The Longman Anthology of British Literature, Compact Edition, Volume B The Romantics and Their Contemporaries to the 20th Century

by Damrosch, David; Baswell, Christopher; Carroll, Clare; Dettmar, Kevin J. H.; Henderson, Heather; Jordan, Constance; Manning, Peter J.; Schotter, Anne Howland; Sharpe, William Chapman; Sherman, Stuart; Wicke, Jennifer; Wolfson, Susan J.

• ISBN13: 9780321202390
• ISBN10: 0321202392
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-08-01
• Publisher: Longman

Summary

The Longman Compact Anthology of British Literatureis a concise and thoughtfully arranged survey of British literature for the one semester course.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	xxii
Preface	xxvi
Acknowledgments	xxxi
The Romantics and Their Contemporaries	2	(448)
ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD	29	(7)
The Mouse's Petition to Dr. Priestley	29	(1)
On a Lady's Writing	30	(1)
To a Little Invisible Being Who Is Expected Soon to Become Visible	31	(1)
To the Poor	31	(1)
Washing-Day	32	(2)
The First Fire	34	(2)
PERSPECTIVES The Rights of Man and the Revolution Controversy	36	(1)
HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS	36	(11)
from Letters Written in France, in the Summer of 1790	37	(4)
from Letters from France	41	(6)
EDMUND BURKE	47	(9)
from Reflections on the Revolution in France	47	(9)
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT	56	(8)
from A Vindication of the Rights of Men	57	(7)
THOMAS PAINS	64	(6)
from The Rights of Man	65	(5)
THE ANTI-JACOBIN, OR WEEKLY EXAMINER	70	(4)
The Friend of Humanity and the Knife-Grinder	71	(3)
WILLIAM BLAKE	74	(9)
All Religions Are One	76	(2)
SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND OF EXPERIENCE	78	(1)
from Songs of Innocence	78	(5)
Introduction	78	(1)
The Ecchoing Green	78	(1)
The Lamb	79	(1)
The Little Black Boy	80	(1)
The Chimney Sweeper	81	(1)
The Divine Image	82	(1)
HOLY THURSDAY	82	(1)
Nurse's Song	83	(1)
Infant Joy	83	(1)
COMPANION READING Charles Lamb: from The Praise of Chimney-Sweepers	83	(25)
from Songs of Experience	85	(10)
Introduction	85	(1)
EARTH'S Answer	86	(1)
THE FLY	87	(1)
The CLOD and the PEBBLE	88	(1)
HOLY THURSDAY	88	(1)
The Tyger	88	(1)
The Chimney Sweeper	89	(1)
The SICK ROSE	90	(1)
AH! SUN-FLOWER	90	(1)
The GARDEN of LOVE	91	(1)
LONDON	91	(1)
The Human Abstract	91	(1)
INFANT SORROW	92	(1)
A POISON TREE	92	(1)
A DIVINE IMAGE	93	(1)
The School-Boy	94	(1)
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell	95	(13)
PERSPECTIVES The Abolition of Slavery and the Slave Trade	108	(23)
OLAUDAH EQUIANO	109	(9)
from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano	110	(8)
MARY PRINCE	118	(4)
from The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave	118	(4)
THOMAS BELLAMY	122	(7)
The Benevolent Planters	123	(6)
WILLIAM COWPER	129	(1)
Sweet Meat Has Sour Sauce 129
DOROTHY WORDSWORTH	130	(1)
from The Grasmere Journals	131	(1)
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH	131	(2)
To Toussaint L'Ouverture	131	(1)
from The Prelude	132	(1)
Letter to Mary Ann Rawson (May 1833)	132	(1)
THE EDINBURGH REVIEW	133	(3)
from Abstract of the Information laid on the Table of the House of Commons, on the Subject of the Slave Trade	133	(3)
MARY ROBINSON	136	(1)
Ode to Beauty	137	(1)
January, 1795	138	(1)
Sappho and Phaon, in a Series of Legitimate Sonnets	139	(3)
4 ("Why, when I gaze on Phaon's beauteous eyes")	139	(1)
7 ("Come. Reason")	140	(1)
11 ("O Reason")	140	(1)
