Table Of Contents:
Note on the selection xvii
Introduction 1(34)

Anon 35(4)

`The Seafarer'

Parallel translation by Kevin Crossley-Holland

Edmund Spenser (c.1552--1599) 39(7)

The Faerie Queene

Richard Hakluyt (1552--1616) 46(9)

Edward Hay's account of Sir Humphrey Gilbert's voyage to Newfoundland from Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation

The English Bible (1611) 55(1)

Psalm 107

George Chapman (1559--1634) 56(5)

Homer's Odysseys

Samuel Purchas (c.1575--1626) 61(10)

Hakluytus Posthumus, or Purchas His Pilgrimes

John Donne (1572--1631) 71(4)

`The Storme'

`The Calme'

John Milton (1608--1674) 75(1)

`Lycidas'

The Book of Common Prayer 75(1)

John Dryden (1631--1700) 76(2)

Annus Mirabilis

Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (c.1624--1674) 78(1)

`The Sea-goddess'

Charles Cotton (1630--1687) 79(1)

`The Tempest'

Joseph Addison (1672--1719) 80(4)

The Spectator

Daniel Defoe (c.1660--1731) 84(8)

Robinson Crusoe

A Tour through the Whole Island of Great Britain

Benjamin Franklin (1706--1790) 92(16)

Journal of a Voyage

James Thomson (1700--1748) 108(1)

The Seasons

George Anson (1697--1762) 109(4)

A Voyage Around the World

Henry Fielding (1707--1754) 113(4)

A Voyage to Lisbon

Anon 117(2)

`Ode on a Storm'

William Falconer (1731--1770) 119(12)

The Shipwreck

An Universal Dictionary of the Marine

Tobias Smollett (1721--1771) 131(5)

Travels through France and Italy

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker

James Boswell (1740--1795) 136(4)

Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

Ann Radcliffe (1764--1823) 140(5)

The Mysteries of Udolpho

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772--1834) 145(20)

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Biographia Literaria

William Cowper (1731--1800) 165(3)

`The Castaway'

J. M. W. Turner (1779--1851) 168(1)

`Foam's Frail Power'

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792--1822) 169(5)

`Lines Written among the Eugenian Hills'

letter to Thomas Love Peacock

Alastor

Letter to Captain Daniel Roberts

Lsetter to John Gisborne

Jane Austen (1775--1817) 174(1)

Sanditon

George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788--1824) 175(8)

Verse letter to Francis Hodgson

letter to his mother

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

Don Juan

John Keats (1795--1821) 183(1)

`The Sea'

Charles Lamb (1775--1834) 184(3)

`The Old Margate Hoy'

James Fenimore Cooper (1789--1851) 187(8)

The Pilot

Charles Darwin (1809--1882) 195(2)

The Voyage of the Beagle

Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort (1774--1857) 197(3)

The Beaufort Scale (c.1830)

Richard Henry Dana, Jr. (1815--1882) 200(7)

Two Years Before the Mast

Charles Dickens (1812--1870) 207(12)

American Notes

David Copperfield

Frances Calderon de la Barca (1804--1882) 219(8)

Life in Mexico

Edgar Allan Poe (1809--1849) 227(15)

`A Descent into the Maelstrom'

Herman Melville (1819--1891) 242(10)

Journal

Moby Dick

`Far Off-Shore'

Charlotte Bronte (1816--1855) 252(2)

Villette

Walt Whitman (1819--1892) 254(2)

Song of Myself

`In Cabin'd Ships at Sea'

`Patroling Barnegat'

`After the Sea-Ship'

Emily Dickinson (1830--1886) 256(1)

`Exultation is the going'

Anthony Trollope (1815--1882) 257(3)

The West Indies and the Spanish Main

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809--1892) 260(5)

`The Voyage'

`The Sailor Boy'

`Crossing the Bar'

Professor Ansted (n.d.) 265(2)

`The Representation of Water'

Henry David Thoreau (1817--1862) 267(4)

Cape Cod

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803--1882) 271(2)

English Traits

Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837--1909) 273(2)

`The Return'

Matthew Arnold (1822--1888) 275(1)

`Dover Beach'

John Macgregor (1825--1892) 276(6)

The Voyage Alone in the Yawl `Rob Roy'

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844--1889) 282(2)

Journal

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850--1894) 284(1)

`The English Admirals'

Rudyard Kipling (1865--1936) 285(8)

