The Longman Anthology of British Literature, Compact Edition, Volume B The Romantics and Their Contemporaries to the 20th Century

, by Damrosch, David; Baswell, Christopher; Carroll, Clare; Dettmar, Kevin J. H.; Henderson, Heather; Jordan, Constance; Manning, Peter J.; Schotter, Anne Howland; Sharpe, William Chapman; Sherman, Stuart; Wicke, Jennifer; Wolfson, Susan J.

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The Longman Compact Anthology of British Literatureis a concise and thoughtfully arranged survey of British literature for the one semester course.

List of Illustrations

xxii

Preface

xxvi

Acknowledgments

xxxi

The Romantics and Their Contemporaries

(448)

ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD

(7)

The Mouse's Petition to Dr. Priestley

(1)

On a Lady's Writing

(1)

To a Little Invisible Being Who Is Expected Soon to Become Visible

(1)

To the Poor

(1)

Washing-Day

(2)

The First Fire

(2)

PERSPECTIVES The Rights of Man and the Revolution Controversy

(1)

HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS

(11)

from Letters Written in France, in the Summer of 1790

(4)

from Letters from France

(6)

EDMUND BURKE

(9)

from Reflections on the Revolution in France

(9)

MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

(8)

from A Vindication of the Rights of Men

(7)

THOMAS PAINS

(6)

from The Rights of Man

(5)

THE ANTI-JACOBIN, OR WEEKLY EXAMINER

(4)

The Friend of Humanity and the Knife-Grinder

(3)

WILLIAM BLAKE

(9)

All Religions Are One

(2)

SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND OF EXPERIENCE

(1)

from Songs of Innocence

(5)

Introduction

(1)

The Ecchoing Green

(1)

The Lamb

(1)

The Little Black Boy

(1)

The Chimney Sweeper

(1)

The Divine Image

(1)

HOLY THURSDAY

(1)

Nurse's Song

(1)

Infant Joy

(1)

COMPANION READING Charles Lamb: from The Praise of Chimney-Sweepers

(25)

from Songs of Experience

(10)

Introduction

(1)

EARTH'S Answer

(1)

THE FLY

(1)

The CLOD and the PEBBLE

(1)

HOLY THURSDAY

(1)

The Tyger

(1)

The Chimney Sweeper

(1)

The SICK ROSE

(1)

AH! SUN-FLOWER

(1)

The GARDEN of LOVE

(1)

LONDON

(1)

The Human Abstract

(1)

INFANT SORROW

(1)

A POISON TREE

(1)

A DIVINE IMAGE

(1)

The School-Boy

(1)

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

(13)

PERSPECTIVES The Abolition of Slavery and the Slave Trade

108

(23)

OLAUDAH EQUIANO

109

(9)

from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

110

(8)

MARY PRINCE

118

(4)

from The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave

118

(4)

THOMAS BELLAMY

122

(7)

The Benevolent Planters

123

(6)

WILLIAM COWPER

129

(1)

Sweet Meat Has Sour Sauce 129

DOROTHY WORDSWORTH

130

(1)

from The Grasmere Journals

131

(1)

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

131

(2)

To Toussaint L'Ouverture

131

(1)

from The Prelude

132

(1)

Letter to Mary Ann Rawson (May 1833)

132

(1)

THE EDINBURGH REVIEW

133

(3)

from Abstract of the Information laid on the Table of the House of Commons, on the Subject of the Slave Trade

133

(3)

MARY ROBINSON

136

(1)

Ode to Beauty

137

(1)

January, 1795

138

(1)

Sappho and Phaon, in a Series of Legitimate Sonnets

139

(3)

4 ("Why, when I gaze on Phaon's beauteous eyes")

139

(1)

7 ("Come. Reason")

140

(1)

11 ("O Reason")

140

(1)

12 ("Now, o'er the tesselated pavement strew")

140

(1)

18 ("Why art thou changed? O Phaon! tell me why?")

