The Broadview Anthology of British Literature: One-Volume Compact – Second Edition

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THE BROADVIEW ANTHOLOGY OF BRITISH LITERATURE, ONE-VOLUME COMPACT SECOND EDITION

THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD

INTRODUCTION TO THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD

• History, Narrative, Culture
• Before the Norman Conquest
• Celts in Medieval Britain and Ireland
• Roman Britain
• The Early English, c. 400-700
• Celtic Culture
• Early English Christianity
• Invasion and Unification
• After the Norman Conquest
• The Normans and Feudalism
• Henry II and an International Culture
• Wales, Scotland, Ireland: Norman Invasions and Their Aftermath
• The Thirteenth Century
• The English Monarchy
• Cultural Expression in the Fourteenth Century
• Fifteenth-Century Transisions
• Language and Prosody

HISTORY OF THE LANGUAGE AND OF PRINT AND MANUSCRIPT CULTURE

BEDE

EARLY IRISH LYRICS

• The First Satire
• [A Bé Find, in rega lim] Fair lady, will you go with me
• [Messe ocus Pangur Bán] Me and white Pangur
• [Is acher in gáith innocht] The wind is wild tonight
• [Techt do Róim] Going to Rome?
• The Lament of the Old Woman of Beare

EXETER BOOK ELEGIES

• The Wanderer
• The Wife’s Lament
• (further selections and audio selection)

THE DREAM OF THE ROOD

• (audio selection )

EXETER BOOK RIDDLES

BEOWULF

• IN CONTEXT: Background Material
• (audio selection )

ÆLFRIC OF EYNSHAM

THE FOUR BRANCHES OF THE MABINOGI

FEAST OF BRICRIU (FLED BRICREND)

MARIE DE FRANCE

• Bisclavret (The Werewolf)
• Lanval

MIDDLE ENGLISH LYRICS

• Sumer is icumen in
• Betwene Mersh and Averil
• I have a gentil cock
• I sing of a maiden
• Adam lay ibounden
• Of all creatures women be best
• (further selections )

THE CRISES OF THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY

• The Hundred Years’ War
• Jean Froissart, Chronicles
• from Prince Edward, Letter to the People of London
• The Black Death
• from Ralph of Shrewsbury, letter, 17 August 1348
• from Henry Knighton, Chronicle
• The Uprising of 1381
• from Statute of Laborers (1351)
• from Jean Froissart, Chronicles, Account of a Sermon by John Ball
• from Henry Knighton, Chronicle
• (further selections )

SIR ORFEO

SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT

• IN CONTEXT: Illustrations from the Original Manuscript
• (facing-column translation )

GEOFFREY CHAUCER

• To Rosemounde
• from The Canterbury Tales
• The General Prologue
• The Miller’s Prologue and Tale
• The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale
• Chaucer’s Retraction
• (further selections from The Canterbury Tales )
• (facing-column translations of selections from The Canterbury Tales )
• (further selections )

JULIAN OF NORWICH

MARGERY KEMPE

• The Book of Margery Kempe
• The Proem
• The Preface
• from Book 1
• Chapter 1
• Chapter 2
• Chapter 3
• from Chapter 4
• from Chapter 11
• (further selections from The Book of Margery Kempe )

RELIGIOUS AND SPIRITUAL LIFE

THE WAKEFIELD MASTER, The Second Shepherds’ Play

EVERYMAN

MANKIND

SIR THOMAS MALORY

• from Morte Darthur
• from Book 1: From the Marriage of King Uther unto King Arthur
• from Book 8: The Death of Kind Arthur
• (contextual material )

GWERFUL MECHAIN

• Death and Judgment
• Poem to the vagina
• To her husband for beating her
• (contextual material)

THE RENAISSANCE AND THE EARLY SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

