Poems

by Charles Dickens

Overview

While Charles Dickens is best known and celebrated for his prolific journalistic output and novelistic creations, he also devoted some of his creative energies to verse. At turns sentimental, melancholy, playful, humorous and satirical, and ranging considerably in tone and format – from songs to narrative prologues for novels and squibs for newspapers – the poems in this collection highlight Dickens's gift for language and his unfailing power to touch.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781847496904
Publisher:	Bloomsbury USA
Publication date:	04/24/2018
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	5.12(w) x 7.92(h) x 0.45(d)

About the Author

A literary phenomenon in his lifetime and renowned as much for his journalism and public speaking as for his novels, Charles Dickens (1812–70) now ranks as the most important Victorian writer and one of the most influential and popular authors in the English language. His memorable and vividly rendered characters and his combination of humour, trenchant satire and compassion have left an indelible mark on our collective imagination.

Date of Birth:

February 7, 1812

Date of Death:

June 18, 1870

Place of Birth:

Portsmouth, England

Place of Death:

Gad's Hill, Kent, England

Education:

Home-schooling; attended Dame School at Chatham briefly and Wellington

Table of Contents

Poems 1

Songs, Choruses and Concerted Pieces from The Village Coquettes, a Comic Opera (1836) 3

Round 9

Lucy's Song 10

Squire Norton's Song 11

George Edmunds's Song 12

Rose's Song 13

Duet (Flam and Rose) 14

Squire Norton's Song 15

Duet (The Squire and Lucy) 17

Sestet and Chorus 18

Quartet 20

Squire Norton's Song 22

Young Benson's Song 24

Duet (The Squire and Edmunds) 25

Lucy's Song 26

Quintet 28

Lyric from The Lamplighter, a Farce (1838) 29

Duet from The Lamplighter 33

Songs from The Pickwick Papers (1837) 35

The Ivy Green 39

A Christmas Carol 43

Gabriel Grub's Song 47

Romance 51

Political Squibs from The Examiner (1841) 53

The Fine Old English Gentleman 57

The Quack Doctor's Proclamation 60

Subjects for Painters 63

Prologue to Westland Marston's Play 67

The Patrician's Daughter (1842) Prologue to The Patrician's Daughter 71

A Word in Season, from The Keepsake (1844) 73

A Word in Season 77

Verses from the Daily News (1846) 79

The British Lion 83

The Hymn of the Wiltshire Labourers 86

New Song, Lines Addressed to Mark Lemon (1849) 89

New Song 93

Wilkie Collins's Play The Lighthouse (1855) 95

The Prologue 99

The Song of the Wreck 101

Prologue to Wilkie Collins's Play The Frozen Deep (1856) 103

Prologue to The Frozen Deep 107

A Child's Hymn from The Wreck of the Golden Mary (1856) 109

A Child's Hymn 113

Note on the Text 115

Notes 115

Extra Material 117

Charles Dickens's Life 119

Charles Dickens's Works 127

Select Bibliography 133