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Preface
Acknowledgments
THE AGE OF ROMANTICISM
Introduction to the Age of Romanticism
- Political Parties and Royal Allegiances
- Imperial Expansion
- Scotland, Ireland, Wales
- The Romantic Mind and Its Literary Productions
- The Business of Literature
- “Romantic”
- A Changing Language
History of the Language and of Print Culture
ANNA LAETITIA BARBAULD
- The Mouse’s Petition
- Summer Evening’s Meditation
- The Groans of the Tankard
- To the Poor
- Washing Day
- Eighteen Hundred and Eleven, A Poem
- On the Death of the Princess Charlotte
- To a Little Invisible Being Who Is Expected Soon to Become Visible
- Life
- The Rights of Woman
- The Baby-House
- The First Fire, October 1st 1815
- The Caterpillar
CHARLOTTE SMITH
- from Elegiac Sonnets
- 1 (“The partial Muse, has from my earliest hours”)
- 2 Written at the Close of Spring
- 11 To Sleep
- 39 To Night
- 44 Written in the Church-yard at Middleton in Sussex
- 59 Written September 1791
- 70 On being cautioned against walking on an headland overlooking the sea
- 74 The Winter Night
- 84 To the Muse
- Beachy Head
CONTEXTS: THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
- from Richard Price, A Discourse on the Love of Our Country
- from Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
- from Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Men
- from Thomas Paine, Rights of Man
- from William Godwin, An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice
- from Book 4: Miscellaneous Principles
- from Chapter 2: Of Revolutions
- Section 1: Duties of a Citizen
- Section 2: Mode of Effecting Revolution
- from Book 8: Of Property
- from Chapter 8: Of the Means of Introducing the Genuine System of Property
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Letter to Charles Heath (29 August 1794)
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Pantisocracy”
- Robert Southey, “On the Prospect of Establishing a Pantisocracy in America”
- from Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Once a Jacobin Always a Jacobin”
- Thomas Spence, “The Rights of Man for Me: A Song”
- from George Walker, The Vagabond
CONTENTS: THE NAPOLEONIC ERA
- from Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne, Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte
- from Chapter 18: 1799
- from Chapter 22: 1799
- from Chapter 28: 1800
- from Barry Edmund O’Meara, Letter to Sir Hudson Lowe (28 January 1817)
- from Madame (Germaine) de Staël, Considerations of the Principal Events of the French Revolution
- from Chapter 4: The Advance of Bonaparte’s Absolute Power
- from Chapter 8: On Exile
- from Chapter 13: Bonaparte’s Return
- from Chapter 19: Intoxication of Power; Bonaparte’s Reverses and Abdication
- from The Corsican: A Diary of Napoleon’s Life in His Own Words
- Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Feelings of a Republican on the Fall of Bonaparte”
- from Thomas Babington Macaulay, “Hallam’s Constitutional History”
GEORGE CRABBE
- from The Borough
- The Poor of the Borough: Peter Grimes
- Arabella
WILLIAM BLAKE
- from Songs of Innocence and of Experience
- from Songs of Innocence
- Introduction
- The Shepherd
- The Ecchoing Green
- The Lamb
- The Little Black Boy
- The Chimney Sweeper
- The Little Boy Lost
- The Little Boy Found
- The Divine Image
- Holy Thursday
- Nurse’s Song
- Infant Joy
- A Dream
- IN CONTEXT: Charles Lamb, The Praise of Chimney-Sweepers
- from Songs of Experience
- Introduction
- The Clod & the Pebble
- Holy Thursday
- The Chimney Sweeper
- The Sick Rose
- The Fly
- The Tyger
- Ah! Sun-Flower
- The Garden of Love
- London
- The Human Abstract
- Infant Sorrow
- A Poison Tree
- A Little Boy Lost
- A Little Girl Lost
- A Divine Image
- Songs of Innocence and of Experience
- America
- IN CONTEXT: “A Most Extraordinary Man”
- from Charles Lamb, Letter to Bernard Barton, 15 May 1824
- from John Thomas Smith, Nollekens and His Times
- The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
- A Song of Liberty
MARY ROBINSON
- January, 1795
- from Sappho and Phaon
- Sonnet 4 (“Why, when I gaze on Phaon’s beauteous eyes”)
- Sonnet 12 (“Now, o’er the tessellated pavement strew”)
- Sonnet 18 (“Why art thou chang’d? O Phaon! tell me why?”)
- Sonnet 30 (“O’er the tall cliff that bounds the billowy main”)
- Sonnet 37 (“When, in the gloomy mansion of the dead”)
- The Haunted Beach
- All Alone
- London’s Summer Morning
- from A Letter to the Women of England
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT
- from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
- Introduction
- Chapter 2: The Prevailing Opinion of a Sexual Character Discussed
- from Chapter 3: The Same Subject Continued
- IN CONTEXT: Contemporary Reviews of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
- from The Analytical Review (1792)
- from The Critical Review (1792)
- from Maria; or The Wrongs of Woman
- IN CONTEXT: Mary Wollstonecraft’s Biography
- from William Godwin, Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman
CONTEXTS: WOMEN AND SOCIETY
- from William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England
- from Book 1, Chapter 15: Of Husband and Wife
- from Catharine Macaulay, Letters on Education
- from Letter 21: Morals Must Be Taught on Immutable Principles
- from Letter 22: No Characteristic Difference in Sex
- from Olympe de Gouges, The Rights of Woman
- from Maria Edgeworth and Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Practical Education
- from Prudence and Economy
- from Priscilla Wakefield, Reflections on the Present Condition of the Female Sex; With Suggestions for Its Improvement
- from Chapter 3133
- from Chapter 6133
- from Richard Polwhele, “The Unsexed Females: A Poem, Addressed to the Author of The Pursuits of Literature”
- from Hannah More, Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education
- from Volume 1, Chapter 4: Comparison of the Mode of Female Education in the Last Age with the Present Age
- from Volume 1, Chapter 6: On the Early Forming of Habits. On the Necessity of Forming the Judgment to Direct Those Habits
- from William Thompson and Anna Wheeler, Appeal of One Half the Human Race, Women, Against the Pretensions of the Other Half, Men, to Retain Them in Political, and Thence in Civil and Domestic Slavery
- from Introductory Letter to Mrs. Wheeler
- from Part 2
ROBERT BURNS
- To a Mouse, On Turning Her Up in Her Nest with the Plough
- The Fornicator
- Halloween
- Address to the De’il
- Flow gently, sweet Afton
- Ae Fond Kiss
- Robert Bruce’s March to Bannockburn
- A Man’s a Man for A’ That
- Comin’ thro’ the Rye
- A Red, Red Rose
- Auld Lang Syne
- Love and Liberty. A Cantata
CONTEXTS: GOTHIC LITERATURE 1764-1830
- from Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
- Strawberry Hill and Fonthill Abbey
- from Anna Laetitia Aikin (later Barbauld) and John Aikin, “On the Pleasure Derived from Objects of Terror; with Sir Bertrand, a Fragment”
- from Clara Reeve, The Old English Baron: A Gothic Story
- from William Beckford, Vathek
- from Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho, a Romance
- from Volume 2, Chapter 5
- from Volume 2, Chapter 6
- from Volume 3, Chapter 1
- from Volume 3, Chapter 17
- from Matthew Gregory Lewis, The Monk: A Romance
- Gothic Chapbooks and Bluebooks
- from Anonymous, “Terrorist Novel Writing,” The Spirit of the Public Journals
- from Charlotte Dacre, Zofloya; Or, the Moor
- from Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
- from Chapter 6
- from Chapter 21
- Chapter 22
- from Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer
- from George Gordon, Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto 16
- from Ann Radcliffe, “On the Supernatural in Poetry”.
