The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Major Authors

by Abrams, M. H.; Abrams, M. H.

• ISBN13: 9780393968033
• ISBN10: 0393968030
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-03-01
• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc

Table of Contents

Preface to the Sixth Edition	xxix
Acknowledgments	xxxiv
The Middle Ages (to ca. 1485)	1	(252)
Introduction	1	(15)
Timeline	16	(2)
Beowulf	18	(47)
The Last Survivor's Speech in Old English with Verse Translation	22	(1)
Beowulf	23	(42)
[Prologue: The Earlier History of the Danes]	23	(1)
[Beowulf and Grendel]	24	(23)
[Beowulf Returns Home]	47	(5)
[Beowulf and the Dragon]	52	(8)
[Beowulf's Funeral]	60	(5)
Geoffrey Chaucer (ca. 1343--1400)	65	(100)
The Canterbury Tales	68	(2)
The General Prologue	70	(20)
The Miller's Prologue and Tale	90	(16)
The Prologue	90	(2)
The Tale	92	(14)
The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale	106	(28)
The Prologue	106	(19)
The Tale	125	(9)
The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale	134	(15)
The Introduction	134	(1)
The Prologue	135	(3)
The Tale	138	(9)
The Epilogue	147	(2)
The Nun's Priest's Tale	149	(14)
From the Parson's Tale	163	(2)
The Introduction	163	(1)
Chaucer's Retraction	164	(1)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (ca. 1375--1400)	165	(55)
Mystery Plays	220	(12)
The Chester Play of Noah's Flood	221	(11)
Sir Thomas Malory (ca. 1405--1471)	232	(21)
Morte Darthur	234	(19)
[The Conspiracy Against Lancelot and Guinevere]	234	(5)
[War Breaks Out between Arthur and Lancelot]	239	(3)
[The Death of Arthur]	242	(6)
[The Deaths of Lancelot and Guinevere]	248	(5)
The Sixteenth Century (1485--1603)	253	(296)
Introduction	253	(19)
Timeline	272	(2)
Edmund Spenser (1552--1599)	274	(152)
The Faerie Queene	275	(2)
A Letter of the Authors	277	(3)
Book 1	280	(132)
Amoretti	412	(3)
(``Happy ye leaves when as those lilly hands'')	412	(1)
(``Lyke as a ship that through the ocean wyde'')	412	(1)
(``What guyle is this, that those her golden tresses'')	412	(1)
(``Of this worlds theatre in which we stay'')	413	(1)
(``Comming to kisse her lyps [such grace I found]'')	413	(1)
(``The doubt which ye misdeeme, fayre love, is vaine'')	413	(1)
(``Lyke as a huntsman after weary chace'')	414	(1)
(``Most glorious Lord of lyfe, that on this day'')	414	(1)
(``Most happy letters framed by skilfull trade'')	414	(1)
(``One day I wrote her name upon the strand'')	415	(1)
(``Men call you fayre, and you doe credit it'')	415	(1)
Epithalamion	415	(11)
Christopher Marlowe (1564--1593)	426	(39)
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love	427	(1)
The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus	428	(37)
William Shakespeare (1564--1616)	465	(84)
Songs from the Plays	467	(1)
Under the Greenwood Tree	467	(1)
Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind	468	(1)
It Was a Lover and His Lass	468	(1)
Oh Mistress Mine	469	(1)
Where the Bee Sucks, There Suck I	469	(1)
Sonnets	469	(13)
The Dedication	469	(1)
(``Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest'')	470	(1)
(``When I do count the clock that tells the time'')	470	(1)
(``When I consider every thing that grows'')	470	(1)
(``Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?'')	471	(1)
(``Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws'')	471	(1)
(``A woman's face with Nature's own hand painted'')	472	(1)
(``When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes'')	472	(1)
(``When to the sessions of sweet silent thought'')	472	(1)
(``No more be grieved at that which thou hats done'')	473	(1)
(``Not marble, nor the gilded monuments'')	473	(1)
(``Like as the waves make towards the pibbled shore'')	474	(1)
(``Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea'')	474	(1)
(``No longer mourn for me when I am dead'')	475	(1)
(``That time of year thou mayst in me behold'')	475	(1)
(``Farewell: thou art too dear for my possessing'')	475	(1)
(``They that have power to hurt and will do none'')	476	(1)
(``How like a winter hath my absence been'')	476	(1)
(``When in the chronicle of wasted time'')	477	(1)
(``Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul'')	477	(1)
(``Let me not to the marriage of true minds'')	477	(1)
(``O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power'')	478	(1)
