37.
Title: Selections from the [Broadview Anthology of Victorian Poetry]
Author: Various
Genre: Poetry
Medium: Paperback
Acquisition: Victorian IS Reading
Date Completed: Spring 2016
Rating: *****

Tennyson: “The Lady of Shalott”; The Epic Morte d’Arthur, “Morte d’Arthur”
Browning: “My Last Duchess”, “Porphyria’s Lover,” “Count Gismond”
D.G. Rosseti, “The Blessed Damosel”
William Morris: “The Defense of Guinevere”
C. Rossetti: “Goblin Market”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, from Sonnets from the Portuguese (BA 25-29)
Elizabeth Siddal, all selections (BA 410-11)
Augusta Webster, “A Castaway” (BA 475)
Mill, John Stuart (1806-1873) "What is poetry?"
Ruskin, John (1819-1900) Of the Pathetic Fallacy
Meynell “Robert Browning”

No individual reviews, because I'm neck-deep in writing a paper on all of this material, but a couple of notes: Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess" has long been my favorite poem, but having now read "Porphyria's Lover" I have fallen in love with Browning's macabre all over again.  Some of the poetry was a review for me, but Webster's "A Castaway," detailing the narrative of a "fallen woman" was new, engaging, and fantastically assertive.  I found the theory to be much less engaging, in part because I find poetry less engaging than fiction.

38.
Title: Selections from the [The Broadview Anthology of Victorian Prose] and [ Victorian Prose]
Author:Various
Genre: Nonfiction
Medium: Paperback
Acquisition: Victorian IS Reading
Date Completed: Spring 2016
Rating: *****

Dodd from A Narrative of the Experience…
Wilde, from De Profundis
Dickens “A Walk in a Workhouse”
Hill, from “Blank Court”
Booth, from In Darkest England
Carpenter, from Reformatory Schools
Davies, from Higher Education of Women
Maudsley, “Sex in Mind”
Anderson “A Reply”
Collins, “Educational Crisis”
Jameson, from Legends of the Madonna
Wilde, from “Critic as Artist”
Lee, from “Beauty and Ugliness”
Becker, “Study of Science by Women”
Proctor, “A Voyage to the Ringed Planet”
Huxley, “Struggle for Human Existence”
Bates, The Naturalist on the River Amazons
Stanley, How I Found Livingston
Marsden On Sledge and Horseback