141

(1)

30 ("O'er the tall cliff that bounds the billowy main")

141

(1)

37 ("When, in the gloomy mansion of the dead") 141

The Camp

142

(1)

The Haunted Beach

143

(1)

London's Summer Morning

144

(1)

The Old Beggar

145

(2)

To the Poet Coleridge

147

(2)

MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

149

(2)

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

151

(299)

Introduction

152

(3)

from Chapter 1. The Rights and Involved Duties of Mankind Considered

155

(2)

from Chapter 2. The Prevailing Opinion of a Sexual Character Discussed

157

(6)

from Chapter 3. The Same Subject Continued

163

(3)

from Chapter 13. Some Instances of the Folly Which the Ignorance of Women Generates; with Concluding Reflections on the Moral Improvement That a Revolution in Female Manners Might Naturally Be Expected to Produce

166

(2)

"A VINDICATION" AND ITS TIME The Wollstonecraft Controversy and the Rights of Women

168

(20)

Catherine Macaulay from Letters on Education

169

(2)

Richard Polwhele from The Unsex'd Females

171

(5)

Hannah More from Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education

176

(6)

William Thompson and Anna Wheeler from Appeal of One Half the Human Race, Women, Against the Pretensions of the Other Half, Men, To Retain Them in Political, and Thence in Civil and Domestic Slavery

182

(6)

ROBERT BURNS

188

(6)

To a Mouse

189

(1)

Comin' Thro' the Rye (1)

190

(1)

Comin' Thro' the Rye (2)

190

(1)

Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled

191

(1)

A Red, Red Rose

192

(1)

Auld Lang Syne

192

(1)

The Fornicator. A New Song

193

(1)

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

194

(96)

LYRICAL BALLADS

196

(1)

Simon Lee

197

(3)

We Are Seven

200

(1)

Lines Written in Early Spring

201

(1)

Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey

202

(4)

LYRICAL BALLADS (1800, 1802)

206

(1)

Preface

206

(6)

[The Principal Object of the Poems. Humble and Rustic Life]

206

(1)

["The Spontaneous Overflow of Powerful Feelings"]

207

(1)

[The Language of Poetry]

208

(2)

[What is a Poet?]

210

(2)

["Emotion Recollected in Tranquillity"]

212

(1)

There was a Boy

212

(1)

Strange fits of passion have I known

213

(1)

Song ("She dwelt among th' untrodden ways")

214

(1)

Three years she grew in sun and shower

214

(1)

Song ("A slumber did my spirit seal")

215

(1)

Nutting

215

(2)

Michael

217

(11)

COMPANION READINGS

Francis Jeffrey: [On "the new poetry"]

228

(3)

Charles Lamb: from Letter to William Wordsworth

231

(1)

Charles Lamb: from Letter to Thomas Manning

232

(1)

SONNETS, 1802-1807

233

(1)

Prefatory Sonnet ("Nuns fret not at their Convent's narrow room")

233

(1)

The world is too much with us

234

(1)

Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1802

234

(1)

It is a beauteous Evening

235

(1)

I griev'd for Buonaparte

235

(1)

London, 1802

235

(1)

COMPANION READINGS

Charlotte Smith: from Elegiac Sonnets

236

(1)

To Melancholy

236

(1)

Far on the Sands

236

(1)

To Tranquillity

237

(1)

THE PRELUDE, OR GROWTH OF A POET'S MIND (1805)

237

(1)

Book First. Introduction, Childhood, and School time

238

(14)

Book Second. School time continued

252

(3)

[Two Consciousnesses]

252

(1)

[Blessed Infant Babe]

253

(2)

Book Sixth. Cambridge, and the Alps

255

(3)

[Travelling in the Alps. Simplon Pass]

255

(3)

Book Tenth. Residence in France and French Revolution

258

(12)

[The Reign of Terror. Confusion. Return to England]

258

(5)

[Further Events in France]

263

(1)

[The Death of Robespierre and Renewed Optimism]

264

(2)

[Britain Declares War on France. The Rise of Napoleon and Imperialist France]

266

(4)

COMPANION READING William Wordsworth: from The Prelude (1850)

270

(1)

Book Eleventh. Imagination, How Impaired and Restored

271

(5)

[Imagination Restored by Nature]

271

(1)

["Spots of Time." Two Memories from Childhood and Later Reflections]

272

(4)

Book Thirteenth. Conclusion

276

(6)

[Climbing Mount Snowdon. Moonlit Vista. Meditation on "Mind," "Self," "Imagination," "Fear," and "Love"]

276

(4)

[Concluding Retrospect and Prophecy]

280

(2)

I wandered lonely as a cloud

282

(1)

My heart leaps up

283

(1)

Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood

283

(6)

The Solitary Reaper

289

(1)

Surprized by joy

290

(1)

DOROTHY WORDSWORTH

290

(1)

Address to a Child

291

(2)

Thoughts on My Sick-bed

293

(1)

When Shall I Tread Your Garden Path?

