Table of Contents
List of Illustrations.
Preface.
Acknowledgments.
THE ROMANTICS AND THEIR CONTEMPORARIES.
Anna Laetitia Barbauld.
The Mouse's Petition to Dr. Priestley. On a Lady's Writing. To a
Little Invisible Being Who Is Expected Soon to Become Visible. To
the Poor. Washing-Day. The First Fire. 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. Thomas Paine.From The Rights of Man. The
Anti-Jacobin, or Weekly Examiner.The Friend of Humanity and the
Knife-Grinder. William Blake.All Religions Are One. Songs of
Innocence and of Experience.From Songs of Innocence.
Introduction.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. Introduction.EARTH'S Answer.THE
FLY.The CLOD and the PEBBLE.HOLY THURSDAY.The TygerThe 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.The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. 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. William
Cowper.Sweet Meat Has Sour Sauce. Dorothy Wordworth.From The
Grasmere Journals. William Wordsworth.To Toussaint L'Ouverture.
From The Prelude. 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. Mary
Robinson.Ode to Beauty. January, 1795. Sappho and Phaon in a Series
of Legitimate Sonnets. 4 (“Why, when I gaze on Phaon's beauteous
eyes”).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.The Haunted Beach. London's Summer Morning. The Old
Beggar. To the Poet Coleridge. Mary Wollstonecraft.A Vindication of
the Rights of Woman. 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 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. A Vindication in
Its Time: The Wollstonecraft Controversy and the Rights of
Women.Catherine Macaulay.Richard Polwhele.From The Unsex'd Females.
Hannah More.From Strictures on the Modern System of Female
Education. 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. Robert Burns.To a Mouse. Comin' Thro' the Rye
(1). Comin' Thro' the Rye (2). Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled. A
Red, Red Rose. Auld Lang Syne. The Fornicator. A New Song. William
Wordsworth.Lyrical Ballads.Simon Lee. We Are Seven. Lines Written
in Early Spring. 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?)(“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”).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.Prefatory Sonnet (“Nuns fret not at
their Convent's narrow room”). 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.
Companion Readings.Charlotte Smith: from Elegiac Sonnets. To
Melancholy. Far on the Sands. To Tranquillity. 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 Sixth. Cambridge, and
the Alps. (Travelling in the Alps. Simplon Pass).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).Companion
Reading.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).I wandered lonely
as a cloud. My heart leaps up. Ode: Intimations of Immortality from
Recollections of Early Childhood. The Solitary Reaper. Surprized by
joy. Dorothy Wordsworth.Address to a Child. Thoughts on My
Sick-bed. When Shall I Tread Your Garden Path?. The Grasmere
Journals. (Home Alone).(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).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. Jane Austen.From Pride and Prejudice. Mary
Wollstonecraft.From A Vindication of the Rights of Men. Immanuel
Kant.From The Critique of Judgment. John Ruskin.From Modern
Painters. Samuel Taylor Coleridge.The Eolian Harp. The Rime of the
Ancient Mariner (1817). Companion Reading.Samuel Taylor Coleridge:
From Table Talk. Kubla Khan. Frost at Midnight. Dejection: An Ode.
Work Without Hope. Constancy to an Ideal Object. Epitaph.
Biographia Literaria. 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).George Gordon, Lord Byron.She walks in beauty. So,
we'll go no more a-roving. 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 Wilson: From A Review of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage.
John Scott: [Lord Byron's Creations]. Don Juan.Dedication. From
Canto 1. Stanzas (“When a man hath no freedom to fight for at
home”). On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year. Percy Bysshe
Shelley.Mont Blanc. Hymn to Intellectual Beauty. Ozymandias. Ode to
the West Wind. To a Sky-Lark. Felicia Hemans.Tales and Historic
Scenes, in Verse.The Wife of Asdrubal. Records of Woman.Properzia
Rossi. The Homes of England. Corinne at the Capitol. Woman and
Fame. Companion Readings.Francis Jeffrey: From A Review of Felicia
Hemans's Poetry. John Clare.Written in November (1). Written in
November (2). Clock a Clay. “I Am”. John Keats.On First Looking
into Chapman's Homer. Companion Readings.Alexander Pope: From
Homer's Iliad. George Chapman: From Homer's Iliad. On Seeing the
Elgin Marbles. 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 Melancholy. To Autumn. This living hand.Bright Star.
Letters.To George and Thomas Keats (“intensity” and “Negative
Capability”). To Richard Woodhouse (The “camelion poet” vs. the
“egotistical sublime”). To Fanny Brawne (“You Take Possession of
Me”). To Percy Bysshe Shelley (“An Artist Must Serve Mammon”). To
Charles Brown (Keats's Last Letter).
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).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. Elizabeth Barrett Browning.Sonnets from the
Portuguese. 1 (“I thought once how Theocritus had sung”).13 (“And
wilt thou have me fashion into speech”).21 (“Say over again, and
yet once over again”).22 (“When our two souls stand up erect and
strong”).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).Perspectives: Victorian Ladies and Gentlemen.
Sarah Stickney Ellis.From The Women of England: Their Social Duties
and Domestic Habits. Charlotte Brontë.From Letter to Emily Brontë.
