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Longman Anthology of British Literature, Volume 2A, The: The Romantics and Their Contemporaries, Fifth Edition The Romantics and Their Contemporaries Illustration: Thomas Girtin, Tintern Abbey THE ROMANTIC PERIOD AT A GLANCE INTRODUCTION LITERATURE AND THE AGE: "NOUGHT WAS LASTING" ROMANCE, ROMANTICISM, AND THE POWERS OF THE IMAGINATION THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND ITS REVERBERATIONS Illustration: Thomas Rowlandson, after a drawing by Lord George Murray, The Contrast THE MONARCHY Illustration: Thomas Lawrence, Coronation Portrait of the Prince Regent (later, George IV) INDUSTRIAL ENGLAND AND "NEVER-RESTING LABOUR" CONSUMERS AND COMMODITIES Color Plate 1: John Martin, The Bard Color Plate 2: Thomas Gainsborough, Mrs. Mary Robinson Color Plate 3: Thomas Phillips, Lord Byron Color Plate 4: Anonymous, Portrait of Olaudah Equiano Color Plate 5: J. M. W. Turner, Slavers Throwing the Dead and Dying Overboard, Typhoon Coming On Color Plate 6: William Blake, The Little Black Boy (second plate only) Color Plate 7: William Blake, The Little Black Boy (another version of #6) Color Plate 8: William Blake, The Tyger Color Plate 9: William Blake, The Sick Rose Color Plate 10: Joseph Wright, An Iron Forge Viewed from Without AUTHORSHIP, AUTHORITY, AND "ROMANTICISM" POPULAR PROSE Illustration: George Cruikshank, The Press PERSPECTIVES The Sublime, the Beautiful, and the Picturesque Illustration: Thomas Rowlandson, Dr. Syntax Sketching by the Lake Illustration: Joseph Mallord William Turner, The Passage of the St. Gothard, 1804 EDMUND BURKE from A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful Illustration: Benjamin Robert Haydon, Study after the Elgin Marbles IMMANUEL KANT from The Critique of Judgement WILLIAM GILPIN Illustration: Edward Dayes, Tintern Abbey from across the Wye, 1794 from Three Essays on Picturesque Beauty, on Picturesque Travel, and on Sketching Landscape Illustration: From William Gilpin's Three Essays, 1792 MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT from A Vindication of the Rights of Men JANE AUSTEN from Pride and Prejudice from Northanger Abbey MARIA JANE JEWSBURY A Rural Excursion JOHN RUSKIN from Modern Painters ANNA LETITIA 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 from ELEGIAC SONNETS AND OTHER POEMS To the Moon "Sighing I see yon little troop at play" Illustration: Charlotte Smith, engraving for Sonnet IV, "To the Moon" 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 overlooking the sea The sea view The Dead Beggar The Emigrants, Book 1 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 EDMUND BURKE from Reflections on the Revolution in France Illustration: James Gillray, Smelling out a Rat; ---- or The Atheistical Revolutionist disturbed in his Midnight Calculations 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 HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS from Letters from France, 1796 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 The Widow Illustration: James Gillray, illustration to 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 from Jacobinism from Once a Jacobin Always a Jacobin WILLIAM BLAKE All Religions Are One There Is No Natural Religion [a] There Is No Natural Religion [b] SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND OF EXPERIENCE Illustration: William Blake, frontispiece for Songs of Innocence from Songs of Innocence Introduction The Shepherd The Ecchoing Green The Lamb Illustration: William Blake, The Lamb The Little Black Boy The Blossom The Chimney Sweeper Illustration: William Blake, The Little Boy lost The Little Boy lost Illustration: William Blake, The Little Boy found The Little Boy found The Divine Image HOLY THURSDAY Nurses 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 & the PEBBLE HOLY THURSDAY The Little Girl Lost The Little Girl Found THE Chimney Sweeper NURSES Song The SICK ROSE Illustration: William Blake, THE Chimney Sweeper Illustration: William Blake, THE FLY THE FLY The Angel The Tyger My Pretty ROSE TREE AH! SUN-FLOWER The GARDEN of LOVE LONDON The Human Abstract INFANT SORROW A Little BOY Lost Illustration: William Blake, A POISON TREE A Little GIRL Lost The School-Boy A DIVINE IMAGE The Marriage of Heaven and Hell Visions of the Daughters of Albion Illustration: William Blake, Plate i from Visions of