
Longman Anthology of British Literature, Volume 2, The: Romantics to 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, SusanRent Textbook
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Summary
Table of Contents
THE ROMANTICS AND THEIR CONTEMPORARIES.
Anna Laetitia Barbauld.
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.
Companion Reading.
John Wilson Croker: From A Review of Eighteen Hundred and Eleven.
On the Death of the Princess Charlotte.
*Charlotte Smith.
*Elegiac Sonnets and Other Poems.
*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.
*To the shade of Burns.
*The sea view.
*The Dead Beggar.
*From Beachy Head.
Perspectives: The Rights of Man and the Revolution Controversy.
Helen Maria Williams.
From Letters from France.
Edmund Burke.
Mary Wollstonecraft.
Thomas Paine.
William Godwin.
The Anti-Jacobin, or Weekly Examiner.
Hannah More.
Arthur Young.
From The Example of France, A Warning to Britain.
William Blake.
There is No Natural Religion (a).
There is No Natural Religion (b).
Songs of Innocence and of Experience.
*The Ecchoing Green.
The Lamb.
The Little Black Boy.
The Chimney Sweeper.
The Divine Image.
HOLY THURSDAY.
Nurse's Song.
Infant Joy.
Companion Reading.
Charles Lamb: From The Praise of Chimney Sweepers.
From Songs of Experience.
EARTH'S Answer.
THE FLY.
The CLOD and the PEBBLE.
HOLY THURSDAY.
The Tyger
The Chimney Sweeper.
The SICK ROSE.
AH! SUN-FLOWER.
The GARDEN of LOVE.
LONDON.
The Human Abstract.
INFANT SORROW.
A POISON TREE.
A DIVINE IMAGE.
The School-Boy.
Visions of the Daughters of Albion.
Letters.
To Thomas Butts (22 November 1802).
Perspectives: The Abolition of Slavery and the Slave Trade.
Olaudah Equiano.
Mary Prince.
Thomas Bellamy.
John Newton.
Ann Cromartie Yearsley.
William Cowper.
The Negro's Complaint.
Hannah More and Eaglesfield Smith.
Robert Southey.
The Sailor Who Had Served in the Slave Trade.
Dorothy Wordworth.
Thomas Clarkson.
William Wordsworth.
To Thomas Clarkson.
From The Prelude.
From Humanity.
Letter to Mary Ann Rawson (May 1833).
The Edinburgh Review.
George Gordon, Lord Byron.
Mary Robinson.
January, 1795.
Sappho and Phaon in a Series of Legitimate Sonnets.
*7 (“Come Reason” ).
*11 (“O Reason” ).
12 (“Now, o'er the tesselated pavement strew” ).
18 (“Why art thou changed? O Phaon! tell me why?” ).
30 (“O'er the tall cliff that bounds the billowy main” ).
37 (“When, in the gloomy mansion of the dead” ).
The Camp.
Lyrical Tales.
London's Summer Morning.
The Old Beggar.
*To the Poet Coleridge.
Mary Wollstonecraft.
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.
Perspectives: The Wollstonecraft Controversy and the Rights of Women.
Catherine Macaulay.
Anna Laetitia Barbauld.
Robert Southey.
To Mary Wollstoncraft.
William Blake.
Richard Polwhele.
Priscilla Wakefield.
Mary Anne Radcliffe.
Hannah More.
Mary Lamb.
William Thompson and Anna Wheeler.
Joanna Baillie.
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.
Robert Burns.
*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.
Auld Lang Syne.
The Fornicator. A New Song.
Sir Walter Scott.
Thomas Moore.
Believe me, if all those endearing young charms.
The time I've lost in wooing.
William Wordsworth.
Lyrical Ballads.
Simon Lee.
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 Spontaneous Overflow of Powerful Feelings” ).
(The Language of Poetry).
(What is a Poet?)
(“Emotion Recollected in Tranquillity” ).
There was a Boy.
Strange fits of passion have I known.
Song: (“She dwelt among th'undtrodden ways” ).
Three years she grew in sun and shower.
Song (“A slumber did my spirit seal” ).
Lucy Gray.
Poor Susan.
Nutting.
Michael.
Companion Readings.
Francis Jeffrey: (On “the new Poetry” ).
Charles Lamb: from Letter to William Wordsworth.
Charles Lamb: from Letter to Thomas Manning.
