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Background

Chronicle of Some 19th– & 20th-Century Historical Events

Sander L. Gilman and J. Edward Chamberlin, Preface, Degeneration: An Introduction, from Degeneration: The Dark Side of Progress (New York: Columbia UP, 1985), vii-xiv

Holbrook Jackson, Fin de Sicle 1890-1900, Personalities and Tendencies, The Decadence, The Eighteen-Nineties (London: Richards, 1913), 13-71

Sandra Siegel, Literature and Degeneration: The Representation of Decadence, Degeneration: The Dark Side of Progress, eds. J. Edward Chamberlin and Sander L. Gilman (New York: Columbia UP, 1985: 199-219

Ian Small, Introduction, from The Aesthetes: A Sourcebook (London: Routledge, 1979), ix-xxix

Some Reasons Why Americans Value the British

Rupert Brooke

Introduction: Rupert Brooke (1887‒1915)

Keith Douglas

Introduction: Keith Douglas (1920‒44)

Vergissmeinnicht

Thomas Hardy

Introduction: Thomas Hardy (1840‒1928)

The Convergence of the Twain

Hap

Henry James

Introduction: Henry James (1843‒1916)

The Beast in the Jungle

James Joyce

Introduction: James Joyce (1882‒1941)

Charlotte Mew

Introduction: Charlotte Mew (1869‒1928)

All Assigned Poems

Selected poems from THE FARMERS BRIDE (1916; 1921):

A Quoi Bon Dire

The Changeling

Fame

The Farmers Bride

The Fte

The Forest Road

In Nunhead Cemetery

Ken

On the Asylum Road

The Quiet House

Pcheresse

The Pedlar

Sea Love

Selected poems from THE RAMBLING SAILOR (1929)

At the Convent Gate

I So Liked Spring

In the Fields

Ne Me Tangito

Requiescat

The Trees Are Down

New Woman Texts of Criticism

Introductory Note on The Angel in the House

Introduction: George Romanes (1848-94)

George John Romanes Mental Differences Between Men and Women, Nineteenth Century 21 (May 1887): 654-72

Introduction: Grant Allen (1848-1899)

Grant Allen (1848-1899) Some Plain Words on the Woman Question, Fortnightly Review, ns. 46 (1889): 448-58

Introductory Note on The New Woman

Sally Ledger, Introduction and Who Was the New Woman, The New Woman: Fiction and feminism at the fin de sicle (Manchester and New York: 1997), 1-34

Introduction: Eliza Lynn Linton (1822-1898)

Eliza Lynn Linton The Girl of the Period, Saturday Review (14 March 1868): 356-60; The Wild Women As Social Insurgents, Nineteenth Century 30 (October 1891): 596-605

Introduction: Sarah Grand [Frances Elizabeth Bellenden Clarke] (1854-1943)

GrandThe New Aspect of the Woman Question, North American Review 158 (1894): 270-76

GrandThe New Woman and the Old, Ladys Realm (1898)

Introduction : Ouida [Marie Louise de la Rame] (1839-1908)

Ouida The New Woman, North American Review 158 (1894): 610-19 [a response to Grands The New Aspects of the Woman Question]

Hugh E. M. Stutfield, Tommyrotics. Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine 157.956 (June 1895): 833-45

Wilfred Owen

Introduction: Wilfred Owen (1893‒1918)

Isaac Rosenberg

Introduction: Isaac Rosenberg (1890‒1918)

Siegfried Sassoon

Introduction: Siegfried Sassoon (1886‒1967)

Glory of Women

Dylan Thomas

Introduction: Dylan Thomas (1914‒53)

All Assigned Poems

Edward Thomas

Introduction: Edward Thomas (1878‒1917)

GRAHAM R. TOMSON [ROSAMUND MARRIOTT WATSON]

Introduction: Graham R. Tomson [Rosamund Marriott Watson] (1860-1911)

Virginia Blain, Rosamund Marriott Watson (1860-1911)

All Assigned Poems

Ballad of the Bird-Bride

A Ballad of the Were-Wolf

The Cage

Children of the Mist

Epitaph

Hic Jacet

The Moor Girls Well

Nirvana

Old Pauline

A Ruined Altar

Vespertilia

VICTORIA CROSS [ANNIE SOPHIE CORY]

Introduction: Victoria Cross [Annie Sophie Cory] (1 October 1868-2 August 1952)

Theodora, A Fragment, The Yellow Book 4 (January 1895): [156]-188

VIRGINIA WOOLF

Introduction: Virginia Woolf (1882‒1941)

WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Introduction: William Butler Yeats (1865‒1939)

All Assigned Poems