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Kaiya Hebert

8 July 2022

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BIG 5 THEMES

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1. Democracy 2. Gender 3. Culture 4. Condition of England Debate 5. Empire

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Theme 1: Democracy

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-Conflict/tension between liberty/equality -Who has/deserves rights, especially gender -Abolition movement/women right to vote

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Theme 2: Gender

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Status of Victorian women changing, referred to as the "Woman Question" also the "Man Question" which is what it's ike to be a Victorian Man with Women increasing their power

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Theme 3: Culture

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Art/poetics/critique of British Empire

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Theme 4: Condition of England Debate

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Industrialization at a very rapid rate, debate, pollution/child labor, etc.

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Theme 5: Empire

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British Empire/Colonies, practices/interactions with people in their colonies

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Authors

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1. Thomas Carlyle (Signs of the Times, Past and Present) 2. E. B. Browning (The Runaway Slave at Pilgrims Point, Aurora Leigh, The Cry of the Children) 3. R. Browning (Porphyria's Lover, My Last Duchess, Andrea del Sarto) 4. Tennyson (In Memoriam, The Lady of Shallot, Mariana, Ulysses) 5. Mill (On Liberty) 6. Morris (How I Became a Socialist) 7. Gaskell (The Old Nurse's Story) 8. D.G. Rossetti (Jenny) 9. Arnold (The Function of Criticism at the Present Time) 10. Ruskin (The Savageness of Gothic Architecture) 11. Kipling (The Man who Would be King) 12. E. Rossetti (Goblin Market)

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Signs of the Times

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Author: Thomas Carlyle Summary: Antimechanical style, culture matters help you to resist being mechanized in your mind. Text provides introduction to whole period -Mentions French Revolution, Catholic Relief Act, Political Reform, Social/Political Unrest in Europe (alluding to theme of democracy), Millenarianism (religious belief that the end of time is upon us, the new, James Mill& John Stuart Mill proponents of utilitarianism which was very radical for the period) -Very aware of historical events and how they relate -inventor of modern word environment -problem of mechanization more a problem for men than women, men become anxious about their own status due to other changes in the world -Bi -Characterizing "this age of ours" -believes he can come up with ideas as great as Mozart, Isaac Newton, Rene Descartes, as long as he doesnt use groupthink

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Past and Present

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Author: Thomas Carlyle Summary: Warning about England's future -Conflict/tension between liberty/equality -Who has/deserves rights, especially gender -Abolition movement/women right to vote

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On Liberty

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Author: Mill Summary: Mill justifies the value of liberty through a Utilitarian approach. His essay tries to show the positive effects of liberty on all people and on society as a whole. In particular, Mill links liberty to the ability to progress and to avoid social stagnation Mill wrote that he believed On Liberty to be about "the importance, to man and society, of a large variety in types of character, and of giving full freedom to human nature to expand itself in innumerable and conflicting directions." This celebration of individuality and disdain for conformity runs throughout On Liberty. Mill rejects attempts, either through legal coercion or social pressure, to coerce people's opinions and behavior. He argues that the only time coercion is acceptable is when a person's behavior harms other people--otherwise, society should treat diversity with respect

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The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point

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Author: E. B. Browning Summary: poem narrated by a female slave who escaped from an abusive white man

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Aurora Leigh

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Author: E. B. Browning Summary: While traveling through France, she sees Marian Erle, who has a child with her. Marian explains that on the wedding day, Lady Waldemar had her abducted, told her Romney did not love her, and sent her to France, where she was left in a brothel and raped.

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The Cry of the Children

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Author: E. B. Browning Summary: About Industrialization/kids working in factory Throughout the poem, demonic images of a Factory Hell are contrasted with the Heaven of the English countryside, the inferno of industrialism with the bliss of a land-based society. The children are implored to leave the mine and city for the serenity of meadow and country.

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How I Became a Socialist

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Author: Morris Summary: The article presents a reprint of the article "How I Became a Socialist,"by William Morris which appeared in the June 16, 1894 issue of "Justice." It explores how Morris became an advocate to socialism. He believes that as a socialist, he can transform a society into a society with equality where there is no rich, nor poor.