(``How oft when thou, my music, music play'st'')	478	(1)
(``Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame'')	479	(1)
(``My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun'')	479	(1)
(``Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy Will'')	480	(1)
(``When my love swears that she is made of truth'')	480	(1)
(``Two loves I have of comfort and despair'')	480	(1)
(``Poor soul, the center of my sinful earth'')	481	(1)
(``My love is as a fever, longing still'')	481	(1)
The First Part of King Henry the Fourth	482	(67)
LYRIC POETS OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY	549	(22)
Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder (1503--1542)	459	(94)
The Long Love That in My Thought Doth Harbor	550	(1)
Whoso List to Hunt	550	(1)
My Lute, Awake!	551	(1)
They Flee from Me	552	(1)
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517--1547)	553	(1)
Love, That Doth Reign and Live Within My Thought	553	(1)
Queen Elizabeth (1533--1603)	554	(1)
The Doubt of Future Foes	554	(1)
On Monsieur's Departure	555	(1)
Sir Walter Ralegh (1552--1618)	555	(2)
The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd	556	(1)
Sir Philip Sidney (1554--1586)	557	(5)
Astrophil and Stella	557	(5)
(``Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show'')	558	(1)
(``Not at first sight, nor with a dribbed shot'')	558	(1)
(``Some lovers speak, when they their muses entertain'')	558	(1)
(``When Nature made her chief work, Stella's eyes'')	559	(1)
(``With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies'')	559	(1)
(``Come sleep! O sleep the certain knot of peace'')	560	(1)
(``Oft with true sighs, oft with uncalled tears'')	560	(1)
(``Who will in fairest book of Nature know'')	560	(1)
(``Desire, though thou my old companion art'')	561	(1)
(``I never drank of Aganippe well'')	561	(1)
(``When Sorrow [using mine own fire's might]'')	561	(1)
Leave Me, O Love	562	(1)
Michael Drayton (1563--1631)	562	(1)
Idea
(``Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part'')	563	(1)
Thomas Nashe (1567--1601)	563	(2)
A Litany in Time of Plague	564	(1)
Aemilia Lanyer (1569--1645)	565	(6)
The Description of Cooke-ham	565	(6)
The Early Seventeenth Century (1603--1660)	571	(228)
Introduction	571	(11)
Timeline	582	(2)
John Donne (1572--1631)	584	(34)
The Good--Morrow	586	(1)
Son (``Go and catch a falling star'')	587	(1)
The Undertaking	588	(1)
The Sun Rising	589	(1)
The Indifferent	589	(1)
The Canonization	590	(2)
Air and Angels	592	(1)
Break of Day	592	(1)
A Valediction: Of Weeping	593	(1)
Love's alchemy	594	(1)
The Flea	594	(1)
A Nocturnal upon Saint Lucy's Day, Being the Shortest Day	595	(1)
The Apparition	596	(1)
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning	597	(1)
The Ecstasy	598	(2)
The Funeral	600	(1)
The Blossom	601	(1)
The Relic	602	(1)
A lecture upon the Shadow	603	(1)
Elegy 16. On His Mistress	603	(2)
Elegy 19. To His Mistress Going to Bed	605	(1)
Satire 3	606	(3)
Holy Sonnets	609	(4)
(``Thou hast made me, and shall thy work decay?'')	609	(1)
(``I am a little world made cunningly'')	610	(1)
(``At the round earth's imagined corners, blow'')	610	(1)
(``If poisonous minerals, and if that tree'')	611	(1)
(``Death, be not proud, though some have called thee'')	611	(1)
(``What if this present were the world's last night?'')	611	(1)
(``Batter my heart, three-personed God; for you'')	612	(1)
(``Since she whom I loved hath paid her last debt'')	612	(1)
(``Show me, dear Christ, thy spouse so bright and clear'')	612	(1)
Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward	613	(1)
A Hymn to Christ, at the Author's Last Going into Germany	614	(1)
Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness	615	(1)
A Hymn to God the Father	616	(1)
Devotions upon Emergent Occasions	616	(2)
Meditation 17	616	(2)
Ben Jonson (1572--1637)	618	(17)
To My Book	619	(1)
On something, That Walks Somewhere	620	(1)
To William Camden	620	(1)
On My First Daughter	620	(1)
To John Donne	621	(1)
On Giles and Joan	621	(1)
On My first Son	622	(1)
To Lucy Countess of Bedford, with Mr. Donne's Satires	622	(1)
Inviting a Friend to Supper	622	(2)
Epitaph on S. P., a Child of Queen Elizabeth's Chapel	624	(1)
Epitaph on Elizabeth, L. H.	624	(1)
To Penshurst	625	(2)
Song: To Celia	627	(1)