INTRODUCTION TO THE RENAISSANCE AND THE EARLY SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

• Humanism
• Scientific Inquiry
• The Reformation in England
• Wales, Scotland, Ireland
• Edward VI, Mary I, and Elizabeth I
• Elizabeth I and Gender
• Homoeroticism and Cross-Dressing
• Economy and Society in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
• Changing Social Classes
• “The Round Earth’s Imagined Corners”
• The Stuarts and the Civil Wars
• Literary Genres
• Literature in Prose and the Development of Print Culture
• Poetry
• The Drama
• The English Language in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

HISTORY OF THE LANGUAGE AND OF PRINT CULTURE

SIR THOMAS MORE

[Note to Instructors: Utopia is among over 400 available editions from Broadview, any of which may be packaged together with this anthology volume.]

WILLIAM TYNDALE

• Tyndale’s English Bible, King James Bible
• Genesis: Chapter 1-23
• (further selections )

SIR THOMAS WYATT

HENRY HOWARD, EARLY OF SURREY

THE EARLY MODERN SONNET AND LYRIC

• Francesco Petrarch
• from Rime Sparse
• 134 (“Pace non trovo et non ò da far guerra”)
• 134 (“I find no peace and all my war is done”)
• 140 (“Amor, che nel penser mio vive et regna”)
• 140 (“Love, that doth reign and live within my thought”)
• 164 (“Or che ’l ciel et la terra e ’l vento tace”)
• 164 (“Alas! so all things now do hold their peace”)
• 189 (“Passa la nave mia colma d’oblio”)
• 189 (“My galley chargèd with forgetfulness”)
• 190 (“Una candida cerva sopra l’erba”)
• 190 (“Whoso list to hunt, I know where is a hind”)
• 269 (“Rotta è l’alta colonna e ’l verde lauro”)
• 269 (“The pillar perished is whereto I leant”)
• Sir Thomas Wyatt
• Sonnet 31 (“Farewell, Love, and all thy laws forever”)
• Epigram 38 (“Alas, madam, for stealing of a kiss”)
• Ballad 80 (“They flee from me that sometime did me seek”)
• Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
• So Cruel Prison How Could Betide
• Isabella Whitney
• The Admonition by the Author to All Young Gentlewomen, and to All Other Kinds of Maids Being in Love
• Sir Walter Ralegh
• The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
• Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke
• Psalm 58: Si Vere Utique
• Even now that care
• William Shakespeare
• from Romeo and Juliet (Act 1, Scene 5)
• Ben Jonson
• To John Donne
• On My First Son
• Song: To Celia
• To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare
• Robert Herrick
• Delight in Disorder
• To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
• Andrew Marvell
• To His Coy Mistress
• The Mower against Gardens
• Margaret Cavendish
• A World in an Earring
• Of the Theme of Love
• (further selections )

LITERATURE IN IRELAND, SCOTLAND, AND WALES

EDUMUND SPENSER

• from The Faerie Queene
  • from Book 1
  • Canto 1
  • (further selections from The Faerie Queene )
• from Amoretti
  • 1 (“Happy ye leaves when as those lilly hands”)
  • 15 (“Ye tradefull Merchants, that with weary toyle”)
  • 22 (“This holy season fit to fast and pray”)
  • 34 (“Lyke as a ship that through the Ocean wyde”)
  • 37 (“What guyle is this, that those her golden tresses”)
  • 54 (“Of this worlds Theatre in which we stay”)
  • 64 (“Comming to kisse her lyps, (such grace I found)”)
  • 67 (“Lyke as a hunstman after weary chace”)
  • 68 (“Most glorious Lord of lyfe that on this day”)
  • 69 (“The famous warriors of the anticke world”)
  • 75 (“One day I wrote her name upon the strand”)
  • (further selections from Amoretti )
• (further selections and contextual material )