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The Lady of Shalott

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Author: Tennyson Summary: about a lady who lives on an island outside of Camelot, King Arthur's castle. she is inside and has a curse where she can't look outside into the real world and just weaves her magic web which lets her kind of look into the real world. then she sees Sir lancelot and couldn't resist looking outside then decides to write her name on a boat and lay in it and die and she never makes it to Camelot alive

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Ulysses

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Author: Tennyson Summary: Ulysses" details Ulysses' intense dissatisfaction and boredom on his island home of Ithaca. The poem is a monologue spoken by him, where he not only expresses his discontent, but also describes his desire to keep sailing. He's getting older and doesn't have a lot of time left, so he wants to get busy living rather than busy dying. The poem concludes with his resolution to "strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."

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Mariana

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Author: Tennyson Summary: The poem follows a common theme in much of Tennyson's work—that of despondent isolation. The subject of Mariana is a woman who continuously laments her lack of connection with society. The isolation defines her existence, and her longing for a connection leaves her wishing for death at the end of every stanza.

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In Memoriam

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Author: Tennyson Summary: This lengthy work describes Tennyson's memories of the time he spent with Hallam, including their Cambridge days, when Hallam would read poetry aloud to his friends: thus Tennyson writes, "O bliss, when all in circle drawn / About him, heart and ear were fed / To hear him, as he lay and read / The Tuscan poets on the lawn!" Tennyson grapples with the tremendous grief he feels after the loss of such a dear friend, concluding famously that " 'Tis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all." "In Memoriam" also reflects Tennyson's struggle with the Victorians' growing awareness of another sort of past: the vast expanse of geological time and evolutionary history. The new discoveries in biology, astronomy, and geology implied a view of humanity that much distressed many Victorians, including Tennyson

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Porphyria's Lover

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Author: R. Browning Summary: The unnamed speaker of the poem sits by himself in his house on a stormy night. Porphyria, his lover, arrives out of the rain, starts a fire in the fireplace, and takes off her dripping coat and gloves. She sits down to snuggle with the speaker in front of the fire and pulls his head down to rest against her shoulder. The speaker realizes for the first time how much Porphyria loves him. So...he strangles her with her hair. Then he opens her eyes, unwraps the hair from her neck, and spends the rest of the night cuddling with her corpse.

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My Last Duchess

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Author: R. Browning Summary: In "My Last Duchess," the Duke addresses an emissary of the Count whose daughter the Duke intends to marry. He shows the emissary a portrait of his first wife (the titular "last duchess"). In the process, the Duke reveals some unpleasant truths about himself. "My Last Duchess" summary key points: The Duke shows the commissioned painting of his first wife. The painting is kept hidden behind a curtain that is drawn aside only by the Duke. The Duke tells the envoy the tale of his first wife. She was equally pleased by everything and by everybody; her pleasure had a passionate earnestness to it. The Duke's story ends with his ambiguous statement that he "gave orders" resulting in his wife's ultimate silence. This suggests she was murdered. The Duke discusses his demands for a dowry and his statue of the god Neptune taming a fragile, innocent seahorse. The statue is symbolic of himself and his first young bride.

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Andrea del Sarto

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Author: R. Browning Summary: The title identifies the subject of the poem, Andrea del Sarto, a distinguished artist of the Florentine School of painting. The poem is written in the first person, the speaker being Andrea, not Robert Browning. Andrea, conversing with his silent wife, Lucrezia, reflects on his life and art, thereby dramatically revealing his moral and aesthetic failure.

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Jenny

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Author: D. G. Rossetti, Summary: "Jenny" is a dramatic monologue given from the point of view of the customer eliciting the services of the prostitute in the poem. As such, the tone of the poem reflects the tone of the speaker who is both gently and wryly humorous as he works through his thoughts concerning Jenny's life and future as a prostitute. In addition to this, Rossetti highlights several important factors of Victorian prostitution such as its prominence in contemporary society, the diseases that both prostitutes and customers were exposed to and the social ostracism these women faced through Jenny's character and life as it is presented in the poem.

