The Longman anthology of British literature

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• Damrosch, David
• Dettmar, Kevin J. H.

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The Longman anthology of British literature

David Damrosch and Kevin J.H. Dettmar, general editors

Pearson Longman, c2006

3rd ed

• v. 1 set
• v. 2 set

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Longman anthology, British literature

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Volume

v. 1 set ISBN 9780321333971

Description

Following the first and second editions, which created a new paradigm for anthologies,this new third edition continues to respond to major shifts in literary studies over the past thirty years. This anthology was the first to pay sustained attention to the contexts within which literature is produced. Within its pages, canonical authors mingle with newly visible writers and major works are illuminated by clusters of shorter texts that bring literary, social, and historical issues vividly to life. This third edition continues to benefit from an editorial team whose members are all actively engaged in teaching and in current scholarship, and an abundance of new illustrations which show both artistic and cultural developments from the medieval period to the present.

Table of Contents

• * denotes selection is new to this edition. Complete contents for Volume I are below. Volume 1A contains only the section entitled "Middle Ages." Volume 1B contains only the section entitled "The Early Modern Period." Volume 1C contains only the section entitled "The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century." THE MIDDLE AGES. Before the Norman Conquest. Beowulf. * Response. * John Gardner, From Grendel. * Early Irish Narrative. * The Labour Pains of the Ulaid & The Twins of Macha. * The Birth of Cu Chulaind. * The Naming of Cu Chulaind. Early Irish Verse. To Crinog. Pangur the Cat. Writing in the Wood. The Viking Terror. The Old Woman of Beare. Findabair Remembers Froech. A Grave Marked with Ogam. From The Voyage of Mael Duin. Judith. The Dream of the Rood. Perspectives: Ethnic and Religious Encounters. Bede. From An Ecclesiastical History of the English People. Bishop Asser. From The Life of King Alfred. King Alfred. Preface to St. Gregory's Pastoral Care. Ohthere's Journeys. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Stamford Bridge and Hastings. Taliesin. Urien Yrechwydd. The Battle of Argoed Llwyfain. The War-Band's Return. Lament for Owain Son of Urien. * The Tale of Taliesin. The Wanderer. Wulf and Eadwacer and the Wife's Lament. Riddles. Three Anglo-Latin Riddles by Aldhelm. Five Old English Riddles. After the Norman Conquest. Perspectives: Arthurian Myth in the History of Britain. Geoffrey of Monmouth. From History of the Kings of Britain. Gerald of Wales. From The Instruction of Princes. Edward I. Letter to the Papal Court of Rome. Response. A Report to Edward I. Arthurian Romance. Marie de France. LAIS. Prologue. Lanval. * Chevrefoil (The Honeysuckle). * Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Trans. by J.R.R. Tolkien. Sir Thomas Malory. Morte Darthur. From Caxton's Prologue. The Poisoned Apple. The Days of Destiny. * Responses. * Marion Zimmer Bradley, From The Mists of Avalon. * John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin, scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Geoffrey Chaucer. The Parliament of Fowls. The CANTERBURY TALES. The General Prologue, Middle English translation * The General Prologue, Modern translation on facing pages, trans. by David Wright The Miller's Tale. The Introduction. The Tale. The Wife of Bath's Prologue. The Wife of Bath's Tale. * Response. * William Dunbar, From The Treatise of the Two Married Women and the Widow. The Franklin's Tale. The Prologue. The Tale. The Pardoner's Prologue. The Pardoner's Tale. The Nun's Priest's Tale. The Parson's Tale. The Introduction. (The Remedy for the Sin of Lechery.) Chaucer's Retraction. To His Scribe Adam. Complaint to His Purse. William Langland. Piers Plowman. Prologue. Passus 2. from Passus 5. Passus 6. Passus 18. "Piers Plowman" and Its Time: The Rising of 1381. From The Anonimalle Chronicle [Wat Tyler's Demands to Richard II and his death]. Three Poems on the Rising of 1381. John Ball's First Letter. John Ball's Second Letter. The Course of Revolt. John Gower. From The Voice of One Crying. Mystical Writings Julian of Norwich. A Book of Showings. (Three Graces. Illness. The First Revelation.) (Laughing at the Devil.) (Christ Draws Julian in Through His Wound.]) (The Necessity of Sin, and of Hating Sin.) (God as Father, Mother, Husband.) (The Soul as Christ's Citadel.) (The Meaning of the Visions Is Love.) Julian of Norwich and Her Time. Richard Rolle. From The Fire of Love From The Cloud of Unknowing. * Response. * Rebecca Jackson, The Dream of Washing Quilts. Medieval Biblical Dramas. The Second Play of the Shepherds. The York Play of the Crucifixion. Vernacular Religion and Repression. The Wycliffite Bible. John 10:11-18. From A Wycliffite Sermon on John 10:11-18. John Mirk. From Festial. Preaching and Teaching in the Vernacular. Nicholas Love. From The Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus. From The Confession of Hawisia Moone of Loddon. Margery Kempe. The Book of Margery Kempe. The Preface. (Early Life and Temptations, Revelation, Desire for Foreign Pilgrimage.) (Meeting with Bishop of Lincoln and Archbishop of Canterbury.) (Visit with Julian of Norwich.) (Pilgrimage to Jerusalem.) (Arrest by Duke of Bedford's Men
• Meeting with Archbishop of York.) Middle English Lyrics. The Cuckoo Song ("Sumer is icumen in"). Spring ("Lenten is come with love to toune"). Alisoun ("Bitwene Mersh and Averil"). I Have a Noble Cock. My Lefe Is Faren in a Lond. Fowles in the Frith. Abuse of Women ("In every place ye may well see"). The Irish Dancer ("Gode sire, pray ich thee"). A Forsaken Maiden's Lament ("I lovede a child of this cuntree"). The Wily Clerk ("This enther day I mete a clerke"). Jolly Jankin ("As I went on Yol Day in our procession"). Adam Lay Ibounden. I Sing of a Maiden. In Praise of Mary ("Edi be thu, Hevene Quene"). Mary Is With Child ("Under a tree"). Sweet Jesus, King of Bliss. Now Goeth Sun under Wood. Jesus, My Sweet Lover ("Jesu Christ, my lemmon swete"). Contempt of the World ("Where beth they biforen us weren?"). Dafydd Ap Gwilym. Aubade. One Saving Place. The Girls of Llanbadarn. Tale of a Wayside Inn. The Hateful Husband. The Winter. The Ruin. Middle Scots Poets. William Dunbar. Lament for the Makars. Done is a Battell. In Secreit Place This Hyndir Nycht. Robert Henryson. Robyne and Makyne. Late Medieval Allegory. * Charles of Orleans. * Fortunes Stabilnes * Ballade 26. * Ballade 61. * Roundel 94. * Mankind, a modern acting edition, ed. by Peter Meredith. * Christine de Pizan. * From Book of the City of Ladies, translation by Earl Jeffrey Richards. THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD. John Skelton. Womanhood, Wanton. Lullay. Knolege, Aquayntance. Manerly Margery Mylk and Ale. Garland of Laurel. To Maystres Jane Blennerhasset. To Maystres Isabell Pennell. To Maystres Margaret Hussey. Sir Thomas Wyatt. The Long Love, That in My Thought Doth Harbor. Response. Petrarch, Sonnet 140. Whoso List to Hunt. Response. Petrarch, Sonnet 190. My Galley. They Flee from Me. Some Time I Fled the Fire. My Lute, Awake! Tagus, Farewell. Forget Not Yet. Blame Not My Lute. Lucks, My Fair Falcon, and Your Fellows All. Stand Whoso List. Mine Own John Poyns. Henry Howard, Earl Of Surrey. Love That Doth Reign and Live within My Thought. Th'Assyrians' King, in Peace with Foul Desire. Set Me Whereas the Sun Doth Parch the Green. The Soote Season. Alas, So All Things Now Do Hold Their Peace. Response. Petrarch, Sonnet 164. So Cruel Prison. London, Hast Thou Accused Me. Wyatt Resteth Here. My Radcliffe, When Thy Reckless Youth Offends. Sir Thomas More. Utopia. * Response. * George Orwell, From 1984. Perspectives: Government and Self-Government. William Tyndale. From The Obedience of a Christian Man. Juan Luis Vives. From Instruction of a Christian Woman. Sir Thomas Elyot. From The Book Named the Governor. From The Defence of Good Women. John Ponet. From A Short Treatise of Political Power. Baldassare Castiglione. From The Book of the Courtier. John Foxe. From The Book of Martyrs. Roger Ascham. From The Schoolmaster. Richard Mulcaster. From The First Part of the Elementary * Sir Thomas Smith, From De Republica Anglorum. Richard Hooker. From The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity. James I (James VI of Scotland). From The True Law of Free Monarchies. * Thomas Hobbes, From Leviathan. George Gascoigne. Seven Sonnets to Alexander Neville. Woodsmanship. Edmund Spenser. The Shepheardes Calender. October. The Faerie Queene. A Letter of the Authors. The First Booke of the Fairie Queene. Amoretti. 