SIR PHILIP SIDNEY

• from Astrophil and Stella
• 1 (“Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show”)
• 2 (“Not at first sight, nor with a dribbèd shot”)
• 7 (“When Nature made her chief work, Stella’s eyes”)
• 20 (“Fly, fly, my friends, I have my death wound; fly!”)
• 31 (“With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb’st the skies”)
• 34 (“Come, let me write. ‘And to what end?’ To ease”)
• 39 (“Come, Sleep! O Sleep, the certain knot of peace”)
• 48 (“Soul’s joy, bend not those morning stars from me”)
• 52 (“A strife is grown between Virtue and Love”)
• 94 (“Grief find the words, for thou hast made my brain”)
• 108 (“When Sorrow (using mine own fire’s might)”)
• (further selections from Astrophil and Stella )
• (further selections and contextual material )

ELIZABETH I, QUEEN OF ENGLAND

• Written in Her French Psalter
• The Doubt of Future Foes
• On Monsieur’s Departure
• When I Was Fair and Young
• To the Troops at Tilbury
• The Golden Speech
• (further selections and contextual material )

CULTURE: A PORTFOLIO

AEMILIA LANYER

• To the Virtuous Reader
• from Salve Deus Rex Judæorum
• “Invocation”
• “Eve’s Apology in Defense of Women”
• The Description of Cooke-ham
• To the Doubtful Reader

SIR WALTER RALEGH

OTHER LANDS, OTHER CULTURES

FRANCIS BACON

CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE

• The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
• The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus (“A” Text)
• (further selections and contextual material )

THE SUPERNATURAL AND THE OCCULT

• from Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, De Occulta Philosophia (Of Occult Philosophy)
• from Reginald Scot, The Discovery of Witchcraft
• from George Gifford, A Discourse of the Subtle Practices of Devils by Witches and Sorcerers
• from William Perkins, A Discourse of the Damned Art of Witchsraft; so far forth as it is revealed in the Scriptures, and manifest by true experience
• from Joseph Hall, Characters of Virtues and Vices
• Anonymous Broadsheet, “The Form and Shape of a Monstrous Child”

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

• Sonnets
• 1 (“From fairest creatures we desire increase”)
• 2 (“When forty winters shall besiege thy brow”)
• 18 (“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”)
• 19 (“Devouring time, blunt thou the lion’s paws”)
• 20 (“A woman’s face with nature’s own hand painted”)
• 29 (“When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes”)
• 30 (“When to the sessions of sweet silent thought”)
• 33 (“Full many a glorious morning have I seen”)
• 55 (“Not marble, nor the gilded monuments”)
• 57 (“Being your slave, what should I do but tend”)
• 58 (“That god forbid, that made me first your slave”)
• 60 (“Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore”)
• 64 (“When I have seen by time’s fell hand defaced”)
• 65 (“Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea”)
• 71 (“No longer mourn for me when I am dead”)
• 73 (“That time of year thou mayst in me behold”)
• 87 (“Farewell—thou art too dear for my possessing”)
• 94 (“They that have power to hurt and will do none”)
• 116 (“Let me not to the marriage of true minds”)
• 127 (“In the old age black was not counted fair”)
• 129 (“Th’expense of spirit in a waste of shame”)
• 130 (“My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun”)
• 138 (“When my love swears that she is made of truth”)
• 143 (“Lo, as a careful housewife runs to catch”)
• 144 (“Two loves I have, of comfort and despair”)
• 146 (“Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth”)
• 147 (“My love is as a fever, longing still”)
• IN CONTEXT: The Shakespearean Theater
• (further selections and contextual material )

[Note to Instructors:To facilitate instructor choice, we have included Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merchant of Venice and King Lear in the anthology’s component. Broadview also offers standalone editions of any of the Shakespeare plays listed above—and of several others, including Hamlet and Othello—any of which may be packaged together with this anthology volume.]

