The World of the Victorians: An Anthology of Poetry and Prose by Johnson, E. D. H. (editor) - 1964

New York: Charles Scribners. Paperback. 520pp. With its critical commentary and suggestions for further reading for each writer this is still an excellent over view of the intellectual life of England in the nineteenth century. Small selection of black and white plates. Writers included are Thomas Macaulay, Thomas Carlyle, Alfred Tennyson, Matthew Arnold, John Stuart Mill, John Ruskin, William Morris, John Henry Newman, James Thomson, Thomas Hardy, A. E. Housman, Swinburne, George Meredith, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Robert Browning, Walter Paster, T. H. Huxley, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Arthur Hugh Clough, William Makepeace Thackery, Charles Dickens, Lewis Carroll, etc. Heavily and unevenly sunned. Binding is still sound. Good, sound copy. . Paperback. 1964.