12 ("Now, o'er the tesselated pavement strew")	140	(1)
18 ("Why art thou changed? O Phaon! tell me why?")	141	(1)
30 ("O'er the tall cliff that bounds the billowy main")	141	(1)
37 ("When, in the gloomy mansion of the dead") 141
The Camp	142	(1)
The Haunted Beach	143	(1)
London's Summer Morning	144	(1)
The Old Beggar	145	(2)
To the Poet Coleridge	147	(2)
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT	149	(2)
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman	151	(299)
Introduction	152	(3)
from Chapter 1. The Rights and Involved Duties of Mankind Considered	155	(2)
from Chapter 2. The Prevailing Opinion of a Sexual Character Discussed	157	(6)
from Chapter 3. The Same Subject Continued	163	(3)
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	166	(2)
"A VINDICATION" AND ITS TIME The Wollstonecraft Controversy and the Rights of Women	168	(20)
Catherine Macaulay from Letters on Education	169	(2)
Richard Polwhele from The Unsex'd Females	171	(5)
Hannah More from Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education	176	(6)
William Thompson and Anna Wheeler 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	182	(6)
ROBERT BURNS	188	(6)
To a Mouse	189	(1)
Comin' Thro' the Rye (1)	190	(1)
Comin' Thro' the Rye (2)	190	(1)
Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled	191	(1)
A Red, Red Rose	192	(1)
Auld Lang Syne	192	(1)
The Fornicator. A New Song	193	(1)
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH	194	(96)
LYRICAL BALLADS	196	(1)
Simon Lee	197	(3)
We Are Seven	200	(1)
Lines Written in Early Spring	201	(1)
Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey	202	(4)
LYRICAL BALLADS (1800, 1802)	206	(1)
Preface	206	(6)
[The Principal Object of the Poems. Humble and Rustic Life]	206	(1)
["The Spontaneous Overflow of Powerful Feelings"]	207	(1)
[The Language of Poetry]	208	(2)
[What is a Poet?]	210	(2)
["Emotion Recollected in Tranquillity"]	212	(1)
There was a Boy	212	(1)
Strange fits of passion have I known	213	(1)
Song ("She dwelt among th' untrodden ways")	214	(1)
Three years she grew in sun and shower	214	(1)
Song ("A slumber did my spirit seal")	215	(1)
Nutting	215	(2)
Michael	217	(11)
COMPANION READINGS
Francis Jeffrey: [On "the new poetry"]	228	(3)
Charles Lamb: from Letter to William Wordsworth	231	(1)
Charles Lamb: from Letter to Thomas Manning	232	(1)
SONNETS, 1802-1807	233	(1)
Prefatory Sonnet ("Nuns fret not at their Convent's narrow room")	233	(1)
The world is too much with us	234	(1)
Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1802	234	(1)
It is a beauteous Evening	235	(1)
I griev'd for Buonaparte	235	(1)
London, 1802	235	(1)
COMPANION READINGS
Charlotte Smith: from Elegiac Sonnets	236	(1)
To Melancholy	236	(1)
Far on the Sands	236	(1)
To Tranquillity	237	(1)
THE PRELUDE, OR GROWTH OF A POET'S MIND (1805)	237	(1)
Book First. Introduction, Childhood, and School time	238	(14)
Book Second. School time continued	252	(3)
[Two Consciousnesses]	252	(1)
[Blessed Infant Babe]	253	(2)
Book Sixth. Cambridge, and the Alps	255	(3)
[Travelling in the Alps. Simplon Pass]	255	(3)
Book Tenth. Residence in France and French Revolution	258	(12)
[The Reign of Terror. Confusion. Return to England]	258	(5)
[Further Events in France]	263	(1)
[The Death of Robespierre and Renewed Optimism]	264	(2)
[Britain Declares War on France. The Rise of Napoleon and Imperialist France]	266	(4)
COMPANION READING William Wordsworth: from The Prelude (1850)	270	(1)
