The Norton anthology of English literature / 6th ed.

Table Of Contents:
PREFACE TO THE SIXTH EDITION xxxv(6)
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xli
The Romantic Period (1785-1830) 1(862)

WILLIAM BLAKE (1757-1827) 18(62)

From POETICAL SKETCHES 22(4)

To Spring 22(1)

To Autumn 22(1)

To the Evening Star 23(1)

Song ("How sweet I roam'd from field to field") 23(1)

Song ("Memory, hither come") 24(1)

Mad Song 24(1)

To the Muses 25(1)

All Religions Are One 26(2)

There Is No Natural Religion [a] 26(1)

There Is No Natural Religion [b] 27(1)

SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND OF EXPERIENCE 28(1)

From Songs of Innocence 28(5)

Introduction 28(1)

The Ecchoing Green 28(1)

The Lamb 29(1)

The Little Black Boy 30(1)

The Chimney Sweeper 30(1)

The Divine Image 31(1)

Holy Thursday 32(1)

Nurse's Song 32(1)

Infant Joy 33(1)

From Songs of Experience 33(8)

Introduction 33(1)

Earth's Answer 34(1)

The Clod & the Pebble 35(1)

Holy Thursday 35(1)

The Chimney Sweeper 35(1)

Nurse's Song 36(1)

The Sick Rose 36(1)

The Fly 36(1)

The Tyger 37(1)

My Pretty Rose Tree 38(1)

Ah Sun-flower 38(1)

The Garden of Love 38(1)

London 39(1)

The Human Abstract 39(1)

Infant Sorrow 40(1)

A Poison Tree 40(1)

To Tirzah 41(1)

A Divine Image 41(1)

The Book of Thel 41(5)

Visions of the Daughters of Albion 46(7)

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell 53(11)

A Song of Liberty 64(2)

From BLAKE'S NOTEBOOK 66(1)

Mock on, Mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau 66(1)

Never pain to tell thy love 66(1)

I asked a thief 66(1)

The Mental Traveller 67(3)

And did those feet 70(1)

From A Vision of The Last Judgment 70(3)

[Four Letters on Sight and Vision] 73(7)

To Dr. John Trusler (Aug. 23, 1799) 73(1)

To Thomas Butts (Nov. 22, 1802) 74(3)

To William Hayley (Oct. 23, 1804) 77(2)

To George Cumberland (Apr. 12, 1827) 79(1)

ROBERT BURNS (1759-1796) 80(18)

To a Mouse 82(1)

To a Louse 83(2)

Green grow the rashes 85(1)

Holy Willie's Prayer 85(3)

Tam o'Shanter 88(5)

Afton Water 93(1)

Ae fond kiss 94(1)

Ye flowery banks 94(1)

Scots, wha hae 95(1)

For A' That and A' That 96(1)

A Red, Red Rose 97(1)

Auld Lang Syne 97(1)

MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT (1759-1797) 98(28)

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman 101(25)

Introduction 101(4)

Chap. 2. The Prevailing Opinion of a Sexual Character Discussed 105(14)

From Chap. 4. Observations on the State of Degradation to Which Woman Is Reduced by Various Causes 119(7)

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (1770-1850) 126(160)

From LYRICAL BALLADS 129(11)

Simon Lee 129(3)

We Are Seven 132(1)

Lines Written in Early Spring 133(1)

Expostulation and Reply 134(1)

The Tables Turned 135(1)

Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey 136(4)

Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1802) 140(12)

[The Subject and Language of Poetry] 141(6)

["What Is a Poet?"] 147(4)

["Emotion Recollected in Tranquillity"] 151(1)

Strange fits of passion have I known 152(1)

She dwelt among the untrodden ways 153(1)

Three years she grew 154(1)

A slumber did my spirit seal 155(1)

I travelled among unknown men 155(1)

Lucy Gray 156(1)

The Two April Mornings 157(2)

Nutting 159(1)

The Ruined Cottage 160(12)

Michael 172(10)

Written in March 182(1)

Resolution and Independence 183(3)

I wandered lonely as a cloud 186(1)

My heart leaps up 187(1)

Ode: Intimations of Immortality 187(7)

Ode to Duty 194(1)

The Solitary Reaper 195(1)

Elegiac Stanzas 196(2)

SONNETS 198(3)

Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 198(1)

It is a beauteous evening 198(1)

London, 1802 199(1)

The world is too much with us 199(1)

Surprised by joy 200(1)

Mutability 200(1)

Steamboats, Viaducts, and Railways 201(1)

Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg 201(2)

Prospectus to The Recluse 203(2)

THE PRELUDE, OR GROWTH OF A POET'S MIND 205(81)

Book First. Introduction, Childhood, and School-time 207(15)

Book Second. School-time continued 222(10)

Book Third. Residence at Cambridge 232(1)

[Experiences at St. John's College. the "Heroic Argument"] 232(5)

Book Fourth. Summer Vacation 237(1)

[The Walks with His Terrier. The Circuit of the Lake] 237(2)

["The Surface of Past Time." The Walk Home from the Dance. The Discharged Soldier] 239(5)

Book Fifth. Books 244(1)

[The Dream of the Arab] 244(2)

[The Boy of Winander] 246(1)

["The Mystery of Words"] 247(1)

Book Sixth. Cambridge, and the Alps 248(1)

["Human Nature Seeming Born Again"] 248(1)

[Crossing Simplon Pass] 248(3)

Book Seventh. Residence in London 251(1)

[The Blind Beggar. Bartholomew Fair] 251(3)

Book Eighth. Retrospect, Love of Nature leading to Love of Man 254(1)

[The Shepherd in the Mist. Man Still Subordinate to Nature] 254(2)

Book Ninth. Residence in France 256(1)

[Paris and Orleans. Becomes a "Patriot"] 256(3)

Book Tenth. France continued 259(1)

[The Revolution: Paris and England] 259(3)

[The Reign of Terror. Nightmares] 262(1)

Book Eleventh. France, concluded 263(1)

[Retrospect: "Bliss Was It in That Dawn." Recourse to "Reason's Naked Self"] 263(3)

