Norton Anthology of English Literature Vol. 2 : Romantic Period

by ABRAMS M. H.

• ISBN13: 9780393975680
• ISBN10: 0393975681
• Edition: 7th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-12-01
• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc

Summary

Collects novels, stories, poems, essays, plays, ballads, and sermons from British authors.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Seventh Edition	xvii
Acknowledgments	xxvii
The Romantic Period (1785-1830)	1	(116)
Introduction	1	(21)
Timeline	22	(2)
Anna Letitia Barbauld (1743-1825)	24	(8)
A Summer Evening's Meditation	24	(3)
The Rights of Woman	27	(1)
To a Little Invisible Being Who Is Expected Soon to Become Visible	28	(1)
Washing-Day	29	(2)
Life	31	(1)
Charlotte Smith (1749-1806)	32	(3)
Elegiac Sonnets	33	(1)
Written at the Close of Spring	33	(1)
To Sleep	33	(1)
To Night	33	(1)
Written in the Church-Yard at Middleton in Sussex	34	(1)
On Being Cautioned against Walking on an Headland Overlooking the Sea, Because It Was Frequented by a Lunatic	34	(1)
The Sea View	35	(1)
William Blake (1757-1827)	35	(56)
Poetical Sketches	39	(1)
To Spring	39	(1)
To Autumn	40	(1)
To the Evening Star	40	(1)
All Religions Are One	41	(1)
There Is No Natural Religion [a]	41	(1)
There Is No Natural Religion [b]	42	(1)
Songs of Innocence and of Experience	43	(1)
Songs of Innocence	43	(6)
Introduction	43	(1)
The Ecchoing Green	43	(2)
The Lamb	45	(1)
The Little Black Boy	45	(1)
The Chimney Sweeper	46	(1)
The Divine Image	47	(1)
Holy Thursday	47	(1)
Nurse's Song	48	(1)
Infant Joy	48	(1)
Songs of Experience	49	(10)
Introduction	49	(1)
Earth's Answer	50	(1)
The Clod & the Pebble	51	(1)
Holy Thursday	51	(1)
The Chimney Sweeper	52	(1)
Nurse's Song	52	(1)
The Sick Rose	52	(1)
The Fly	53	(1)
The Tyger	54	(1)
My Pretty Rose Tree	55	(1)
Ah Sun-flower	55	(1)
The Garden of Love	56	(1)
London	56	(1)
The Human Abstract	57	(1)
Infant Sorrow	57	(1)
A Poison Tree	58	(1)
To Tirzah	58	(1)
A Divine Image	59	(1)
The Book of Thel	59	(5)
Visions of the Daughters of Albion	64	(8)
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell	72	(10)
A Song of Liberty	82	(2)
Blake's Notebook	84	(1)
Mock on, Mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau	84	(1)
Never pain to tell thy love	84	(1)
I asked a thief	85	(1)
And did those feet	85	(1)
From A Vision of the Last Judgment	86	(2)
Two Letters on Sight and Vision	88	(3)
Mary Robinson (1758-1800)	91	(8)
London's Summer Morning	92	(1)
January, 1795	93	(1)
The Poor Singing Dame	94	(2)
The Haunted Beach	96	(2)
To the Poet Coleridge	98	(1)
Robert Burns (1759-1796)	99	(18)
Green grow the rashes	101	(1)
Holy Willie's Prayer	102	(3)
To a Mouse	105	(1)
To a Louse	106	(2)
Auld Lang Syne	108	(1)
Afton Water	108	(1)
Tam o' Shanter: A Tale	109	(5)
Robert Bruce's March to Bannockburn	114	(1)
A Red, Red Rose	115	(1)
Song: For a' that and a' that	116	(1)
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND THE ``SPIRIT OF THE AGE''	117
English Controversy About the Revolution	117
From a Discourse on the Love of Our Country	118
Richard Price
From Reflections on the Revolution in France	121
Edmund Burke
From A Vindication of the Rights of Men	128
Mary Wollstonecraft
From Rights of Man	133
Thomas Paine
Apocalyptic Expectations by Preachers and Poets	137
From The Three Woe-Trumpets	139
Elhanan Winchester
From The Present State of Europe Compared with Antient Prophecies	143
Joseph Priestley
From The French Revolution	144
William Blake
From America: A Prophecy	146
From Joan of Arc: An Epic Poem	147
Robert Southey
From Descriptive Sketches	149
William Wordsworth
From The Excursion	150
From Religious Musings	153
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
