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Tables of Contents for The Longman Anthology of British Literature
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
xv
Acknowledgments
xxi
Political and Religious Orders
xxv
The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century
1978
909
Samuel Pepys
2003
27
The Diary
2004
26
[First Entries]
2004
2
[The Coronation of Charles II]
2006
2
[The Plague Year]
2008
6
[The Fire of London]
2014
4
Companion Reading John Evelyn: from Kalendarium
2018
2
[The Royal Society]
2020
4
[Theater and Music]
2024
1
[Elizabeth Pepys and Deborah Willett]
2025
5
Mary Carleton
2030
9
from The Case of Madam Mary Carleton
2030
9
Perspectives: The Royal Society and the New Science
2039
19
Thomas Sprat
2041
3
from The History of the Royal Society of London
2042
2
Philosophical Transactions
2044
3
from Philosophical Transactions
2044
3
Robert Hooke
2047
7
from Micrographia
2048
6
John Aubrey
2054
4
from Brief Lives
2055
3
Margaret Cavendish, Dutchess of Newcastle
2058
16
Poems and Fancies
2059
1
The Poetress's Hasty Resolution
2059
1
The Poetress's Petition
2060
1
An Apology for Writing So Much upon This Book
2060
1
The Hunting of the Hare
2060
3
from A True Relation of My Birth, Breeding, and Life
2063
5
Observations upon Experimental Philosophy
2068
2
Of Micrography, and of Magnifying and Multiplying Glasses
2068
2
The Description of a New Blazing World
2070
4
from To the Reader
2070
1
[Creating Worlds]
2071
1
[Empress, Duchess, Duke]
2072
1
Epilogue
2073
1
John Dryden
2074
55
Absalom and Achitophel: A Poem
2076
27
Companion Reading Charles II: His Majesty's Declaration
2101
2
Mac Flecknoe
2103
6
To the Memory of Mr. Oldham
2109
1
To the Pious Memory of the Accomplished Young Lady Mrs. Anne Killigrew
2109
5
Alexander's Feast
2114
5
Fables Ancient and Modern
2119
10
from the Preface
2119
8
from The Cock and the Fox
2127
2
Aphra Behn
2129
64
The Disappointment
2130
3
To Lysander, On Some Verses He Writ
2133
2
To Lysander at the Music-Meeting
2135
1
A Letter to Mr. Creech at Oxford
2136
2
To the Fair Clarinda, Who Made Love to Me, Imagined More than Woman
2138
12
Aphra Behn in Context: Coterie Writing
2139
1
Mary Lady Chudleigh To the Ladies
2139
1
To Almystrea
2140
1
Anne Finch Countess of Winchilsea The Introduction
2141
2
Friendship Between Ephelia and Ardelia
2143
1
A Ballad to Mrs. Catherine Fleming in London
2143
2
Mary Leapor The Headache. To Aurelia
2145
2
Advice to Sophronia
2147
1
An Essay on Woman
2147
2
The Epistle of Deborah Dough
2149
1
Oroonoko
2150
43
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
2193
11
Against Constancy
2194
1
The Disabled Debauchee
2195
1
Song (``Love a woman? You're an ass!'')
2196
1
The Imperfect Enjoyment
2196
2
Upon Nothing
2198
1
A Satyr Against Reason and Mankind
2199
5
George Etherege
2204
76
The Man of Mode; or, Sir Fopling Flutter
2205
75
The Man of Mode in Context: The Collier Controversy
2270
1
from A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage
2271
2
Jeremy Collier
The Spectator, No. 65
2273
2
Richard Steele
from A Defense of ``Sir Fopling Flutter''
2275
5
John Dennis
Mary Astell
2280
9
from Some Reflections upon Marriage
2280
9
Daniel Defoe
2289
22
A True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal
2291
13
A True Relation in Context: Parallel Accounts
2297
1
Letter to her Aunt
2298
1
L. Lukyn
Letter to John Flamsteed
2299
4
Stephen Gray
An Interview with Mrs. Bargrave
2303
1
A Journal of the Plague Year
2304
7
[At the Burial Pit]
2304
4
[Encounter with a Waterman]
2308
3
Perspectives: Reading Papers
2311
51
News and Comment
2312
8
from Mercurius Publicus [Anniversary of the Regicide]
2312
1
from The London Gazette [The Fire of London]
2313
1
from Daily Courant No. 1 [Editorial Policy]
2314
1
from A Review of the State of the British Nation, Vol. 4, No. 21 [The New Union]
2315
2
Daniel Defoe
from The Craftsman No. 307 [Vampires in Britain]
2317
3
Periodical Personae
2320
12
from Tatler No. 1 [Introducing Mr. Bickerstaff]
2321
3
Richard Steele
from Spectator No. 1 [Introducing Mr. Spectator]
2324
2
Joseph Addison