BEN JONSON

JOHN DONNE

• from Songs and Sonnets
• The Good-Morrow
• Song (“Go, and catch a falling star”)
• The Sun Rising
• The Canonization
• The Flea
• The Bait
• A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
• from Elegies
• 19. To His Mistress Going to Bed
• from Holy Sonnets
• 10 (“Death be not proud, though some have called thee”)
• 14 (“Batter my heart, three personed God; for you”)
• A Hymn to God the Father
• Hymn to God, My God, in My Sickness
• from Devotions: Meditation 17
• (further selections )

LADY MARY WROTH

• from Pamphilia to Amphilanthus
• 1 (“When night’s black mantle could most darkness prove”)
• 6 (“My pain, still smothered in my grieved breast”)
• 7 (“Love leave to urge, thou know’st thou hast the hand”)
• 13 (“Dear, famish not what you your self gave food”)
• 14 (“Am I thus conquered? have I lost the powers”)
• 15 (“Truly poor Night thou welcome art to me”)
• 22 (“Like to the Indians, scorched with the sun”)
• 23 (“When every one to pleasing pastime hies”)
• 35 (“False hope which feeds but to destroy, and spill”)
• from A Crown of Sonnets Dedicated to Love
• 77 (“In this strange labyrinth how shall I turn?”)
• Railing Rhymes Returned upon the Author by Mistress Mary Wroth
• IN CONTEXT: The Occasion of “Railing Rhymes”
• Edward Denny, Baron of Waltham, to Pamphilia from the father-in-law of Seralius

THOMAS HOBBES

ROBERT HERRICK

GEORGE HERBERT

• The Altar
• Redemption
• Easter Wings
• Prayer (1)
• Jordan (1)
• Time
• The Collar
• The Pulley
• Love (3)
• (further selections )

ANDREW MARVELL

KATHERINE PHILIPS

• A Married State
• Upon the Double Murder of King Charles
• To My Excellent Lucasia, on Our Friendship
• Friendship in Emblem, or the Seal, To My Dearest Lucasia
• (further selections )

JOHN MILTON

• L’Allegro
• Il Penseroso
• Sonnets
• 18: On the Late Massacre in Piedmont
• 19 (“When I consider how my light is spent”)
• 23 (“Methought I saw my late espoused saint”)
• from Paradise Lost
• The Verse
• Argument to Book 1
• Book 1
• Argument to Book 2
• Book 2
• Argument to Book 4
• Book 4
• Argument to Book 9
• Book 9
• Argument ot Book 10
• Book 10
• Argument to Book 12
• from Book 12
• IN CONTEXT: Illustrating Paradise Lost
• (further selections )

THE RESTORATION AND THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

INTRODUCTION TO THE RESTORATION AND THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

• Religion, Government, and Party Politics
• Empiricism, Skepticism, and Religious Dissent
• The Enlightenment / “The Age of Reason”
• Industry, Commerce, and the Middle Class
• Ethical Dilemmas in a Changing Nation
• Print Culture
• Poetry
• Theater
• The Novel
• The Development of the English Language

HISTORY OF THE LANGUAGE AND OF PRINT CULTURE

JOHN DRYDEN

• Mac Flecknoe
• To the Memory of Mr. Oldham
• (further selections )

SAMUEL PEPYS

• from The Diary
• IN CONTEXT: Other Accounts of the Great Fire
• from The London Gazette (3–10 September 1666)

APHRA BEHN

• The Disappointment
• Oroonoko: or, The Royal Slave. A True History
• (further selections )

[Note to Instructors: To facilitate instructor choice, the anthology’s component offers multiple works of Restoration and eighteenth-century comedy, including Behn’s The Rover, Wycherley’s The Country Wife, and Sheridan’s The School for Scandal. Any of Broadview’s standalone editions are also available for packaging with this anthology volume.]

