Table Of Contents:
Preface to the Seventh Edition xxxiii
Acknowledgments xliii
``The Persistence of English'' xlvii

Geoffrey Nunberg
The Romantic Period (1785-1830) 1(116)

Introduction 1(21)

Timeline 22(2)

Anna Letitia Barbauld (1743-1825) 24(8)

A Summer Evening's Meditation 24(3)

The Rights of Woman 27(1)

To a Little Invisible Being Who Is Expected Soon to Become Visible 28(1)

Washing-Day 29(2)

Life 31(1)

Charlotte Smith (1749-1806) 32(3)

Elegiac Sonnets 33(1)

Written at the Close of Spring 33(1)

To Sleep 33(1)

To Night 33(1)

Written in the Church-Yard at Middleton in Sussex 34(1)

On Being Cautioned against Walking on an Headland Overlooking the Sea, Because It Was Frequented by a Lunatic 34(1)

The Sea View 35(1)

William Blake (1757-1827) 35(56)

Poetical Sketches 39(1)

To Spring 39(1)

To Autumn 40(1)

To the Evening Star 40(1)

All Religions Are One 41(1)

There Is No Natural Religion [a] 41(1)

There Is No Natural Religion [b] 42(1)

Songs of Innocence and of Experience 43(1)

Songs of Innocence 43(6)

Introduction 43(1)

The Ecchoing Green 43(2)

The Lamb 45(1)

The Little Black Boy 45(1)

The Chimney Sweeper 46(1)

The Divine Image 47(1)

Holy Thursday 47(1)

Nurse's Song 48(1)

Infant Joy 48(1)

Songs of Experience 49(10)

Introduction 49(1)

Earth's Answer 50(1)

The Clod & the Pebble 51(1)

Holy Thursday 51(1)

The Chimney Sweeper 52(1)

Nurse's Song 52(1)

The Sick Rose 52(1)

The Fly 53(1)

The Tyger 54(1)

My Pretty Rose Tree 55(1)

Ah Sun-flower 55(1)

The Garden of Love 56(1)

London 56(1)

The Human Abstract 57(1)

Infant Sorrow 57(1)

A Poison Tree 58(1)

To Tirzah 58(1)

A Divine Image 59(1)

The Book of Thel 59(5)

Visions of the Daughters of Albion 64(8)

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell 72(10)

A Song of Liberty 82(2)

Blake's Notebook 84(1)

Mock on, Mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau 84(1)

Never pain to tell thy love 84(1)

I asked a thief 85(1)

And did those feet 85(1)

From A Vision of the Last Judgment 86(2)

Two Letters on Sight and Vision 88(3)

Mary Robinson (1758-1800) 91(8)

London's Summer Morning 92(1)

January, 1795 93(1)

The Poor Singing Dame 94(2)

The Haunted Beach 96(2)

To the Poet Coleridge 98(1)

Robert Burns (1759-1796) 99(18)

Green grow the rashes 101(1)

Holy Willie's Prayer 102(3)

To a Mouse 105(1)

To a Louse 106(2)

Auld Lang Syne 108(1)

Tam o'Shanter: A Tale 109(5)

Robert Bruce's March to Bannockburn 114(1)

A Red, Red Rose 115(1)

Song: For a' that and a' that 116(1)
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND THE ``SPIRIT OF THE AGE'' 117(926)

English Controversy About the Revolution 117(20)

From A Discourse on the Love of Our Country 118(3)

Richard Price

From Reflections on the Revolution in France 121(7)

Edmund Burke

From A Vindication of the Rights of Men 128(5)

Mary Wollstonecraft

From Rights of Man 133(4)

Thomas Paine

Apocalyptic Expectations by Preachers and Poets 137(24)

From The Three Woe-Trumpets 139(4)

Elhanan Winchester

From The Present State of Europe Compared with Antient Prophecies 143(1)

Joseph Priestley

From the French Revolution 144(3)

William Blake

From America: A Prophecy 146(1)

From Joan of Arc: An Epic Poem 147(2)

Robert Southey

From Descriptive Sketches 149(4)

William Wordsworth

From The Excursion 150(3)

From Religious Musings 153(3)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

From Queen Mab: A Philosophical Poem 156(5)

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Apocalypse by Imagination 161(2)

Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) 163(46)

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman 166(26)

Introduction 166(4)

The Prevailing Opinion of a Sexual Character Discussed 170(15)

From Chap. 4. Observations on the State of Degradation 185(7)

Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark 192(17)

Advertisement 192(1)

Letter 1 193(6)

Letter 4 199(2)

Letter 8 201(4)

Letter 19 205(4)

Joanna Baillie (1762-1851) 209(10)

A Winter's Day 210(7)

Up! quit thy bower 217(1)

Song: Woo'd and married and a' 217(2)

William Wordsworth (1770-1850) 219(164)

Lyrical Ballads 222(1)

Simon Lee 222(2)

We Are Seven 224(2)

Lines Written in Early Spring 226(1)

Expostulation and Reply 227(1)

The Tables Turned 228(1)

The Thorn 229(6)

Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey 235(3)

Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1802) 238(13)

[The Subject and Language of Poetry] 239(7)

[``What Is a Poet?''] 246(4)

[``Emotion Recollected in Traquillity''] 250(1)

Strange fits of passion have I known 251(1)

She dwelt among the untrodden ways 252(1)

Three years she grew 252(2)

A slumber did my spirit seal 254(1)

I travelled among unknown men 254(1)

Lucy Gray 254(2)

The Two April Mornings 256(2)

Nutting 258(1)

The Ruined Cottage 259(11)

Michael 270(10)

Resolution and Independence 280(4)

I wandered lonely as a cloud 284(1)

My heart leaps up 285(1)

Ode: Intimations of Immortality 286(6)

Ode to Duty 292(1)

The Solitary Reaper 293(1)