from Female Spectator No. 1 [The Author's Intent]
2326
2
from Tatler No. 18 [The News Writers in Danger]
2328
1
Richard Steele
from Tatler No. 155 [The Political Upholsterer]
2328
2
Joseph Addison
from Spectator No. 10 [The Spectator and Its Readers]
2330
2
Joseph Addison
Getting, Spending, Speculating
2332
9
Spectator No. 69 [Royal Exchange]
2334
3
Joseph Addison
Spectator No. 11 [Inkle and Yarico]
2337
3
Richard Steele
from A Review of the State of the British Nation, Vol. 1, No. 43 [Weak Foundations]
2340
1
Daniel Defoe
Advertisements from the Spectator
2341
1
A Bubbler's Medley
2341
6
from Historical Register for the Year 1720
2343
1
A Song on the South Sea
2344
1
Anne Finch
The Hubble Bubbles
2344
1
Thomas D'Urfey
from The Weekly Journal
2345
1
Thomas Read
from The Craftsman No. 47 [Usbeck to Rica at Ispahan]
2346
1
Nicholas Amhurst
Women and Men, Manners and Marriage
2347
15
from Tatler No. 25 [Duellists]
2347
2
Richard Steele
from A Review of the State of the British Nation, Vol. 9, No. 34 [A Duellist's Conscience]
2349
2
Daniel Defoe
from The Athenian Mercury
2351
3
from Tatler No. 104 [Jenny Distaff Newly Married]
2354
1
Richard Steele
Spectator No. 128 [Variety of Temper]
2355
2
Joseph Addison
from The Female Spectator, Vol. 1, No. 1 [Seomanthe's Elopement]
2357
3
Eliza Haywood
from The Female Spectator, Vol. 2, No. 10 [Women's Education]
2360
2
Eliza Haywood
Jonathan Swift
2362
97
A Description of the Morning
2364
1
A Description of a City Shower
2365
2
Stella's Birthday, 1719
2367
1
Stella's Birthday, 1727
2368
2
The Lady's Dressing Room
2370
4
Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift, D.S.P.D.
2374
13
Journal to Stella
2387
4
Letter 10
2387
4
Gulliver's Travels
2391
60
Part 3. A Voyage to Laputa
2392
1
Chapter 5
2392
5
Chapter 10
2397
5
Part 4. A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms
2402
45
Companion Readings
Letters on Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift to Alexander Pope
2447
1
Alexander Pope to Jonathan Swift
2448
1
John Gay to Jonathan Swift
2448
2
Jonathan Swift to Alexander Pope
2450
1
``The Prince of Lilliput'' to Stella
2450
1
A Modest Proposal
2451
8
Companion Reading from Political Arithmetic
2457
2
William Petty
Alexander Pope
2459
98
An Essay on Criticism
2461
17
Windsor-Forest
2478
11
The Rape of the Lock
2489
20
The Iliad
2509
3
from Preface [On Translation]
2509
2
from Book 12 [Sarpedon's Speech]
2511
1
Eloisa to Abelard
2512
8
Epistle 4. To Richard Boyle, Earl of Burlington
2520
6
An Essay on Man
2526
9
Epistle 1
2526
1
To the Reader
2526
1
The Design
2527
1
Argument
2528
7
An Epistle from Mr. Pope, to Dr. Arbuthnot
2535
11
The Dunciad
2546
11
Book the Fourth
2546
1
[The Goddess Coming in Her Majesty]
2547
1
[The Geniuses of the Schools]
2548
1
[Young Gentlemen Returned from Travel]
2549
1
[The Minute Philosophers and the Consummation of All]
2550
7
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
2557
14
The Turkish Embassy Letters
2558
5
To Lady---[On the Turkish Baths]
2558
2
To Lady Mar [On Turkish Dress]
2560
3
Letter to Lady Bute [On Her Granddaughter]
2563
2
Epistle from Mrs. Yonge to her Husband
2565
2
The Lover: A Ballad
2567
1
The Reasons That Induced Dr. S. to write a Poem called The Lady's Dressing Room
2568
3
John Gay
2571
45
The Beggar's Opera
2573
43
William Hogarth
2616
10
A Rake's Progress
2618
8
Perspectives: Mind and God
2626
31
Isaac Newton
2627
3
from Letter to Richard Bentley
2628
2
John Locke
2630
5
from An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
2631
4
Isaac Watts
2635
5
A Prospect of Heaven Makes Death Easy
2635
1
The Hurry of the Spirits, in a Fever and Nervous Disorders
2636
1
Against Idleness and Mischief
2637
1
Man Frail, and God Eternal
2638
1
Miracles Attending Israel's Journey
2639
1
Joseph Addison
2640
1
Spectator No. 465
2640
1
George Berkeley
2641
3
from Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous
2642
2
David Hume
2644
6
from A Treatise of Human Nature
2644
3
from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
2647
3
Christopher Smart
2650
3
from Jubilate Agno
2650
3
