The Longman Anthology of British Literature: The Romantics and Their Contemporaries

by Damrosch, David; Manning, Peter; Wolfson, Susan J.; Schotter, Anne; Sharpe, William; Sherman, Stuart

• ISBN13: 9780321067654
• ISBN10: 0321067657
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-10-01
• Publisher: Prentice Hall

Summary

Volume 2A (The Romantics) of 6-volume splits of parent volumes.

Table of Contents

Preface	xix
Acknowledgments	xxv
Bibliography	xxix
The Romantics and Their Contemporaries	2	(296)
Anna Laetitia Barbauld	29	(17)
The Mouse's Petition to Dr. Priestley	29	(2)
On a Lady's Writing	31	(1)
Inscription for an Ice-House	31	(1)
To a Little Invisible Being Who Is Expected Soon to Become visible	32	(1)
To the Poor	33	(1)
Washing-Day	33	(2)
Eighteen Hundred and Eleven	35	(8)
The First Fire	43	(3)
A Review of Eighteen Hundred and Eleven	45	(1)
John Wilson Croker
Perspectives: The Rights of Man and the Revolution Controversy	46	(1)
Helen Maria Williams	47	(10)
from Letters Written in France, in the Summer of 1790	48	(4)
from Letters from France	52	(5)
Edmund Burke	57	(10)
from Reflections on the Revolution in France	58	(9)
Mary Wollstonecraft	67	(9)
from a Vindication of the Rights of Men	67	(9)
Thomas Paine	76	(6)
from The Rights of Man	76	(6)
William Godwin	82	(6)
from An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness	83	(5)
The Anti-Jacobin	88	(4)
The Friend of Humanity and the Knife-Grinder	88	(4)
Hannah More	92	(7)
Village Politics	92	(7)
Arthur Young	99	(5)
from Travels in France During the Years 1787--1788, and 1789	100	(1)
from The Example of France, a Warning to Britain	101	(3)
William Blake	104	(45)
All Religions Are One	106	(1)
There Is No Natural Religion [a]	107	(1)
There Is No Natural Religion [b]	108	(2)
Songs of Innocence and of Experience	110	(1)
Songs of Innocence
Introduction	110	(1)
The Ecchoing Green	111	(1)
The Lamb	112	(1)
The Little Black Boy	113	(1)
The Chimney Sweeper	114	(1)
The Divine Image	115	(1)
Holy Thursday	115	(1)
Nurse's Song	116	(1)
Infant Joy	116	(1)
The Praise of Chimney-Sweepers	116	(3)
Charles Lamb
Songs of Experience
The Fly	119	(1)
The Clod & the Pebble	120	(1)
Holy Thursday	120	(1)
The Tyger	120	(2)
The Chimney Sweeper	122	(1)
The Sick Rose	122	(1)
Ah! Sun-Flower	123	(1)
The Garden of Love	123	(1)
London	123	(1)
The Human Abstract	124	(1)
Infant Sorrow	124	(1)
A Poison Tree	125	(1)
A Divine Image	126	(1)
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell	126	(13)
Visions of the Daughters of Albion	139	(6)
Letters	145	(1)
To Dr. John Trusler (23 August 1799)	145	(1)
To Thomas Butts (22 November 1802)	146	(3)
Perspectives: The Abolition of Slavery and the Slave Trade	149	(2)
Olaudah Equiano	151	(6)
from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano	151	(6)
Mary Prince	157	(4)
from The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave	158	(3)
Thomas Bellamy	161	(7)
The Benevolent Planters	161	(7)
Ann Yearsley	168	(4)
from A Poem on the Inhumanity of the Slave-Trade	168	(4)
William Cowper	172	(2)
Sweet Meat Has Sour Sauce	173	(1)
Hannah More	174	(4)
The Sorrows of Yamba	174	(4)
Robert Southey	178	(2)
from Poems Concerning the Slave Trade	179	(1)
Dorothy Wordsworth	180	(1)
from The Grasmere Journals	180	(1)
George Gordon, Lord Byron	181	(1)
from Detached Thoughts	181	(1)
Thomas Clarkson	181	(9)