[Crisis, Breakdown, and Recovery] 266(1)

Book Twelfth. Imagination and Taste, how impaired and restored 267(7)

Book Thirteenth. Subject concluded 274(1)

[Return to "Life's Familiar Face"] 274(2)

[Discovery of His Poetic Subject. Salisbury Plain. Sight of "a New World"] 276(4)

Book Fourteenth. Conclusion 280(1)

[The Vision on Mount Snowdon. Fear vs. Love Resolved. Imagination] 280(4)

[Conclusion: "The Mind of Man"] 284(2)

DOROTHY WORDSWORTH (1771-1855) 286(13)

From The Alfoxden Journal 287(2)

From The Grasmere Journals 289(10)

SIR WALTER SCOTT (1771-1832) 299(24)

The Two Drovers 300(20)

Lochinvar 320(1)

Jock of Hazeldean 321(1)

The Dreary Change 322(1)

Proud Maisie 322(1)

Lucy Ashton's Song 323(1)

SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE (1772-1834) 323(78)

The Eolian Harp 326(2)

This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison 328(2)

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner 330(16)

Kubla Khan 346(3)

Christabel 349(16)

Frost at Midnight 365(1)

Dejection: An Ode 366(4)

The Pains of Sleep 370(1)

Phantom 371(1)

To William Wordsworth 372(2)

Recollections of Love 374(1)

On Donne's Poetry 375(1)

Work without Hope 375(1)

Constancy to an Ideal Object 376(1)

Epitaph 377(1)

Biographia Literaria 377(18)

Chapter 1 378(1)

[The discipline of his taste at school] 378(1)

[Bowles's sonnets] 379(2)

[Comparison between the poets before and since Mr. Pope] 381(2)

Chapter 4 383(1)

[Mr. Wordsworth's earlier poems] 383(3)

[On fancy and imagination--the investigation of the distinction important to the fine arts] 386(1)

Chapter 13 387(1)

[On the imagination, or esemplastic power] 387(1)

Chapter 14. Occasion of the Lyrical Ballads, and the objects originally proposed--preface to the second edition--the ensuing controversy, its causes and acrimony--philosophic definitions of a term and poetry with scholia 387(5)

Chapter 17 392(1)

[Examination of the tenets peculiar to Mr. Wordsworth] 392(1)

[Rustic life (above all, low and rustic life) especially unfavorable to the formation of a human diction--the best parts of language the products of philosophers, not clowns or shepherds] 393(1)

[The language of Milton as much the language of real life, yea, incomparably more so than that of the cottager] 393(2)

Lectures on Shakespeare 395(3)

[Fancy and Imagination in Shakespeare's Poetry] 395(1)

[Mechanic vs. Organic Form] 396(2)

The Statesman's Manual 398(3)

[On Symbol and Allegory] 398(2)

[The Satanic Hero] 400(1)

CHARLES LAMB (1775-1834) 401(22)

A Letter to Wordsworth 403(3)

Christ's Hospital Five-and-Thirty Years Ago 406(9)

The Two Races of Men 415(4)

Old China 419(4)

WILLIAM HAZLITT (1778-1830) 423(21)

On Gusto 424(3)

My First Acquaintance with Poets 427(14)

From Mr. Wordsworth 441(3)

THOMAS DE QUINCEY (1785-1859) 444(23)

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater 446(13)

Preliminary Confessions 447(1)

[The Prostitute Ann] 447(2)

Introduction to the Pains of Opium 449(1)

[The Malay] 449(2)

The Pains of Opium 451(1)

[Opium Reveries and Dreams] 451(8)

On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth 459(3)

Alexander Pope 462(5)

[The Literature of Knowledge and the Literature of Power] 462(5)

THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK (1785-1866) 467(12)

The Four Ages of Poetry 468(10)

The War Song of Dinas Vawr 478(1)

GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON (1788-1824) 479(164)

Written after Swimming from Sestos to Abydos 483(1)

She walks in beauty 484(1)

They say that Hope is happiness 485(1)

When we two parted 485(1)

Stanzas for Music 486(1)

Darkness 486(2)

So, we'll go no more a roving 488(1)

When a man hath no freedom to fight for at home 489(1)

Stanzas Written on the road between Florence and Pisa 489(1)

January 22nd. Missolonghi 489(1)

CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE 490(23)

Canto 1 491(1)

["Sin's Long Labyrinth"] 491(2)

Canto 3 493(1)

["Once More Upon the Waters"] 493(3)

[Waterloo] 496(3)

[Napoleon] 499(3)

[Switzerland] 502(6)

Canto 4 508(1)

[Venice] 508(2)

["Farewell!"] 510(3)

Manfred 513(33)

The Vision of Judgment 546(20)

DON JUAN 566(62)

Fragment 568(1)

Canto 1 568(1)

[Juan and Donna Julia] 568(26)

Canto 2 594(1)

[The Shipwreck] 594(7)

[Juan and Haidee] 601(12)

Canto 3 613(1)

[Juan and Haidee] 613(7)

Canto 4 620(1)

[Juan and Haidee] 620(8)

LETTERS 628(15)

Memorandum (May 22, 1811) 629(1)

To Francis Hodgson (Sept. 3, 1811) 629(1)

To James Hogg (Mar. 24, 1814) 630(2)

To Leigh Hunt (Sept.-Oct. 30, 1815) 632(2)

To Thomas Moore (Jan. 28, 1817) 634(2)

To John Murray (Sept. 15, 1817) 636(1)

To John Cam Hobhouse and Douglas Kinnaird (Jan. 19, 1819) 637(2)

To John Murray (Apr. 6, 1819) 639(1)

To Douglas Kinnaird (Oct. 26, 1819) 640(2)

To Percy Bysshe Shelley (Apr. 26, 1821) 642(1)

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (1792-1822) 643(123)

Mutability 647(1)

To Wordsworth 648(1)

Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude 648(18)

Mont Blanc 666(4)

Hymn to Intellectual Beauty 670(2)

Ozymandias 672(1)

Stanzas Written in Dejection--December 1818, near Naples 672(1)

A Song: "Men of England" 673(1)