the Daughters of Albion Illustration: William Blake, Plate 8, from 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 ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Epistle to William Wilberforce, Esq., On the Rejection of the Bill for Abolishing the Slave Trade HANNAH MORE AND EAGLESFIELD SMITH The Sorrows of Yamba ROBERT SOUTHEY from Poems Concerning the Slave-Trade DOROTHY WORDSWORTH 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 Illustration: Packing methods on a slave ship 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 from Sappho and Phaon, in a Series of Legitimate Sonnets III. The Bower of Pleasure IV. Sappho discovers 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 The Haunted Beach London's Summer Morning The Old Beggar MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT Illustration: Portrait of 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 RESPONSES Anna Letitia Barbauld, The Rights of Woman Ann Yearsley, The Indifferent Shepherdess to Colin Robert Southey, To Mary Wollstonecraft William Blake, from Mary from The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria "Jemima's Narrative" PERSPECTIVES The Wollstonecraft Controversy and the Rights of Women CATHARINE MACAULAY from Letters on Education RICHARD POLWHELE from The Unsex'd Females PRISCILLA BELL WAKEFIELD from Reflections on the Present Condition of the Female Sex MARY ANN 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, "On Needlework" 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 JAMES MACPHERSON Carric-Thura: A Poem 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 RESPONSE Charlotte Smith, To the shade of Burns A Red, Red Rose Auld Lang Syne The Fornicator. A New Song 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 (1798) 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) from 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' untrodden ways") "A slumber did my spirit seal" Lucy Gray Poor Susan Nutting "Three years she grew in sun and shower" The Old Cumberland Beggar Michael RESPONSES Francis Jeffrey: ["the new poetry"] Charles Lamb: from a letter to William Wordsworth Charles Lamb: from a letter to Thomas Manning SONNETS, 1802--1807 Prefatory Sonnet ("Nuns fret not at their Convent's narrow room") Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1802 "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 Book First. Introduction, Childhood, and School time from Book Second. School time continued [Two Consciousnesses] [Blessed Infant Babe] from Book Fourth. Summer Vacation [A Simile for Autobiography] [Encounter with a "Dismissed" Soldier] from Book Fifth. Books [Meditation on Books. The Dream of the Arab] [A Drowning in Esthwaite's Lake] ["The Mystery of Words"] from Book Sixth. Cambridge, and the Alps [The Pleasure of Geometric Science] [Arrival in France] [Travelling in the Alps. Simplon Pass] from Book Seventh. Residence in London [A Blind Beggar. Bartholomew Fair] from Book Ninth. Residence in France [Paris] [Revolution, Royalists, and Patriots] from 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] from The Prelude 1850 490 [Apostrophe to Edmund Burke] from Book Eleventh. Imagination, How Impaired and Restored [Imagination Restored by Nature] ["Spots of Time." Two Memories from Childhood and Later Reflections] from 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 RESPONSE Lewis Carroll: Upon the Lonely Moor "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 Excursion Preface Book I "The Wanderer" From Book IV RESPONSES William Hazlitt: from the Character of Mr. Wordsworth's New Poem, The Excursion Francis Jeffrey: from A Review of William Wordsworth's Excursion John Wilson, "But is it Christianity? ! Was Margaret a Christian?" from "On Sacred Poetry" Blackwood's Edinburg Magazine, 1828 from The Wanderer, 1845 Version "Surprised by Joy" "Mutability" "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 from The Grasmere Journals [Home Alone] [A Leech Gatherer] [A Woman Beggar] [An Old Sailor] [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 A letter to Joseph Cottle Thomas De Quincey: from Recollections of the Lake Poets SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Sonnet to the River Otter COMPANION READING William Lisle Bowles: To the River Itchin, Near Winton The Eolian Harp This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison Frost at Midnight from The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere (1798) Part 1 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1817) COMPANION READINGS William Cowper: The Castaway Samuel Taylor Coleridge: from Table Talk Christabel COMPANION READING Mary Elizabeth Coleridge: The Witch Kubla Khan RESPONSE Mary Robinson: To the Poet Coleridge The Pains of Sleep Dejection: An Ode LETTERS To William Godwin 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 [My Ghost-Theory] 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] from 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 Shakespear Charles Lamb from On the Tragedies of Shakspeare William Hazlitt from Lectures on the English Poets / The Characters of Shakespeare's Plays * GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON She walks in beauty So, we'll go no more a-roving Manfred Illustration: Ford Madox Brown, Manfred on the Jungfrau, 1840 * "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 Buonaparte] Samuel Taylor Coleridge from The Statesman's Manual ["Satanic Pride and Rebellious Self-Idolatry"] Caroline Lamb from Glenarvon William Hazlitt from Lectures on the English Poets ["On Shakespeare and Milton"] Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley from Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus Felicia Hemans from The Widow of Crescentius Percy Bysshe Shelley from Preface to Prometheus Unbound / from Prometheus Unbound, Act 1 Robert Southey from Preface to A Vision of Judgement George Gordon, Lord Byron from The Vision of Judgment * CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE from Canto the Third [Waterloo Fields] [Thunderstorm in the Alps] [Byron's Strained Idealism. Apostrophe to His Daughter] from 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 Canto III] (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 RESPONSE Leigh Hunt: Introduction to The Mask of Anarchy Ode to the West Wind To a Sky-Lark RESPONSE Thomas Hardy: Shelley's Skylark To--("Music, when soft voices die") Adonais RESPONSES 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 from 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 The Cenci Julian and Maddalo The Sensitive Plant Letter to Maria Gisborne RESPONSE Mary Shelley: Introductions to the Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1824, 1839) FELICIA HEMANS Illustration: Edward Smith, after a painting by Edward Robinson, Portrait of Felicia Hemans from TALES, AND HISTORIC SCENES, IN VERSE The Wife of Asdrubal The Last Banquet of Antony and Cleopatra Evening Prayer, at a Girls' School Casabianca from RECORDS OF WOMAN, WITH OTHER POEMS The Bride of the Greek Isle 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 JOHN CLARE Written in November (manuscript) Written in November Songs Eternity [The Lament of Swordy Well] [The Mouse's Nest] Clock a Clay The Mores JOHN KEATS Illustration: Charles Brown, Portrait of John Keats, 1819 On First Looking into Chapman's Homer; from Leigh Hunt, "Young Poets" (Examiner, 1 December 1816) COMPANION READINGS 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 RESPONSE Z. [John Gibson Lockhart]: from On the Cockney School of Poetry John Gibson Lockhart: from The Cockney School of Poetry No. IV 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 Merci (letter text) La Belle Dame sans Mercy, with Leigh Hunt's Preface (The Indicator 1820) 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"] (22 November 1817) To George and Thomas Keats ["Intensity" and "Negative Capability"] (December 1817) To John Hamilton Reynolds [Wordsworth and "The Whims of an Egotist"] (3 February 1818) To John Taylor ["A Few Axioms"] (27 February 1818) To Benjamin Bailey ["Ardent Pursuit"] (13 May 1818) To John Hamilton Reynolds [Wordsworth, Milton, and "Dark Passages"] (3 May 1818) To Benjamin Bailey ["I Have Not a Right Feeling Towards Women"] (18 July 1818) To Richard Woodhouse [The "Camelion Poet" vs. The "Egotistical Sublime"] (27 October 1818) To George and Georgiana Keats ["indolence," "poetry" vs. "philosophy," the "vale of Soul-Making"] (Spring 1819) To Fanny Brawne ["You Take Possession of Me"] (25 July 1819) To Percy Bysshe Shelley ["An Artist Must Serve Mammon"] (16 August 1820) To Charles Brown [Keats's Last Letter] (30 November 1820) SIR WALTER SCOTT Illustration: The Author of Waverley Lord Randall The Two