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The Old Nurse's Story

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Author: Gaskell Summary: Gaskell's "The Old Nurse's Story" is a narrative told from the point of view of an old nurse. She is recalling certain events that occurred while she was raising a young orphan named Miss Rosamond, and the nurse is actually telling this story to Miss Rosamond's children. The nurse says that after Miss Rosamond's parents died, she took the girl to live at Furnivall Manor, the family Miss Rosamond's mother came from. What I found most interesting about the story was the history revolving around the Furnivalls and the Manor that the nurse slowly begins to piece together. As the nurse discovers, Miss Grace got revenge on her sister Miss Maude, a long time ago, by having her father banish Miss Maude and her daughter (who, as a ghost, attempts to lead astray Miss Rosamond) out into the bitter cold to their deaths. Then at the climax of the story, we see the ghosts of these characters reenacting these events. This compels the now-old Miss Grace to stand up and beg the ghost of her father to "spare the little, innocent child," to no avail. She soon dies, incessantly muttering the very interesting line "What is done in youth can never be undone in age." Although the creepy little girl was the main ghost and the focal point of the story, I found the final scene the most compelling. This is where the gothic themes of regret and secret sin come to the surface in the otherwise-silent Miss Grace. Much of what we find out about the Furnivalls' past makes Miss Grace look cold-hearted and unremorseful. But it was enlightening to find at the end that what she had done to her sister must have been tearing her up inside all those years.

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The Function of Criticism at the Present Time

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Author: Arnold Summary: The central argument of the essay responds to what Arnold felt to be the prevailing attitude that the constructive, creative capacity was much more important than the critical faculty. Arnold's expanded definition of criticism, however--"the endeavour, in all branches of knowledge, theology, philosophy, history, art, science, to see the object as in itself it really is"--renders criticism a necessary prerequisite for truly valuable creation. Specifically, criticism is what generates "fresh" and "intelligent" ideas during a specific time and place in history, and Arnold claim that since literature works with current ideas (literature is "synthesis and exposition"), great works can only be generated in a climate of great ideas. Thus, Arnold argues that criticism prepares the way for creation. Arnold pegs the work of the romantic poets after the French Revolution and in the earlier part of the century as creative, but without the quality of ideas necessary for truly great work. This is because, Arnold explains, the French Revolution devolved into an obsession with the political and practical, "quitting the intellectual sphere and rushing furiously into the political sphere."

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The Savageness of Gothic Architecture

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Author: Ruskin Summary: In The Stones of Venice Ruskin celebrates the apparent roughness of the Venitian Gothic and its unfinished look over the perfection and harmony of Renaissance architecture. Ruskin claims that Gothic buildings look that way because, in their construction, workers and architects were granted a larger freedom from past models and struggled to make them unique and personal creations.

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Goblin Market

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Author: C. Rossetti Summary: wo sisters, Laura and Lizzie, hear the sounds of the goblin fruit market from their house. At first they try to ignore the enticing calls of the goblin men, but eventually Laura decides to go out and see what's happening. Lizzie warns her not to, but Laura is too curious. The goblin men offer her their fruit, and Laura thinks it looks tasty. She doesn't have any money, but the goblins offer to take a piece of her golden hair instead. So Laura gives up some of her hair, gorges herself on goblin fruit, and heads on home to her sister. But after eating all that goblin fruit, Laura starts to waste away. Lizzie gets worried and decides to go down to the market to see what's what. The goblin men try to tempt her the way they tempted Laura, but Lizzie stands firm. The goblin men turn violent and try to stuff fruit in Lizzie's mouth, but she squeezes her mouth shut, so they just end up getting juice all over her. Lizzie runs back to their house all covered in goblin fruit juice. Laura kisses the juice off her sister's cheeks and is miraculously, but painfully, healed. Years later, Laura and Lizzie are both wives and mothers, and they describe their experience in the goblin market to their own children as a cautionary tale about the importance of sisterly love.