WILLIAM WYCHERLEY

JOHN WILMOT, EARL OF ROCHESTER

• A Satire on Charles II
• The Imperfect Enjoyment
• Impromptu on Charles II
• (further selections and contextual material )

DANIEL DEFOE

• from A Journal of the Plague Year
• (further selections and contextual material )

ANNE FINCH

JONATHAN SWIFT

• A Description of a City Shower
• Stella’s Birthday, written in the year 1718
• The Lady’s Dressing Room
• from Gulliver’s Travels
• Part 1: A Voyage to Lilliput
• (complete text of Gulliver’s Travels )
• A Modest Proposal
• IN CONTEXT: Sermons and Tracts: Backgrounds to A Modest Proposal
• from Jonathan Swift, “Causes of the Wretched Condition of Ireland
• from Jonathan Swift, A Short View of the State of Ireland
• (further selections )

THE ENLIGHTENMENT

ALEXANDER POPE

• from An Essay on Criticism
• The Rape of the Lock: An Heroi-Comical Poem in Five Cantos
• from An Essay on Man
• The Design
• Epistle 1
• from Epistle 2

LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU

• The Reasons that Induced Dr. S to Write a Poem called The Lady’s Dressing Room
• from The Turkish Embassy Letters

• (further selections )

ELIZA HAYWOOD

• Fantomina:or, Love in a Maze

• (contextual material )

PRINT CULTURE, STAGE CULTURE

JAMES THOMSON

SAMUEL JOHNSON

• from The Rambler
• No. 4 [On Fiction]
• from The Idler
• No. 81 [On Native Americans]
• from A Dictionary of the English Language
• from The Preface
• Selected Entries
• (further selections )

THOMAS GRAY

• Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

CHRISTOPHER SMART

OLAUDAH EQUIANO OR GUSTAVUS VASSA

• from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
• Chapter 1
• Chapter 2
• (further selections from The Interesting Narrative )
• IN CONTEXT: Reactions to Olaudah Equiano’s Work
• from The Analytic Review, May 1789
• from The Gentleman’s Magazine, June 1789
• from The Monthly Review, June 1789
• from The General Magazine and Impartial Review, July 1789

EMPIRE AND ENTERPRISE

RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN

PHILLIS WHEATLEY

• To Maecenas
• On Being Brought from Africa to America
• To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth, His Majesty’s Principal
  Secretary of State for North-America
• To S.M., a Young African Painter, On Seeing His Works

THE AGE OF ROMANTICISM

INTRODUCTION TO THE AGE OF ROMANTICISM

• Political Parties and Royal Allegiances
• Imperial Expansion
• 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

• Washing Day
• The Rights of Woman
• The Caterpillar
• (further selections )

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 overling the sea
• 74 The Winter Night
• 84 To the Muse

THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

• from Richard Price, A Discourse on the Love of Our Country
• from Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
• from Thomas Paine, Rights of Man
• (further selections )

WILLIAM BLAKE

• from Songs of Innocence and of Experience
• from Songs of Innocence
• Introduction
• The Ecchoing Green
• The Lamb
• The Little Black Boy
• The Chimney Sweeper
• Holy Thursday
• Infant Joy
• Nurse’s Song

In Context: Charles Lamb, The Praise of Chimney-Sweepers

• from Songs of Experience
• Introduction
• Holy Thursday
• The Chimney Sweeper
• The Sick Rose
• The Tyger
• London
• Infant Sorrow
• A Poison Tree
• The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
• (further selections and contextual material )

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
• from The Critical Review
• (further selections )

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 William Thompson and Anna Wheeler, Appeal of One Half of 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
• (further selections )

ROBERT BURNS

• To a Mouse, On Turning Her Up in Her Nest with the Plough
• A Man’s a Man for A’ That
• A Red, Red Rose
• Auld Lang Syne
• (further selections )

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

• from Lyrical Ballads (1798)
• Advertisement
• We Are Seven
• Lines Written in Early Spring
• Expostulation and Reply
• The Tables Turned

Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey

• from Lyrical Ballads (1800,1802)
• Preface
• Song [She dwelt among th’untrodden ways]
• [A slumber did my spirit seal]
• Lucy Gray
• [I griev’d for Buonaparté]
• [My heart leaps up]
• 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
• [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
• Ode [Intimations of Immortality]
• Steamboats, Viaducts, and Railways
• (further selections and contextual material )

