Comprehensive Exam Portfolio

Poetry

William Wordsworth (1770-1850)    
Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1798, 1800)
“She Dwelt Among Untrodden Ways” (1798)
“Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known” (1798)
“A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal” (1798)
“Three Years She Grew in Sun and Shower” (1798)
“The Idiot Boy” (1798)
“We are Seven” (1798)
“Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey” (1798)
“Michael” (1800)
“The World is Too Much with Us” (1802)
“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” (1804, 1807)
Selections from The Prelude (1805, 1850)
“Mutability” (1821)
“On the Power of Sound” (1828)

Walter Scott (1771-1832)                  
“The Lady of the Lake” (1810)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)                    
“The Eolian Harp” (1795)
“Kubla Khan” (1797, p. 1816)
“This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison” (1797)
“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” (1797)
“Christabel” (1797-1801, p. 1816)
“Frost at Midnight” (1798)
“France: An Ode” (1798)
“Fears in Solitude” (1798)

George Gordon, Lord Byron (1877-1824)            
“When We Two Parted” (1806, 1816)
Canto III, Childe Harold (1812-1818)
“She Walks in Beauty” (1814, 1815)
“Prometheus” (1816)
Manfred (1816-1817)

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)   
"Alastor" (1815)
“To Wordsworth” (1816)                              
“Hymn to Intellectual Beauty” (1816)
“Ozymandias” (1817)
“Sonnet: Lift Not the Painted Veil” (1818)
“England in 1819” (1819)
“The Mask of Anarchy” (1819)
“Ode to the West Wind” (1819)

Felicia Hemans (1793-1835)              
“Casabianca” (1826)

John Keats (1795-1821)                    
“The Eve of St. Agnes” (1819)
“La Belle Dame Sans Merci” (1819)
“Ode to Psyche” (1819)
“Ode to a Nightingale” (1819)
“Ode on a Grecian Urn” (1819)
“Ode on Melancholy” (1819)
“Ode on Indolence” (1819)
“To Autumn” (1819)
“Bright Star” (1819)
“This Living Hand” (1819)

Janet Hamilton (1795-1873)              
“Oor Location” (18??)
“The Lay of the Tambour Frame” (18??)

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802-1838)      
“The Power of Words” (1822-3)
“A History of the Lyre” (1829)
“Stanzas on the Death of Mrs. Hemans” (1835)

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)              
“The Cry of the Children” (1843)
“L. E. L.’s Last Question” (1844)
“To George Sand: A Desire” (1844)
“To George Sand: A Recognition” (1844)
“The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point” (1848)
Selections from Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850)
Aurora Leigh (1857)
“A Musical Instrument” (1862)

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) 
“The Kraken” (1830)
“Mariana” (1830)
“The Hesperides” (1832)
“The Lady of Shalott” (1832, 1842)
“The Palace of Art” (1832, 1842)
“The Lotos-Eaters” (1832, 1842)
“Ulysses” (1842)
“Locksley Hall” (1842)
“Tithonus” (1842)
The Princess (1847)
In Memoriam (1850)
Maud (1854)
Selections from Idylls of the King (1872)

Robert Browning (1812-1889)          
“My Last Duchess” (1842)
“Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister” (1842)
“Porphyria’s Lover” (1842)
“How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix” (1845)
“Andrea Del Sarto” (1855)
“By the Fireside” (1855)
“Fra Lippo Lippi” (1855)
“One Word More” (1855)
“Abt Vogler” (1864)
“Caliban upon Setebos” (1864)
“Rabbi Ben Ezra” (1864)
Selections from The Ring and the Book (1868)

Eliza Cook (1817-1889)                    
“Our Father” (183?)
“The Old Arm Chair” (18??)

Edwin Waugh (1817-1890)                
“I’ve Worn My Bits O’ Shoon Away” (186?)
“Eawr Folk” (186?)
“Come whoam to thi childer an’ me” (186?)
“Neet-fo” (186?)
“The Factory Bell” (186?)

Emily Brontë (1818-1848)                
“The Prisoner (A Fragment)” (1846)
“Riches” (1846)
“No coward soul is mine” (1850)
“Often rebuked, yet always back returning” (185?)