Book Eleventh. Imagination, How Impaired and Restored	271	(5)
[Imagination Restored by Nature]	271	(1)
["Spots of Time." Two Memories from Childhood and Later Reflections]	272	(4)
Book Thirteenth. Conclusion	276	(6)
[Climbing Mount Snowdon. Moonlit Vista. Meditation on "Mind," "Self," "Imagination," "Fear," and "Love"]	276	(4)
[Concluding Retrospect and Prophecy]	280	(2)
I wandered lonely as a cloud	282	(1)
My heart leaps up	283	(1)
Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood	283	(6)
The Solitary Reaper	289	(1)
Surprized by joy	290	(1)
DOROTHY WORDSWORTH	290	(1)
Address to a Child	291	(2)
Thoughts on My Sick-bed	293	(1)
When Shall I Tread Your Garden Path?	294	(1)
The Grasmere Journals	294	(5)
[Home Alone]	294	(1)
[The Grasmere Mailman]	295	(1)
[A Vision of the Moon]	296	(1)
[A Field of Daffodils]	296	(1)
[A Beggar Woman from Cockermouth]	297	(1)
[The Circumstances of "Composed upon Westminster Bridge"]	297	(1)
[The Circumstances of "It is a beauteous Evening"]	298	(1)
[The Household in Winter, with William's New Wife. Gingerbread]	298	(1)
PERSPECTIVES The Sublime, the Beautiful, and the Picturesque	299	(3)
EDMUND BURKE	302	(6)
from A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful	302	(6)
WILLIAM GILPIN	308	(6)
from Three Essays on Picturesque Beauty, on Picturesque Travel, and on Sketching Landscape	309	(5)
JANE AUSTEN	314	(1)
from Pride and Prejudice	314	(1)
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT	314	(2)
from A Vindication of the Rights of Men	315	(1)
IMMANUEL KANT	316	(3)
from The Critique of Judgement	317	(2)
JOHN RUSKIN	319	(4)
from Modern Painters	319	(4)
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE	323	(18)
The Eolian Harp	325	(1)
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1817)	326	(15)
COMPANION READING Samuel Taylor Coleridge: from Table Talk	341	(15)
Kubla Khan	341	(2)
Frost at Midnight	343	(2)
Dejection: An Ode	345	(3)
Work Without Hope	348	(1)
Constancy to an Ideal Object	349	(1)
Epitaph	350	(1)
Biographic Literaria	350	(8)
Chapter 13	350	(1)
[Imagination and Fancy]	350	(3)
Chapter 14	353	(1)
[Occasion of the Lyrical Ballads-Preface to the Second Edition The Ensuing Controversy]	353	(1)
[Philosophic Definitions of a Poem and Poetry]	355	(1)
GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON	356	(35)
She walks in beauty	358	(1)
So, we'll go no more a-roving	358	(1)
CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE 359 Canto the Third	359	(3)
[Thunderstorm in the Alps]	359	(1)
[Byron's Strained Idealism. Apostrophe to His Daughter]	360	(2)
Canto the Fourth	362	(4)
[The Coliseum. The Dying Gladiator]	362	(2)
[Apostrophe to the Ocean. Conclusion]	364	(2)
COMPANION READINGS
John Wilson: from A Review of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage	366	(1)
John Scott: [Lord Byron's Creations]	367	(1)
DON JUAN	368	(1)
Dedication	369	(4)
from Canto 1	373	(14)
from Canto 11 [ Juan in England]	387	(3)
Stanzas ("When a man hath no freedom to fight for at home")	390	(1)
On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year	390	(1)
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY	391	(13)
Mont Blanc	393	(4)
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty	397	(2)
Ozymandias	399	(1)
Ode to the West Wind	399	(3)
To a Sky-Lark	402	(2)
FELICIA HEMANS	404	(11)
TALES, AND HISTORIC SCENES, IN VERSE	406	(1)
The Wife of Asdrubal	406	(2)
RECORDS OF WOMAN	408	(1)
Properzia Rossi	408	(4)
The Homes of England	412	(1)