1("Happy ye leaves when as those lilly hands.") 4("New yeare forth looking out of Janus gate.") 13("In that proud port, which her so goodly graceth.") 22 ("This holy season fit to fast and pray.") 62 ("The weary yeare his race now having run.") 65 ("The doubt which ye misdeeme, fayre love, is vaine.") 66 ("To all those happy belssings which ye have.") 68 ("Most glorious Lord of lyfe that on this day.") 68 ("One day I wrote her name upon the strand.") Epithalamion. Sir Philip Sidney. The Apology for Poetry. "The Apology" and Its Time: The Art of Poetry. Stephen Gosson. From The School of Abuse. George Puttenham. From The Art of English Poesie. George Gascoigne.From Certain Notes of Instruction. Samuel Daniel. From A Defense of Rhyme. Astrophil and Stella. 1 ("Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show.") * 3 ("Let dainty wits cry on the sisters nine.") 7 ("When Nature made her chiefs worke, Stellas eyes.") 9 ("Queene Vertues couyrt, which some call Stellas face.") * 10 ("Reason, in faith thou art well serv'd, that still.") * 14 ("Alas, have I not pain enough, my friend.") * 15 ("You that do search for every purling spring.") * 23 ("The curious wits, seeing dull pensiveness.") * 24 ("Rich fool there be whose base and filthy heart.") 31 ("With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies.") * 37 ("My mouth doth water, and my breast doth swell.") 39 ("Come sleep, O sleep, the certain knot of peace.") 45 ("Stella oft sees the very face of woe.") * 47 ("What, have I thus betrayed my liberty?") * 52 ("A strife is grown between Virtue and Love.") 60 ("When my good Angel guides me to the place.") * 63 ("O grammar-rules, O now your virtues show.") * 64 ("No more, my dear, no more these counsels try.") * 68 ("Stella, the only planet of my light.") 71 ("Who will in fairest book of Nature know.") * 74 ("I never drank of Aganippe well.") Fourth song ("Only joy, now here you are.") * 86 ("Alas, whence came this change of looks? If I...") Eighth song ("In a grove most rich of shade.") * Ninth song ("Go my flock, go get you hence.") * 89 ("Now that, of absence, the most irksome night.") * 90 ("Stella, think not that I by verse seek fame.") * 91 ("Stella, while now by honor's cruel might.") * 97 ("Dian, that fain would cheer her friend the night.") * 104 ("Envious wits, what hath been mind offense.") 106 ("O absent presence, Stella is not here.") * 107 ("Stella, since thou so right a princess art.") 108 ("When sorrow (using mine own fire's might.) Isabella Whitney. The Admonition by the Author. A Careful Complaint by the Unfortunate Author. The Manner of Her Will. Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke. Even Now That Care. To Thee Pure Sprite. Psalm 71: In Te Domini Speravi ("On thee my trust is grounded"). Response. Miles Coverdale: Psalm 71. Psalm 121: Levavi Oculos ("Unto the hills, I now will bend"). The Doleful Lay of Clorinda. * Perspectives: The Rise of Print Culture. * Ranulf Higden, From Polychronicon. * Martin Marprelate, From Hay any Worke for Cooper. * Thomas Nashe, From Pierce Pennilesse, his supplication to the Devile * The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes. * Michel de Montaigne, From "Of Books," in Essays, trans. by John Florio. * Geoffrey Whitney. The Phoenix. Francis Bacon. Of Truth. Of Superstition. Of Studies (version of 1597). Of Studies (version of 1625). * From The Advancement of Learning, The Second Book. * The King James Bible, Genesis 3. * Robert Burton. The Anatomy of Melancholy. John Bunyan. From The Pilgrim's Progress. Elizabeth I. Written with a Diamond on Her Window at Woodstock. Written on a Wall at Woodstock. The Doubt of Future Foes. On Monsieur's Departure. The Metres of Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy. Book 1, No. 2 ("O in how headlong depth the drowned mind is dim.") Book 1, No. 7, ("Dim clouds.") Book 2, No. 3 ("In pool when Phoebus with reddy wain.") Speeches. On Marriage. On Mary, Queen of Scots. On Mary's Execution. To the English Troops at Tilbury, Facing the Spanish Armada. The Golden Speech. Aemilia Lanyer. The Description of Cookham. Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum. To the Doubtful Reader. To the Virtuous Reader. (Invocation.) (Against Beauty Without Virtue.) (Pilate's Wife Apologizes for Eve.) Richard Barnfield. The Affectionate Shepherd. Sonnets from Cynthia. 1 ("Sporting at fancy, setting light by love.") 5 ("It is reported of fair Thetis' son.") 9 ("Diana (on a time) walking the wood.") 11 ("Sighing, and sadly sitting by my love.") 13("Speak, Echo, tell
• how may I call my love?") 19 ("Ah no
• nor I myself: though my pure love.") Christopher Marlowe. The Passionate Shepherd to His Love. Responses. Sir Walter Raleigh. The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd. * C.S. Lewis,From The Screwtape Letters. Hero and Leander. The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus. Sir Walter Raleigh. Nature That Washed Her Hands in Milk. To the Queen. On the Life of Man. The Author's Epitaph, Made by Himself. As You Came from the Holy Land. From The 21st and Last Book of the Ocean to Cynthia. The Discovery of the Large, Rich and Beautiful Empire of Guiana. From Epistle Dedicatory. To the Reader. (The Amazons.) (The Orinoco.) (The King of Aromaia.) (The New World of Guiana.) Perspectives: England in the New World. Arthur Barlow. From The First Voyage Made to the Coasts of America. Thomas Hariot. From A Brief and True Report of the Newfound Land of Virginia. Michael Drayton. To the Virginian Voyage. John Smith. From General History of Virginia and the Summer Isles. John Donne. From A Sermon Preached to the Honorable Company of the Virginia Plantation. William Shakespeare. Sonnets. 1 ("From fairest creatures we desire increase"). 12 ("When I do count the clock that tells the time"). 15 ("When I consider every thing that grows"). 18 ("Shall I compare thee to a summer's day"). 20 ("A woman's face with Nature's own hand painted"). 29 ("When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes"). 30 ("When to the sessions of sweet, silent thought"). 31 ("Thy bosom is endeared with all hearts"). 33 ("Full many a glorious morning have I seen"). 35 ("No more be grieved at that which thou hast done"). 55 ("Not marble nor the gilded monuments"). 60 ("Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore"). 71 ("No longer mourn for me when I am dead"). 73 ("That time of year thou mayst in me behold"). 80 ("O, how I faint when I of you do write"). 86 ("Was it the proud full sail of his great verse"). 87 ("Farewell! Thou art too dear for my possessing"). 93 ("So shall I live, supposing thou art true"). 94 ("That they have pow'r to hurt, and will do none"). 104 ("To me, fair friend, you never can be old"). 106 ("When in the chronicle of wasted time"). 107 ("Not mine own fears nor the prophetic soul"). 116 ("Let me not to the marriage of true minds"). 123 ("No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change"). 124 ("If my dear love were but the child of state"). 126 ("O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power"). 128 ("How oft, when thou my music play'st"). 129 ("The expense of spirit is a waste of shame.") 130 ("My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun"). 138 ("When my love swears that she is made of truth"). 144 ("Two loves I have, of comfort and despair"). 152 ("In loving thee thou know'st I am forsworn"). Twelfth Night
• or, What You Will. The Tempest. Responses. William Strachey: From A True Reportory of the Wrack and Redemption of Sir Thomas Gates, Knight, upon and from the Islands of the Bermudas. Michel de Montaigne, From Of Cannibals. * Aime Cesaire, From A Tempest. Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton. The Roaring Girl
• or, Moll Cut-Purse. "The Roaring Girl" and Its Time: City Life. Barnabe Riche. From My Lady's Looking Glass. Robert Greene. From A Notable Discovery of Cosenage. Thomas Dekker. From Lantern and Candlelight. Thomas Deloney. From Thomas of Reading. Thomas Nashe. From Pierce Penniless. King James I. From A Counterblast to Tobacco. Perspectives: Tracts on Women and Gender. Desiderius Erasmus. From In Laude and Praise of Matrimony. Barnabe Riche. From My Lady's Looking Glass. Margaret Tyler. From Preface to The First Part of the Mirror of Princely Deeds. Joseph Swetnam. From The Arraignment of Lewd, Idle, Froward, and Unconstant Women. Rachel Speght. From A Muzzle for Melastomus. Esther Sowernam. From Ester Hath Hanged Haman. Hic Mulier and Haec-Vir. From Hic-Mulier
• or, The Man-Woman. From Haec-Vir
