Thus I resolve' -- 'Sleep, angry beauty' -- Think'st thou to seduce me then' -- Song ('In a maiden-time professed') from The Witch -- Melancholy Conceit -- Song ('Care-charming sleep') from The Tragedy of Valentinian --
Corn riggs an' barley rigs ; To a mouse ; Green grown the rashes ; Holy Willie's prayer ; Willie brewed a peck o' maut ; Tam o' shanter ; Afton Water ; Ae fond kiss ; Ye flowery banks ; Scots, what hae ; For a' that and a' that ; A red, red rose ; Auld lang syne /