294

(1)

The Grasmere Journals

294

(5)

[Home Alone]

294

(1)

[The Grasmere Mailman]

295

(1)

[A Vision of the Moon]

296

(1)

[A Field of Daffodils]

296

(1)

[A Beggar Woman from Cockermouth]

297

(1)

[The Circumstances of "Composed upon Westminster Bridge"]

297

(1)

[The Circumstances of "It is a beauteous Evening"]

298

(1)

[The Household in Winter, with William's New Wife. Gingerbread]

298

(1)

PERSPECTIVES The Sublime, the Beautiful, and the Picturesque

299

(3)

EDMUND BURKE

302

(6)

from A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

302

(6)

WILLIAM GILPIN

308

(6)

from Three Essays on Picturesque Beauty, on Picturesque Travel, and on Sketching Landscape

309

(5)

JANE AUSTEN

314

(1)

from Pride and Prejudice

314

(1)

MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

314

(2)

from A Vindication of the Rights of Men

315

(1)

IMMANUEL KANT

316

(3)

from The Critique of Judgement

317

(2)

JOHN RUSKIN

319

(4)

from Modern Painters

319

(4)

SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

323

(18)

The Eolian Harp

325

(1)

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1817)

326

(15)

COMPANION READING Samuel Taylor Coleridge: from Table Talk

341

(15)

Kubla Khan

341

(2)

Frost at Midnight

343

(2)

Dejection: An Ode

345

(3)

Work Without Hope

348

(1)

Constancy to an Ideal Object

349

(1)

Epitaph

350

(1)

Biographic Literaria

350

(8)

Chapter 13

350

(1)

[Imagination and Fancy]

350

(3)

Chapter 14

353

(1)

[Occasion of the Lyrical Ballads-Preface to the Second Edition The Ensuing Controversy]

353

(1)

[Philosophic Definitions of a Poem and Poetry]

355

(1)

GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON

356

(35)

She walks in beauty

358

(1)

So, we'll go no more a-roving

358

(1)

CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE 359 Canto the Third

359

(3)

[Thunderstorm in the Alps]

359

(1)

[Byron's Strained Idealism. Apostrophe to His Daughter]

360

(2)

Canto the Fourth

362

(4)

[The Coliseum. The Dying Gladiator]

362

(2)

[Apostrophe to the Ocean. Conclusion]

364

(2)

COMPANION READINGS

John Wilson: from A Review of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

366

(1)

John Scott: [Lord Byron's Creations]

367

(1)

DON JUAN

368

(1)

Dedication

369

(4)

from Canto 1

373

(14)

from Canto 11 [ Juan in England]

387

(3)

Stanzas ("When a man hath no freedom to fight for at home")

390

(1)

On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year

390

(1)

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

391

(13)

Mont Blanc

393

(4)

Hymn to Intellectual Beauty

397

(2)

Ozymandias

399

(1)

Ode to the West Wind

399

(3)

To a Sky-Lark

402

(2)

FELICIA HEMANS

404

(11)

TALES, AND HISTORIC SCENES, IN VERSE

406

(1)

The Wife of Asdrubal

406

(2)

RECORDS OF WOMAN

408

(1)

Properzia Rossi

408

(4)

The Homes of England

412

(1)

Corinne at the Capitol

413

(1)

Woman and Fame

414

(1)

COMPANION READING Francis Jeffrey: from A Review of Felicia Hemans's Poetry

415

(3)

JOHN CLARE

418

(3)

Written in November (1)

419

(1)

Written in November (2)

419

(1)

Clock a Clay

420

(1)

"I Am"

420

(1)

JOHN KEATS

421

(3)

On First Looking into Chapman's Homer

423

(1)

COMPANION READINGS

Alexander Pope: from Homer's Iliad

424

(1)

George Chapman: from Homer's Iliad

424

(1)

On Seeing the Elgin Marbles

425

(1)

Sonnet: When I have fears

425

(1)

The Eve of St. Agnes

425

(10)

La Belle Dame sans Mercy

435

(2)

Incipit altera Sonnets ("If by dull rhymes")

437

(1)