From Queen Mab: A Philosophical Poem	156
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Apocalypse by Imagination	161
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)	163
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman	166
Introduction	166
The Prevailing Opinion of a Sexual Character Discussed	170
Observations on the State of Degradation...	185
Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark	192
Advertisement	192
Letter 1	193
Letter 4	199
Letter 8	201
Letter 19	205
Joanna Baillie (1762-1851)	209
A Winter's Day	210
Up! quit thy bower	217
Song: Woo'd and married and a'	217
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)	219
Lyrical Ballads	222
Simon Lee	222
We Are Seven	224
Lines Written in Early Spring	226
Expostulation and Reply	227
The Tables Turned	228
The Thorn	229
Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey	235
Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1802)	238
[The Subject and Language of Poetry]	239
[``What Is a Poet?'']	246
[``Emotion Recollected in Tranquillity'']	250
Strange fits of passion have I known	251
She dwelt among the untrodden ways	252
Three years she grew	252
A slumber did my spirit seal	254
I travelled among unknown men	254
Lucy Gray	254
The Two April Mornings	256
Nutting	258
The Ruined Cottage	259
Michael	270
Resolution and Independence	280
I wandered lonely as a cloud	284
My heart leaps up	285
Ode: Intimations of Immortality	286
Ode to Duty	292
The Solitary Reaper	293
Elegiac Stanzas	294
Sonnets	296
Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802	296
It is a beauteous evening	297
London, 1802	297
The world is too much with us	297
Surprised by joy	298
Mutability	298
Steamboats, Viaducts, and Railways	299
Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg	299
Prospectus to The Recluse	301
The Prelude, or Growth of a Poet's Mind	303
Book First. Introduction, Childhood, and School-time	305
Book Second. School-time continued	319
Book Third. Residence at Cambridge	330
[Experiences at St. John's College. The ``Heroic Argument'']	330
Book Fourth. Summer Vacation	334
[The Walks with His Terrier. The Circuit of the Lake]	334
[``The Surface of Past Time.'' The Walk Home from the Dance. The Discharged Soldier]	336
Book Fifth. Books	341
[The Dream of the Arab]	341
[The Boy of Winander]	343
[``The Mystery of Words'']	344
Book Sixth. Cambridge, and the Alps	345
[``Human Nature Seeming Born Again'']	345
[Crossing Simplon Pass]	346
Book Seventh. Residence in London	348
[The Blind Beggar. Bartholomew Fair]	348
Book Eighth. Retrospect, Love of Nature leading to Love of Man	351
[The Shepherd in the Mist. Man Still Subordinate to Nature]	351
Book Ninth. Residence in France	354
[Paris and Orleans. Becomes a ``Patriot'']	354
Book Tenth. France continued	357
[The Revolution: Paris and England]	357
[The Reign of Terror. Nightmares]	359
Book Eleventh. France, concluded	360
[Retrospect: ``Bliss Was It in That Dawn.'' Recourse to ``Reason's Naked Self'']	360
[Crisis, Breakdown, and Recovery]	363
Book Twelfth. Imagination and Taste, how impaired and restored	364
Book Thirteenth. Subject concluded	372
[Return to ``Life's Familiar Face'']	372
[Discovery of His Poetic Subject. Salisbury Plain. Sight of ``a New World'']	373
Book Fourteenth. Conclusion	377
[The Vision on Mount Snowdon. Fear vs. Love Resolved. Imagination]	377
[Conclusion: ``The Mind of Man'']	382
Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855)	383
From The Alfoxden Journal	385
From The Grasmere Journals	387
Grasmere---A Fragment	397
Thoughts on My Sick-Bed	399
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)	401
The Heart of Midlothian	402
Being Introductory	402
Lochinvar	413