England in 1819 674(1)

To Sidmouth and Castlereagh 675(1)

The Indian Girl's Song [the Indian Serenade] 675(1)

Ode to the West Wind 676(2)

Prometheus Unbound 678(30)

Preface 679(3)

From Act 1 682(5)

Act 2 687(1)

Scene 4 687(4)

Scene 5 691(3)

Act 3 694(1)

Scene 1 694(2)

From Scene 4 696(3)

From Act 4 699(9)

The Cloud 708(2)

To a Sky-Lark 710(2)

Song of Apollo 712(1)

To Night 713(1)

To--[Music, when soft voices die] 714(1)

The flower that smiles today 714(1)

O World, O Life, O Time 715(1)

Choruses from Hellas 715(3)

Worlds on worlds 715(2)

The world's great age 717(1)

Adonais 718(13)

A Dirge 731(1)

When the lamp is shattered 731(1)

To Jane. The Invitation 732(2)

To Jane (The keen stars were twinkling) 734(1)

Lines Written in the Bay of Lerici 734(1)

The Triumph of Life 735(17)

From A Defence of Poetry 752(14)

JOHN KEATS (1795-1821) 766(78)

On First Looking into Chapman's Homer 769(1)

Sleep and Poetry 769(2)

["O for Ten Years"] 769(2)

On Seeing the Elgin Marbles 771(1)

Endymion: A Poetic Romance 771(4)

Preface 771(1)

Book 1 772(1)

[A Thing of Beauty] 772(1)

[The "Pleasure Thermometer"] 773(2)

On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again 775(1)

When I have fears that I may cease to be 776(1)

To Homer 776(1)

The Eve of St. Agnes 777(9)

Why did I laugh tonight? No voice will tell 786(1)

Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art 786(1)

La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad 787(1)

Sonnet to Sleep 788(1)

Ode to Psyche 788(2)

Ode to a Nightingale 790(2)

Ode on a Grecian Urn 792(2)

Ode on Melancholy 794(1)

Ode on Indolence 795(2)

Lamia 797(16)

To Autumn 813(1)

The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream 814(14)

LETTERS 828(16)

To Benjamin Bailey (Nov. 22, 1817) 829(1)

To George and Thomas Keats (Dec. 21, 27 [?], 1817) 830(2)

To John Hamilton Reynolds (Feb. 3, 1818) 832(1)

To John Taylor (Feb. 27, 1818) 833(1)

To John Hamilton Reynolds (May 3, 1818) 834(2)

To Richard Woodhouse (Oct. 27, 1818) 836(1)

To George and Georgiana Keats (Feb. 14-May 3, 1819) 837(4)

To Fanny Brawne (July 25, 1819) 841(1)

To Percy Bysshe Shelley (Aug. 16, 1820) 842(1)

To Charles Brown (Nov. 30, 1820) 843(1)

MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY (1797-1851) 844(19)

Introduction to Frankenstein 847(4)

Transformation 851(12)
ROMANTIC LYRIC POETS 863(28)

ANNA LAETITIA BARBAULD (1743-1825) 863(3)

The Rights of Woman 864(1)

To a Little Invisible Being Who Is Expected Soon to Become Visible 865(1)

Life 866(1)

CHARLOTTE SMITH (1749-1806) 866(2)

Written at the Close of Spring 867(1)

To Sleep 867(1)

To Night 868(1)

WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES (1762-1850) 868(1)

To the River Itchin, near Winton 868(1)

Languid, and sad, and slow 869(1)

JOANNA BAILLIE (1762-1851) 869(3)

Up! quit thy bower 870(1)

Song: Woo'd and married and a' 870(2)

WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR (1775-1864) 872(3)

Mother, I cannot mind my wheel 872(1)

Rose Aylmer 872(1)

The Three Roses 873(1)

Past ruined Ilion 873(1)

Dirce 874(1)

Twenty years hence 874(1)

Well I remember how you smiled 874(1)

THOMAS MOORE (1779-1852) 875(2)

Believe me, if all those endearing young charms 875(1)

The harp that once through Tara's halls 875(1)

The time I've lost in wooing 876(1)

JOHN CLARE (1793-1864) 877(4)

Mouse's Nest 877(1)

I Am 878(1)

Clock a Clay 878(1)

Song [I peeled bits of straw] 879(1)

Song [Secret Love] 879(1)

An Invite to Eternity 880(1)

A Vision 881(1)

FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS (1793-1835) 881(4)

England's Dead 882(1)

The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in New England 883(1)

Casabianca 884(1)

GEORGE DARLEY (1795-1846) 885(3)

The Phoenix 886(1)

It is not Beauty I demand 886(1)

The Mermaidens' Vesper Hymn 887(1)

THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES (1803-1849) 888(3)

Song ("How many times do I love thee, dear?") 888(1)

Song ("Old Adam, the carrion crow") 889(1)

The Phantom Wooer 889(2)
The Victorian Age (1830-1901) 891(663)

THOMAS CARLYLE (1795-1881) 910(64)

[Carlyle's Portraits of His Contemporaries] 915(8)

[Queen Victoria at 18] 915(1)

[Charles Lamb at 56] 916(1)

[Samuel Taylor Coleridge at 53] 916(4)

[William Wordsworth in His Seventies] 920(2)

[Alfred Tennyson at 34] 922(1)

[William Makepeace Thackeray at 42] 923(1)

From Characteristics 923(9)

Sartor Resartus 932(26)

The Everlasting No 933(5)

Centre of Indifference 938(6)

The Everlasting Yea 944(7)

Natural Supernaturalism 951(7)

The French Revolution 958(7)

September in Paris 958(3)

Place de la Revolution 961(3)

From Cause and Effect 964(1)

Past and Present 965(9)

From Democracy 965(5)

Captains of Industry 970(4)

JOHN HENRY CARDINAL NEWMAN (1801-1890) 974(18)

The Idea of a University 976(6)

From Discourse 5. Knowledge Its Own End 976(1)

From Discourse 7. Knowledge Viewed in Relation to Professional Skill 977(5)

Apologia Pro Vita Sua 982(10)