George Eliot (1819-1889)                  
“Oh May I Join the Choir Invisible” (1867)
“The Legend of Jubal” (1869)

Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)                       
“Isolation: To Marguerite” (1849, p. 1857)
“To Marguerite—Continued” (1849, p.1852)
“Tristram and Iseult” (1852)
“The Buried Life” (1852)
“Dover Beach” (1867)
“Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse” (1867)

Adelaide Anne Procter (1825-1864)  
“A Woman’s Question” (1858)
“A Lost Chord” (1858)
“A Woman’s Last Word” (1858)
“Homeless” (1862)
“Envy” (1858)

Samuel Laycock (1826-1893)            
“The Man of the Time” (1876)
“Homely Advice to the Unemployed” (1908)

Emily Pfeiffer (1827-1890)               
“Peace to the Odalisque” (1873)
“Studies from the Antique” (1879)
“Any Husband to Many a Wife” (1889)

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) 
“The Blessed Damozel” (1847)
“The Burden of Nineveh” (1856)
“The Portrait” (1870)
“The Woodspurge” (1870)
“Jenny” (1879)
Selections from The House of Life (1881)     

George Meredith (1828-1909)           
“Modern Love” (1862)
“The Lark Ascending” (1881)
“The Woods of Westermain (1883)
“Lucifer in Starlight” (1883)

Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)         
“In An Artist’s Studio” (1856)
“Cousin Kate” (1859)
“Goblin Market” (1862)
“Winter: My Secret” (1862)
“When I am Dead, my Dearest” (1862)
“The Iniquity of the Fathers Upon the Children” (1866)
“Amor Mundi” (1875)
Monna Innominata (1881)
“The Thread of Life” (1881)
“An Old-World Thicket” (1881)
“De Profundis” (1881)

William Morris (1834-1896)             
“The Defense of Guenevere” (1858)
Selections from The Earthly Paradise (1868-70)
“For the Bed at Kelmscott” (1893)

Augusta Webster (1837-1894)          
"Medea" (1870)
“Circe” (1870)
“A Castaway” (1870)
“Faded” (1870)
“A Preacher” (1870)
“Mother and Daughter: an Uncompleted Sonnet Sequence” (1895)

Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909)              
"The Leper" (1861)
“The Garden of Proserpine” (1862)
“Hymn to Proserpine” (1866)
“The Triumph of Time” (1866)
“Anactoria” (1866)
“Itylus” (1866)
"Hertha" (1871)
“A Forsaken Garden” (1876)
“The Lake of Gaube” (1904)

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
“Hap” (1866)
“Neutral Tones” (1867)
“The Darkling Thrush” (1900)
“The Voice” (1912)
“The Blinded Bird” (1916)

Mathilde Blind (1841-1896)              
The Heather on Fire: A Tale of the Highland Clearances (1886)
“On a Forsaken Lark’s Nest” (1889)

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)                  
“The Wreck of the Deutschland” (1876)
"God's Grandeur" (1877)
"Pied Beauty" (1877)
"The Windhover" (1877)
"Hurrahing in Harvest" (1877)
“As Kingfishers Catch Fire” (1877)
"Binsey Poplars" (1879)
"Duns Scotus's Oxford" (1879)
“No Worst” (1880)
"Spring and Fall" (1880)
"Carrion Comfort" (c. 1885-87)
"Harry Ploughman" (c. 1885-87)
"Spelt from Sibyl's Leaves" (c. 1885-87)
"That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire" (c. 1885-87)

Michael Field (Katherine Bradley [1846-1914] & Edith Cooper [1862-1913])                        
“Maids, not to you my mind doth change” (1889)
“Come, Gorgo, put the rug in place” (1889)
“A Portrait” (1892)
“To Christina Rossetti” (1895)
“A Palimpsest” (1908)
“Your Rose is Dead” (n.d.)
Selections from Whym Chow, Flame of Love (1906)

Alice Meynell (1847-1922)               
“To the Beloved” (1875)
“A Letter from a Girl to Her Own Old Age” (1875)
“Renouncement” (1875)
“Christ in the Universe” (1895)
“Parentage” (1895)

W.E. Henley (1849-1903)                 
In Hospital (1873-5)

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)                  
“Impression du Matin” (1877)
“The Harlot’s House” (1885)
“Symphony in Yellow” (1889)
“The Sphinx” (1894)
“The Ballad of Reading Gaol” (1898)

Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861-1907)                  
“The Other Side of a Mirror” (1896)
“Horror” (1896)
“The Contents of an Ink-Bottle” (1896)
“The Witch” (1896)
“Unwelcome” (1900)
“The White Women” (1900)

Amy Levy (1861-1889)                    
“Xantippe” (1881)
“A Minor Poet” (1884)

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)                       
“Danny Deever” (1892)
“Tommy” (1892)
“Fuzzy-Wuzzy” (1892)
“Gunga Din” (1892)
“The Widow at Windsor” (1892)
“Mandalay” (1892)
“The Ballad of East and West” (1899)
“Recessional” (1897)

W. B. Yeats (1865-1939)                   
“The Stolen Child” (1889)
“Down by the Salley Gardens” (1889)
“When You are Old” (1892)
“Sorrow of Love” (1892)
“The Lake Isle of Innisfree” (1893)
“He Remembers Forgotten Beauty” (1899)
“At Straford-On-Avon” (1900) 

 

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