• or, The Womanish Man. Thomas Campion. My sweetest Lesbia, let us live and love. There is a garden in her face. Rose-cheeked Laura come. When thou must home to shades of underground. Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore. Michael Drayton. To the Reader. Sonnet 12. ("To nothing fitter can I thee compare.") Sonnet 16. ("Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part.") To His Coy Love, A Canzonet. Ben Jonson. The Alchemist. On Something, That Walks Somewhere. On My First Daughter. To John Donne. On My First Son. Inviting a Friend to Supper. To Penshurst. Song to Celia. Queen and Huntress. To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare, and What He Hath Left Us. To the Immortal Memory, and Friendship of that Noble Pair, Sir Lucius Cary and Sir H. Morison. Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue. * Response. * Thom Gunn, "Ben Johnson," from The Occasions of Poetry. John Donne. The Good Morrow. Song ("Go, and catch a falling star"). The Undertaking. The Sun Rising. The Indifferent. The Canonization. Air and Angels. Break of Day. A Valediction: of Weeping. Love's Alchemy. The Flea. The Bait. The Apparition. A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning. The Ecstasy. The Funeral. The Relic. Elegy 19. To His Mistress Going to Bed. HOLY SONNETS. 1 ("As due by many titles I resign.") 2 ("Oh my black soul! Now thou art summoned.") 3 ("This is my play's last scene, here heavens appoint.") 4 ("at the round earth's imagined corners, blow.") 5 ("If poisonous minerals, and if that tree.") 6 ("Death be not proud, though some have called thee.") 7 ("Spit in my face ye Jews, and pierce my side.") 8 ("Why are we by all creatures waited on?") 9 ("What if this present were the world's last night?") 10 ("Batter my heart, three-personed God
• for, you.") 11 ("Wilt thou love God, as he thee? Then digest.") 12 ("Father, part of his double interest.") (Devotions upon Emergent Occasions.) [For Whom the Bell Tolls.] Lady Mary Wroth. Pamphilia to Amphilanthus. 1 ("When night's black mantle could most darkness prove.") * 5 ("Can pleasing sight misfortune bring?") 16 ("Am I thus conquered? Have I lost the powers.") 17 ("Truly poor Night thou welcome art to me.") * 25 ("Like to the Indians scorched with the sun.") 26 ("When everyone to pleasing pastime hies.") 28 Song ("Sweetest love, return again.") 39 ("Take heed mine eyes, how you your looks do cast.") 40 ("False hope which feeds but to destroy, and spill.") 48 ("If ever Love had force in human breast.") * 55 ("How like a fire doth love increase in me.") 68 ("My pain, still smothered in my grieved breast?") 74 Song ("Love a child is ever crying.") A Crown of Sonnets Dedicated to Love. 77 ("In this strange labyrinth how shall I turn?") * 82 ("He may our profit and our tutor prove.") 83 ("How blessed be they then, who his favors prove.") * 84 (" He that shuns love doth love himself the less.") 103 ("My muse now happy, lay thyself to rest.") From The Countess of Mountgomery's Urania. Robert Herrick. Hesperides. The Argument of His Book. To His Book. Another ("To read my book the virgin shy"). Another ("Who with thy leaves shall wipe at need"). To the Sour Reader. When He Would Have His Verses Read. Delight in Disorder. Corinna's Going A-Maying. To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time. The Hock-Cart, or Harvest Home. His Prayer to Ben Jonson. Upon Julia's Clothes. Upon His Spaniel Tracie. The Dream. ("Me thought (last night) love in an anger came.") The Dream. ("By dream I saw one of the three.") The Vine. The Vision. Discontents in Devon. To Dean-Bourne, a Rude River in Devon. Upon Scobble: Epigram. The Christian Militant. To His Tomb-Maker. Upon Himself Being Buried. His Last Request to Julia. The Pillar of Fame. His Noble Numbers. His Prayer for Absolution. To His Sweet Saviour. To God, on His Sickness. George Herbert. The Altar. Redemption. Easter. Easter Wings. Affliction (1). Prayer (1). Jordan (1). Church Monuments. The Windows. Denial. Virtue. Man. Jordan (2). Time. The Collar. The Pulley. The Forerunners. Love (3). Richard Lovelace. To Lucasta, Going to the Wars. The Grasshopper. To Althea, from Prison. Love Made in the First Age: To Chloris. Henry Vaughan. Regeneration. The Retreat. Silence, and Stealth of Days. The World. They Are All Gone into the World of Light! The Night. Andrew Marvell. The Coronet. Bermudas. The Nymph Complaining for the Death of Her Fawn. To His Coy Mistress. The Definition of Love. The Mower Against Gardens. The Mower's Song. The Garden. An Horatian Ode Upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland. Katherine Philips. Friendship in Emblem, or the Seal. Upon the Double Murder of King Charles. On the Third of September, 1651. To the Truly Noble, and Obliging Mrs. Anne Owen. To Mrs. Awbrey at Parting. To My Excellent Lucasia, on Our Friendship. The World. Perspectives: The Civil War, or the Wars of Three Kingdoms. John Gauden. From Eikon Basilike. John Milton. From Eikonoklastes. The Petition of Gentlewomen and Tradesmen's Wives. Oliver Cromwell. From Letters from Ireland. John O'Dwyer of the Glenn. The Story Of Alexander Agnew
• Or, Jock Of Broad Scotland. Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon. From True Historical Narrative of the Rebellion. John Milton. L'Allegro. Il Penseroso. Lycidas. How Soon Hath Time. On the New Forcers of Conscience Under the Long Parliament. To the Lord General Cromwell. On the Late Massacre in Piedmont. When I Consider How My Light Is Spent. Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint. From Areopagitica. * PARADISE LOST. Book 1. Book 2. * Book 3. * Book 4. * Book 5. * Book 6. * Book 7. * Book 8. Book 9. * Book 10. * Book 11. * Book 12. * Responses. * Mary Wollstonecraft, From A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. *William Blake, A Poison Tree. Samson Agonistes. THE RESTORATION AND THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. Samuel Pepys. The Diary. (First Entries.) (The Coronation of Charles II.) (The Plague Year.) (The Fire of London.) Samuel Pepys and His Time. John Evelyn: From Kalendarium. (The Royal Society.) (Theater and Music.) (Elizabeth Pepys and Deborah Willett.) * Response. * Robert Louis Stevenson, From Samuel Pepys. Perspectives: The Royal Society and the New Science. Thomas Sprat. From The History of the Royal Society of London. Philosophical Transactions. From Philosophical Transactions. Robert Hooke. From Micrographia. John Aubrey. From Brief Lives. Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle. Poems and Fancies. The Poetress's Hasty Resolution. The Poetress's Petition. An Apology for Writing So Much upon This Book. The Hunting of the Hare. From A True Relation of My Birth, Breeding, and Life. Observations upon Experimental Philosophy. Of Micrography, and of Magnifying and Multiplying Glasses. The Description of a New Blazing World. From To the Reader. (Creating Worlds.) (Empress, Duchess, Duke.) Epilogue. John Dryden. Absalom and Achitophel: A Poem. John Dryden's " Absalom and Achitophel" and Its Time. Charles II: His Majesty's Declaration. Mac Flecknoe. To the Memory of Mr. Oldham. To the Pious Memory of the Accomplished Young Lady Mrs. Anne Killigrew. Alexander's Feast. Fables Ancient and Modern. From Preface. The Secular Masque. Aphra Behn. The Disappointment. To Lysander, on Some Verses He Writ. To Lysander at the Music-Meeting. A Letter to Mr. Creech at Oxford. To the Fair Clarinda, Who Made Love to Me, Imagined More than Woman. Oroonoko. * Response. * Thomas Southerne, Oroonoko: A Tragedy. * Perspectives: Coterie Writing. Mary, Lady Chudleigh. To the Ladies. To Almystrea. * Anne Finch, Countess of Winchelsea. The Introduction. Friendship Between Ephelia and Ardelia. A Nocturnal Reverie. A Ballad to Mrs. Catherine Fleming in London. * Mary Leapor. The Headache. To Aurelia. * Mira to Octavia * An Epistle to Artemisia: On Fame. Advice to Sophronia. The Epistle of Deborah Dough. John Wilmot, Earl Of Rochester. Against Constancy. The Disabled Debauchee. Song ("Love a woman? You're an ass!") The Imperfect Enjoyment. Upon Nothing. A Satyr Against Reason and Mankind. William Wycherley. The Country Wife. Mary Astell. From Some Reflections upon Marriage. Daniel Defoe. A True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal. A Journal of the Plague Year. (At the Burial Pit.) (Encounter with a Waterman.) Perspectives: Reading Papers. News and Comment. From Mercurius Publicus (Anniversary of the Regicide). From The London Gazette (The Fire of London). From Daily Courant No. 1 (Editorial Policy). Daniel Defoe. From A Review of the State of the British Nation, Vol 4, No. 21 (The New Union). From The Craftsman No. 307 (Vampires in Britain). Periodical Personae. Richard Steele. From Tatler No. 1 (Introducing Mr. Bickerstaff). Joseph Addison. From Spectator No. 1 (Introducing Mr. Spectator). From