PRENTICE HALL LITERATURE BRITISH TRADITION GRADE 12 STUDENT EDITION FOURTH EDITION

by Prentice-Hall, Inc.

• ISBN13: 9780138382773
• ISBN10: 0138382778
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1994-01-01
• Publisher: Pearson Prentice Hall

Table of Contents

The Anglo-Saxon Period 449-1066
Introduction	1	(3)
Timeline	4	(6)
British Voices	10	(1)
Reading Critically	11	(2)
Translated
Burton Raffel
The Seafarer	13	(7)
Translated
Burton Raffel
from Beowulf
The Wrath of Grendel	20	(3)
The Coming of Beowulf	23	(5)
The Battle with Grendel	28	(2)
Multicultural Connection: Monsters Around the World	30	(18)
The Monsters' Lair	35	(1)
The Battle with Grendel's Mother	36	(4)
The Last Battle	40	(4)
The Spoils	44	(2)
The Farewell	46	(2)
Comparing Translations: Beowulf	48	(2)
Cross Currents: Beowulf and John Gardner's Grendel	50	(3)
Translated
Charles W. Kennedy
The Wanderer	53	(7)
Bede
from A History of the English Church and People	60	(4)
The Changing English Language	64	(2)
Your Writing Process: Writing About a Modern Hero	66	(3)
The Medieval Period 1066-1485
Introduction	69	(3)
Timeline	72	(8)
British Voices	80	(1)
Reading Critically	81	(3)
English and Scottish Folk Ballads	84	(3)
Sir Patrick Spens
Multicultural Connection: Ballads Across the Oceans	87	(9)
Get Up and Bar the Door	88	(2)
The Twa Corbies	90	(1)
Barbara Allan	91	(5)
Translated
Marie Borroff
from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight	96	(19)
Geoffrey Chaucer
from The Canterbury Tales
The Prologue	115	(23)
One Writer's Process: Geoffrey Chaucer and The Canterbury Tales	138	(28)
The Nun's Priest's Tale	141	(18)
from The Pardoner's Tale	159	(7)
Cross Currents: Travel Writing	166	(4)
Sir Thomas Malory
from Morte d'Arthur	170	(8)
Anonymous
from Everyman	178	(8)
The Changing English Language	186	(2)
Your Writing Process: Writing a Satiric Portrait	188	(3)
The English Renaissance 1485-1625
Introduction	191	(3)
Timeline	194	(6)
British Voices	200	(1)
Reading Critically	201	(3)
Sir Philip Sidney
Sonnet 31	204	(2)
Sonnet 39	206	(4)
Christopher Marlowe
from The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus	210	(5)
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love	215	(2)
A Writer Responds: Sir Walter Raleigh
``The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd''	217	(3)
Edmund Spenser
from The Faerie Queene	220	(1)
Sonnet 1	221	(1)
Sonnet 26	222	(1)
Sonnet 75	223	(4)
William Shakespeare
Sonnet 29	227	(2)
Sonnet 73	229	(1)
Sonnet 116	230	(1)
Sonnet 130	231	(1)
Cross Currents: The Elizabethan
World View	232	(3)
Tell Me Where Is Fancy Bred	235	(1)
It Was a Lover and His Lass	236	(2)
Fear No More the Heat o' the Sun	238	(2)
The Elizabethan Theater	240	(2)
Shakespearean Tragedy	242	(84)
The Tragedy of Macbeth	245	(81)
One Writer's Process:	326	(2)
William Shakespeare
Macbeth
A Writer Responds
William Hazlitt
``Macbeth''	328	(6)
The King James Bible
Psalm 23	334	(1)
Luke 15:11-32 The Parable of the Prodigal Son	335	(2)
1 Corinthians 13	337	(1)
The Changing English Language	338	(2)
Your Writing Process: Writing a Legal Argument	340	(3)
The Seventeenth Century 1625-1660
Introduction	343	(3)
Timeline	346	(9)
British Voices	355	(1)
Reading Critically	356	(1)
The Schools of Donne and Jonson	357	(46)
John Donne
Song	360	(2)
Holy Sonnet 10	362	(2)
Holy Sonnet 14	364	(3)
Meditation 17	367	(5)
George Herbert
Virtue	372	(2)
Easter Wings	374	(4)
Andrew Marvell
To His Coy Mistress	378	(2)
The Picture of Little T.C. in a Prospect of Flowers	380	(4)
Ben Jonson
On My First Son	384	(1)
Song: To Celia	385	(1)
To the Memory of My Beloved Master	386	(6)
William Shakespeare
Robert Herrick
An Ode for Him (Ben Jonson)	392	(2)
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time	394	(4)
Sir John Suckling
The Constant Lover	398	(1)
Song	399	(1)
Richard Lovelace
To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars	400	(1)
To Althea, from Prison	401	(2)
The Puritan Age	403	(42)