from The History of the Rise, Progress, & Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade by the British Parliament	181	(9)
William Wordsworth	190	(3)
To Toussaint L'Ouverture	190	(1)
To Thomas Clarkson	191	(1)
from The Prelude	191	(1)
from Humanity	192	(1)
Letter to Mary Ann Rawson	192	(1)
The Edinburgh Review	193	(2)
from Abstract of the Information laid on the Table of the House of Commons, on the Subject of the Slave Trade	193	(2)
Mary Robinson	195	(11)
January, 1795	196	(2)
Sappho and Phaon	198	(2)
4 (``Why, when I gaze on Phaon's beauteous eyes'')	198	(1)
12 (``Now, o'er the tesselated pavement strew'')	199	(1)
18 (``Why art thou changed? O Phaon! tell me why?'')	199	(1)
30 (``O'er the tall cliff that bounds the billowy main'')	199	(1)
37 (``When, in the gloomy mansion of the dead'')	200	(1)
The Camp	200	(1)
Lyrical Tales	201	(1)
The Haunted Beach	201	(2)
London's Summer Morning	203	(1)
The Old Beggar	204	(2)
Mary Wollstonecraft	206	(41)
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman	208	(27)
To M. Talleyrand-Perigord, Late Bishop of Autun	208	(2)
Introduction	210	(3)
from Chapter 1. The Rights and Involved Duties of Mankind Considered	213	(3)
from Chapter 2. The Prevailing Opinion of a Sexual Character Discussed	216	(11)
from Chapter 3. The Same Subject Continued	227	(5)
from Chapter 5. Animadversions on Some of the Writers Who Have Rendered Women Objects of Pity, Bordering on Contempt	232	(1)
from Chapter 13. Some Instances of the Folly Which the Ignorance of Women Generates; with Concluding Reflections on the Moral Improvement That a Revolution in Female Manners Might Naturally Be Expected to Produce	233	(2)
Maria; or The Wrongs of Woman	235	(12)
[Jemima's Story]	235	(12)
Perspectives: The Wollstonecraft Controversy and The Rights of Women	247	(1)
Catherine Macaulay	247	(3)
from Letters on Education	248	(2)
Anna Laetitia Barbauld	250	(1)
The Rights of Woman	251	(1)
Robert Southey	251	(1)
To Mary Wolstoncraft	251	(1)
William Blake	252	(1)
from Mary	252	(1)
Richard Polwhele	253	(5)
from The Unsex'd Females	254	(4)
Priscilla Bell Wakefield	258	(4)
from Reflections on the Present Condition of the Female Sex	258	(4)
Mary Anne Radcliffe	262	(7)
from The Female Advocate	262	(7)
Hannah More	269	(6)
from Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education	269	(6)
Mary Anne Lamb	275	(4)
Letter to the British Lady's Magazine [On Needlework]	276	(3)
William Thompson and Anna Wheeler	279	(8)
from 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	280	(7)
Joanna Baillie	287	(11)
Plays on the Passions	287	(5)
from Introductory Discourse	287	(5)
London	292	(1)
A Mother to Her Waking Infant	293	(1)
A Child to His Sick Grandfather	294	(1)
Thunder	295	(2)
Song: Woo'd and Married and A'	297	(1)
Literary Ballads	298	(735)
Reliques of Ancient English Poetry	299	(2)
Sir Patrick Spence	300	(1)
Robert Burns	301	(8)
To a Mouse	302	(1)
Flow gently, sweet Afton	303	(1)
Ae fond kiss	303	(1)
Comin' Thro' the Rye (1)	304	(1)
Comin' Thro' the Rye (2)	304	(1)
Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled	305	(1)
Is there for honest poverty	306	(1)
A Red, Red Rose	307	(1)
Auld Lang Syne	307	(1)
The Fornicator. A New Song	308	(1)
Sir Walter Scott	309	(1)
Lord Randal	309	(1)
Thomas Moore	310	(2)
The harp that once through Tara's halls	310	(1)
