N A E 8E Ma Vol B Pa

by Greenblatt,Stephen

• ISBN13: 9780393928310
• ISBN10: 0393928314
• Edition: 8th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-04-03
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

The classic survey of English literature in a vibrant new edition, with Stephen Greenblatt as general editor. A legendary bestseller for more than forty years, The Norton Anthology of English Literature is the classic survey to the field from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century. With more than ninety authors, the Major Authors Edition deepens its representation of essential works in all genres, ranging from Seamus Heaney's award-winning translation of Beowulf and Shakespeare's Twelfth Night to the greats of the nineteenth century--Blake and Wordsworth, Tennyson and Barrett Browning--to twentieth-century classics of a truly global English literature--Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Woolf's A Room of One's Own, poetry by Derek Walcott, and prose by Nadine Gordimer and Salman Rushdie, to name but a few. Color plates--over seventy-five in all--bring to life the cultural concerns of each period. Concise glosses and annotations, period introductions, biographical headnotes, timelines, and selected bibliographies help readers understand and enjoy the rich diversity of English literature.

Table of Contents

PREFACE TO THE EIGHTH EDITION	xix
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	xxix
The Romantic Period (1785-1830)	1363	(522)
Introduction	1363	(22)
Timeline	1385	(3)
ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD (1743-1825)	1388	(9)
The Mouse's Petition	1389	(1)
A Summer Evening's Meditation	1390	(3)
The Rights of Woman	1393	(1)
To a Little Invisible Being Who Is Expected Soon to Become Visible	1394	(1)
Washing-Day	1395	(2)
CHARLOTTE SMITH (1749-1806)	1397	(9)
ELEGIAC SONNETS	1398	(8)
Written at the Close of Spring	1398	(1)
To Sleep	1398	(1)
To Night	1398	(1)
Written in the Church-Yard at Middleton in Sussex	1399	(1)
On Being Cautioned against Walking on an Headland Overlooking the Sea, Because It Was Frequented by a Lunatic	1399	(1)
The Sea View	1400	(1)
The Emigrants	1400	(6)
WILLIAM BLAKE (1757-1827)	1406	(35)
There Is No Natural Religion [a]	1409	(1)
There Is No Natural Religion [h]	1410	(1)
SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND OF EXPERIENCE	1410	(31)
Songs of Innocence	1410	(6)
Introduction	1410	(2)
The Echoing Green	1412	(1)
The Lamb	1412	(1)
The Little Black Boy	1413	(1)
The Chimney Sweeper	1414	(1)
The Divine Image	1414	(1)
Holy Thursday	1415	(1)
Nurse's Song	1415	(1)
Infant Joy	1416	(1)
Songs of Experience	1416	(9)
Introduction	1416	(1)
Earth's Answer	1417	(1)
The Clod & the Pebble	1418	(1)
Holy Thursday	1419	(1)
The Chimney Sweeper	1419	(1)
Nurse's Song	1419	(1)
The Sick Rose	1420	(1)
The Tyger	1420	(1)
My Pretty Rose Tree	1421	(1)
Ah Sun-flower	1422	(1)
The Garden of Love	1422	(1)
London	1422	(1)
The Human Abstract	1423	(1)
Infant Sorrow	1424	(1)
A Poison Tree	1424	(1)
To Tirzah	1424	(1)
A Divine Image	1425	(1)
The Book of Thel	1425	(5)
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell	1430	(11)
ROBERT BURNS (1759-1796)	1441	(15)
Holy Willie's Prayer	1443	(3)
To a Mouse	1446	(1)
To a Louse	1447	(2)
Tam o' Shanter: A Tale	1449	(5)
A Red, Red Rose	1454	(1)
Song: For a' that and a' that	1454	(2)
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT (1759-1797)	1456	(28)
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman	1459	(25)
Introduction	1459	(3)
Chap. 2. The Prevailing Opinion of a Sexual Character Discussed	1462	(15)
From Chap. 4. Observations on the State of Degradation to Which Woman Is Reduced by Various Causes	1477	(7)