Female Spectator No. 1 (The Author's Intent). Richard Steele. From Tatler No. 18 (The News Writers in Danger). Joseph Addison. From Tatler No. 155 (The Political Upholsterer). Joseph Addison. From Spectator No. 10 (The Spectator and Its Readers). Getting, Spending, Speculating. Joseph Addison. Spectator No. 69 (Royal Exchange). Richard Steele. Spectator No. 11 (Inkle and Yarico). Daniel Defoe. From A Review of the State of the British Nation, Vol 1, No. 43 (Weak Foundations). Advertisements from the Spectator. Women and Men, Manners and Marriage. Richard Steele. From Tatler No. 25 (Duellists). Daniel Defoe. From A Review of the State of the British Nation, Vol. 9, No 34, (A Duellist's Conscience.) From The Athenian Mercury. Richard Steele. From Tatler No. 104 (Jenny Distaff Newly Married). Joseph Addison. Spectator No 128 (Variety of Temper). Eliza Haywood. From The Female Spectator, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Seomanthe's Elopement). Eliza Haywood. From The Female Spectator, Vol. 2, No. 10 (Women's Education). Jonathan Swift. A Description of the Morning. A Description of a City Shower. Stella's Birthday, 1719. Stella's Birthday, 1727. The Lady's Dressing Room. * Response. * Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, The Reasons That Induced Dr. S. to write a Poem called The Lady's Dressing Room. Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift, D. S. P. D. Journal to Stella. From Letter 10. * Gulliver's Travels. * Part 3. A Voyage to Laputa. * Part 4. A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms. * Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" and Its Time. * From Letters on Gulliver's Travels. * Jonathan Swift to Alexander Pope. * Alexander Pope to Jonathan Swift. * John Gay to Jonathan Swift. * Jonathan Swift to Alexander Pope. * "The Price of Lilliput" to Stella. A Modest Proposal. Swift's "A Modest Proposal" and Its Time. William Petty: From Political Arithmetic. Alexander Pope. An Essay on Criticism. Windsor-Forest. The Rape of the Lock. The Iliad. From Book 12 (Sarpedon's Speech.) Eloisa to Abelard. An Essay on Man. Epistle 1. To the Reader. The Design. Argument. An Epistle from Mr. Pope, to Dr. Arbuthnot. * An Epistle to a Lady: Of the Characters of Women. * Response. * Mary Leapor, An Essay on Woman. The Dunciad. Book the Fourth. (The Goddess Coming in Her Majesty.) (The Geniuses of the Schools.) (Young Gentlemen Returned from Travel.) (The Minute Philosophers and the Consummation of All.) Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. The Turkish Embassy Letters. To Lady-(On the Turkish Baths.) To Lady Mar (On Turkish Dress.) Letter to Lady Bute (On Her Granddaughter). Epistle from Mrs. Yonge to Her Husband. The Lover: A Ballad. John Gay. The Beggar's Opera. "The Beggar's Opera" and Its Time: Influences and Impact. Thomas D'Urfey: From Wit and Mirth
• or, Pills to Purge Melacholy. Daniel Defoe: From The True and Genuine Account of the Life and Actions of the Late Jonathan Wild. Henry Fielding: From The Life of Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great. (Anonymous.) From A Narrative of All the Robberies, Escapes, &c. of John Sheppard. John Thurmond. From Harlequin Sheppard. Charlotte Charke. From A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke. James Boswell. From London Journal (Entries on Macheath.) * Responses. * Bertolt Brecht, Lyrics from The Threepenny Opera. * The Ballad of Mack the Knife. * In a Little Song Polly Gives Her Parents to Understand that She Has Married the Bandit Macheath. * [Coda]. William Hogarth. A Rake's Progress. Perspectives: Mind and God. Isaac Newton. From Letter to Richard Bentley. John Locke. From An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. Isaac Watts. A Prospect of Heaven Makes Death Easy. The Hurry of the Spirits, in a Fever and Nervous Disorders. Against Idleness and Mischief. Man Frail, and God Eternal. Miracles Attending Israel's Journey. Joseph Addison. Spectator No. 465. George Berkeley. From Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous. David Hume. From A Treatise of Human Nature. From An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. Christopher Smart. From Jubilate Agno. William Cowper. Light Shining out of Darkness. From The Task. The Cast-away. James Thomson. Winter. A Poem. (Autumn Evening and Night.) (Winter Night.) The Seasons. From Autumn. Rule, Britannia. "The Seasons" and Its Time: Poems of Nightfall and Night. Edward Young: From The Complaint. William Collins: Ode to Evening. Ode Occasioned by the Death of Mr. Thomson. William Cowper: From The Task. Thomas Gray. Letters. To Horace Walpole (16 April 1734). To Richard West (December 1736). To Horace Walpole (12 June 1750). To Horace Walpole (11 February 1751). From To Horace Walpole (20 February 1751). Sonnet on the Death of Mr. Richard West. Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College. Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. Samuel Johnson. The Vanity of Human Wishes. A Short Song of Congratulation. On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet. The Rambler. No. 4 (On Fiction). No. 5 (On Spring). No. 60 (On Biography). No. 170 (On Misella, a Prostitute). No. 171 (Misella Continues). No. 207 (Beginnings, Middles, and Ends). The Idler. No. 31 (On Idleness). No. 32 (On Sleep). No. 84 (On Autobiography). No. 97 (On Travel Writing). A Dictionary of the English Language. from Preface. (Some Entries.) From The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia. Chapter 8. The History of Imlac. Chapter 9. The History of Imlac Continued. Chapter 10. Imlac's History Continued. A Dissertation upon Poetry. Chapter 11. Imlac's Narrative Continued. A Hint on Pilgrimage. Chapter 12. The Story of Imlac Continued. The Plays of Shakespeare. Preface. (Selected Notes on Othello.) Lives of the Poets. From The Life of Milton. From The Life of Pope. Letters. To Lord Chesterfield (7 February 1755). To Hester Thrale (19 June 1783). To Hester Thrale Piozzi (2 July 1784). To Hester Thrale Piozzi (8 July 1784). James Boswell. London Journal. (A Scot in London.) (Louisa.) (First Meeting with Johnson.) An Account of My Last Interview with David Hume, Esq. From A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Dr. Samuel Johnson. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (Introduction
• Boswell's Method.) (Conversations about Hume.) (Dinner with Wilkes.) (Conversations at Streatham and the Club.) Hester Salusbury Thrale Piozzi. The Family Book. (On Her Daughter's Progress.) (On the Death of Her Son.) (On Her Marriage and Household.) Thraliana. (First Entries.) Oliver Goldsmith. The Deserted Village. Responses. George Crabbe: From The Village. George Crabbe: From The Parish Register. Richard Brinsley Sheridan. The School for Scandal. * Response. * Oscar Wilde, From The Importance of Being Earnest. * Perspectives: Novel Guises, in Theory and Practice. * Mary Carleton, From The Case of Madam Mary Carleton. * Daniel Defoe, From The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. * The Preface. * [First Days on the Island]. * The Journal. * From The Fortunate Mistress: Or, a History of the Life and Vast Variety of Fortunes of Mademoiselle de Beleau, Afterwards Called the Countess de Wintselsheim, in Germany. Being the Person Known by the Name of Lady Roxana, in the Time if King Charles. * From The Preface. * [A New Name]. * [Secret Horror]. * Eliza Heywood, Fantomina: Or, Love in a Maze. * Samuel Richardson, From Pamela
• Or, Virtue Rewarded. * Preface by the Editor. * [A Dreadful Trial]. * [Reading Pamela]. * From the Preface to Clarissa, Or, The History of a Young Lady. * From the Preface to The History of Sir Charles Grandison, Baronet. * Henry Fielding, From An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews * Shamela Andrews to Henrietta Maria Honora Andrews * From the Preface to The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews. * From The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling. * Lawrence Sterne, From The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy, Gentleman. * [Interruptions]. * [Calculations]. * Frances Burney, From The Early Journals. * [First Entry]. * ["I cannot help it."]. * ["The Most Dangerous Employment Young Persons Can Have"]. * From Evelina, or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World. * Evelina to the Reverend Mr. Villars. * [A Ridiculous and Rejected Wooer]. * Letters on Evelina * From a Letter to Susanna Burney
• Streatham, late June 1779. * From a Letter to Susanna Burney
• Bath, 8 June 1780. * From The Wanderer
• or, Female Difficulties. * From the Preface. * [Coda]. Political and Religious Orders. Money, Weights, and Measures. Glossary of Literary and Cultural Terms. Bibliographies. Credits. Index.