Believe me, if all those endearing young charms	310	(1)
The time I've lost in wooing	311	(1)
William Wordsworth	312	(138)
Lyrical Ballads (1798)	313	(1)
Simon Lee	314	(3)
We Are Seven	317	(1)
Lines Written in Early Spring	318	(1)
The Thorn	319	(5)
Note to The Thorn	324	(2)
Expostulation and Reply	326	(1)
The Tables Turned	326	(1)
Old Man Travelling	327	(1)
Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey	328	(4)
Lyrical Ballads (1800, 1802)	332	(1)
Preface	332	(4)
[The Principal Object of the Poems. Humble and Rustic Life]	332	(1)
[``The Spontaneous Overflow of Powerful Feelings'']	333	(1)
[The Language of Poetry]	334	(1)
[What Is a Poet?]	335	(1)
[``Emotion Recollected in Tranquillity'']	336	(1)
There was a Boy	336	(1)
Strange fits of passion have I known	337	(1)
Song (She dwelt among th' untrodden ways)	338	(1)
Three years she grew in sun and shower	338	(1)
Song (A slumber did my spirit seal)	339	(1)
Lucy Gray	340	(1)
Poor Susan	341	(1)
Nutting	342	(1)
Michael	343	(16)
from A Review of Robert Southey's Thalaba	354	(3)
Francis Jeffrey
from Letter to William Wordsworth	357	(1)
Charles Lamb
from Letter to Thomas Manning	358	(1)
Charles Lamb
Sonnets, 1802--1807	359	(1)
Prefatory Sonnet (``Nuns fret not at their Convent's narrow room'')	359	(1)
The world is too much with us	360	(1)
Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1802	360	(1)
It is a beauteous Evening	360	(1)
I griev'd for Buonaparte	361	(1)
London, 1802	361	(3)
from Elegiac Sonnets
Charlotte Smith
To Melancholy	362	(1)
Far on the Sands	362	(1)
To Tranquillity	362	(1)
Written in the Church Yard at Middleton in Sussex	363	(1)
On being cautioned against walking on an headland overlooking the sea	363	(1)
The Prelude, or Growth of a Poet's Mind (1805)	364	(1)
Book First. Introduction, Childhood, and School time	365	(14)
Book Second. School time continued	379	(2)
[Two Consciousnesses]	379	(1)
[Blessed Infant Babe]	380	(1)
Book Fourth, Summer Vacation	381	(3)
[Encounter with a ``Dismissed'' Soldier]	381	(3)
Book Fifth. Books	384	(5)
[Meditation on Books. The Dream of the Arab]	384	(4)
[A Drowning in Esthwaite's Lake]	388	(1)
[``The Mystery of Words'']	388	(1)
Book Sixth. Cambridge, and the Alps	389	(7)
[The Pleasure of Geometric Science]	389	(1)
[Arrival in France]	390	(2)
[Travelling in the Alps. Simplon Pass]	392	(4)
Book Seventh. Residence in London	396	(3)
[A Blind Beggar. Bartholomew Fair]	396	(3)
Book Ninth. Residence in France	399	(7)
[Paris]	399	(4)
[Revolution, Royalists, and Patriots]	403	(3)
Book Tenth. Residence in France and French Revolution	406	(12)
[The Reign of Terror. Confusion. Return to England]	406	(4)
[Further Events in France]	410	(2)
[The Death of Robespierre and Renewed Optimism]	412	(2)
[Britain Declares War on France. The Rise of Napoleon and Imperialist France]	414	(4)
from The Prelude (1850)	418	(1)
William Wordsworth
Book Eleventh. Imagination, How Impaired and Restored	418	(5)
[Imagination Restored by Nature]	418	(2)
[``Spots of Time.'' Two Memories from Childhood and Later Reflections]	420	(3)
Book Thirteenth. Conclusion	423	(7)
[Climbing Mount Snowdon. Moonlit Vista. Meditation on ``Mind,'' ``Self,'' ``Imagination,'' ``Fear,'' and ``Love'']	423	(5)
[Concluding Retrospect and Prophecy]	428	(2)
Resolution and Independence	430	(3)
I wandered lonely as a cloud	433	(1)