Corinne at the Capitol	413	(1)
Woman and Fame	414	(1)
COMPANION READING Francis Jeffrey: from A Review of Felicia Hemans's Poetry	415	(3)
JOHN CLARE	418	(3)
Written in November (1)	419	(1)
Written in November (2)	419	(1)
Clock a Clay	420	(1)
"I Am"	420	(1)
JOHN KEATS	421	(3)
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer	423	(1)
COMPANION READINGS
Alexander Pope: from Homer's Iliad	424	(1)
George Chapman: from Homer's Iliad	424	(1)
On Seeing the Elgin Marbles	425	(1)
Sonnet: When I have fears	425	(1)
The Eve of St. Agnes	425	(10)
La Belle Dame sans Mercy	435	(2)
Incipit altera Sonnets ("If by dull rhymes")	437	(1)
THE ODES OF 1819	437	(1)
Ode to a Nightingale	438	(2)
Ode on a Grecian Urn	440	(2)
Ode on Melancholy	442	(1)
To Autumn	443	(1)
This living hand	444	(1)
Bright Star	444	(1)
LETTERS	444	(1)
To George and Thomas Keats ["Intensity" and "Negative Capability"]	444	(1)
To Richard Woodhouse [The "camelion Poet" vs. the "egotistical sublime"]	445	(2)
To Fanny Brawne ["You Take Possession of Me"]	447	(1)
To Percy Bysshe Shelley ["An Artist Must Serve Mammon"]	448	(1)
To Charles Brown [Keats's Last Letter]	449	(1)
The Victorian Age	450	(470)
THOMAS CARLYLE	475	(12)
Past and Present	477	(13)
Midas [The Condition of England]	477	(3)
from Gospel of Mammonism [The Irish Widow]	480	(1)
from Labour [Know Thy Work]	481	(1)
Captains of Industry	482	(5)
PERSPECTIVES The Industrial Landscape	487	(3)
THE STEAM LOOM WEAVER 489 FANNY KEMBLE	490	(1)
from Record of a Girlhood	490	(1)
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY	491	(2)
from A Review of Southey's Colloquies	491	(2)
PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS ("BLUE BOOKS")	493	(2)
Testimony of Hannah Goode, a Child Textile Worker	494	(1)
Testimony of Ann and Elizabeth Eggley, Child Mineworkers	494	(1)
CHARLES DICKENS	495	(1)
from Dombey and Son	496	(1)
from Hard Times	497	(2)
BENJAMIN DISRAELI	499	(1)
from Sybil	499	(1)
FRIEDRICH ENGELS	500	(8)
from The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844	500	(8)
500 HENRY MAYHEW	508	(5)
from London Labour and the London Poor	508	(5)
JOHN STUART MILL	513	(15)
On Liberty	515	(6)
from Chapter 2. Of the Liberty of Thought and Discussion	515	(2)
from Chapter 3. Of Individuality, as One of the Elements of Well-Being	517	(4)
The Subjection of Women	521	(6)
from Chapter 1	521	(6)
Statement Repudiating the Rights of Husbands	527	(1)
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING	528	(27)
Sonnets from the Portuguese	530	(2)
1 ("I thought once how Theocritus had sung")	530	(1)
13 ("And wilt thou have me fashion into speech")	530	(1)
21 ("Say over again, and yet once over again")	530	(1)
22 ("When our two souls stand up erect and strong")	531	(1)
28 ("My letters! all dead paper, mute and white!")	531	(1)
32 ("The first time that the sun rose on thine oath")	531	(1)
38 ("First time he kissed me, he but only kissed")	532	(1)
43 ("How do I love thee? Let me count the ways")	532	(1)
Aurora Leigh	532	(25)
Book 1	532	(1)
[Self-Portrait]	532	(1)
[Her Mother's Portrait]	534	(1)
[Aurora's Education]	535	(1)
[Discovery of Poetry]	539	(1)
Book 2	540	(1)
[Woman and Artist]	540	(1)
[No Female Christ]	543	(1)
[Aurora's Rejection of Romney]	544	(5)
Book 3	549	(1)
[The Woman Writer in London]	549	(3)
Book 5	552	(1)
[Epic Art and Modern Life]	552	(3)
PERSPECTIVES Victorian Ladies and Gentlemen	555	(2)
SARAH STICKNEY ELLIS	557	(3)
from The Women of England: Their Social Duties and Domestic Habits	557	(3)