To Heaven	627	(1)
In the Person of Womankind (In Defense of their Inconstancy)	628	(1)
My Picture Left in Scotland	629	(1)
Slow, Slow, Fresh Fount	629	(1)
Queen and Huntress	630	(1)
Still to Be Neat	630	(1)
Though I Am Young	631	(1)
To the Memory of My Beloved, The Author, Mr. William Shakespeare, and What He Hath Left Us	631	(2)
Ode to Himself	633	(2)
John Milton (1608--1674)	635	(164)
On Shakespeare	637	(1)
L'Allegro	637	(4)
Il Penseroso	641	(4)
Lycidas	645	(6)
From Areopagitica	651	(9)
Sonnets	660	(1)
How Soon Hath Time	661	(1)
When I Consider How My Light Is Spent	661	(1)
On the Late Massacre in Piedmont	662	(1)
Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint	662	(1)
Paradise Lost	662	(137)
Book 1	664	(20)
Book 2	684	(23)
Book 3	707	(1)
[The Invocation, the Council in Heaven and the Conclusion of Satan's Journey]	707	(13)
Book 4	720	(1)
[Satan's Entry into Paradise; Adam and Eve in their Bower]	720	(18)
Book 5	738	(1)
[Eve's Dream: Trouble in Paradise]	738	(3)
[A Visit with the Angel: The Scale of Nature]	741	(3)
[Book 6. Summary]	744	(1)
Book 7	744	(1)
[The Invocation]	744	(2)
Book 8	746	(1)
[Adam Describes His Own Creation, and that of Eve; Having Repeated His Warning, the Angel Departs]	746	(8)
Book 9	754	(27)
Book 10	781	(1)
[Consequences of the Fall]	781	(4)
[Adam, Eve, and the First Steps to Redemption]	785	(9)
[Book 11. Summary]	794	(1)
Book 12	794	(1)
[The Departure from Eden]	794	(5)
LYRIC POETS OF THE EARLY SEVENTEENTH CENTURY	799	(20)
Lady May Wroth (1587?--1651?)	799	(4)
The Countess of Montgomery's Urania Song (``Love what art thou? A vain thought'')	800	(1)
Pamphilia to Amphilanthus	801	(2)
(``When night's black mantle could most darkness prove'')	801	(1)
(``Am I thus conquered? Have I lost the powers'')	801	(1)
(``False hope which feeds but to destroy, and spill'')	802	(1)
From A Crown of Sonnets Dedicated to Love	802	(1)
(``In this strange labyrinth how shall I turn?'')	802	(1)
Robert Herrick (1591--1674)	803	(3)
Delight in Disorder	803	(1)
Corinna's Going A-Maying	804	(2)
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time	806	(1)
Upon Julia's Clothes	806	(1)
George Herbert (1593--1633)	806	(6)
The Altar	807	(1)
Redemption	808	(1)
Easter Wings	808	(1)
Jordan (1)	809	(1)
The Collar	809	(1)
The Pulley	810	(1)
The Flower	811	(1)
Love (3)	812	(1)
Richard Lovelace (1618--1657)	812	(2)
To Lucasta, Going to the Wars	813	(1)
To Althea, from Prison	813	(1)
Andrew Marvell (1621--1678)	814	(5)
To His Coy Mistress	815	(1)
The Definition of Love	816	(1)
The Garden	817	(2)
The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century (1660--1785)	819	(423)
Introduction	819	(21)
Timeline	840	(2)
John Dryden (1631--1700)	842	(40)
Song from Marriage a la Mode	844	(1)
Absalom and Achitophel: A Poem	844	(25)
Mac Flecknoe	869	(6)
To the Memory of Mr. Oldham	875	(1)
A Song for St. Cecilia's Day	876	(2)
Epigram on Milton	878	(1)
Criticism	878	(1)
An Essay of Dramatic Poesy	878	(2)
[Shakespeare and Ben Jonson Compared]	878	(2)
A Discourse Concerning the Original and Progress of Satire	880	(1)
[The Art of Satire]	880	(1)
The Preface to Fables Ancient and Modern	881	(1)
[In Praise of Chaucer]	881	(1)
Jonathan Swift (1667--1745)	882	(172)
A Description of a City Shower	884	(2)
Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift	886	(11)
A Tale of a Tub	897	(8)
A Digression Concerning the Original, the Use, and Improvement of Madness in a Commonwealth	897	(8)
Gulliver's Travels	905	(143)
A Letter from Captain Gulliver to His Cousin Sympson	906	(3)
The Publisher to the Reader	909	(1)
A Voyage to Lilliput	910	(38)
A Voyage to Brobdingnag	948	(41)
A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdrib, Luggnagg, and Japan	989	(1)
[The Flying Island of Laputa]	989	(6)
[The Academy of Lagado]	995	(2)
The Struldbruggs]	997	(5)
A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms	1002	(46)
A Modest Proposal	1048	(6)
Alexander Pope (1688--1744)	1054	(74)
An Essay on Criticism	1058	(17)
The Rape of the Lock	1075	(19)
Ode on Solitude	1094	(1)
Epistle to Miss Blount	1095	(1)
An essay on Man	1096	(7)
Epistle 1. Of the Nature and State of Man, With Respect to the Universe	1097	(6)
From Epistle 2. Of the Nature and State of Man With Respect to Himself, as an Individual	1103	(1)
