The Longman Anthology of British Literature, Volume II

CONTENTS Additional Resources xliiiPreface xlviiAcknowledgments liiiThe Romantics and Their ContemporariesIllustration: Thomas Girtin, Tintern Abbey 2THE ROMANTIC PERIOD AT A GLANCE 3INTRODUCTION 7LITERATURE AND THE AGE: “NOUGHT WAS LASTING” 7ROMANCE, ROMANTICISM, AND THE POWERS OF THE IMAGINATION 8THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND ITS REVERBERATIONS 14Illustration: Thomas Rowlandson, after a drawing by Lord George Murray,The Contrast 16THE MONARCHY 19Illustration: Thomas Lawrence, Coronation Portrait of the Prince Regent(later, George IV) 20INDUSTRIAL ENGLAND AND “NEVER-RESTING LABOUR” 21CONSUMERS AND COMMODITIES 25Color Plate 1: John Martin, The BardColor Plate 2: Thomas Gainsborough, Mrs. Mary RobinsonColor Plate 3: Thomas Phillips, Lord ByronColor Plate 4: Anonymous, Portrait of Olaudah EquianoColor Plate 5: J. M. W. Turner, Slavers Throwing the Dead and DyingOverboard, Typhoon Coming OnColor 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 TygerColor Plate 9: William Blake, The Sick RoseColor Plate 10: Joseph Wright, An Iron Forge Viewed from WithoutAUTHORSHIP, AUTHORITY, AND “ROMANTICISM” 27POPULAR PROSE 30Illustration: George Cruikshank, The Press 32PERSPECTIVESThe Sublime, the Beautiful, and the Picturesque 34Illustration: Thomas Rowlandson, Dr. Syntax Sketching by the Lake 35Illustration: Joseph Mallord William Turner, The Passage of the St. Gothard,1804 36EDMUND BURKE 37from A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublimeand Beautiful 37Illustration: Benjamin Robert Haydon, Study after the ElginMarbles 38IMMANUEL KANT 44from The Critique of Judgement 44WILLIAM GILPIN 47Illustration: Edward Dayes, Tintern Abbey from across theWye, 1794 48from Three Essays on Picturesque Beauty, on Picturesque Travel,and on Sketching Landscape 48Illustration: From William Gilpin’s Three Essays, 1792 51MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT 52from A Vindication of the Rights of Men 52JANE AUSTEN 54from Pride and Prejudice 54from Northanger Abbey 55MARIA JANE JEWSBURY 56A Rural Excursion 57ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD 61The Mouse’s Petition to Dr. Priestley 62On a Lady’s Writing 63Inscription for an Ice-House 63To a Little Invisible Being Who Is Expected Soon to BecomeVisible 64To the Poor 65Washing-Day 66Eighteen Hundred and Eleven 68RESPONSEJohn Wilson Croker: from A Review of Eighteen Hundredand Eleven 76hThe First Fire 78On the Death of the Princess Charlotte 80CHARLOTTE SMITH 81from ELEGIAC SONNETS AND OTHER POEMS 82To the Moon 82“Sighing I see yon little troop at play” 82Illustration: Charlotte Smith, engraving for Sonnet IV, “To the Moon” 83To melancholy. Written on the banks of the Arun October, 1785 84Far on the sands 84To tranquillity 84Written in the church-yard at Middleton in Sussex 85On being cautioned against walking on an headland overlooking the sea 85The sea view 86The Dead Beggar 86The Emigrants, Book 1 87from Beachy Head 99PERSPECTIVESThe Rights of Man and the Revolution Controversy 104HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS 104from Letters Written in France, in the Summer of 1790 105EDMUND BURKE 109from Reflections on the Revolution in France 109Illustration: James Gillray, Smelling out a Rat; –– or The AtheisticalRevolutionist disturbed in his Midnight Calculations 110MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT 118from A Vindication of the Rights of Men 119Letter to Joseph Johnson, from Paris, December 27, 1792 127THOMAS PAINE 127from The Rights of Man 128HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS 134from Letters from France, 1796 134WILLIAM GODWIN 140from An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and Its Influence on GeneralVirtue and Happiness 140THE ANTI-JACOBIN, OR WEEKLY EXAMINER 145The Friend of Humanity and the Knife-Grinder 146The Widow 146Illustration: James Gillray, illustration to The Friend of Humanity and theKnife-Grinder 147HANNAH MORE 148Village Politics 149ARTHUR YOUNG 156from Travels in France During the Years 1787—1788, and 1789 157from The Example of France, a Warning to Britain 158WILLIAM BLAKE 161All Religions Are One (Web)There Is No Natural Religion [a] (Web)There Is No Natural Religion [b] (Web)SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND OF EXPERIENCE 163Illustration: William Blake, frontispiece for Songs of Innocence 164from Songs of Innocence 165Introduction 165The Shepherd 165The Ecchoing Green 165The Lamb 166Illustration: William Blake, The Lamb 167The Little Black Boy 167The Blossom 168The Chimney Sweeper 168Illustration: William Blake, The Little Boy lost 169The Little Boy lost 169Illustration: William Blake, The Little Boy found 170The Little Boy found 170The Divine Image 170HOLY THURSDAY 171Nurses Song 171Infant Joy 172A Dream 172On Anothers Sorrow 173COMPANION READINGCharles Lamb: from The Praise of Chimney-Sweepers (Web)from Songs of Experience 174Introduction 174EARTH’S Answer 174The CLOD & the PEBBLE 175HOLY THURSDAY 175The Little Girl Lost 176The Little Girl Found 177THE Chimney Sweeper 179NURSES Song 179The SICK ROSE 179Illustration: William Blake, THE Chimney Sweeper 180Illustration: William Blake, THE FLY 181THE FLY 181The Angel 182The Tyger 182My Pretty ROSE TREE 183AH! SUN-FLOWER 183The GARDEN of LOVE 183LONDON 184The Human Abstract 184INFANT SORROW 185A Little BOY Lost 185Illustration: William Blake, A POISON TREE 186A Little GIRL Lost 186The School-Boy 187A DIVINE IMAGE 188The Marriage of Heaven and Hell 188Visions of the Daughters of Albion 202Illustration: William Blake, Plate i from Visions of the Daughters of Albion 202Illustration: William Blake, Plate 8, from Visions of the Daughters of Albion 208LETTERS 209To Dr. John Trusler (23 August 1799) 209To Thomas Butts (22 November 1802) 211PERSPECTIVESThe Abolition of Slavery and the Slave Trade 214OLAUDAH EQUIANO 215from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of OlaudahEquiano 216MARY PRINCE 224from The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave 225THOMAS BELLAMY 229The Benevolent Planters 229JOHN NEWTON 235Amazing Grace! 