CHARLOTTE BRONTË	560	(1)
from Letter to Emily Brontë	560	(1)
ANNE BRONTË	561	(2)
from Agnes Grey	562	(1)
JOHN HENRY CARDINAL NEWMAN	563	(1)
from The Idea of a University	563	(1)
CAROLINE NORTON	564	(3)
from A Letter to the Queen	565	(2)
GEORGE ELIOT	567	(5)
Margaret Fuller and Mary Wollstonecraft	567	(5)
THOMAS HUGHES	572	(2)
from Tom Brown's School Days	572	(2)
ISABELLA BEETON	574	(2)
from The Book of Household Management	574	(2)
QUEEN VICTORIA	576	(5)
Letters and Journal Entries on the Position of Women	576	(5)
CHARLES KINGSLEY	581	(1)
from Letters and Memories	581	(1)
SIR HENRY NEWBOLT	582	(1)
Vitaï Lampada	582	(1)
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON	583	(34)
The Kraken	586	(1)
Mariana	586	(2)
The Lady of Shalott	588	(5)
Ulysses	593	(1)
Break, Break, Break	594	(1)
The Epic [Morte d'Arthur]	595	(2)
THE PRINCESS	597	(1)
Tears, Idle Tears	597	(1)
[The Woman's Cause Is Man's]	598	(1)
from In Memoriam A. H. H.	599	(16)
The Charge of the Light Brigade	615	(1)
Crossing the Bar	616	(1)
CHARLES DARWIN	617	(15)
The Voyage of the Beagle	619	(8)
from Chapter 10. Tierra Del Fuego	619	(5)
from Chapter 17. Galapagos Archipelago	624	(3)
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection	627	(6)
from Chapter 3. Struggle for Existence	627	(5)
PERSPECTIVES Religion and Science	632	(1)
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY	633	(1)
from Lord Bacon	633	(1)
CHARLES DICKENS	634	(3)
from Sunday Under Three Heads	634	(3)
DAVID FRIEDRICH STRAUSS	637	(3)
from The Life of Jesus Critically Examined	637	(3)
CHARLOTTE BRONTË	640	(2)
from Jane Eyre	640	(2)
ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH	642	(2)
Epi-Strauss-ium	642	(1)
The Latest Decalogue	643	(1)
from Dipsychus	643	(1)
JOHN WILLIAM COLENSO	644	(2)
from The Pentateuch and Book of Joshua Critically Examined	645	(1)
JOHN HENRY CARDINAL NEWMAN	646	(7)
from Apologia Pro Vita Sua	647	(6)
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY	653	(6)
from Evolution and Ethics	654	(5)
ROBERT BROWNING	659	(31)
Porphyria's Lover	662	(1)
My Last Duchess	663	(2)
The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church	665	(3)
Love Among the Ruins	668	(2)
"Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came"	670	(5)
Fra Lippo Lippi	675	(9)
Andrea del Sarto	684	(6)
Popular Short Fiction	690	(1)
ELIZABETH GASKELL	690	(16)
Our Society at Cranford	691	(15)
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE	706	(15)
A Scandal in Bohemia	706	(15)
RUDYARD KIPLING	721	(16)
Without Benefit of Clergy	723	(14)
JOHN RUSKIN	737	(2)
Modern Painters	738	(1)
from Definition of Greatness in Art	738	(1)
The Stones of Venice	739	(10)
from The Nature of Gothic	739	(10)
MATTHEW ARNOLD	749	(7)
Dover Beach	751	(1)
Culture and Anarchy	752	(6)
from Sweetness and Light	752	(2)
from Hebraism and Hellenism	754	(1)
from Conclusion	755	(1)
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI	756	(17)
Song ("When I am dead, my dearest")	758	(1)
In an Artist's Studio	758	(1)
Goblin Market	759	(12)
"No, Thank You, John"	771	(1)
Promises Like Pie-Crust	772	(1)
Sleeping at Last	772	(1)
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS	773	(6)
God's Grandeur	774	(1)
The Windhover	775	(1)
Pied Beauty	775	(1)
Felix Randal	776	(1)
Spring and Fall: to a young child	776	(1)
As Kingfishers Catch Fire	777	(1)
[Carrion Comfort]	777	(1)
No Worst, There Is None	777	(1)
I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark, Not Day	778	(1)
Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord	778	(1)
LEWIS CARROLL	779	(16)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland	780	(7)
Chapter 1. Down the Rabbit-Hole	780	(3)
from Chapter 2. The Pool of Tears	783	(3)
You are old, Father William	786	(1)
The Lobster-Quadrille	786	(1)
Through the Looking Glass	787	(12)
Child of the pure unclouded brow	787	(1)
Jabberwocky	788	(1)
[Humpty Dumpty on Jabberwocky]	789	(1)
The Walrus and the Carpenter	790	(2)
The White Knight's Song	792	(3)
PERSPECTIVES Imagining Childhood	795	(4)
CHARLES DARWIN	799	(3)
from A Biographical Sketch of an Infant	799	(3)
MORAL VERSES	802	(3)
Table Rules for Little Folks	802	(1)
Eliza Cook: The Mouse and the Cake	803	(1)
Heinrich Hoffmann: The Story of Augustus who would Not have any Soup	803	(1)
Thomas Miller: The Watercress Seller	804	(1)
William Miller: Willie Winkie	805	(1)
EDWARD LEAR	805	(5)
[Selected Limericks]	806	(2)
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat	808	(1)
How pleasant to know Mr. Lear!	809	(1)
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON	810	(2)
from A Child's Garden of Verses	810	(2)
HILAIRE BELLOC	812	(2)
from The Bad Child's Book of Beasts	812	(2)
BEATRIX POTTER	814	(2)
The Tale of Peter Rabbit	814	(2)
DAISY ASHFORD	816	(7)
from The Young Visiters; or, Mr Salteena's Plan	816	(7)
HENRY JAMES	823	(5)
from What Maisie Knew	824	(4)
OSCAR WILDE	828	(61)
Impression du Matin	830	(1)
Symphony in Yellow 831 from The Decay of Lying	831	(15)
Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray	846	(1)
The Importance of Being Earnest	847	(40)
Aphorisms	887	(2)
OSCAR WILDE AND HIS TIME Aestheticism, Decadence, and the Fin de Siècle	889	(31)
W.S. Gilbert	892	(2)
If You're Anxious for to Shine in the High Aesthetic Line	893	(1)
James Abbott McNeill Whistler	894	(5)
from Mr. Whistler's "Ten O'Clock"	895	(4)
H. Montgomery Hyde	899	(5)
from The Trials of Oscar Wilde	899	(5)
Oscar Wilde	904	(7)
from De Profundis	904	(7)
Michael Field" (Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper)	911	(3)
La Gioconda	912	(1)
A Pen-Drawing of Leda	912	(1)
"A Girl"	913	(1)
Lionel Johnson	913	(1)
The Destroyer of a Soul	914	(1)
A Decadent's Lyric	914	(1)
Lord Alfred Douglas	914	(3)
In Praise of Shame	915	(1)
Two Loves	916	(1)
Olive Custance (Lady Alfred Douglas)	917	(29)
The Masquerade	918	(1)
Statues	918	(1)
The White Witch	919	(1)
The Twentieth Century	920	(505)
JOSEPH CONRAD	943	(59)
Preface to The Nigger of the "Narcissus"	946	(2)
Heart of Darkness	948	(54)
BERNARD SHAW	1002	(69)
Pygmalion	1005	(66)
THOMAS HARDY	1071	(9)
Hap	1073	(1)
Wessex Heights	1073	(1)
The Darkling Thrush	1074	(1)
On the Departure Platform	1075	(1)
The Convergence of the Twain	1076	(1)
Channel Firing	1077	(1)
In Time of "The Breaking of Nations"	1078	(1)
Logs on the Hearth	1078	(1)
Afterwards	1079	(1)
Epitaph	1079	(1)
PERSPECTIVES The Great War: Confronting the Modern	1080	(1)
BLAST	1080	(16)
Vorticist Manifesto	1082	(14)
RUPERT BROOKE	1096	(3)
The Great Lover	1097	(1)
The Soldier	1098	(1)
SIEGFRIED SASSOON	1099	(1)
Glory of Women	1099	(1)
Everyone Sang	1100	(1)
WILFRED OWEN	1100	(3)
Anthem for Doomed Youth	1100	(1)
Strange Meeting	1101	(1)
Dulce Et Decorum Est	1102	(1)
ISAAC ROSENBERG	1103	(3)
Break of Day in the Trenches	1103	(1)
Dead Man's Dump	1104	(2)
DAVID JONES	1106	(7)
from In Parenthesis	1107	(6)
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS	1113	(8)
The Lake Isle of Innisfree	1117	(1)