Elegiac Stanzas 294(2)

Sonnets 296(1)

Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 296(1)

It is a beauteous evening 297(1)

London, 1802 297(1)

The world is too much with us 297(1)

Surprised by joy 298(1)

Mutability 298(1)

Steamboats, Viaducts, and Railways 299(1)

Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg 299(2)

Prospectus to The Recluse 301(2)

The Prelude, or Growth of a Poet's Mind 303(38)

Introduction, Childhood, and School-time 305(14)

School-time continued 319(11)

Residence at Cambridge 330(1)

[Experiences at St. John's College, The ``Heroic Argument''] 330(4)

Summer Vacation 334(1)

[The Walks with His Terrier. The Circuit of the Lake] 334(2)

[``The Surface of Past Time.'' The Walk Home from the Dance. The Discharged Solider] 336(5)

Books 341(42)

[The Dream of the Arab] 341(2)

[The Boy of Winander] 343(1)

[``The Mystery of Words''] 344(1)

Cambridge, and the Alps 345(1)

[``Human Nature Seeming Born Again''] 345(1)

[Crossing Simplon Pass] 346(2)

Residence in London 348(1)

[The Blind Beggar, Bartholomew Fair] 348(3)

Retrospect, Love of Nature leading to Love of Man 351(1)

[The Shepherd in the Mist. Man Still Subordinate to Nature] 351(3)

Residence in France 354(1)

[Paris and Orleans, Becomes a ``Patriot''] 354(3)

France continued 357(1)

[The Revolution: Paris and England] 357(2)

[The Reign of Terror, Nightmares] 359(1)

France, concluded 360(1)

[Retrospect: ``Bliss Was It in That Dawn.'' Recourse to ``Reason's Naked Self''] 360(3)

[Crisis, Breakdown, and Recovery] 363(1)

Imagination and Taste, how impaired and restored 364(8)

Subject concluded 372(1)

[Return to ``Life's Familiar Face''] 372(1)

[Discovery of His Poetic Subject, Salisbury Plain, Sight of ``a New World''] 373(4)

Conclusion 377(1)

[The Vision on Mount Snowdon, Fear vs. Love Resolved, Imagination] 377(5)

[Conclusion: ``The Mind of Man''] 382(1)

Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855) 383(18)

From The Alfoxden Journal 385(2)

From The Grasmere Journals 387(10)

Grasmere---A Fragment 397(2)

Thoughts on My Sick-Bed 399(2)

Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) 401(15)

The Heart of Midlothian 402(11)

Being Introductory 402(11)

Lochinvar 413(2)

Jock of Hazeldean 415(1)

Proud Maisie 415(1)

Samuel Taylon Coleridge (1772-1834) 416(76)

The Eolian Harp 419(1)

This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison 420(2)

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner 422(17)

Kubla Khan 439(2)

Christabel 441(16)

Frost at Midnight 457(2)

Dejection: An Ode 459(3)

The Pains of Sleep 462(2)

To William Wordsworth 464(2)

On Donne's Poetry 466(1)

Work without Hope 467(1)

Epitaph 467(1)

Biographia Literaria 467(19)

Chapter 1 468(1)

[The discipline of his taste at school] 468(2)

[Bowles's sonnets] 470(1)

[Comparison between the poets before and since Mr. Pope] 471(3)

Chapter 4 474(1)

[Mr. Wordsworth's earlier poems] 474(2)

[On fancy and imagination---the investigation of the distinction important to the fine arts] 476(1)

Chapter 13 477(1)

[On the imagination, or esemplastic power] 477(1)

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 poem and poetry with scholia 478(5)

Chapter 17 483(1)

[Examination of the tenets peculiar to Mr. Wordsworth] 483(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] 484(1)

[The language of Milton as much the language of real life, yea, incomparably more so than that of the cottager] 484(2)

Lectures on Shakespeare 486(3)

[Fancy and Imagination in Shakespeare's Poetry] 486(2)

[Mechanic vs. Organic Form] 488(1)

The Statesman's Manual 489(3)

[On Symbol and Allegory] 489(2)

[The Satanic Hero] 491(1)

Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864) 492(2)

Mother, I cannot mind my wheel 492(1)

Rose Aylmer 493(1)

Past ruined Ilion 493(1)

Twenty years hence 493(1)

Charles Lamb (1775-1834) 494(15)

Christ's Hospital Five-and-Thirty Years Age 495(10)

Old China 505(4)

William Hazlitt (1778-1830) 509(18)

On Gusto 510(3)

My First Acquaintance with Poets 513(14)

Thomas Moore (1779-1852) 527(2)

Believe me, if all those endearing young charms 527(1)

The harp that once through Tara's halls 527(1)

The time I've lost in wooing 528(1)

Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859) 529(22)

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater 530(13)

Preliminary Confessions 530(1)

[The Prostitute Ann] 530(3)

Introduction to the Pains of Opium 533(1)

[The Malay] 533(2)

The Pains of Opium 535(1)

[Opium Reveries and Dreams] 535(8)

On the Knocking at the Gate in Macheth 543(4)

Alexander Pope 547(4)

[The Literature of Knowledge and the Literature of Power] 547(4)

George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824) 551(147)

Written after Swimming from Sestos to Abydos 555(1)

She walks in beauty 556(1)

They say that Hope is happiness 557(1)

When we two parted 557(1)

Stanzas for Music 558(1)

Darkness 559(1)

So, we'll go no more a roving 560(1)

When a man hath no freedom to fight for at home 561(1)

Stanzas Written on the Road between Florence and Pisa 561(1)

January 22nd. Missolonghi 562(1)

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage 563(1)

Canto 1 564(1)

[``Sin's Long Labyrinth''] 564(1)

Canto 3 565(17)

[``Once More Upon the Waters''] 565(4)

[Waterloo] 569(3)

[Napoleon] 572(3)

