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Tables of Contents for The Longman Anthology of British Literature
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
xix
Acknowledgments
xxv
Bibliography
xxix
The Romantics and Their Contemporaries
2
296
Anna Laetitia Barbauld
29
17
The Mouse's Petition to Dr. Priestley
29
2
On a Lady's Writing
31
1
Inscription for an Ice-House
31
1
To a Little Invisible Being Who Is Expected Soon to Become visible
32
1
To the Poor
33
1
Washing-Day
33
2
Eighteen Hundred and Eleven
35
8
The First Fire
43
3
A Review of Eighteen Hundred and Eleven
45
1
John Wilson Croker
Perspectives: The Rights of Man and the Revolution Controversy
46
1
Helen Maria Williams
47
10
from Letters Written in France, in the Summer of 1790
48
4
from Letters from France
52
5
Edmund Burke
57
10
from Reflections on the Revolution in France
58
9
Mary Wollstonecraft
67
9
from a Vindication of the Rights of Men
67
9
Thomas Paine
76
6
from The Rights of Man
76
6
William Godwin
82
6
from An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness
83
5
The Anti-Jacobin
88
4
The Friend of Humanity and the Knife-Grinder
88
4
Hannah More
92
7
Village Politics
92
7
Arthur Young
99
5
from Travels in France During the Years 1787--1788, and 1789
100
1
from The Example of France, a Warning to Britain
101
3
William Blake
104
45
All Religions Are One
106
1
There Is No Natural Religion [a]
107
1
There Is No Natural Religion [b]
108
2
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
110
1
Songs of Innocence
Introduction
110
1
The Ecchoing Green
111
1
The Lamb
112
1
The Little Black Boy
113
1
The Chimney Sweeper
114
1
The Divine Image
115
1
Holy Thursday
115
1
Nurse's Song
116
1
Infant Joy
116
1
The Praise of Chimney-Sweepers
116
3
Charles Lamb
Songs of Experience
The Fly
119
1
The Clod & the Pebble
120
1
Holy Thursday
120
1
The Tyger
120
2
The Chimney Sweeper
122
1
The Sick Rose
122
1
Ah! Sun-Flower
123
1
The Garden of Love
123
1
London
123
1
The Human Abstract
124
1
Infant Sorrow
124
1
A Poison Tree
125
1
A Divine Image
126
1
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
126
13
Visions of the Daughters of Albion
139
6
Letters
145
1
To Dr. John Trusler (23 August 1799)
145
1
To Thomas Butts (22 November 1802)
146
3
Perspectives: The Abolition of Slavery and the Slave Trade
149
2
Olaudah Equiano
151
6
from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
151
6
Mary Prince
157
4
from The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave
158
3
Thomas Bellamy
161
7
The Benevolent Planters
161
7
Ann Yearsley
168
4
from A Poem on the Inhumanity of the Slave-Trade
168
4
William Cowper
172
2
Sweet Meat Has Sour Sauce
173
1
Hannah More
174
4
The Sorrows of Yamba
174
4
Robert Southey
178
2
from Poems Concerning the Slave Trade
179
1
Dorothy Wordsworth
180
1
from The Grasmere Journals
180
1
George Gordon, Lord Byron
181
1
from Detached Thoughts
181
1
Thomas Clarkson
181
9
from The History of the Rise, Progress, & Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade by the British Parliament
181
9
William Wordsworth
190
3
To Toussaint L'Ouverture
190
1
To Thomas Clarkson
191
1
from The Prelude
191
1
from Humanity
192
1
Letter to Mary Ann Rawson
192
1
The Edinburgh Review
193
2
from Abstract of the Information laid on the Table of the House of Commons, on the Subject of the Slave Trade
193
2
Mary Robinson
195
11
January, 1795
196
2
Sappho and Phaon
198
2
4 (``Why, when I gaze on Phaon's beauteous eyes'')
198
1
12 (``Now, o'er the tesselated pavement strew'')
199
1
18 (``Why art thou changed? O Phaon! tell me why?'')