My heart leaps up	434	(1)
Ode: Intimations of Immortality	434	(5)
The Solitary Reaper	439	(1)
Elegiac Stanzas	440	(2)
from Preface to The Excursion	442	(5)
from The Character of Mr. Wordsworth's New Poem, The Excursion	445	(1)
William Hazlitt
from A Review of William Wordsworth's Excursion	446	(1)
Francis Jeffrey
Surprized by joy	447	(1)
Mutability	448	(1)
Scorn not the sonnet	448	(1)
Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg	448	(2)
Dorothy Wordsworth	450	(26)
Grasmere---A Fragment	451	(2)
Address to a Child	453	(1)
Irregular Verses	454	(3)
Floating Island	457	(1)
Lines Intended for My Niece's Album	458	(1)
Thoughts on My Sick-bed	459	(1)
When Shall I Tread Your Garden Path?	460	(1)
Lines Written (Rather Say Begun) on the Morning of Sunday April 6th	460	(2)
The Grasmere Journals	462	(6)
[Home Alone]	462	(1)
[A Leech Gatherer]	463	(1)
[A Woman Beggar]	463	(1)
[An Old Soldier]	464	(1)
[The Grasmere Mailman]	465	(1)
[A Vision of the Moon]	465	(1)
[A Field of Daffodils]	466	(1)
[A Beggar Woman from Cockermouth]	466	(1)
[The Circumstances of ``Composed Upon Westminster Bridge'']	467	(1)
[The Circumstances of ``It is a beauteous evening'']	467	(1)
[The Household in Winter, with William's New Wife. Gingerbread]	467	(1)
Letters	468	(1)
To Jane Pollard [A Scheme of Happiness]	468	(1)
To Lady Beaumont [A Gloomy Christmas]	469	(2)
To Lady Beaumont [Her Poetry, William's Poetry]	471	(1)
To Mrs Thomas Clarkson [Household Labors]	472	(1)
To Mrs Thomas Clarkson [A Prospect of Publishing]	473	(1)
To William Johnson [Mountain-Climbing with a Woman]	473	(3)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge	476	(79)
Sonnet to the River Otter	478	(1)
To the River Itchin, Near Winton	478	(1)
William Lisle Bowles
The Eolian Harp	478	(2)
This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison	480	(2)
The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere (1798)	482	(2)
Part 1	482	(2)
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1817)	484	(17)
The Castaway	499	(1)
William Cowper
from Table Talk	500	(1)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Kubla Khan	501	(2)
Christabel	503	(15)
Frost at Midnight	518	(1)
Dejection: An Ode	519	(3)
On Donne's Poetry	522	(1)
Work Without Hope	522	(1)
Constancy to an Ideal Object	523	(1)
Epitaph	524	(1)
from The Statesman's Manual [Symbol and Allegory]	524	(1)
Biographia Literaria	525	(12)
Chapter 4	525	(1)
[On Lyrical Ballads]	525	(1)
[Wordsworth's Earlier Poetry]	525	(1)
Chapter 11	526	(1)
[The Profession of Literature]	526	(2)
Chapter 13	528	(1)
[Imagination and Fancy]	528	(3)
Chapter 14	531	(1)
[Occasion of the Lyrical Ballads---Preface to the Second Edition---The Ensuing Controversy]	531	(2)
[Philosophic Definitions of a Poem and Poetry]	533	(1)
Chapter 17	533	(1)
[Examination of the Tenets Peculiar to Mr. Wordsworth. Rustic Life and Poetic Language]	533	(4)
from Jacobinism	537	(1)
from Once a Jacobin Always a Jacobin	538	(3)
Lectures on Shakespeare	541	(14)
[Mechanic vs. Organic Form]	541	(1)
[The Character of Hamlet]	542	(1)
[Stage Illusion and the Willing Suspension of Disbelief]	543	(1)
[Shakespeare's Images]	544	(1)
[Othello]	544	(2)
Coleridge's Lectures in Context: Shakespeare in the Nineteenth Century	546	(1)
Preface to Tales from Shakespear	546	(2)
Charles Lamb
Mary Lamb
from On the Tragedies of Shakspeare	548	(3)