Drovers Introduction to Tales of My Landlord PERSPECTIVES Popular Prose and the Problems of Authorship 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 On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth ["What is it that we mean by literature?"] JANE AUSTEN from Northanger Abbey, Chapter 1 MARIA JANE JEWSBURY The Young Author WILLIAM COBBETT from Rural Rides MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY The Swiss Peasant The Victorian Age, Volume 2B, Fourth Edition Illustration: Gustave Dore, Ludgate Hill 1044 THE VICTORIAN AGE AT A GLANCE 1045 INTRODUCTION 1049 VICTORIA AND THE VICTORIANS 1049 Illustration: Sunlight Soap advertisement commemorating the 1897 Jubilee of Victoria's reign 1050 THE AGE OF ENERGY AND INVENTION 1052 Illustration: Robert Howlett, Portrait of Isambard Kingdom Brunel and Launching Chains of the Great Eastern, 1857 1053 THE AGE OF DOUBT 1055 Illustration: The Crystal Palace 1058 THE AGE OF REFORM 1059 THE AGE OF EMPIRE 1063 Illustration: "The Formula of British Conquest," Pears' Soap advertisement 1065 THE AGE OF READING 1066 Color Plate 11: Sir John Everett Millais, Mariana Color Plate 12: William Holman Hunt, The Awakening Conscience Color Plate 13: Ford Madox Brown, Work Color Plate 14: Augustus Egg, Past and Present, No. 1 Color Plate 15: Augustus Egg, Past and Present, No. 3 Color Plate 16: William Morriss, Guenevere, or La Belle Iseult Color Plate 17: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Blessed Damozel Color Plate 18: James McNeill Whistler, Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket Color Plate 19: John Williams Waterhouse, The Lady of Shalott Color Plate 20: Sir Edward Burne-Jones, Love Among the Ruins THE AGE OF SELF-SCRUTINY 1068 Illustration: Cartoon from Punch magazine, 1867 1068 THOMAS CARLYLE 1074 Illustration: Julia Margaret Cameron, Thomas Carlyle, 1867 1075 Past and Present 1076 Midas [The Condition of England] 1076 from Gospel of Mammonism [The Irish Widow] 1079 from Labour [Know Thy Work] 1080 from Democracy [Liberty to Die by Starvation] 1081 Captains of Industry 1083 PERSPECTIVES The Industrial Landscape 1088 Illustration: John Leech, Horseman pursued by a train engine named "Time" 1089 THE STEAM LOOM WEAVER 1090 FANNY KEMBLE 1091 from Record of a Girlhood 1091 THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY 1092 from A Review of Southey's Colloquies 1092 PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS ("BLUE BOOKS") 1094 Testimony of Hannah Goode, a Child Textile Worker 1095 Testimony of Ann and Elizabeth Eggley, Child Mineworkers 1095 CHARLES DICKENS 1097 from Dombey and Son 1097 from Hard Times 1098 BENJAMIN DISRAELI 1100 from Sybil 1100 FRIEDRICH ENGELS 1101 from The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844 1101 Illustration: Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, Catholic Town in 1440 /Same Town in 1840 1103 HENRY MAYHEW 1108 from London Labour and the London Poor 1108 Illustration: The Boy Crossing-Sweepers 1112 JOHN STUART MILL 1113 On Liberty 1115 from Chapter 2. Of the Liberty of Thought and Discussion 1115 from Chapter 3. Of Individuality, as One of the Elements of Well-Being 1117 The Subjection of Women 1121 from Chapter 1 1121 Statement Repudiating the Rights of Husbands 1129 Autobiography 1129 from Chapter 1. Childhood, and Early Education 1129 from Chapter 5. A Crisis in My Mental History. One Stage Onward 1132 ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING 1138 The Cry of the Children 1140 To George Sand: A Desire 1144 To George Sand: A Recognition 1144 A Year's Spinning (Web) Sonnets from the Portuguese 1145 1 ("I thought once how Theocritus had sung") 1145 13 ("And wilt thou have me fashion into speech") 1145 14 ("If thou must love me, let it be for nought") 1145 21 ("Say over again, and yet once over again") 1146 22 ("When our two souls stand up erect and strong") 1146 24 ("Let the world's sharpness, like a clasping knife") 1147 28 ("My letters! all dead paper, mute and white!") 