199
1
30 (``O'er the tall cliff that bounds the billowy main'')
199
1
37 (``When, in the gloomy mansion of the dead'')
200
1
The Camp
200
1
Lyrical Tales
201
1
The Haunted Beach
201
2
London's Summer Morning
203
1
The Old Beggar
204
2
Mary Wollstonecraft
206
41
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
208
27
To M. Talleyrand-Perigord, Late Bishop of Autun
208
2
Introduction
210
3
from Chapter 1. The Rights and Involved Duties of Mankind Considered
213
3
from Chapter 2. The Prevailing Opinion of a Sexual Character Discussed
216
11
from Chapter 3. The Same Subject Continued
227
5
from Chapter 5. Animadversions on Some of the Writers Who Have Rendered Women Objects of Pity, Bordering on Contempt
232
1
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
233
2
Maria; or The Wrongs of Woman
235
12
[Jemima's Story]
235
12
Perspectives: The Wollstonecraft Controversy and The Rights of Women
247
1
Catherine Macaulay
247
3
from Letters on Education
248
2
Anna Laetitia Barbauld
250
1
The Rights of Woman
251
1
Robert Southey
251
1
To Mary Wolstoncraft
251
1
William Blake
252
1
from Mary
252
1
Richard Polwhele
253
5
from The Unsex'd Females
254
4
Priscilla Bell Wakefield
258
4
from Reflections on the Present Condition of the Female Sex
258
4
Mary Anne Radcliffe
262
7
from The Female Advocate
262
7
Hannah More
269
6
from Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education
269
6
Mary Anne Lamb
275
4
Letter to the British Lady's Magazine [On Needlework]
276
3
William Thompson and Anna Wheeler
279
8
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
280
7
Joanna Baillie
287
11
Plays on the Passions
287
5
from Introductory Discourse
287
5
London
292
1
A Mother to Her Waking Infant
293
1
A Child to His Sick Grandfather
294
1
Thunder
295
2
Song: Woo'd and Married and A'
297
1
Literary Ballads
298
735
Reliques of Ancient English Poetry
299
2
Sir Patrick Spence
300
1
Robert Burns
301
8
To a Mouse
302
1
Flow gently, sweet Afton
303
1
Ae fond kiss
303
1
Comin' Thro' the Rye (1)
304
1
Comin' Thro' the Rye (2)
304
1
Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled
305
1
Is there for honest poverty
306
1
A Red, Red Rose
307
1
Auld Lang Syne
307
1
The Fornicator. A New Song
308
1
Sir Walter Scott
309
1
Lord Randal
309
1
Thomas Moore
310
2
The harp that once through Tara's halls
310
1
Believe me, if all those endearing young charms
310
1
The time I've lost in wooing
311
1
William Wordsworth
312
138
Lyrical Ballads (1798)
313
1
Simon Lee
314
3
We Are Seven
317
1
Lines Written in Early Spring
318
1
The Thorn
319
5
Note to The Thorn
324
2
Expostulation and Reply
326
1
The Tables Turned
326
1
Old Man Travelling
327
1
Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey
328
4
Lyrical Ballads (1800, 1802)
332
1
Preface
332
4
[The Principal Object of the Poems. Humble and Rustic Life]
332
1
[``The Spontaneous Overflow of Powerful Feelings'']
333
1
[The Language of Poetry]
334
1
[What Is a Poet?]