236ANN CROMARTIE YEARSLEY 236from A Poem on the Inhumanity of the Slave-Trade 237WILLIAM COWPER 241Sweet Meat Has Sour Sauce 242The Negro’s Complaint 243ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD 244Epistle to William Wilberforce, Esq., On the Rejection of the Bill for Abolishingthe Slave Trade 245HANNAH MORE AND EAGLESFIELD SMITH 247The Sorrows of Yamba 248ROBERT SOUTHEY 253from Poems Concerning the Slave-Trade 253DOROTHY WORDSWORTH 257from The Grasmere Journals 257THOMAS CLARKSON 257from The History of the Rise, Progress, & Accomplishment of the Abolition ofthe African Slave-Trade by the British Parliament 258Illustration: Packing methods on a slave ship 264WILLIAM WORDSWORTH 266To Toussaint L’Ouverture 266To Thomas Clarkson 267from The Prelude 267from Humanity 268Letter to Mary Ann Rawson (May 1833) 269THE EDINBURGH REVIEW 269from Abstract of the Information laid on the Table of the House of Commons,on the Subject of the Slave Trade 270GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON 272from Detached Thoughts 272MARY ROBINSON 273Ode to Beauty 274January, 1795 275from Sappho and Phaon, in a Series of Legitimate Sonnets 276III. The Bower of Pleasure 277IV. Sappho discovers her Passion 277VII. Invokes Reason 277XI. Rejects the Influence of Reason 278XII. Previous to her Interview with Phaon 278XVIII. To Phaon 278XXX. Bids farewell to Lesbos 279XXXVII. Foresees her Death 279The Camp 279The Haunted Beach 281London’s Summer Morning 282The Old Beggar 284MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT 286Illustration: Portrait of Mary Wollstonecraft 286A Vindication of the Rights of Woman 288from To M. Talleyrand-Périgord, Late Bishop of Autun 288Introduction 290from Chapter 1. The Rights and Involved Duties of MankindConsidered 293from Chapter 2. The Prevailing Opinion of a Sexual CharacterDiscussed 295from Chapter 3. The Same Subject Continued 304from Chapter 5. Animadversions on Some of the Writers Who Have RenderedWomen Objects of Pity, Bordering on Contempt 308from Chapter 13. Some Instances of the Folly Which the Ignoranceof Women Generates; with Concluding Reflections on the MoralImprovement That a Revolution in Female Manners Might NaturallyBe Expected to Produce 308RESPONSESAnna Letitia Barbauld, The Rights of Woman 310Ann Yearsley, The Indifferent Shepherdess to Colin 311Robert Southey, To Mary Wollstonecraft 312William Blake, from Mary 313hfrom The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria (Web)PERSPECTIVESThe Wollstonecraft Controversy and the Rights of Women 315CATHARINE MACAULAY 315from Letters on Education 316RICHARD POLWHELE 318from The Unsex’d Females 319PRISCILLA BELL WAKEFIELD (Web)from Reflections on the Present Condition of the Female Sex (Web)MARY ANN RADCLIFFE (Web)from The Female Advocate (Web)HANNAH MORE 323from Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education 324MARY LAMB 327Letter to The British Lady’s Magazine 328WILLIAM THOMPSON AND ANNA WHEELER 332from Appeal of One Half the Human Race, Women, Against the Pretensions ofthe Other Half, Men, to Retain Them in Political, and Thence in Civil andDomestic Slavery 333JOANNA BAILLIE 339Plays on the Passions 340from Introductory Discourse 340London 345A Mother to Her Waking Infant 346A Child to His Sick Grandfather 347Thunder 348Song: Woo’d and Married and A’ 350LITERARY BALLADS 351RELIQUES OF ANCIENT ENGLISH POETRY 352Sir Patrick Spence 353JAMES MACPHERSON 354Carric-Thura: A Poem 355ROBERT BURNS 358To a Mouse 359To a Louse 360Flow gently, sweet Afton 361Ae fond kiss 362Comin’ Thro’ the Rye (1) 363Comin’ Thro’ the Rye (2) 363Scots, wha hae wi’ Wallace bled 364Is there for honest poverty 365RESPONSECharlotte Smith, To the shade of Burns 366hA Red, Red Rose 366Auld Lang Syne 367The Fornicator. A New Song 368THOMAS MOORE 369The harp that once through Tara’s halls 369Believe me, if all those endearing young charms 370The time I’ve lost in wooing 370WILLIAM WORDSWORTH 371LYRICAL BALLADS (1798) 373Simon Lee 373Anecdote for Fathers 376We are seven 377Lines written in early spring 379The Thorn 380Note to The Thorn (1800) 386Expostulation and Reply 387The Tables Turned 388Old Man Travelling 389Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey 390LYRICAL BALLADS (1800, 1802) 394from Preface 394[The Principal Object of the Poems. Humble and Rustic Life] 395[“The Spontaneous Overflow of Powerful Feelings”] 396[The Language of Poetry] 397[What is a Poet?] 400[The Function of Metre] 403[“Emotion Recollected in Tranquillity”] 404“There was a Boy” 407“Strange fits of passion have I known” 407Song (“She dwelt among th’ untrodden ways”) 408“A slumber did my spirit seal” 409Lucy Gray 409Poor Susan 411Nutting 411“Three years she grew in sun and shower” 413The Old Cumberland Beggar 414Michael 418RESPONSESFrancis Jeffrey: [“the new poetry”] 429Charles Lamb: from a letter to William Wordsworth 433Charles Lamb: from a letter to Thomas Manning 434hSONNETS, 1802—1807 435Prefatory Sonnet (“Nuns fret not at their Convent’s narrow room”) 435Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1802 436“The world is too much with us” 436“It is a beauteous Evening” 436“I griev’d for Buonaparte” 437London, 1802 437THE PRELUDE, OR GROWTH OF A POET’S MIND 438Book First. Introduction, Childhood, and School time 439from Book Second. School time continued 454[Two Consciousnesses] 454[Blessed Infant Babe] 454from Book Fourth. Summer Vacation 456[A Simile for Autobiography] 456[Encounter with a “Dismissed” Soldier] 457from Book Fifth. Books 460[Meditation on Books. The Dream of the Arab] 460[A Drowning in Esthwaite’s Lake] 463[“The Mystery of Words”] 464from Book Sixth. Cambridge, and the Alps 464[The Pleasure of Geometric Science] 464[Arrival in France] 466[Travelling in the Alps. Simplon Pass] 468from Book Seventh. Residence in London 471[A Blind Beggar. Bartholomew Fair] 471from Book Ninth. Residence in