READING, WRITING, PUBLISHING

GOTHIC LITERATURE 1764-1830

THE NATURAL, THE HUMAN, THE SUPERNATURAL, AND THE SUBLIME

SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

• The Eolian Harp
• Frost at Midnight
• 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
• Work without Hope
• Kubla Khan, Or, A Vision in a Dream. A Fragment
• (further selections )

JANE AUSTEN

MARY PRINCE

• The History of Mary Prince, A West Indian Slave, Related by Herself
• IN CONTEXT: AMary Prince and Slavery
• Report of the Presentation of Mary Prince to Parliament
• from Thomas Pringle, Supplement to The History of Mary Prince

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
• Hannah More, Slavery
• Ann Yearsley, A Poem
• from William Wilberforce, “Speech to the House of Commons,” 13 May 1789
• 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
• The Haitian Revolution
• 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
• from Jean-Jacques Dessalines, “Liberty or Death. Proclamation. Jean Jacques Dessalines, Governor General, to the People of Hayti
• (further selections )

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”)
• Darkness
• Prometheus
• So, we’ll go no more a roving
• When a man hath no freedom to fight for at home
• (further selections and contextual material )

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

• To Wordsworth
• 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
• Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats
• Mutability (“The flower that smiles to-day”)
• Stanzas, Written in Dejection—December 1818, near Naples
• Song to the Men of England
• England in 1819
• (further selections )

FELICIA HEMANS

• The Homes of England
• Casabianca
• Woman and Fame
• (further selections )

JOHN KEATS

• On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer
• On the Grasshopper and Cricket
• On Seeing the Elgin Marbles
• On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again
• When I Have Fears that I May Cease to Be
• The Eve of St. Agnes
• La Belle Dame sans Merci
• La Belle Dame sans Mercy
• Ode to a Nightingale
• Ode on a Grecian Urn
• Ode on Melancholy
• To Autumn
• (further selections and contextual material )

JOHN WILLIAM POLIDORI

MARY SHELLEY

• from Frankenstein
• (further selections )

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

THE HISTORY OF THE LANGUAGE AND PRINT CULTURE

THOMAS CARLYLE

URBAN WORK AND POVERTY

• 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
• from Friedrich Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844
• Chapter 3: The Great Towns
• from Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Barton
• Chapter 6
• from Charles Dickens, Hard Times
• Chapter 5: The Key-Note
• (further selections )

IRELAND, SCOTLAND, AND WALES: LITERARY CURRENTS IN THE LONG NINETEENTH CENTURY

MARY SEACOLE

WOMEN IN SOCIETY

• from Sarah Stickney Ellis, The Daughters of England: Their Position in Society, Character and Responsibilities
• from Harriet Taylor, The Enfranchisement of Women
• from Coventry Patmore, The Angel in the House
• The Wife’s Tragedy
• The Foreign Land
• from Frances Power Cobbe, “Criminals, Idiots, Women, and Minors,” Fraser’s Magazine (December 1868)
• from John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women
• Chapter 1
• from Mona Caird, “Does Marriage Hinder a Woman’s Self-Development?”
• Lady’s Realm
• (further selections )

ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING

• The Cry of the Children
• 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”)
• (further selections and contextual material )

ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON

• Mariana
• The Lady of Shalott
• The Lotos-Eaters
• Ulysses
• [Break, break, break]
• The Charge of the Light Brigade
• [Flower in the Crannied Wall]
• Crossing the Bar
• from In Memoriam A.H.H.
• IN CONTEXT: Images of Tennyson
• IN CONTEXT: Victorian Images of Arthurian Legend
• (further selections and contextual material

CHARLES DARWIN

• from On the Origin of Species
• Introduction
• from Chapter 3: Struggle for Existence
• from Chapter 14: Recapitulation 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
• (further selections and contextual material )

ELIZABETH GASKELL

• Our Society at Cranford

ROBERT BROWNING

• Porphyria’s Lover
• My Last Duchess
• The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed’s Church
• Fra Lippo Lippi
• Andrea del Sarto
• (further selections )