1147 32 ("The first time that the sun rose on thine oath") 1147 38 ("First time he kissed me, he but only kissed") 1148 43 ("How do I love thee? Let me count the ways") 1148 The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point 1148 Aurora Leigh 1155 Book 1 1155 [Self-Portrait] 1155 Illustration: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, frontispiece of Aurora Leigh 1156 [Her Mother's Portrait] 1157 [Aurora's Education] 1158 [Discovery of Poetry] (Web) Book 2 1162 [Woman and Artist] 1162 [No Female Christ] 1165 [Aurora's Rejection of Romney] 1166 Book 3 1170 [The Woman Writer in London] 1170 Book 5 1171 [Epic Art and Modern Life] 1171 from A Curse for a Nation (Web) A Musical Instrument 1174 The Best Thing in the World (Web) ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON 1175 Illustration: Max Beerbohm, Tennyson Reading "In Memoriam" to his Sovereign, 1904 1178 The Kraken 1178 Mariana 1179 The Lady of Shalott 1181 Illustration: William Holman Hunt, The Lady of Shalott 1182 The Lotos-Eaters 1185 Ulysses 1189 Tithonus 1191 Break, Break, Break 1193 The Epic [Morte d'Arthur] 1194 The Eagle: A Fragment (Web) Locksley Hall 1196 from THE PRINCESS 1201 Sweet and Low (Web) The Splendour Falls 1201 Tears, Idle Tears 1202 Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal 1202 Come Down, O Maid (Web) [The Woman's Cause Is Man's] 1203 from In Memoriam A. H. H. 1204 The Charge of the Light Brigade 1235 Idylls of the King 1237 The Coming of Arthur 1237 Pelleas and Ettarre (Web) The Passing of Arthur 1247 The Higher Pantheism 1257 RESPONSE Algernon Charles Swinburne: The Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell 1258h Flower in the Crannied Wall (Web) Crossing the Bar 1259 EDWARD FITZGERALD (Web) The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam of Naishapur (Web) CHARLES DARWIN 1260 Illustration: Linley Sambourne, Man is But a Worm 1261 The Voyage of the Beagle 1262 from Chapter 10. Tierra Del Fuego 1262 Illustration: Thomas Landseer, after a drawing by C. Martens, A Fuegian at Portrait Cove 1263 from Chapter 17. Galapagos Archipelago 1269 On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection 1272 from Chapter 3. Struggle for Existence 1272 The Descent of Man 1277 from Chapter 21. General Summary and Conclusion 1277 from Autobiography 1283 PERSPECTIVES Religion and Science 1291 THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY 1292 from Lord Bacon 1292 CHARLES DICKENS 1293 from Sunday Under Three Heads 1293 DAVID FRIEDRICH STRAUSS 1296 from The Life of Jesus Critically Examined 1296 CHARLOTTE BRONTAi 1299 from Jane Eyre 1299 ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH 1301 Epi-strauss-ium 1301 The Latest Decalogue 1302 from Dipsychus 1302 JOHN WILLIAM COLENSO 1303 from The Pentateuch and Book of Joshua Critically Examined 1304 JOHN HENRY CARDINAL NEWMAN 1305 from Apologia Pro Vita Sua 1305 THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY 1313 from Evolution and Ethics 1313 SIR EDMUND GOSSE 1317 from Father and Son 1317 ROBERT BROWNING 1322 Illustration: Julia Margaret Cameron, Robert Browning, 1866 1322 Porphyria's Lover 1325 Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister 1326 My Last Duchess 1328 How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix 1330 Home-Thoughts, from Abroad 1331 Home-Thoughts, from the Sea 1332 The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church 1332 Meeting at Night 1335 Parting at Morning 1336 A Toccata of Galuppi's 1336 Memorabilia 1337 Love Among the Ruins 1338 "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" 1340 RESPONSE Stevie Smith: Childe Rolandine 1346h Fra Lippo Lippi 1347 The Last Ride Together 1355 Andrea del Sarto 1358 Two in the Campagna (Web) A Woman's Last Word 1364 Caliban Upon Setebos 1366 Epilogue to Asolando 1372 CHARLES DICKENS 1373 A Christmas Carol 1376 Illustration: Hablot K. Browne, Mr Scrooge Extinguishing the Spirit 1399 from A Walk in a Workhouse 1425 COMPANION READINGS Dickens at Work: Recollections by His Children and Friends (Web) Kate Field: Dickens Giving a Reading of A Christmas Carol 1430 h POPULAR SHORT FICTION 1431 ELIZABETH GASKELL 1432 Our Society at Cranford 1432 THOMAS HARDY 1447 The Withered Arm 1448 SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE 1466 A Scandal in Bohemia 1467 Illustration: Sidney Paget, Good-night Mr Sherlock Holmes 1480 EMILY BRONTAi 1482 "High waving heather 'neath stormy blasts bending" 1484 "The night is darkening round me" 1484 "And first an hour of mournful musing" 1485 "I'm happiest when most away" 1485 "There are two trees in a lonely field" 1485 Stanzas 1485 Plead for me 1486 Stars 1487 The Prisoner (A Fragment) 1488 Remembrance 1490 "No coward soul is mine" 1491 JOHN RUSKIN 1492 