335
1
[``Emotion Recollected in Tranquillity'']
336
1
There was a Boy
336
1
Strange fits of passion have I known
337
1
Song (She dwelt among th' untrodden ways)
338
1
Three years she grew in sun and shower
338
1
Song (A slumber did my spirit seal)
339
1
Lucy Gray
340
1
Poor Susan
341
1
Nutting
342
1
Michael
343
16
from A Review of Robert Southey's Thalaba
354
3
Francis Jeffrey
from Letter to William Wordsworth
357
1
Charles Lamb
from Letter to Thomas Manning
358
1
Charles Lamb
Sonnets, 1802--1807
359
1
Prefatory Sonnet (``Nuns fret not at their Convent's narrow room'')
359
1
The world is too much with us
360
1
Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1802
360
1
It is a beauteous Evening
360
1
I griev'd for Buonaparte
361
1
London, 1802
361
3
from Elegiac Sonnets
Charlotte Smith
To Melancholy
362
1
Far on the Sands
362
1
To Tranquillity
362
1
Written in the Church Yard at Middleton in Sussex
363
1
On being cautioned against walking on an headland overlooking the sea
363
1
The Prelude, or Growth of a Poet's Mind (1805)
364
1
Book First. Introduction, Childhood, and School time
365
14
Book Second. School time continued
379
2
[Two Consciousnesses]
379
1
[Blessed Infant Babe]
380
1
Book Fourth, Summer Vacation
381
3
[Encounter with a ``Dismissed'' Soldier]
381
3
Book Fifth. Books
384
5
[Meditation on Books. The Dream of the Arab]
384
4
[A Drowning in Esthwaite's Lake]
388
1
[``The Mystery of Words'']
388
1
Book Sixth. Cambridge, and the Alps
389
7
[The Pleasure of Geometric Science]
389
1
[Arrival in France]
390
2
[Travelling in the Alps. Simplon Pass]
392
4
Book Seventh. Residence in London
396
3
[A Blind Beggar. Bartholomew Fair]
396
3
Book Ninth. Residence in France
399
7
[Paris]
399
4
[Revolution, Royalists, and Patriots]
403
3
Book Tenth. Residence in France and French Revolution
406
12
[The Reign of Terror. Confusion. Return to England]
406
4
[Further Events in France]
410
2
[The Death of Robespierre and Renewed Optimism]
412
2
[Britain Declares War on France. The Rise of Napoleon and Imperialist France]
414
4
from The Prelude (1850)
418
1
William Wordsworth
Book Eleventh. Imagination, How Impaired and Restored
418
5
[Imagination Restored by Nature]
418
2
[``Spots of Time.'' Two Memories from Childhood and Later Reflections]
420
3
Book Thirteenth. Conclusion
423
7
[Climbing Mount Snowdon. Moonlit Vista. Meditation on ``Mind,'' ``Self,'' ``Imagination,'' ``Fear,'' and ``Love'']
423
5
[Concluding Retrospect and Prophecy]
428
2
Resolution and Independence
430
3
I wandered lonely as a cloud
433
1
My heart leaps up
434
1
Ode: Intimations of Immortality
434
5
The Solitary Reaper
439
1
Elegiac Stanzas
440
2
from Preface to The Excursion
442
5
from The Character of Mr. Wordsworth's New Poem, The Excursion
445
1
William Hazlitt
from A Review of William Wordsworth's Excursion
446
1
Francis Jeffrey
Surprized by joy
447
1
Mutability
448
1
Scorn not the sonnet
448
1
Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg
448
2
Dorothy Wordsworth
450
26
Grasmere---A Fragment
451
2
Address to a Child
453
1
Irregular Verses
454
3
Floating Island
457
1
Lines Intended for My Niece's Album
458
1
Thoughts on My Sick-bed
459
1
When Shall I Tread Your Garden Path?
460
1
Lines Written (Rather Say Begun) on the Morning of Sunday April 6th
460
2
The Grasmere Journals
462
6
[Home Alone]
462
1
[A Leech Gatherer]
463
1
[A Woman Beggar]
463
1
[An Old Soldier]
464
1
[The Grasmere Mailman]
465
1
[A Vision of the Moon]
465
1
[A Field of Daffodils]
466
1
[A Beggar Woman from Cockermouth]
466
1
[The Circumstances of ``Composed Upon Westminster Bridge'']
467
1
[The Circumstances of ``It is a beauteous evening'']
467
1
[The Household in Winter, with William's New Wife. Gingerbread]
467
1
Letters
468
1
To Jane Pollard [A Scheme of Happiness]
468
1
To Lady Beaumont [A Gloomy Christmas]
469
2
To Lady Beaumont [Her Poetry, William's Poetry]
471
1
To Mrs Thomas Clarkson [Household Labors]
472
1
To Mrs Thomas Clarkson [A Prospect of Publishing]
473
1