From Chapter 3. History of My Religious Opinions from 1839 to 1841 982(5)

From Chapter 5. Position of My Mind Since 1845 987(3)

From Liberalism 990(2)

JOHN STUART MILL (1806-1873) 992(37)

What Is Poetry? 994(7)

From Coleridge 1001(2)

On Liberty 1003(9)

From Chapter 3. Of Individuality as One of the Elements of Well-Being 1003(9)

The Subjection of Women 1012(10)

From Chapter 1 1012(10)

Autobiography 1022(7)

From Chapter 5. A Crisis in My Mental History. One Stage Onward 1022(7)

ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING (1806-1861) 1029(23)

To George Sand: A Desire 1031(1)

To George Sand: A Recognition 1031(1)

Sonnets from the Portuguese 1031(2)

21 ("Say over again, and yet once over again") 1031(1)

22 ("When our two souls stand up erect and strong") 1032(1)

32 ("The first time that the sun rose on thine oath") 1032(1)

43 ("How do I love thee? Let me count the ways") 1032(1)

A Year's Spinning 1033(1)

Aurora Leigh 1034(14)

From Book 1 1034(1)

[The Feminine Education of Aurora Leigh] 1034(6)

From Book 2 1040(1)

[Aurora's Aspirations] 1040(2)

[Aurora's Rejection of Romney] 1042(4)

From Book 5 1046(1)

[Poets and the Present Age] 1046(2)

A Musical Instrument 1048(1)

Mother and Poet 1049(3)

ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON (1809-1892) 1052(118)

The Kraken 1056(1)

Mariana 1057(2)

Sonnet ("She took the dappled partridge flecked with blood") 1059(1)

The Lady of Shalott 1059(4)

The Lotos-Eaters 1063(4)

Ulysses 1067(2)

Tithonus 1069(2)

Break, Break, Break 1071(1)

The Epic [Morte d'Arthur] 1071(2)

The Eagle: A Fragment 1073(1)

Locksley Hall 1073(7)

THE PRINCESS 1080(1)

Sweet and Low 1080(1)

The Splendor Falls 1080(1)

Tears, Idle Tears 1081(1)

Ask Me No More 1081(1)

Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal 1082(1)

Come Down, O Maid 1082(1)

["The Woman's Cause Is Man's"] 1083(1)

From In Memoriam A. H. H. 1084(49)

The Charge of the Light Brigade 1133(1)

Maud 1134(6)

Part 1 1134(1)

6.5 ("Ah, what shall I be at fifty") 1134(1)

6.8 ("Perhaps the smile and tender tone") 1135(1)

6.10 ("I have played with her when a child") 1135(1)

8 ("She came to the village church") 1135(1)

11 ("O let the solid ground") 1135(1)

12 ("Birds in the high Hall-garden") 1136(1)

16.3 ("Catch not my breath, O clamorous heart") 1137(1)

18 ("I have led her home, my love, my only friend") 1137(2)

Part 2 4 ("O that 'twere possible") 1139(1)

In the Valley of Cauteretz 1140(1)

Idylls of the King 1140(25)

Pelleas and Ettarre 1141(13)

The Passing of Arthur 1154(11)

Northern Farmer: New Style 1165(2)

Flower in the Crannied Wall 1167(1)

To Virgil 1167(1)

"Frater Ave atque Vale" 1168(1)

The Dawn 1169(1)

Crossing the Bar 1169(1)

EDWARD FITZGERALD (1809-1883) 1170(12)

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam 1171(11)

ROBERT BROWNING (1812-1889) 1182(84)

Porphyria's Lover 1187(1)

Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister 1188(2)

My Last Duchess 1190(2)

The Laboratory 1192(1)

The Lost Leader 1193(1)

How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix 1194(1)

Home-Thoughts, from Abroad 1195(1)

Home-Thoughts, from the Sea 1196(1)

The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church 1196(3)

Meeting at Night 1199(1)

Parting at Morning 1200(1)

A Toccata of Galuppr's 1200(2)

Memorabilia 1202(1)

Love Among the Ruins 1202(2)

Women and Roses 1204(2)

"Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" 1206(5)

Fra Lippo Lippi 1211(8)

The Last Ride Together 1219(3)

Andrea del Sarto 1222(6)

Two in the Campagna 1228(2)

A Grammarian's Funeral 1230(3)

A Woman's Last Word 1233(1)

An Epistle Containing the Strange Medical Experience of Karshish, the Arab Physician 1234(7)

Youth and Art 1241(2)

Caliban upon Setebos 1243(7)

Prospice 1250(1)

Abt Vogler 1251(2)

Dis Aliter Visum; or, Le Byron de Nos-Jours 1253(4)

Rabbi Ben Ezra 1257(5)

Apparent Failure 1262(2)

House 1264(1)

To Edward FitzGerald 1265(1)

Epilogue to Asolando 1265(1)

EMILY BRONTE (1818-1848) 1266(7)

I'm Happiest When Most Away 1267(1)

The Night-Wind 1267(1)

Remembrance 1268(1)

Stars 1269(1)

The Prisoner. A Fragment 1270(2)

No Coward Soul Is Mine 1272(1)

JOHN RUSKIN (1819-1900) 1273(32)

Modern Painters 1276(4)

[A Definition of Greatness in Art] 1276(1)

["The Slave Ship"] 1277(1)

From Of the Pathetic Fallacy 1278(2)

The Stones of Venice 1280(10)

[The Savageness of Gothic Architecture] 1280(10)

The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century 1290(8)

Lecture 1 1290(8)

From Praeterita 1298(7)

ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH (1819-1861) 1305(6)

Epi-strauss-ium 1306(1)

The Latest Decalogue 1307(1)

Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth 1307(1)

Dipsychus 1308(3)

I Dreamt a Dream 1308(2)

"There Is No God," the Wicked Saith 1310(1)

GEORGE ELIOT (1819-1880) 1311(33)

Margaret Fuller and Mary Wollstonecraft 1314(5)

The Mill on the Floss 1319(25)

From Book First. Boy and Girl 1319(1)

Chapter 1. Outside Dorlcote Mill 1319(2)