WILLIAM TAYLOR
MARIA EDGEWORTH
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
- from Lyrical Ballads, 1798
- Advertisement
- We Are Seven
- Lines Written in Early Spring
- The Thorn
- Expostulation and Reply
- The Tables Turned
- Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey
- from Lyrical Ballads, 1800, 1802
- from Preface
- [There was a Boy]
- [Strange fits of passion I have known]
- Song [She dwelt among th’untrodden ways]
- [A slumber did my spirit seal]
- Lucy Gray
- Nutting
- Michael, A Pastoral Poem
- The Ruined Cottage (Manuscript D)
- [I griev’d for Buonaparté]
- [My heart leaps up]
- Ode to Duty
- Resolution and Independence
- Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1803
- [The world is too much with us]
- [It is a beauteous Evening]
- London, 1802
- The Solitary Reaper
- IN CONTEXT: “I wandered lonely as a Cloud”: Stages in the Life of a Poem
- from Dorothy Wordsworth, Grasmere Journal (15 April 1802)
- [I wandered lonely as a Cloud] 1807
- [I wandered lonely as a Cloud] facsimile
- [I wandered lonely as a cloud] transcription
- [I wandered lonely as a cloud] 1815
- Elegiac Stanzas
- Ode [Intimations of Immortality]
- from The Excursion
- [Prospectus to The Recluse]
- from Book First: The Wanderer [The Ruined Cottage]
- Surprised by Joy
- Mutability
- Steamboats, Viaducts, and Railways
- IN CONTEXT: Visual Depictions of “Man’s Art”
- The Prelude
- The Two-Part Prelude (1799)
- from The Fourteen-Book Prelude
- Book First: Introduction, Childhood, and School-time
- from Book Fifth: Books
- from Book Sixth: Cambridge and the Alps
- from Book Thirteenth: Subject Concluded
- Book Fourteenth: Conclusion
CONTEXTS: READING, WRITING, PUBLISHING
- from Daniel Isaac Eaton, The Pernicious Effects of the Art of Printing upon Society, Exposed
- Thomas Spence, “Examples of Safe Printing,” from Pig’s Meat (1794)
- Joshua, “Sonnet: The Lion,” from Moral and Political Magazine (1796)
- from Anonymous, “On the Characteristics of Poetry,” No. 2, from the Monthly Magazine (1797)
- from Anonymous, Letter to the Monthly Magazine, 24 October 1798
- from Samuel Pratt, Gleanings in England: Descriptive of the Countenance, Mind, and Character of the Country
- from Hannah More, Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education
- from Chapter 8: “On Female Study”
- Anna Laetitia Barbauld, “On the Origin and Progress of Novel-Writing”
- from Isaac D’Israeli, The Case of Authors Stated, Including the History of Literary Property
- William Hazlitt, “A Review of The St. James Chronicle, The Morning Chronicle, The Times, The New Times, The Courier, &c., Cobbett’s Weekly Journal, The Examiner, The Observer, The Gentleman’s Magazine, The New Monthly Magazine, The London, &c. &c.,” from The Edinburgh Review (1823)
- from John Stuart Mill, “The Present State of Literature”
- Shakespeare for Family Reading
- from Charles and Mary Lamb, Tales from Shakespeare
- from an Advertisement in The Times for Thomas Bowdler’s The Family Shakespeare
- Copyright and the Growth of “a Reading Age”
- from Copyright Act of 1709 (the Statute of Anne)
- from Millar v. Taylor (1769)
- from Hinton v. Donaldson (Scotland, 1773); Donaldson v. Beckett (England, 1774)
- from Catharine Macaulay, A Modest Plea for the Property of Copyright
- from Robert Southey, “Inquiries Concerning the Proposed Alteration of the Laws of Copyright, as It Affects Authors and the Universities,” Quarterly Review (January 1819)
- from Thomas Babington Macaulay, Speech to House of Commons, (5 February 1841)
SIR WALTER SCOTT
- The Eve of St. John
- Glenfinlas; or Lord Ronald’s Coronach
- from Thomas the Rhymer
- Proud Maisie
- IN CONTEXT: Scott and The Keepsake for 1829
- My Aunt Margaret’s Mirror
DOROTHY WORDSWORTH
- from The Grasmere Journal
- Grasmere—A Fragment
- Floating Island
- Thoughts on My Sick-bed
CONTEXTS: THE NATURAL AND THE SUBLIME
-
- from Dionysius Longinus, On the Sublime
- from Section 1
- from Section 8
- from Joseph Addison, “The Pleasures of the Imagination”
- from The Spectator, No. 411 (21 June 1712)
- from The Spectator, No. 412 (23 June 1712)
- from The Spectator, No. 413 (24 June 1712)
- from The Spectator, No. 414 (25 June 1712)
- from The Spectator, No. 420 (2 July 1712)
- from Sir Jonathan Richardson the Elder, An Essay on the Theory of Painting
- from David Hartley, Observations on Man
- Of the Pleasures and Pains of Imagination
- Of the Pleasures Arising from the Beauty of the Natural World
- Of the Beauties of the Works of Art
- from Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language
- from Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
- from Part 1
- from Part 1
- from Part 2
- from Part 3
- from Part 4
- from Part 5
- from Immanuel Kant, Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime
- from Section 1: Of the Distinct Objects of the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime
- from Section 4: Of National Characteristics, So Far as They Depend upon the Distinct Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime
from Sir William Chambers, A Dissertation on Oriental Gardening
- from Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Men
- from Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Men
- from Mary Wollstonecraft, Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark
- from Helen Maria Williams, Letters Written in France
- Letter 2
- Letter 9
- Letter 10
- Letter 26
- from Helen Maria Williams, A Tour in Switzerland
- from Chapter 4
- from Chapter 11
- from Chapter 40
- from William Gilpin, Three Essays on Picturesque Beauty
- from Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
- from Volume 1, from Chapter 18
- Painting the Natural and the Sublime
- from Sir Uvedale Price, An Essay on the Picturesque, as Compared with the Sublime and the Beautiful; and On the Use of Studying Pictures
- from Chapter 4
- from Chapter 5
- from Richard Payne Knight, An Analytical Inquiry in the Principles of Taste
- from John Ruskin, Modern Painters, Volume 1
- Section 1, Chapter 6: “Of Ideas of Beauty”
- Section 2, Chapter 3: “Of the Sublime”
CONTEXTS: THE PLACE OF HUMAN AND NON-HUMAN ANIMALS IN NATURE
- from William Godwin, Fleetwood: or, the New Man of Feeling
- from John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning Education, Section 116
- from William Hogarth, The Four Stages of Cruelty
- from Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Lessons for Children
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “To a Young Ass, Its Mother Being Tethered Near It”
- Percy Bysshe Shelley, A Vindication of Natural Diet
- from “An Act to Prevent the Cruel and Improper Treatment of Cattle”
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
- The Eolian Harp
- Fears in Solitude
- Frost at Midnight
- from The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere, in Seven Parts (1798)
- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. In Seven Parts (1817)
- IN CONTEXT The Origin of “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
- from Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria, Chapter 14
- from A Letter from the Reverend Alexander Dyce to Hartley Coleridge
- This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison
- Christabel
- Dejection: An Ode
- Phantom
- Kubla Khan, Or, A Vision in a Dream. A Fragment
- Limbo
- Work without Hope
- Epitaph
- On Donne’s Poetry
- from Lectures and Notes on Literature
- [Definition of Poetry]
- [Mechanic vs. Organic Form]
- from Biographia Literaria
- from Chapter 1
- Reception of the Author’s First Publication
- The Effect of Contemporary Writers on Youthful Minds
- Bowles’s Sonnets
- from Chapter 4: Mr. Wordsworth’s Earlier Poems
- from Chapter 11: An affectionate exortation to those who in early life feel themselves disposed to become authors
- from Chapter 13: On the Imagination, or Esemplastic Power
- Chapter 14: Occasion of the Lyrical Ballads
- from Chapter 17: Examination of the Tenets Peculiar to Mr. Wordsworth
from Table Talk
- [On Various Shakespearean Characters]
- [The Ancient Mariner]
- [On Borrowing]
- [On Metre]
- [On Women]
- [On Corrupt Language]
- [On Milton]
- [The Three Most Perfect Plots]
CONTEXTS: INDIA AND THE ORIENT
- from Sir William Jones, “A Discourse on the Institution of a Society for Inquiring into the History, Civil and Natural, the Antiquities, Arts, Sciences and Literature of Asia”
- Edmund Burke and the Impeachment of Warren Hastings
- from Edmund Burke, “Speech on the Impeachment of Warren Hastings”
- from Warren Hastings, “Address in His Defence”
- from Elizabeth Hamilton, Translations of the Letters of a Hindoo Rajah
- from Anonymous, “Review of Translations of the Letters of a Hindoo Rajah,” The Analytical Review (October 1796)
- Tipu Sultan and the British
- from Letter from Tipu Sultan to the Governor General
- from Declaration of the Right Honourable the Governor-General-in-Council
- from Mary Robinson, “The Lascar”
- from Thomas Macaulay, Minute on Indian Education
- Roger Fenton, Orientalist Studies
- from Col. Henry Yule and A.C. Burnell, Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical, and Discursive
JANE AUSTEN
- Lady Susan
- from Pride and Prejudice
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- IN CONTEXT: Austen’s Letters
- [Note to Instructors: Pride and Prejudice is among over 400 available editions from Broadview, any one of which may be packaged together with this anthology volume at no extra cost to students.]