THE ODES OF 1819

437

(1)

Ode to a Nightingale

438

(2)

Ode on a Grecian Urn

440

(2)

Ode on Melancholy

442

(1)

To Autumn

443

(1)

This living hand

444

(1)

Bright Star

444

(1)

LETTERS

444

(1)

To George and Thomas Keats ["Intensity" and "Negative Capability"]

444

(1)

To Richard Woodhouse [The "camelion Poet" vs. the "egotistical sublime"]

445

(2)

To Fanny Brawne ["You Take Possession of Me"]

447

(1)

To Percy Bysshe Shelley ["An Artist Must Serve Mammon"]

448

(1)

To Charles Brown [Keats's Last Letter]

449

(1)

The Victorian Age

450

(470)

THOMAS CARLYLE

475

(12)

Past and Present

477

(13)

Midas [The Condition of England]

477

(3)

from Gospel of Mammonism [The Irish Widow]

480

(1)

from Labour [Know Thy Work]

481

(1)

Captains of Industry

482

(5)

PERSPECTIVES The Industrial Landscape

487

(3)

THE STEAM LOOM WEAVER 489 FANNY KEMBLE

490

(1)

from Record of a Girlhood

490

(1)

THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY

491

(2)

from A Review of Southey's Colloquies

491

(2)

PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS ("BLUE BOOKS")

493

(2)

Testimony of Hannah Goode, a Child Textile Worker

494

(1)

Testimony of Ann and Elizabeth Eggley, Child Mineworkers

494

(1)

CHARLES DICKENS

495

(1)

from Dombey and Son

496

(1)

from Hard Times

497

(2)

BENJAMIN DISRAELI

499

(1)

from Sybil

499

(1)

FRIEDRICH ENGELS

500

(8)

from The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844

500

(8)

500 HENRY MAYHEW

508

(5)

from London Labour and the London Poor

508

(5)

JOHN STUART MILL

513

(15)

On Liberty

515

(6)

from Chapter 2. Of the Liberty of Thought and Discussion

515

(2)

from Chapter 3. Of Individuality, as One of the Elements of Well-Being

517

(4)

The Subjection of Women

521

(6)

from Chapter 1

521

(6)

Statement Repudiating the Rights of Husbands

527

(1)

ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING

528

(27)

Sonnets from the Portuguese

530

(2)

1 ("I thought once how Theocritus had sung")

530

(1)

13 ("And wilt thou have me fashion into speech")

530

(1)

21 ("Say over again, and yet once over again")

530

(1)

22 ("When our two souls stand up erect and strong")

531

(1)

28 ("My letters! all dead paper, mute and white!")

531

(1)

32 ("The first time that the sun rose on thine oath")

531

(1)

38 ("First time he kissed me, he but only kissed")

532

(1)

43 ("How do I love thee? Let me count the ways")

532

(1)

Aurora Leigh

532

(25)

Book 1

532

(1)

[Self-Portrait]

532

(1)

[Her Mother's Portrait]

534

(1)

[Aurora's Education]

535

(1)

[Discovery of Poetry]

539

(1)

Book 2

540

(1)

[Woman and Artist]

540

(1)

[No Female Christ]

543

(1)

[Aurora's Rejection of Romney]

544

(5)

Book 3

549

(1)

[The Woman Writer in London]

549

(3)

Book 5

552

(1)

[Epic Art and Modern Life]

552

(3)

PERSPECTIVES Victorian Ladies and Gentlemen

555

(2)

SARAH STICKNEY ELLIS

557

(3)

from The Women of England: Their Social Duties and Domestic Habits

557

(3)

CHARLOTTE BRONTË

560

(1)

from Letter to Emily Brontë

560

(1)

ANNE BRONTË

561

(2)

from Agnes Grey

562

(1)

JOHN HENRY CARDINAL NEWMAN

563

(1)

from The Idea of a University

563

(1)

CAROLINE NORTON

564

(3)

from A Letter to the Queen

565

(2)

GEORGE ELIOT

567

(5)

Margaret Fuller and Mary Wollstonecraft

567

(5)

THOMAS HUGHES

572

(2)

from Tom Brown's School Days

572

(2)

ISABELLA BEETON

574

(2)

from The Book of Household Management

574

(2)

QUEEN VICTORIA

576

(5)

Letters and Journal Entries on the Position of Women

576

(5)

CHARLES KINGSLEY

581

(1)

from Letters and Memories

581

(1)

SIR HENRY NEWBOLT

582

(1)

Vitaï Lampada

582

(1)

ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON

583

(34)

The Kraken

586

(1)

Mariana

586

(2)

The Lady of Shalott

588

(5)

Ulysses

593

(1)

Break, Break, Break

594

(1)

The Epic [Morte d'Arthur]

595

(2)

THE PRINCESS

597

(1)

Tears, Idle Tears

597

(1)

[The Woman's Cause Is Man's]

598

(1)

from In Memoriam A. H. H.

