The twentieth century and beyond

Author(s)

• Dettmar, Kevin J. H.

Bibliographic Information

The twentieth century and beyond

Kevin J.H. Dettmar

（The Longman anthology of British literature / David Damrosch and Kevin J.H. Dettmar, general editors, v. 2C）

Longman, c2010

4th ed

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Volume 2C, The Twentieth Century, of The Longman Anthology of British Literature includes major additions of important works by Carol Ann Duffy, a new contemporary play, and coverage of contemporary British fiction featuring short stories by the well known popular authors of today. New selections by already well represented authors are included, such as Thomas Hardy, T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden, Philip Larkin, Seamus Heaney, and Derek Walcott.

Table of Contents

The Twentieth Century and Beyond Illustration: Richard Nevinson, The Arrival, 1913-1914 1918 THE TWENTIETH CENTURY AND BEYOND AT A GLANCE 1919 INTRODUCTION 1923 BEYOND THE PALE 1923 BURYING VICTORIA 1924 THE FOUNDATIONS OF MODERN SKEPTICISM 1925 REVOLUTIONS OF STYLE 1928 Illustration: Soldiers of the 9th Cameronians division near Arras, France, 24 March 1917 1929 MODERNISM AND THE MODERN CITY 1932 Illustration: Archibald Hatrick, A Lift Girl, 1916 1933 PLOTTING THE SELF 1934 THE RETURN OF THE REPRESSED 1935 Illustration: Poster for the Wembley Exhibition, 1925 1937 WORLD WAR I I AND ITS AFTERMATH 1938 Illustration: London during the Blitz 1939 Color Plate 21: The British Empire Stretched Thin Color Plate 22: Vera Willoughby, General Joy Color Plate 23: Charles Ginner, Piccadilly Circus Color Plate 24: Anna Airy, Shop for Machining 15-inch Shells Color Plate 25: Sir William Orpen, Ready to Start Color Plate 26: Vanessa Bell, The Tub Color Plate 27: Sir John Lavery, Lady Lavery as Kathleen Ni Houlihan Color Plate 28: Stanley Spencer, Shipbuilding on the Clyde: Furnaces Color Plate 29: Gilbert and George, Death Hope Life Fear Color Plate 30: Francis Bacon, Study after Velasquez Color Plate 31: Richard Hamilton, Just What Is It That Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing? Color Plate 32: Chris Ofili, No Woman, No Cry Illustration: The Beatles preparing for a television broadcast, c. 1963 1944 LANGUAGE AND IDENTITY 1946 JOSEPH CONRAD 1949 Illustration: Joseph Conrad 1949 Preface to The Nigger of the "Narcissus" 1952 Heart of Darkness 1954 "HEART OF DARKNESS" AND ITS TIME Joseph Conrad: from Congo Diary 2010 Sir Henry Morton Stanley: from Address to the Manchester Chamber of Commerce 2012 * RESPONSES Chinua Achebe: An Image of Africa 2016 Gang of Four: We Live As We Dream, Alone 2025h BERNARD SHAW 2026 Preface: A Professor of Phonetics 2029 Pygmalion 2032 THOMAS HARDY 2096 Hap 2098 Neutral Tones 2098 Wessex Heights 2099 The Darkling Thrush 2099 On the Departure Platform 2100 The Dead Man Walking 2101 A Wife and Another 2102 To Sincerity 2103 The Convergence of the Twain 2104 At Castle Boterel 2105 Channel Firing 2106 In Time of "The Breaking of Nations" 2107 I Looked Up from My Writing 2107 "And There Was a Great Calm" 2108 Logs on the Hearth 2109 The Photograph 2110 The Fallow Deer at the Lonely House 2110 Afterwards 2111 Epitaph 2111 J. M. SYNGE (Web) The Playboy of the Western World (Web) PERSPECTIVES The Great War: Confronting the Modern 2112 ALYS FANE TROTTER 2112 The Hospital Visitor 2112 CICELY HAMILTON 2113 Non-Combatant 2113 BLAST 2114 Illustration: Wyndham Lewis, The Creditors, 1912-1913 2115 Vorticist Manifesto 2116 SIGFRIED SASSOON 2130 Glory of Women 2131 "They" 2131 The Rear-Guard 2131 Everyone Sang 2132 PAULINE BARRINGTON 2132 "Education" 2132 HELEN DIRCKS 2133 After Bourlon Wood 2133 RUPERT BROOKE 2134 The Great Lover 2135 The Soldier 2136 TERESA HOOLEY 2137 A War Film 2137 ISAAC ROSENBERG 2138 Break of Day in the Trenches 2138 Dead Man's Dump 2139 REBECCA WEST 2141 Indissoluble Matrimony 2141 WILFRED OWEN 2157 Anthem for Doomed Youth 2158 Strange Meeting 2158 Disabled 2159 Dulce et Decorum Est 2160 MAY WEDDERBURN CANNAN 2161 Lamplight 2161 Rouen 2162 SPEECHES ON IRISH INDEPENDENCE 2163 Illustration: Jack B. Yeats, The Felons of Our Land, 1910 2164 Wolf Tone (Web) Court-Martial Speech, November 10, 1798 (Web) Robert Emmett (Web) The Speech from the Dock (Web) Daniel O'Connell (Web) Speech to House of Commons, February 4, 1836 (Web) William Gladstone (Web) A speech by William Ewart Gladstone MP, British Prime Minister, to the House of Commons on Home Rule for Ireland, given on 7 June 1886 (Web) Charles Stewart Parnell 2165 At Limerick 2165 Before the House of Commons 2166 At Portsmouth, After the Defeat of Mr. Gladstone's Home Rule Bill 2167 In Committee Room No. 15 2168 Proclamation of the Irish Republic 2169 Padraic Pearse 2170 Kilmainham Prison 2170 Michael Collins 2171 The Substance of Freedom 2171 WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS 2174 Illustration: William Butler Yeats 2174 The Lake Isle of Innisfree 2177 Who Goes with Fergus? 2178 No Second Troy 2178 The Fascination of What's Difficult 2178 September 1913 2179 The Wild Swans at Coole 2180 An Irish Airman Foresees His Death 2180 Easter 1916 2181 The Second Coming 2183 A Prayer for My Daughter 2183 Sailing to Byzantium 2185 Meditations in Time of Civil War 2186 Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen 2191 Leda and the Swan 2194 Among School Children 2195 Byzantium 2197 Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop 2198 Lapis Lazuli 2198 The Circus Animals' Desertion 2200 Under Ben Bulben 2201 E. M. FORSTER 2203 The Life to Come 2204 JAMES JOYCE 2215 Illustration: Man Ray, Portrait of James Joyce, 1922 2215 Illustration: Photo of Sackville Street (now O'Connell Street), Dublin, with view of Nelson's Pillar 2217 DUBLINERS 2218 Araby 2218 Eveline 2222 Clay 2225 The Dead 2229 Ulysses 2257 [Chapter 13. "Nausicaa"] 2257 RESPONSES Hon. John M. Woolsey: 1933 Decision of the United States District Court Lifting the Ban on Ulysses 2279 Seamus Heaney: from Station Island 2283h T. S. ELIOT 2284 Illustration: T. S. Eliot 2284 The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock 2287 RESPONSES Arthur Waugh: [Cleverness and the New Poetry] 2291 Ezra Pound: Drunken Helots and Mr. Eliot 2293h Gerontion 2295 The Waste Land 2297 RESPONSES Fadwa Tuqan: In the Aging City 2310 Martin Rowson: from The Waste Land 2312h The Hollow Men 2318 Journey of the Magi 2320 Four Quartets 2321 Burnt Norton 2321 Tradition and the Individual Talent 2326 VIRGINIA WOOLF 2331 Illustration: Virginia Woolf 2331 Illustration: Virginia Woolf and T. S. Eliot 2333 The Lady in the Looking-Glass: A Reflection 2334 Mrs Dalloway 2338 Illustration: View of Regent Street, London, 1927 2349 RESPONSE Sigrid Nunez: On Rereading Mrs. Dalloway 2437h from A Room of One's Own 2442 KATHERINE MANSFIELD 2478 The Daughters of the Late Colonel 2478 D. H. LAWRENCE 2491 Piano 2494 Song of a Man Who Has Come Through 2494 Tortoise Shout 2494 Snake 2497 Bavarian Gentians 2499 Cypresses 2499 Odour of Chrysanthemums 2501 Surgery for the Novel-or a Bomb 2514 P. G. WODEHOUSE (Web) The Clicking of Cuthbert (Web) GRAHAM GREENE 2517 A Chance for Mr Lever 2517 PERSPECTIVES World War II and the End of Empire 2527 SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL 2528 