CHARLES LAMB
- Old China
- from On the Tragedies of Shakespeare, Considered with Reference to Their Fitness for Stage Representation
WILLIAM HAZLITT
- from The Spirit of the Age; or Contemporary Portraits
- Mr. Coleridge
- Mr. Wordsworth
SYDNEY OWENSON, LADY MORGAN
- from The O’Briens and the O’Flahertys
- from Volume 1, Chapter 5
- from Volume 4, Chapter 4
THOMAS DE QUINCEY
- from Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
- To the Reader
- Preliminary Confessions
- from Part 2
- The Pleasures of Opium
- Introduction to the Pains of Opium
- The Pains of Opium
- Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
- from Suspira de Profundis
- Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow
- The Apparition of the Brocken
- from The Poetry of Pope
- Literature of Knowledge and Literature of Power
MARY PRINCE
- The History of Mary Prince, A West Indian Slave: Related by Herself
- IN CONTEXT: Mary Prince and Slavery
- Mary Prince’s Petition Presented to Parliament on 24 June 1829
- from Thomas Pringle, Supplement to The History of Mary Prince
- from The Narrative of Ashton Warner
CONTEXTS: SLAVERY AND ITS ABOLITION
- from John Newton, A Slave Trader’s Journal
- from Quobna Ottobah Cugoano, Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil and Wicked Traffic of the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species
- from Alexander Falconbridge, Account of the Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa
- William Cowper, “Sweet Meat Has Sour Sauce, or, The Slave-Trader in the Dumps”
- from William Wilberforce, “Speech to the House of Commons,” 13 May 1789
- Proponents of Slavery
- from Reverend Robert Boncher Nicholls, Observations, Occasioned by the Attempts Made in England to Effect the Abolition of the Slave Trade
- from Anonymous, Thoughts on the Slavery of Negroes, as It Affects the British Colonies in the West Indies: Humbly Submitted to the Consideration of Both Houses of Parliament
- from Gordon Turnbull, An Apology of Negro Slavery; or, the West India Planters Vindicated from the Charge of Inhumanity
- John Bicknell and Thomas Day, “The Dying Negro, A Poem”
- from Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Men
- Anna Laetitia Barbauld, “Epistle to William Wilberforce, Esq., on the Rejection of the Bill for Abolishing the Slave Trade”
- William Blake, Images of Slavery
- from Samuel Taylor Coleridge, On the Slave Trade
- from William Earle, Obi; or, the History of Three-Fingered Jack
- Mary Robinson, Poems on Slavery
- “The African”
- “The Negro Girl”
- from Dorothy Wordsworth, The Grasmere Journal
- from Thomas Clarkson, The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade
- from Matthew Gregory Lewis, Journal of a West India Proprietor
- from Elizabeth Heyrick, Immediate, Not Gradual Abolition
- The Haitian Revolution
- from Baron de Wimpffen, A Voyage to Saint Domingo, in the Years 1788, 1789, and 1790
- from Letter 12, May 1789
- from Letter 23, March 1790
- from “Insurrection at St. Domingo: No. 1: Remarks on the Resolutions of the West-India Merchants and Planters, at the London Tavern, Nov. 3, and 8, 1791,” Star and Evening Advertiser (18 November 1791)
- William Wordsworth, “To Toussaint L’Ouverture”
- from Jean-Jacques Dessalines, “Liberty or Death. Proclamation. Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Governor General, to the People of Hayti”
GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON
- Sun of the Sleepless
- She walks in beauty
- When we two parted
- Stanzas for Music (“There’s not a joy the world can give like that it takes away”)
- from Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
- Canto the Third
- from Canto the Fourth
- Darkness
- Prometheus
- Manfred, A Dramatic Poem
- IN CONTEXT: The Manuscript Version of Manfred, Act 3
- So, we’ll go no more a roving
- When a man hath no freedom to fight for at home
- January 22nd 1824. Missolonghi
- Epistle to Augusta
- from Don Juan
- Dedication
- Canto 1
- Canto 2
- from Canto 3
- from Canto 7
- from Canto 11
- IN CONTEXT Don Juan
- “Remarks on Don Juan,” from Blackwood’s Magazine (August 1819)
- Personal Writings
- To Catherine Gordon Byron, 12 November 1809
- from a letter to Francis Hodgson, 13 September 1811
- To Lady Melbourne, 21 September 1813
- To Lady Byron, 8 February 1816
- To Augusta Leigh, 17 September 1816
- from “Alpine Journal”
- 20 September 1816
- 21 September 1816
- 22 September 1816
- 23 September 1816
- To Augusta Leigh, 19 December 1816
- To Thomas Moore, 19 September 1818
- To Douglas Kinnaird, 26 October 1818 [1819]
- To John Cam Hobhouse, 11 November 1818
- To John Cam Hobhouse, 6 April 1819
- To John Murray, 6 April 1819
- To John Cam Hobhouse, 17 May 1819
- To Richard Belgrave Hoppner, 6 June 1819
- To John Murray, 1 August 1819
- To John Murray, 12 August 1819
- from a letter to John Murray, 16 February 1821
- To Thomas Moore, 4 March 1824
- IN CONTEXT: The Byronic Hero
- from The Giaour: A Fragment of a Turkish Tale
- from The Corsair: A Tale
- from Lara: A Tale
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
- To Wordsworth
- Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude
- Mutability
- Mont Blanc, Lines Written in the Vale of Chamouni
- Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
- Ozymandias
- Ode to the West Wind
- The Cloud
- To a Skylark
- from Prometheus Unbound
- Adonais, An Elegy on the Death of John Keats
- from Hellas
- Chorus (“Worlds on worlds are rolling ever”)
- Chorus (“The world’s great age begins anew”)
- Mutability (“The flower that smiles to-day”)
- Stanzas, Written in Dejection—December 1818, near Naples
- Sonnet [Lift Not the Painted Veil]
- To Night
- To —— (“Music, when soft voices die”)
- The Mask of Anarchy
- Song to the Men of England
- England in 1819
- from A Defence of Poetry
- IN CONTEXT: The Peterloo Massacre
- Robert Shorter, “The Bloody Field of Peterloo! A New Song”
- Anonymous, “A New Song”
- Hibernicus, “Stanzas Occasioned by the Manchester Massacre!”
- Anonymous, “The Peterloo Man”
- from Samuel Bamford, Passages in the Life of a Radical
- from Chapter 28
- from Chapter 35
- from Chapter 36
- from Chapter 39
- from John Tyas, An Account of the Events Leading Up to the Massacre, The Times, 19 August 1819
- IN CONTEXT: Youth and Love
- Letter to T.J. Hogg, 3 January 1811
- Letter to T.J. Hogg, 1811
- Letter to William Godwin, 10 January 1812
- IN CONTEXT Shelley and Keats
- from Letter to the Editor of the Quarterly Review, 1820
- Leigh Hunt on “Mr. Shelley’s New Poem Entitled Adonais
FELICIA HEMANS
- The Homes of England
- The Land of Dreams
- Evening Prayer at a Girls’ School
- Casabianca
- Corinne at the Capitol
- The Effigies
- The Image in Lava
- Properzia Rossi
- Woman and Fame
JOHN CLARE
- Written in November
- [The Lament of Swordy Well]
- Remembrances
- from The Flitting
- The Badger
- Written in a Thunder Storm July 15th 1841
- from Child Harold
- Don Juan A Poem
- Sonnet [I am]
- I Am
- Clock A Clay
- To Mary
- An Invite to Eternity
JOHN KEATS
- On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer
- On the Grasshopper and Cricket
- Sleep and Poetry
- On Seeing the Elgin Marbles
- On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again
- When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be
- Epistle to John Hamilton Reynolds
- To Homer
- The Eve of St. Agnes
- Bright Star
- La Belle Dame sans Merci
- La Belle Dame sans Mercy
- Incipit altera Sonneta
- Ode to Psyche
- Ode to a Nightingale
- Ode on a Grecian Urn
- Ode on Melancholy
- Ode on Indolence
- To Autumn
- Lamia
- The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream
- This Living Hand
- Selected Letters
- To Benjamin Bailey, 22 November 1817
- To George and Thomas Keats, 21, 27(?) December 1817
- To John Hamilton Reynolds, 3 February 1818
- To John Taylor, 27 February 1818
- To Benjamin Bailey, 13 March 1818
- To John Hamilton Reynolds, 3 May 1818
- To Benjamin Bailey, 18 July 1818
- To Richard Woodhouse, 27 October 1818
- To George and Georgiana Keats, 14 February–3 May 1819
- To Fanny Brawne, 25 July 1819
- To Percy Bysshe Shelley, 16 August 1820
- To Charles Brown, 30 November 1820
- IN CONTEXT Politics, Poetry, and the “Cockney School Debate”
- from Leigh Hunt, “Young Poets,” Examiner (1 December 1816)
- from John Lockhart (“Z.”), “On the Cockney School of Poetry, No. 1,”
- Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine (October 1817)
- from John Lockhart (“Z.”), “On the Cockney School of Poetry, No. 4,” Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine (August 1818)
- IN CONTEXT: The Elgin Marbles
- Selected Photographs
- from William Hazlitt, “Sir Joshua Reynold’s Discourses”
- from William Hazlitt, “Report on the Select Committee of the House of Commons on the Elgin Marbles”
- from B.R. Haydon, “On the Judgement of Connoisseurs Being Preferred to That of Professional Men—Elgin Marbles etc.”