Anne Brontë.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. Charles Kingsley.From Letters and
Memories. Sir Henry Newbolt.Vitaï Lampada. Alfred, Lord
Tennyson.The Kraken. Mariana. The Lady of Shalott. Ulysses. Break,
Break, Break. The Epic [Morte d'Arthur]. The Princess.Tears, Idle
Tears. (The Woman's Cause is Man's). From In Memoriam A. H. H. The
Charge of the Light Brigade. Crossing the Bar. 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.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 Brontë.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. Robert
Browning.Porphyria's Lover. My Last Duchess. The Bishop Orders His
Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church. Love Among the Ruins. “Childe Roland
to the Dark Tower Came.” Fra Lippo Lippi. Andrea del Sarto. Popular
Short Fiction.
Elizabeth Gaskell.Our Society at Cranford. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.A
Scandal in Bohemia. Rudyard Kipling.Without Benefit of Clergy. John
Ruskin.Modern Painters. From Definition of Greatness in Art.The
Stones of Venice. From The Nature of Gothic.Matthew Arnold.Dover
Beach. Culture and Anarchy. From Sweetness and Light.From Hebraism
and Hellenism.From Conclusion.Christina Rossetti.Song (“When I am
dead, my dearest”).In an Artist's Studio. Goblin Market. “No, thank
you, John.” Promises Like Pie-Crust. Sleeping at Last. Gerard
Manley Hopkins.God's Grandeur. The Windhover. Pied Beauty. 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. Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord. 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. How pleasant to know Mr. Lear! Robert Louis
Stevenson.From A Child's Garden of Verses. Hilaire Belloc.From The
Bad Child's Book of Beasts. Beatrix Potter.The Tale of Peter
Rabbit. Daisy Ashford.From The Young Visiters; or, Mr. Salteena's
Plan. Henry James.From What Maisie Knew. Oscar Wilde.Impression du
Matin. Symphony in Yellow. From The Decay of Lying. Preface to The
Picture of Dorian Gray. The Importance of Being Earnest. Aphorisms.
Oscar Wilde and His Time: Aestheticism, Decadence, and the Fin de
Siècle.
W. S. Gilbert.If You're Anxious for to Shine in the High Aesthetic
Line. Companion Reading.H. Montgomery Hyde: From The Trials of
Oscar Wilde. From De Profundis. 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”.
Lionel Johnson.The Destroyer of a Soul. A Decadent's Lyric. Lord
Alfred Douglas.Two Loves. Impression de Nuit. Olive Custance (Lady
Alfred Douglas).The Masquerade. Statues. The White Witch.
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.
Joseph Conrad.
Preface to The Nigger of the “Narcissus”. Heart of Darkness.
Bernard Shaw.
Pygmalion.
Thomas Hardy.
Hap. Wessex Heights. The Darkling Thrush. On the Departure
Platform. The Convergence of the Twain. Channel Firing. In Time of
“The Breaking of Nations”. Logs on the Hearth. Afterwards. Epitaph.
Perspectives: The Great War: Confronting the Modern.
Blast.Vorticist Manifesto. Rupert Brooke.The Great Lover. The
Soldier. Sigfried Sassoon.Glory of Women. Everyone Sang. Wilfred
Owen.Anthem for Doomed Youth. Strange Meeting. Dulce et Decorum
Est. Isaac Rosenberg.Break of Day in the Trenches. Dead Man's Dump.
David Jones.From In Parenthesis. William Butler Yeats.The Lake Isle
of Innisfree. Who Goes with Fergus? No Second Troy. The Wild Swans
at Coole. Easter 1916. Companion Reading.Proclamation of the Irish
Republic. The Second Coming. Prayer for My Daughter. Sailing to
Byzantium. Leda and the Swan. Among School Children. Byzantium.
Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop. Lapis Lazuli. James
Joyce.Dubliners.Clay. The Dead. Ulysses. (Chapter 13. Nausicaa). T.
S. Eliot.The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. Companion
Readings.Arthur Waugh: [Cleverness and the New Poetry]. Ezra Pound:
Drunken Helots and Mr. Eliot. The Waste Land. Journey of the Magi.
Tradition and the Individual Talent. Virginia Woolf.The Lady in the
Looking-Glass: A Reflection. From A Room of One's Own.
Perspectives: Regendering Modernism.
Virginia Woolf.From Orlando. E. M. Forster.The Life to Come.
Rebecca West.Indissoluble Matrimony. Katherine Mansfield.The
Daughters of the Late Colonel. Jean Rhys.Mannequin. Angela
Carter.Penetrating to the Heart of the Forest. D. H. Lawrence.Odour
of Chrysanthemums. W. H. Auden.Musée des Beaux Arts. In Memory of
W. B. Yeats. September 1, 1939. 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 Kôr. George Orwell.Shooting an Elephant.
Salman Rushdie.Christopher Columbus and Queen Isabella of Spain
Consummate Their Relationship. Dylan Thomas.The Force That Through
the Green Fuse Drives the Flower. Do Not Go Gentle into That Good
Night. Samuel Beckett.Krapp's Last Tape. Texts for Nothing. 8
(“Only the words break the silence, all other sounds have
ceased”).Perspectives: Whose Language?
Philip Larkin.Talking in Bed. MCMXIV. High Windows. Seamus
Heaney.The Toome Road. 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). Why I
Choose to Write in Irish, The Corpse That Sits Up and Talks Back.
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o.FromDecolonizing the Mind. Nadine Gordimer.What
Were you Dreaming? Eavan Boland.The Pomegranate. A Woman Painted on
a Leaf. Mise Eire. Derek Walcott.A Far Cry from Africa. 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.Bibliographies.Credits.Index.
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