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (1770-1850)	1484	(109)
LYRICAL BALLADS	1487	(61)
We Are Seven	1487	(2)
Lines Written in Early Spring	1489	(1)
Expostulation and Reply	1489	(1)
The Tables Turned	1490	(1)
Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey	1491	(4)
Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1802)	1495	(12)
[The Subject and Language of Poetry]	1496	(6)
["What Is a Poet?"]	1502	(4)
["Emotion Recollected in Tranquillity"]	1506	(1)
Strange fits of passion have I known	1507	(1)
She dwelt among the untrodden ways	1508	(1)
Three years she grew	1509	(1)
A slumber did my spirit seal	1510	(1)
I travelled among unknown men	1510	(1)
Nutting	1511	(1)
The Ruined Cottage	1512	(11)
Michael	1523	(10)
Resolution and Independence	1533	(4)
I wandered lonely as a cloud	1537	(1)
My heart leaps up	1538	(1)
Ode: Intimations of Immortality	1538	(6)
Ode to Duty	1544	(2)
The Solitary Reaper	1546	(1)
Elegiac Stanzas	1547	(1)
SONNETS	1548	(4)
Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3,1802	1548	(1)
It is a beauteous evening	1549	(1)
London, 1802	1549	(1)
The world is too much with us	1550	(1)
Surprised by joy	1550	(1)
Mutability	1551	(1)
Steamboats, Viaducts, and Railways	1551	(1)
The Prelude, or Growth of a Poet's Mind	1552	(41)
Book First. Introduction, Childhood, and School-time	1553	(14)
Book Second. School-time continued	1567	(10)
Book Fifth. Books	1577	(2)
[The Boy of Winander]	1577	(2)
Book Sixth. Cambridge, and the Alps	1579	(3)
["Human Nature Seeming Born Again"]	1579	(1)
[Crossing Simplon Pass]	1579	(3)
Book Tenth. France continued	1582	(3)
[The Revolution: Paris and England]	1582	(2)
[The Reign of Terror. Nightmares]	1584	(1)
Book Twelfth. Imagination and Taste, how impaired and restored	1585	(3)
[Spots of Time]	1585	(3)
Book Fourteenth. Conclusion	1588	(71)
[The Vision on Mount Snowdon]	1588	(3)
[Conclusion: "The Mind of Man"]	1591	(2)
DOROTHY WORDSWORTH (1771-1855)	1593	(16)
From The Alfoxden Journal	1594	(2)
From The Grasmere Journals	1596	(10)
Grasmere A Fragment	1606	(2)
Thoughts on My Sick-Bed	1608	(1)
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE (1772-1834)	1609	(62)
The Eolian Harp	1612	(1)
This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison	1613	(2)
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner	1615	(17)
Kubla Khan	1632	(2)
Christabel	1634	(16)
Frost at Midnight	1650	(2)
Dejection: An Ode	1652	(3)
The Pains of Sleep	1655	(1)
To William Wordsworth	1656	(3)
Epitaph	1659	(1)
Biographia Literaria	1659	(12)
Chapter 4	1660	(3)
[Mr. Wordsworth's earlier poems]	1660	(2)
[On fancy and imagination—the investigation of the distinction important to the fine arts]	1662	(1)
Chapter 13	1663	(1)
[On the imagination, or esemplastic power]	1663	(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.	1664	(5)
Chapter 17	1669	(12)
[Examination of the tenets peculiar to Mr. Wordsworth]	1669	(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]	1669	(1)
[The language of Milton as much the language of real life, yea, incomparably more so than that of the cottager]	1670	(1)
GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON (1788-1824)	1671	(60)
Written after Swimming from Sestos to Abydos	1676	(1)
She walks in beauty	1676	(1)
They say that Hope is happiness	1677	(1)
When we two parted	1678	(1)
Darkness	1678	(2)
So, we'll go no more a roving	1680	(1)
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage	1681	(50)
Canto 1	1682	(1)
["Sin's Long Labyrinth"'	1682	(1)
Canto 3	1683	(7)
["Once More Upon the Waters"]	1683	(4)
[Waterloo]	1687	(3)
Don Juan	1690	(1)
Fragment	1691	(1)
Canto 1	1691	(27)
[Juan and Donna Julia]	1691	(27)
Canto 2	1718	(27)
[Juan and Haidee]	1718	(13)