- IN CONTEXT: The Death of Keats
- Joseph Severn to Charles Brown, 27 February 1821
JOHN WILLIAM POLIDORI
MARY SHELLEY
- from Frankenstein
- from The Last Man
- IN CONTEXT: The “Last Man” Theme in the Nineteenth Century
- Thomas Campbell, “The Last Man,” New Monthly Magazine (1823)
- from Thomas Campbell’s letter to the editor of the Edinburgh Review, 28 February 1825
- IN CONTEXT: Shelley’s Life and The Last Man
- Selected Letters
- To Thomas Jefferson Hogg, 6 March 1815
- To Thomas Jefferson Hogg, 25 April 1815
- To Maria Gisborne, 2 November 1818
- To Maria Gisborne, c. 3 December 1818
- To Maria Gisborne, 9 April 1819
- To Marianne Hunt, 29 June 1819
- To Maria Gisborne, 2 June 1822
- To Maria Gisborne, 15 August 1822
- Transformation
- The Mortal Immortal
- [Note to Instructors: Frankenstein is among over 400 available editions from Broadview, any one of which may be packaged together with this anthology volume at no extra cost to students.]
LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON
- Lines Written under a Picture of a Girl Burning a Love Letter
- A Child Screening a Dove from a Hawk
- Love’s Last Lesson
- Lines of Life
- Revenge
- The Little Shroud
- The Fairy of the Fountains
CONTEXTS: STEAM POWER AND THE MACHINE AGE
- from Humphrey Davy, A Discourse, Introductory to a Course of Lectures on Chemistry
- Luddite Documents
- Declaration, November 1811
- Letter to Mr. Kirby, Cotton Master at Candis His factory, Ancoates, 1812
- “General Justice,” Letter to Mr. Garside, 19 April 1812
- Industrialization in Canada
- from Quebec Mercury (6 November 1809)
- from Montreal Gazette (6 November 1822)
- from The Times, London (29 November 1814)
- from Robert Owen, Observations on the Effects of the Manufacturing System
- from Thomas Babington Macaulay, A Review of Southey’s Colloquies
- from Fanny Kemble, Letter to H., 26 August 1830
- from Harriet Martineau, A Manchester Strike
- from Chapter 1: The Week’s End
- from Chapter 5: No Progress Made
- from Orestes Brownson, “The Laboring Classes”
- from George Ripley, Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson, 9 November 1840
THE VICTORIAN ERA
INTRODUCTION TO THE VICTORIAN ERA
- A Growing Power
- Grinding Mills, Grinding Poverty
- Corn Laws, Potato Famine
- “The Two Nations”
- The Position of Women
- Empire
- Faith and Doubt
- Victorian Domesticity: Life and Death
- Cultural Trends
- Technology
- Cultural Identities
- Realism
- The Victorian Novel
- Poetry
- Drama
- Prose Non-Fiction and Print Culture
- The English Language in the Victorian Era
History of the Language and of Print Culture
THOMAS CARLYLE
- from Sartor Resartus
- from Book 2
- Chapter 6: Sorrows of Teufelsdröckh
- from Book 3
- Chapter 8: Natural Supernaturalism
- from Past and Present
- from Book 1
- Chapter 1: Midas
- Chapter 6: Hero-Worship
- from Book 3
- Chapter 1: Phenomena
- Chapter 2: Gospel of Mammonism
- from Chapter 13: Democracy
- from Book 4
- Chapter 4: Captains of Industry
IRELAND, SCOTLAND, AND WALES: LITERARY CURRENTS IN THE LONG NINETEENTH CENTURY
- Ireland
- Songs of ’98
- Slievenamon
- Carroll Malone, “The Croppy Boy”
- William Carleton
- from Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry
- from The Black Prophet; A Tale of Irish Famine
- IN CONTEXT: W.B. Yeats, from Introduction to Stories from Carleton
- James Clarence Mangan
- The Woman of Three Cows
- Kathaleen Ny-Houlahan
- Dark Rosaleen
- The Nameless One
- Samuel Ferguson
- Lament for the Death of Thomas Davis
- Dear Dark Head
- Thomas Davis
- Aodh Mac Domhnaill
- Milleadh na bPrátaí / The Spoiling of the Potatoes
- Lady Jane Wilde (Speranza)
- William Allingham
- The Fairies (A Child’s Song)
- Thomas D’Arcy McGee
- The Celts
- Home Thoughts
- The Irish Wife
- Memories
- Emily Lawless
- After Aughrim
- Clare Coast
- To_______, Aged Twenty-Two
- Emigrants
- from A Garden Diary
- John Keegan Casey
- Katharine Tynan
- The Long Vacation
- Herbal
- For Your Sake
- Easter
- Any Woman
- Eva Gore-Booth
- Women’s Rights
- 1916
- Comrades
- Patrick Pearse
- The Mother
- Mise éire / I Am Ireland
- Winifred M. Letts
- Deirdre in the Street
- The Old Wexford Woman
- The Deserter
- Frank O’Connor
- Scotland
- Sir Walter Scott
- John Galt
- from Annals of the Parish: or, The Chronicle of Dalmailing; during the ministry of the Rev. Micah Balwhidder, written by himself
- Janet Hamilton
- Lines on the Summer of the Cattle Plague, 1865
- Rhymes of the Times IV—1865
- Auld Mither Scotlan’
- Effie—A Ballad
- Samuel Smiles
- John A. Macdonald
- from Speech on the Quebec Resolution, 6 February 1865
- Eliza Ogilvy
- A Natal Address to My Child, March 19th 1844
- The Imprecation by the Cradle
- The Portents of the Night
- John Davidson
- Waiting
- from The Testament of an Empire Builder
- Margaret Oliphant
- from A Child’s History of Scotland, Chapter 22: The Union
- Wales
- Felicia Hemans
- The Cambrian in America
- Taliesin’s Prophecy
- The Better Land
- John Blackwell (Alun)
- Cathl i’r Eos / Song to the Nightingale
- Samuel Roberts
- Evan James
- Hen Wlad fy Nhadau / Old Land of My Fathers
- Sarah Jane Rees (Cranogwen)
- O.M. Edwards
- from The Soul of a Nation (Enaid Cenedl)
- Alice Gray Jones (Ceridwen Peris)
- A New Year Greeting—1929
- Song of the Worker’s Wife
- David Lloyd George
- from Speech delivered at the inaugural meeting of the Cardiff branch of the Cymru Fydd League, October 1894
CONTEXTS: IRELAND IN THE LONG NINETEENTH CENTURY
- Oppression, Rebellion, and the Acts of Union
- Letters to The Times Regarding Tithes
- Maria Edgeworth on Ireland and the Irish
- Daniel O’Connell and “Catholic Emancipation”
- Nineteenth-Century Housing in Ireland: A Portfolio of Images
- The Great Irish Famine
- Fenians and Fenianism
- Disestablishment, Home Rule, and “The Coming Revolution”
CONTEXTS: URBAN WORK AND POVERTY
- Anonymous, “The Steam Loom Weaver”
- from Elizabeth Bentley, Testimony before the 1832 Committee on the Labour of Children in Factories
- from Andrew Ure, The Philosophy of Manufactures
- from William Dodd, A Narrative of the Experience and Sufferings of William Dodd, a Factory Cripple, Written by Himself
- from Joseph Adshead, Distress in Manchester
- Chapter 3: Narratives of Suffering
- Thomas Hood, “Song of the Shirt”
- from Friedrich Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844
- from Chapter 3: The Great Towns
- from Reverend Sidney Godolphin Osborne, Letters of S.G.O.