John Milton
When I Consider How My Light Is Spent	406	(2)
On His Having Arrived at the Age of Twenty-Three	408	(1)
Multicultural Connection: Celebrating Birthdays	408	(12)
from Paradise Lost	411	(9)
Cross Currents: Views of Paradise	420	(4)
John Bunyan
from The Pilgrim's Progress	424	(4)
The Changing English Language	428	(2)
Your Writing Process: Writing a Letter of Evaluation	430	(3)
The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century 1660-1798
Introduction	433	(3)
Timeline	436	(7)
British Voices	443	(1)
Reading Critically	444	(1)
The Restoration	445	(20)
John Dryden
from An Essay of Dramatic Poesy	448	(5)
A Song for St. Cecilia's Day	453	(7)
Samuel Pepys
from The Diary	460	(5)
The Age of Pope and Swift	465	(44)
Daniel Defoe
from A Journal of the Plague Year	468	(6)
Jonathan Swift
from Gulliver's Travels	474	(10)
Joseph Addison and Richard Steele
Country Manners	484	(3)
Thoughts in Westminster Abbey	487	(3)
Cross Currents: Literary Magazines Today	490	(4)
Alexander Pope
from The Rape of the Lock	494	(13)
from An Essay on Man	507	(2)
The Age of Johnson	509	(20)
Samuel Johnson
Letter to Lord Chesterfield	512	(2)
from The Preface to A Dictionary of the English Language	514	(3)
from A Dictionary of the English Language	517	(5)
James Boswell
from The Life of Samuel Johnson	522	(5)
Multicultural Connection: Dictionaries and Academies	527	(2)
Pre-Romantic Poetry	529	(296)
Thomas Gray
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard	532	(8)
Robert Burns
To a Mouse	540	(3)
To a Louse	543	(3)
Afton Water	546	(2)
John Anderson, My Jo	548	(1)
Multicultural Connection: Dialects in Various Cultures	549	(3)
William Blake
The Lamb	552	(1)
The Tiger	553	(1)
One Writer's Process: William Blake and ``The Tiger''	554	(6)
The Human Abstract	556	(1)
Infant Sorrow	557	(1)
A Poison Tree	558	(2)
The Changing English Language	560	(2)
Your Writing Process: Writing a Narrative	562	(3)
The Romantic Age 1798-1832
Introduction	565	(3)
Timeline	568	(8)
British Voices	576	(1)
Reading Critically	577	(3)
William Wordsworth
Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey	580	(6)
My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold	586	(1)
Multicultural Connection: The Rainbow as a Symbol	587	(9)
The World Is Too Much with Us	589	(1)
It Is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free	590	(2)
The Solitary Reaper	592	(4)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner	596	(25)
Kubla Khan	621	(5)
George Gordon, Lord Byron
She Walks in Beauty	626	(1)
So We'll Go No More A-Roving	627	(1)
from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Apostrophe to the Ocean	628	(5)
from Don Juan	633	(5)
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ozymandias	638	(2)
Ode to the West Wind	640	(4)
To a Skylark	644	(4)
To---	648	(1)
A Dirge	649	(3)
John Keats
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer	652	(2)
Bright Star, Would I Were Steadfast as Thou Art	654	(1)
When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be	655	(2)
Ode to a Nightingale	657	(5)
Ode on a Grecian Urn	662	(3)
To Autumn	665	(3)
One Writer's Process: John Keats and ``To Autumn''	668	(4)
Mary Shelley
Introduction to Frankenstein	672	(4)
Cross Currents: Goethe's Faust	676	(2)
The Changing English Language	678	(2)
Your Writing Process: Writing a Reflective Essay	680	(3)
The Victorian Age 1833-1901
Introduction	683	(3)
Timeline	686	(8)
British Voices	694	(1)
Reading Critically	695	(3)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Lady of Shalott	698	(6)
from The Princess: Tears, Idle Tears	704	(3)
from In Memoriam, A.H.H.	707	(4)
The Lotos-Eaters	711	(6)
Multicultural Connection: The Symbolism of the Lotus	717	(9)
Ulysses	718	(4)
Crossing the Bar	722	(4)
Robert Browning
My Last Duchess	726	(5)
Home-Thoughts, from Abroad	731	(1)
Love Among the Ruins	732	(5)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sonnet 43	737	(3)
Charles Dickens
