Preliminary Reading for the Course
Please read the following poems in preparation for the module. You should at the very least read the poems by Tennyson and Browning.
Alfred Tennyson: Eleänore, Fatima, Mariana, The Dying Swan, Mariana in the South, Oenone, The Lady of Shalott, A Dream of Fair Women, The Sisters, The Princess.
Robert Browning: Porphyria’s Lover, My Last Duchess, The Laboratory, The Flight of the Duchess, Andrea del Sarto, Fra Lippo Lippi, Eurydice to Orpheus, Beatrice Signorini.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: The Lost Bower, The Deserted Garden, The Romaunt of the Page, Lord Walter’s Wife, Amy’s Cruelty, Aurora Leigh Canto 1.
Christina Rossetti: Goblin Market, The Prince’s Progress, After Death, A Pause, An Apple-Gathering, Day-Dreams, My Dream, Winter: My Secret, Cousin Kate, In an Artist’s Studio, On the Wing, The Convent Threshold.
Algernon Charles Swinburne: August, Hermaphroditus, Fragoletta, The Leper, Les Noyades, The Sundew, In the Orchard, Dolores, Sapphics, Itylus, Anactoria.
All of the above poems can be easily accessed online. However, for study purposes or seminar discussion, it is strongly recommended that you buy a suitable edition or borrow one from the library. The editions of Tennyson, Browning, Barrett Browning, and Rossetti produced by Wordsworth Poetry Library are cheap and affordable and, although they are not annotated, contain all the poems we shall be reading in class. For Swinburne, the edition Algernon Charles Swinburne, edited by Catherine Maxwell in Everyman's Poetry Series (1997) can still be bought cheaply as a kindle edition and contains all the poems you need. A more expensive but good option is the Penguin Classics edition of Swinburne's Poems and Ballads edited by Kenneth Haynes (2000). All of Swinburne's poems are also available on the excellent website 'The Algernon Charles Swinburne Project'.