- from Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Barton
- from Charles Dickens, Hard Times
- from Henry Morley, “Ground in the Mill,” Household Words
- from Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, “Boy Crossing-Sweepers and Tumblers”
JOHN STUART MILL
- from The Subjection of Women
CONTEXTS: WOMEN IN SOCIETY
- from Sarah Stickney Ellis, The Daughters of England: Their Position in Society, Character and Responsibilities
- from Anonymous, “Hints on the Modern Governess System,” Fraser’s Magazine
- Thomas Hood, “The Bridge of Sighs”
- from Henry Mayhew, “Labour and the Poor: The Metropolitan Districts,” The Morning Chronicle
- from W.R. Greg, “Prostitution,” Westminster Review
- from Harriet Taylor, The Enfranchisement of Women
- from Coventry Patmore, The Angel in the House
- The Wife’s Tragedy
- The Foreign Land
- from William Rathbone Greg, “Why Are Women Redundant?”
- from Frances Power Cobbe, “What Shall We Do with Our Old Maids?”
- from Eliza Lynn Linton, “The Girl of the Period,” Saturday Review
- from Frances Power Cobbe, “Criminals, Idiots, Women, and Minors,” Fraser’s Magazine
- May Probyn, “The Model”
- from “Between School and Marriage,” The Girl’s Own Paper
- from Emma Brewer, “Our Friends the Servants,” The Girl’s Own Paper
- from Grant Allen, “Plain Words on the Woman Question,” Fortnightly Review
- from Sarah Grand, “The New Aspect of the Woman Question,” North American Review
- from Mona Caird, “Does Marriage Hinder a Woman’s Self-Development?” Lady’s Realm
- The Contagious Diseases Act
- from The Contagious Diseases Act (1866)
- from Harriet Martineau, “The Contagious Diseases Acts – II,” Daily News
- from Josephine Butler, Personal Reminiscences of a Great Crusade
- from Josephine Butler, Some Thoughts on the Present Aspect of the Crusade Against the State Regulation of Vice
- from Sarah Grand, The Beth Book
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
- The Young Queen
- The Cry of the Children
- To George Sand: A Desire
- To George Sand: A Recognition
- A Year’s Spinning
- The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point
- from Sonnets from the Portuguese
- 1 (“I thought once how Theocritus had sung”)
- 7 (“The face of all the world is changed, I think”)
- 13 (“And wilt thou have me fasten into speech”)
- 21 (“Say over again, and yet once over again”)
- 22 (“When our two souls stand up erect and strong”)
- 24 (“Let the world’s sharpness, like a clasping knife”)
- 26 (“I lived with visions for my company”)
- 28 (“My letters! all dead paper, mute and white!”)
- 43 (“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways”)
- from Aurora Leigh
- Book 1
- from Book 2
- from Book 5
- A Curse for a Nation
- A Musical Instrument
- IN CONTEXT: Books on Womanhood
- from Catherine Napier, Woman’s Rights and Duties
- IN CONTEXT: Children in the Mines
- from Richard Hengist Horne, Report of the Children’s Employment Commission
- IN CONTEXT: The Origin of “the Finest Sonnets”
- from Edmund Gosse, Critical Kit-Kats
- IN CONTEXT: Images of George Sand
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON
- Mariana
- The Palace of Art
- The Lady of Shalott
- The Lotos-Eaters
- Ulysses
- The Epic
- Morte d’Arthur
- [Break, break, break]
- Locksley Hall
- from The Princess
- [Sweet and Low]
- [The Splendour Falls]
- [Tears, Idle Tears]
- [Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal]
- [Come Down, O Maid]
- [The Woman’s Cause Is Man’s]
- from In Memoriam A.H.H.
- In Memoriam A.H.H.
- The Eagle
- The Charge of the Light Brigade
- IN CONTEXT: The Charge of the Light Brigade as Reported in The Times
- from “The Attack on Balaklava,” The Times (13 November 1854)
- [from Letter to the Duke of Newcastle from FitzRoy James Henry Somerset, Lord Raglan]
- [from Letter from George Bingham, Lord Lucan]
- from Editorial, The Times (13 November 1854)
- from “The Cavalry Action at Balaclava,” The Times (14 November 1854)
- Maud
- from Idylls of the King
- [Flower in the Crannied Wall]
- Vastness
- Crossing the Bar
- IN CONTEXT: Images of Tennyson
- from Thomas Carlyle, Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson, 5 August 1844
- IN CONTEXT: Victorian Images of Arthurian Legend
- IN CONTEXT: Crimea and the Camera
- Roger Fenton, Selected Photographs
CHARLES DARWIN
- from The Voyage of the Beagle
- from Chapter 10: Tierra del Fuego
- from Chapter 17: Galapagos Archipelago
- from On the Origin of Species
- Introduction
- from Chapter 3: Struggle for Existence
- from Chapter 14: Recapitulation and Conclusion
- from The Descent of Man
- from Chapter 19: Secondary Sexual Characters of Man
- from Chapter 21: General Summary and Conclusion
- IN CONTEXT: Defending and Attacking Darwin
- from Thomas Huxley, “Criticisms on The Origin of Species”
- from Thomas Huxley, “Mr. Darwin’s Critics”
- from Punch
- IN CONTEXT: Social Darwinism
- from Herbert Spencer, Social Statics: or, the Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, and the First of Them Developed
ELIZABETH GASKELL
- Libbie Marsh’s Three Eras
- Our Society at Cranford
- IN CONTEXT: Charles Dickens and the Publication History of “Our Society at Cranford”
- from Charles Dickens, Letter to Elizabeth Gaskell, 31 January 1850
- from Charles Dickens, Letter to Elizabeth Gaskell, 5 December 1851
- from Charles Dickens, Letter to Elizabeth Gaskell, 21 December 1851
- The Old Nurse’s Story
- The Manchester Marriage
ROBERT BROWNING
- Porphyria’s Lover
- Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister
- My Last Duchess
- Home-Thoughts, from Abroad
- The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed’s Church
- Meeting at Night
- Parting at Morning
- How It Strikes a Contemporary
- Memorabilia
- Love Among the Ruins
- “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”
- Fra Lippo Lippi
- The Last Ride Together
- Andrea del Sarto
- A Woman’s Last Word
- Two in the Campagna
- Essay on Shelley
- Caliban upon Setebos
- from The Ring and the Book
CHARLES DICKENS
- from Sketches by Boz
- Chapter 2: A Christmas Dinner
- Chapter 25: A Visit to Newgate
- A Walk in the Workhouse
- David Copperfield (performance fiction)
- The Quiet Poor
- Night Walks
- The Story of Little Dombey
- Sikes and Nancy
- Mrs. Gamp
- IN CONTEXT: The Readings of Charles Dickens
CONTEXTS: CHILDHOOD AND CHILDREN’S LITERATURE
- from Charlotte Mary Yonge, “A Scene in the Early Life of the May Family”
- from Thomas Hughes, “After the Match,” Tom Brown’s Schooldays
- from Charles Kingsley, “Tom’s Life as a Water Baby”
- from Thomas Hood, “London Street Boys: Being a Word About Arabia Anglicana,” The Boy’s Own Volume of Facts, Fiction, History, and Adventure
- from Austin Q. Hagerman, “Never Sulk,” The Child’s Own Magazine
- from Charles Darwin, A Biographical Sketch of an Infant
- from Walter Pater, The Child in the House
- from Hilaire Belloc, The Bad Child’s Book of Beasts
- Introduction
- The Big Baboon
- The Frog
- Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Peter Rabbit
- from Rudyard Kipling, “How the Camel Got His Hump,” Just So Stories for Little Children
- from Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
- Chapter 3: Marilla Cuthbert Is Surprised
- from Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
- Chapter 1: The River Bank
EMILY BRONTË
- Remembrance
- Plead for Me
- The Old Stoic
- My Comforter
- [Loud without the wind was roaring]
- [A little while, a little while]
- [Shall Earth no more inspire thee]
- [No coward soul is mine]
- [Often rebuked, yet always back returning]
- [I’ll come when thou art saddest]
- [I’m happiest when most away]
- [If grief for grief can touch thee]
CONTEXTS: THE NEW ART OF PHOTOGRAPHY
- Roger Fenton, “Proposal for the Formation of a Photographic Society”
- from Charles Dickens, “Photography,” Household Words
- Photography and Immortality
- from Elizabeth Barrett, Letter to Mary Russell Mitford, 1843
