Comps Texts

By HanJS

  • Tennyson, "Mariana"

  • Carlyle, Sartor Resartus

    1833-1834

  • Browning, "Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister"

  • Tennyson, "Ulysses"

  • Browning, "My Last Duchess"

  • Tennyson, "The Lady of Shalott"

    Originally published in 1832

  • Browning, "The Cry of the Children"

  • Bronte, Agnes Grey

  • Bronte, Jane Eyre

  • Bronte, Wuthering Heights

  • Browning, Sonnets from the Portugese

    1845-1847

  • Thackeray, Vanity Fair

  • Bronte, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

  • Gaskell, Mary Barton

  • Bronte, "No coward soul is mine"

    Written 1846

  • Bronte, "Often rebuked, yet always back returning"

    Written at an unknown earlier date

  • Dickens, Bleak House

  • Newman, The Idea of a University

    Note: The ideas contained in The Idea of a University began as a series of lectures. 1852 is the date that they were first published in print, not the date that Newman delivered the lectures.

  • Arnold, "The Buried Life"

  • Arnold, "The Scholar-Gipsy"

  • Bronte, Villette

  • Gaskell, Ruth

  • Arnold, "Preface to the first Edition of Poems"

  • Gaskell, North and South

  • Dickens, Hard Times

  • Patmore, The Angel in the House

    1854-1856

  • Eliot, "Silly Novels by Lady Novelists"

  • Browning, Aurora Leigh

  • Seacole, Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands

  • Eliot, Adam Bede

  • Darwin, On the Origin of Species

  • Collins, The Woman in White

  • Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

  • Rossetti, A Birthday

  • Dickens, Great Expectations

  • Rossetti, After Death

  • Rossetti, Uphill

  • Rossetti, "The Round Tower at Jhansi, June 8th, 1857"

  • Braddon, Lady Audley's Secret

  • Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

  • Arnold, "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time"

  • Arnold, "Dover Beach"

    Likely written in the 1850s

  • Rossetti, "Lady Lilith"

  • Collins, The Moonstone

  • Mill, "The Subjection of Women"

  • Arnold, Culture and Anarchy

  • Darwin, The Descent of Man

  • Eliot, Middlemarch

  • Stevenson, Treasure Island

  • Schreiner, The Story of an African Farm

  • Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge

  • Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

  • Haggard, She: A History of Adventure

  • Harkness, City Girl

  • Harkness, In Darkest London

  • Wilde, "The Decay of Lying"

  • Levy, A London Plane-Tree

  • Levy, To Vernon Lee

  • Morris, News from Nowhere

  • Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • Field, "La Gioconda"

  • Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles

  • Johnson, "The Song My Paddle Sings"

  • Field, "A girl"

  • Gissing, The Odd Women

  • Field, "It was deep April, and the morn"

  • Morris, The Wood Beyond the World

  • Allen, The Woman Who Did

  • Hardy, Jude the Obscure

  • Wilde, "The Importance of Being Earnest"

  • Field, "To Christina Rossetti"

  • Rossetti, In an Artist's Studio

  • Marsh, The Beetle

  • Stoker, Dracula

  • Conrad, Heart of Darkness

  • Kipling, "The White Man's Burden"

  • Wilde, De Profundis

    Written in 1897

  • Hopkins, Pied Beauty

    Written 1877

  • Hopkins, "God's Grandeur"

    Written 1877

  • Manley Hopkins, "The Windhover"

    Written 1877