England and Yesterday

by Louise Imogen Guiney

53 chapters1h 12mEnglish1898

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Louise Imogen Guiney was an American poet, well-connected in the art of her time. Much of her life was spent in England, mostly at London and Oxford. This volume of poems contains, among other poems, 24 sonnets written in those two cities. - Summary by Carolin

Chapters (53)

1London - I. On First Entering Westminster Abbey

2London - II. Fog

3London - III. Saint Peter-ad-Vincula

4London - IV. Strikers in Hyde Park

5London - V. Changes in the Temple

6London - VI. The Lights of London

7London - VII. Doves

8London - VIII. In the Reading-Room of the British Museum

9London - IX. Sunday Chimes in the City

10London - X. A Porch in Belgravia

11London - XI. York Stairs

12London - XII. In the Docks

13Oxford - I. The Tow-Path

14Oxford - II. The Old Dial of Corpus

15Oxford - III. Ad Antiquarium

16Oxford - IV. Rooks in New College Gardens

17Oxford - V. On the Pre-Reformation Churches about Oxford

18Oxford - VI. On the Same (continued)

19Oxford - VII. A December Walk

20Oxford - VIII. Undertones at Magdalen

21Oxford - IX. Port Meadow

22Oxford - X. Martyrs’ Memorial

23Oxford - XI. A Last View

24Oxford - XII. Retrieval

25A Ballad of Kenelm

156

26Two Irish Peasant Songs

230

27In a Ruin, after a Thunderstorm

28To a Child

29In a Perpendicular Church

30A Seventeenth-Century Song

31Columba and the Stork

32The Chantry

33April in Govilon

34On Leaving Winchester

117

35On the Cenotaph of the Prince Imperial in Saint George’s Chapel

36Of Joan’s Youth

37Passing the Minster

38The Yew-Tree

39Shropshire Landscape

40The Graham Tartan to a Graham

41In a London Street

102

42Athassel Abbey

103

43Romans in Dorset

133

44To Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

45For Izaak Walton

106

46A Footnote to a Famous Lyric

108

47A Memory of a Breconshire Valley

134

48Writ in my Lord Clarendon’s 'History of the Rebellion'

49A Last Word on Shelley

50An Epitaph for William Hazlitt

51Emily Brontë

52Pax Paganica

53Valediction: R. L. S., 1894

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