[Switzerland] 575(7)

Canto 4 582(6)

[Venice] 582(3)

[``Farewell!''] 585(3)

Manfred 588(33)

Don Juan 621(1)

Fragment 622(1)

Canto 1 623(28)

[Juan and Donna Julia] 623(28)

Canto 2 651(21)

[The Shipwreck] 651(7)

[Juan and Haidee] 658(14)

Canto 3 672(8)

[Juan and Haidee] 672(8)

Canto 4 680(9)

[Juan and Haidee] 680(9)

Letters 689(1)

To Leigh Hunt (Sept.-Oct. 30, 1815) 689(2)

To Thomas Moore (Jan. 28, 1817) 691(2)

To John Cam Hobhouse and Douglas Kinnaird (Jan. 19, 1819) 693(2)

To Douglas Kinnaird (Oct. 26, 1819) 695(2)

To Percy Bysshe Shelley (Apr. 26, 1821) 697(1)

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) 698(104)

Mutability 701(1)

To Wordsworth 701(1)

Alastor: or, The Spirit of Solitude 702(18)

Mont Blane 720(3)

Hymn to Intellectual Beauty 723(2)

Ozymandias 725(1)

Stanzas Written in Dejection---December 1818, near Naples 726(1)

A Song: ``Men of England'' 727(1)

England in 1819 728(1)

To Sidemouth and Castlereagh 728(1)

The Indian Girl's Song [The Indian Serenade] 729(1)

Ode to the West Wind 730(2)

Prometheus Unbound 732(31)

Preface 733(3)

From Act 1 736(6)

Act 2 742(1)

Scene 4 742(4)

Scene 5 746(3)

Act 3 749(1)

Scene 1 749(2)

From Scene 4 751(3)

From Act 4 754(9)

The Cloud 763(2)

To a Sky-Lark 765(2)

To Night 767(1)

To ----- [Music, when soft voices die] 768(1)

The flower that smiles today 768(1)

O World, O Life, O Time 769(1)

Choruses from Hellas 769(3)

Worlds on worlds 769(2)

The world's great age 771(1)

Adonais 772(14)

A Dirge 786(1)

When the lamp is shattered 786(1)

To Jane (The keen stars were twinkling) 787(1)

Lines Written in the Bay of Lerici 788(1)

From A Defence of Poetry 789(13)

John Clare (1793-1864) 802(10)

The Nightingale's Nest 803(2)

Pastoral Poesy 805(2)

Mouse's Nest 807(1)

A Vision 807(1)

I Am 808(1)

An Invite to Eternity 808(1)

Clock a Clay 809(1)

The Peasant Poet 810(1)

Song [I hid my love] 810(1)

Song [I peeled bits of straw] 811(1)

Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1793-1835) 812(11)

England's Dead 813(1)

The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in New England 814(1)

Casabianca 815(2)

The Homes of England 817(1)

A Spirit's Return 818(5)

John Keats (1795-1821) 823(80)

On First Looking into Chapman's Homer 826(1)

Sleep and Poetry 827(1)

[O for Ten Years] 827(1)

On Seeing the Elgin Marbles 828(1)

Endymion: A Poetic Romance 829(4)

Preface 829(1)

Book I 830(1)

[A Thing of Beauty] 830(1)

[The ``Pleasure Thermometer''] 831(2)

On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again 833(1)

When I have fears that I may cease to be 833(1)

To Homer 834(1)

The Eve of St. Agnes 834(10)

Why did I laugh tonight? No voice will tell 844(1)

Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art 845(1)

La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad 845(2)

Sonnet to Sleep 847(1)

Ode to Psyche 847(2)

Ode to a Nightingale 849(2)

Ode on a Grecian Urn 851(2)

Ode on Melancholy 853(1)

Ode On Indolence 854(2)

Lamia 856(16)

To Autumn 872(1)

The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream 873(13)

Letters 886(1)

To Benjamin Bailey (Nov. 22, 1817) 887(2)

To George and Thomas Keats (Dec. 21, 27 [?], 1817) 889(1)

To John Hamilton Reynolds (Feb. 3, 1818) 890(1)

To John Taylor (Feb. 27, 1818) 891(1)

To John Hamilton Reynolds (May 3, 1818) 892(2)

To Richard Woodhouse (Oct. 27, 1818) 894(2)

To George and Georgiana Keats (Feb. 14-May 3, 1819) 896(4)

To Fanny Brawne (July 25, 1819) 900(1)

To Percy Bysshe Shelley (Aug. 16, 1820) 901(1)

To Charles Brown (Nov. 30, 1820) 902(1)

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) 903(131)

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus 905(129)

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802-1838) 1034(9)

The Proud Ladye 1035(2)

Lover's Last Lesson 1037(3)

Revenge 1040(1)

The Little Shroud 1041(2)
The Victorian Age (1830-1901) 1043(619)

Introduction 1043(21)

Timeline 1064(2)

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) 1066(53)

[Carlyle's Portraits of His Contemporaries] 1070(7)

[Queen Victoria at Eighteen] 1070(1)

[Samuel Taylor Coleridge at Fifty-three] 1070(4)

[William Wordsworth in His Seventies] 1074(2)

[Alfred Tennyson at Thirty-four] 1076(1)

Sartor Resartus 1077(26)

The Everlasting No 1077(5)

Centre of Indifference 1082(7)

The Everlasting Yea 1089(7)

Natural Supernaturalism 1096(7)

The French Revolution 1103(7)

September in Paris 1106(1)

Place de la Revolution 1106(3)

From Cause and Effect 1109(1)

Past and Present 1110(9)

Democracy 1110(5)

Captains of Industry 1115(4)

John Henry Cardinal Newman (1801-1890) 1119(18)

The Idea of a University 1121(7)

From Discourse 5. Knowledge Its Own End 1121(2)

