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Creating Imagined Community & Critiquing Imagined Incompetence: Two Early Printings of the Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins

The first substantial printings of Gerard Manley Hopkins’s poems, with prefatory material by his friend, Poet Laureate Robert Bridges. Miles, Alfred H., ed. The Poets and Poetry of the Century. Vol. 8. London: Hutchinson & Co. [1891]. ABLibrary Rare X 821.8 M643p v.8.…

Elegiac Memorializing of Tennyson as Prophet: “The Death of the Laureate Alfred Lord Tennyson” by Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley

This is a handwritten transcription by Frederick Tennyson of a booklet of sonnets and other materials on the death of Alfred, Lord Tennyson penned originally by Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley and entitled “The Death of the Laureate Alfred Lord Tennyson.” Victorian Letters Collection ID:…

Letters: Tennyson to Frederick Locker (1 Feb. 1858); Richard Doyle to Tom Taylor (10 July 1855)

Letters: Tennyson to Frederick Locker, 1 Feb. 1858 Richard Doyle to Tom Taylor, 10 July 1855 Description and Transcriptions: by Nicholas Krause In the first letter, Tennyson responds to the poet Frederick Locker (1821-1895) after Locker submitted a collection of his poems (probably…

Textual Revisions and Constructed Narratives in Elizabeth Barrett’s “The Cry of the Children”

Bound copy of 1843 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine featuring the first version of EBB’s “The Cry of the Children.” Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. “The Cry of the Children.” Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 44 (August 1843). CCCXXXIV. Edinburgh: William Blackwood; London: T. Cadell and W. Davis: pp. 260-262. ABLibrary Periodicals Rare…

British Women Romantic Poets

British Women Romantic Poets: The University of California Davis hosts this scholarly archive consisting of E-text editions of poetry by British and Irish women written during the Romantic period.