France 475[Paris] 475[Revolution, Royalists, and Patriots] 479from Book Tenth. Residence in France and French Revolution 481[The Reign of Terror. Confusion. Return to England] 481[Further Events in France] 484[The Death of Robespierre and Renewed Optimism] 486[Britain Declares War on France. The Rise of Napoleon andImperialist France] 488from The Prelude 1850 490[Apostrophe to Edmund Burke] 490from Book Eleventh. Imagination, How Impaired and Restored 491[Imagination Restored by Nature] 491[“Spots of Time.” Two Memories from Childhood and LaterReflections] 492from Book Thirteenth. Conclusion 496[Climbing Mount Snowdon. Moonlit Vista. Meditation on “Mind,” “Self,”“Imagination,” “Fear,” and “Love”] 496[Concluding Retrospect and Prophecy] 501RESPONSESamuel Taylor Coleridge: To a Gentleman 503h“I travell’d among unknown Men” 506Resolution and Independence 506RESPONSELewis Carroll: Upon the Lonely Moor 510h“I wandered lonely as a Cloud” 512“My heart leaps up” 513Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of EarlyChildhood 513The Solitary Reaper 519Elegiac Stanzas (“Peele Castle”) 520RESPONSEMary Shelley: On Reading Wordsworth’s Lines on Peele Castle 521h“Surprized by joy” 522The Excursion 523“Scorn not the Sonnet” 524Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg 524DOROTHY WORDSWORTH 525Grasmere–A Fragment 527Address to a Child 529Irregular Verses 530Floating Island 533Lines Intended for My Niece’s Album 534Thoughts on My Sick-bed 535When Shall I Tread Your Garden Path? 536Lines Written (Rather Say Begun) on the Morning of SundayApril 6th 537from The Grasmere Journals 538[Home Alone] 538[A Leech Gatherer] 539[A Woman Beggar] 540[An Old Sailor] 540[The Grasmere Mailman] 541[A Vision of the Moon] 541[A Field of Daffodils] 542[A Beggar Woman from Cockermouth] 542[The Circumstances of “Composed upon Westminster Bridge”] 543[The Circumstances of “It is a beauteous Evening”] 543[The Household in Winter, with William’s New Wife. Gingerbread] 544LETTERS 544To Jane Pollard [A Scheme of Happiness] 544To Lady Beaumont [A Gloomy Christmas] 545To Lady Beaumont [Her Poetry, William’s Poetry] 547To Mrs Thomas Clarkson [Household Labors] 548To Mrs Thomas Clarkson [A Prospect of Publishing] 549To William Johnson [Mountain-Climbing with a Woman] 549RESPONSESSamuel Taylor Coleridge: from A letter to Joseph Cottle 552Thomas De Quincey: from Recollections of the LakePoets 553SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE 557Sonnet to the River Otter 558COMPANION READINGWilliam Lisle Bowles: To the River Itchin, Near Winton 559hThe Eolian Harp 559This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison 561Frost at Midnight 563from The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere (1798) 565Part 1 565The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1817) 567COMPANION READINGSWilliam Cowper: The Castaway 583Samuel Taylor Coleridge: from Table Talk 584hChristabel 585COMPANION READINGMary Elizabeth Coleridge: The Witch 601hKubla Khan 602RESPONSEMary Robinson: To the Poet Coleridge 604hThe Pains of Sleep 606Dejection: An Ode 607LETTERS 611To William Godwin 611To Thomas Poole 612On Donne’s Poetry 613Work Without Hope 613Constancy to an Ideal Object 614Epitaph 614from The Statesman’s Manual 615[Symbol and Allegory] 615from The Friend 615[My Ghost-Theory] 615Biographia Literaria 616Chapter 4 617[Wordsworth’s Earlier Poetry]Chapter 11 618[The Profession of Literature]Chapter 13 619[Imagination and Fancy]Chapter 14 622[Occasion of the Lyrical Ballads–Preface to the Second Edition–The EnsuingControversy][Philosophic Definitions of a Poem and Poetry]Chapter 17 625[Examination of the Tenets Peculiar to Mr. Wordsworth. Rustic Life and Poetic Language]Chapter 22 628[Defects of Wordsworth’s Poetry]from Lectures on Shakespeare 629[Mechanic vs. Organic Form] 629[The Character of Hamlet] 630[Stage Illusion and the Willing Suspension of Disbelief] 631[Shakespeare’s Images] 632[Othello] 633* COLERIDGE’ S “LECTURES” AND THEIR TIMEShakespeare in the Nineteenth Century 634Charles Lamb [and Mary Lamb] Preface to Tales from Shakespear 635Charles Lamb from On the Tragedies of Shakspeare 636William Hazlitt from Lectures on the English Poets 639 • The Charactersof Shakespeare’s Plays 640Thomas De Quincey On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth 640 *GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON 644She walks in beauty 646So, we’ll go no more a-roving 647Manfred 647Illustration: Ford Madox Brown, Manfred on the Jungfrau, 1840 655* “MANFRED” AND ITS TIMEThe Byronic Hero 683Byron’s Earlier Heroes from The Giaour 684 • from The Corsair 685from Lara 685 • Prometheus 686 • from Childe Harold’sPilgrimage, Canto the Third [Napoleon Buonaparte] 687Samuel Taylor Coleridge from The Statesman’s Manual [“Satanic Prideand Rebellious Self-Idolatry”] 689Caroline Lamb from Glenarvon 690Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley from Frankenstein; or The ModernPrometheus 692Felicia Hemans from The Widow of Crescentius 694Percy Bysshe Shelley from Preface to Prometheus Unbound 695 • fromPrometheus Unbound, Act 1 695Robert Southey from Preface to A Vision of Judgement 697George Gordon, Lord Byron from The Vision of Judgment 698 *CHILDE HAROLD’S PILGRIMAGE 699from Canto the Third 699[Waterloo Fields] 699[Thunderstorm in the Alps] 704[Byron’s Strained Idealism. Apostrophe to His Daughter] 705from Canto the Fourth 707[Rome. Political Hopes] 707[The Coliseum. The Dying Gladiator] 709[Apostrophe to the Ocean. Conclusion] 711RESPONSESJohn Wilson: from a review of Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage 713John Scott: [Lord Byron’s Creations] 714hDON JUAN 715Dedication 716Canto 1 720from Canto 2 [Shipwreck Juan and Haidée] (Web)from Canto 3 [Juan and Haidée The Poet for Hire] (Web)from Canto 7 [Critique of Military “Glory”] (Web)from Canto 11 [Juan in England] (Web)Stanzas (“When a man hath no freedom to fight for at home”) 767On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year 767LETTERS 768To