From Discourse 7. Knowledge Viewed in Relation to Professional Skill 1123(5)

Apologia Pro Vita Sua 1128(9)

From Chapter 1. History of My Religious Opinions to the Year 1833 1128(7)

From Liberalism 1135(2)

John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) 1137(36)

What Is Poetry? 1139(7)

On Liberty 1146(9)

From Chapter 3. Of Individuality as One of the Elements of Well-Being 1146(9)

The Subjection of Women 1155(11)

From Chapter 1 1156(10)

Autobiography 1166(7)

From Chapter 5. A Crisis in My Mental History, One Stage Onward 1166(7)

Elizabeth Barrett Browing (1806-1861) 1173(25)

The Cry of the Children 1174(4)

To George Sand: A Desire 1178(1)

To George Sand: A Recognition 1178(1)

Sonnets from the Portuguese 1179(1)

21 (``Say over again, and yet once over again'') 1179(1)

22 (``When our two souls stand up erect and strong'') 1179(1)

32 (``The first time that the sun rose on thin oath'') 1180(1)

43 (``How do I love thee? Let me count the ways'') 1180(1)

Aurora Leigh] 1180(15)

Book 1 1180(1)

[The Feminine Education of Aurora Leigh] 1180(6)

Book 2 1186(1)

[Aurora's Aspirations] 1186(3)

[Aurora's Rejection of Romeny] 1189(3)

Book 5 1192(1)

[Poets and the Present Age] 1192(3)

Mother and Poet 1195(3)

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) 1198(106)

The Kraken 1201(1)

Mariana 1202(2)

The Lady of Shalott 1204(4)

The Lotos-Eaters 1208(5)

Ulysses 1213(2)

Tithonus 1215(1)

Break, Break, Break 1216(1)

The Epic [Morte d'Arthur] 1217(2)

The Eagle: A Fragment 1219(1)

Locksley Hall 1219(6)

The Princess 1225(1)

Sweet and Low 1225(1)

The Splendor Falls 1226(1)

Tears, Idle Tears 1226(1)

Ask Me No More 1227(1)

Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal 1227(1)

Come Down, O Maid 1228(1)

[``The Woman's Cause Is Man's''] 1229(1)

From In Memoriam A. H. H. 1230(50)

The Charge of the Light Brigade 1280(2)

Idylls of The King 1282(1)

The Coming of Arthur 1282(11)

The Passing of Arthur 1293(11)

Flower in the Crannied Wall 1304(1)

Crossing the Bar 1304(1)

Edward Fitzgerald (1809-1883) 1304(14)

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam 1305(13)

Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865) 1318(15)

The Old Nurse's Story 1319(14)

Charles Dickens (1812-1870) 1333(12)

A Visit to Newgate 1335(10)

Robert Browning (1812-1889) 1345(73)

Porphyria's Lover 1349(1)

Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister 1350(2)

My Last Duchess 1352(1)

The Laboratory 1353(2)

The Lost Leader 1355(1)

How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix 1356(2)

Home-Thoughts, from Abroad 1358(1)

Home-Thoughts, from the Sea 1358(1)

The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church 1359(3)

Meeting at Night 1362(1)

Parting at Morning 1362(1)

A Toccata of Galuppi's 1363(2)

Memorabilia 1365(1)

Love among the Ruins 1365(2)

``Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came'' 1367(6)

Fra Lippo Lippi 1373(9)

The Last Ride Together 1382(3)

Andrea del Sarto 1385(5)

Two in the Campagan 1390(2)

A Grammarian's Funeral 1392(4)

An Epistle Containing the Strange Medical Experience of Karshish, the Arab Physician 1396(6)

Caliban upon Setebos 1402(7)

Prospiace 1409(1)

Abt Vogler 1410(3)

Rabbi Ben Ezra 1413(5)

Emily Bronte (1818-1848) 1418(7)

I'm Happiest When Most Away 1419(1)

The Night-Wind 1420(1)

Remembrance 1421(1)

Stars 1421(2)

The Prisoner, A Fragment 1423(1)

No Coward Soul Is Mine 1424(1)

John Ruskin (1819-1900) 1425(26)

Modern Painters 1428(4)

[A Definition of Greatness in Art] 1428(1)

[``The Slave Ship''] 1429(1)

From Of the Pathetic Fallacy 1430(2)

The Stones of Venice 1432(11)

[The Savageness of Gothic Architecture] 1432(11)

The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century 1443(8)

Lecture 1 1443(8)

Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861) 1451(3)

Epi-strauss-ium 1452(1)

The Latest Decalogue 1452(1)

Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth 1453(1)

George Eliot (1819-1880) 1454(17)

Margaret Fuller and Mary Wollstonecraft 1456(5)

Silly Novels by Lady Novelists 1461(8)

The Mill on the Floss 1469(2)

Book First, Boy and Girl 1469(1)

Chapter 1. Outside Dorlcote Mill 1469(2)

Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) 1471(87)

The Forsaken Merman 1475(3)

Isolation. To Marguerite 1478(1)

To Marguerite---Continued 1479(1)

The Buried Life 1480(2)

Memorial Verses 1482(2)

Lines Written in Kensington Gardens 1484(1)

The Scholar Gypsy 1485(7)

Dover Beach 1492(1)

Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse 1493(5)

Thyrsis 1498(6)

Preface to Poems (1853) 1504(10)

From The Function of Criticism at the Present Time 1514(14)

Culture and Anarchy 1528(6)

From Chapter 1. Sweetness and Light 1528(2)

From Chapter 2. Doing as One Likes 1530(2)

From Chapter 5. Porro Unum Est Necessarium 1532(2)

From The Study of Poetry 1534(11)

Literature and Science 1545(13)

Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895) 1558(12)

Science and Culture 1559(7)

[The Values of Education in the Sciences] 1559(7)

Agnosticism and Christianity 1566(4)

[Agnosticism Defined] 1566(4)

