Victorian Poetry

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CHRONOLOGY OF PUBLICATIONS AND EVENTS

i860 Wilberforce-Huxley controversy at the British Association,
Oxford
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Poems before Congress
Essays and Reviews controversy


18 61 Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Early Italian Poets from Ciullo
d'Alcamo to Dante Alighieri


1862 Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Last Poems
Clough, Poems
Meredith, Modern Love and Poems of the English Roadside,
with Poems and Ballads
Christina Rossetti, Goblin Market and Others Poems


1864 Robert Browning, Dramatis Personae
Newman, Apologia pro Vita Sua (later called History of My
Religious Opinions)
Tennyson, Enoch Arden and Other Poems


1865 Newman, The Dream of Gerontius
Algernon Charles Swinburne, Atalanta in Calydon


1866 Christina Rossetti, The Prince's Progress and Other Poems
Swinburne, Poems and Ballads
Augusta Webster, Dramatic Studies
(February) W.E. Gladstone introduces Second Reform Bill into
House of Commons
(June) Third Derby administration
(July) Reform League demonstrates at Hyde Park


1867 Arnold, New Poems
Carlyle, "Shooting Niagara: And after?"
Dora Greenwell, Poems
William Morris, The Life and Death of Jason
Walter Pater, "Winckelmann"
Webster, A Woman Sold and Other Poems
(February) Nationalist rising in Ireland suppressed
(February) Benjamin Disraeli introduces reform proposals to
House of Commons
(May) Reform demonstration at Hyde Park
(August) Second Reform Act given royal assent

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