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (1792-1822)	1731	(67)
Mutability	1734	(1)
To Wordsworth	1735	(1)
Mont Blanc	1735	(4)
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty	1739	(2)
Ozymandias	1741	(1)
A Song: "Men of England"	1741	(1)
England in 1819	1742	(1)
Ode to the West Wind	1743	(2)
Prometheus Unbound	1745	(22)
Preface	1746	(3)
From Act 1	1749	(5)
Act 2	1754	(7)
Scene 4	1754	(4)
Scene 5	1758	(3)
Act 3	1761	(5)
Scene 1	1761	(2)
From Scene 4	1763	(3)
From Act 4	1766	(1)
The Cloud	1767	(2)
To a Sky-Lark	1769	(3)
Adonais	1772	(13)
From A Defence of Poetry	1785	(13)
JOHN CLARE (1793-1864)	1798	(11)
The Nightingale's Nest	1799	(2)
Pastoral Poesy	1801	(3)
[Mouse's Nest]	1804	(1)
A Vision	1804	(1)
I Am	1805	(1)
An Invite to Eternity	1806	(1)
Clock a Clay	1807	(1)
The Peasant Poet	1807	(1)
Song [I hid my love]	1808	(1)
Song [I peeled bits o' straws]	1808	(1)
FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS (1793-1835)	1809	(11)
England's Dead	1810	(2)
Casabianca	1812	(1)
The Homes of England	1813	(1)
A Spirit's Return	1814	(6)
JOHN KEATS (1795-1821)	1820	(65)
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer	1822	(1)
Sleep and Poetry	1823	(2)
[O for Ten Years]	1823	(2)
On Seeing the Elgin Marbles	1825	(1)
Endymion: A Poetic Romance	1825	(43)
Preface	1825	(1)
Book 1	1826	(3)
[A Thing of Beauty]	1826	(1)
[The "Pleasure Thermometer"]	1827	(2)
On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again	1829	(1)
When I have fears that I may cease to be	1830	(1)
To Homer	1830	(1)
The Eve of St. Agnes	1830	(10)
Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art	1840	(1)
La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad	1840	(2)
Sonnet to Sleep	1842	(1)
Ode to Psyche	1843	(2)
Ode to a Nightingale	1845	(2)
Ode on a Grecian Urn	1847	(1)
Ode on Melancholy	1848	(2)
Ode on Indolence	1850	(1)
Lamia	1851	(16)
To Autumn	1867	(1)
LETTERS	1868	(38)
To Benjamin Bailey (Nov. 22, 1817)	1869	(2)
To George and Thomas Keats (Dec. 21, 27 [?], 1817)	1871	(1)
To John Hamilton Reynolds (Feb. 3, 1818)	1872	(1)
To John Taylor (Feb. 27, 1818)	1873	(1)
To John Hamilton Reynolds (May 3, 1818)	1874	(2)
To Richard Woodhouse (Oct. 27, 1818)	1876	(1)
To George and Georgiana Keats (Feb. 14—May 3, 1819)	1877	(4)
To Fanny Brawne (July 25, 1819)	1881	(1)
To Percy Bysshe Shelley (Aug. 16, 1820)	1882	(1)
To Charles Brown (Nov. 30, 1820)	1883	(2)
The Victorian Age (1830-1901)	1885	(408)
Introduction	1885	(21)
Timeline	1906	(15)
THOMAS CARLYLE (1795-1881)	1908	(13)
Past and Present	1912	(14)
Democracy	1912	(4)
Captains of Industry	1916	(5)
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING (1806-1861)	1921	(27)
The Cry of the Children	1922	(4)
Sonnets from the Portuguese	1926	(1)
21 ("Say over again, and yet once over again")	1926	(1)
22 ("When our two souls stand up erect and strong")	1926	(1)
32 ("The first time that the sun rose on thine oath")	1926	(1)
43 ("How do I love thee? Let me count the ways")	1927	(1)
The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point	1927	(7)
Aurora Leigh	1934	(14)
Book 1	1934	(5)
[The Education of Aurora Leigh]	1934	(5)
Book 2	1939	(7)
[Aurora's Aspirations]	1939	(3)
[Aurora's Rejection of Romney]	1942	(4)
Book 5	1946	(78)
[Poets and the Present Age]	1946	(2)
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON (1809-1892)	1948	(88)
Mariana	1951	(2)
The Lady of Shalott	1953	(5)
The Lotos-Eaters	1958	(4)
Ulysses	1962	(2)
Tithonus	1964	(2)
Break, Break, Break	1966	(1)
Locksley Hall	1966	(6)
From In Memoriam A.H.H.	1972	(51)
The Charge of the Light Brigade	2023	(1)
IDYLLS OF THE KING	2024	(12)
The Passing of Arthur	2025	(10)
Crossing the Bar	2035	(1)
ELIZABETH GASKELL (1810-1865)	2036	(15)
The Old Nurse's Story	2037	(14)
