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Romantic and Victorian Poetry

Romantic and Victorian Poetry

Dickinson College Department of English

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Recent Posts

  • Listen to the children cry or else they will die. Literally.May 4, 2023
  • Nice shirt! Guess who died to make it?May 4, 2023
  • The oysters and the giving treeApril 29, 2023
  • The Sonnet, Sappho, and PhaonApril 25, 2023
  • In An Artist’s Studio … Lay the Lady of ShalottApril 24, 2023
  • Intimacy through anapestsApril 24, 2023
  • Where The Color Green Fits Into Childhood and Murder at SeaApril 19, 2023
  • “Introspection” Vs. “In an Artist’s Studio”April 19, 2023
  • What is Love? Echoes of Love’s HouseApril 17, 2023
  • The Problem with Long-Distance RelationshipsApril 17, 2023
  • Beauty in Death: Tennyson and HoweApril 16, 2023
  • Seeing the “Hope Unseen”: Socialism and William Morris’ “Pomona”April 15, 2023
  • True Love: Self-Sacrifice and Romantic Relationships in Christina Rossetti’s “Monna Innominata”April 15, 2023
  • The bar is… in the sea??April 14, 2023
  • Cyclical Structure, Interchangeable Words, and Processing FeelingsApril 14, 2023
  • “A Loftier Song:” Rethinking the Carpe Diem TraditionApril 14, 2023
  • A Doll Inside An Artist’s StudioApril 14, 2023
  • Rossetti, the “‘Immurata’ Sister”April 13, 2023
  • Co-Existent OppositesApril 13, 2023
  • Rewriting a Narrative: Christina Rossetti and the Female Poetic VoiceApril 13, 2023
  • The Muse Strikes BackApril 12, 2023

Recent Comments

  1. Alucard on Christian Divinety and SlaveryMay 10, 2023

    Dear rices, Forgive me if I sound pretentious but I believe that your reading of Blake's “The Divine Image” is…

  2. Alucard on The bar is… in the sea??May 10, 2023

    Dear Clem N. Tine, How intriguing that bars appear in both of these completely different yet similar poems! Yes, I…

  3. Alucard on The Problem with Long-Distance RelationshipsMay 10, 2023

    Dear coolshark, Your title made me chuckle, I love it. I can't help but see another side to Dante Gabriel…

  4. William Morrisn't on the cyclical nature of life and deathMay 10, 2023

    Your observation about the fact that this is in Innocence rather than Experience made me want to check out Experience…

  5. Alucard on Where The Color Green Fits Into Childhood and Murder at SeaMay 10, 2023

    Dear orangejuice, it's always a pleasure to read your posts. Your focus on the color green is truly fascinating and…

  6. Alucard on In An Artist’s Studio … Lay the Lady of ShalottMay 10, 2023

    Dear Giselle Bard, You're 100% correct about Rossetti's poem in connection with both the poem and the painting of the…

  7. William Morrisn't on Christian Divinety and SlaveryMay 10, 2023

    Excellently structured argument. Very well done. I felt almost obligated to take a look into Songs of Experience at “A…

  8. William Morrisn't on Emerging Binaries through BurnsMay 10, 2023

    I think you make a convincing argument for the importance of Nature as a muse. I wonder about the connection…

  9. William Morrisn't on The Art of HoppingMay 10, 2023

    Excellent title, and more importantly, excellent insight about the purpose of breaking the rhyme scheme with “thoughts.” I wonder too…

  10. orangejuice on A Child in NatureMay 10, 2023

    I love this. post so much! I am a little biased because my Final paper is going to about this…

  11. orangejuice on The oysters and the giving treeMay 10, 2023

    I really love this comparison because it shows how these lessons that and themes are timeless. The Walrus and the…

  12. orangejuice on Listen to the children cry or else they will die. Literally.May 10, 2023

    I'm really glad you pointed this out because I have done so much thinking about this poem too and the…

  13. orangejuice on Beauty in Death: Tennyson and HoweMay 10, 2023

    I really like your take on death and appreciating death in these poems becauSE I HAVE BEEN SEEING A SIMILAR…

  14. orangejuice on The Problem with Long-Distance RelationshipsMay 10, 2023

    The point you made about love in Rosseti's poems is so interesting! I especially enjoyed this because it kind of…

  15. CRAZY WORDPRESS USER on Rewriting a Narrative: Christina Rossetti and the Female Poetic VoiceMay 9, 2023

    The context you provide on the male sonnet tradition is really helpful in the opening to this post. I am…

  16. CRAZY WORDPRESS USER on Co-Existent OppositesMay 9, 2023

    also, check out curbs post "Rewriting a Narrative: Christina Rossetti and the Female Poetic Voice" that starts off talking about…

  17. CRAZY WORDPRESS USER on Co-Existent OppositesMay 9, 2023

    One thing that seems like it could really add to this reading is the lens of the double poem. The…

  18. CRAZY WORDPRESS USER on Intimacy through anapestsMay 9, 2023

    I'm impressed by the scansion, makes it a lot easier to understand how rhythm is working. Of what you talk…

  19. CRAZY WORDPRESS USER on The Sonnet, Sappho, and PhaonMay 9, 2023

    The way you draw out the effects of the form are really interesting. In an expanded work I would love…

  20. lucifer on The Sonnet, Sappho, and PhaonMay 9, 2023

    The form of the sonnets definitely reflects Sappho's all-encompassing love for Phaon, as she goes in circles around her passionate…

  21. lucifer on In An Artist’s Studio … Lay the Lady of ShalottMay 9, 2023

    I like the observation you made about the deaths of these women being portrayed as "serene" or "saintly." I think…

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Resources

Texts and Recordings

  • Project Gutenberg (e-texts)
  • LibriVox (audio recordings)
  • Poetry Foundation 
  • Poets.org

Background and Research

  • Poetry Foundation 
  • Poets.org
  • British Library’s Discovering Literature: Romantics and Victorians
  • Digital Resources for Researching Romanticism on the Net
  • Nineteenth Century Scholarship Online (NINES)
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