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The Man Who Would Be King

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Author: Kipling Summary: The narrator meets these 2 guys named Peachey and Daniel. The 2 men are con men and like to create adventures and situations. They first meet the narrator when they lie to him and tell him that they are writers at the same newspaper he is. He busts them. Then the narrator and the 2 men become sorta friends. The 2 con men tell him that they plan to find a small town and become the kings of the town. Then the 2 men go off on some adventures. They return periodically to tell the narrator where they have been and what cons they have pulled. Then one time they find a small town. Through fighting and some religious stuff, they get crowned kings and gods of the town. The savages think that these Englishmen are gods. Then Daniel arranges to get married to one of the natives. On his wedding day she bites him and draws blood. When the natives sees that he is bleeding they find out he is not a god (gods don't bleed because they are immortal). So they chop Daniel's head off and crucify Peachey. Peachey survives, and brings Daniel's head back and tells the narrator his story. There is an interesting relationship between the journalist (narrator) and the 2 con men. The journalist deals with the real world and the 2 guys deal with fantasy and adventure. The "kingdom" the 2 men set up in the small town is Kipling making fun of the English government. It is a symbolic mocking

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"The poorest Day that passes over us is the conflux of two Eternities; it is made up of currents that issue from the remotest Past, and flow onwards into the remotest Future. We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants and advantages, wisely adjust our own position in it."

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Author: Thomas Carlyle Title: Signs of the Times Theme: Culture -Current moment we live in is comprised of ideas that happened before us/after us. -If we can predict what signs denote our own time, we can wisely adjust our own position on it -Statement about how history works, very different than romantic period -Past merges into present which includes elements of future. gradual change, fluid movement -Talking about taking past history in England and learning from it to better the future

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"What wonderful accessions have thus been made, and are still making, to the physical power of mankind; how much better fed, clothed, lodged and, in all outward respects, accommodated men now are, or might be, by a given quantity of labour, is a grateful reflection which forces itself on every one."

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Author: Thomas Carlyle Title: Signs of the Times Theme: Condition of England -Discussing problem with machinery/industrialization in England and how humans are becoming far too reliant on technology and less human

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"These things, which we state lightly enough here, are yet of deep import, and indicate a mighty change in our whole manner of existence. For the same habit regulates not our modes of action alone, but our modes of thought and feeling. Men are grown mechanical in head and in heart, as well as in hand. They have lost faith in individual endeavour, and in natural force, of any kind. Not for internal perfection, but for external combinations and arrangements, for institutions, constitutions, for Mechanism of one sort or other, do they hope and struggle. Their whole efforts, attachments, opinions, turn on mechanism, and are of a mechanical character."

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"in no time, since the beginnings of Society, was the lot of those same dumb millions of toilers so entirely unbearable as it is even in the days now passing over us. It is not to die, or even to die of hunger, that makes a man wretched; . . . it is to live miserable we know not why; to work sore and yet gain nothing; to be heartworm, weary, yet isolated, unrelated, girt-in with a cold universal Laissez-faire: it is to die slowly all our life long, imprisoned in a deaf, dead, Infinite Injustice"

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Author: Thomas Carlyle Title: Past and Present, Democracy Theme: Democracy Carlyle remained scornful of the prevailing Victorian doctrine of utilitarianism. o Carlyle, the utilitarians wasted energy in endlessly classifying and codifying human efforts.

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"But, once, I laughed in girlish glee; For one of my colour stood in the track Where the drivers drove, and looked at me-- And tender and full was the look he gave: Could a slave look so at another slave?-- I look at the sky and the sea. And from that hour our spirits grew As free as if unsold, unbought: Oh, strong enough, since we were two To conquer the world, we thought! The drivers drove us day by day; We did not mind, we went one way, And no better a liberty sought. In the sunny ground between the canes, He said "I love you" as he passed: When the shingle-roof rang sharp with the rains, I heard how he vowed it fast: While others shook, he smiled in the hut As he carved me a bowl of the cocoa-nut, Through the roar of the hurricanes. I sang his name instead of a song; Over and over I sang his name-- Upward and downward I drew it along My various notes; the same, the same! I sang it low, that the slave-girls near Might never guess from aught they could hear, It was only a name—a name."