Epistle 2. To a Lady	1103	(8)
Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot	1111	(11)
The Dunciad: from Book the Fourth	1122	(6)
[The Educator]	1124	(1)
[The Carnation and the Butterfly]	1125	(1)
[The Triumph of Dulness]	1126	(2)
Samuel Johnson (1709--1784)	1128	(114)
The Vanity of Human Wishes	1131	(8)
On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet	1139	(1)
Translationof Horace, Odes, Book 4.7	1140	(1)
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia	1141	(65)
Rambler No. 4 [On Fiction]	1206	(4)
Rambler No. 60 [Biography]	1210	(3)
A Dictionary of the English Language	1213	(6)
From Preface	1213	(4)
[Some Definitions: A Small Anthology]	1217	(2)
The Preface to Shakespeare	1219	(10)
[Shakespeare's Excellence. General Nature]	1219	(3)
[Shakespeare's Faults. The Three Dramatic Unities]	1222	(6)
[Henry IV]	1228	(1)
Lives of the Poets	1229	(1)
Cowley	1229	(2)
[Metaphysical Wit]	1229	(2)
Milton	1231	(7)
[Lycidas]	1231	(1)
[L'Allegro, Il Penseroso]	1232	(1)
[Paradise Lost]	1233	(5)
Pope	1238	(4)
[Pope's Intellectual Character. Pope and Dryden Compared]	1238	(4)
LYRIC POETS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY	1242	(19)
Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661--1720)	1242	(3)
The Introduction	1243	(1)
A Nocturnal Reverie	1244	(1)
Matthew Prior (1664--1721)	1245	(2)
A True Maid	1246	(1)
A Better Answer	1246	(1)
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689--1762)	1247	(4)
The Lover: A Ballad	1247	(2)
Epistle from Mrs. Yonge to Her Husband	1249	(2)
Thomas Gray (1716--1771)	1251	(5)
Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat	1251	(2)
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard	1253	(3)
William Collins (1721--1759)	1256	(2)
Ode Written in the Beginning of the Year 1746	1256	(1)
Ode to Evening	1257	(1)
William Cowper (1731--1800)	1258	(3)
The Castaway	1259	(2)
The Romantic Period (1785--1830)	1261	(572)
Introduction	1261	(17)
Timeline	1278	(2)
William Blake (1757--1827)	1280	(48)
From Poetical Sketches	1284	(1)
To Spring	1284	(1)
To the Evening Star	1284	(1)
Song (``How sweet I roam'd from field to field'')	1285	(1)
To the Muses	1285	(1)
All Religions Are One	1286	(1)
There is No Natural Religion [a]	1287	(1)
There is No Natural Religion [b]	1287	(1)
Songs of Innocence and of Experience	1288	(1)
From Songs of Innocence	1288	(5)
Introduction	1288	(1)
The Ecchoing Green	1288	(1)
The Lamb	1289	(1)
The Little Black Boy	1290	(1)
The Chimney Sweeper	1290	(1)
The Divine Image	1291	(1)
Holy Thursday	1292	(1)
Nurse's Song	1292	(1)
Infant Joy	1292	(1)
Froim Songs of Experience	1293	(7)
Introduction	1293	(1)
EArth's Answer	1294	(1)
The clod & the Pebble	1294	(1)
Holy Thursday	1295	(1)
The Chimney Sweeper	1295	(1)
Nurse's Song	1295	(1)
The Sick Rose	1296	(1)
The Tyger	1296	(1)
My Pretty Rose Tree	1297	(1)
Ah Sun-Flower	1297	(1)
The Garden of Love	1297	(1)
London	1298	(1)
The Human Abstract	1298	(1)
Infant Sorrow	1299	(1)
A Poison Tree	1299	(1)
To Tirzah	1300	(1)
A Divine Image	1300	(1)
The Book of Thel	1300	(5)
Visions of the Daughters of Albion	1305	(7)
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell	1312	(11)
A Song of Liberty	1323	(1)
From Blake's Notebook	1324	(1)
Mock on, Mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau	1324	(1)
Never pain to tell thy love	1325	(1)
I asked a thief	1325	(1)
And did those feet	1325	(1)
From a Vision of The Last Judgment	1326	(2)
William Wordsworth (1770--1850)	1328	(153)
From Lyrical Ballads	1331	(1)
We Are Seven	1331	(2)
LInes Written in Early Spring	1333	(1)
Expostulation and Reply	1334	(1)
The Tables Turned	1335	(1)
Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey	1336	(4)
Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1802)	1340
[The Subject and language of Poetry]	1341	(6)
[``What Is a Poet?'']	1347	(4)
[``Emotion Recollected in Tranquility'']	1351
Strange fits of passion have I known	352	(1001)
She Dwelt among the untrodden ways	1353	(1)
Three years she grew	1354	(1)
A slumber did my spirit seal	1355	(1)
I travelled among unknown men	1355	(1)
Nutting	1355	(2)
The Ruined Cottage	1357	(11)
Michael	1368	(10)
Resolution and Independence	1378	(3)
I wandered lonely as a cloud	1381	(451)
My heart leaps up	1832
Ode: Intimations of Immortality	1382	(7)
Ode to Duty	1389	(1)