Thomas Moore [On Childe Harold Canto III] (28 January 1817) 768To John Murray [On Don Juan] (6 April 1819) 769To John Murray [On Don Juan] (12 August 1819) 770To Douglas Kinnaird [On Don Juan] (26 October 1819) 771To John Murray [On Don Juan] (16 February 1821) 773PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY 773To Wordsworth 775Mont Blanc 776Hymn to Intellectual Beauty 780Ozymandias 782Sonnet: “Lift not the painted veil” 782Sonnet: England in 1819 783The Mask of Anarchy 783RESPONSELeigh Hunt: Introduction to The Mask of Anarchy (Web) hOde to the West Wind 794To a Sky-Lark 796RESPONSEThomas Hardy: Shelley’s Skylark (Web) hTo–(“Music, when soft voices die”) 798Adonais 799RESPONSESGeorge Gordon, Lord Byron: from Don Juan 814George Gordon, Lord Byron: Letter to Percy Bysshe Shelley(26 April 1821) 815George Gordon, Lord Byron: Letter to John Murray(30 July 1821) 815hThe Cloud 816from Hellas 818Chorus (“Worlds on worlds are rolling ever”) 818Chorus (“The world’s great age begins anew”) 820With a Guitar, to Jane 821To Jane (“The keen stars”) 824The Cenci (Web)Julian and Maddalo (Web)The Sensitive Plant (Web)Letter to Maria Gisborne (Web)RESPONSE?Mary Shelley: Introductions to the Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley(1824, 1839) (Web) hfrom A Defence of Poetry 824FELICIA HEMANS 835Illustration: Edward Smith, after a painting by Edward Robinson, Portrait ofFelicia Hemans 836from TALES, AND HISTORIC SCENES, IN VERSE 836The Wife of Asdrubal 836The Last Banquet of Antony and Cleopatra 838Evening Prayer, at a Girls’ School 842Casabianca 844from RECORDS OF WOMAN, WITH OTHER POEMS 845The Bride of the Greek Isle 845Properzia Rossi 850Indian Woman’s Death-Song 854Joan of Arc, in Rheims 855The Homes of England 858The Graves of a Household 859Corinne at the Capitol 860Woman and Fame 861RESPONSESFrancis Jeffrey: from A Review of Felicia Hemans’s Poetry 862William Wordsworth: from Prefatory Note to Extempore Effusion 865hJOHN CLARE 866Written in November (manuscript) 867Written in November 868Songs Eternity 868[The Lament of Swordy Well] 870[The Mouse’s Nest] 874Clock a Clay 875“I Am” 875The Mores 876JOHN KEATS 878Illustration: Charles Brown, Portrait of John Keats, 1819 879On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer; from Leigh Hunt, “Young Poets”(Examiner, 1 December 1816) 880COMPANION READINGSAlexander Pope: from Homer’s Iliad 883George Chapman: from Homer’s Iliad 883Alexander Pope: from Homer’s Odyssey 883George Chapman: from Homer’s Odyssey 884h“To one who has been long in city pent” 884On the Grasshopper and Cricket 884from Sleep and Poetry 885RESPONSEZ. [John Gibson Lockhart]: from On the Cockney School of Poetry 887John Gibson Lockhart: from The Cockney School ofPoetry No. IV 890hOn Seeing the Elgin Marbles 892On sitting down to read King Lear once again 892Sonnet: When I have fears 893The Eve of St. Agnes 894La Belle Dame sans Merci (letter text) 904La Belle Dame sans Mercy, with Leigh Hunt’s Preface(The Indicator 1820) 906Incipit altera Sonneta (“If by dull rhymes”) 908THE ODES OF 1819 908Ode to Psyche 909Ode to a Nightingale 911Ode on a Grecian Urn 913Ode on Indolence 915Ode on Melancholy 917To Autumn 918Lamia 919The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream 936“This living hand” 949“Bright Star” 949LETTERS 950To Benjamin Bailey [“The Truth of Imagination”] (22 November 1817) 950To George and Thomas Keats [“Intensity” and “Negative Capability”](December 1817) 951To John Hamilton Reynolds [Wordsworth and “The Whimsof an Egotist”] (3 February 1818) 952To John Taylor [“A Few Axioms”] (27 February 1818) 953To Benjamin Bailey [“Ardent Pursuit”] (13 May 1818) 953To John Hamilton Reynolds [Wordsworth, Milton, and “Dark Passages”](3 May 1818) 954To Benjamin Bailey [“I Have Not a Right Feeling Towards Women”](18 July 1818) 957To Richard Woodhouse [The “Camelion Poet” vs. The “EgotisticalSublime”] (27 October 1818) 957To George and Georgiana Keats [“indolence,” “poetry” vs. “philosophy,”the “vale of Soul-Making”] (Spring 1819) 959To Fanny Brawne [“You Take Possession of Me”] (25 July 1819) 963To Percy Bysshe Shelley [“An Artist Must Serve Mammon”](16 August 1820) 964To Charles Brown [Keats’s Last Letter] (30 November 1820) 965SIR WALTER SCOTT 966Illustration: The Author of Waverley 967Lord Randall 967The Two Drovers 968PERSPECTIVESPopular Prose and the Problems of Authorship 988SIR WALTER SCOTT (Web)Introduction to Tales of My Landlord (Web)CHARLES LAMB 989Oxford in the Vacation 990Dream Children 994Old China 996WILLIAM HAZLITT 1000On Gusto 1001My First Acquaintance with Poets 1003THOMAS DE QUINCEY 1016from Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (Web)[“What is it that we mean by literature?”] 1017JANE AUSTEN 1019from Northanger Abbey, Chapter 1 1020MARIA JANE JEWSBURY 1023The Young Author 1023WILLIAM COBBETT 1027from Rural Rides 1027MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY 1030The Swiss Peasant 1031The Victorian AgeIllustration: Gustave Doré, Ludgate Hill 1044THE VICTORIAN AGE AT A GLANCE 1045INTRODUCTION 1049VICTORIA AND THE VICTORIANS 1049Illustration: Sunlight Soap advertisement commemorating the 1897 Jubilee ofVictoria’s reign 1050THE AGE OF ENERGY AND INVENTION 1052Illustration: Robert Howlett, Portrait of Isambard Kingdom Brunel andLaunching Chains of the Great Eastern, 1857 1053THE AGE OF DOUBT 1055Illustration: The Crystal Palace 1058THE AGE OF REFORM 1059THE AGE OF EMPIRE 1063Illustration: “The Formula of British Conquest,” Pears’ Soapadvertisement 1065THE AGE OF READING 1066Color Plate 11: Sir John Everett Millais, MarianaColor Plate 12: William Holman Hunt, The Awakening ConscienceColor Plate 13: Ford Madox Brown, WorkColor Plate 14: Augustus Egg, Past and Present, No. 1Color Plate 15: Augustus Egg, Past and Present, No. 3Color Plate 16: William Morriss, Guenevere, or La Belle IseultColor Plate 17: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Blessed DamozelColor Plate 18: James McNeill Whistler, Nocturne in Black and Gold: TheFalling RocketColor