Modern Painters 1493 from Definition of Greatness in Art 1493 from Of Water, As Painted by Turner 1494 The Stones of Venice 1495 from The Nature of Gothic 1495 Illustration: John Ruskin, Windows of the Early Gothic Palaces 1496 The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century 1505 Praeterita (Web) Preface (Web) from The Springs of Wandel (Web) from Herne-Hill Almond Blossoms (Web) from Schaffhausen and Milan (Web) from The Grande Chartreuse (Web) from Joanna's Care (Web) FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE 1510 from Cassandra 1511 PERSPECTIVES Victorian Ladies and Gentlemen 1520 Illustration: The Parliamentary Female, from Punch magazine, 1853 1521 FRANCES POWER COBBE 1522 from Life of Frances Power Cobbe As Told by Herself 1522 SARAH STICKNEY ELLIS 1525 from The Women of England: Their Social Duties and Domestic Habits 1525 CHARLOTTE BRONTAi 1528 from Letter to Emily Bronte 1528 Illustration: Richard Redgrave, The Poor Teacher, 1844 1529 ANNE BRONTAi 1529 from Agnes Grey 1530 JOHN HENRY CARDINAL NEWMAN 1531 from The Idea of a University 1531 CAROLINE NORTON 1532 from A Letter to the Queen 1533 GEORGE ELIOT 1535 Margaret Fuller and Mary Wollstonecraft 1535 THOMAS HUGHES 1540 from Tom Brown's School Days 1540 ISABELLA BEETON 1542 from The Book of Household Management 1542 JOHN RUSKIN 1544 from Sesame and Lilies 1544 Of Queens' Gardens 1544 QUEEN VICTORIA 1547 Letters and Journal Entries on the Position of Women 1547 Illustration: Edwin Landseer, Windsor Castle in Modern Times, 1841--1845 1549 SARAH GRAND 1552 from The New Aspect of the Woman Question 1552 SIR HENRY NEWBOLT 1553 Vitai Lampada 1554 MONA CAIRD 1554 from Does Marriage Hinder a Woman's Self-Development? 1555 RUDYARD KIPLING 1556 If 1556 MATTHEW ARNOLD 1557 Illustration: Matthew Arnold and his wife Frances Wightman Arnold 1557 Isolation. To Marguerite 1560 To Marguerite--Continued 1561 Dover Beach 1562 RESPONSE Anthony Hecht: The Dover Bitch 1563h Lines Written in Kensington Gardens 1564 The Buried Life 1565 Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse 1567 The Scholar-Gipsy 1572 East London 1578 West London 1579 Thyrsis 1579 from The Function of Criticism at the Present Time 1585 from Culture and Anarchy 1595 from S

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David Damrosch is Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University. He is a past president of the American Comparative Literature Association, and has written widely on world literature from antiquity to the present. His books include What Is World Literature? (2003),The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh (2007), and How to Read World Literature (2009). He is the founding general editor of the six-volumeLongman Anthology of World Literature, 2/e (2009) and the editor of Teaching World Literature (2009). Kevin J. H. Dettmar is W. M. Keck Professor and Chair, Department of English, at Pomona College, and Past President of the Modernist Studies Association. He is the author of The Illicit Joyce of Postmodernism and Is Rock Dead?, and the editor of Rereading the New: A Backward Glance at Modernism; Marketing Modernisms: Self-Promotion, Canonization, and Rereading; Reading Rock & Roll: Authenticity, Appropriation, Aesthetics; the Barnes & Noble Classics edition of James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Dubliners; and The Blackwell Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture, and co-general editor of The Longman Anthology of British Literature. Christopher Baswell is A. W. Olin Chair of English at Barnard College, and Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. His interests include classical literature and culture, medieval literature and culture, and contemporary poetry. He is author of Virgil in Medieval England: Figuring the "Aeneid" from the Twelfth Century to Chaucer, which won the 1998 Beatrice White Prize of the English Association. He has held fellowships from the NEH, the National Humanities Center, and the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. Clare Carroll is Director of Renaissance Studies at The Graduate Center, City University of New York and Professor of Comparative Literature at Queens College and at The Graduate Center, CUNY. Her research is in Renaissance Studies, with particular interests in early modern colonialism, epic poetry, historiography, and