Chapter 2. Mr. Tulliver, of Dorlcote Mill, Declares His Resolution About Tom 1321(4)

Chapter 3. Mr. Riley Gives His Advice Concerning a School for Tom 1325(9)

Chapter 4. Tom Is Expected 1334(3)

Chapter 5. Tom Comes Home 1337(7)

MATTHEW ARNOLD (1822-1888) 1344(98)

To a Friend 1349(1)

The Forsaken Merman 1349(3)

Isolation. To Marguerite 1352(1)

To Marguerite--Continued 1353(1)

The Buried Life 1354(2)

Memorial Verses 1356(2)

Lines Written in Kensington Gardens 1358(1)

The Scholar Gypsy 1359(7)

Dover Beach 1366(1)

Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse 1367(6)

Thyrsis 1373(5)

Growing Old 1378(1)

Preface to Poems (1853) 1379(10)

From The Function of Criticism at the Present Time 1389(14)

Maurice de Guerin 1403(1)

[A Definition of Poetry] 1403(1)

Culture and Anarchy 1404(6)

From Chapter 1. Sweetness and Light 1404(2)

From Chapter 2. Doing As One Likes 1406(2)

From Chapter 5. Porro Unum Est Necessarium 1408(2)

From Wordsworth 1410(8)

From The Study of Poetry 1418(11)

Literature and Science 1429(13)

THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY (1825-1895) 1442(11)

Science and Culture 1443(7)

[The Values of Education in the Sciences] 1443(7)

Agnosticism and Christianity 1450(3)

[Agnosticism Defined] 1450(3)

GEORGE MEREDITH (1828-1909) 1453(7)

Modern Love 1454(5)

1 ("By this he knew she wept with waking eyes") 1454(1)

2 ("It ended, and the morrow brought the task") 1454(1)

3 ("This was the woman; what now of the man?") 1455(1)

15 ("I think she sleeps; it must be sleep, when low") 1455(1)

16 ("In our old shipwrecked days there was an hour") 1455(1)

17 ("At dinner, she is hostess, I am host") 1456(1)

23 (" 'Tis Christmas weather, and a country house") 1456(1)

35 ("It is no vulgar nature I have wived") 1457(1)

42 ("I am to follow her. There is much grace") 1457(1)

43 ("Mark where the pressing wind shoots javelinlike") 1457(1)

48 ("Their sense is with their senses all mixed in") 1458(1)

49 ("He found her by the ocean's moaning verge") 1458(1)

50 ("Thus piteously Love closed what he begat") 1459(1)

Dirge in Woods 1459(1)

Lucifer in Starlight 1459(1)

DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI (1828-1882) 1460(12)

The Blessed Damozel 1461(3)

My Sister's Sleep 1464(2)

The Sea-Limits 1466(1)

The Woodspurge 1467(1)

The House of Life 1467(4)

The Sonnet 1467(1)

4. Lovesight 1467(1)

Nuptial Sleep 1468(1)

19. Silent Noon 1468(1)

49. Willowwood--1 1469(1)

50. Willowwood--2 1469(1)

51. Willowwood--3 1469(1)

52. Willowwood--4 1470(1)

63. Inclusiveness 1470(1)

97. A Superscription 1470(1)

101. The One Hope 1471(1)

The Orchard-Pit 1471(1)

CHRISTINA ROSSETTI (1830-1894) 1472(22)

Song ("She sat and sang alway") 1473(1)

Song ("When I am dead, my dearest") 1474(1)

After Death 1474(1)

Dead Before Death 1475(1)

Cobwebs 1475(1)

A Triad 1475(1)

In An Artist's Studio 1476(1)

A Birthday 1476(1)

An Apple-Gathering 1477(1)

Winter: My Secret 1477(1)

Up-Hill 1478(1)

Goblin Market 1479(11)

"No, Thank You, John" 1490(1)

Promises Like Pie-Crust 1491(1)

In Progress 1492(1)

A Life's Parallels 1492(1)

Later Life 1492(1)

17 ("Something this foggy day, a something which") 1492(1)

Cardinal Newman 1493(1)

Sleeping at Last 1493(1)

WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896) 1494(15)

The Defense of Guenevere 1494(9)

The Haystack in the Floods 1503(4)

The Earthly Paradise 1507(1)

An Apology 1507(1)

A Death Song 1508(1)

ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE (1837-1909) 1509(17)

Choruses from Atalanta in Calydon 1510(3)

When the Hounds of Spring 1510(1)

Before the Beginning of Years 1511(2)

The Triumph of Time 1513(1)

I Will Go Back to the Great Sweet Mother 1513(1)

Hymn to Proserpine 1514(3)

The Garden of Proserpine 1517(2)

Ave Atque Vale 1519(5)

The Lake of Gaube 1524(2)

WALTER PATER (1839-1894) 1526(17)

The Renaissance 1527(7)

Preface 1527(3)

["La Gioconda"] 1530(2)

Conclusion 1532(2)

From The Child in the House 1534(6)

Appreciations 1540(3)

From Style 1540(3)

GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS (1844-1889) 1543(11)

God's Grandeur 1546(1)

The Starlight Night 1546(1)

As Kingfishers Catch Fire 1547(1)

Spring 1547(1)

The Windhover 1548(1)

Pied Beauty 1548(1)

Hurrahing in Harvest 1548(1)

Binsey Poplars 1549(1)

Duns Scotus's Oxford 1550(1)

Felix Randal 1550(1)

Spring and Fall: to a young child 1551(1)

[Carrion Comfort] 1551(1)

No Worst, There Is None 1552(1)

I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark, Not Day 1552(1)

Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord 1553(1)
LIGHT VERSE 1554(17)

EDWARD LEAR (1812-1888) 1554(3)

Limerick ("There was an Old Man who supposed") 1554(1)

How Pleasant to Know Mr. Lear 1555(1)

The Jumblies 1556(1)

Cold Are the Crabs 1557(1)

LEWIS CARROLL (1832-1898) 1557(9)

Jabberwocky 1558(2)

[Humpty Dumpty's Explication of Jabberwocky] 1559(1)