Plate 19: John Williams Waterhouse, The Lady of ShalottColor Plate 20: Sir Edward Burne-Jones, Love Among the RuinsTHE AGE OF SELF-SCRUTINY 1068Illustration: Cartoon from Punch magazine, 1867 1068THOMAS CARLYLE 1074Illustration: Julia Margaret Cameron, Thomas Carlyle, 1867 1075Past and Present 1076Midas [The Condition of England] 1076from Gospel of Mammonism [The Irish Widow] 1079from Labour [Know Thy Work] 1080from Democracy [Liberty to Die by Starvation] 1081Captains of Industry 1083PERSPECTIVESThe Industrial Landscape 1088Illustration: John Leech, Horseman pursued by a train engine named“Time” 1089THE STEAM LOOM WEAVER 1090FANNY KEMBLE 1091from Record of a Girlhood 1091THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY 1092from A Review of Southey’s Colloquies 1092PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS (“BLUE BOOKS”) 1094Testimony of Hannah Goode, a Child Textile Worker 1095Testimony of Ann and Elizabeth Eggley, Child Mineworkers 1095CHARLES DICKENS 1097from Dombey and Son 1097from Hard Times 1098BENJAMIN DISRAELI 1100from Sybil 1100FRIEDRICH ENGELS 1101from The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844 1101Illustration: Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, Catholic Town in 1440 /SameTown in 1840 1103HENRY MAYHEW 1108from London Labour and the London Poor 1108Illustration: The Boy Crossing-Sweepers 1112JOHN STUART MILL 1113On Liberty 1115from Chapter 2. Of the Liberty of Thought and Discussion 1115from Chapter 3. Of Individuality, as One of the Elements of Well-Being 1117The Subjection of Women 1121from Chapter 1 1121Statement Repudiating the Rights of Husbands 1129Autobiography 1129from Chapter 1. Childhood, and Early Education 1129from Chapter 5. A Crisis in My Mental History. One Stage Onward 1132ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING 1138The Cry of the Children 1140To George Sand: A Desire 1144To George Sand: A Recognition 1144A Year’s Spinning (Web)Sonnets from the Portuguese 11451 (“I thought once how Theocritus had sung”) 114513 (“And wilt thou have me fashion into speech”) 114514 (“If thou must love me, let it be for nought”) 114521 (“Say over again, and yet once over again”) 114622 (“When our two souls stand up erect and strong”) 114624 (“Let the world’s sharpness, like a clasping knife”) 114728 (“My letters! all dead paper, mute and white!”) 114732 (“The first time that the sun rose on thine oath”) 114738 (“First time he kissed me, he but only kissed”) 114843 (“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways”) 1148The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point 1148Aurora Leigh 1155Book 1 1155[Self-Portrait] 1155Illustration: 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] 1166Book 3 1170[The Woman Writer in London] 1170Book 5 1171[Epic Art and Modern Life] 1171from A Curse for a Nation (Web)A Musical Instrument 1174The Best Thing in the World (Web)ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON 1175Illustration: Max Beerbohm, Tennyson Reading “In Memoriam” to his Sovereign,1904 1178The Kraken 1178Mariana 1179The Lady of Shalott 1181Illustration: William Holman Hunt, The Lady of Shalott 1182The Lotos-Eaters 1185Ulysses 1189Tithonus 1191Break, Break, Break 1193The Epic [Morte d’Arthur] 1194The Eagle: A Fragment (Web)Locksley Hall 1196from THE PRINCESS 1201Sweet and Low (Web)The Splendour Falls 1201Tears, Idle Tears 1202Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal 1202Come Down, O Maid (Web)[The Woman’s Cause Is Man’s] 1203from In Memoriam A. H. H. 1204The Charge of the Light Brigade 1235Idylls of the King 1237The Coming of Arthur 1237Pelleas and Ettarre (Web)The Passing of Arthur 1247The Higher Pantheism 1257RESPONSEAlgernon Charles Swinburne: The Higher Pantheism in aNutshell 1258hFlower in the Crannied Wall (Web)Crossing the Bar 1259EDWARD FITZGERALD (Web)The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám of Naishápúr (Web)CHARLES DARWIN 1260Illustration: Linley Sambourne, Man is But a Worm 1261The Voyage of the Beagle 1262from Chapter 10. Tierra Del Fuego 1262Illustration: Thomas Landseer, after a drawing by C. Martens, A Fuegian atPortrait Cove 1263from Chapter 17. Galapagos Archipelago 1269On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection 1272from Chapter 3. Struggle for Existence 1272The Descent of Man 1277from Chapter 21. General Summary and Conclusion 1277from Autobiography 1283PERSPECTIVESReligion and Science 1291THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY 1292from Lord Bacon 1292CHARLES DICKENS 1293from Sunday Under Three Heads 1293DAVID FRIEDRICH STRAUSS 1296from The Life of Jesus Critically Examined 1296CHARLOTTE BRONTË 1299from Jane Eyre 1299ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH 1301Epi-strauss-ium 1301The Latest Decalogue 1302from Dipsychus 1302JOHN WILLIAM COLENSO 1303from The Pentateuch and Book of Joshua Critically Examined 1304JOHN HENRY CARDINAL NEWMAN 1305from Apologia Pro Vita Sua 1305THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY 1313from Evolution and Ethics 1313SIR EDMUND GOSSE 1317from Father and Son 1317ROBERT BROWNING 1322Illustration: Julia Margaret Cameron, Robert Browning, 1866 1322Porphyria’s Lover 1325Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister 1326My Last Duchess 1328How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix 1330Home-Thoughts, from Abroad 1331Home-Thoughts, from the Sea 1332The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed’s Church 1332Meeting at Night 1335Parting at Morning 1336A Toccata of Galuppi’s 1336Memorabilia 1337Love Among the Ruins 1338“Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came” 1340RESPONSEStevie Smith: Childe Rolandine 1346hFra Lippo Lippi 1347The Last Ride Together 1355Andrea del Sarto 1358Two in the Campagna (Web)A Woman’s Last Word 1364Caliban Upon Setebos 1366Epilogue to Asolando 1372CHARLES DICKENS 1373A Christmas Carol 1376Illustration: Hablot K. Browne, Mr Scrooge Extinguishing the Spirit 1399from A Walk in a Workhouse 1425COMPANION