George Meredith (1828-1909) 1570(3)

Modern Love 1570(2)

1 (``By this he knew she wept with waking eyes'') 1570(1)

2 (``It ended, and the morrow brought the task'') 1571(1)

17 (``At dinner, she is hostess, I am host'') 1571(1)

49 (``He found her by the ocean's moaning verge'') 1572(1)

50 (``Thus piteously Love closed what he begat'') 1572(1)

Lucifer in Starlight 1572(1)

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) 1573(10)

The Blessed Damozel 1574(4)

My Sister's Sleep 1578(1)

The Woodspurge 1579(1)

The House of Life 1580(3)

The Sonnet 1580(1)

Nuptial Sleep 1580(1)

19. Silent Noon 1581(1)

77. Soul's Beauty 1581(1)

78. Body's Beauty 1581(1)

97. A Superscription 1582(1)

101. The One Hope 1582(1)

Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) 1583(22)

Song (``She sat and sang alway'') 1584(1)

Song (``When I am dead, my dearest'') 1584(1)

After Death 1585(1)

Dead before Death 1585(1)

Cobwebs 1585(1)

A Triad 1586(1)

In an Artist's Studio 1586(1)

A Birthday 1587(1)

An Apple-Gathering 1587(1)

Winter: My Secret 1588(1)

Up-Hill 1589(1)

Goblin Market 1589(12)

``No, Thank You, John'' 1601(1)

Promises Like Pie-Crust 1602(1)

In Progress 1603(1)

A Life's Parallels 1603(1)

Later Life 1603(1)

17 (``Something this foggy day, a something which'') 1603(1)

Cardinal Newman 1604(1)

Sleeping at Last 1604(1)

William Morris (1834-1896) 1605(16)

The Defense of Guenevere 1606(8)

The Haystack in the Floods 1614(4)

How I Became a Socialist 1618(3)

Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) 1621(15)

Choruses from Atalanta in Calydon 1623(2)

When the Hounds of Spring 1623(1)

Before the Beginning of Years 1624(1)

Hymn to Proserpine 1625(3)

The Garden of Proserpine 1628(3)

Ave Atque Vale 1631(5)

Walter Pater (1839-1894) 1636(12)

The Renaissance 1638(7)

Preface 1638(3)

[``La Gioconda''] 1641(1)

Conclusion 1642(3)

Appreciations 1645(3)

From Style 1645(3)

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) 1648(14)

God's Grandeur 1651(1)

The Starlight Night 1651(1)

As Kingfishers Catch Fire 1652(1)

Spring 1652(1)

The Windhover 1652(1)

Pied Beauty 1653(1)

Hurrathing in Harvest 1653(1)

Binsey Poplars 1654(1)

Duns Scotus's Oxford 1654(1)

Felix Randal 1655(1)

Spring and Fall: to a young child 1655(1)

[Carrion Comfort] 1656(1)

No Worst, There Is None 1657(1)

I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark, Not Day 1657(1)

That Nature Is a Heraclitean Fire 1658(1)

Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord 1658(1)

From Journal 1659(3)
LIGHT VERSE 1662(17)

Edward Lear (1812-1888) 1662(4)

Limerick (``There was an Old Man who supposed'') 1663(1)

How Pleasant to Know Mr. Lear 1663(1)

The Jumblies 1664(1)

Cold Are the Crabs 1665(1)

Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) 1666(8)

Jabberwocky 1666(1)

[Humpty Dumpty's Explication of Jabberwocky] 1667(1)

The White Knight's Song 1668(2)

The Walrus and the Carpenter 1670(2)

The Hunting of the Snark 1672(2)

The Baker's Tale 1672(2)

W. S. Gilbert (1836-1911) 1674(5)

When I, Good Friends, Was Called to the Bar 1675(1)

If You're Anxious for to Shine in the High Aesthetic Line 1676(2)

When Britain Really Ruled the Waves 1678(1)
VICTORIAN ISSUES 1679(61)

Evolution 1679(17)

The Origin of Species 1679(7)

Charles Darwin

Struggle for Existence 1679(3)

Recapitulation and Conclusion 1682(4)

The Descent of Man 1686(4)

Charles Darwin

[Natural Selection and Sexual Selection] 1686(4)

The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley 1690(3)

Leonard Huxley

[The Huxley-Wilberforce Debate at Oxford] 1690(3)

Father and Son 1693(3)

Sir Edmund Gosse

[The Dilemma of the Fundamentalist and Scientist] 1694(2)

Industrialism: Progress or Decline? 1696(23)

A Review of Southey's Colloquies 1697(5)

Thomas Babington Macaulay

[Evidence of Progress] 1697(5)

From The Great Towns 1702(8)

Friedrich Engles

Alton Locke 1710(1)

Charles Kingsley

[A London Slum] 1710(1)

Hard Times 1711(1)

Charles Dickens

[Coketown] 1711(1)

Poverty Knock

Anonymous 1712(2)

London Labour and the London Poor 1714(1)

Henry Mayhew

[Boy Inmate of the Casual Wards] 1714(1)

The ``White Slavery'' of London Match Workers 1715(2)

Annie Besant

A Living Wage for Factory Girls at Crewe 1717(2)

Ada Nield Chew

The ``Woman Question'': The Victorian Debate About Gender 1719(21)

The Women of England: Their Social Duties and Domestic Habits 1721(2)

Sarah Stickney Ellis

[Disinterested Kindness] 1721(2)

The Angel in the House 1723(2)

Coventry Patmore

The Paragon 1723(2)

From Autobiography 1725(3)

Harriet Martineau

The Great Social Evil

Anonymous 1728(4)

A Woman's Thoughts about Women 1732(2)

Dinah Maria Mulock

[Something to Do] 1732(2)

Cassandra 1734(4)

Florence Nightingale

[Nothing to Do] 1734(4)