`The Sea and the Hills'

`A Matter of Fact'

Joseph Conrad (1857--1924) 293(14)

The Nigger of the `Narcissus'

Heart of Darkness

Youth

The Mirror of the Sea

Stephen Crane (1871--1900) 307(7)

`The Open Boat'

Frank T. Bullen (1857--1915) 314(4)

Idylls of the Sea

Captain Joshua Slocum (1844--1909) 318(8)

Sailing Alone Around the World

John Masefield (1878--1967) 326(5)

`Sea-Fever'

`Cardigan Bay'

`Sea Superstition'

Erskine Childers (1870--1922) 331(7)

The Riddle of the Sands

Edmund Gosse (1849--1928) 338(2)

Father and Son

Ezra Pound (1885--1972) 340(3)

`The Seafarer'

H. M. Tomlinson (1873--1958) 343(5)

The Sea and the Jungle

Elinor Wylie (1885--1928) 348(1)

`Sea Lullaby'

Apsley Cherry-Garrard (1886--1959) 349(11)

The Worst Journey in the World

Virginia Woolf (1882--1941) 360(5)

Jacob's Room

James Joyce (1882--1941) 365(1)

Ulysses

Hilaire Belloc (1870--1953) 366(3)

The Cruise of the `Nona'

William Beebe (1877--1962) 369(9)

The Arcturus Adventure

Conor O'Brien (1880--1952) 378(4)

Across Three Oceans

Henry Beston (1888--1968) 382(7)

The Outermost House

Rockwell Kent (1882--1971) 389(7)

N by E

Albert Richard Wetjen (1900--1940) 396(3)

Way for a Sailor!

Marianne Moore (1887--1972) 399(1)

`A Grave'

Dora Birtles (1903-- ) 400(2)

North-West by North

Robert Frost (1874--1963) 402(1)

`Neither Out Far Nor In Deep'

Richard Hughes (1900--1976) 403(5)

In Hazard

T. S. Eliot (1888--1965) 408(1)

`The Dry Salvages'

Frank Arthur Worsley (1872--1943) 409(9)

Shackleton's Boat Journey

Robert Lowell (1917--1977) 418(4)

`The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket'

Elizabeth Bishop (1911--1979) 422(1)

`Seascape'

Robert Cushman Murphy (1887--1973) 423(4)

Logbook for Grace

W. H. Auden (1907--1973) 427(1)

The Enchafed Flood

Rachel Carson (1907--1964) 428(7)

The Sea Around Us

Ernest Hemingway (1899--1961) 435(6)

The Old Man and the Sea

Alan Ross (1922-- ) 441(2)

`Night Patrol'

Walter Munk (1917-- ) 443(4)

`The Circulation of the Oceans'

William Golding (1911-- ) 447(6)

Pincher Martin

Charles Tomlinson (1927-- ) 453(2)

`The Atlantic'

`On Water'

Langston Hughes (1902--1967) 455(1)

`Sea Calm'

Miles Smeeton (1906--1988) 455(6)

Once is Enough

Norman Maccaig (1910-- ) 461(1)

`Midnight, Lochinver'

Willard Bascom (1916-- ) 462(10)

The Crest of the Wave: Adventures in Oceanography

Waves and Beaches: The Dynamics of the Ocean Surface

Samuel Eliot Morison (1887--1976) 472(3)

Spring Tides

H. W. Tilman (1898--?1977/8) 475(7)

Mostly Mischief

Laurence Draper (n.d.) 482(5)

`Freak Waves', an appendix to J. Adlard Coles: Heavy Weather Sailing

Thom Gunn (1929-- ) 487(1)

`From the Wave'

David Lewis (1917-- ) 488(5)

We, the Navigators

Philip Larkin (1922--1985) 493(1)

`To the Sea'

John Fowles (1926-- ) 494(2)

Shipwreck

E. B. White (1899--1985) 496(3)

`The Sea and the Wind that Blows'

Anne Stevenson (1933-- ) 499(1)

`North Sea off Carnoustie'

Derek Walcott (1930-- ) 500(3)

`The Sea is History'

John Barth (1931-- ) 503(5)

Sabbatical

Mary Oliver (1935-- ) 508(1)

`The Waves'

John Updike (1932-- ) 509(10)

`Sea Knell'

`Bath after Sailing'

Rabbit at Rest
Acknowledgements 519(4)
Index 523