The White Knight's Song 1560(2)

The Walrus and the Carpenter 1562(2)

The Hunting of the Snark 1564(2)

The Baker's Tale 1564(2)

W. S. GILBERT (1836-1911) 1566(5)

When I, Good Friends, Was Called to the Bar 1566(1)

If You're Anxious for to Shine in the High Aesthetic Line 1567(2)

When Britain Really Ruled the Waves 1569(2)
VICTORIAN ISSUES 1571(41)

EVOLUTION 1571(9)

Charles Darwin

The Descent of Man 1571(4)

[Natural Selection and Sexual Selection] 1571(4)

Leonard Huxley

The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley 1575(3)

[The Huxley-Wilberforce Debate at Oxford] 1575(3)

Sir Edmund Gosse

Father and Son 1578(2)

[The Dilemma of the Fundamentalist and Scientist] 1578(2)

INDUSTRIALISM: PROGRESS OR DECLINE? 1580(15)

Thomas Babington Macaulay

A Review of Southey's Colloquies 1581(5)

[Evidence of Progress] 1581(5)

Friedrich Engels

From The Great Towns 1586(7)

Charles Kingsley

Alton Locke 1593(1)

[A London Slum] 1593(1)

Charles Dickens

Hard Times 1594(1)

[Coketown] 1594(1)

THE WOMAN QUESTION 1595(17)

Sarah Stickney Ellis

The Women of England: Their Social Duties and Domestic Habits 1598(1)

[Disinterested Kindness] 1598(1)

Coventry Patmore

The Angel in the House 1599(2)

The Paragon 1599(2)

Harriet Martineau

From Autobiography 1601(3)

Dinah Maria Mulock

A Woman's Thoughts About Women 1604(2)

[Something to Do] 1604(2)

Florence Nightingale

Cassandra 1606(3)

[Nothing to Do] 1606(3)

Walter Besant

The Queen's Reign 1609(3)

[The Transformation of Women's Status between 1837 and 1897] 1609(3)
THE NINETIES 1612(71)

WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY (1849-1903) 1614(2)

In Hospital 1614(1)

Invictus 1615(1)

Madam Life's a Piece in Bloom 1615(1)

OSCAR WILDE (1854-1900) 1616(51)

Impression du Matin 1618(1)

Helas 1618(1)

E Tenebris 1619(1)

The Harlot's House 1619(1)

The Critic as Artist 1620(7)

[Criticism Itself an Art] 1620(7)

Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray 1627(1)

The Importance of Being Earnest 1628(39)

FRANCIS THOMPSON (1859-1907) 1667(5)

The Hound of Heaven 1668(4)

RUDYARD KIPLING (1865-1936) 1672(7)

Danny Deever 1674(1)

The Widow at Windsor 1675(1)

The Ladies 1676(1)

Recessional 1677(1)

The Hyenas 1678(1)

ERNEST DOWSON (1867-1900) 1679(4)

Cynara 1680(1)

They Are Not Long 1681(1)

Carthusians 1681(2)
The Twentieth Century 1683(142)

THOMAS HARDY (1840-1928) 1692(19)

Hap 1694(1)

The Impercipient 1694(1)

Neutral Tones 1695(1)

I Look into My Glass 1695(1)

A Broken Appointment 1696(1)

Drummer Hodge 1696(1)

The Darkling Thrush 1697(1)

The Ruined Maid 1698(1)

A Trampwoman's Tragedy 1698(3)

One We Knew 1701(1)

She Hears the Storm 1702(1)

Channel Firing 1703(1)

The Convergence of the Twain 1704(1)

Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave? 1705(1)

Under the Waterfall 1706(1)

The Walk 1707(1)

The Voice 1707(1)

The Workbox 1708(1)

During Wind and Rain 1709(1)

In Time of "The Breaking of Nations" 1710(1)

He Never Expected Much 1710(1)

BERNARD SHAW (1856-1950) 1711(43)

Mrs. Warren's Profession 1714(40)

JOSEPH CONRAD (1857-1924) 1754(63)

Preface to The Nigger of the "Narcissus" 1756(2)

[The Task of the Artist] 1756(2)

Heart of Darkness 1758(59)

A. E. HOUSMAN (1859-1936) 1817(8)

Loveliest of Trees 1818(1)

When I Was One-and-Twenty 1818(1)

To an Athlete Dying Young 1819(1)

Bredon Hill 1820(1)

On Wenlock Edge 1821(1)

With Rue My Heart Is Laden 1821(1)

Terence, This Is Stupid Stuff 1821(2)

The Chestnut Casts His Flambeaux 1823(1)

Could Man Be Drunk Forever 1824(1)

Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries 1824(1)
POETRY OF WORLD WAR I 1825(462)

RUPERT BROOKE (1887-1915) 1826(2)

The Soldier 1827(1)

EDWARD THOMAS (1878-1917) 1828(3)

Adlestrop 1828(1)

Tears 1829(1)

The Owl 1829(1)

Rain 1830(1)

The Cherry Trees 1830(1)

As the Team's Head Brass 1830(1)

SIEGFRIED SASSOON (1886-1967) 1831(4)

"They" 1832(1)

The Rear-Guard 1832(1)

The General 1833(1)

Glory of Women 1833(1)

Everyone Sang 1834(1)

On Passing the New Menin Gate 1834(1)

IVOR GURNEY (1890-1937) 1835(3)

To His Love 1835(1)

Towards Lillers 1836(1)

The Silent One 1837(1)

December 30th 1837(1)

ISAAC ROSENBERG (1890-1918) 1838(4)

Break of Day in the Trenches 1838(1)

Louse Hunting 1839(1)

Returning, We Hear the Larks 1840(1)

Dead Man's Dump 1840(2)

WILFRED OWEN (1893-1918) 1842(7)

Anthem for Doomed Youth 1843(1)

Apologia Pro Poemate Meo 1843(1)

Miners 1844(1)

Dulce Et Decorum Est 1845(1)

Strange Meeting 1846(1)

Futility 1847(1)

Disabled 1848(1)

