The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. E: The Victorian Age by M.H. Abrams

The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. E: The Victorian Age Reviews

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  Paras2

  much to read in it still but let me pause for now.
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  Emily

  This anthology has many different great authors from the Victorian period. Some of my favorite writers in this collection are Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Emily Bronte, Lord Tennyson, Matthew Arnold, Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
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  Joshua

  And this one.
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  Katherine

  A collection of Victorian literature that includes excerpts of essays, poems, short stories and biographical information on the authors of this time period. One of my prized possessions from my college years as a double major in English and Journalism. The cover also looks like a John William Waterhouse painting or similar to. I'm perfectly fine with that because Waterhouse is one of my favourite painters.
  
  
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  Maya

  I have had a copy of this since I was 14 years old, I read from it constantly, the pages and cover are worn and frayed from many happy years of leafing through it, it is my velveteen rabbit of books.
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  Jennifer

  A lot of classics and several great ones that were relevant to current times. We haven't progressed as much as we need to since the Victorian times. Some of the well-known authors weren't as engrossing as their reputation. It was also hard to be as interested in the non-fiction even though it is still socially relevant.
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  Lena

  I love love love Alfred Lord Tennyson's poems in this anthology! I'm obsessed with the King Arthur legend and love the poems that he wrote about them.
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  Jasmine

  So much poetry and prose which is not my forte
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  Amber

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson
  ✔ Parts of In Memoriam
  ✔ “The Lady of Shalott”
  ✔ “Mariana”
  ✔ “The Charge of the Light Brigade”
  
  John Stuart Mill
  ✔ “What Is Poetry?”
  
  Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  ✔ “Mother and Poet”
  ✔ Aurora Leigh
  ✔ Parts of Sonnets from the Portuguese
  
  Matthew Arnold
  ✔ “Isolation: To Marguerite”
  ✔ “To Marguerite: Continued”
  ✔ “Dover Beach”
  
  Robert Browning
  ✔ “How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix”
  ✔ “Porphyria’s Lover”
  
  Dante Gabriel Rossetti
  ✔ “The Blessed Damozel”
  
  Christina Rossetti
  ✔“Song” [When I am dead, my dearest]
  ✔“In an Artist’s Studio”
  ✔ Goblin Market
  
  Michael Field
  ✔ “It was deep April, and the morn”
  ✔ “To Christina Rossetti”
  
  Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
  ✔ “The Other Side of a Mirror”
  ✔ “The Witch”
  
  Rudyard Kipling
  ✔ “The Last of the Light Brigade”
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  Phillip

  Another winner from the folks at Norton. The Victorians aren't my favorite, but the selections here were good and the Norton intros are, as always, interesting and informative.
  
  One thing that's challenging I imagine about putting together a Victorian anthology is that so many of the best Victorian works are long novels, which you really can't include very well in an anthology without making it prohibitively long. Of course there are great short stories and novellas here, like Gaskell's "The Old Nurse's Story," Kipling's "The Man Who Would Be King," and Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, but one loses an important part of the literary heritage of the age by leaving out the long novels of Eliot, the Brontes, Dickens, etc.
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  Hope

  Read: Introduction, "Ulysses", "Tithonus", "My Last Duchess", "The Bishop Orders His Tomb", "Caliban Upon Setebos", "The Cry of the Children", Pre-Raphaelitism: Introduction and Selections from Dickens, Ruskin, and W. M. Rossetti(E1463-1471), "Goblin Market", The 'Woman Question': Selections from Ellis, Patmore, Marineau, and Anon (E1607-1624), "The Speckled Band", "In Memoriam A.H.H.", "Dover Beach", "God's Grandeur", "The Windhover", "Pied Beauty", Evolution: Introdution and selections from Darwin, Huzley, and Gosse(E1560-1580), Race and Empire: Introduction and Selextions from Macaulay, Russel, Anonymous, Arnold (E1636-1649), "White Man's Burden"
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  Robin

  I like this series of textbooks. Each section has a clear, concise introduction to different aspects of that theme. It provides brief, informative biographies on each author. It includes a wide variety of authors and poets to choose from. There is no way you could cover everything in this book in one semester. It has wonderful footnotes to help clarify archaic words and phrases as well. All this is presented without any kind of opinion or critique, leaving the passages open for debate or personal interpretation. I really enjoyed it.
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  jacky

  This is one of the three Norton volumes used in my English literature class in college.
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  Mimi

  1444718 i like the victorian age MUCH better than the romantic.
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  Drucilla

  This collection tends to lean more towards essay's and poetry than fiction. The poetry has a good variety and the fiction that is in the anthology has a good variety as well.
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  Mairéad (is roaming the Undying Lands)

  4.5 Stars.
  
  ***Read For School***
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  Jimi-carol Benton

  My favorite was "Goblin Market"
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  Daisy Leather

  The selection I concentrated on from here was: John Stuart Mill, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Matthew Arnold and Christina Rossetti.
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  Daisy

  Great overview of Victorian English literature.