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The Antique That Was Cast Away

“From the Antique” New Poems. By Christina Rossetti, Hitherto Unpublished or Collected, edited by William Michael Rossetti, Macmillan and Co., 1896. ABLibrary 19thCent PR5237.A1 1896 Rare Item Analysis: The Antique That Was Cast Away By Parker Burk COVE timeline | COVE timeline entry…

The Effects of Criticism: Tennyson’s “Lady of Shalott” after the “Ten Year’s Silence”

Tennyson, Alfred. Poems. 1sted., Edward Moxon, 1833. ABLibrary Rare X 821.81 T312p 1833 Tennyson, Alfred. Poems. 1sted., Vol. 1, Edward Moxon, 1842. ABLibrary Rare X 821.81 M937p v.1 Rare Item Analysis: The Effects of Criticism: Tennyson’s “Lady of Shalott” after the “Ten Year’s…

Browning’s Incessant Need for Alteration and its Effects on Count Guido Franceschini’s Second Monologue in Book Eleven of The Ring and The Book

Browning, Robert The Ring and the Book. 2nded, vol. 1-4, London, 1872. § Contains numerous corrections by RB. Browning Guide: A0475 Rare Item Analysis: Alterations between the 2ndEdition of The Ring and Book and Markings Found in Browning’s Personal Copy of Book Nine,…

Elizabeth Barrett Browning Crafts a Comparison that Pushes the Envelope in order to Open the Eyes of her Audience

The Liberty Bell. American Anti-Slavery Society, 1848 containing the first appearance of EBB’s “The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point” ABLibrary Rare X 326 C4661 1848 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. Poems Chapman & Hall, 1850. ABLibrary Rare X 821.82 L C466p Rare Item Analysis: Elizabeth Barrett…

Tracing the Evolution of Matthew Arnold’s Religious Thought: An Analysis of Stylistic Changes to “Dover Beach”

Arnold, Matthew. New Poems. vol. 2, London, Macmillan and Co, 1867. ABLibrary Non Rare 821.8 A757n Arnold, Matthew. Lyric and Elegiac Poems. vol. 2, London, Macmillan and Co, 1888. ABLibrary Rare X 821.8 A757po Rare Item Analysis: Tracing the Evolution of Matthew Arnold’s…

Faithful to the Dead: Memorializing Arthur Henry Hallam

Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam. Third ed. Moxon, 1850 with inscription and annotations. ABLibrary Rare X 821.81 T312in 1850b Letter from Arthur Henry Hallam to Emily Tennyson (1831) ABL v831100101 Rare Item Analysis: Faithful to the Dead: Memorializing Arthur Henry Hallam By Nikki Thompson COVE timeline…

Four Little Pages and Fading Ink: Robert Browning’s 1863 Fair Copy Manuscript of “Porphyria’s Lover”

Fair copy manuscript of “Porphyria’s Lover” E0386 Browning, Robert. Bells and Pomegranates, 1842pamphlet which includes “Madhouse Cells” ABLibrary Rare X 821.83 P1-III M937d The Poetical Works of Robert Browning: Lyrics, Romances, Men and Women. By Robert Browning. London: published by Chapman and Hall,…

Friend or Foe? Bridges’s Rhyming Woe: How Robert Bridges’s Critical Response Sheds Light on Hopkins’s Unique Rhyme

Hopkins, Gerard Manley. The Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins, now first published. Edited with notes by Robert Bridges.Ed. Robert Bridges. London: Humphrey Milford [1918]. One of 750 copies. ABLibrary Rare X 821.8 H794p 1918. Rare Item Analysis: Friend or Foe? Bridges’s Rhyming Woe: How Robert Bridges’s…

The Bible Extension that Nobody Asked for, but (almost) Everyone Loved: John Keble’s The Christian Year `and Reactions

Charlotte M. Yonge. Musings over the “Christian Year” and “Lyra Innocentium.” 2nd ed. Oxford: James Parker and Co, 1872 ABLibrary 19thCentury Collection PR4839.K15 Z9 1872 John Keble. The Christian Year: Thoughts in Verse for the Sundays and holydays throughout the Year. 2nd ed. Oxford: Printed by W.…

Christina Rossetti’s Concern for Creation in Time Flies: A Reading Diary

Rossetti, Christina. Time Flies: A Reading Diary. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1890. ABLibrary 19thCent BV4832.R74 1890 Rare Item Analysis: Christina Rossetti’s Concern for Creation in Time Flies: A Reading Diary By: Marisa Mulloy COVE timeline | COVE timeline entry | COVE map…