MAY WEDDERBURN CANNAN (1893-1973) 1849(2)

Rouen 1850(1)

DAVID JONES (1895-1974) 1851(8)

In Parenthesis 1853(1)

From Preface 1853(2)

From Part 7: The Five Unmistakeable Marks 1855(4)

WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS (1865-1939) 1859(47)

The Madness of King Goll 1863(2)

The Stolen Child 1865(1)

Down by the Salley Gardens 1866(1)

The Rose of the World 1866(1)

The Lake Isle of Innisfree 1867(1)

The Sorrow of Love 1867(1)

When You Are Old 1868(1)

Who Goes with Fergus? 1868(1)

The Man Who Dreamed of Faeryland 1868(2)

The Secret Rose 1870(1)

The Folly of Being Comforted 1871(1)

Adam's Curse 1871(1)

No Second Troy 1872(1)

The Fascination of What's Difficult 1872(1)

September 1913 1873(1)

To a Shade 1874(1)

A Coat 1875(1)

The Wild Swans at Coole 1875(1)

In Memory of Major Robert Gregory 1876(2)

Easter 1916 1878(2)

The Second Coming 1880(1)

A Prayer for My Daughter 1881(2)

Sailing to Byzantium 1883(1)

Leda and the Swan 1884(1)

Among School Children 1885(1)

A Dialogue of Self and Soul 1886(2)

For Anne Gregory 1888(1)

Byzantium 1889(1)

Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop 1890(1)

After Long Silence 1890(1)

Lapis Lazuli 1891(1)

Long-Legged Fly 1892(1)

The Circus Animals' Desertion 1893(1)

Under Ben Bulben 1894(3)

Reveries over Childhood and Youth 1897(3)

[The Yeats Family] 1897(2)

[An Irish Literature] 1899(1)

The Trembling of the Veil 1900(6)

[London and Pre-Raphaelitism] 1900(2)

[Oscar Wilde] 1902(1)

[The Handiwork of Art] 1903(1)

[The Origin of The Lake Isle of Innisfree] 1904(1)

[The Rhymers' Club] 1905(1)

E. M. FORSTER (1879-1970) 1906(9)

The Road from Colonus 1907(8)

VIRGINIA WOOLF (1882-1941) 1915(88)

The Mark on the Wall 1916(5)

Modern Fiction 1921(5)

A Room of One's Own 1926(60)

Professions for Women 1986(4)

A Sketch of the Past 1990(8)

[Moments of Being and Non-Being] 1990(8)

The Legacy 1998(5)

JAMES JOYCE (1882-1941) 2003(77)

The Dead 2008(28)

Ulysses 2036(40)

[Proteus] 2036(14)

[Lestrygonians] 2050(26)

Finnegans Wake 2076(4)

From Anna Livia Plurabelle 2076(4)

D. H. LAWRENCE (1885-1930) 2080(51)

Odor of Chrysanthemums 2083(14)

The Horse-Dealer's Daughter 2097(11)

Etruscan Places 2108(5)

From Tarquinia 2108(5)

Why the Novel Matters 2113(4)

Love on the Farm 2117(2)

Piano 2119(1)

Tortoise Shell 2119(1)

Tortoise Shout 2120(3)

Bavarian Gentians 2123(1)

Snake 2123(2)

Cypresses 2125(2)

How Beastly the Bourgeois Is 2127(1)

The Ship of Death 2128(3)

EDITH SITWELL (1887-1964) 2131(5)

Facade 2132(2)

Trio for Two Cats and a Trombone 2132(1)

Sir Beelzebub 2133(1)

Still Falls the Rain 2134(1)

The Poet Laments the Coming of Old Age 2135(1)

T. S. ELIOT (1888-1965) 2136(47)

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock 2140(3)

Sweeney Among the Nightingales 2143(1)

The Hippopotamus 2144(2)

The Waste Land 2146(14)

Journey of the Magi 2160(2)

Marina 2162(1)

Landscapes 2163(1)

Rannoch, by Glencoe 2163(1)

Cape Ann 2163(1)

Four Quartets 2164(6)

Little Gidding 2164(6)

Tradition and the Individual Talent 2170(6)

The Metaphysical Poets 2176(7)

KATHERINE MANSFIELD (1888-1923) 2183(25)

The Daughters of the Late Colonel 2184(14)

The Garden-Party 2198(10)

HUGH MacDIARMID (1892-1978) 2208(5)

The Watergaw 2209(1)

Moonstruck 2210(1)

The Eemis Stane 2210(1)

A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle 2211(1)

1. Farewell to Dostoevski 2211(1)

2. Yet Ha'e I Silence Left 2211(1)

In Memoriam James Joyce 2212(1)

We Must Look at the Harebell 2212(1)

In the Children's Hospital 2213(1)

Another Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries 2213(1)

ROBERT GRAVES (1895-1985) 2213(8)

Down, Wanton, Down! 2215(1)

Love Without Hope 2215(1)

The Cool Web 2215(1)

The Reader Over My Shoulder 2216(1)

The Devil's Advice to Story-tellers 2216(1)

A Love Story 2217(1)

To Juan at the Winter Solstice 2218(1)

The White Goddess 2219(1)

The Blue-Fly 2220(1)

A Plea to Boys and Girls 2220(1)

A Slice of Wedding Cake 2220(1)

STEVIE SMITH (1902-1971) 2221(6)

Is It Wise? 2222(1)

Our Bog Is Dood 2222(1)

Not Waving but Drowning 2223(1)

The New Age 2223(1)

Thoughts About the Person from Porlock 2224(1)

Exeat 2225(1)

Pretty 2226(1)

GEORGE ORWELL (1903-1950) 2227(15)

Shooting an Elephant 2228(5)

Politics and the English Language 2233(9)

SAMUEL BECKETT (1906-1989) 2242(19)

Happy Days 2243(18)

W. H. AUDEN (1907-1973) 2261(12)

Petition 2262(1)

On This Island 2262(1)

Spain 1937 2263(3)

Musee des Beaux Arts 2266(1)

Lullaby 2266(1)

In Memory of W. B. Yeats 2267(2)

Their Lonely Betters 2269(1)