Sonnets, 1802-1807.
The world is too much with us.
Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1803.
It is a beauteous Evening.
I griev'd for Buonaparte.
London, 1802.
The Prelude, or Growth of a Poet's Mind (1805).
Book Second. School time continued.
(Blessed Infant Babe).
Book Fourth. Summer Vacation.
(Encounter with a “Dismissed” Soldier).
Book Fifth. Books.
(A Drowning in Esthwaite's Lake).
(“The Mystery of Words” ).
Book Sixth. Cambridge, and the Alps.
(Arrival in France).
(Travelling in the Alps. Simplon Pass).
Book Seventh. Residence in London.
Book Ninth. Residence in France.
(Revolution, Royalists, and Patriots).
Book Tenth. Residence in France and French Revolution.
(Further Events in France).
(The Death of Robespierre and Renewed Optimism).
(Britain Declares War on France. The Rise of Napoleon and Imperialist France).
Companion Reading.
Book Eleventh. Imagination, How Impaired and Restored.
(“Spots of Time.” Two Memories from Childhood and Later Reflections).
Book Thirteenth. Conclusion.
(Concluding Retrospect and Prophecy).
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.
Companion Reading.
*On Reading Wordsworth's Lines on Peele Castle, Mary Shelley.
Scorn not the sonnet.
Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg.
Dorothy Wordsworth.
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.
(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 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).
Companion Reading.
*Thomas DeQuincey: from Recollections of the Lake Poets.
*Perspectives: The Sublime, the Beautiful, and the Picturesque.
*Edmund Burke.
*William Gilpin.
*Jane Austen.
*Mary Wollstonecraft.
*Immanuel Kant.
*John Ruskin.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Companion Reading.
The Eolian Harp.
This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison.
The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere (1798).
Part 1.
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1817).
Companion Readings.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: From Table Talk.
Kubla Khan.
Christabel.
Frost at Midnight.
Dejection: An Ode.
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.
Chapter 11.
Chapter 13.
Chapter 14.
(Philosophic Definitions of a Poem and Poetry).
Chapter 17.
From Once a Jacobin, Always a Jacobin.
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.
So, we'll go no more a-roving.
*Manfred.
*“Manfred” and Its Time: The Byronic Hero.
Byron's Earlier Heroes.
From The Corsair.
From Lara.
Prometheus.
From Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto the Third (Napoleon Buonoparte).
*Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
*Caroline Lamb.
*Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.
*Felicia Hemans.
*Percy Bysshe Shelley.
*Robert Southey.
*George Gordon, Lord Byron.
*Childe Harold's Pilgrimage.
*Canto the Third.
(Thunderstorm in the Alps).
(Byron's Strained Idealism. Apostrophe to His Daughter).
*Canto the Fourth.
(The Coliseum. The Dying Gladiator).
(Apostrophe to the Ocean. Conclusion).
Companion Readings.
John Scott: Lord Byron's Creations.
Don Juan.
Canto 1.
From Canto 2 (Shipwreck. Juan and Haidée).
From Canto 3 (Juan and Haidée. 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 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.
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.
To—(“Music, when soft voices die” ).
Adonais.
Companion Readings.
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 (“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 Last Banquet of Antony and Cleopatra.
Evening Prayer, at a Girls' School.
Casabianca.
Records of Woman.
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.
Companion Readings.
William Wordsworth: From Prefatory Note to Extempore Effusion on the Death of James Hogg.
John Clare.
Written in November (2).
Songs Eternity.
(The Lament of Swordy Well).
(The Mouse's Nest).
Clock a Clay.
“I Am” .
The Mores.
John Keats.
Companion Readings.
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.
Companion Readings.
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.
Incipit Altera Sonneta (“If by dull rhymes” ).
The Odes of 1819.
Ode to a Nightingale.
Ode on a Grecian Urn.
Ode on Indolence.
Ode on Melancholy.
To Autumn.
The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream.
This living hand.
Bright Star.
Letters.
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). 4:10 PM 9/24/2002@SUBPART = Perspectives: Popular Prose and the Problems of Authorship.
Sir Walter Scott.
Charles Lamb.
Dream Children.
Old China.
William Hazlitt.
My First Acquaintance with Poets.
Thomas De Quincey.
(What Do We Mean by Literature?).
Jane Austen.
From Emma.
Letter to James S. Clarke.