- from Sir Frederick Pollock, “Presidential Address,” Photographic Society
- Selected Photographs
GEORGE ELIOT
- from Middlemarch
- O, May I Join the Choir Invisible
- from Brother and Sister Sonnets
- 11 (“School parted us; we never found again”)
- from Adam Bede
- Chapter 17: In Which the Story Pauses a Little
- Silly Novels by Lady Novelists
- Margaret Fuller and Mary Wollstonecraft
JOHN RUSKIN
- from Modern Painters
- A Definition of Greatness in Art
- Of Truth of Water
- from The Stones of Venice
MATTHEW ARNOLD
- The Forsaken Merman
- Isolation. To Marguerite
- To Marguerite—Continued
- The Buried Life
- The Scholar-Gipsy
- Stanzas from The Grande Chartreuse
- Dover Beach
- East London
- West London
- from The Function of Criticism at the Present Time
- from Culture and Anarchy1029
- from Chapter 1: Sweetness and Light
CONTEXTS: RELIGION AND SOCIETY
- from Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
- from Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Barton
- from Anthony Trollope, The Warden
- from Chapter 3
- from Chapter 5
- from George Eliot, “Evangelical Teaching: Dr. Cumming,” Westminster Review
- from Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne
- from Chapter 32: Mr. Oriel
- from Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown at Oxford
- from Chapter 11: Muscular Christianity
- from Arthur Hugh Clough, Dipsychus
- “There Is No God,” the Wicked Saith
- from John Henry Newman, Apologia pro vita sua
- from Chapter 5: The Position of My Mind Since 1845
- from Samuel Smiles, Character
- from Chapter 7: Duty—Truthfulness
- from Anthony Trollope, The Way We Live Now
- from Chapter 22: Lord Nidderdale’s Morality
- from Chapter 60: Miss Longestaffe’s Lover
- from Goldwin Smith, “Can Jews Be Patriots?” The Nineteenth Century
- from Amy Levy, Reuben Sachs
- from Chapter 7
- from Chapter 8
- from Thomas Huxley, “Agnosticism and Christianity”
- from Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI
- The Blessed Damozel
- The Woodspurge
- Jenny
- My Sister’s Sleep
- Sibylla Palmifera
- Lady Lilith
- Mary Magdalene at the Door of Simon the Pharisee
- from The House of Life
- The Sonnet
- 6a. Nuptial Sleep
- 10. The Portrait
- 97. A Superscription
- 101. The One Hope
- IN CONTEXT: Pre-Raphaelite Principles
- from William Michael Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti; His Family Letters, with a Memoir by William Michael Rossetti
- IN CONTEXT: The “Fleshly School” Controversy
- from Robert Buchanan, “The Fleshly School of Poetry: Mr. D.G. Rossetti”
- from Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Stealthy School of Criticism
CONTEXTS: THE PRE-RAPHAELITES
- from William Michael Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, His Family Letters, with a Memoir by William Michael Rossetti
- from John Guille Millais, The Life and Letters of Sir John Everett Millais
- from Charles Dickens, “Old Lamps for New Ones,” Household Words
- from The Times, “Review of the Annual Exhibition at the Royal Academy”
- from The Times, “Review of the Annual Exhibition at the Royal Academy”
- from John Ruskin, Letter to The Times, 13 May 1851
- from John Ruskin, Letter to The Times, 26 May 1851
- from John Ruskin, Pre-Raphaelitism
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI
- Goblin Market
- IN CONTEXT: Illustrating Goblin Market
- A Triad
- Remember
- A Birthday
- After Death
- An Apple-Gathering
- Echo
- Winter: My Secret
- “No, Thank You, John”
- A Pause of Thought
- Song (“She sat and sang alway”)
- Song (“When I am dead, my dearest”)
- Dead before Death
- Monna Innominata
- Cobwebs
- In an Artist’s Studio
- Promises like Pie-Crust
- In Progress
- Sleeping at Last
LEWIS CARROLL
- Verses Recited by Humpty Dumpty
- Jabberwocky
- IN CONTEXT: “Jabberwocky”
- from Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There
- from Chapter 1: Looking-Glass House
- from Chapter 6: Humpty Dumpty
- IN CONTEXT: The Photographs of Lewis Carroll
WILLIAM MORRIS
- The Defence of Guenevere
- The Haystack in the Floods
- from Hopes and Fears for Art. Five Lectures
- The Beauty of Life
- from News from Nowhere
- Chapter 1: Discussion and Bed
- Chapter 2: A Morning Bath
- How I Became a Socialist
- IN CONTEXT: William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones
AUGUSTA WEBSTER
- A Castaway
- By the Looking Glass
- The Happiest Girl in the World
- from Mother and Daughter: An Uncompleted Sonnet-Sequence
- Sonnet 1 (“Young laughters, and my music! Aye till now”)
- Sonnet 8 (“A little child she, half defiant came”)
- Sonnet 9 (“Oh weary hearts! Poor mothers that look back!”)
- Sonnet 15 (“That same day Death who has us all for jest”)
- Sonnet 19 (“Life on the wane: yes sudden that news breaks”)
- Sonnet 20 (“There’s one I miss. A little questioning maid”)
- Sonnet 27 (“Since first my little one lay on my breast”)
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE
- Hymn to Proserpine
- The Leper
- A Forsaken Garden
- Laus Veneris
- Faustine
- Dolores
- The Garden of Proserpine
- Hertha
- A Nympholept
- from William Blake
WALTER PATER
- from The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry
- from Appreciations
THOMAS HARDY
- The Son’s Veto
- IN CONTEXT: Hardy’s Notebooks and Memoranda
- An Imaginative Woman
- IN CONTEXT: Illustrations to “An Imaginative Woman”
- Hap
- Neutral Tones
- The Darkling Thrush
- The Ruined Maid
- A Broken Appointment
- The Puzzled Game-Birds
- A Tramp Woman’s Tragedy
- Shut Out That Moon
- The Convergence of the Twain
- Channel Firing
- The Voice
- Transformations
- In Time of “The Breaking of Nations”
- The Photograph
- During Wind and Rain
- The Oxen
- Going and Staying
- IN CONTEXT: Hardy’s Reflections on the Writing of Poetry
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS
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- God’s Grandeur
- The Wreck of the Deutschland
- The Windhover: To Christ Our Lord
- Pied Beauty
- Felix Randal
- Spring and Fall: To a Young Child
- [As kingfishers catch fire]
- [No worst, there is none]
- [I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day]
- [Not, I’ll not, carrion comfort]
- That Nature Is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of the Resurrection
- [Thou art indeed just, Lord]
- IN CONTEXT: The Growth of “The Windhover”
- from Journal 1870–74
- [“Inscape” and “Instress”]
from Letter to Robert Bridges, 25 February 1879
Author’s Preface
“MICHAEL FIELD”—KATHARINE BRADLEY AND EDITH COOPER
- The Magdalen
- Saint Sebastian
- La Gioconda
- A girl
- [It was deep April, and the morn]
- [When I grow old]
- To Christina Rossetti
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
- Requiem
- from A Child’s Garden of Verses
- Whole Duty of Children
- Looking Forward
- The Land of Nod
- Good and Bad Children
- Foreign Children
- Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- [Note to Instructors: Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is among over 400 available editions from Broadview, any one of which may be packaged together with this anthology volume at no extra cost to the student.]
OSCAR WILDE
- Helas!
- Impression du Matin
- E Tenebris
- To Milton
- from “The Critic as Artist”
- from “The Decay of Lying”
- The Young King
- Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray
- The Importance of Being Earnest
- IN CONTEXT: Wilde and “The Public”
- Interview with Oscar Wilde, St. James Gazette (January 1895)
- IN CONTEXT: The First Wilde Trial (1895) 1201
- from The Transcripts of the Trial
VERNON LEE
- The Virgin of the Seven Daggers
- Prince Alberic and the Snake Lady
- from The Handling of Words
- Chapter 3: Aesthetics of the Novel
- from Chapter 5
- Section C: Carlyle and the Present Tense
- from Chapter 6
- Section A: Meredith
- Section B: Kipling
- Section C: Stevenson
- Section D: Hardy
- Chapter 8: Can Writing Be Taught?