READINGSDickens at Work: Recollections by His Children and Friends (Web)Kate Field: Dickens Giving a Reading of A Christmas Carol 1430 hPOPULAR SHORT FICTION 1431ELIZABETH GASKELL 1432Our Society at Cranford 1432THOMAS HARDY 1447The Withered Arm 1448SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE 1466A Scandal in Bohemia 1467Illustration: Sidney Paget, Good-night Mr Sherlock Holmes 1480EMILY BRONTË 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” 1485Stanzas 1485Plead for me 1486Stars 1487The Prisoner (A Fragment) 1488Remembrance 1490“No coward soul is mine” 1491JOHN RUSKIN 1492Modern Painters 1493from Definition of Greatness in Art 1493from Of Water, As Painted by Turner 1494The Stones of Venice 1495from The Nature of Gothic 1495Illustration: John Ruskin, Windows of the Early Gothic Palaces 1496The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century 1505Praeterita (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 1510from Cassandra 1511PERSPECTIVESVictorian Ladies and Gentlemen 1520Illustration: The Parliamentary Female, from Punch magazine, 1853 1521FRANCES POWER COBBE 1522from Life of Frances Power Cobbe As Told by Herself 1522SARAH STICKNEY ELLIS 1525from The Women of England: Their Social Duties and Domestic Habits 1525CHARLOTTE BRONTË 1528from Letter to Emily Brontë 1528Illustration: Richard Redgrave, The Poor Teacher, 1844 1529ANNE BRONTË 1529from Agnes Grey 1530JOHN HENRY CARDINAL NEWMAN 1531from The Idea of a University 1531CAROLINE NORTON 1532from A Letter to the Queen 1533GEORGE ELIOT 1535Margaret Fuller and Mary Wollstonecraft 1535THOMAS HUGHES 1540from Tom Brown’s School Days 1540ISABELLA BEETON 1542from The Book of Household Management 1542JOHN RUSKIN 1544from Sesame and Lilies 1544Of Queens’ Gardens 1544QUEEN VICTORIA 1547Letters and Journal Entries on the Position of Women 1547Illustration: Edwin Landseer, Windsor Castle in Modern Times, 1841—1845 1549SARAH GRAND 1552from The New Aspect of the Woman Question 1552SIR HENRY NEWBOLT 1553Vitaï Lampada 1554MONA CAIRD 1554from Does Marriage Hinder a Woman’s Self-Development? 1555RUDYARD KIPLING 1556If 1556MATTHEW ARNOLD 1557Illustration: Matthew Arnold and his wife Frances Wightman Arnold 1557Isolation. To Marguerite 1560To Marguerite–Continued 1561Dover Beach 1562RESPONSEAnthony Hecht: The Dover Bitch 1563hLines Written in Kensington Gardens 1564The Buried Life 1565Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse 1567The Scholar-Gipsy 1572East London 1578West London 1579Thyrsis 1579from The Function of Criticism at the Present Time 1585from Culture and Anarchy 1595from Sweetness and Light 1595from Doing as One Likes 1597from Hebraism and Hellenism 1600from Porro Unum Est Necessarium 1601from Conclusion 1603from The Study of Poetry 1604DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI 1611The Blessed Damozel 1612The Woodspurge 1615The House of Life 1616The Sonnet 16164. Lovesight 16166. The Kiss 1617Nuptial Sleep 1617The Burden of Nineveh 1618Jenny 1622RESPONSESAugusta Webster: from A Castaway 1633Thomas Hardy: The Ruined Maid 1642 hCHRISTINA ROSSETTI 1642Song (“She sat and sang alway”) 1644Song (“When I am dead, my dearest”) 1644Remember 1645After Death 1645A Pause 1645Echo 1646Dead Before Death 1646Cobwebs 1647A Triad 1647In an Artist’s Studio 1647A Birthday 1648An Apple-Gathering 1648Winter: My Secret 1649Up-Hill 1650Goblin Market 1650Illustration: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, frontispiece to Goblin Market 1651“No, Thank You, John” 1663Promises Like Pie-Crust 1664In Progress 1664What Would I Give? 1665A Life’s Parallels 1665Later Life 166517 (“Something this foggy day, a something which”) 1665Sleeping at Last 1666WILLIAM MORRIS 1666The Defence of Guenevere 1667The Haystack in the Floods 1675from The Beauty of Life 1679ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE 1684The Leper 1685The Triumph of Time 1689I Will Go Back to the Great Sweet Mother 1689Hymn to Proserpine 1690A Forsaken Garden (Web)WALTER PATER 1693from The Renaissance 1694Preface 1694from Leonardo da Vinci 1697Conclusion 1698from The Child in the House (Web)GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS 1701God’s Grandeur 1702The Starlight Night 1703Spring 1703The Windhover 1704Pied Beauty 1704Hurrahing in Harvest 1705Binsey Poplars 1705Duns Scotus’s Oxford 1706Felix Randal 1706Spring and Fall: to a young child 1707As Kingfishers Catch Fire 1707[Carrion Comfort] 1708No Worst, There Is None 1708I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark, Not Day 1708That Nature Is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of the Resurrection 1709Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord 1710from Journal [On “Inscape” and “Instress”] 1710from Letter to R. W. Dixon [On Sprung Rhythm] 1712LEWIS CARROLL 1713from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland 1715Chapter 1. Down the Rabbit-Hole 1715from Chapter 2. The Pool of Tears 1718Illustration: John Tenniel, illustration to Alice in Wonderland, 1865 1719You are old, Father William 1720The Lobster-Quadrille 1721from Through the Looking Glass 1721Child of the pure unclouded brow (Web)Jabberwocky 1721[Humpty Dumpty on Jabberwocky] 1722The Walrus and the Carpenter 1723The White Knight’s Song (Web)PERSPECTIVESImagining Childhood (Web)CHARLES DARWIN (Web)from A Biographical Sketch of an Infant (Web)MORAL VERSES (Web)Table Rules for Little Folks (Web)Eliza Cook: The Mouse and the Cake (Web)Heinrich Hoffmann: The Story of Augustus who would Not have any Soup (Web)Thomas Miller: The Watercress Seller (Web)William Miller: Willie Winkie (Web)EDWARD LEAR (Web)[Selected Limericks] (Web)The Owl and the Pussy-Cat (Web)The Jumblies (Web)How pleasant to know Mr. Lear! (Web)CHRISTINA ROSSETTI (Web)from Sing-Song: A Nursery Rhyme Book (Web)ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (Web)from A Child’s Garden of Verses (Web)HILAIRE BELLOC (Web)from The Bad Child’s Book of Beasts (Web)from Cautionary Tales for Children (Web)DAISY ASHFORD (Web)from The Young Visiters; or, Mr Salteena’s Plan (Web)RUDYARD KIPLING 1726Without Benefit of Clergy 1728from JUST SO STORIES (Web)How the Whale Got His Throat (Web)How the Camel Got His Hump (Web)How the Leopard Got His Spots (Web)Gunga Din 1742The Widow at Windsor 1744Recessional 1745PERSPECTIVESTravel and Empire 1746Illustration: Daylight at Last! 1746FRANCES TROLLOPE 1748from Domestic Manners of the Americans 1748THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY 1753from Minute on Indian Education 1754WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE 1758from Our Colonies 1758BENJAMIN DISRAELI 1759Illustration: New Crowns for Old 1760from Conservative and Liberal Principles 1760ALEXANDER WILLIAM KINGLAKE (Web)from Eothen (Web)SIR RICHARD FRANCIS BURTON (Web)from A Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah (Web)ISABELLA BIRD (Web)from A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains (Web)SIR HENRY MORTON STANLEY 1762from Through the Dark Continent 1762MARY KINGSLEY 1769from Travels in West Africa 1769RUDYARD KIPLING 1776The White Man’s Burden 1777ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON 1778The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde 1780OSCAR WILDE 1818Illustration: Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas, 1893 1820Impression du Matin 1821RESPONSELord Alfred Douglas: Impression de Nuit 1822hThe Harlot’s House 1822Symphony in Yellow 1823from The Decay of Lying (Web)from The Soul of Man Under Socialism 1824Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray 1828The Importance of Being Earnest 1829Aphorisms 1870from De Profundis 1872COMPANION READINGH. Montgomery Hyde: from The Trials of Oscar Wilde 1879hPERSPECTIVESAestheticism, Decadence, and the Fin de Siècle 1885Illustration: Aubrey Beardsley, J’ai baisé ta bouche, Iokanaan 1886Illustration: George Du Maurier, The Six-Mark Tea-Pot 1887W. S. GILBERT 1888If You’re Anxious for to Shine in the High Aesthetic Line 1889JAMES ABBOTT MCNEILL WHISTLER 1890from Mr. Whistler’s “Ten O’Clock” 1891“MICHAEL FIELD” (KATHARINE BRADLEY AND EDITH COOPER) 1895La Gioconda 1896A Pen-Drawing of Leda 1896“A Girl” 1897ADA LEVERSON 1897Suggestion 1898ARTHUR SYMONS 1903Pastel 1903White Heliotrope 1904from The Decadent Movement in Literature 1904from Preface to Silhouettes 1906RICHARD LE GALLIENNE 1907A Ballad of London 1907LIONEL JOHNSON 1908The Destroyer of a Soul 1909The Dark Angel 1909A Decadent’s Lyric 1911LORD ALFRED DOUGLAS 1911In Praise of Shame 1912Two Loves 1912OLIVE CUSTANCE (LADY ALFRED DOUGLAS) 1914The Masquerade 1915Statues 1915The White Witch 1916The Twentieth Century and BeyondIllustration: Richard Nevinson, The Arrival, 1913—1914 1918THE TWENTIETH CENTURY AND BEYOND AT A GLANCE 1919INTRODUCTION 1923BEYOND THE PALE 1923BURYING VICTORIA 1924THE FOUNDATIONS OF MODERN SKEPTICISM 1925REVOLUTIONS OF STYLE 1928Illustration: Soldiers of the 9th Cameronians division near Arras, France, 24March 1917 1929MODERNISM AND THE MODERN CITY 1932Illustration: Archibald Hatrick, A Lift Girl, 1916 1933PLOTTING THE SELF 1934THE RETURN OF THE REPRESSED 1935Illustration: Poster for the Wembley Exhibition, 1925 1937WORLD WAR I I AND ITS AFTERMATH 1938Illustration: London during the Blitz 1939Color Plate 21: The British Empire Stretched ThinColor Plate 22: Vera Willoughby, General JoyColor Plate 23: Charles Ginner, Piccadilly CircusColor Plate 24: Anna Airy, Shop for Machining 15-inch ShellsColor Plate 25: Sir William Orpen, Ready to StartColor Plate 26: Vanessa Bell, The TubColor Plate 27: Sir John Lavery, Lady Lavery as Kathleen Ni HoulihanColor Plate 28: Stanley Spencer, Shipbuilding on the Clyde: FurnacesColor Plate 29: Gilbert and George, Death Hope Life FearColor Plate 30: Francis Bacon, Study after VelasquezColor Plate 31: Richard Hamilton, Just What Is It That Makes Today’s HomesSo Different, So Appealing?Color Plate 32: Chris Ofili, No Woman, No CryIllustration: The Beatles preparing for a television broadcast, c. 1963 1944LANGUAGE AND IDENTITY 1946JOSEPH CONRAD 1949Illustration: Joseph Conrad 1949Preface to The Nigger of the “Narcissus” 1952Heart of Darkness 1954* “HEART OF DARKNESS” AND ITS TIMEJoseph Conrad: from Congo Diary 2010Sir Henry Morton Stanley: from Address to the Manchester Chamber ofCommerce 2012 *RESPONSESChinua Achebe: An Image of Africa 2016Gang of Four: We Live As We Dream, Alone 2025hBERNARD SHAW 2026Preface: A Professor of Phonetics 2029Pygmalion 2032THOMAS HARDY 2096Hap 2098Neutral Tones 2098Wessex Heights 2099The Darkling Thrush 2099On the Departure Platform 2100The Dead Man Walking 2101A Wife and Another 2102To Sincerity 2103The Convergence of the Twain 2104At Castle Boterel 2105Channel Firing 2106In Time of “The Breaking of Nations” 2107I Looked Up from My Writing 2107“And There Was a Great Calm” 2108Logs on the Hearth 2109The Photograph 2110The Fallow Deer at the Lonely House 2110Afterwards 2111Epitaph 2111J. M. SYNGE (Web)The Playboy of the Western World (Web)PERSPECTIVESThe Great War: Confronting the Modern 2112ALYS FANE TROTTER 2112The Hospital Visitor 2112CICELY HAMILTON 2113Non-Combatant 2113BLAST 2114Illustration: Wyndham Lewis, The Creditors, 1912—1913 2115Vorticist Manifesto 2116SIGFRIED SASSOON 2130Glory of Women 2131“They” 2131The Rear-Guard 2131Everyone Sang 2132PAULINE BARRINGTON 2132“Education” 2132HELEN DIRCKS 2133After Bourlon Wood 2133RUPERT BROOKE 2134The Great Lover 2135The Soldier 2136TERESA HOOLEY 2137A War Film 2137ISAAC ROSENBERG 2138Break of Day in the Trenches 2138Dead Man’s Dump 2139REBECCA WEST 2141Indissoluble Matrimony 2141WILFRED OWEN 2157Anthem for Doomed Youth 2158Strange Meeting 2158Disabled 2159Dulce et Decorum Est 2160MAY WEDDERBURN CANNAN 2161Lamplight 2161Rouen 2162SPEECHES ON IRISH INDEPENDENCE 2163Illustration: Jack B. Yeats, The Felons of Our Land, 1910 2164Wolf Tone (Web)Court-Martial Speech, November 10, 1798 (Web)Robert Emmett (Web)The Speech from the Dock (Web)Daniel O’Connell (Web)Speech to House of Commons, February 4, 1836 (Web)William Gladstone (Web)A speech by William Ewart Gladstone MP, British Prime Minister, to the Houseof Commons on Home Rule for Ireland, given on 7 June 1886 (Web)Charles Stewart Parnell 2165At Limerick 2165Before the House of Commons 2166At Portsmouth, After the Defeat of Mr. Gladstone’s Home Rule Bill 2167In Committee Room No. 15 2168Proclamation of the Irish Republic 2169Padraic Pearse 2170Kilmainham Prison 2170Michael Collins 2171The Substance of Freedom 2171WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS 2174Illustration: William Butler Yeats 2174The Lake Isle of Innisfree 2177Who Goes with Fergus? 