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A Victorian Miscellany Selected and edited by Thomas W. Parrott Read by Denis Daly During the Victorian era many authors tried their hand at a range of literary genres, including poetry. Many of the authors whose work is represented in this collection are famous for their activity in other genres, eg. Macaulay as a historian, Stevenson as a writer of classic adventure novels, John Henry Newman as a theologian and Kingsley and Thackeray as novelists. The most notable contributors who are known primarily as poets are Arnold and Swinburne. While Victorian verse is often less elegant and graceful than the lyric productions of earlier centuries, it has a distinctive note of earnestness and humanistic charm. Contents 1 - Introduction by Thomas W. Parrott 2 - 3 poems by Matthew Arnold 3 - 4 poems by Walter Savage Landor 4 - The Sea by Bryan Wallace Proctor 5 - The Battle of Naseby by Thomas Babington Macaulay 6 - 3 poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 7 - The End of the Play by William Makepeace Thackeray 8 - 2 poems by Charles Kingsley 9 - 2 poems by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 10 - Riding Together by William Morris 11 - 3 poems by Algernon Charles Swinburne 12 - 2 poems by Robert Louis Stevenson 13 - Lead Kindly Light by John Henry Newman 14 - Recessional by Rudyard Kipling The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://www.audible.com/pd/A-Victorian-Miscellany-Audiobook/B0G2F9VWCT
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