William Cobbett.
*Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.
THE VICTORIAN AGE.
Thomas Carlyle.
Past and Present.
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.
Thomas Babington Macaulay.
Parliamentary Papers (“Blue Books” ).
Testimony of Ann and Elizabeth Eggley, Child Mineworkers.
Charles Dickens.
From Hard Times.
Benjamin Disraeli.
Friedrich Engels.
Henry Mayhew.
John Stuart Mill.
From Chapter 2. Of the Liberty of Thought and Discussion.
From Chapter 3. Of Individuality, as One of the Elements of Well-Being.
From Chapter 1.
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 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” ).
Book 1.
(Her Mother's Portrait).
(Aurora's Education).
(Discovery of Poetry).
Book 2.
(No Female Christ).
(Aurora's Rejection of Romney).
Book 3.
Book 5.
A Musical Instrument.
The Best Thing in the World.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
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.
Flower in the Crannied Wall.
Crossing the Bar.
*Edward Fitzgerald.
Charles Darwin.
From Chapter 10. Tierra Del Fuego.
From Chapter 17. Galapagos Archipelago.
From Chapter 3. Struggle for Existence.
From Chapter 21. General Summary and Conclusion.
Perspectives: Religion and Science.
Thomas Babington Macaulay.
Charles Dickens.
David Friedrich Strauss.
Charlotte Brontë.
Arthur Hugh Clough.
The Latest Decalogue.
From Dipsychus.
John William Colenso.
John Henry Cardinal Newman.
Thomas Henry Huxley.
Sir Edmund Gosse.
Robert Browning.
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.”
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.
From A Walk in a Workhouse.
Companion Readings.
Kate Field: Dickens Giving a Reading of A Christmas Carol.
Popular Short Fiction.
Elizabeth Gaskell.
Thomas Hardy.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Edith Nesbit.
John Ruskin.
From Definition of Greatness in Art.
From Of Water, As Painted by Turner.
From The Nature of Gothic.
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.
Perspectives: Victorian Ladies and Gentlemen.
Francis Power Cobbe.
Sarah Stickney Ellis.
Charlotte Brontë.
Anne Brontë.
John Henry Cardinal Newman.
Caroline Norton.
*George Eliot.
Thomas Hughes.
Isabella Beeton.
Queen Victoria.
Charles Kingsley.
Sir Henry Newbolt.
Matthew Arnold.
To Marguerite-Continued.
Dover Beach.
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.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
The Woodspurge.
The House of Life.
The Sonnet.
4. Lovesight.
6. The Kiss.
Nuptial Sleep.
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.
Sleeping at Last.
William Morris.
The Haystack in the Floods.
From The Beauty of Life.
Algernon Charles Swinburne.
The Triumph of Time.
I Will Go Back to the Great Sweet Mother.
Hymn to Proserpine.
A Forsaken Garden.
The Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell.
Walter Pater.
Preface.
From Leonardo da Vinci.
Conclusion.
Gerard Manley Hopkins.
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.
Chapter 1. Down the Rabbit Hole.
From Chapter 2. The Pool of Tears.
You are old, Father William.
The Lobster-Quadrille.
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.
*Moral Verses.
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.
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat.
The Jumblies.
How pleasant to know Mr. Lear!
Christina Rossetti.
Robert Louis Stevenson.
Hilaire Belloc.
From Cautionary Tales for Children.
Beatrix Potter.
Daisy Ashford.
Henry James.
Rudyard Kipling.
Just So Stories.
How the Whale Got His Throat.
How the Camel Got His Hump.
Gunga Din.
The Widow at Windsor.
Recessional.
*If—.
Perspectives: Travel and Empire.
Frances Trollope.
Thomas Babington Macaulay.
Alexander Kinglake.
Sir Richard Francis Burton.
Isabella Bird.
Sir Henry Morton Stanley.
Mary Kingsley.
*Rudyard Kipling.
*Robert Louis Stevenson.
Oscar Wilde.
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.
Companion Reading.
Perspectives: Aestheticism, Decadence, and the Fin de Siècle.
W. S. Gilbert.
James McNeill Whistler.
“Michael Field” (Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper).
A Pen-Drawing of Leda.
“A Girl” .
Ada Leverson.
Arthur Symons.
White Heliotrope.
From The Decadent Movement in Literature.
From Preface to Silhouettes.