To William Johnson [Mountain-Climbing with a Woman]
473
3
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
476
79
Sonnet to the River Otter
478
1
To the River Itchin, Near Winton
478
1
William Lisle Bowles
The Eolian Harp
478
2
This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison
480
2
The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere (1798)
482
2
Part 1
482
2
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1817)
484
17
The Castaway
499
1
William Cowper
from Table Talk
500
1
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Kubla Khan
501
2
Christabel
503
15
Frost at Midnight
518
1
Dejection: An Ode
519
3
On Donne's Poetry
522
1
Work Without Hope
522
1
Constancy to an Ideal Object
523
1
Epitaph
524
1
from The Statesman's Manual [Symbol and Allegory]
524
1
Biographia Literaria
525
12
Chapter 4
525
1
[On Lyrical Ballads]
525
1
[Wordsworth's Earlier Poetry]
525
1
Chapter 11
526
1
[The Profession of Literature]
526
2
Chapter 13
528
1
[Imagination and Fancy]
528
3
Chapter 14
531
1
[Occasion of the Lyrical Ballads---Preface to the Second Edition---The Ensuing Controversy]
531
2
[Philosophic Definitions of a Poem and Poetry]
533
1
Chapter 17
533
1
[Examination of the Tenets Peculiar to Mr. Wordsworth. Rustic Life and Poetic Language]
533
4
from Jacobinism
537
1
from Once a Jacobin Always a Jacobin
538
3
Lectures on Shakespeare
541
14
[Mechanic vs. Organic Form]
541
1
[The Character of Hamlet]
542
1
[Stage Illusion and the Willing Suspension of Disbelief]
543
1
[Shakespeare's Images]
544
1
[Othello]
544
2
Coleridge's Lectures in Context: Shakespeare in the Nineteenth Century
546
1
Preface to Tales from Shakespear
546
2
Charles Lamb
Mary Lamb
from On the Tragedies of Shakspeare
548
3
Charles Lamb
from Lectures on the English Poets
551
1
William Hazlitt
from The Characters of Shakespeare's Plays
552
1
On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth
552
3
Thomas De Quincey
George Gordon, Lord Byron
555
96
She walks in beauty
557
1
So, we'll go no more a-roving
558
1
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
558
1
Canto 3
558
4
[Thunderstorm in Switzerland]
558
2
[Byron's Strained Idealism. Apostrophe to His Daughter]
560
2
Canto 4
562
7
[Rome. Political Hopes]
562
1
[The Colloseum. The Dying Gladiator]
563
2
[Apostrophe to the Ocean. Conclusion]
565
2
from A Review of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
567
1
John Wilson
[Lord Byron's Creations]
568
1
John Scott
Don Juan
569
1
Dedication
570
4
Canto 1
574
42
from Canto 2 [Shipwreck. Juan and Haidee]
616
15
from Canto 3 [Juan and Haidee. The Poet for Hire]
631
8
from Canto 7 [Critique of Military ``Glory'']
639
1
from Canto 11 [Juan in England]
640
3
Stanzas (``When a man hath no freedom to fight for at home'')
643
1
On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year
643
1
Letters
644
1
To Thomas Moore [On Childe Harold]
644
1
To John Murray [On Don Juan] (6 April 1819)
645
1
To John Murray [On Don Juan] (12 August 1819)
646
1
To Douglas Kinnaird [On Don Juan] (26 October 1819)
647
2
To John Murray [On Don Juan] (16 February 1821)
649
1
To Augusta Leigh [On His Daughter]
649
2
Percy Bysshe Shelley
651
55
To Wordsworth
653
1
Mont Blanc
653
4
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
657
2
Ozymandias
659
1
Sonnet: Lift not the painted veil
659
1
Sonnet: England in 1819
660
1
The Mask of Anarchy
660
10
Ode to the West Wind
670
2
To a Sky-Lark
672
3
To---(``Music, when soft voices die'')
675
1
Adonais
675
17
from Don Juan
690
1
George Fordon
Lord Byron
Letter to Percy Bysshe Shelley
691
1
George Gordon
Lord Byron
Letter to John Murray
691
1
George Gordon
Lord Byron
Hellas
692
3
Chorus (``Worlds on worlds are rolling ever'')
692
2
Chorus (``The world's great age begins anew'')
694
1
from a Defence of Poetry
695
11
Felicia Hemans
706
30
Tales, and Historic Scenes, in Verse
707
1
The Wife of Asdrubal
707
2
The Last Banquet of Antony and Cleopatra
709
4
Evening Prayer, at a Girls' School
713
1
Casabianca
714
2
Records of Woman
716
1