The Solitary Reaper	1390	(1)
Elegiac Stanzas	1391	(2)
Sonnets	1393	(1)
Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802	1393	(1)
It is a Beauteous evening	1393	(1)
London, 1802	1394	(1)
The world is too much with us	1394	(1)
Surprised by joy	1395	(1)
Mutability	1395	(1)
Steamboats, Viaducts, and Railways	1395	(1)
Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg	1396	(1)
Prospectus to The Recluse	1397	(3)
The Prelude, or Growth of a Poet's and	1400	(2)
Book First. Introduction, Childhood, and School-time	1402	(15)
Book Second. School-time continued	1417	(10)
Book Third. Residence at Cambridge	1427	(4)
[Experiences at St. John's College. The ``Heroic Argument'']	1429	(2)
Book Fourth. Summer Vacation	1431	(7)
[The Walks with His Terrier. The Circuit of the Lake]	1431	(3)
[``The Surface of Past Time.'' The Walk Home from the Dance. The Discharged Solider]	1434	(4)
Book Fifth. Books	1438	(4)
[The Dream of the Arab]	1438	(2)
[The Boy of Winander]	1440	(2)
[``The Mystery of Words'']	1442	(1)
Book Sixth. Cambridge, and the Alps	1442	(4)
[``Human Nature Seeming Born Again'']	1442	(3)
[Crossing Simplon Pass]	1445	(1)
Book Seventh. Residence in London	1446	(3)
[The Blind Beggar. Bartholomew Fair][	1446	(3)
Book Eighth. Retrospect, Love of Nature leading to Love of Man	1449	(2)
[The Shepherd in the Mist. Man Still Subordinate to Nature]	1449	(2)
Book Ninth. Residence in France	1451	(3)
[Paris and Orleans. Becomes a ``Patriot'']	1451	(3)
Book Tenth. France continued	1454	(3)
[The Revolution: Paris and England]	1454	(2)
[The Reign of Terror. Nightmares]	1456	(1)
Book Eleventh. France, concluded	1457	(5)
[Retrospect: ``Bliss Was It in That Dawn.'' Recourse to ``Reason's Naked Self'']	1457	(4)
[Crisis, Breakdown, and Recovery]	1461	(1)
Book Twelfth. Imagination and Taste, how impaired and restored	1462	(7)
Book Thirteenth. Subject concluded	1469	(5)
[Return to ``Life's Familiar Face'']	1469	(1)
[Discovery of His Poetic Subject. Salisbury Plain. Sight of `a New World'']	1470	(4)
Book Fourteenth. Conclusions	1474	(7)
[The Vision on Mount Snowdon. Fear vs. Love Resolved. Imagination]	1474	(5)
[Conclusion: ``The Mind of Man'']	1479	(2)
Samuel Taylor Coolidge (1772--1834_\)	1481	(69)
The Eolian Harp	1484	(1)
This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison	1485	(2)
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner	1487	(17)
Kubla Khan	1504	(2)
Christabel	1506	(16)
Froast at Midnight	1522	(2)
Dejection: An Ode	1524	(3)
To William Wordsworth	1527	(3)
Recollections of Love	1530	(1)
On Donne's Poetry	1531	(1)
work without Hope	1531	(1)
Epitaph	1532	(1)
Biogrpahica Literaria	1532	(18)
Chapter 1	1533	(1)
[The discipline of his taste at school]	1533	(1)
[Bowles's sonnets]	1534	(2)
[Comparison between the poets before and since Mr. Pope]	1536	(2)
Chapter 4	1538	(1)
[Mr. Wordsworth's earlier poems]	1538	(3)
[On fancy and imagination-the investigation of the distinction important to the fine arts]	1541	(1)
Chapter 13	1542	(1)
[On the imagination, or esemplastic power]	1542	(1)
Chapter 14. Occasion of the Lyrical Ballads, and the objects originally proposed-preface to the second edition-the ensuing controversy, its causes and acrimony-philosophic definitions of a poem and poetry with scholia	1542	(5)
Chapter 17	1547	(1)
[Examination of the tenets peculiar to Mr. Wordsworth]	1547	(1)
{Rustic life (above all, low and rustic life) especially unfavorable to the formation of a human diction-the best parts of language the products of philosophers, not clowns or shepherds]	1548	(1)
[The language of Milton as much the language of real life, yea, incomparably more so than that of the cottager]	1548	(2)
George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824)	1550	(118)
Written after Swimming from Sestos to Abydos	1554	(1)
She walks in beauty	1555	(1)
When we two parted	1556	(1)
Stanzas for Music	1556	(1)
DArkness	1557	(2)
So, we'll go no more a roving	1559	(1)
When a man hath no freedom to fight for at home	1559	(1)
Child Harold's Pilgrimage	1560	(1)
Canto 1	1560	(1)
[``Sin's Long Labyrinth'']	1560	(1)
Canto 3	1561	(16)
[``Once More Upon the Waters'']	1561	(4)
[Waterloo]	1565	(2)
[Napoleon]	1567	(3)
[Switzerland]	1570	(7)
The Vision of Judgment	1577	(21)
Don Juan	1598	(1)
Fragment	1599	(1)