Jock of Hazeldean	415
Proud Maisie	415
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)	416
The Eolian Harp	419
This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison	420
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner	422
Kubla Khan	439
Christabel	441
Frost at Midnight	457
Dejection: An Ode	459
The Pains of Sleep	462
To William Wordsworth	464
On Donne's Poetry	466
Work without Hope	467
Epitaph	467
Biographia Literaria	467
Chapter 1	468
[The discipline of his taste at school]	468
[Bowles's sonnets]	470
[Comparison between the poets before and since Mr. Pope]	471
Chapter 4	474
[Mr. Wordsworth's earlier poems]	474
[On fancy and imagination---the investigation of the distinction important to the fine arts]	476
Chapter 13	477
[On the imagination, or esemplastic power]	477
Occasion of the Lyrical Ballads, and the objects originally proposed---preface to the second edition---the ensuring controversy, its causes and acrimony---philosophic definitions of a poem and poetry with scholia	478
Chapter 17	483
[Examination of the tenets peculiar to Mr. Wordsworth]	483
[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]	484
[The language of Milton as much the language of real life, yea, incomparably more so than that of the cottager]	484
Lectures on Shakespeare	486
[Fancy and Imagination in Shakespeare's Poetry]	486
[Mechanic vs. Organic Form]	488
The Statesman's Manual	489
[On Symbol and Allegory]	489
[The Satanic Hero]	491
Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864)	492
Mother, I cannot mind my wheel	492
Rose Aylmer	493
Past ruined Ilion	493
Twenty years hence	493
Charles Lamb (1775-1834)	494
Christ's Hospital Five-and-Thirty Years Ago	495
Old China	505
William Hazlitt (1778-1830)	509
On Gusto	510
My First Acquaintance with Poets	513
Thomas Moore (1779-1852)	527
Belive me, if all those endearing young charms	527
The harp that once through Tara's halls	527
The time I've lost in wooing	528
Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859)	529
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater	530
Preliminary Confessions	530
[The Prostitute Ann]	530
Introduction to the Pains of Opium	533
[The Malay]	533
The Pains of Opium	535
[Opium Reveries and Dreams]	535
On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth	543
Alexander Pope	547
[The Literature of Knowledge and the Literature of Power]	547
George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824)	551
Written after Swimming from Sestos to Abydos	555
She walks in beauty	556
They say that Hope is happiness	557
When we two parted	557
Stanzas for Music	558
Darkness	559
So, we'll go no more a roving	560
When a man hath no freedom to fight for at home	561
Stanzas Written on the Road between Florence and Pisa	561
January 22nd. Missolonghi	562
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage	563
Canto 1	564
[``Sin's Long Labyrinth'']	564
Canto 3	565
[``Once More Upon the Waters'']	565
[Waterloo]	569
[Napoleon]	572
[Switzerland]	575
Canto 4	582
[Venice]	582
[``Farewell!'']	585
Manfred	588
Don Juan	621
Fragment	622
Canto 1	623
[Juan and Donna Julia]	623
Canto 2	651
[The Shipwreck]	651
[Juan and Haidee]	658
Canto 3	672
[Juan and Haidee]	672
Canto 4	680
[Juan and Haidee]	680
Letters	689
To Leigh Hunt (Sept.-Oct. 30, 1815)	689
To Thomas Moore (Jan. 28, 1817)	691
To John Cam Hobhouse and Douglas Kinnaird (Jan. 19, 1819)	693
To Douglas Kinnaird (Oct. 26, 1819)	695
To Percy Bysshe Shelley (Apr. 26, 1821)	697
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)	698
Mutability	701
To Wordsworth	701
Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude	702
Mont Blance	720
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty	723
Ozymandias	725