ROBERT BROWNING (1812-1889)	2051	(40)
Porphyria's Lover	2054	(2)
Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister	2056	(2)
My Last Duchess	2058	(1)
The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church	2059	(3)
Love among the Ruins	2062	(2)
"Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came"	2064	(6)
Fra Lippo Lippi	2070	(8)
Andrea del Sarto	2078	(6)
Caliban upon Setebos	2084	(7)
MATTHEW ARNOLD (1822-1888)	2091	(47)
To Marguerite—Continued	2096	(1)
The Buried Life	2096	(2)
The Scholar Gypsy	2098	(7)
Dover Beach	2105	(1)
Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse	2106	(6)
From The Function of Criticism at the Present Time	2112	(14)
Culture and Anarchy	2126	(1)
From Chapter 1. Sweetness and Light	2126	(1)
From The Study of Poetry	2127	(11)
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI (1830-1894)	2138	(20)
Song ("She sat and sang alway")	2139	(1)
Song ("When I am dead, my dearest")	2139	(1)
After Death	2140	(1)
Dead before Death	2140	(1)
Cobwebs	2140	(1)
A Triad	2141	(1)
In an Artist's Studio	2141	(1)
A Birthday	2142	(1)
An Apple-Gathering	2142	(1)
Up-Hill	2143	(1)
Goblin Market	2143	(12)
"No, Thank You, John"	2155	(1)
Promises Like Pie-Crust	2156	(1)
Cardinal Newman	2157	(1)
Sleeping at Last	2157	(1)
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS (1844-1889)	2158	(10)
God's Grandeur	2160	(1)
The Starlight Night	2161	(1)
As Kingfishers Catch Fire	2161	(1)
Spring	2161	(1)
The Windhover	2162	(1)
Pied Beauty	2162	(1)
Hurrahing in Harvest	2163	(1)
Binsey Poplars	2163	(1)
Duns Scotus's Oxford	2164	(1)
Felix Randal	2165	(1)
Spring and Fall: to a young child	2165	(1)
[Carrion Comfort]	2166	(1)
No worst, there is none	2166	(1)
I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day	2167	(1)
Thou art indeed just, Lord	2167	(1)
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894)	2168	(43)
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	2169	(42)
OSCAR WILDE (1854-1900)	2211	(53)
The Critic as Artist	2212	(1)
[Criticism Itself an Art]	2212	(8)
Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray	2220	(1)
The Importance of Being Earnest	2221	(43)
RUDYARD KIPLING (1865-1936)	2264	(29)
The Man Who Would Be King	2265	(24)
The White Man's Burden	2289	(1)
If—	2290	(3)
The Twentieth Century and After	2293
Introduction	2293	(21)
Timeline	2314	(3)
THOMAS HARDY (1840-1928)	2317	(9)
Hap	2318	(1)
Neutral Tones	2319	(1)
Drummer Hodge	2319	(1)
The Darkling Thrush	2320	(1)
The Ruined Maid	2321	(1)
Channel Firing	2321	(2)
The Convergence of the Twain	2323	(1)
Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?	2324	(1)
In Time of The Breaking of Nations'	2325	(1)
He Never Expected Much	2325	(1)
JOSEPH CONRAD (1857-1924)	2326	(60)
Heart of Darkness	2328	(58)
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS (1865-1939)	2386	(37)
The Stolen Child	2389	(1)
The Rose of the World	2390	(1)
The Lake Isle of Innisfree	2391	(1)
The Sorrow of Love	2391	(1)
When You Are Old	2392	(1)
Who Goes with Fergus?	2392	(1)
The Man Who Dreamed of Faeryland	2392	(2)
Adam's Curse	2394	(1)
No Second Troy	2395	(1)
The Fascination of What's Difficult	2395	(1)
A Coat	2395	(1)
September 1913	2396	(1)
Easter, 1916	2397	(2)
The Wild Swans at Goole	2399	(1)
In Memory of Major Robert Gregory	2400	(2)
The Second Coming	2402	(1)
A Prayer for My Daughter	2403	(2)
Leda and the Swan	2405	(1)
Sailing to Byzantium	2406	(1)
Among School Children	2407	(1)
A Dialogue of Self and Soul	2408	(2)
Byzantium	2410	(1)
Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop	2411	(1)
Lapis Lazuli	2412	(1)
Under Ben Bulben	2413	(3)
The Circus Animals' Desertion	2416	(1)
From Introduction [A General Introduction for My Work]	2417	(6)
VIRGINIA WOOLF (1882-1941)	2423	(75)