Charles Lamb
from Lectures on the English Poets	551	(1)
William Hazlitt
from The Characters of Shakespeare's Plays	552	(1)
On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth	552	(3)
Thomas De Quincey
George Gordon, Lord Byron	555	(96)
She walks in beauty	557	(1)
So, we'll go no more a-roving	558	(1)
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage	558	(1)
Canto 3	558	(4)
[Thunderstorm in Switzerland]	558	(2)
[Byron's Strained Idealism. Apostrophe to His Daughter]	560	(2)
Canto 4	562	(7)
[Rome. Political Hopes]	562	(1)
[The Colloseum. The Dying Gladiator]	563	(2)
[Apostrophe to the Ocean. Conclusion]	565	(2)
from A Review of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage	567	(1)
John Wilson
[Lord Byron's Creations]	568	(1)
John Scott
Don Juan	569	(1)
Dedication	570	(4)
Canto 1	574	(42)
from Canto 2 [Shipwreck. Juan and Haidee]	616	(15)
from Canto 3 [Juan and Haidee. The Poet for Hire]	631	(8)
from Canto 7 [Critique of Military ``Glory'']	639	(1)
from Canto 11 [Juan in England]	640	(3)
Stanzas (``When a man hath no freedom to fight for at home'')	643	(1)
On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year	643	(1)
Letters	644	(1)
To Thomas Moore [On Childe Harold]	644	(1)
To John Murray [On Don Juan] (6 April 1819)	645	(1)
To John Murray [On Don Juan] (12 August 1819)	646	(1)
To Douglas Kinnaird [On Don Juan] (26 October 1819)	647	(2)
To John Murray [On Don Juan] (16 February 1821)	649	(1)
To Augusta Leigh [On His Daughter]	649	(2)
Percy Bysshe Shelley	651	(55)
To Wordsworth	653	(1)
Mont Blanc	653	(4)
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty	657	(2)
Ozymandias	659	(1)
Sonnet: Lift not the painted veil	659	(1)
Sonnet: England in 1819	660	(1)
The Mask of Anarchy	660	(10)
Ode to the West Wind	670	(2)
To a Sky-Lark	672	(3)
To---(``Music, when soft voices die'')	675	(1)
Adonais	675	(17)
from Don Juan	690	(1)
George Fordon
Lord Byron
Letter to Percy Bysshe Shelley	691	(1)
George Gordon
Lord Byron
Letter to John Murray	691	(1)
George Gordon
Lord Byron
Hellas	692	(3)
Chorus (``Worlds on worlds are rolling ever'')	692	(2)
Chorus (``The world's great age begins anew'')	694	(1)
from a Defence of Poetry	695	(11)
Felicia Hemans	706	(30)
Tales, and Historic Scenes, in Verse	707	(1)
The Wife of Asdrubal	707	(2)
The Last Banquet of Antony and Cleopatra	709	(4)
Evening Prayer, at a Girls' School	713	(1)
Casabianca	714	(2)
Records of Woman	716	(1)
The Bride of the Greek Isles	716	(5)
Properzia Rossi	721	(3)
Indian Woman's Death-Song	724	(1)
Joan of Arc, in Rheims	725	(3)
The Homes of England	728	(1)
The Graves of a Household	729	(1)
Corinne at the Capitol	730	(1)
Woman and Fame	731	(5)
from A Review of Felicia Hemans's Poetry	732	(3)
Francis Jeffrey
from Prefatory Note to Extempore Effusion on the Death of James Hogg	735	(1)
William Wordsworth
John Clare	736	(10)
Written in November (1)	737	(1)
Written in November (2)	738	(1)
Songs Eternity	738	(1)
[The Lament of Swordy Well]	739	(5)
[The Mouse's Nest]	744	(1)
Clock a Clay	744	(1)
``I Am''	745	(1)
John Keats	746	(64)
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer	748	(2)
from Homer's Iliad	748	(1)
Alexander Pope
from Homer's Iliad	749	(1)
George Chapman
from Homer's Odyssey	749	(1)
Alexander Pope
from Homer's Odyssey	749	(1)
George Chapman
On the Grasshopper and Cricket	750	(1)