Stanzas Written in Dejection---December 1818, near Naples	726
A Song: ``Men of England''	727
England in 1819	728
To Sidmouth and Castlereagh	728
The Indian Girl's Song [The Indian Serenade]	729
Ode to the West Wind	730
Prometheus Unbound	732
Preface	733
From Act 1	736
Act 2	742
Scene 4	742
Scene 5	746
Act 3	749
Scene 1	749
From Scene 4	751
From Act 4	754
The Cloud	763
To a Sky-Lark	765
To Night	767
To --- [Music, when soft voices die]	768
The flower that smiles today	768
O World, O Life, O Time	769
Choruses from Hellas	769
Worlds on worlds	769
The world's great age	771
Adonais	772
A Dirge	786
When the lamp is shattered	786
To Jane (The keen stars were twinkling)	787
Lines Written in the Bay of Lerici	788
From A Defence of Poetry	789
John Clare (1793-1864)	802
The Nightingale's Nest	803
Pastoral Poesy	805
Mouse's Nest	807
A Vision	807
I Am	808
An Invite to Eternity	808
Clock a Clay	809
The Peasant Poet	810
Song [I hid my love]	810
Song [I peeled bits of straw]	811
Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1793-1835)	812
England's Dead	813
The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in New England	814
Casabianca	815
The Homes of England	817
A Spirit's Return	818
John Keats (1795-1821)	823
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer	826
Sleep and Poetry	827
[O for Ten Years]	827
On Seeing the Elgin Marbles	828
Endymion: A Poetic Romance	829
Preface	829
Book 1	830
[A Thing of Beauty]	830
[The ``Pleasure Thermometer'']	831
On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again	833
When I have fears that I may cease to be	833
To Homer	834
The Eve of St. Agnes	834
Why did I laugh tonight? No voice will tell	844
Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art	845
La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad	845
Sonnet to Sleep	847
Ode to Psyche	847
Ode to a Nightingale	849
Ode on a Grecian Urn	851
Ode on Melancholy	853
Ode on Indolence	854
Lamia	856
To Autumn	872
The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream	873
Letters	886
To Benjamin Bailey (Nov. 22, 1817)	887
To George and Thomas Keats (Dec. 21, 27 [?], 1817)	889
To John Hamilton Reynolds (Feb. 3, 1818)	890
To John Taylor (Feb. 27, 1818)	891
To John Hamilton Reynolds (May 3, 1818)	892
To Richard Woodhouse (Oct. 27, 1818)	894
To George and Georgiana Keats (Feb. 14-May 3, 1819)	896
To Fanny Brawne (July 25, 1819)	900
To Percy Bysshe Shelley (Aug. 16, 1820)	901
To Charles Brown (Nov. 30, 1820)	902
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851)	903
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus	905
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802-1838)	1034
The Proud Ladye	1035
Love's Last Lesson	1037
Revenge	1040
The Little Shroud	1041
Poems in Process	A-1
William Blake	A-2
The Tyger	A-2
William Wordsworth	A-4
She dwelt among the untrodden ways	A-4
Lord Byron	A-5
Don Juan	A-5
Canto 3, Stanza 9	A-5
Canto 14, Stanza 95	A-6
Percy Bysshe Shelley	A-6
O World, O Life, O Time	A-7
John Keats	A-9
The Eve of St. Agnes	A-9
To Autumn	A-10
Alfred, Lord Tennyson	A-11
The Lady of Shalott	A-11
Tithonus	A-14
Gerard Manley Hopkins	A-15
Thou art indeed just, Lord	A-15
William Butler Yeats	A-15
The Sorrow of Love	A-16
Leda and the Swan	A-17
After Long Silence	A-19
D. H. Lawrence	A-21
The Piano	A-21
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHIES	A-23
Suggested General Readings	A-23
The Romantic Period	A-25
``The Persistence of English''	A-35
Geoffrey Nunberg
GEOGRAPHIC NOMENCLATURE	A-50
BRITISH MONEY	A-51
THE BRITISH BARONAGE	A-54
The Royal Lines of England and Great Britain	A-56
RELIGIONS IN ENGLAND	A-59
POETIC FORMS AND LITERARY TERMINOLOGY	A-61
Permissions Acknowledgments	A-78
Index	A-79