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Author: E.B. Browning Title: The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point Theme: Democracy

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"And yet He has made dark things To be glad and merry as light. There's a little dark bird sits and sings; There's a dark stream ripples out of sight; And the dark frogs chant in the safe morass, And the sweetest stars are made to pass O'er the face of the darkest night."

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Author: E.B. Browning Title: The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point Theme: Democracy poem narrated by a female slave who escaped from an abusive white man, she's talking about God who supposedly created everything and c

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"Wrong, followed by a deeper wrong! Mere grief's too good for such as I. So the white men brought the shame ere long To strangle the sob of my agony. They would not leave me for my dull Wet eyes!--it was too merciful To let me weep pure tears and die."

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Author: E.B. Browning Title: The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point Theme: Democracy poem narrated by a female slave who escaped from an abusive white man, she is t

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"I am black, I am black!-- I wore a child upon my breast An amulet that hung too slack, And, in my unrest, could not rest: Thus we went moaning, child and mother, One to another, one to another, Until all ended for the best: .......... And so, to save it from my curse, I twisted it round in my shawl. And he moaned and trembled from foot to head, He shivered from head to foot; Till, after a time, he lay instead Too suddenly still and mute."

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Author: E.B. Browning Title: The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point Theme: Democracy

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"No government by a democracy or a numerous aristocracy, either in its political acts or in the opinions, qualities, and tone of mind which it fosters, ever did or could rise above mediocrity, except so far as the sovereign Many have let themselves be guided (which in their best times they always have done) by the counsels and influence of a more highly gifted and instructed One or Few."

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Author: Mill Title: On Liberty Theme: Democracy

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"a condition of society in which there should be neither rich nor poor, neither masters nor master's man, neither idle nor overworked, neither brain-sick brain workers, not heart-sick hand workers, in a word, in which all men would be living equally of condition, and would manage their affairs unwastefully, and with the full consciousness that harm to one would mean harm to all."

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Author: Morris Title: How I Became a Socialist Theme: Democracy

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"It is the province of art to set the true ideal of a full and reasonable life before [the workman], a life to which the perception and creation of beauty, the enjoyment of real pleasure that is, shall be felt to be as necessary to man as his daily bread, and that no man, and no set of men, can be deprived of this except by mere opposition, which should be resisted to the utmost."

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Author: Morris Title: How I Became a Socialist Theme: Democracy

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"With blackest moss the flowerpots Were thickly crusted, one and all, The rusted nails fell from the knots That held the peach to the gardenwall. The broken sheds looked sad and strange, Unlifted was the clinking latch, Weeded and worn the ancient thatch Upon the lonely moated grange."

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Author: Tennyson Title: Mariana Theme: Gender

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"The road went up about two miles, and then we saw a great and stately house, with many trees close around it, so close that in some places their branches dragged against the walls when the wind blew; and some hung broken down; for no one seemed to take much charge of the place;—to lop the wood, or to keep the moss-covered carriage-way in order"

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Author: Gaskell Title: The Old Nurse's Story Theme: Gender

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"The rain set early in to-night, The sullen wind was soon awake, It tore the elm-tops down for spite, And did its worst to vex the lake: .......... I found A thing to do, and all her hair In one long yellow string I wound Three times her little throat around, And strangled her."

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Author: R. Browning Title: Porphyria's Lover Theme: Gender

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"Which done, she rose, and from her form Withdrew the dripping cloak and shawl, And laid her soiled gloves by, untied Her hat and let the damp hair fall, And, last, she sat down by my side And call'd me."

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Author: R. Browning Title: Porphyria's Lover Theme: Gender

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"She rode with round the terrace — all and each Would draw from her alike the approving speech, Or blush, at least. She thanked men, — good! but thanked Somehow — I know not how — as if she ranked My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name With anybody's gift."