from Sleep and Poetry	750	(7)
from On the Cockney School of Poetry	752	(3)
John Gibson Lockhart
from The Cockney School of Poetry	755	(2)
John Gibson Lockhart
On Seeing the Elgin Marbles	757	(1)
On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again	757	(1)
Sonnet: When I have fears	758	(1)
The Eve of St. Agnes	758	(10)
La Belle Dame sans Mercy	768	(1)
Incipit Altera Sonneta (``If by dull rhymes'')	769	(1)
The Odes of 1819	770	(1)
Ode to Psyche	771	(2)
Ode to a Nightingale	773	(2)
Ode on a Grecian Urn	775	(1)
Ode on Indolence	776	(2)
Ode on Melancholy	778	(1)
To Autumn	779	(1)
The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream	780	(13)
This living hand	793	(1)
Bright Star	793	(1)
Letters	794	(1)
To Benjamin Bailey [``The Truth of Imagination'']	794	(1)
To George and Thomas Keats [``Intensity'' and ``Negative Capability'']	795	(1)
To John Hamilton Reynolds [Wordsworth and ``The Whims of an Egotist'']	796	(1)
To John Taylor [``a few Axioms'']	797	(1)
To Benjamin Bailey [``ardent pursuit'']	797	(1)
To John Hamilton Reynolds [Wordsworth, Milton, and ``dark Passages'']	798	(3)
To Benjamin Bailey (``I have not a right feeling towards Women'')	801	(1)
To Richard Woodhouse (The ``Camelion Poet'' vs. The ``Egotistical Sublime'')	801	(2)
To George and Georgiana Keats (``Indolence,'' ``Poetry'' vs. ``Philosophy,'' the ``Vale of Soul-Making'')	803	(4)
To Fanny Brawne (``You Take Possession of Me'')	807	(1)
To Percy Bysshe Shelley (``An Artist Must Serve Mammon'')	808	(1)
To Charles Brown (Keats's Last Letter)	809	(1)
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley	810	(148)
Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus (1818)	811	(116)
Frankenstein (1831)	927	(31)
Introduction	927	(4)
from Volume 1, Chapter 1	931	(1)
from Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude	932	(6)
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Journal Entries	938	(1)
Mary Shelley
from Letter to Edward John Trelawny (April 1829)	939	(1)
Mary Shelley
Frankenstein in Context: Romantic-Era Writers and Milton's Satan	940	(1)
from Paradise Lost	941	(7)
John Milton
from An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice	948	(1)
William Godwin
Prometheus	948	(2)
George Gordon
Lord Byron
from Glenarvon	950	(2)
Caroline Lamb
To one who has been long in city pent	952	(1)
John Keats
from Marginalia to Paradise Lost	952	(2)
from Lectures on the English Poets	954	(1)
William Hazlitt
from Preface to Prometheus Unbound	955	(1)
Percy Bysshe Shelley
from A Defence of Poetry	955	(1)
(What Do We Mean by Literature?)	956	(2)
Thomas De Quincey
Perspectives: Popular Prose and the Problems of Authorship	958	(2)
Sir Walter Scott	960	(5)
Introduction to Tales of My Landlord	961	(4)
Charles Lamb	965	(10)
Oxford in the Vacation	966	(4)
Dream Children	970	(2)
Old China	972	(3)
William Hazlitt	975	(17)
On Gusto	976	(3)
My First Acquaintance with Poets	979	(13)
Thomas De Quincey	992	(28)
from Confessions of an English Opium-Eater	993	(27)
Jane Austen	1020	(8)
from Pride and Prejudice	1021	(1)
from Emma	1022	(6)
Letter to James S. Clarke (11 December 1815)	1028	(1)
William Cobbett	1028	(5)
from Rural Rides	1029	(4)
Political and Religious Orders	1033	(6)
Money, Weights, and Measures	1039	(2)
Literary and Cultural Terms	1041	(24)
Credits	1065	(2)
Index	1067