The Mark on the Wall	2424	(5)
Modern Fiction	2429	(6)
A Room of One's Own	2435	(59)
Professions for Women	2494	(4)
JAMES JOYCE (1882-1941)	2498	(76)
Araby	2503	(4)
The Dead	2507	(28)
Ulysses	2535	(39)
[Proteus]	2535	(13)
[Lestrygonians]	2548	(26)
D.H. LAWRENCE (1885-1930)	2574	(33)
Odour of Chrysanthemums	2576	(14)
The Horse Dealer's Daughter	2590	(11)
Why the Novel Matters	2601	(4)
Piano	2605	(1)
Snake	2605	(2)
T.S. ELIOT (1888-1965)	2607	(38)
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock	2610	(4)
The Waste Land	2614	(14)
The Hollow Men	2628	(3)
Journey of the Magi	2631	(1)
FOUR QUARTETS	2632	(13)
Little Gidding	2632	(7)
Tradition and the Individual Talent	2639	(6)
KATHERINE MANSFIELD (1888-1923)	2645	(10)
The Garden Party	2646	(9)
JEAN RHYS (1890-1979)	2655	(6)
The Day They Burned the Books	2657	(4)
SAMUEL BECKETT (1906-1989)	2661	(28)
Endgame	2662	(27)
W.H. AUDEN (1907-1973)	2689	(16)
Lullaby	2690	(1)
As I Walked Out One Evening	2691	(2)
Musée des Beaux Arts	2693	(1)
In Memory of W.B. Yeats	2693	(3)
The Unknown Citizen	2696	(1)
September 1,1939	2696	(3)
In Praise of Limestone	2699	(2)
The Shield of Achilles	2701	(4)
[Poetry as Memorable Speech]	2703	(2)
DYLAN THOMAS (1914-1953)	2705	(5)
The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower	2706	(1)
Poem in October	2707	(1)
Fern Hill	2708	(2)
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night	2710	(1)
PHILIP LARKIN (1922-1985)	2710	(8)
Church Going	2711	(2)
MC MXIV	2713	(1)
Talking in Bed	2714	(1)
Ambulances	2714	(1)
High Windows	2715	(1)
Homage to a Government	2715	(1)
This Be The Verse	2716	(1)
Aubade	2716	(2)
NADINE GORDIMER (b. 1923)	2718	(4)
The Moment before the Gun Went Off	2718	(4)
BRIAN FRIEL (b. 1929)	2722	(48)
Translations	2724	(46)
DEREK WALCOTT (h. 1930)	2770
A Far Cry from Africa	2771	(1)
The Schooner Flight	2772	(1)
1 Adios, Carenage	2772	(1)
The Season of Phastasmal Peace	2773	(1)
OMEROS	2774	(3)
1.3.3 ["'Mais qui ça qui rivait-'ous, Philoctete?'"]	2774	(1)
6.49.1-2 ["She bathed him in the brew of the root. The basin"]	2775	(2)
ALICE MUNRO (b. 1931)	2777	(11)
Walker Brothers Cowboy	2778	(10)
SEAMUS HEANEY (b. 1939)	2788	(15)
Digging	2789	(1)
The Forge	2790	(1)
The Grauballe Man	2791	(1)
Punishment	2792	(1)
Casualty	2793	(3)
The Skunk	2796	(1)
Station Island	2797	(1)
12 ("Like a convalescent, I took the hand")	2797	(1)
Clearances	2798	(4)
The Sharping Stone	2802	(1)
J.M. COETZEE (b. 1940)	2803	(10)
From Waiting for the Barbarians	2804	(9)
SALMAN RUSHDIE (b. 1947)	2813	(11)
The Prophet's Hair	2815	(9)
ANNE CARSON (b. 1950)	2824
The Glass Essay	2825	(4)
Hero	2825	(4)
Epitaph: Zion	2829	(3129075)
POEMS IN PROCESS	A1
William Blake	A2
The Tyger	A2
William Wordsworth	A4
She dwelt among the untrodden ways	A4
Lord Byron	A5
Don Juan	A5
Canto 3, Stanza 9	A5
Canto 14, Stanza 95	A6
Percy Bysshe Shelley	A7
O World, O Life, O Time	A7
John Keats	A9
The Eve of St. Agnes	A9
To Autumn	A10
Alfred, Lord Tennyson	A11
The Lady of Shalott	A11
Tithonus	A14
Elizabeth Barrett Browning	A15
The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point	A15
Gerard Manley Hopkins	A18
Thou art indeed just, Lord	A18
William Butler Yeats	A19
The Sorrow of Love	A19
Leda and the Swan	A21
D.H. Lawrence	A23
The Piano	A23
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHIES	A25
Suggested General Readings	A25
The Romantic Period	A28
The Victorian Age	A34
The Twentieth Century and After	A39
APPENDICES
Literary Terminology	A53
Geographic Nomenclature	A74
British Money	A76
The British Baronage	A81
The Royal Lines of England and Great Britain	A83
Religions in England	A86
Map: London in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries	A90
Permissions Acknowledgments	A91
Index	A95