CHARLES DICKENS

• A Walk in the Workhouse
• (further selections )

THE NEW ART OF PHOTOGRAPHY

JOHN RUSKIN

MATTHEW ARNOLD

• The Buried Life
• Dover Beach
• (further selections )

DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI

CHRISTINA ROSSETTI

• Goblin Market
• IN CONTEXT: Illustrating Goblin Market
• A Triad
• Remember
• After Death
• An Apple-Gathering
• Echo
• “No, Thank You, John”‘
• Song (“When I am dead, my dearest”)
• Promises like Pie-Crust
• In an Artist’s Studio
• (further selections )

LEWIS CARROLL

AUGUSTA WEBSTER

ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE

THOMAS HARDY

• Hap
• Neutral Tones
• The Darkling Thrush
• The Ruined Maid
• A Broken Appointment
• The Convergence of the Twain
• The Voice
• During Wind and Rain
• The Oxen
• Going and Staying
• (further selections and contextual material )

GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS

• God’s Grandeur
• 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]
• [Thou art indeed just, Lord]
• (further selections and contextual material )

“MICHAEL FIELD”—KATHARINE BRADLEY AND EDITH COOPER

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

OSCAR WILDE

• Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray
• The Importance of Being Earnest
• (further selections and contextual material )

SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

RUDYARD KIPLING

• Gunga Din
• Recessional
• The White Man’s Burden
• If—
• (contextual material )

BRITAIN, EMPIRE, AND A WIDER WORLD

• Language and Education
• from Hannah Kilham, The Claims of West Africa to Christian Instruction, through the Native Languages
• from Thomas Babington Macaulay, “Minute on Indian Education”
• Eliza M., “Account of Cape Town,” King William’s Town Gazette
• Debating Race
• from Thomas Carlyle, “Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question,” Fraser’s Magazine
• from John Stuart Mill, “The Negro Question,” Household Words
• from Charles Dickens, “The Noble Savage,” Household Words
• from J.J. Thomas, Froudacity
• The Effects of Empire
• from William Gladstone, “Our Colonies”
• from Joseph Chamberlain, “The True Conception of Empire”
• from Cecil Rhodes, Speech Delivered in Cape Town, 18 July 1899
• from Pixley Ka Isaka Seme, “The Regeneration of Africa”
• (further selections )

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

JOSEPH CONRAD

• The Secret Sharer
• (further selections )

A.E. HOUSMAN

• Loveliest of Trees
• To an Athlete Dying Young
• Terence, This is Stupid Stuff
• Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries

SIEGFRIED SASSOON

WILFRED OWEN

• A Terre
• Disabled
• Anthem for Doomed Youth
• Dulce et Decorum Est
• Futility
• (further selections )

WORLD WAR I

• “The Authors’ Declaration”
• Rupert Brooke, “The Soldier”
• John McCrae, “In Flanders Fields”
• Sarojini Naidu, “The Gift of India”
• Esward Thomas, “As the Team’s Head-Brass”
• Isaac Rosenberg, “Break of Day in the Trenches”
• Margaret Sackville, “Reconciliation”
• from Rebecca West, “The Cordite Makers”
• Leon Gellert, “Anzac Cove”
• Vera Brittain, “Sic Transit”
• from Enid Bagnold, A Diary Without Dates
• Hedd Wyn, “Rhyfel” (“War”) (Welsh text and English translation)
• Siegfried Sassoon, “The General” and “Repression of War Experience”
• C.H.B. Kitchin, “Somme Film, 1916”
• Ivor Gurney, “To His Love”
• from Robert Graves, Good-Bye to All That
• (further selections )

WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

• The Lake Isle of Innisfree
• When You Are Old
• No Second Troy
• Easter 1916
• The Wild Swans at Coole
• 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
• (further selections )