The Queen's Reign 1738(2)

Walter Besant

[The Transformation of Women's Status between 1837 and 1897] 1738(2)
THE NINETIES 1740(157)

Michael Field (Katherine Bradley: 1846-1914; and Edith Cooper: 1862-1913) 1742(4)

[Maids, not to you my mind doth change] 1742(1)

[A girl] 1743(1)

Unbosoming 1743(1)

[It was deep April, and the moon] 1744(1)

To Christina Rossetti 1744(1)

Nests in Elms 1745(1)

Eros 1745(1)

William Ernest Henley (1849-1903) 1746(1)

In Hospital 1746(1)

Invictus 1747(1)

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) 1747(61)

Impression du Matin 1749(1)

Helas 1749(1)

E Tenebris 1750(1)

The Harlot's House 1750(2)

The Critic as Artist 1752(8)

[Criticism Itself an Art] 1752(8)

Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray 1760(1)

The Importance of Being Earnest 1761(44)

From De Profundis 1805(3)

Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) 1808(48)

Mrs. Warren's Profession 1810(46)

Francis Thompson (1859-1907) 1856(5)

The Hound of Heaven 1857(4)

Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861-1907) 1861(2)

The Other Side of a Mirror 1861(1)

The Witch 1862(1)

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) 1863(31)

The Man Who Would Be King 1865(23)

Danny Deever 1888(1)

The Widow at Windsor 1889(1)

The Ladies 1890(2)

Recessional 1892(1)

The Hyenas 1893(1)

Ernest Dowson (1867-1900) 1894(3)

Cynara 1894(1)

They Are Not Long 1895(1)

Carthusians 1895(2)
The Twentieth Century 1897(120)

Introduction 1897(17)

Timeline 1914(2)

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) 1916(36)

On the Western Circuit 1918(16)

Hap 1934(1)

The Impercipient 1935(1)

Neutral Tones 1935(1)

I Look into My Glass 1936(1)

A Broken Appointment 1936(1)

Drummer Hodge 1937(1)

The Darkling Thrush 1937(1)

The Ruined Maid 1938(1)

A Trampwoman's Traedy 1939(3)

One We Knew 1942(1)

She Hears the Storm 1943(1)

Channel Firing 1944(1)

The Convergence of the Twain 1945(1)

Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave? 1946(1)

Under the Waterfall 1947(1)

The Walk 1948(1)

The Voice 1949(1)

The Workbox 1949(1)

During Wind and Rain 1950(1)

In Time of ``The Breaking of Nations'' 1951(1)

He Never Expected Much 1951(1)

Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) 1952(65)

Preface to the Nigger of the ``Narcissus'' 1954(3)

[The Task of the Artist] 1954(3)

Heart of Darkness 1957(60)
THE RISE AND FALL OF EMPIRE 2017(31)

John Ruskin: From Lectures on Art 2018(2)

[Imperial Duty] 2019(1)

The Political Significance of Imperialism 2020(3)

John Atkinson Hobson

Easter 1916 Proclamation of an Irish Republic 2023(2)

Anonymous

[On the Treaty between Great Britian and Ireland] 2025(2)

Richard Mulcahy

[The Partition of India] 2027(7)

James Morris

Tryst with Density 2034(1)

Jawaharlal Nehru

From An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness 2035(6)

Chinua Achebe

A. E. Housman (1859-1936) 2041(7)

Loveliest of Trees 2042(1)

When I Was One-and-Twenty 2042(1)

To an Athlete Dying Young 2042(1)

On Wenlock Edge 2043(1)

With Rue My Heart Is Laden 2044(1)

Terence, This Is Stupid Stuff 2044(2)

The Chestnut Casts His Flambeaux 2046(1)

Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries 2047(1)
VOICES FROM WORLD WAR I 2048(477)

Rupert Brooke (1887-1915) 2049(2)

The Soldier 2050(1)

Edward Thomas (1878-1917) 2051(3)

Adlestrop 2051(1)

Tears 2052(1)

The Owl 2052(1)

Rain 2053(1)

The Cherry Trees 2053(1)

As the Team's Head Brass 2053(1)

Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) 2054(6)

``They'' 2055(1)

The Rear-Guard 2056(1)

The General 2056(1)

Glory of Women 2057(1)

Everyone Sang 2057(1)

On Passing the New Menin Gate 2057(1)

Memories of an Infantry Officer 2058(2)

[The Opening of the Battle of the Somme] 2058(2)

Ivor Gurney (1890-1937) 2060(1)

To His Love 2060(1)

The Silent One 2061(1)

Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918) 2061(5)

Break of Day in the Trenches 2062(1)

Louse Hunting 2063(1)

Returning, We Hear the Larks 2063(1)

Dead Man's Dump 2064(2)

Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) 2066(8)

Anthem for Doomed Youth 2066(1)

Apologia Pro Poemate Meo 2067(1)

Miners 2068(1)

Dulce Et Decorum Est 2069(1)

Strange Meeting 2070(1)

Futility 2071(1)

Disabled 2071(1)

From Owen's Letters to His Mother 2072(2)

May Wedderburn Cannan (1893-1973) 2074(4)

Rouen 2074(2)

From Grey Ghosts and Voices 2076(2)

David Jones (1895-1974) 2078(7)

In Parenthesis 2079(6)

From Preface 2079(2)

From Part 7: The Five Unmistakeable Marks 2081(4)

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) 2085(46)

The Madness of King Coll 2088(2)

The Stolen Child 2090(1)

Down by the Salley Gardens 2091(1)

The Rose of the World 2092(1)

The Lake Isle of Innisfree 2092(1)

The Sorrow of Love 2093(1)

When You Are Old 2093(1)

Who Goes with Fergus? 2094(1)

The Man Who Dreamed of Faeryland 2094(1)

The Secret Rose 2095(1)

The Folly of Being Comforted 2096(1)