William Cowper
2653
4
Light Shining out of Darkness
2654
1
from The Task
2654
1
The Cast-away
2655
2
James Thomson
2657
20
Winter. A Poem
2658
4
[Autumn Evening and Night]
2658
3
[Winter Night]
2661
1
The Seasons
2662
4
from Autumn
2662
4
Rule, Britannia
2666
11
The Seasons in Context: Poems of Nightfall and Night
2667
1
A Nocturnal Reverie
2668
1
Anne Finch
from The Complaint
2669
2
Edward Young
Ode to Evening
2671
2
William Collins
Ode Occasioned by the Death of Mr. Thomson
2673
1
from The Task
2674
3
William Cowper
Thomas Gray
2677
12
Letters To Horace Walpole, 16 April 1734
2678
1
To Richard West, December 1736
2679
1
To Horace Walpole, 12 June 1750
2680
1
To Horace Walpole, 11 February 1751
2680
1
To Horace Walpole, 20 February 1751
2681
1
Sonnet on the Death of Mr. Richard West
2682
1
Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College
2682
2
Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes
2684
1
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
2685
4
Samuel Johnson
2689
76
The Vanity of Human Wishes
2692
8
A Short Song of Congratulation
2700
1
On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet
2701
1
The Rambler
No. 4 [On Fiction]
2702
3
No. 5 [On Spring]
2705
3
No. 60 [On Biography]
2708
3
No. 170 [On Misella, a Prostitute]
2711
2
No. 171 [Misella Continues]
2713
3
No. 207 [Beginnings, Middles, and Ends]
2716
3
from A Review of Soame Jenyns' A Free Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Evil
2719
5
The Idler
No. 31 [On Idleness]
2724
1
No. 32 [On Sleep]
2725
2
No. 84 [On Autobiography]
2727
2
No. 97 [On Travel Writing]
2729
1
A Dictionary of the English Language
2730
14
from Preface
2731
6
[Some Entries]
2737
7
Rasselas
2744
9
[The History of Imlac]
2745
8
The Plays of William Shakespeare
2753
12
from Preface
2754
8
[Selected Notes on Othello]
2762
3
Travel Writing
2765
31
Letter to Hester Thrale (21 September 1773)
2765
5
A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland
2770
8
Anoch
2770
3
Glensheals
2773
1
The Highlands
2774
3
Glenelg
2777
1
from Skye. Armidel
2778
1
Lives of the Poets
2778
10
from The Life of Milton
2779
2
from The Life of Pope
2781
7
from Annals [Infancy and Childhood]
2788
4
Letters
To Lord Chesterfield (7 February 1755)
2792
1
To Hester Thrale (19 June 1783)
2793
2
To Hester Thrale Piozzi (2 July 1784)
2795
1
To Hester Thrale Piozzi (8 July 1784)
2795
1
James Boswell
2796
33
London Journal
2797
8
[A Scot in London]
2797
3
[Louisa]
2800
5
[First Meeting with Johnson]
2805
1
An Account of My Last Interview with David Hume, Esq.
2805
4
from A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Dr. Samuel Johnson
2809
4
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
2813
16
[Introduction; Boswell's Method]
2813
2
[Conversations about Hume]
2815
2
[Dinner with Wilkes]
2817
6
[Conversations at Streatham and the Club]
2823
6
Hester Salusbury Thrale Piozzi
2829
14
The Family Book
2830
5
[On Her Daughter's Progress]
2830
1
[On the Death of Her Son]
2831
3
[On Her Marriage and Household]
2834
1
Thraliana
2835
8
[First Entries]
2835
3
[The Death of Henry Thrale; Marriage to Gabriel Piozzi]
2838
4
[The Death of Johnson]
2842
1
Oliver Goldsmith
2843
14
The Deserted Village
2844
13
Companion Readings
from The Village
2854
2
George Crabbe
from The Parish Register
2856
1
George Crabbe
Perspectives: Landscape, Pleasure, Power
2857
30
Sir John Denham
2858
9
Cooper's Hill
2859
8
Joseph Addison
2867
5
from Spectator No. 412 [The Great, the Uncommon, the Beautiful]
2867
2
Spectator No. 414 [Nature, Art, Gardens]
2869
3
Alexander Pope
2872
2
Letter to Edward Blount [Grotto and Garden]
2872
2
Horace Walpole
2874
1
Letter to Sir Horace Mann [The Garden at Strawberry Hill]
2874
1
Edmund Burke
2875
7
from A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful
2875
7
Thomas Gray
2882
1
from A Journal-Letter to Thomas Wharton [The Sublime and the Beautiful in the Lake District]
2882
1
William Gilpin
2883
4
from On Picturesque Travel
2884
3
Money, Weights, and Measures
2887
2
Glossary of Literary and Cultural Terms
2889
24
Bibliography
2913
12
Credits
2925
2
Index
2927