Illustration: Winston Churchill, June 1943 2529 Two Speeches Before the House of Commons 2529 STEPHEN SPENDER 2536 Icarus 2537 What I Expected 2537 The Express 2538 The Pylons 2538 ELIZABETH BOWEN 2539 Mysterious Kor 2540 EVELYN WAUGH 2549 The Man Who Liked Dickens 2550 Cruise 2559 RESPONSE Monty Python: Travel Agent 2563h GEORGE ORWELL 2566 Shooting an Elephant 2567 DYLAN THOMAS 2572 The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower 2573 Fern Hill 2574 Poem in October 2575 Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night 2576 SAMUEL BECKETT 2577 Illustration: Samuel Beckett 2577 Endgame 2579 POSTWAR ENGLISH VOICES 2614 W. H. AUDEN 2614 "Sir, no man's enemy, forgiving all" 2615 Lullaby 2616 Spain 2617 September 1, 1939 2619 Musee des Beaux Arts 2621 In Memory of W. B. Yeats 2622 Law Like Love 2624 In Memory of Sigmund Freud 2625 The Hidden Law 2628 In Praise of Limestone 2628 PHILIP LARKIN 2631 Church Going 2631 The Importance of Elsewhere 2633 MCMXIV 2633 Talking in Bed 2634 High Windows 2635 Annus Mirabilis 2635 Homage to a Government 2636 Aubade 2636 THOM GUNN 2637 Lines for a Book 2638 Elvis Presley 2639 A Map of the City 2639 Black Jackets 2640 From the Wave 2640 The Hug 2641 Patch Work 2642 The Missing 2642 TED HUGHES 2643 Wind 2644 Relic 2645 Theology 2645 Dust As We Are 2645 Leaf Mould 2646 Telegraph Wires 2647 CAROL ANN DUFFY 2648 Originally 2648 Translating the English, 1989 2649 Little Red-Cap 2650 Elvis's Twin Sister 2651 The Diet 2652 Anon 2653 NADINE GORDIMER 2654 What Were You Dreaming? 2655 DEREK WALCOTT 2661 A Far Cry from Africa 2662 Volcano 2662 Wales 2663 The Fortunate Traveller 2664 Midsummer 2669 50 ("I once gave my daughters, separately, two conch shells") 2669 52 ("I heard them marching the leaf-wet roads of my head") 2669 54 ("The midsummer sea, the hot pitch road, this grass, these shacks that made me") 2670 V. S. NAIPAUL 2671 In a Free State 2672 Prologue, from a Journal: The Tramp at Piraeus 2672 Epilogue, from a Journal: The Circus at Luxor 2679 TOM STOPPARD 2684 The Invention of Love 2685 SEAMUS HEANEY 2739 Personal Helicon 2740 Requiem for the Croppies 2740 Punishment 2740 Act of Union 2742 The Skunk 2742 The Toome Road 2743 The Singer's House 2744 In Memorium Francis Ledwidge 2745 Postscript 2746 A Call 2746 The Errand 2747 The Gaeltacht 2747 SALMAN RUSHDIE 2748 Illustration: Salman Rushdie 2748 Chekov and Zulu 2749 The Courter 2758 PERSPECTIVES Whose Language? 2772 NG ~ UG ~ I WA THIONG'O 2773 Decolonizing the Mind 2774 Native African Languages 2774 EAVAN BOLAND 2777 Anorexic 2778 Mise Eire 2780 The Pomegranate 2781 A Woman Painted on a Leaf 2782 PAUL MULDOON 2783 Cuba 2783 Aisling 2784 Meeting the British 2784 Sleeve Notes 2785 NUALA NI DHOMHNAILL 2791 Feeding a Child 2792 Parthenogenesis 2793 Labasheedy (The Silken Bed) 2795 As for the Quince 2796 Why I Choose to Write in Irish, The Corpse That Sits Up and Talks Back 2797 GWYNETH LEWIS 2805 Therapy 2805 Mother Tongue 2806 ROBERT CRAWFORD 2807 The Saltcoats Structuralists 2807 Alba Einstein 2808 W. N. HERBERT 2809 Cabaret McGonagall 2809 Smirr 2812 CONTEMPORARY BRITISH FICTION 2812 ALAN MOORE AND DAVID LLOYD 2812 from V for Vendetta 2813 HANIF KUREISHI 2836 Something to Tell You 2836 NICK HORNBY 2847 from Speaking with the Angel 2848 ZADIE SMITH 2861 Martha, Martha 2862 Credits 2873 Index 2879

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Details

• NCID: BB23392024
• ISBN:
  • 9780205655311
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Boston
• Pages/Volumes: xxxiii p., p. 1919-2880
• Size: 23 cm
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BB07373801