Adam's Curse 2097(1)

No Second Troy 2098(1)

The Fascination of What's Difficult 2098(1)

September 1913 2099(1)

To a Shade 2100(1)

A Coat 2100(1)

The Wild Swans at Coole 2101(1)

In Memory of Major Robert Gregory 2102(2)

Easter 1916 2104(2)

The Second Coming 2106(1)

A Prayer for My Daughter 2107(2)

Sailing to Byzantium 2109(1)

Leda and the Swan 2110(1)

Among School Children 2111(2)

A Dialogue of Self and Soul 2113(2)

For Anne Gregory 2115(1)

Byzantium 2115(1)

Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop 2116(1)

After Long Silence 2117(1)

Lapis Lazuli 2117(2)

Long-Legged Fly 2119(1)

The Circus Animals' Desertion 2120(1)

Under Ben Bulben 2121(3)

Reveries over Childhood and Youth 2124(3)

[The Yeats Family] 2124(2)

[An Irish Literature] 2126(1)

The Trembling of the Veil 2127(4)

[London and Pre-Raphaelitism] 2127(2)

[Oscar Wilde] 2129(1)

[The Origin of The Lake Isle of Innisfree] 2130(1)

[The Rhymers' Club] 2130(1)

E. M. Forster (1879-1970) 2131(10)

A Passage to India 2133(8)

Chapter 2. Mosque 2133(8)

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) 2141(90)

The Mark on the Wall 2143(5)

Modern Fiction 2148(5)

A Room of One's Own 2153(61)

Professions for Women 2214(4)

A Sketch of the Past 2218(8)

[Moments of Being and Non-Being] 2218(8)

The Legacy 2226(5)

James Joyce (1882-1941) 2231(82)

Araby 2236(4)

The Dead 2240(29)

Ulysses 2269(40)

[Proteus] 2269(14)

[Lestrygonians] 2283(26)

Finnegans Wake 2309(4)

From Anna Livia Plurabelle 2310(3)

D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) 2313(47)

Odour of Chrysanthemums 2316(14)

The Horse Dealer's Daughter 2330(11)

Why the Novel Matters 2341(5)

Love on the Farm 2346(1)

Piano 2347(1)

Tortoise Shell 2348(1)

Tortoise Shout 2349(2)

Bavarian Gentians 2351(1)

Snake 2352(2)

Cypresses 2354(2)

How Beastly the Bourgeois Is 2356(1)

The Ship of Death 2357(3)

T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) 2360(48)

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock 2364(3)

Sweeney Among the Nightingales 2367(1)

The Waste Land 2368(15)

The Hollow Men 2383(3)

Journey of the Magi 2386(2)

Marina 2388(1)

Four Quartets 2389(1)

Little Gidding 2389(6)

Tradition and the Individual Talent 2395(6)

The Metaphysical Poets 2401(7)

Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) 2408(25)

The Daughters of the Late Colonel 2409(14)

The Garden Party 2423(10)

Hugh MacDiarmid (1892-1978) 2433(4)

A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle 2435(1)

Farewell to Dostoevski 2435(1)

Yet Ha'e I Silence Left 2435(1)

In Memoriam James Joyce 2436(1)

We Must Look at the Harebell 2436(1)

In the Children's Hospital 2437(1)

Another Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries 2437(1)

Jean Rhys (1894?-1979) 2437(7)

Mannequin 2438(4)

On Not Shooting Sitting Birds 2442(2)

Robert Graves (1895-1985) 2444(6)

Down, Wanton, Down! 2445(1)

Love Without Hope 2446(1)

The Cool Web 2446(1)

The Reader Over My Shoulder 2446(1)

To Juan at the Winter Solstice 2447(1)

The White Goddess 2448(1)

The Blue-Fly 2449(1)

A Slice of Wedding Cake 2450(1)

Stevie Smith (1902-1971) 2450(6)

Is It Wise? 2451(1)

Our Bog Is Dood 2451(1)

Not Waving but Drowning 2452(1)

The New Age 2453(1)

Thoughts About the Person from Porlock 2453(2)

Pretty 2455(1)

George Orwell (1903-1950) 2456(15)

Shooting an Elephant 2457(5)

Politics and the English Language 2462(9)

Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) 2471(29)

Endgame 2472(28)

W. H. Auden (1907-1973) 2500(13)

Petition 2501(1)

On This Island 2502(1)

Spain 1937 2502(3)

Musee des Beaux Arts 2505(1)

Lullaby 2505(1)

In Memory of W. B. Yeats 2506(2)

Their Lonely Betters 2508(1)

In Praise of Limestone 2509(2)

The Shield of Achilles 2511(2)

Louis MacNeice (1907-1963) 2513(3)

Sunday Morning 2513(1)

The Sunlight on the Garden 2514(1)

Bagpipe Music 2515(1)

Soap Suds 2515(1)

Star-Gazer 2516(1)

Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) 2516(9)

The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower 2517(1)

After the Funeral 2518(1)

There Was a Saviour 2519(1)

The Hunchback in the Park 2520(1)

Poem in October 2521(1)

Fern Hill 2522(2)

Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night 2524(1)
VOICES FROM WORLD WAR II 2525(356)

Edith Sitwell (1887-1964) 2527(1)

Still Falls the Rain 2527(1)

Henry Reed (1914-1986) 2528(3)

Lessons of the War 2529(2)

Naming of Parts 2529(1)

Judging Distances 2530(1)

Richard Hillary (1919-1943) 2531(4)

From The Last Enemy 2532(3)

Keith Douglas (1920-1944) 2535(4)

Gallantry 2536(1)

Vergissmeinnicht 2537(1)

Aristocrats 2537(1)

From Alamein to Zem Zem 2538(1)

Charles Causley (b. 1917) 2539(2)

At the British War Cemetery, Bayeux 2540(1)