MODERNISM AND MODERNITY

• Imagist and Futurist Poetry
• T.E. Hulme
• Autumn
• Ezra Pound
• In a Station of the Metro
• L’Art, 1910
• H.D.
• Oread
• The Pool
• Mina Loy
• from “Aphorisms on Futurism
• Defining Modernist Aesthetics: Pound, Imagism, and Vorticism
• from F.S. Flint, “Imagisme,” Poetry
• from Ezra Pound, “A Few Don’ts by an Imagiste,” Poetry
• from Ezra Pound, “Vorticism,” Gaudier-Brezeska
• Modernity and the Sciences
• from Sigmundd Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams
• from Albert Einstein, Relativity: The Special and General Therapy
• (further selections )

VIRGINIA WOOLF

• Kew Gardens
• from A Room of One’s Own
• Chapter 1
• Chapter 2
• Chapter 3
• IN CONTEXT: Woolf and Bloomsbury
• (further selections )

JAMES JOYCE

• Araby
• Eveline
• IN CONTEXT: Joyce’s Dublin
• (further selections )

KATHERINE MANSFIELD

• The Garden Party

T.S. ELIOT

• The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
• The Waste Land
• (further selections )

W.H. AUDEN

• [Funeral Blues]
• Musée des Beaux Arts
• In Memory of W.B. Yeats
• September 1, 1939

WORLD WAR II

• Winston Churchill, Speeches to the House of Commons
• from “We Shall Fight on the Beaches,” 4 June 1940
• from “Their Finest Hour,” 18 June 1940
• Edith Sitwell, “Still Falls the Rain”
• Nat Burton and Walter Kent, “The White Cliffs of Dover”
• from Mohandas Gandhi, Speeches to the All India Congress Committee (“Quit India” Speeches), August 1942
• Keith Douglas, “Vergissmeinnicht”
• from Henry Reed, Lessons of War
• 1. Naming of Parts
• Douglas LePan, “The Haystack”

INTRODUCTION TO THE LATE TWENTIETH AND EARLY 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

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

• Church Going
• Annus Mirabilis
• This Be the Verse
• Aubade

CHINUA ACHEBE

• Dead Man’s Path

SEAMUS HEANEY

• Digging
• Thatcher
• The Wife’s Tale
• The Grauballe Man
• Punishment
• Casualty
• Seeing Things
• [The door was open and the house was dark]

NGŨGĨ WA THIONG’O

• from Decolonising the Mind
• Chapter 3
• Chapter 4
• Chapter 5

ANGELA CARTER

• The Werewolf

MONTY PYTHON

SALMAN RUSHDIE

• The Prophet’s Hair

KAZUO ISHIGURO

• A Village After Dark

CAROL ANN DUFFY

• Stealing
• Drunk
• Mrs. Lazarus
• Water
• Text

ZADIE SMITH

• Joy

CHIMAMANDA ADICHIE

• A Private Experience

POETRY IN THE LATE TWENTIETH AND TWENTY-FIRST CENTURIES

• Louise Bennett, “Colonization in Reverse”
• Derek Walcott, “A Far Cry from Africa”
• Kamau Brathwaite, “Calypso”
• Margaret Atwood, “You Fit into Me”
• Eavan Boland, “Against Love Poetry”
• Grace Nichol, “Epilogue”
• Paul Muldoon, “Milkweed and Monarch”
• Imtiaz Dharker, “A Century Later”
• Moniza Alvi, “And If”
• Gwyneth Lewis, “Mother Tongue”
• Jackie Kay, “Extinction”
• Simon Armitage, “The English”
• Patience Agbabi, from Telling Tales: “The Kiss”
• Alice Oswald, “Dunt”
• Harry Josephine Giles, “May a transsexual hear a bird?”
• Warsan Shire, “Backwards”
• (further selections)

APPENDICES

• Reading Poetry
• Maps
• Monarchs and Prime Ministers of Great Britain
• Glossary of Terms
• British Money
• Texts and Contexts: Chronological Chart
• Bibliography
• Permissions Acknowledgements
• Index of First Lines
• Index of Authors and Titles