Richard Le Gallienne.
Lionel Johnson.
The Dark Angel.
A Decadent's Lyric.
Lord Alfred Douglas.
Two Loves.
Impression de Nuit.
Olive Custance (Lady Alfred Douglas).
Statues.
The White Witch.
Max Beerbohm.
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.
Joseph Conrad.
Heart of Darkness.
Companion Readings.
Sir Henry Morton Stanley: From Address to the Manchester Chamber of Commerce.
Gang of Four: We Live As We Dream, Alone.
Bernard Shaw.
*Pygmalion.
Letters.
To The Times (30 October 1906).
Thomas Hardy.
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.
Rupert Brooke.
The Soldier.
Sigfried Sassoon.
*“They.”
*The Rear-Guard.
Everyone Sang.
Wilfred Owen.
Strange Meeting.
Disabled.
Dulce et Decorum Est.
Isaac Rosenberg.
Dead Man's Dump.
David Jones.
Robert Graves.
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.
Padraic Pearse.
Kilmainham Prison.
Michael Collins.
The Substance of Freedom.
William Butler Yeats.
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.
James Joyce.
Dubliners.
*Araby.
Eveline.
Clay.
The Dead.
Ulysses.
*(Chapter 13. Nausicaa).
Finnegans Wake, and a First Draft Version of Finnegan's Wake.
Shem the Penman.
T. S. Eliot.
Companion Readings.
Ezra Pound: Drunken Helots and Mr. Eliot.
Gerontion.
The Waste Land.
Journey of the Magi.
Four Quartets.
Burnt Norton.
Virginia Woolf.
*Mrs. Dalloway.
From A Room of One's Own.
From Three Guineas.
From The Diaries.
*From Letter to Gerald Brenan (25 December 1922).
*Perspectives: Regendering Modernism.
*Virginia Woolf.
*Vita Sackville-West.
*E. M. Forster.
*Rebecca West.
*Katherine Mansfield.
*Jean Rhys.
*Angela Carter.
D. H. Lawrence.
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.
Graham Greene.
Perspectives: World War II and the End of Empire.
Sir Winston Churchill.
Stephen Spender.
What I Expected.
The Express.
The Pylons.
Elizabeth Bowen.
Evelyn Waugh.
Cruise.
Companion Reading.
Travel Agent, Monty Python.
George Orwell.
Shooting an Elephant.
Salman Rushdie.
Dylan Thomas.
*Fern Hill.
*Poem in October.
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night.
Return Journey.
Samuel Beckett.
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” ).
Postwar Poets: English Voices.
W. H. Auden.
In Memory of W. B. Yeats.
Spain 1937.
Lullaby.
September 1, 1939.
In Praise of Limestone.
Stevie Smith.
Pretty.
How Cruel Is the Story of Eve.
The New Age.
Philip Larkin.
High Windows.
Talking in Bed.
MCMXIV.
Sylvia Plath.
Daddy.
Lady Lazarus.
Child.
Ted Hughes.
Relic.
Theology.
Dust as We Are.
Leaf Mould.
Telegraph Wires.
Thom Gunn.
Elvis Presley.
A Map of the City.
Black Jackets.
From the Wave.
The Hug.
Patch Work.
The Missing.
V. S. Naipaul.
Prologue, from a Journal: The Tramp at Piraeus.
Epilogue, from a Journal: The Circus at Luxor.
*Caryl Churchill.
Perspectives: Whose Language?
Seamus Heaney.
*A Postcard from North Antrium.
*The Singer's House.
*The Skunk.
*Punishment.
*Station Island.
12 (“Like a convalescent, I took the hand” ).
*Postscript.
Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill.
Parthenogenesis.
Labasheedy (The Silken Bed).
As for the Quince.
Why I Choose to Write in Irish, The Corpse That Sits Up and Talks Back.
*Ngugi Wa Thiong'o.
*The Language of African Literature.
Nadine Gordimer.
James Kelman.
*Eavan Boland.
*The Journey.
*The Pomegranate.
*A Woman Painted on a Leaf.
*Mise Eire.
*Paul Muldoon.
*Aisling.
*Meeting the British.
*Sleeve Notes.
Derek Walcott.
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” ).
Political and Religious Orders.
Money, Weights, and Measures.
Literary and Cultural Terms.
Bibliographies.
Credits.
Index.
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