Armistice Day 2540(1)

Doris Lessing (b. 1919) 2541(23)

To Room Nineteen 2542(22)

Philip Larkin (1922-1985) 2564(8)

Church Going 2565(1)

MCMXIV 2566(1)

Talking in Bed 2567(1)

Ambulances 2568(1)

High Windows 2568(1)

Sad Steps 2569(1)

The Explosion 2570(1)

Aubade 2570(2)

Nadine Gordimer (b. 1923) 2572(4)

The Moment before the Gun Went Off 2573(3)

Thom Gunn (b. 1929) 2576(4)

Considering the Snail 2576(1)

A Map of the City 2577(1)

Black Jackets 2577(1)

My Sad Captains 2578(1)

From the Wave 2579(1)

Derek Walcott (b. 1930) 2580(7)

A Far Cry from Africa 2580(1)

Nights in the Gardens of Port of Spain 2581(1)

The Glory Trumpeter 2582(1)

The Schooner Flight 2583(1)

I Adios, Carenage 2583(1)

Midsummer 2584(1)

Omeros 2585(2)

Chapter XXX 2585(2)

Ted Hughes (1930-1998) 2587(7)

Wind 2587(1)

Relic 2588(1)

Pike 2589(1)

Examination at the Womb-Door 2590(1)

Theology 2590(1)

The Seven Sorrows 2591(1)

Daffodils 2592(2)

Harold Pinter (b. 1930) 2594(22)

The Dumb Waiter 2594(22)

Chinua Achebe (b. 1930) 2616(90)

Things Fall Apart 2617(89)

Alice Munro (b. 1931) 2706(11)

Walker Brothers Cowboy 2707(10)

Geoffrey Hill (b. 1932) 2717(5)

In Memory of Jane Fraser 2717(1)

Requiem for the Plantagenet Kings 2718(1)

September Song 2718(1)

Mercian Hymns 2719(2)

6 (``The princes of Merica were badger and raven. Thrall'') 2719(1)

7 (``Gasholders, russet among fields, Milldams, marlpools'') 2719(1)

28 (``Processes of generation; deeds of settlement. The'') 2720(1)

30 (``And it seemed, while we waited, he began to walk'') 2720(1)

An Apology for the Revival of Christian Architecture in England 2721(1)

9. The Laurel Axe 2721(1)

V. S. Naipaul (b. 1932) 2722(23)

One Out of Many 2722(23)

Edna O'Brien (b. 1932) 2745(14)

Sister Imelda 2746(13)

Fleur Adcock (b. 1934) 2759(4)

The Ex-Queen Among the Astronomers 2759(1)

Poem Ended by a Death 2760(1)

The Soho Hospital for Women 2761(2)

Tony Harrison (b. 1937) 2763(5)

Heredity 2764(1)

National Trust 2764(1)

Book Ends 2765(1)

Long Distance 2766(1)

Turns 2767(1)

Marked with D. 2767(1)

Anita Desai (b. 1937) 2768(17)

Scholar and Gypsy 2768(17)

Tom Stoppard (b. 1937) 2785(30)

The Real Inspector Hound 2786(29)

Les Murray (b. 1938) 2815(3)

Noonday Axeman 2816(2)

Morse 2818(1)

Seamus Heaney (b. 1939) 2818(11)

Digging 2819(1)

The Forge 2820(1)

Punishment 2821(1)

Casualty 2822(3)

The Skunk 2825(1)

Station Island 2825(2)

12 (``Like a convalescent, I took the hand'') 2825(2)

The Sharping Stone 2827(2)

J. M. Coetzee (b. 1940) 2829(5)

From Waiting for the Barbarians 2829(5)

Eavan Boland (b. 1944) 2834(4)

That the Science of Cartography Is Limited 2835(1)

The Dolls Museum in Dublin 2836(1)

The Lost Land 2837(1)

Craig Raine (b. 1944) 2838(4)

The Onion, Memory 2839(1)

A Martian Sends a Postcard Home 2840(2)

Salman Rushdie (b. 1947) 2842(11)

The Prophet's Hair 2843(10)

James Fenton (b. 1949) 2853(3)

A German Requiem 2853(2)

Wind 2855(1)

Paul Muldoon (b. 1951) 2856(3)

Gathering Mushrooms 2856(2)

Milkwood and Monarch 2858(1)

Poems in Process 2859(22)

William Blake 2860(2)

The Tyger 2860(2)

William Wordsworth 2862(1)

She dwelt among the untrodden ways 2862(1)

Lord Byron 2863(1)

Don Juan 2863(1)

Canto 3, Stanza 9 2863(1)

Canto 14, Stanza 95 2864(1)

Percy Bysshe Shelley 2864(3)

O World, O Life, O Time 2865(2)

John Keats 2867(2)

The Eve of St. Agnes 2867(1)

To Autumn 2868(1)

Alfred, Lord Tennyson 2869(4)

The Lady of Shalott 2869(3)

Tithonus 2872(1)

Gerard Manley Hopkins 2873(1)

Thou art indeed just, Lord 2873(1)

William Butler Yeats 2873(6)

The Sorrow of Love 2874(1)

Leda and the Swan 2875(2)

After Long Silence 2877(2)

D. H. Lawrence 2879(2)

The Piano 2879(2)
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHIES 2881(35)

Suggested General Readings 2881(2)

The Romantic Period 2883(8)

The Victorian Age 2891(8)

The Twentieth Century 2899(17)
GEOGRAPHIC NOMENCLATURE 2916(1)
MAP: London in the 19th and 20th Centuries 2917(1)
BRITISH MONEY 2918(3)
THE BRITISH BARONAGE 2921(5)

The Royal Lines of England and Great Britain 2923(3)
Religions in England 2926(2)
Poetic Forms and Literary Terminology 2928(17)
Permissions Acknowledgments 2945(5)
Index 2950