Victorian Poetry

CHRONOLOGY OF PUBLICATIONS AND EVENTS

Ruskin, The Stones of Venice (completed 1853)

Census of Religious Worship in England and Wales

(May) Great Exhibition in Hyde Park, London

1852 Arnold, Empedocles on Etna and Other Poems
(February) Edward Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby's administration

185 3 Arnold, Poems: A New Edition (with "Preface" explaining
exclusion of "Empedocles on Etna")
Patmore, Tamerton Church-Tower and Other Poems
(December) Aberdeen administration

1854 The Angel in the House (completed 1856; revised editions until
1885 )
(March) Crimean War begins

1855 Arnold, Poems: Second Series
Robert Browning, Men and Women
Tennyson, Maud and Other Poems
(February) Palmerston administration

1856 (December) Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh
(March) Treaty of Paris ends Crimean War

1857 (May) Indian Mutiny
Matrimonial Causes Act ("Divorce Act")

185 8 Arnold, Merope: A Tragedy
Arthur Hugh Clough, Amours de Voyages
William Morris, The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems
Adelaide Anne Procter, Legends and Lyrics
(February) Second Derby administration

1859 Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural
Selection
Edward FitzGerald, The Rubaiydt of Omar Khayyam (revised
editions in 1869, 1872, 1879, and 1889)
Tennyson, Idylls of the King (completed 1885)
John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
(June) Second Palmerston administration