599

(16)

The Charge of the Light Brigade

615

(1)

Crossing the Bar

616

(1)

CHARLES DARWIN

617

(15)

The Voyage of the Beagle

619

(8)

from Chapter 10. Tierra Del Fuego

619

(5)

from Chapter 17. Galapagos Archipelago

624

(3)

On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection

627

(6)

from Chapter 3. Struggle for Existence

627

(5)

PERSPECTIVES Religion and Science

632

(1)

THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY

633

(1)

from Lord Bacon

633

(1)

CHARLES DICKENS

634

(3)

from Sunday Under Three Heads

634

(3)

DAVID FRIEDRICH STRAUSS

637

(3)

from The Life of Jesus Critically Examined

637

(3)

CHARLOTTE BRONTË

640

(2)

from Jane Eyre

640

(2)

ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH

642

(2)

Epi-Strauss-ium

642

(1)

The Latest Decalogue

643

(1)

from Dipsychus

643

(1)

JOHN WILLIAM COLENSO

644

(2)

from The Pentateuch and Book of Joshua Critically Examined

645

(1)

JOHN HENRY CARDINAL NEWMAN

646

(7)

from Apologia Pro Vita Sua

647

(6)

THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY

653

(6)

from Evolution and Ethics

654

(5)

ROBERT BROWNING

659

(31)

Porphyria's Lover

662

(1)

My Last Duchess

663

(2)

The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church

665

(3)

Love Among the Ruins

668

(2)

"Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came"

670

(5)

Fra Lippo Lippi

675

(9)

Andrea del Sarto

684

(6)

Popular Short Fiction

690

(1)

ELIZABETH GASKELL

690

(16)

Our Society at Cranford

691

(15)

SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

706

(15)

A Scandal in Bohemia

706

(15)

RUDYARD KIPLING

721

(16)

Without Benefit of Clergy

723

(14)

JOHN RUSKIN

737

(2)

Modern Painters

738

(1)

from Definition of Greatness in Art

738

(1)

The Stones of Venice

739

(10)

from The Nature of Gothic

739

(10)

MATTHEW ARNOLD

749

(7)

Dover Beach

751

(1)

Culture and Anarchy

752

(6)

from Sweetness and Light

752

(2)

from Hebraism and Hellenism

754

(1)

from Conclusion

755

(1)

CHRISTINA ROSSETTI

756

(17)

Song ("When I am dead, my dearest")

758

(1)

In an Artist's Studio

758

(1)

Goblin Market

759

(12)

"No, Thank You, John"

771

(1)

Promises Like Pie-Crust

772

(1)

Sleeping at Last

772

(1)

GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS

773

(6)

God's Grandeur

774

(1)

The Windhover

775

(1)

Pied Beauty

775

(1)

Felix Randal

776

(1)

Spring and Fall: to a young child

776

(1)

As Kingfishers Catch Fire

777

(1)

[Carrion Comfort]

777

(1)

No Worst, There Is None

777

(1)

I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark, Not Day

778

(1)

Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord

778

(1)

LEWIS CARROLL

779

(16)

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

780

(7)

Chapter 1. Down the Rabbit-Hole

780

(3)

from Chapter 2. The Pool of Tears

783

(3)

You are old, Father William

786

(1)

The Lobster-Quadrille

786

(1)

Through the Looking Glass

787

(12)

Child of the pure unclouded brow

787

(1)

Jabberwocky

788

(1)

[Humpty Dumpty on Jabberwocky]

789

(1)

The Walrus and the Carpenter

790

(2)

The White Knight's Song

792

(3)

PERSPECTIVES Imagining Childhood

795

(4)

CHARLES DARWIN

799

(3)

from A Biographical Sketch of an Infant

799

(3)

MORAL VERSES

802

(3)

Table Rules for Little Folks

802

(1)

Eliza Cook: The Mouse and the Cake

803

(1)

Heinrich Hoffmann: The Story of Augustus who would Not have any Soup

803

(1)

Thomas Miller: The Watercress Seller

804

(1)

William Miller: Willie Winkie

805

(1)

EDWARD LEAR

805

(5)

[Selected Limericks]

806

(2)

The Owl and the Pussy-Cat

808

(1)

How pleasant to know Mr. Lear!

