title: Victorian Poetry
author: Valentine Cunningham
description: <i>Victorian Poetry</i> gathers together some of the most influential poetry of the Victorian era, including works by Alfred (Lord) Tennyson, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Emily Bront, Arthur Hugh Clough, Matthew Arnold, Dante Gabriel and Christina Rossetti, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Thomas Hardy, A. E. Housman and William Butler Yeats.
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  Love is Blind
  
  
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  Chapter One
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  London, England, 1818
  
  
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  " 'Love is a fever... in my blood.'"
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Clarissa Crambray winced as those words trembled in the air. Truly, this had
  to be the worst of the poems Lord Prudhomme had recited since arriving at her
  father's town house an hour ago.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Had it been only an hour? In truth it felt more like several days had passed
  since the elderly man arrived. He'd entered brandishing a book, announcing
  with triumph that, rather than go for their usual walk, he thought perhaps
  today she'd enjoy his reading to her. And Clarissa would have, had he chosen
  to read some-thing other than this poppycock. She also would have appreciated
  it more were he not acting as th