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
- The Adventure of the Speckled Band
AMY LEVY
- Xantippe
- Magdalen
- To Lallie
- A London Plane-Tree
- London in July
- “Ballade of an Omnibus”
- London Poets
- The Old House
- The Last Judgment
- Cambridge in the Long
- To Vernon Lee
- The End of the Day
RUDYARD KIPLING
- The Man Who Would Be King
- Gunga Din
- The Widow at Windsor
- Recessional
- The White Man’s Burden
- If—
- The Story of Muhammad Din
- The Mark of the Beast
- Mrs. Bathurst
- England and the English
- IN CONTEXT: Victoria and Albert
- IN CONTEXT: The “White Man’s Burden” in the Philippines
- from Platform of the American Anti-Imperialist League
CONTEXTS: BRITAIN, EMPIRE, AND A WIDER WORLD
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- Thomas Pringle, “Afar in the Desert”
- from Frances Trollope, Domestic Manners of the Americans
- from Chapter 1: Entrance of the Mississippi
- from Chapter 3: Company on Board the Steam Boat
- from Chapter 34: Return to New York—Conclusion
- from Thomas Babington Macaulay, “Minute on Indian Education”
- from Report of a Speech by William Charles Wentworth, Australian Legislative Council (1844)
- from William H. Smith, Smith’s Canadian Gazetteer
- Carlyle, Mill, and “The Negro Question”
- from Thomas Carlyle, “Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question,” Fraser’s Magazine
- from John Stuart Mill, “The Negro Question,” Fraser’s Magazine
- The Great Exhibition of 1851
- Prince Albert, Speech Delivered at the Lord Mayor’s Banquet, London, 1849
- from The Art Journal Illustrated Catalogue of the Great Exhibition of The Industry of All Nations
- from Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor
- Dickens and Thackeray on the Race Question
- from Charles Dickens, “The Noble Savage,” Household Words
- from William Makepeace Thackeray, Letters to Mrs. Carmichael-Smyth
- To Mrs. Carmichael-Smyth, 26 January 1853
- To Mrs. Carmichael-Smyth, 13 February 1853
- Conservatives, Liberals, and Empire
- from William Gladstone, “Our Colonies”
- from Benjamin Disraeli, “Conservative and Liberal Principles”
- from Cecil Rhodes, Speech Delivered in Cape Town, 18 July 1899
- from David Livingstone, “Cambridge Lecture Number 1”
- Eliza M., “Account of Cape Town,” King William’s Town Gazette
- from Agnes Macdonald, “By Car and Cowcatcher,” Murray’s Magazine
- Henry Lawson, “The Drover’s Wife”
- from John Ruskin, “Inaugural Lecture,” Slade Lectures
- from Henry M. Stanley, In Darkest Africa
- from William Booth, “Why ‘Darkest England’?”
- from Sara Jeannette Duncan, “The Flippancy of Anglo-India,” Indian Daily News
- from Mary Kingsley, Travels in West Africa
- from W.S. Caine, “Picturesque India: A Handbook for European Travellers”
- Victor Daley, “When London Calls”
from Gertrude Page, Jill’s Rhodesian Philosophy; or, The Dam Farm
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY AND BEYOND
INTRODUCTION TO THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY: FROM 1900 TO MID-CENTURY
- The Edwardian Period
- The World Wars
- Marx, Einstein, Freud, and Modernism
- The Struggle for Women’s Equality
- Avant-Garde and Mass Culture
- Sexual Orientation
- Ireland
- Ideology and Economics in the 1930s and 1940s
- The Literature of the 1930s and 1940s
- Literature and Empire
- The English Language in the Early Twentieth Century
History of the Language and of Print Culture
BERNARD SHAW
- Mrs Warren’s Profession
- [Note to Instructors: Mrs Warren’s Profession and The Philanderer are among 400 available editions from Broadview, any one of which may be packaged together with this anthology volume at no extra cost to students.]
JOSEPH CONRAD
- An Outpost of Progress
- IN CONTEXT: “The Vilest Scramble for Loot” in Central Africa
- from William G. Stairs, Diaries
- from Henry Morgan Stanley, Speech Given to the Lotus Club, New York, 27 November 1886
- from Henry Morgan Stanley, In Darkest Africa
- from Joseph Chamberlain, Speech to the House of Commons, 6 August 1901
- from Roger Casement, Congo Report
- The Preface to The Nigger of the “Narcissus”
- The Secret Sharer
- from “Some Reflections on the Loss of the Titanic”
- IN CONTEXT: Conrad as Seen by His Contemporaries
- IN CONTEXT: Miscommunication at Sea
- from Joseph Conrad, The Mirror of the Sea: Memories and Impressions
A.E. HOUSMAN
- Loveliest of Trees
- To an Athlete Dying Young
- Terence, This Is Stupid Stuff
- The Chestnut Casts His Flambeaux
- Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries
SIEGFRIED SASSOON
- They
- Glory of Women
- Everyone Sang
- from Memoirs of an Infantry Officer
ISAAC ROSENBERG
- Break of Day in the Trenches
- Dead Man’s Dump
- Louse Hunting
- Returning, We Hear the Larks
WILFRED OWEN
- A Terre
- The Sentry
- Disabled
- Strange Meeting
- Parable of the Old Man and the Young
- Arms and the Boy
- Anthem for Doomed Youth
- The Send-Off
- Dulce et Decorum Est
- Futility
CONTEXTS: THE GREAT WAR
- from Anonymous, Introduction to Songs and Sonnets for England in War Time
- “In Flanders Fields”: The Poem and Some Responses
- John McCrae, “In Flanders Fields”
- John Mitchell, “Reply to ‘In Flanders Fields’”
- J.A. Armstrong, “Another Reply to ‘In Flanders Fields’”
- Elizabeth Daryush, “Flanders Fields”
- Anonymous, “I Learned to Wash in Shell-Holes”
- J.P. Long and Maurice Scott, “Oh! It’s a Lovely War”
- from Rebecca West, “The Cordite Makers”
- from Francis Marion Beynon, Aleta Day
- Ivor Gurney, “To His Love”
- Vance Palmer, “The Farmer Remembers the Somme”
- from Robert Graves, Good-Bye to All That
- from May Wedderburn Cannan, Grey Ghosts and Voices
- War and Revolution
- from “Proceedings” of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee of Soviets of Workers’, Soldiers’, and Peasants’ Deputies
- from John Reed, Ten Days That Shook the World
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
- The Lake Isle of Innisfree
- When You Are Old
- Who Goes with Fergus?
- Into the Twilight
- The Secret Rose
- He Remembers Forgotten Beauty
- The Travail of Passion
- Adam’s Curse
- No Second Troy
- Easter 1916
- The Wild Swans at Coole
- In Memory of Major Robert Gregory
- Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen
- A Prayer for My Daughter
- An Irish Airman Foresees His Death
- The Second Coming
- Leda and the Swan
- Among School Children
- Sailing to Byzantium
- Byzantium
- Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop
- Lapis Lazuli
- The Circus Animals’ Desertion
- IN CONTEXT: Yeats on Poetic Inspiration
- from “The Symbolism of Poetry”
- from “Four Years”
- from “Introduction” to A Vision
- IN CONTEXT: The Struggle for Irish Independence
- Poblacht na h-Eireann / Proclamation of the Irish Republic
- Pádraic Pearse, “Statement”
H.G. Wells
- The New Accelerator
- The Star
- IN CONTEXT: Wells’s Non-Fiction
- from H.G. Wells, The Extinction of Man: Some Speculative Suggestions
VIRGINIA WOOLF
- The Mark on the Wall
- Blue & Green
- Kew Gardens
- Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street
- Modern Fiction
- from A Room of One’s Own
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- from “A Sketch of the Past”
- IN CONTEXT: Woolf and Bloomsbury
- [Note to Instructors in Canada, the US, UK, and Australia: Mrs. Dalloway is among over 400 available editions from Broadview, any one of which may be packaged together with the anthology volume at no extra cost to the student.]