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Author: R. Browning Title: My Last Duchess Theme: Gender

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"never read Strangers like you that pictured countenance, The depth and passion of its earnest glance, But to myself they turned (since none puts by The curtain I have drawn for you, but I)"

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Author: R. Browning Title: My Last Duchess Theme: Gender

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"I wonder what you're thinking of. If of myself you think at all, What is the thought?—conjectural On sorry matters best unsolved?— Or inly is each grace revolved To fit me with a lure?—or (sad To think!) perhaps you're merely glad That I'm not drunk or ruffianly And let you rest upon my knee."

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Author: D.G. Rossetti Title: Jenny Theme: Gender

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"Yet, Jenny, looking long at you, The woman almost fades from view. A cipher of man's changeless sum Of lust, past, present, and to come, Is left. A riddle that one shrinks To challenge from the scornful sphinx."

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Author: D.G. Rossetti Title: Jenny Theme: Gender

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"My cousin Nell is fond of fun, And fond of dress, and change, and praise, So mere a woman in her ways: And if her sweet eyes rich in youth Are like her lips that tell the truth, My cousin Nell is fond of love. And she's the girl I'm proudest of. .......... Of the same lump (as it is said) For honour and dishonour made, Two sister vessels. Here is one."

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Author: D.G. Rossetti Title: Jenny Theme: Gender

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. "Like a toad within a stone Seated while time crumbles on; Which sits there since the earth was curs'd For Man's transgression at the first; Which, living through all centuries, Not once has seen the sun arise; Whose life, to its cold circle charmed, The earth's whole summers have not warmed; Which always—whitherso the stone Be flung—sits there, deaf, blind, alone;— Aye, and shall not be driven out Till that which shuts him round about Break at the very Master's stroke, And the dust thereof vanish as smoke, And the seed of Man vanish as dust:— Even so within this world is Lust."

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Author: D.G. Rossetti Title: Jenny Theme: Gender

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"All actual heroes are essential men, And all men possible heroes: every age, Heroic in proportions, double-faced, Looks backward and before, expects a morn And claims an epos."

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Author: E. B. Browning Title: Aurora Leigh, Book 5 Theme: Culture/Gender

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"But poets should Exert a double vision; should have eyes To see near things as comprehensively 185 As if afar they took their point of sight, And distant things as intimately deep As if they touched them."

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Author: E. B. Browning Title: Aurora Leigh, Book 5 Theme: Culture

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. "Nay, if there's room for poets in this world A little overgrown (I think there is), Their sole work is to represent the age, Their age, not Charlemagne's,—this live, throbbing age, That brawls, cheats, maddens, calculates, aspires, And spends for passion, more heroic heat, Betwixt the mirrors of its drawing-rooms, Than Roland with his knights at Roncesvalles."

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Author: E. B. Browning Title: Aurora Leigh, Book 5 Theme: Culture

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"Never flinch, But still, unscrupulously epic, catch Upon the burning lava of a song The full-veined, heaving, double-breasted Age: That, when the next shall come, the men of that May touch the impress with reverent hand, and say "Behold,—behold the paps we all have sucked! This bosom seems to beat still, or at least It sets ours beating: this is living art, Which thus presents and thus records true life.""

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Author: E. B. Browning Title: Aurora Leigh, Book 5 Theme: Culture

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"criticism, real criticism, is essentially the exercise of this very quality [curiosity]. It obeys an instinct prompting it to try to know the best that is known and thought in the world, irrespective of practice, politics, and everything else of the kind: and to value knowledge and thought as they approach this best, without the intrusion of any other considerations whatever"

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Author: Arnold Title: The Function of Criticism at the Present Time Theme: Culture

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"That arm is wrongly put—and there again— A fault to pardon in the drawing's lines, Its body, so to speak: its soul is right, He means right—that, a child may understand. Still, what an arm! and I could alter it: But all the play, the insight and the stretch— Out of me, out of me!"

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Author: R. Browning Title: Andrea del Sarto Theme: Culture

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"Had you enjoined them on me, given me soul, We might have risen to Rafael, I and you! Nay, Love, you did give all I asked, I think— More than I merit, yes, by many times. But had you—oh, with the same perfect brow, And perfect eyes, and more than perfect mouth, And the low voice my soul hears, as a bird The fowler's pipe, and follows to the snare— Had you, with these the same, but brought a mind! Some women do so. Had the mouth there urged "God and the glory! never care for gain, The present by the future, what is that? Live for fame, side by side with Agnolo! Rafael is waiting: up to God, all three!" I might have done it for you."