809

(1)

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

810

(2)

from A Child's Garden of Verses

810

(2)

HILAIRE BELLOC

812

(2)

from The Bad Child's Book of Beasts

812

(2)

BEATRIX POTTER

814

(2)

The Tale of Peter Rabbit

814

(2)

DAISY ASHFORD

816

(7)

from The Young Visiters; or, Mr Salteena's Plan

816

(7)

HENRY JAMES

823

(5)

from What Maisie Knew

824

(4)

OSCAR WILDE

828

(61)

Impression du Matin

830

(1)

Symphony in Yellow 831 from The Decay of Lying

831

(15)

Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray

846

(1)

The Importance of Being Earnest

847

(40)

Aphorisms

887

(2)

OSCAR WILDE AND HIS TIME Aestheticism, Decadence, and the Fin de Siècle

889

(31)

W.S. Gilbert

892

(2)

If You're Anxious for to Shine in the High Aesthetic Line

893

(1)

James Abbott McNeill Whistler

894

(5)

from Mr. Whistler's "Ten O'Clock"

895

(4)

H. Montgomery Hyde

899

(5)

from The Trials of Oscar Wilde

899

(5)

Oscar Wilde

904

(7)

from De Profundis

904

(7)

Michael Field" (Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper)

911

(3)

La Gioconda

912

(1)

A Pen-Drawing of Leda

912

(1)

"A Girl"

913

(1)

Lionel Johnson

913

(1)

The Destroyer of a Soul

914

(1)

A Decadent's Lyric

914

(1)

Lord Alfred Douglas

914

(3)

In Praise of Shame

915

(1)

Two Loves

916

(1)

Olive Custance (Lady Alfred Douglas)

917

(29)

The Masquerade

918

(1)

Statues

918

(1)

The White Witch

919

(1)

The Twentieth Century

920

(505)

JOSEPH CONRAD

943

(59)

Preface to The Nigger of the "Narcissus"

946

(2)

Heart of Darkness

948

(54)

BERNARD SHAW

1002

(69)

Pygmalion

1005

(66)

THOMAS HARDY

1071

(9)

Hap

1073

(1)

Wessex Heights

1073

(1)

The Darkling Thrush

1074

(1)

On the Departure Platform

1075

(1)

The Convergence of the Twain

1076

(1)

Channel Firing

1077

(1)

In Time of "The Breaking of Nations"

1078

(1)

Logs on the Hearth

1078

(1)

Afterwards

1079

(1)

Epitaph

1079

(1)

PERSPECTIVES The Great War: Confronting the Modern

1080

(1)

BLAST

1080

(16)

Vorticist Manifesto

1082

(14)

RUPERT BROOKE

1096

(3)

The Great Lover

1097

(1)

The Soldier

1098

(1)

SIEGFRIED SASSOON

1099

(1)

Glory of Women

1099

(1)

Everyone Sang

1100

(1)

WILFRED OWEN

1100

(3)

Anthem for Doomed Youth

1100

(1)

Strange Meeting

1101

(1)

Dulce Et Decorum Est

1102

(1)

ISAAC ROSENBERG

1103

(3)

Break of Day in the Trenches

1103

(1)

Dead Man's Dump

1104

(2)

DAVID JONES

1106

(7)

from In Parenthesis

1107

(6)

WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

1113

(8)

The Lake Isle of Innisfree

1117

(1)

Who Goes with Fergus?