Canto 1	1599	(26)
[Juan and Donna Julia]	1599	(26)
Canto 2	1625	(19)
[The Shipwreck]	1625	(6)
[Juan and Haidee]	1631	(13)
Canto 3	1644	(7)
[Juan and Haidee]	1644	(7)
Canto 4	1651	(8)
[Juan and Haidee]	1651	(8)
Letters	1659	(1)
To Thomas Moore (Jan. 28, 1817)	1659	(3)
To John Murray (Sept. 15, 1817)	1662	(1)
To John Cam Hobhouse and Douglas Kinnaird (Jan. 19, 1819)	1663	(2)
To Douglas Kinnaird (Oct. 26, [1819])	1665	(1)
To Percy Bysshe Shelley (Apr. 26, 1821)	1666	(2)
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1992--1822)	1668	(99)
Mutability	1671	(1)
To Wordsworth	1672	(1)
Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude	1672	(18)
Mont Blanc	1690	(4)
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty	1694	(2)
Ozymandias	1696	(1)
Stanzas Written in Dejection-December 1818, near Naples	1696	(2)
A Song: ``Men of England''	1698	(1)
England in 1819	1698	(1)
The Indian Girl's song [The Indian Serenade]	1699	(1)
Ode to the West Wind	1700	(2)
Prometheus Unbound	1702	(29)
Preface	1703	(3)
From Act 1	1706	(5)
Act 2	1711	(1)
Scene 4	1711	(4)
Scene 5	1715	(2)
Act 3	1717	(1)
Scene 1	1717	(2)
From Scene 4	1719	(3)
From Act 4	1722	(9)
The Cloud	1731	(2)
To a Sky-Lark	1733	(2)
To-----[Music, when soft voices die]	1735	(1)
O World, O Life, O Time	1735	(1)
Choruses from Hellas	1736	(2)
Worlds on worlds	1736	(1)
The world's great age	1737	(1)
Adonais	1738	(13)
A Dirge	1751	(1)
When the lamp is shattered	1752	(1)
To Jane. The Invitation	1752	(2)
From a Defence of Poetry	1754	(13)
John Keats (1795-1821)	1767	(66)
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer	1770	(1)
Sleep and Poetry	1771	(2)
[``O for Ten Years'']	1771	(2)
On Seeing the Elgin Marbles	1773	(1)
Endymion: A Poetic romance	1773	(4)
preface	1773	(1)
Book 1	1774	(1)
[A Thing of Beauty]	1774	(1)
[The ``Pleasure Thermometer'']	1775	(2)
On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again	1777	(1)
When I have fears that I may cease to be	1777	(1)
To Homer	1778	(1)
The Eve of St. Agnes	1778	(9)
Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art	1787	(1)
La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad	1788	(1)
Ode to psyche	1789	(2)
Ode to a Nightingale	1791	(2)
Ode on a Grecian Urn	1793	(2)
Ode on Melancholy	1795	(1)
Ode on Indolence	1796	(2)
Lamia	1798	(16)
To Autumn	1814	(1)
Letters	1815	(1)
To Benjamin Bailey (Nov. 22, 187). [The Authenticity of the Imagination]	1815	(2)
To George and Thomas Keats (Dec. 21, 27 [?], 1817). Negative Capability]	1817	(1)
To john Hamilton Reynolds (Feb. 3, 1818). Wordsworth's Poetry]	1818	(1)
To John Taylor (Feb. 27, 1818). [Keats's Axioms in Poetry]	1819	(1)
To John Hamilton Reynolds (May 3, 1818). [Milton, Wordsworth, and the Chambers of Human Life]	1820	(2)
To Richard Woodhouse (Oct. 27, 1818). [A. Poet Has No Identity]	1822	(2)
To George and Georgiana Keats (Feb. 14-May 3, 1819). [``The Vale of Soul-Making'']	1824	(4)
To Fanny Brawne (July 25, 1819). [Fanny Brawne as Keats's ``Fair Star'']	1828	(1)
To Percy Bysshe Shelley (Aug. 16, 1820). [``Load Every Rift with Ore'']	1829	(1)
To Charles Brown (Nov. 30, 1820). [Keats's Last Letter]	1830	(3)
The Victorian Age (1830-1901)	1833	(302)
Introduction	1835	(17)
Timeline	1852	(2)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)	1854	(23)
To George Sand: A Desire	1855	(1)
To George Sand: A Recognition	1856	(1)
Sonnets from the Portuguese	1856	(2)
(``Say over again, and yet once over again'')	1856	(1)
(``When our two souls stand up erect and strong'')	1857	(1)
(``The first time that the sun rose on thine oath'')	1857	(1)
(``How do I love thee? Let me count the ways'')	1857	(1)
A Year's Spinning	1858	(1)
Aurora Leigh	1859	(14)
From Book 1 [The Feminine Education of Aurora Leigh]	1859	(5)
From Book 2	1864	(1)
[Aurora's Aspirations]	1864	(5)
{Aurora's Rejection of Romney]	1869	(2)
From Book 5 [Poets and the Present Age]	1871	(2)
A Musical Instrument	1873	(1)
Mother and Poet	1874	(3)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)	1877	(99)
Mariana	1881	(2)
The Lady of Shalott	1883	(4)
The Lotos-Eaters	1887	(4)
Ulysses	1891	(2)
Tithonus	1893	(2)
Break, Break, Break	1895	(1)
The Eagle: A Fragment	1895	(1)
Locksley Hall	1895	(6)
The Princess	1901	(1)
Sweet and Low	1901	(1)
The Splendor Falls	1902	(1)
Tears, Idle Tears	1902	(1)