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Author: R. Browning Title: Andrea del Sarto Theme: Culture

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"I'll work then for your friend's friend, never fear, Treat his own subject after his own way, Fix his own time, accept too his own price, And shut the money into this small hand When next it takes mine. Will it? tenderly?"

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Author: R. Browning Title: Andrea del Sarto Theme: Culture

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"Must see you—you, and not with me? Those loans? More gaming debts to pay? you smiled for that? Well, let smiles buy me! have you more to spend? While hand and eye and something of a heart Are left me, work's my ware, and what's it worth?"

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Author: R. Browning Title: Andrea del Sarto Theme: Culture

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"Pluck you handfuls of the meadow-cowslips pretty. Laugh aloud, to feel your fingers let them through! But they answer, "Are your cowslips of the meadows Like our weeds anear the mine?"

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Author: E.B. Browning Title: The Cry of the Children Theme: The Condition of England

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"Two words, indeed, of praying we remember, And at midnight's hour of harm, 'Our Father,' looking upward in the chamber, We say softly for a charm. .......... He is speechless as a stone. And they tell us, of His image is the master Who commands us to work on."

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Author: E.B. Browning Title: The Cry of the Children Theme: The Condition of England

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"The young lambs are bleating in the meadows, The young birds are chirping in the nest, The young fawns are playing with the shadows, The young flowers are blowing toward the west — But the young, young children, O my brothers, They are weeping bitterly! They are weeping in the playtime of the others, In the country of the free."

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Author: E.B. Browning Title: The Cry of the Children Theme: The Condition of England

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"They look up with their pale and sunken faces, And their looks are sad to see, For the man's hoary anguish draws and presses Down the cheeks of infancy;"

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Author: E.B. Browning Title: The Cry of the Children Theme: The Condition of England

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"Understand this clearly: you can teach a man to draw a straight line, and to cut one; to strike a curved line, and to carve it; and to copy and carve any number of given lines or forms, with admirable speed and perfect precision; and you find his work perfect of its kind; but if you ask him to think about any of those forms, to consider if he cannot find any better in his own head, he stops; his execution becomes hesitating; he thinks, and ten to one he thinks wrong; ten to one he makes a mistake in the first touch he gives to his work as a thinking being. But you have made a man of him for all that. He was only a machine before, an animated tool"

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Author: Ruskin Title: The Savageness of Gothic Architecture Theme: The Condition of England

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"On either side the river lie Long fields of barley and of rye, That clothe the wold and meet the sky; And through the field the road run by To many-towered Camelot; And up and down the people go, Gazing where the lilies blow Round an island there below, The island of Shalott."

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Author: Tennyson Title: The Lady of Shalott Theme: The Condition of England

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". . . "Nay, nay," said Hall, "Why take the style of those heroic times? For nature brings not back the mastodon, Nor we those times; and why should any man Remodel models? these twelve books of mine Were faint Homeric echoes, nothing-worth, Mere chaff and draff, much better burnt." "But I," Said Francis, "pick'd the eleventh from this hearth, And have it; keep a thing, its use will come."

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Author: Tennyson Title: The Epic Theme: The Condition of England

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"I cannot rest from travel; I will drink Life to the lees. . . . I am become a name; For always roaming with a hungry heart Much have I seen and known—cities of men And manners, climates, councils, governments, Myself not least, but honored of them all— And drunk delight of battle with my peers,"

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Author: Tennyson Title: Ulysses Theme: Empire

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"vile it were For some three suns to store and hoard myself, And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought."

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Author: Tennyson Title: Ulysses Theme: Empire

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"It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Matched with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me."

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Author: Tennyson Title: Ulysses Theme: Empire

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"This is my son, mine own Telemachus, To whom I leave the scepter and the isle— Well-loved of me, discerning to fulfill This labor, by slow prudence to make mild A rugged people, and through soft degrees Subdue them to the useful and the good."