2178No Second Troy 2178The Fascination of What’s Difficult 2178September 1913 2179The Wild Swans at Coole 2180An Irish Airman Foresees His Death 2180Easter 1916 2181The Second Coming 2183A Prayer for My Daughter 2183Sailing to Byzantium 2185Meditations in Time of Civil War 2186Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen 2191Leda and the Swan 2194Among School Children 2195Byzantium 2197Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop 2198Lapis Lazuli 2198The Circus Animals’ Desertion 2200Under Ben Bulben 2201E. M. FORSTER 2203The Life to Come 2204JAMES JOYCE 2215Illustration: Man Ray, Portrait of James Joyce, 1922 2215Illustration: Photo of Sackville Street (now O’Connell Street), Dublin, withview of Nelson’s Pillar 2217DUBLINERS 2218Araby 2218Eveline 2222Clay 2225The Dead 2229Ulysses 2257[Chapter 13. “Nausicaa”] 2257RESPONSESHon. John M. Woolsey: 1933 Decision of the United States DistrictCourt Lifting the Ban on Ulysses 2279Seamus Heaney: from Station Island 2283hT. S. ELIOT 2284Illustration: T. S. Eliot 2284The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock 2287RESPONSESArthur Waugh: [Cleverness and the New Poetry] 2291Ezra Pound: Drunken Helots and Mr. Eliot 2293hGerontion 2295The Waste Land 2297RESPONSESFadwa Tuqan: In the Aging City 2310Martin Rowson: from The Waste Land 2312hThe Hollow Men 2318Journey of the Magi 2320Four Quartets 2321Burnt Norton 2321Tradition and the Individual Talent 2326VIRGINIA WOOLF 2331Illustration: Virginia Woolf 2331Illustration: Virginia Woolf and T. S. Eliot 2333The Lady in the Looking-Glass: A Reflection 2334Mrs Dalloway 2338Illustration: View of Regent Street, London, 1927 2349RESPONSESigrid Nunez: On Rereading Mrs. Dalloway 2437hfrom A Room of One’s Own 2442KATHERINE MANSFIELD 2478The Daughters of the Late Colonel 2478D. H. LAWRENCE 2491Piano 2494Song of a Man Who Has Come Through 2494Tortoise Shout 2494Snake 2497Bavarian Gentians 2499Cypresses 2499Odour of Chrysanthemums 2501Surgery for the Novel–or a Bomb 2514P. G. WODEHOUSE (Web)The Clicking of Cuthbert (Web)GRAHAM GREENE 2517A Chance for Mr Lever 2517PERSPECTIVESWorld War II and the End of Empire 2527SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL 2528Illustration: Winston Churchill, June 1943 2529Two Speeches Before the House of Commons 2529STEPHEN SPENDER 2536Icarus 2537What I Expected 2537The Express 2538The Pylons 2538ELIZABETH BOWEN 2539Mysterious Kôr 2540EVELYN WAUGH 2549The Man Who Liked Dickens 2550Cruise 2559RESPONSEMonty Python: Travel Agent 2563hGEORGE ORWELL 2566Shooting an Elephant 2567DYLAN THOMAS 2572The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives theFlower 2573Fern Hill 2574Poem in October 2575Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night 2576SAMUEL BECKETT 2577Illustration: Samuel Beckett 2577Endgame 2579POSTWAR ENGLISH VOICES 2614W. H. AUDEN 2614“Sir, no man’s enemy, forgiving all” 2615Lullaby 2616Spain 2617September 1, 1939 2619Musée des Beaux Arts 2621In Memory of W. B. Yeats 2622Law Like Love 2624In Memory of Sigmund Freud 2625The Hidden Law 2628In Praise of Limestone 2628PHILIP LARKIN 2631Church Going 2631The Importance of Elsewhere 2633MCMXIV 2633Talking in Bed 2634High Windows 2635Annus Mirabilis 2635Homage to a Government 2636Aubade 2636THOM GUNN 2637Lines for a Book 2638Elvis Presley 2639A Map of the City 2639Black Jackets 2640From the Wave 2640The Hug 2641Patch Work 2642The Missing 2642TED HUGHES 2643Wind 2644Relic 2645Theology 2645Dust As We Are 2645Leaf Mould 2646Telegraph Wires 2647CAROL ANN DUFFY 2648Originally 2648Translating the English, 1989 2649Little Red-Cap 2650Elvis’s Twin Sister 2651The Diet 2652Anon 2653NADINE GORDIMER 2654What Were You Dreaming? 2655DEREK WALCOTT 2661A Far Cry from Africa 2662Volcano 2662Wales 2663The Fortunate Traveller 2664Midsummer 266950 (“I once gave my daughters, separately, two conch shells”) 266952 (“I heard them marching the leaf-wet roads of my head”) 266954 (“The midsummer sea, the hot pitch road, this grass, these shacksthat made me”) 2670V. S. NAIPAUL 2671In a Free State 2672Prologue, from a Journal: The Tramp at Piraeus 2672Epilogue, from a Journal: The Circus at Luxor 2679TOM STOPPARD 2684The Invention of Love 2685SEAMUS HEANEY 2739Personal Helicon 2740Requiem for the Croppies 2740Punishment 2740Act of Union 2742The Skunk 2742The Toome Road 2743The Singer’s House 2744In Memorium Francis Ledwidge 2745Postscript 2746A Call 2746The Errand 2747The Gaeltacht 2747SALMAN RUSHDIE 2748Illustration: Salman Rushdie 2748Chekov and Zulu 2749The Courter 2758PERSPECTIVESWhose Language? 2772NG~UG~I WA THIONG’O 2773Decolonizing the Mind 2774Native African Languages 2774EAVAN BOLAND 2777Anorexic 2778Mise Eire 2780The Pomegranate 2781A Woman Painted on a Leaf 2782PAUL MULDOON 2783Cuba 2783Aisling 2784Meeting the British 2784Sleeve Notes 2785NUALA NÍ DHOMHNAILL 2791Feeding a Child 2792Parthenogenesis 2793Labasheedy (The Silken Bed) 2795As for the Quince 2796Why I Choose to Write in Irish, The Corpse That Sits Up and Talks Back 2797GWYNETH LEWIS 2805Therapy 2805Mother Tongue 2806ROBERT CRAWFORD 2807The Saltcoats Structuralists 2807Alba Einstein 2808W. N. HERBERT 2809Cabaret McGonagall 2809Smirr 2812CONTEMPORARY BRITISH FICTION 2812ALAN MOORE AND DAVID LLOYD 2812from V for Vendetta 2813HANIF KUREISHI 2836Something to Tell You 2836NICK HORNBY 2847from Speaking with the Angel 2848ZADIE SMITH 2861Martha, Martha 2862 Credits 2873Index 2879