Poetry in the late nineteenth century6 WH. Mallock, "A Familiar Colloquy," Nineteenth Century 4 (1885), 298. For
more on Mallock's article, see John Lucas, "Tilting at the Moderns," in Lucas,
Romantic to Modern Literature (Brighton: Harvester Press, 1982), 167-87. For
the context of George Moore's pamphlet, see George Moore: Literature at
Nurse, ed. Pierre Coustillas (Hassocks: Harvester Press, 1976), 9-24.
7 Norton B. Crowell, Alfred Austin: Victorian (London: Weidenfeld and Ni-
colson, 1955), 19-26; further page references appear in parentheses.
8 Edmund Gosse, The Life of A.C. Swinburne (New York: Macmillan, 1917),
276.
9 In the Tatler of 1877 Swinburne published a novel, A Year's Letters, under the
name of "Mrs Horace Manners," although his authorship was an open secret.
(When the novel was reprinted as Love's Cross-Currents: A Year's Letters
[London: Chatto and Windus, 1905], it bore Swinburne's own name.) Essays
and Studies (London Chatto and Windus, 1875) appeared under Swinburne's
name.
10 Robert Bernard Martin, Tennyson: The Unquiet Heart (London: Oxford
University Press and Faber and Faber, 1980), 559; further page references
appear in parentheses.
11 Charles Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson (London: Macmillan, 1949), 494.
12 [J.R. Wise,] "Review of Lewis Morris, The Ode of Life," Westminster Review
[American Edition], 114 (1880), 144.
13 [Anonymous,] "Review of Lewis Morris, The Ode of Life," Nineteenth
Century, 6 (1880), 337.
14 James G. Nelson, Sir William Watson (New York: Twayne, 1966), 50; further
page references appear in parentheses.
15 Watson, "Gladstone, 1885 (During the Soudanese War)," in The Poems of Sir
William Watson, 1878-193J (London: Harrap, 1936), 27. Watson's "Ver
Tenebrosum: Sonnets of March and April 1885" appeared in the National
Review 5 (1885), 484-89.
16 Yeats's definitive remarks were made in the course of his essay "A Scholar Poet,"
Providence Sunday Journal, 15 June 1890, reprinted in Yeats, Letters to the
New Island, ed. George Bornstein and Hugh Witemeyer, The Collected Works
of W.B. Yeats, 12 vols. (New York: Macmillan, 1989), VII, 104. In 1892
Gladstone awarded Watson £200 from the Royal Bounty Fund. This was a
magnanimous gesture, perhaps, but then Gladstone was a magnanimous man.
(It is of course possible to read the gesture as implying thus far and no further. If
so, Watson refused to understand the implication of Gladstone's gesture, for in
the same year he produced a patriotic poem "England My Mother," intended no
doubt to strengthen his claim to the Laureateship; see The Poems of Sir William
Watson, 78-82.)
17 William Watson, "Preface," in Alfred Austin, English Lyrics, ed. Watson
(London: Macmillan, 1890), xxiii.
18 Meredith's remark appears in Michael Field, Works and Days, from the
Journals of Michael Field, ed. T. Sturge Moore (London: John Murray, 1932),
97-
19 See, for example, W.E. Henley, The Song of the Sword and Other Verses
(London: David Nutt, 1898), and Henry Newbolt, Admirals All and Other
Verses (London: John Lane, 1892).
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