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Author: Tennyson Title: Ulysses Theme: Empire

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"Though much is taken, much abides; and though We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are— One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."

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Author: Tennyson Title: Ulysses Theme: Empire

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"Lashing their tails They trod and hustled her, Elbowed and jostled her, Clawed with their nails, Barking, mewing, hissing, mocking, Tore her gown and soiled her stocking, Twitched her hair out by the roots, Stamped upon her tender feet, Held her hands and squeezed their fruits Against her mouth to make her eat. White and golden Lizzie stood, Like a lily in a flood,-- Like a rock of blue-veined stone Lashed by tides obstreperously,-- Like a beacon left alone In a hoary roaring sea, Sending up a golden fire,-- Like a fruit-crowned orange-tree White with blossoms honey-sweet Sore beset by wasp and bee,-- Like a royal virgin town Topped with gilded dome and spire Close beleaguered by a fleet Mad to tug her standard down."

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Author: C. Rossetti Title: Goblin Market Theme: Empire

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"The beginning of everything was in a railway train upon the road to Mhow from Ajmir. There had been a deficit in the Budget, which necessitated travelling, not Second-class, which is only half as dear as First-class, but by Intermediate, which is very awful indeed. There are no cushions in the Intermediate class, and the population are either Intermediate, which is Eurasian, or native, which for a long night journey is nasty; or Loafer, which is amusing though intoxicated. Intermediates do not patronize refreshment-rooms. They carry their food in bundles and pots, and buy sweets from the native sweetmeat-sellers, and drink the roadside water. That is why in the hot weather Intermediates are taken out of the carriages dead, and in all weathers are most properly looked down upon."

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Author: Kipling Title: The Man Who Would Be King Theme: Empire

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"A newspaper office seems to attract every conceivable sort of person, to the prejudice of discipline. Zenana-mission ladies arrive . . . Colonels who have been overpassed for commands sit down . . . missionaries wish to know why they have not been permitted to escape . . . stranded theatrical companies troop up . . . inventors of patent punkah-pulling machines, carriage couplings and unbreakable swords and axle-trees call . . . secretaries of ball-committees clamor . . . strange ladies rustle in . . . and every dissolute ruffian that ever tramped the Grand Trunk Road makes it his business to ask for employment . . . And, all the time, the telephone-bell is ringing madly . . . and the little black copy-boys are whining . . . and most of the paper is as blank as Modred's shield. But that is the amusing part of the year. There are other six months wherein none ever come to call, and the thermometer walks inch by inch up to the top of the glass, and the office is darkened to just above reading light, and the press machines are red-hot of touch, and nobody writes anything but accounts of amusements in the Hill-stations or obituary notices. Then the telephone becomes a tinkling terror . . . Then the sickness really breaks out, and the less recording and reporting the better for the peace of the subscribers. . . . That is the dark half of the moon, and, as the advertisements say, "must be experienced to be appreciated.""

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Author: Kipling Title: The Man Who Would Be King Theme: Empire

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"'I won't make a Nation,' says he. 'I'll make an Empire! These men aren't nig**rs; they're English! Look at their eyes— look at their mouths. Look at the way they stand up. They sit on chairs in their own houses. They're the Lost Tribes, or something like it, and they've grown to be English. I'll take a census in the spring if the priests don't get frightened. There must be a fair two million of 'em in these hills. The villages are full o' little children. Two million people—two hundred and fifty thousand fighting men—and all English! They only want the rifles and a little drilling. Two hundred and fifty thousand men, ready to cut in on Russia's right flank when she tries for India!"

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Author: Kipling Title: The Man Who Would Be King Theme: Empire

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"Two days later I inquired after his welfare of the Superintendent of the Asylum. "He was admitted suffering from sun-stroke. He died early yesterday morning," said the Superintendent. "Is it true that he was half an hour bareheaded in the sun at midday?" "Yes," said I, "but do you happen to know if he had anything upon him by any chance when he died?" "Not to my knowledge," said the Superintendent. And there the matter rests."

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Author: Kipling Title: The Man Who Would Be King Theme: Empire

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"I hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all."

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