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The Longman Anthology of British Literature is the most comprehensive and thoughtfully arranged text in the field, offering a rich selection of compelling British authors through the ages. With its first edition, The Longman Anthology of British Literature created a new paradigm for anthologies. Responding to major shifts in literary studies over the past thirty years, it was the first collection to pay sustained attention to the contexts within which literature is produced, even as it broadened the scope of that literature to embrace the full cultural diversity of the British Isles. Within its pages, canonical authors mingle with newly visible writers; English accents are heard next to Anglo-Norman, Welsh, Gaelic, and Scottish ones; female and male voices are set in dialogue; literature from the British Isles is integrated with post-colonial writing; and major works are illumined by clusters of shorter texts that bring literary, social, and historical issues vividly to life. Fresh and up-to-date introductions and notes are written by an editorial team whose members are all actively engaged in teaching and in current scholarship, and 150 illustrations (50 new to this edition) show both artistic and cultural developments from the medieval period to the present. The Third Edition builds on the pioneering features of the previous two editions, expanding the strong core of frequently taught works while continuing to lead the way in responding to the shifting interests of the discipline.

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• * denotes selection is new to this edition. Complete contents for Volume II are below. Volume 2A contains only the section entitled "The Romantics and Their Contemporaries." Volume 2B contains only the section entitled "The Victorian Age." Volume 2C contains only the section entitled "The 20th Century." THE ROMANTICS AND THEIR CONTEMPORARIES. Perspectives: The Sublime, the Beautiful, and the Picturesque. Edmund Burke. From A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful. William Gilpin. From Three Essays on Picturesque Beauty, on Picturesque Travel, and on Sketching Landscape. Mary Wollstonecraft. From A Vindication of the Rights of Men. Jane Austen. From Pride and Prejudice. * From Northhanger Abbey. Immanuel Kant. From The Critique of Judgment. John Ruskin. From Modern Painters. Anna Laetitia Barbauld. The Mouse's Petition to Dr. Priestley. On a Lady's Writing. Inscription for an Ice-House. To a Little Invisible Being Who Is Expected Soon to Become Visible. To the Poor. Washing-Day. Eighteen Hundred and Eleven. * Response. John Wilson Croker: From A Review of Eighteen Hundred and Eleven. The First Fire. On the Death of the Princess Charlotte. Charlotte Smith. Elegiac Sonnets and Other Poems. * To the Moon. * "Sighing I see yon little troop at play." To melancholy. Written on the banks of the Arun October, 1785. Far on the Sands. To tranquillity. Written in the church-yard at Middleton in Sussex. On being cautioned against walking on an headland overloooking the sea. The sea view. The Dead Beggar. * From Beachy Head. Perspectives: The Rights of Man and the Revolution Controversy. Helen Maria Williams. From Letters Written in France, in the Summer of 1790. From Letters from France. Edmund Burke. From Reflections on the Revolution in France. Mary Wollstonecraft. From A Vindication of the Rights of Men. * Letter to Joseph Johnson, from Paris, December 27, 1792. Thomas Paine. From The Rights of Man. William Godwin. From An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness. The Anti-Jacobin, or Weekly Examiner. The Friend of Humanity and the Knife-Grinder. Hannah More. Village Politics. Arthur Young. From Travels in France During the Years 1787-1788, and 1789. From The Example of France, A Warning to Britain. William Blake. All Religions Are One. There is No Natural Religion (a). There is No Natural Religion (b). Songs of Innocence and of Experience. From Songs of Innocence. Introduction. * The Shepherd. The Ecchoing Green. The Lamb. The Little Black Boy. * The Blossom. The Chimney Sweeper. * The Little Boy lost. * The Little Boy found. The Divine Image. HOLY THURSDAY. Nurse's Song. Infant Joy. * A Dream. * On Anothers Sorrow. Companion Reading. Charles Lamb: From The Praise of Chimney Sweepers. From Songs of Experience. Introduction. EARTH'S Answer. The CLOD and the PEBBLE. HOLY THURSDAY. * The Little Girl lost. * The Little Girl found. The Chimney Sweeper. * NURSES Song. The SICK ROSE. THE FLY. * The Angel. The Tyger * My Pretty ROSE TREE. AH! SUN-FLOWER. The GARDEN of LOVE. LONDON. The Human Abstract. INFANT SORROW. A POISON TREE. * A Little BOY Lost. * A Little GIRL Lost. The School-Boy. A DIVINE IMAGE. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. Visions of the Daughters of Albion. Letters. To Dr. John Trusler (23 August 1799). To Thomas Butts (22 November 1802). Perspectives: The Abolition of Slavery and the Slave Trade. Olaudah Equiano. From The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano. Mary Prince. From The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave. Thomas Bellamy. The Benevolent Planters. John Newton. Amazing Grace. Ann Cromartie Yearsley. From A Poem on the Inhumanity of the Slave-Trade. William Cowper. Sweet Meat Has Sour Sauce. The Negro's Complaint. Hannah More and Eaglesfield Smith. The Sorrows of Yamba
• or, The Negro Woman's Lamentation. Robert Southey. From Poems Concerning the Slave Trade. Dorothy Wordworth. From The Grasmere Journals. Thomas Clarkson. From The History of the Rise, Progress, & Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade by the British Parliament. William Wordsworth. To Toussaint L'Ouverture. To Thomas Clarkson. From The Prelude. From Humanity. Letter to Mary Ann Rawson (May 1833). The Edinburgh Review. From Abstract of the Information laid on the Table of the House of Commons, on the Subject of the Slave Trade. George Gordon, Lord Byron. From Detached Thoughts. Mary Robinson. Ode to Beauty. January, 1795. Sappho and Phaon in a Series of Legitimate Sonnets. * III. The Bowers of Pleasure IV. Sappho discover her passion. VII. Invokes Reason. XI Rejects the Influence of Reason. XII. Previous to her Interview with Phaon XVIII. To Phaon. XXX. Bids farewell to Lesbos. XXXVII. Foresees her Death. The Camp. Lyrical Tales. The Haunted Beach. London's Summer Morning. The Old Beggar. Mary Wollstonecraft. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. From To M. Talleyrand-Perigord, Late Bishop of Autun. Introduction From Chapter 1. The Rights and Involved Duties of Mankind Considered. From Chapter 2. The Prevailing Opinion of a Sexual Character Discussed. From Chapter 3. The Same Subject Continued. From Chapter 5. Animadversions on Some of the Writers Who Have Rendered Women Objects of Pity, Bordering on Contempt. 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. From Maria
• or, The Wrongs of Women. * Responses. Anna Laetitia Barbauld, The Rights of Women. * Ann Yearsley, The Indifferent Shepherdess to Colin. Robert Southey, To Mary Wollstonecraft. William Blake, From Mary. Perspectives: The Wollstonecraft Controversy and the Rights of Women. Catherine Macaulay. From Letters on Education. Richard Polwhele. From The Unsex'd Females. Priscilla Wakefield. From Reflections on the Present Condition of the Female Sex. Mary Anne Radcliffe. From The Female Advocate. Hannah More. From Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education. Mary Lamb. Letter to The British Lady's Magazine. 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. Joanna Baillie. Plays on the Passions. From Introductory Discourse. London. A Mother to Her Waking Infant. A Child to His Sick Grandfather. Thunder. Song: Woo'd and Married and A'. Literary Ballads. Reliques of Ancient English Poetry. Sir Patrick Spence. Robert Burns. To a Mouse. To a Louse. Flow gently, sweet Afton. Ae fond kiss. Comin' Thro' the Rye (1). Comin' Thro' the Rye (2). Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled. Is there for honest poverty. A Red, Red Rose. * Response. * Charlotte Smith,To the shade of Burns. Auld Lang Syne. The Fornicator. A New Song. Sir Walter Scott. Lord Randal. Thomas Moore. The harp that once through Tara's halls. Believe me, if all those endearing young charms. The time I've lost in wooing. William Wordsworth. Lyrical Ballads. Simon Lee. * Anecdote for Fathers. We are seven. Lines written in early spring. The Thorn. Note to The Thorn (1800). Expostulation and Reply. The Tables Turned. Old Man Travelling. Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey. Lyrical Ballads (1800,1802). * Preface. * (The Principal Object of the Poems. Humble and Rustic Life). * ("The Spontaneous Overflow of Powerful Feelings"). * (The Language of Poetry). * (What is a Poet?) * (The Function of Metre). * ("Emotion Recollected in Tranquillity"). "There was a Boy." "Strange fits of passion have I known." Song: ("She dwelt among th'undtrodden ways"). "A slumber did my spirit seal." Lucy Gray. Poor Susan. Nutting. "Three years she grew in sun and shower." * The Cumberland Beggar. Michael. * Responses. Francis Jeffrey: (On "the new Poetry"). Charles Lamb: from Letter to William Wordsworth. Charles Lamb: from Letter to Thomas Manning. Sonnets, 1802-1807. Prefatory Sonnet ("Nuns fret not at their Convent's narrow room"). Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1803. "The world is too much with us." "It is a beauteous Evening." "I griev'd for Buonaparte." London, 1802. The Prelude, or Growth of a Poet's Mind (1805). Book First. Introduction, Childhood, and School time. Book Second. School time continued. (Two Consciousnesses). (Blessed Infant Babe). Book Fourth. Summer Vacation. (A Smile for Autobiography). (Encounter with a "Dismissed" Soldier). Book Fifth. Books. (Meditation on Books. The Dream of the Arab). (A Drowning in Esthwaite's Lake). ("The Mystery of Words"). Book Sixth. Cambridge, and the Alps. (The Pleasure of Geometric Science). (Arrival in France). (Travelling in the Alps. Simplon Pass). Book Seventh. Residence in London. (A Blind Beggar. Bartholomew Fair). Book Ninth. Residence in France. (Paris). (Revolution, Royalists, and Patriots). Book Tenth. Residence in France and French Revolution. (The Reign of Terror. Confusion. Return to England). (Further Events in France). (The Death of Robespierre and Renewed Optimism). (Britain Declares War on France. The Rise of Napoleon and Imperialist France). Response. William Wordsworth: from The Prelude (1850). Book Eleventh. Imagination, How Impaired and Restored. (Imagination Restored by Nature). ("Spots of Time." Two Memories from Childhood and Later Reflections). Book Thirteenth. Conclusion. (Climbing Mount Snowdon. Moonlit Vista. Meditation on "Mind," "Self," "Imagination," "Fear," and "Love"). (Concluding Retrospect and Prophecy). * Response. * Samuel Taylor Coleridge: To a Gentleman. I travell'd among unknown Men. Resolution and Independence. I wandered lonely as a cloud. My heart leaps up. Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood. The Solitary Reaper. Elegiac Stanzas ("Peele Castle"). Response. Mary Shelley: On Reading Wordsworth's Lines on Peele Castle. Surprized by joy. Scorn not the sonnet. Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg. Dorothy Wordsworth. Grasmere-A Fragment. Address to a Child. Irregular Verses. Floating Island. Lines Intended for My Niece's Album. Thoughts on My Sick-bed. When Shall I Tread Your Garden Path?. Lines Written (Rather say Begun) on the Morning of Sunday April 6th. The Grasmere Journals. (Home Alone). (A Leech Gatherer). (A Woman Beggar). (An Old Soldier). (The Grasmere Mailman). (A Vision of the Moon). (A Field of Daffodils). (A Beggar Woman from Cockermouth). (The Circumstances of "Composed upon Westminster Bridge"). (The Circumstances of "It is a beauteous Evening"). (The Household in Winter, with William's New Wife, Gingerbread). Letters. To Jane Pollard (A Scheme of Happiness). To Lady Beaumont (A Gloomy Christmas). To Lady Beaumont (Her Poetry, William's Poetry). To Mrs. Thomas Clarkson (Household Labors). To Mrs. Thomas Clarkson (A Prospect of Publishing). To William Johnson (Mountain-Climbing with a Woman). Responses. Samuel Taylor Coleridge: from Letter to Joseph Cottle. Thomas DeQuincey: from Recollections of the Lake Poets. Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Sonnet to the River Otter. "Sonnet to the River Otter" and Its Time. William Lisle Bowles: To the River Itchin, near Winton. The Eolian Harp. This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison. Frost at Midnight. The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere (1798). Part 1. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1817). "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and Its Time. William Cowper: The Castaway. Samuel Taylor Coleridge: From Table Talk. Christabel. Kubla Khan. * Response. * Mary Robinson, To the Poet Coleridge. * The Pains of Sleep. Dejection: An Ode. * From a Letter to William Godwin. * From a Letter to Thomas Poole. On Donne's Poetry. Work Without Hope. Constancy to an Ideal Object. Epitaph. From The Statesman's Manual (Symbol and Allegory). From The Friend (Reflections of Fire). Biographia Literaria. Chapter 4. (Wordsworth's Earlier Poetry). Chapter 11. (The Profession of Literature). Chapter 13. (Imagination and Fancy). Chapter 14. (Occasion of the Lyrical Ballads--Preface to the Second Edition--The Ensuing Controversy). (Philosophic Definitions of a Poem and Poetry). Chapter 17. (Examination of the Tenets Peculiar to Mr. Wordsworth. Rustic Life and Poetic Language). * Chapter 22. * (Defects of Wordsworth's Poetry). Lectures on Shakespeare. (Mechanic vs. Organic Form). (The Character of Hamlet). * (Stage Illusion and the Willing Suspension of Disbelief). (Shakespeare's Images). (Othello). Coleridge's Lectures and Their Time: Shakespeare in the Nineteenth Century. Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb. Preface to Tales from Shakespeare. Charles Lamb. From On the Tragedies of Shakespeare. William Hazlitt. From Lectures on the English Poets. From The Characters of Shakespeare's Plays. Thomas De Quincey. On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth. George Gordon, Lord Byron. She walks in beauty. So, we'll go no more a-roving. Manfred. "Manfred" and Its Time: The Byronic Hero. Byron's Earlier Heroes. From The Giaour. From The Corsair. From Lara. Prometheus. From Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto the Third (Napoleon Buonoparte). Samuel Taylor Coleridge. From The Statesman's Manual ("Satanic Pride and Rebellious Self-Idolatry"). Caroline Lamb. From Glenarvon. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. From Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus. Felicia Hemans. From The Widow of Crescentius. Percy Bysshe Shelley. From Preface to Prometheus Unbound. Robert Southey. From Preface to A Vision of Judgement. George Gordon, Lord Byron. From The Vision of Judgment. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto the Third. (Waterloo Fields). (Thunderstorm in the Alps). (Byron's Strained Idealism. Apostrophe to His Daughter). Canto the Fourth. (Rome, Political Hopes). (The Coliseum. The Dying Gladiator). (Apostrophe to the Ocean. Conclusion). Responses. John Wilson: From A Review of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. John Scott: [Lord Byron's Creations]. Don Juan. Dedication. Canto 1. From Canto 2 (Shipwreck. Juan and Haidee). From Canto 3 (Juan and Haidee. The Poet for Hire). From Canto 7 (Critique of Military "Glory"). From Canto 11 (Juan in England). Stanzas ("When a man hath no freedom to fight for at home"). On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year. Letters. To Thomas Moore (On Childe Harold) (28 January 1817). To John Murray (On Don Juan) (6 April 1819). To John Murray (On Don Juan) (12 August 1819). To Douglas Kinnaird (On Don Juan) (26 October 1819). To John Murray (On Don Juan) (16 February 1821). Percy Bysshe Shelley. To Wordsworth. Mont Blanc. Hymn to Intellectual Beauty. Ozymandias. Sonnet: Lift not the painted veil. Sonnet: England in 1819. The Mask of Anarchy. Ode to the West Wind. To a Sky-Lark. * Response. *Thomas Hardy, Shelley's Sky-Lark. To-("Music, when soft voices die"). Adonais. "Adonais" and Its Time. George Gordon, Lord Byron: From Don Juan. George Gordon, Lord Byron: Letter to Percy Bysshe Shelley (26 April 1821). George Gordon, Lord Byron: Letter to John Murray (30 July 1821). The Cloud. Hellas. Chorus ("Worlds on worlds are rolling ever"). Chorus ("The world's great age begins anew"). With a Guitar, to Jane. To Jane ("The Keen Stars"). From A Defence of Poetry. Felicia Hemans. Tales and Historic Scenes, in Verse. The Wife of Asdrubal. The Last Banquet of Antony and Cleopatra. Evening Prayer, at a Girls' School. Casabianca. Records of Woman. The Bride of the Greek Isles. Properzia Rossi. Indian Woman's Death Song. Joan of Arc, in Rheims. The Homes of England. The Graves of a Household. Corinne at the Capitol. Woman and Fame. Responses. Francis Jeffrey: From A Review of Felicia Hemans's Poetry. William Wordsworth: From Prefatory Note to Extempore Effusion on the Death of James Hogg. John Clare. Written in November (1). Written in November (2). Songs Eternity. (The Lament of Swordy Well). (The Mouse's Nest). Clock a Clay. "I Am". The Mores. John Keats. Leigh Hunt, Young Poets On First Looking into Chapman's Homer. Chapman's and Pope's Translations of Homer. Alexander Pope: From Homer's Iliad. George Chapman: From Homer's Iliad. Alexander Pope: From Homer's Odyssey. George Chapman: From Homer's Odyssey. To one who has been long in city pent. On the Grasshopper and Cricket. From Sleep and Poetry. "Sleep and Poetry" and Its Time. John Gibson Lockhart: From On the Cockney School of Poetry (No. 1, October 1817). John Gibson Lockhart: From The Cockney School of Poetry (No. 2, August 1818). On Seeing the Elgin Marbles. On sitting down to read King Lear once again. Sonnet: When I have fears. The Eve of St. Agnes. La Belle Dame sans Mercy. * Letter text: La Belle Dame Sans Merci. *Indicator preface Incipit Altera Sonneta ("If by dull rhymes"). The Odes of 1819. Ode to Psyche. Ode to a Nightingale. Ode on a Grecian Urn. Ode on Indolence. Ode on Melancholy. To Autumn. * LAMIA. The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream. This living hand. Bright Star. Letters. To Benjamin Bailey ("The Truth of Imagination"). To George and Thomas Keats ("intensity" and "Negative Capability"). To John Hamilton Reynolds (Wordsworth and "The whims of an Egotist"). To John Taylor ("a few axioms"). To Benjamin Bailey ("ardent pursuit"). To John Hamilton Reynolds (Wordsworth, Milton, and "dark Passages"). To Benjamin Bailey ("I have not a right feeling towards Women"). To Richard Woodhouse (The "camelion poet" vs. the "egotistical sublime"). To George and Georgiana Keats ("indolence," "poetry" vs. "philosophy," the "vale of Soul-making"). To Fanny Brawne ("You Take Possession of Me"). To Percy Bysshe Shelley ("An Artist Must Serve Mammon"). To Charles Brown (Keats's Last Letter). Perspectives: Popular Prose and the Problems of Authorship. Sir Walter Scott. Introduction to Tales of My Landlord. Charles Lamb. Oxford in the Vacation. Dream Children. Old China. William Hazlitt. On Gusto. My First Acquaintance with Poets. Thomas De Quincey. From Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. (What Do We Mean by Literature?). * Jane Austen. From Northanger Abbey: Chapter 1. * M.J. Jewsbury. The Young Author. William Cobbett. From Rural Rides. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. The Swiss Peasant. THE VICTORIAN AGE. Thomas Carlyle. Past and Present. Midas (The Condition of England). From Gospel of Mammonism (The Irish Widow). From Labour (Know Thy Work). From Democracy (Liberty to Die by Starvation). Captains of Industry. Perspectives: The Industrial Landscape. The Steam Loom Weaver. Fanny Kemble. From Record of a Girlhood. Thomas Babington Macaulay. From A Review of Southey's Colloquies. Parliamentary Papers ("Blue Books"). Testimony of Hannah Goode, a Child Textile Worker. Testimony of Ann and Elizabeth Eggley, Child Mineworkers. Charles Dickens. From Dombey and Son. From Hard Times. Benjamin Disraeli. From Sybil. Friedrich Engels. From The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844. Henry Mayhew. From London Labour and the London Poor. John Stuart Mill. On Liberty. From Chapter 2. Of the Liberty of Thought and Discussion. From Chapter 3. Of Individuality, as One of the Elements of Well-Being. The Subjection of Women. From Chapter 1. Statement Repudiating the Rights of Husbands. Autobiography. From Chapter 1. Childhood, and Early Education. From Chapter 5. A Crisis in My Mental History. One Stage Onward. Elizabeth Barrett Browning. To George Sand: A Desire. To George Sand: A Recognition. A Year's Spinning. Sonnets from the Portuguese. 1 ("I thought once how Theocritus had sung"). 13 ("And wilt thou have me fashion into speech"). 14 ("If thou must love me, let it be for nought"). 21 ("Say over again, and yet once over again"). 22 ("When our two souls stand up erect and strong"). 24 ("Let the world's sharpness, like a clasping knife"). 28 ("My letters! all dead paper, mute and white!"). 32 ("The first time that the sun rose on thine oath"). 38 ("First time he kissed me, he but only kissed"). 43 ("How do I love thee? Let me count the ways"). Aurora Leigh. Book 1. (Self-Portrait). (Her Mother's Portrait). (Aurora's Education). (Discovery of Poetry). Book 2. (Woman and Artist). (No Female Christ). (Aurora's Rejection of Romney). Book 3. (The Woman Writer in London). Book 5. (Epic Art and Modern Life). From A Curse for a Nation. A Musical Instrument. The Best Thing in the World. Alfred, Lord Tennyson. The Kraken. Mariana. The Lady of Shalott. The Lotos-Eaters. Ulysses. Tithonus. Break, Break, Break. The Epic [Morte d'Arthur]. The Eagle: A Fragment. Locksley Hall. The Princess. Sweet and Low. The Splendour Falls. Tears, Idle Tears. Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal. Come Down, O Maid. (The Woman's Cause is Man's). From In Memoriam A. H. H. The Charge of the Light Brigade. Idylls of the King. The Coming of Arthur. Pelleas and Ettarre. The Passing of Arthur. The Higher Pantheism. * Response. * Algernon Charles Swinburne, The Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell. Flower in the Crannied Wall. Crossing the Bar. Edward Fitzgerald. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam of Naishapur. Charles Darwin. The Voyage of the Beagle. From Chapter 10. Tierra Del Fuego. From Chapter 17. Galapagos Archipelago. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. From Chapter 3. Struggle for Existence. The Descent of Man. From Chapter 21. General Summary and Conclusion. From Autobiography. Perspectives: Religion and Science. Thomas Babington Macaulay. From Lord Bacon. Charles Dickens. From Sunday Under Three Heads. David Friedrich Strauss. From The Life of Jesus Critically Examined. Charlotte Bronte. From Jane Eyre. Arthur Hugh Clough. Epi-strauss-ium. The Latest Decalogue. From Dipsychus. John William Colenso. From The Pentateuch and Book of Joshua Critically Examined. John Henry Cardinal Newman. From Apologia Pro Vita Sua. Thomas Henry Huxley. From Evolution and Ethics. Sir Edmund Gosse. From Father and Son. Robert Browning. Porphyria's Lover. Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister. My Last Duchess. How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix. Home-Thoughts, from Abroad. Home-Thoughts, from the Sea. The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church. Meeting at Night. Parting at Morning. A Toccata of Galuppi's. Memorabilia. Love Among the Ruins. "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came." * Response. * Stevie Smith, Childe Rolandine. Fra Lippo Lippi. The Last Ride Together. Andrea del Sarto. Two in the Campagna. A Woman's Last Word. Caliban upon Setebos. Epilogue to Asolando. Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol. From A Walk in a Workhouse. Dickens and His Time. Dickens at Work: Recollections by His Children and Friends. Kate Field: Dickens Giving a Reading of A Christmas Carol. Popular Short Fiction. Elizabeth Gaskell. Our Society at Cranford. Thomas Hardy. The Withered Arm. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A Scandal in Bohemia. * Response. * Jamyang Norbu, A Pukka Villain, from Sherlock Holmes: The Missing Years. John Ruskin. Modern Painters. From Definition of Greatness in Art. From Of Water, As Painted by Turner. The Stones of Venice. From The Nature of Gothic. From Modern Manufacture and Design. * The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century. Praeterita. Preface. From The Springs of Wandel. From Herne-Hill Almond Blossoms. From Schaffhausen and Milan. From The Grande Chartreuse. From Joanna's Care. Florence Nightingale. Cassandra. Perspectives: Victorian Ladies and Gentlemen. Francis Power Cobbe. From Life of Frances Power Cobbe As Told by Herself. Sarah Stickney Ellis. From The Women of England: Their Social Duties and Domestic Habits. Charlotte Bronte. From Letter to Emily Bronte. Anne Bronte. From Agnes Grey. John Henry Cardinal Newman. From The Idea of a University. Caroline Norton. From A Letter to the Queen. George Eliot. Margaret Fuller and Mary Wollstonecraft. Thomas Hughes. From Tom Brown's School Days. Isabella Beeton. From The Book of Household Management. Queen Victoria. Letters and Journal Entries on the Position of Women. Sir Henry Newbolt. Vitai Lampada. Matthew Arnold. Isolation. To Marguerite. To Marguerite-Continued. Dover Beach. * Response. * Anthony Hecht, The Dover Bitch. Lines Written in Kensington Gardens. The Buried Life. Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse. The Scholar Gipsy. East London. West London. Thyrsis. From The Function of Criticism at the Present Time. Culture and Anarchy. From Sweetness and Light. From Doing as One Likes. From Hebraism and Hellenism. From Porro Unum Est Necessarium. From Conclusion. From The Study of Poetry. Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The Blessed Damozel. The Woodspurge. The House of Life. The Sonnet. 4. Lovesight. 6. The Kiss. Nuptial Sleep. The Burden of Nineveh. Christina Rossetti. Song ("She sat and sang always"). Song ("When I am dead, my dearest"). Remember. After Death. A Pause. Echo. Dead Before Death. Cobwebs. A Triad. In an Artist's Studio. A Birthday. An Apple-Gathering. Winter: My Secret. Up-Hill. Goblin Market. "No, thank you, John." Promises Like Pie-Crust. In Progress. What Would I Give? A Life's Parallels. Later Life. 17 ("Something this Foggy day, a something which"). Sleeping at Last. William Morris. The Defence of Guenevere. The Haystack in the Floods. From The Beauty of Life. Algernon Charles Swinburne. The Leper. The Triumph of Time. I Will Go Back to the Great Sweet Mother. Hymn to Proserpine. A Forsaken Garden. Walter Pater. The Renaissance. Preface. From Leonardo da Vinci. Conclusion. From The Child in the House. Gerard Manley Hopkins. God's Grandeur. The Starlight Night. Spring. The Windhover. Pied Beauty. Hurrahing in Harvest. Binsey Poplars. Duns Scotus's Oxford. Felix Randal. Spring and Fall: to a young child. As Kingfishers Catch Fire. (Carrion Comfort). No Worst, There Is None. I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark, Not Day. That Nature Is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of the Resurrection. Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord. From Journal (On "Inscape" and "Instress"). From Letter to R. W. Dixon (On Sprung Rhythm). Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Chapter 1. Down the Rabbit Hole. From Chapter 2. The Pool of Tears. You are old, Father William. The Lobster-Quadrille. Through the Looking Glass. Child of the pure unclouded brow. Jabberwocky. (Humpty Dumpty on Jabberwocky). The Walrus and the Carpenter. The White Knight's Song. Perspectives: The Invention of Childhood. Charles Darwin. From A Biographical Sketch of an Infant. Moral Verses. Table Rules for Little Folks. Eliza Cool: The Mouse and the Cake. Heinrich Hoffman: The Story of Augustus who would Not have any Soup. Thomas Miller: The Watercress Seller. William Miller: Willie Winkie. Edward Lear. (Selected Limericks). The Owl and the Pussy-Cat. The Jumblies. How pleasant to know Mr. Lear! Christina Rossetti. From Sing-Song: A Nursery Rhyme Book. Robert Louis Stevenson. From A Child's Garden of Verses. Hilaire Belloc. From The Bad Child's Book of Beasts. From Cautionary Tales for Children. Beatrix Potter. The Tale of Peter Rabbit. Daisy Ashford. From The Young Visiters