1118

(1)

No Second Troy

1118

(1)

The Wild Swans at Coole

1118

(1)

Easter 1916

1119

(2)

COMPANION READING Proclamation of the Irish Republic

1121

(9)

The Second Coming

1122

(1)

A Prayer for My Daughter

1123

(1)

Sailing to Byzantium

1124

(1)

Leda and the Swan

1125

(1)

Among School Children

1126

(1)

Byzantium

1127

(1)

Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop

1128

(1)

Lapis Lazuli

1129

(1)

JAMES JOYCE

1130

(61)

DUBLINERS

1134

(1)

Clay

1134

(4)

The Dead

1138

(26)

Ulysses

1164

(30)

[Chapter 13. Nausicaa]

1165

(26)

T.S. ELIOT

1191

(7)

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

1194

(4)

COMPANION READINGS

Arthur Waugh: [Cleverness and the New Poetry]

1198

(1)

Ezra Pound: Drunken Helots and Mr. Eliot

1199

(3)

The Waste Land

1202

(13)

Journey of the Magi

1215

(1)

Tradition and the Individual Talent

1216

(6)

VIRGINIA WOOLF

1222

(32)

The Lady in the Looking-Glass: A Reflection

1224

(4)

from A Room of One's Own

1228

(26)

PERSPECTIVES Regendering Modernism

1254

(1)

VIRGINIA WOOLF

1255

(6)

from Orlando

1256

(5)

E.M. FORSTER

1261

(12)

The Life to Come

1262

(11)

REBECCA WEST

1273

(16)

Indissoluble Matrimony

1273

(16)

KATHERINE MANSFIELD

1289

(13)

The Daughters of the Late Colonel

1290

(12)

JEAN RHYS

1302

(5)

Mannequin

1304

(3)

ANGELA CARTER

1307

(8)

Penetrating to the Heart of the Forest

1308

(7)

D.H. LAWRENCE

1315

(16)

Odour of Chrysanthemums

1318

(13)

W.H. AUDEN

1331

(7)

Musée des Beaux Arts

1333

(1)

In Memory of W. B. Yeats

1333

(2)

September 1, 1939

1335

(3)

PERSPECTIVES World War II and the End of Empire

1338

(1)

SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL

1339

(8)

Two Speeches Before the House of Commons

1340

(7)

STEPHEN SPENDER

1347

(3)

Icarus

1348

(1)

What I Expected

1348

(1)

The Express

1349

(1)

The Pylons

1349

(1)

ELIZABETH BOWEN

1350

(10)

Mysterious Kôr

1350

(10)

GEORGE ORWELL

1360

(5)

Shooting an Elephant

1361

(4)

SALMAN RUSHDIE

1365

(6)

Christopher Columbus and Queen Isabella of Spain Consummate Their Relationship

1366

(5)

DYLAN THOMAS

1371

(3)

The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower

1372

(1)

Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night

1373

(1)

SAMUEL BECKETT

1374

(9)

Krapp's Last Tape

1375

(6)

Texts for Nothing

1381

(3)

8 Only the words break the silence, all other sounds have ceased")

1381

(2)

PERSPECTIVES Whose Language?

1383

(1)

PHILIP LARKIN

1384

(2)

Talking in Bed

1384

(1)

MCMXIV

1385

(1)

High Windows

1386

(1)

SEAMUS HEANEY

1386

(8)

The Toome Road

1387

(1)

A Postcard from North Antrim

1387

(2)

The Singer's House

1389

(1)

The Skunk

1390

(1)

Punishment

1391

(1)

Station Island

1392

(1)

12 ("Like a convalescent, I took the hand")

1392

(1)

Postscript

1393

(1)

NUALA NÍ DHOMHNAILL

1394

(11)

Parthenogenesis

1394

(2)

Labasheedy (The Silken Bed)

1396

(1)

Why I Choose to Write in Irish, The Corpse That Sits Up and Talks Back

1397

(8)

NGUGI WA THIONG'O

1405

(4)

from Decolonizing the Mind

1406

(3)

NADINE GORDIMER

1409

(7)

What Were You Dreaming?

1410

(6)

EAVAN BOLAND

1416

(4)

The Pomegranate

1417

(2)

A Woman Painted on a Leaf

1419

(1)

Mise Eire

1419

(1)

DEREK WALCOTT

1420

(5)

A Far Cry from Africa

1421

(1)

Midsummer

1422

(3)

50 ("I once gave my daughters, separately, two conch shells")

1422

(1)

52 ("I heard them marching the leaf-wet roads of my head")

1423

(1)

54 ("The midsummer sea, the hot pitch road, this grass, these shacks that made me")

1423

(2)

Bibliographies

1425

(37)

Credits

1462

(3)

Index

1465

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