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…
Poems, by Alfred Tennyson. Illustrated by Clarkson Stanfield etc. Edward Moxon, 1857. ABLibrary Rare X 821.81 T312p 1857 Rare Item Analysis: Poems by Alfred Tennyson: And Artistic Lens through which to View “Ulysses” By Nicole Mitchell COVE timeline | COVE timeline entry | COVE map…
“Goblin Market, and Other Poems.” The Athenaeum, no. 1800, Apr. 1862, pp. 557–58. “Goblin Market and Other Poems.” Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art, vol. 13, no. 343, May 1862, pp. 595–96. Rare Items Analysis: Opinions of Goblin Market” Directly after…
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh. 4th ed. London, 1859. Inscribed by the recipient: W.M. Rossetti From the Authoress (Browning Guide C0013.1). Contains Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s portrait engraving by T.O. Barlow, adjusted in response to remarks from Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and based on a…
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft. History of a Six Weeks’ Tour through Part of France, Switzerland, Germany and Holland: with Letters Descriptive of a Sail Round the Lake of Geneva and of the Glaciers of Chamouni. London: T. Hookham, Old Bond Street and J. Ollier,…
Tennyson, Alfred. In Memoriam. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850. Tennyson’s poem “The age of irreverence” pasted inside back cover. 1st Amer. ed. Original brown cloth. Thomas Wentworth Higginson’s copy with signature and numerous annotations, some of which refer to Ralph Waldo Emerson.…
Rossetti, Christina. Sing-Song: A Nursery Rhyme Book. London: George Routledge and Sons, 1872. With 120 illustrations by Arthur Hughes. Presentation copy inscribed by the author to Holman Stephens, with a two-page autograph letter (signed) and an autograph poem from Rossetti to “Holly.” Includes…
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.…
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 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…