The Bride of the Greek Isles
716
5
Properzia Rossi
721
3
Indian Woman's Death-Song
724
1
Joan of Arc, in Rheims
725
3
The Homes of England
728
1
The Graves of a Household
729
1
Corinne at the Capitol
730
1
Woman and Fame
731
5
from A Review of Felicia Hemans's Poetry
732
3
Francis Jeffrey
from Prefatory Note to Extempore Effusion on the Death of James Hogg
735
1
William Wordsworth
John Clare
736
10
Written in November (1)
737
1
Written in November (2)
738
1
Songs Eternity
738
1
[The Lament of Swordy Well]
739
5
[The Mouse's Nest]
744
1
Clock a Clay
744
1
``I Am''
745
1
John Keats
746
64
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
748
2
from Homer's Iliad
748
1
Alexander Pope
from Homer's Iliad
749
1
George Chapman
from Homer's Odyssey
749
1
Alexander Pope
from Homer's Odyssey
749
1
George Chapman
On the Grasshopper and Cricket
750
1
from Sleep and Poetry
750
7
from On the Cockney School of Poetry
752
3
John Gibson Lockhart
from The Cockney School of Poetry
755
2
John Gibson Lockhart
On Seeing the Elgin Marbles
757
1
On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again
757
1
Sonnet: When I have fears
758
1
The Eve of St. Agnes
758
10
La Belle Dame sans Mercy
768
1
Incipit Altera Sonneta (``If by dull rhymes'')
769
1
The Odes of 1819
770
1
Ode to Psyche
771
2
Ode to a Nightingale
773
2
Ode on a Grecian Urn
775
1
Ode on Indolence
776
2
Ode on Melancholy
778
1
To Autumn
779
1
The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream
780
13
This living hand
793
1
Bright Star
793
1
Letters
794
1
To Benjamin Bailey [``The Truth of Imagination'']
794
1
To George and Thomas Keats [``Intensity'' and ``Negative Capability'']
795
1
To John Hamilton Reynolds [Wordsworth and ``The Whims of an Egotist'']
796
1
To John Taylor [``a few Axioms'']
797
1
To Benjamin Bailey [``ardent pursuit'']
797
1
To John Hamilton Reynolds [Wordsworth, Milton, and ``dark Passages'']
798
3
To Benjamin Bailey (``I have not a right feeling towards Women'')
801
1
To Richard Woodhouse (The ``Camelion Poet'' vs. The ``Egotistical Sublime'')
801
2
To George and Georgiana Keats (``Indolence,'' ``Poetry'' vs. ``Philosophy,'' the ``Vale of Soul-Making'')
803
4
To Fanny Brawne (``You Take Possession of Me'')
807
1
To Percy Bysshe Shelley (``An Artist Must Serve Mammon'')
808
1
To Charles Brown (Keats's Last Letter)
809
1
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
810
148
Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus (1818)
811
116
Frankenstein (1831)
927
31
Introduction
927
4
from Volume 1, Chapter 1
931
1
from Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude
932
6
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Journal Entries
938
1
Mary Shelley
from Letter to Edward John Trelawny (April 1829)
939
1
Mary Shelley
Frankenstein in Context: Romantic-Era Writers and Milton's Satan
940
1
from Paradise Lost
941
7
John Milton
from An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice
948
1
William Godwin
Prometheus
948
2
George Gordon
Lord Byron
from Glenarvon
950
2
Caroline Lamb
To one who has been long in city pent
952
1
John Keats
from Marginalia to Paradise Lost
952
2
from Lectures on the English Poets
954
1
William Hazlitt
from Preface to Prometheus Unbound
955
1
Percy Bysshe Shelley
from A Defence of Poetry
955
1
(What Do We Mean by Literature?)
956
2
Thomas De Quincey
Perspectives: Popular Prose and the Problems of Authorship
958
2
Sir Walter Scott
960
5
Introduction to Tales of My Landlord
961
4
Charles Lamb
965
10
Oxford in the Vacation
966
4
Dream Children
970
2
Old China
972
3
William Hazlitt
975
17
On Gusto
976
3
My First Acquaintance with Poets
979
13
Thomas De Quincey
992
28
from Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
993
27
Jane Austen
1020
8
from Pride and Prejudice
1021
1
from Emma
1022
6
Letter to James S. Clarke (11 December 1815)
1028
1
William Cobbett
1028
5
from Rural Rides
1029
4
Political and Religious Orders
1033
6
Money, Weights, and Measures
1039
2
Literary and Cultural Terms
1041
24
Credits
1065
2
Index
1067