The Broadview Anthology of British Literature: Compact Edition, Volume B – Second Edition

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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

• 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 overlooking 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 (1792)
    • from The Critical Review (1792)
  • (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 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 and audio 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
  • from Preface
  • Song [She dwelt among th’untrodden ways]
  • [A slumber did my spirit seal]
  • Lucy Gray
  • [I griev’d for Buonaparté]
  • Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1803
  • [The world is too much with us]
  • [It is a beauteous Evening]
  • London, 1802
  • The Solitary Reaper
  • [My heart leaps up]
  • 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
  • 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
• IN CONTEXT: The Origin of “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
  • from Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria, Chapter 14
• 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: Mary Prince and Slavery
  • Report of the Presentation of Mary Prince’s Petition 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: A Poem”
• Ann Yearsley, “A Poem on the Inhumanity of the Slave-Trade”
• 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; or, the Modern Prometheus
  • from Volume 1
  • from Chapter 3
  • from Chapter 4
  • (further selections and contextual material)

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

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
  • from 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
• from John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women
  • from 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

• 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,” Fraser’s Magazine
• 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”
• Edward 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”)
• from Siegfried Sassoon, Counter-attack and Other Poems
• The General
• 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 and audio selection)

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-Brzeska

Modernity and the Sciences

• from Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams
• from Albert Einstein, Relativity: The Special and General Theory
• (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 and audio selection)

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 Mahatma Gandhi, Speeches to the All India Congress Committee (“Quit India”
  Speeches), August 1942
  • from Speech at AICC Meeting, 7 August 1942
  • from Speech at AICC Meeting, 8 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 TWENTY-FIRST CENTURIES: FROM 1945 ONWARD

• The Birth 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 Men’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 (video selection)

Salman Rushdie

• The Prophet’s Hair

Kazuo Ishiguro

• A Village after Dark

Carol Ann Duffy

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

Zadie Smith

• Joy

Chimamanda Ngozi 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 Nichols, “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”
• (video selections)

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