Who Goes with Fergus?	1118	(1)
No Second Troy	1118	(1)
The Wild Swans at Coole	1118	(1)
Easter 1916	1119	(2)
COMPANION READING Proclamation of the Irish Republic	1121	(9)
The Second Coming	1122	(1)
A Prayer for My Daughter	1123	(1)
Sailing to Byzantium	1124	(1)
Leda and the Swan	1125	(1)
Among School Children	1126	(1)
Byzantium	1127	(1)
Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop	1128	(1)
Lapis Lazuli	1129	(1)
JAMES JOYCE	1130	(61)
DUBLINERS	1134	(1)
Clay	1134	(4)
The Dead	1138	(26)
Ulysses	1164	(30)
[Chapter 13. Nausicaa]	1165	(26)
T.S. ELIOT	1191	(7)
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock	1194	(4)
COMPANION READINGS
Arthur Waugh: [Cleverness and the New Poetry]	1198	(1)
Ezra Pound: Drunken Helots and Mr. Eliot	1199	(3)
The Waste Land	1202	(13)
Journey of the Magi	1215	(1)
Tradition and the Individual Talent	1216	(6)
VIRGINIA WOOLF	1222	(32)
The Lady in the Looking-Glass: A Reflection	1224	(4)
from A Room of One's Own	1228	(26)
PERSPECTIVES Regendering Modernism	1254	(1)
VIRGINIA WOOLF	1255	(6)
from Orlando	1256	(5)
E.M. FORSTER	1261	(12)
The Life to Come	1262	(11)
REBECCA WEST	1273	(16)
Indissoluble Matrimony	1273	(16)
KATHERINE MANSFIELD	1289	(13)
The Daughters of the Late Colonel	1290	(12)
JEAN RHYS	1302	(5)
Mannequin	1304	(3)
ANGELA CARTER	1307	(8)
Penetrating to the Heart of the Forest	1308	(7)
D.H. LAWRENCE	1315	(16)
Odour of Chrysanthemums	1318	(13)
W.H. AUDEN	1331	(7)
Musée des Beaux Arts	1333	(1)
In Memory of W. B. Yeats	1333	(2)
September 1, 1939	1335	(3)
PERSPECTIVES World War II and the End of Empire	1338	(1)
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL	1339	(8)
Two Speeches Before the House of Commons	1340	(7)
STEPHEN SPENDER	1347	(3)
Icarus	1348	(1)
What I Expected	1348	(1)
The Express	1349	(1)
The Pylons	1349	(1)
ELIZABETH BOWEN	1350	(10)
Mysterious Kôr	1350	(10)
GEORGE ORWELL	1360	(5)
Shooting an Elephant	1361	(4)
SALMAN RUSHDIE	1365	(6)
Christopher Columbus and Queen Isabella of Spain Consummate Their Relationship	1366	(5)
DYLAN THOMAS	1371	(3)
The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower	1372	(1)
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night	1373	(1)
SAMUEL BECKETT	1374	(9)
Krapp's Last Tape	1375	(6)
Texts for Nothing	1381	(3)
8 Only the words break the silence, all other sounds have ceased")	1381	(2)
PERSPECTIVES Whose Language?	1383	(1)
PHILIP LARKIN	1384	(2)
Talking in Bed	1384	(1)
MCMXIV	1385	(1)
High Windows	1386	(1)
SEAMUS HEANEY	1386	(8)
The Toome Road	1387	(1)
A Postcard from North Antrim	1387	(2)
The Singer's House	1389	(1)
The Skunk	1390	(1)
Punishment	1391	(1)
Station Island	1392	(1)
12 ("Like a convalescent, I took the hand")	1392	(1)
Postscript	1393	(1)
NUALA NÍ DHOMHNAILL	1394	(11)
Parthenogenesis	1394	(2)
Labasheedy (The Silken Bed)	1396	(1)
Why I Choose to Write in Irish, The Corpse That Sits Up and Talks Back	1397	(8)
NGUGI WA THIONG'O	1405	(4)
from Decolonizing the Mind	1406	(3)
NADINE GORDIMER	1409	(7)
What Were You Dreaming?	1410	(6)
EAVAN BOLAND	1416	(4)
The Pomegranate	1417	(2)
A Woman Painted on a Leaf	1419	(1)
Mise Eire	1419	(1)
DEREK WALCOTT	1420	(5)
A Far Cry from Africa	1421	(1)
Midsummer	1422	(3)
50 ("I once gave my daughters, separately, two conch shells")	1422	(1)
52 ("I heard them marching the leaf-wet roads of my head")	1423	(1)
54 ("The midsummer sea, the hot pitch road, this grass, these shacks that made me")	1423	(2)
Bibliographies	1425	(37)
Credits	1462	(3)
Index	1465