The Signalman	740	(10)
One Writer's Process	750	(4)
Charles Dickens
Matthew Arnold
To Marguerite---Continued	754	(2)
Dover Beach	756	(4)
Thomas Hardy
The Three Strangers	760	(15)
Masters of the Victorian Novel	775	(9)
The Darkling Thrush	777	(2)
The Man He Killed	779	(1)
``Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?''	780	(4)
Gerard Manley Hopkins
God's Grandeur	784	(2)
Pied Beauty	786	(1)
Spring and Fall: To a Young Child	787	(3)
A. E. Housman
To an Athlete Dying Young	790	(2)
Loveliest of Trees	792	(1)
When I Was One-and-Twenty	793	(3)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Silent Noon	796	(1)
George Meredith
Lucifer in Starlight	797	(1)
Christina Rossetti
A Birthday	798	(1)
Rudyard Kipling
Recessional	799	(3)
Cross Currents: Changing Views of Women	802	(2)
The Changing English Language	804	(2)
Your Writing Process: Writing a Persuasive Memo	806	(3)
The Twentieth Century 1901 To Present
Introduction	809	(3)
Timeline	812	(11)
British Voices	823	(1)
Reading Critically	824	(1)
Prose	825	(140)
Joseph Conrad
The Lagoon	828	(10)
One Writer's Process: Joseph Conrad and ``The Lagoon''	838	(4)
E. M. Forster
The Helping Hand	842	(8)
Virginia Woolf
The Lady in the Looking Glass: A Reflection	850	(8)
D. H. Lawrence
The Rocking-Horse Winner	858	(12)
Katherine Mansfield
A Dill Pickle	870	(11)
James Joyce
Araby	881	(7)
Elizabeth Bowen
The Demon Lover	888	(8)
Graham Greene
Across the Bridge	896	(10)
George Orwell
Shooting an Elephant	906	(8)
William Trevor
The Distant Past	914	(8)
Doris Lessing
A Mild Attack of Locusts	922	(8)
Nadine Gordimer
The Train from Rhodesia	930	(8)
Alan Sillitoe
The Fiddle	938	(8)
Margaret Drabble
A Voyage to Cythera	946	(12)
V. S. Naipaul
B. Wordsworth	958	(7)
Drama	965	(92)
Bernard Shaw
Pygmalion	968	(87)
Cross Currents: Pygmalion Becomes My Fair Lady	1055	(2)
Poetry	1057	(157)
William Butler Yeats
When You Are Old	1060	(1)
The Lake Isle of Innisfree	1061	(1)
The Wild Swans at Coole	1062	(2)
An Irish Airman Foresees His Death	1064	(3)
The Second Coming	1067	(2)
After Long Silence	1069	(1)
Sailing to Byzantium	1070	(4)
Siegfried Sassoon
Wirers	1074	(2)
Rupert Brooke
The Soldier	1076	(1)
Wilfred Owen
Anthem for Doomed Youth	1077	(3)
T. S. Eliot
Preludes	1080	(3)
Journey of the Magi	1083	(2)
Multicultural Connection: The Magi in Other Cultures	1085	(9)
The Hollow Men	1087	(7)
Robert Graves
One Hard Look	1094	(1)
She Tells Her Love While Half Asleep	1095	(3)
W. H. Auden
In Memory of W. B. Yeats	1098	(4)
Musee des Beaux Arts	1102	(4)
Louis MacNeice
The Sunlight on the Garden	1106	(2)
Sunday Morning	1108	(1)
Multicultural Connection: Sunday in Different Cultures	1109	(3)
Stephen Spender
What I Expected	1112	(2)
Henry Reed
Naming of Parts	1114	(4)
Dylan Thomas
The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower	1118	(2)
Fern Hill	1120	(4)
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night	1124	(4)
Philip Larkin
Days	1128	(1)
The Explosion	1129	(2)
Stevie Smith
Not Waving but Drowning	1131	(1)
Pretty	1132	(2)
Ted Hughes
Hawk Roosting	1134	(2)
The Horses	1136	(4)
Seamus Heaney
Follower	1140	(2)
Shore Woman	1142	(3)
Eavan Boland
The Achill Woman	1145	(2)
Outside History	1147	(1)
One Writer's Process: Eavan Boland and ``The Achill Woman''	1148	(4)
Derek Walcott
from Midsummer XXIII	1152	(2)
from Omeros
from Chapter XXVIII	1154	(2)
James Berry
Thoughts on My Mother	1156	(2)
From Lucy: Englan' Lady	1158	(2)
Cross Currents: London Moves to Broadway	1160	(2)
Your Writing Process: Retelling a Story	1162	(2)
Literary Map of Great Britain	1164	(1)
Rulers of England and Great Britain	1165	(1)
Handbook of the Writing Process	1166	(8)
Handbook of Grammar and Revising Strategies	1174	(20)
Handbook of Literary Terms and Techniques	1194	(20)
Glossary	1214	(9)
Index of Fine Art	1223	(4)
Index of Skills	1227	(5)
Index of Titles by Themes	1232	(3)
Index of Authors and Titles	1235	(3)
Acknowledgments (continued)	1238