CONTEXTS: GENDER AND SEXUAL ORIENTATION
- from Edward Carpenter, Love’s Coming of Age
- from Havelock Ellis, Sexual Inversion
- from Chapter 3: Sexual Inversion in Men
- from Chapter 4: Sexual Inversion in Women
- from Chapter 5: The Nature of Sexual Inversion
- from Grant Allen, “Woman’s Place in Nature”
- from Cicely Hamilton, Marriage as a Trade
- Female Suffrage
- Anonymous, [“There Was a Small Woman Called G”]
- from Emmeline Pankhurst, My Own Story
- from Marie Stopes, Married Love
- from Virginia Woolf, Orlando
- from George Orwell, “Boys’ Weeklies”
- from Frank Richard, “Frank Richard Replies to George Orwell”
JAMES JOYCE
- Araby
- Eveline
- The Dead
- from Ulysses
- IN CONTEXT: Joyce’s Dublin
D.H. LAWRENCE
- Tortoise Shout
- Snake
- Bavarian Gentians
- The Prussian Officer
- Odour of Chrysanthemums
KATHERINE MANSFIELD
T.S. ELIOT
- The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
- Preludes
- Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar
- Gerontion
- The Waste Land
- Journey of the Magi
- Burnt Norton
- Tradition and the Individual Talent
- The Metaphysical Poets
- IN CONTEXT: T.S. Eliot and Anti-Semitism
- IN CONTEXT: Reactions to the Poems of T.S. Eliot
- from Arthur Waugh, “The New Poetry,” Quarterly Review (October 1916)
- from unsigned “Review,” Literary World (5 July 1917)
- from unsigned “Review,” New Statesman (18 August 1917)
- from May Sinclair, “Prufrock and Other Observations: A Criticism,” Little Review (December 1917)
- from a “Review of the First Issue of The Criterion,” The Times Literary Supplement (26 October 1922)
- from Douglas LePan, “Personality of the Poet: Some Recollections of T.S. Eliot”
CONTEXTS: MODERNISM AND MODERNITY
- from Jules Huret, “Interview with Stephane Mallarmé,” L’Echo de Paris (1891)
- Imagist and Futurist Poetry: A Sampling
- T.E. Hulme
- Ezra Pound
- In a Station of the Metro
- Alba
- L’Art, 1910
- H.D.
- Mina Loy
- from Three Moments in Paris
- from Love Songs
- Imagism and Vorticism
- from F.S. Flint, “Imagisme,” Poetry (March 1913)
- from Ezra Pound, “A Few Don’ts by an Imagiste,” Poetry (March 1913)
- from Ezra Pound, “Vorticism,” Gaudier-Brzeska (1916)
- Dorothy Richardson and Stream of Consciousness
- from May Sinclair, “The Novels of Dorothy Richardson,” The Little Review (April 1918)
- from Dorothy Richardson, “Foreword” to Pilgrimage (1938)
- Modernity and the Sciences
- from Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams
- from Chapter 6: The Dream-Work
- from (A) The Condensation Work
- from (B) The Work of Displacement
- from Albert Einstein, Relativity: The Special and General Theory
- from Part 1: The Special Theory of Relativity
- from Section 3: Space and Time in Classical Mechanics
- from Section 5: The Principle of Relativity (In the Restricted Sense)
- Section 6: The Theorem of the Addition of Velocities Employed in Classical Mechanics
- from Section 7: The Apparent Incompatibility of the Law of Propagation of Light with the Principle of Relativity
JEAN RHYS
STEVIE SMITH
- Mother, Among the Dustbins
- The River God
- Not Waving but Drowning
- The Blue from Heaven
- Thoughts about the Person from Porlock
- Pretty
GEORGE ORWELL
- from Homage to Catalonia
- Politics and the English Language
- Shooting an Elephant
- IN CONTEXT: Elephants in Asia
W.H. AUDEN
- [At last the secret is out]
- [Funeral Blues]
- [Lullaby]
- Musée des Beaux Arts
- In Memory of W.B. Yeats
- September 1, 1939
- from The Sea and the Mirror [Song of the Master and Boatswain]
CONTEXTS: WORLD WAR II
- Winston Churchill, Speeches to the House of Commons
- from “Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat,” 13 May 1940
- from “We Shall Fight on the Beaches,” 4 June 1940
- from “Their Finest Hour,” 18 June 1940
- from Harold Nicholson, The War Years: 1939–1945
- Nat Burton and Walter Kent, “The White Cliffs of Dover”
- Anonymous, Fucking Tobruk
- Keith Douglas, “Vergissmeinnicht”
- from Henry Reed, Lessons of War
- Douglas LePan
- “Below Monte Cassino”
- “The Haystack”
- Life at Home
- Anti-Semitism and World War II
- from Ezra Pound, “Speech to the English”
- from George Orwell, “Anti-Semitism in Britain”
- from Rebecca West, “Greenhouse with Cyclamens”
INTRODUCTION TO THE LATE TWENTIETH AND TWENTY-FIRST CENTURIES:
- From 1945 Onward
- The End of the War and the Coming of the Welfare State
- The End of Empire
- From the 1960s to Century’s End
- Ireland, Scotland, Wales
- The New Millennium
- The History of the English Language
SAMUEL BECKETT
DYLAN THOMAS
- The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower
- Fern Hill
- Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
- A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London
PHILIP LARKIN
- Days
- Church Going
- Talking in Bed
- Annus Mirabilis
- High Windows
- This Be the Verse
- The Old Fools
- Aubade
TED HUGHES
- The Thought-Fox
- Pike
- Heptonstall Old Church
- Daffodils
CHINUA ACHEBE
- Dead Men’s Path
- from An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
DEREK WALCOTT
- A Far Cry from Africa
- Ruins of a Great House
- from Omeros
- Love after Love
SEAMUS HEANEY
- Digging
- Thatcher
- The Wife’s Tale
- The Grauballe Man
- Punishment
- Casualty
- Englands of the Mind
- Anything Can Happen
- Uncoupled
- [The door was open and the house was dark]
ALICE MUNRO
NGŨGĨWA THIONG’O
- from Decolonising the Mind
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
MARGARET ATWOOD
- Death of a Young Son by Drowning
- The Immigrants
- [you fit into me]
- The Handmaid’s Tale and Oryx and Crake in Context
- IN CONTEXT: Susanna Moodie
- from Susanna Moodie, Roughing It in the Bush
- from Susanna Moodie, Life in the Clearings versus the Bush
- The Door
ANGELA CARTER
- The Werewolf
- The Snow Child
JOHN CLEESE AND GRAHAM CHAPMAN
- from Monty Python’s Flying Circus
- Dead Parrot Sketch
- Pet Conversion
- Dirty Hungarian Phrasebook
- Spam
EAVAN BOLAND
SALMAN RUSHDIE
TOMSON HIGHWAY
KAZUO ISHIGURO
CAROL ANN DUFFY
- The Good Teachers
- Drunk
- Mrs. Lazarus
- Rapture
- John Barleycorn
- Water
JEANETTE WINTERSON
- from Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
ZADIE SMITH
CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE
LITERATURE, POLITICS, AND CULTURAL IDENTITY IN THE LATE TWENTIETH AND TWENTY-FIRST CENTURIES
- Sorley MacLean
- Ban-Ghàidheal / A Highland Woman
- Hallaig / Hallaig
- Hallaig (Seamus Heaney Translation)
- Louise Bennett
- Edwin MorganFor the Opening of the Scottish Parliament, 9 October 2004
- Kamau Brathwaite
- from History of the Voice: The Development of Nation Language in Anglophone Caribbean Poetry
- Calypso
- Geoffrey Hill
- A Short History of British India (2)
- Gillian Clarke
- Tony Harrison
- Liz Lochhead
- Men Talk
- Kidspoem/Bairnsang
- Grace Nichols
- Skanking Englishman Between Trains
- Epilogue
- White
- Medbh McGuckian
- Slips
- The Dream-Language of Fergus
- Paul Muldoon
- Milkweed and Monarch
- At Tuam
- Linton Kwesi Johnson
- Moniza Alvi
- And If
- How the World Split in Two
- Janice Galloway
- Jean Binta Breeze
- Gwyneth Lewis
- Kenan Malik
- Multiculturalism and the Road to Terror
- Jackie Kay
- Simon Armitage
- Alice Oswald1832
- Kim Moore
- In That Year
- I Have Been a Long Time Without Thinking
- Warsan Shire
- from Conversations about Home (at the Deportation Centre)
- Backwards
APPENDICES
- Reading Poetry
- Maps
- Monarchs and Prime Ministers
- Glossary of Terms
- British Money
- Texts and Contexts: Chronological Chart
- Bibliography
- Permissions Acknowledgments
- Index of First Lines
- Index of Authors and Titles
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Kate Flint, University of Southern California
Isobel Grundy, University of Alberta
Wendy Lee, New York University
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Jerome J. McGann, University of Virginia
Anne Lake Prescott, Barnard College
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Claire Waters, University of California, Davis
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