• or, Mr. Salteena's Plan. Rudyard Kipling. Without Benefit of Clergy. Just So Stories. How the Whale Got His Throat. How the Camel Got His Hump. * How the Leopard Got His Spots. Gunga Din. The Widow at Windsor. Recessional. If-. Perspectives: Travel and Empire. Frances Trollope. From Domestic Manners of the Americans. Thomas Babington Macaulay. From The Minute on Indian Education. Alexander Kinglake. From Eothen . Sir Richard Francis Burton. From A Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah. Isabella Bird. From A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains. Sir Henry Morton Stanley. From Through the Dark Continent. Mary Kingsley. From Travels in West Africa. Rudyard Kipling. The White Man's Burden. Robert Louis Stevenson. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Oscar Wilde. Impression du Matin. * Response. * Lord Alfred Douglas, Impression du Nuit. The Harlot's House. Symphony in Yellow. From The Decay of Lying. From The Soul of Man Under Socialism. Peface to The Picture of Dorian Gray. The Importance of Being Earnest. Aphorisms. From De Profundis. * Response. H. Montgomery Hyde: From The Trials of Oscar Wilde. Perspectives: Aestheticism, Decadence, and the Fin de Siecle. W. S. Gilbert. If You're Anxious for to Shine in the High Aesthetic Line. James McNeill Whistler. From from Mr. Whistler's "Ten O'Clock." "Michael Field" (Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper). La Gioconda. A Pen-Drawing of Leda. "A Girl". Ada Leverson. Suggestion. Arthur Symons. Pastel. White Heliotrope. From The Decadent Movement in Literature. From Preface to Silhouettes. Richard Le Gallienne. A Ballad of London. Lionel Johnson. The Destroyer of a Soul. The Dark Angel. A Decadent's Lyric. Lord Alfred Douglas. In Praise of Shame. Two Loves. Olive Custance (Lady Alfred Douglas). The Masquerade. Statues. The White Witch. Max Beerbohm. Enoch Soames. THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. Joseph Conrad. Preface to The Nigger of the "Narcissus". Heart of Darkness. "Heart of Darkness" and Its Time. Joseph Conrad: From The Congo Diary. Sir Henry Morton Stanley: From Address to the Manchester Chamber of Commerce. * Responses. * Chinua Achebe: An Image of Africa. Gang of Four: We Live As We Dream, Alone. Bernard Shaw. Preface: A Professor of Phonetics. Pygmalion. * Response. * Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Lowe: Scene from My Fair Lady. Letters. To Francis Collison (20 August 1903). To The Times (30 October 1906). Thomas Hardy. Hap. Neutral Tones. Wessex Heights. The Darkling Thrush. On the Departure Platform. The Convergence of the Twain. At Castle Boterel. Channel Firing. In Time of "The Breaking of Nations". I Looked Up from My Writing. "And There Was a Great Calm". Logs on the Hearth. The Photograph. The Fallow Deer at the Lonely House. Afterwards. Epitaph. Perspectives: The Great War: Confronting the Modern. Blast. Vorticist Manifesto. Rebecca West. Indissoluble Matrimony. Rupert Brooke. The Great Lover. The Soldier. Sigfried Sassoon. Glory of Women. "They." The Rear-Guard. Everyone Sang. Wilfred Owen. Anthem for Doomed Youth. Strange Meeting. Disabled. Dulce et Decorum Est. Isaac Rosenberg. Break of Day in the Trenches. Dead Man's Dump. David Jones. From In Parenthesis. * Cicely Hamilton. Non-Combatant. * May Wedderburn Cannan. Lamplight. * Rouen. * Pauline Barrington. `Education.' * Helen Dircks. After Bourlon Wood. * Alys Fane Trotter. The Hospital Visitor. * Teresa Hooley. A War Film. Speeches on Irish Independence. Charles Stuart Parnell. At Limerick. Before the House of Commons. At Portsmouth, After the Defeat of Mr. Gladstone's Home Rule Bill. In Committee Room No. 15. Proclamation of the Irish Republic. Padraic Pearse. Kilmainham Prison. Michael Collins. The Substance of Freedom. William Butler Yeats. The Lake Isle of Innisfree. Who Goes with Fergus? No Second Troy. The Fascination of What's Difficult. September 1913. The Wild Swans at Coole. An Irish Airman Foresees His Death. Easter 1916. The Second Coming. Prayer for My Daughter. Sailing to Byzantium. Meditations in Time of Civil War. Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen. Leda and the Swan. Among School Children. Byzantium. Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop. Lapis Lazuli. The Circus Animals' Desertion. Under Ben Bulben. E. M. Forster. The Life to Come. James Joyce. Dubliners. Araby. Eveline. Clay. The Dead. Ulysses. (Chapter 13. Nausicaa). * Responses. * John M. Woolsey: Woolsey Decision Lifting the Ban on Ulysses. * Seamus Heaney: Station Island. Finnegans Wake, and a First Draft Version of Finnegan's Wake. Shem the Penman. T. S. Eliot. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. Responses. Arthur Waugh: [Cleverness and the New Poetry]. Ezra Pound: Drunken Helots and Mr. Eliot. Gerontion. The Waste Land. * Responses. * Fadwa Tuqan: In A Dead City. * Martin Rowson: From The Waste-Land. Journey of the Magi. Four Quartets. Burnt Norton. Tradition and the Individual Talent. Virginia Woolf. The Lady in the Looking-Glass: A Reflection. Mrs. Dalloway. From A Room of One's Own. From Three Guineas. From The Diaries. From Letter to Gerald Brenan (25 December 1922). * Response. * Sigrid Nunez: On rereading Mrs. Dalloway. Katherine Mansfield. The Daughters of the Late Colonel. D. H. Lawrence. Piano. Song of a Man Who Has Come Through. Tortoise Shout. Snake. Bavarian Gentians. Cypresses. Odour of Chrysanthemums. The Horse Dealer's Daughter. Surgery for the Novel-or a Bomb. * P.G. Wodehouse. * The Clicking of Cuthbert. Graham Greene. A Chance for Mr. Lever. Perspectives: World War II and the End of Empire. Sir Winston Churchill. Two Speeches Before the House of Commons. Stephen Spender. Icarus. What I Expected. The Express. The Pylons. Elizabeth Bowen. Mysterious Kor. Evelyn Waugh. The Man Who Liked Dickens. Cruise. Response. Monty Python. Travel Agent. George Orwell. Politics and the English Language. Shooting an Elephant. Dylan Thomas. The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower. Fern Hill. Poem in October. Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night. Return Journey. * Samuel Beckett. * Endgame. Texts for Nothing. 4 ("Where would I go, if I could go, who would I be, if I could be?"). 8 ("Only the words break the silence, all other sounds have ceased"). The Expelled. Postwar Poets: English Voices. W. H. Auden. Musee des Beaux Arts. In Memory of W. B. Yeats. Spain 1937. Lullaby. September 1, 1939. In Praise of Limestone. Stevie Smith. Not Waving but Drowning. Pretty. How Cruel Is the Story of Eve. The New Age. Philip Larkin. Church Going. High Windows. Talking in Bed. MCMXIV. Sylvia Plath. The Colossus. Daddy. Lady Lazarus. Child. Ted Hughes. Wind. Relic. Theology. Dust as We Are. Leaf Mould. Telegraph Wires. V. S. Naipaul. In a Free State. Prologue, from a Journal: The Tramp at Piraeus. Epilogue, from a Journal: The Circus at Luxor. Caryl Churchill. Cloud Nine. * Salman Rushdie. * Chekhov and Zulu. * The Courter. * Out of Kansas. Perspectives: Whose Language? * Louise Bennett. Back to Africa. * Colonization in Reverse. * Independence. Ngugi Wa Thiong'o. Decolonizing the Mind. The Language of African Literature. Nadine Gordimer. What Were you Dreaming? Derek Walcott. A Far Cry from Africa. Wales. The Fortunate Traveller. Midsummer. 50 ("I once gave my daughters, separately, two conch shells"). 52 ("I heard them marching the leaf-wet roads of my head"). 54 ("The midsummer sea, the hot pitch road, this grass, these shacks that made me"). Seamus Heaney. The Toome Road. The Singer's House. The Skunk. Punishment. 12 ("Like a convalescent, I took the hand"). In Memoriam Francis Ledwidge. * A Call. * The Errand. Postscript. James Kelman. Home for a Couple of Days. Eavan Boland. Anorexic. The Journey. The Pomegranate. A Woman Painted on a Leaf. Mise Eire. * Lorna Goodison. The Mulatta as Penelope. * On Becoming a Mermaid. * Annie Pengelly. * Agha Shahid Ali. Beyond English. * In Arabic. * Tonight. Paul Muldoon. Cuba. Aisling. Meeting the British. Sleeve Notes. Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill. Feeding a Child. Parthenogenesis. Labasheedy (The Silken Bed). As for the Quince. Why I Choose to Write in Irish, The Corpse That Sits Up and Talks Back. * Gwyneth Lewis. Therapy. * Mother Tongue. * Robert Crawford. The Saltcoats Structuralists. *Alba Einstein. * W.N. Herbert. Cabaret McGonagall. * Smirr. Political and Religious Orders. Money, Weights, and Measures. Literary and Cultural Terms. Bibliographies. Credits. Index.

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• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
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