In Praise of Limestone 2269(3)

The Shield of Achilles 2272(1)

LOUIS MacNEICE (1907-1963) 2273(5)

Sunday Morning 2274(1)

Carrickfergus 2274(2)

The Sunlight on the Garden 2276(1)

Bagpipe Music 2276(1)

Soap Suds 2277(1)

Star-Gazer 2278(1)

DYLAN THOMAS (1914-1953) 2278(9)

The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower 2279(1)

After the Funeral 2280(1)

There Was a Saviour 2281(1)

The Hunchback in the Park 2282(1)

Poem in October 2283(1)

Fern Hill 2284(2)

Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night 2286(1)
POETRY OF WORLD WAR II 2287(182)

HENRY REED (1914-1986) 2289(3)

Lessons of the War 2289(3)

1. Naming of Parts 2289(1)

2. Judging Distances 2290(1)

4. Unarmed Combat 2291(1)

ALUN LEWIS (1915-1944) 2292(4)

All Day It Has Rained 2293(1)

Goodbye 2294(1)

Song (On seeing dead bodies floating off the Cape) 2295(1)

KEITH DOUGLAS (1920-1944) 2296(2)

Gallantry 2296(1)

Vergissmeinnicht 2297(1)

Aristocrats 2298(1)

CHARLES CAUSLEY (1917- ) 2298(2)

At the British War Cemetery, Bayeux 2299(1)

Armistice Day 2299(1)

DORIS LESSING (1919- ) 2300(23)

To Room Nineteen 2301(22)

PHILIP LARKIN (1922-1985) 2323(7)

Church Going 2324(1)

MCMXIV 2325(1)

Talking in Bed 2326(1)

Ambulances 2326(1)

High Windows 2327(1)

Sad Steps 2328(1)

The Explosion 2328(1)

Aubade 2329(1)

NADINE GORDIMER (1923- ) 2330(5)

The Moment before the Gun Went Off 2331(4)

THOM GUNN (1929- ) 2335(3)

Considering the Snail 2335(1)

A Map of the City 2336(1)

Black Jackets 2336(1)

My Sad Captains 2337(1)

From the Wave 2337(1)

EDNA O'BRIEN (1930- ) 2338(14)

Sister Imelda 2339(13)

TED HUGHES (1930- ) 2352(6)

Wind 2353(1)

Relic 2353(1)

Pike 2354(1)

Examination at the Womb-Door 2355(1)

Theology 2356(1)

The Seven Sorrows 2356(1)

River 2357(1)

DEREK WALCOTT (1930- ) 2358(3)

A Far Cry from Africa 2358(1)

Nights in the Gardens of Port of Spain 2359(1)

The Glory Trumpeter 2359(1)

Midsummer 2360(1)

HAROLD PINTER (1930- ) 2361(21)

The Dumb Waiter 2362(20)

GEOFFREY HILL (1932- ) 2382(4)

In Memory of Jane Fraser 2382(1)

Requiem for the Plantagenet Kings 2383(1)

September Song 2383(1)

Mercian Hymns 2384(1)

6 ("The princes of Mercia were badger and raven. Thrall") 2384(1)

7 ("Gasholders, russet among fields. Milldams, marlpools") 2384(1)

28 ("Processes of generation; deeds of settlement. The") 2385(1)

30 ("And it seemed, while we waited, he began to walk") 2385(1)

Lachrimae 2385(1)

1. Lachrimae Verae 2385(1)

An Apology for the Revival of Christian Architecture in England 2386(1)

9. The Laurel Axe 2386(1)

FLEUR ADCOCK (1934- ) 2386(5)

The Ex-Queen Among the Astronomers 2387(1)

Poem Ended by a Death 2388(1)

The Soho Hospital for Women 2388(3)

TONY HARRISON (1937- ) 2391(4)

Heredity 2391(1)

National Trust 2391(1)

Book Ends 2392(1)

Long Distance 2393(1)

Turns 2394(1)

Marked with D. 2394(1)

TOM STOPPARD (1937- ) 2395(27)

The Real Inspector Hound 2396(26)

SEAMUS HEANEY (1939- ) 2422(9)

Digging 2422(1)

The Forge 2423(1)

Punishment 2424(1)

Casualty 2425(3)

The Skunk 2428(1)

Station Island 2428(2)

12 ("Like a convalescent, I took the hand") 2428(2)

A Ship of Death 2430(1)

SUSAN HILL (1942- ) 2431(8)

How Soon Can I Leave? 2431(8)

CRAIG RAINE (1945- ) 2439(4)

The Onion, Memory 2440(1)

A Martian Sends a Postcard Home 2441(2)

JAMES FENTON (1949- ) 2443(4)

A German Requiem 2443(2)

Wind 2445(2)

POEMS IN PROCESS 2447(22)

William Blake 2448(2)

The Tyger 2448(2)

William Wordsworth 2450(1)

She dwelt among the untrodden ways 2450(1)

George Gordon, Lord Byron 2451(1)

Don Juan 2451(1)

Percy Bysshe Shelley 2452(3)

O World, O Life, O Time 2453(2)

John Keats 2455(2)

The Eve of St. Agnes 2455(1)

To Autumn 2456(1)

Alfred, Lord Tennyson 2457(4)

The Lady of Shalott 2457(2)

Tithonus 2459(2)

Gerard Manley Hopkins 2461(1)

Thou art indeed just, Lord 2461(1)

William Butler Yeats 2461(6)

The Sorrow of Love 2462(1)

Leda and the Swan 2463(2)

After Long Silence 2465(2)

D. H. Lawrence 2467(2)

The Piano 2467(2)
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHIES 2469(28)
Suggested General Readings 2469(2)
The Romantic Period 2471(7)
The Victorian Age 2478(6)
The Twentieth Century 2484(13)
BRITISH MONEY 2497(3)
THE BRITISH BARONAGE 2500(5)
The Royal Lines of England and Great Britain 2502(3)
RELIGIOUS SECTS IN ENGLAND 2505(2)
POETIC FORMS AND LITERARY TERMINOLOGY 2507(22)
INDEX 2529