Ask Me No More	1903	(1)
Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal	1903	(1)
Come Down, O Maid	1904	(1)
[``The Woman's Cause Is Man's'']	1905	(1)
From In Memoriam A. H. H.	1906	(48)
The Charge of the Light Brigade	1954	(1)
Maud	1955	(6)
Part 1	1955	(1)
(``Ah, what shall I be at fifty'')	1955	(1)
(``Perhaps the smile and tender tone'')	1956	(1)
(``I have played with her when a child'')	1956	(1)
(``She came to the village church'')	1956	(1)
(``O let the solid ground'')	1957	(1)
(``Birds in the high Hall-garden'')	1957	(1)
(``Catch not my breath, O clamorous heart'')	1958	(1)
(``I have led her home, my love, my only friend'')	1958	(2)
Part 2	1960	(1)
(``O that 'twere possible'')	1960	(1)
In the Valley of Cauteretz	1961	(1)
Idylls of the King	1961	(11)
The Passing of Arthur	1962	(10)
Northern Farmer: New Style	1972	(2)
Flower in the Craned Wall	1974	(1)
``Frater Ave atque Vale''	1974	(1)
The Dawn	1975	(1)
Crossing the Bar	1976	(1)
Robert Browning (1812-1889)	1976	(62)
Prophyria's Lover	1982	(1)
Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister	1983	(2)
My Last Duchess	1985	(1)
Home-Thoughts, from Abroad	1986	(1)
Home-Thoughts, from the Sea	1987	(1)
The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church	1987	(3)
Meeting at Night	1990	(1)
Parting at Morning	1991	(1)
A toccata of Galuppi's	1991	(1)
Love Among the Ruins	1992	(2)
``Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came''	1994
Fra Lippo Lippi	200	(1808)
The Last Ride Together	2008	(3)
Andrea del Sarto	2011	(6)
Two in the Campagna	2017	(1)
A Grammarian's Funeral	2018	(4)
A Woman's Last Word	2022	(1)
Caliban upon Setebos	2023	(7)
Prospice	2030	(1)
Abt Vogler	2030	(3)
Rabbi Ben Ezra	2033	(5)
Epilogue to Asolando	2038	(1)
Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)	2038	(65)
To a Friend	2043	(1)
The Forsaken Merman	2044	(3)
Isolation. To Marguerite	2047	(1)
To Marguerite-Continued	2048	(1)
The Buried Life	2048	(3)
Memorial Verses	2051	(1)
The Scholar Gypsy	2052	(7)
Dover Beach	2059	(1)
Stanzas from the Grand Chartreuse	2060	(6)
Thyrsis	2066	(5)
Growing Old	2071	(1)
From The Function of Criticism at the Present Time	2072	(14)
Culture and Anarchy	2086	(7)
From Chapter 1. Sweetness and Light	2086	(2)
From Chapter 2. Doing As One Likes	2088	(2)
From Chapter 5. Porro Unum Est Necessarium	2090	(3)
From the Study of Poetry	2093	(10)
Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)	2103	(22)
Song (``She sat and sang alway'')	2104	(1)
Song (``When I am dead, my dearest'')	2105	(1)
After Death	2105	(1)
Dead Before Death	2106	(1)
Cobwebs	2106	(1)
A Triad	2106	(1)
In an Artist's Studio	2107	(1)
A Birthday	2107	(1)
An Appel-Gathering	2108	(1)
Winter: My Secret	2108	(3)
Up-Hill	2111
Goblin Market	2110	(11)
``No, Thank You, John''	2121	(1)
Primises Like Pie-Crust	2122	(1)
IN Progress	2123	(1)
A Life's Parallels	2123	(1)
Late Life	2123	(1)
(``Something this foggy day, a something which'')	2123	(1)
Cardinal Newman	2124	(1)
Sleeping at Last	2124	(1)
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)	2125	(10)
God's Grandeur	2127	(1)
The Starlight Night	2128	(1)
As Kingfishers Catch Fire	2128	(1)
Spring	2129	(1)
The Windhover	2129	(1)
Pied Beauty	2130	(1)
Hurrahing in Harvest	2130	(1)
Binsey Poplars	2130	(1)
Duns Scotus's Oxford	2131	(1)
Felix Randal	2132	(1)
Spring and Fall	2132	(1)
[Carrion Comfort]	2133	(1)
No Worst, There Is None	2133	(1)
I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark, Not Day	2134	(1)
Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord	2134	(1)
The Twentieth Century	2135	(458)
Introduction	2135	(9)
Timeline	2144	(2)
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)	2146	(15)
Hap	2148	(1)
The Inpercipient	2148	(1)
Neutral Tones	2149	(1)
I Look into My Glass	2149	(1)
A Broken Appointment	2150	(1)
Drummer Hodge	2150	(1)
The Darkling Thrush	2151	(1)
The Ruined Maid	2152	(1)
Channel Firing	2152	(2)
The Covergence of the Twain	2154	(1)
Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?	2155	(1)
Under the Waterfall	2156	(1)
The Walk	2157	(1)
The Voice	2157	(1)
The Workbox	2158	(1)
During Wind and Rain	2159	(1)
In Time of ``The Breaking of Nations''	2160	(1)
He Never Expected Much	2160	(1)
Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)	2161	(42)
Mrs. Warren's Profession	2162	(41)
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)	2203	(60)
Heart of Darkness	2204	(59)
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)	2263	(36)
The Stolen Child	2267	(1)
The Rose of the World	2268	(1)
The Lake Isle of Innisfree	2269	(1)
The Sorrow of Love	2269	(1)
When You Are Old	2270	(1)
Who Goes with Fergus?	2270	(1)
The Man Who Dreamed of Faeryland	2271	(1)
The Secret Rose	2272	(1)
The Folly of Being Comforted	2273	(1)
Adam's Curse	2273	(1)
No Second Troy	2274	(1)
The Fascination of What's Difficult	2275	(1)
September 1913	2275	(1)
To a Shade	2276	(1)
A Coat	2277	(1)
The Wild Swans at Coole	2277	(1)
Easter 1916	2278	(2)
The Second Coming	2280	(1)
A Prayer for My Daughter	2280	(2)
Sailing to Byzantium	2282	(1)
Leda and the Swan	2283	(1)
Among School Children	2284	(2)
A Dialogue of Self and Soul	2286	(2)
For Anne Gregory	2288	(1)
Byzantium	2288	(1)
Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop	2289	(1)
After Long Silence	2290	(1)
Lapis Lazuli	2290
Long-Legged Fly	2202	(90)
The Circus Animals' Desertion	2292	(2)
Under Ben Bulben	2294	(2)
Reveries over Childhood and Youth	2296	(3)
[The Yeats Family]	2296	(3)
[An Irish Literature]	2299	(1)
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)	2299	(41)
The Mark on the Wall	2301	(5)
Modern Fiction	2306	(5)
A Room of One's Own	2311	(6)
[Shakespeare's Sister]	2311	(6)
Professions for Women	2317	(4)
Moments of Being: ``Slater's Pins Have No Points''	2321	(4)
The Searchlight	2325	(3)
A Sketch of the Past	2328	(7)
[Moments of Being and Non-Being]	2328	(7)
The Legacy	2335	(5)
James Joyce (1882-1941)	2340	(78)
The Dead	2345	(29)
Ulysses	2374	(39)
[Proteus]	2374	(14)
[Lestrygonians]	2388	(25)
Finnegans Wake	2413	(5)
From Anna Livia Plurabelle	2414	(4)
D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930)	2418	(37)
Odor of Chrysanthemums	2421	(13)
The Horse-Dealer's Daughter	2434	(12)
Why the Novel Matters	2446	(4)
Love on the Farm	2450	(1)
Piano	2451	(1)
Bavarian Gentians	2452	(1)
Snake	2452	(2)
How Beastly the Bourgeois Is	2454	(1)
T.S. Eliot (1888-15965)	2455	(40)
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock	2459	(4)
Sweeney Among the Nightingales	2463	(1)
The Hippopotamus	2464	(1)
The Waste Land	2465	(15)
JOurney of the Magi	2480	(1)
Marina	2481	(1)
Four Quartets	2482	(7)
Little Gidding	2482	(7)
Tradition and the Individual Talent	2489	(6)
Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923)	2495	(25)
The Daughters of the Late Colonel	2497	(13)
The Garden-party	2510	(10)
Samuel Beckett (1906-1989)	2520	(31)
Endgame	2521	(30)
W.H. Auden (1907-1973)	2551	(13)
Petition	2553	(1)
On This Island
Spain 1937	2554	(2)
Musee des Beaux Arts	2556	(1)
Lullaby	2557	(1)
In Memory of W. B. Yeats	2558	(2)
Their Lonely Betters	2560	(1)
In Praise of Limestone	2560	(2)
The Shield of Achilles	2562	(2)
Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)	2564	(7)
The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower	2565	(1)
After the Funeral	2565	(1)
There Was a Saviour	2566	(1)
The Hunchback in the Park	2567	(1)
Poem of October	2568	(2)
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night	2570	(1)
Poems in Process	2571	(22)
John Milton	2572	(2)
Lycidas	2572	(2)
Alexander Pope	2574	(1)
An Essay on Man	2574	(1)
Samuel Johnson	2575	(1)
the Vanity of Human Wishes	2575	(1)
Thomas Gray	2576	(3)
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard	2576	(3)
William Blake	2579	(2)
The Tyger	2579	(2)
William Wordsworth	2581	(1)
She dwelt among the untrodden ways	2581	(1)
George Gordon, Lord Byron	2582	(1)
Don Juan	2582	(1)
Percy Bysshe Shelley	2583	(2)
O World, O Life, O Time	2583	(2)
John Keats	2585	(2)
The Eve of St. Agnes	2585	(2)
Gerard Manley Hopkins	2587	(1)
Thou art indeed just, Lord	2587	(1)
William Butler Yeats	2587	(4)
Leda and the Swan	2588	(23314)
After Long Silence	25902
D.H. Lawrence	2591	(2)
The Piano	2591	(2)
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHIES	2593	(37)
ILLUSTRATIONS	2630
A London Playhouse of Shakespeare's Time	2626	(1)
The Universe According to Ptolemy	2627	(2)
BRITISH MONEY	2629	(3)
THE BRITISH BARONAGE	2632	(5)
The Royal Lines of England and Great Britain	2634	(3)
RELIGIOUS SECTS IN ENGLAND	2637	(2)
POETIC FORMS AND LITERARY TERMINOLOGY	2639	(18)
Index	2657