Christina Rossetti
Poems by the
Brontë family
Victorian poetry
This is one of a series of pages on Victorian literature; use the links in the menu on the left to navigate to the other pages on general materials, drama and prose.
The AQA course, AS Level English Literature A, requires the study of one post-1990 text; such texts are indicated here.
AQA poetry texts for Unit 1
- John Clare: Selected Poems
: (Everyman's Poetry), edited by R K R Thornton
- See the John Clare page on this site
- See also the Literary Drinkers page on John Clare.
- Selected Poems of the Brontës
- Thomas Hardy: Selected Poems
(Everyman's Poetry), edited by Norman Page
- See also the Literary Drinkers page on Hardy.
Wider reading in Victorian poetry
Poets
- Matthew Arnold
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Robert Browning
- Arthur Clough
- Emily Dickinson
- Gerald Manley Hopkins
- A E Housman
- George Meredith
- Christina Rossetti (Penguin Classics new edition linked: others available)
- Algernon Swinburne
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Walt Whitman
If you are teaching or studying the AQA course it is essential to refer to the AQA specification to ensure that you are reading the right texts and meeting all the requirements!
Links are provided to the editions specified by AQA; other texts will be linked as time permits, though appropriate alternative editions should be suitable.
On poets and poetry
- John Clare: Selected Letters
(OUP)
- Elizabeth Gaskell: The Life of Charlotte Brontë 1857
- The Brontës: A Life in Letters edited by Juliet Barker (other editions available)
- Juliet Barker: The Brontës 1994 post 1990
- Jonathan Bate: John Clare: a Biography
2003 post 1990
- Claire Tomalin: Thomas Hardy: The Time-torn Man
2006 post 1990
Useful websites
- The Victorian Web: a very rich source of materials and links
Finding poetry texts online
See the usual sources of online texts listed on the literature links page, in particular:- Representative Poetry Online from the University of Toronto: the Timeline allows you to locate poets from this period quickly.
- Project Gutenberg
- The Victorian Web provides links to online texts for many authors.