translation. She is the author of The Orlando Furioso: A Stoic Comedy, and editor of Richard Beacon's humanist dialogue on the colonization of Ireland,Solon His Follie. Her most recent book isCirce's Cup: Cultural Transformations in Early Modern Ireland. She has received Fulbright Fellowships for her research and the Queens College President's Award for Excellence in Teaching. Andrew Hadfield is Professor of English at The University of Sussex. He is the author of a number of books, including Shakespeare and Republicanism (2005), which was awarded the 2006 Sixteenth-Century Society Conference Roland H. Bainton Prize for Literature; Literature, Travel and Colonialism in the English Renaissance, 1540-1625 (1998); and Spenser's Irish Experience: Wilde Fruyt and Salvage Soyl (1997). He has also edited a number, most recently, with Matthew Dimmock, Religions of the Book: Co-existence and Conflict, 1400-1660 (2008), and with Raymond Gillespie, The Oxford History of the Irish Book, Vol. III: The Irish Book in English, 1550-1800 (2006). He is a regular reviewer for the TLS. Heather Henderson is a freelance writer and former Associate Professor of English Literature at Mount Holyoke College. A specialist in Victorian literature, she is the recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities. She is the author of The Victorian Self: Autobiography and Biblical Narrative. Her current interests include home-schooling, travel literature, and autobiography. Peter J. Manning is Professor at Stony Brook University. He is the author of Byron and His Fictions and Reading Romantics, and of numerous essays on the British Romantic poets and prose writers. With Susan J. Wolfson, he has co-edited Selected Poems of Byron, and Selected Poems of Beddoes, Hood, and Praed. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the Distinguished Scholar Award of the Keats-Shelley Association. Anne Howland Schotter is Professor and Chair of English and Associate Dean of the Faculty at Wagner College. She is the co-editor of Ineffability: Naming the Unnamable from Dante to Beckett and author of articles on Middle English poetry, Dante, and Medieval Latin poetry. Her current interests include the medieval reception of classical literature, particularly the work of Ovid. She has held fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson and Andrew W. Mellon foundations. William Sharpe is Professor of English Literature at Barnard College. A specialist in Victorian poetry and the literature of the city, he is the author of Unreal Cities: Urban Figuration in Wordsworth, Baudelaire, Whitman, Eliot, and Williams. He is also co-editor of The Passing of Arthur and Visions of the Modern City. He is the recipient of Guggenheim, National Endowment of the Humanities, Fulbright, and Mellon fellowships, and recently published New YorkNocturne: The City After Dark in Literature, Painting, and Photography. Stuart Sherman is Associate Professor of English at Fordham University. He received the Gottschalk Prize from the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies for his book Telling Time: Clocks, Diaries, and English Diurnal Form, 1660-1775, and is currently at work on a study called "News and Plays: Evanescences of Page and Stage, 1620-1779." He has received the Quantrell Award for Undergraduate Teaching, as well as fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Chicago Humanities Institute, and Princeton University. Susan J. Wolfson is Professor of English at Princeton University and is general editor of Longman Cultural Editions. A specialist in Romanticism, her critical studies include The Questioning Presence: Wordsworth, Keats, and the Interrogative Mode in Romantic Poetry, Formal Charges: The Shaping of Poetry in British Romanticism, and Borderlines: The Shiftings of Gender in British Romanticism. She has also produced editions of Felicia Hemans, Lord Byron, Thomas L. Beddoes, William M. Praed, Thomas Hood, as well as the Longman Cultural Edition of Shelley's Frankenstein. She received Distinguished Scholar Award from Keats-Shelley Association, and grants and fellowships from American Council of Learned Societies, National Endowment for the Humanities, J. S. Guggenheim Foundation, and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. She is President (2009-2010) of the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers.