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Tables of Contents for The Norton Anthology of English Literature
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
PREFACE TO THE SIXTH EDITION
xxxv
6
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
xli
The Romantic Period (1785-1830)
1
862
WILLIAM BLAKE (1757-1827)
18
62
From POETICAL SKETCHES
22
4
To Spring
22
1
To Autumn
22
1
To the Evening Star
23
1
Song ("How sweet I roam'd from field to field")
23
1
Song ("Memory, hither come")
24
1
Mad Song
24
1
To the Muses
25
1
All Religions Are One
26
2
There Is No Natural Religion [a]
26
1
There Is No Natural Religion [b]
27
1
SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND OF EXPERIENCE
28
1
From Songs of Innocence
28
5
Introduction
28
1
The Ecchoing Green
28
1
The Lamb
29
1
The Little Black Boy
30
1
The Chimney Sweeper
30
1
The Divine Image
31
1
Holy Thursday
32
1
Nurse's Song
32
1
Infant Joy
33
1
From Songs of Experience
33
8
Introduction
33
1
Earth's Answer
34
1
The Clod & the Pebble
35
1
Holy Thursday
35
1
The Chimney Sweeper
35
1
Nurse's Song
36
1
The Sick Rose
36
1
The Fly
36
1
The Tyger
37
1
My Pretty Rose Tree
38
1
Ah Sun-flower
38
1
The Garden of Love
38
1
London
39
1
The Human Abstract
39
1
Infant Sorrow
40
1
A Poison Tree
40
1
To Tirzah
41
1
A Divine Image
41
1
The Book of Thel
41
5
Visions of the Daughters of Albion
46
7
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
53
11
A Song of Liberty
64
2
From BLAKE'S NOTEBOOK
66
1
Mock on, Mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau
66
1
Never pain to tell thy love
66
1
I asked a thief
66
1
The Mental Traveller
67
3
And did those feet
70
1
From A Vision of The Last Judgment
70
3
[Four Letters on Sight and Vision]
73
7
To Dr. John Trusler (Aug. 23, 1799)
73
1
To Thomas Butts (Nov. 22, 1802)
74
3
To William Hayley (Oct. 23, 1804)
77
2
To George Cumberland (Apr. 12, 1827)
79
1
ROBERT BURNS (1759-1796)
80
18
To a Mouse
82
1
To a Louse
83
2
Green grow the rashes
85
1
Holy Willie's Prayer
85
3
Tam o'Shanter
88
5
Afton Water
93
1
Ae fond kiss
94
1
Ye flowery banks
94
1
Scots, wha hae
95
1
For A' That and A' That
96
1
A Red, Red Rose
97
1
Auld Lang Syne
97
1
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT (1759-1797)
98
28
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
101
25
Introduction
101
4
Chap. 2. The Prevailing Opinion of a Sexual Character Discussed
105
14
From Chap. 4. Observations on the State of Degradation to Which Woman Is Reduced by Various Causes
119
7
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (1770-1850)
126
160
From LYRICAL BALLADS
129
11
Simon Lee
129
3
We Are Seven
132
1
Lines Written in Early Spring
133
1
Expostulation and Reply
134
1
The Tables Turned
135
1
Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey
136
4
Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1802)
140
12
[The Subject and Language of Poetry]
141
6
["What Is a Poet?"]
147
4
["Emotion Recollected in Tranquillity"]
151
1
Strange fits of passion have I known
152
1
She dwelt among the untrodden ways
153
1
Three years she grew
154
1
A slumber did my spirit seal
155
1
I travelled among unknown men
155
1
Lucy Gray
156
1
The Two April Mornings
157
2
Nutting
159
1
The Ruined Cottage
160
12
Michael
172
10
Written in March
182
1
Resolution and Independence
183
3
I wandered lonely as a cloud
186
1
My heart leaps up
187
1
Ode: Intimations of Immortality
187
7
Ode to Duty
194
1
The Solitary Reaper
195
1
Elegiac Stanzas
196
2
SONNETS
198
3
Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802
198
1
It is a beauteous evening
198
1
London, 1802
199
1
The world is too much with us
199
1
Surprised by joy
200
1
Mutability
200
1
Steamboats, Viaducts, and Railways
201
1
Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg
201
2
Prospectus to The Recluse
203
2
THE PRELUDE, OR GROWTH OF A POET'S MIND
205
81
Book First. Introduction, Childhood, and School-time
207
15
Book Second. School-time continued
222
10
Book Third. Residence at Cambridge
232
1
[Experiences at St. John's College. the "Heroic Argument"]
232
5
Book Fourth. Summer Vacation
237
1
[The Walks with His Terrier. The Circuit of the Lake]
237
2
["The Surface of Past Time." The Walk Home from the Dance. The Discharged Soldier]
239
5
Book Fifth. Books
244
1
[The Dream of the Arab]
244
2
[The Boy of Winander]
246
1
["The Mystery of Words"]
247
1
Book Sixth. Cambridge, and the Alps
248
1
["Human Nature Seeming Born Again"]
248
1
[Crossing Simplon Pass]
248
3
Book Seventh. Residence in London
251
1
[The Blind Beggar. Bartholomew Fair]
251
3
Book Eighth. Retrospect, Love of Nature leading to Love of Man
254
1
[The Shepherd in the Mist. Man Still Subordinate to Nature]
254
2
Book Ninth. Residence in France
256
1
[Paris and Orleans. Becomes a "Patriot"]
256
3
Book Tenth. France continued
259
1
[The Revolution: Paris and England]
259
3
[The Reign of Terror. Nightmares]
262
1
Book Eleventh. France, concluded
263
1
[Retrospect: "Bliss Was It in That Dawn." Recourse to "Reason's Naked Self"]
263
3
[Crisis, Breakdown, and Recovery]
266
1
Book Twelfth. Imagination and Taste, how impaired and restored
267
7
Book Thirteenth. Subject concluded
274
1
[Return to "Life's Familiar Face"]
274
2
[Discovery of His Poetic Subject. Salisbury Plain. Sight of "a New World"]
276
4
Book Fourteenth. Conclusion
280
1
[The Vision on Mount Snowdon. Fear vs. Love Resolved. Imagination]
280
4
[Conclusion: "The Mind of Man"]
284
2
DOROTHY WORDSWORTH (1771-1855)
286
13
From The Alfoxden Journal
287
2
From The Grasmere Journals
289
10
SIR WALTER SCOTT (1771-1832)
299
24
The Two Drovers
300
20
Lochinvar
320
1
Jock of Hazeldean
321
1
The Dreary Change
322
1
Proud Maisie
322
1
Lucy Ashton's Song
323
1
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE (1772-1834)
323
78
The Eolian Harp
326
2
This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison
328
2
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
330
16
Kubla Khan
346
3
Christabel
349
16
Frost at Midnight
365
1
Dejection: An Ode
366
4
The Pains of Sleep
370
1
Phantom
371
1
To William Wordsworth
372
2
Recollections of Love
374
1
On Donne's Poetry
375
1
Work without Hope
375
1
Constancy to an Ideal Object
376
1
Epitaph
377
1
Biographia Literaria
377
18
Chapter 1
378
1
[The discipline of his taste at school]
378
1
[Bowles's sonnets]
379
2
[Comparison between the poets before and since Mr. Pope]
381
2
Chapter 4
383
1
[Mr. Wordsworth's earlier poems]
383
3
[On fancy and imagination--the investigation of the distinction important to the fine arts]
386
1
Chapter 13
387
1
[On the imagination, or esemplastic power]
387
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 term and poetry with scholia
387
5
Chapter 17
392
1
[Examination of the tenets peculiar to Mr. Wordsworth]
392
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]
393
1
[The language of Milton as much the language of real life, yea, incomparably more so than that of the cottager]
393
2
Lectures on Shakespeare
395
3
[Fancy and Imagination in Shakespeare's Poetry]
395
1
[Mechanic vs. Organic Form]
396
2
The Statesman's Manual
398
3
[On Symbol and Allegory]
398
2
[The Satanic Hero]
400
1
CHARLES LAMB (1775-1834)
401
22
A Letter to Wordsworth
403
3
Christ's Hospital Five-and-Thirty Years Ago
406
9
The Two Races of Men
415
4
Old China
419
4
WILLIAM HAZLITT (1778-1830)
423
21
On Gusto
424
3
My First Acquaintance with Poets
427
14
From Mr. Wordsworth
441
3
THOMAS DE QUINCEY (1785-1859)
444
23
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
446
13
Preliminary Confessions
447
1
[The Prostitute Ann]
447
2
Introduction to the Pains of Opium
449
1
[The Malay]
449
2
The Pains of Opium
451
1
[Opium Reveries and Dreams]
451
8
On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth
459
3
Alexander Pope
462
5
[The Literature of Knowledge and the Literature of Power]
462
5
THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK (1785-1866)
467
12
The Four Ages of Poetry
468
10
The War Song of Dinas Vawr
478
1
GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON (1788-1824)
479
164
Written after Swimming from Sestos to Abydos
483
1
She walks in beauty
484
1
They say that Hope is happiness
485
1
When we two parted
485
1
Stanzas for Music
486
1
Darkness
486
2
So, we'll go no more a roving
488
1
When a man hath no freedom to fight for at home
489
1
Stanzas Written on the road between Florence and Pisa
489
1
January 22nd. Missolonghi
489
1
CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE
490
23
Canto 1
491
1
["Sin's Long Labyrinth"]
491
2
Canto 3
493
1
["Once More Upon the Waters"]
493
3
[Waterloo]
496
3
[Napoleon]
499
3
[Switzerland]
502
6
Canto 4
508
1
[Venice]
508
2
["Farewell!"]
510
3
Manfred
513
33
The Vision of Judgment
546
20
DON JUAN
566
62
Fragment
568
1
Canto 1
568
1
[Juan and Donna Julia]
568
26
Canto 2
594
1
[The Shipwreck]
594
7
[Juan and Haidee]
601
12
Canto 3
613
1
[Juan and Haidee]
613
7
Canto 4
620
1
[Juan and Haidee]
620
8
LETTERS
628
15
Memorandum (May 22, 1811)
629
1
To Francis Hodgson (Sept. 3, 1811)
629
1
To James Hogg (Mar. 24, 1814)
630
2
To Leigh Hunt (Sept.-Oct. 30, 1815)
632
2
To Thomas Moore (Jan. 28, 1817)
634
2
To John Murray (Sept. 15, 1817)
636
1
To John Cam Hobhouse and Douglas Kinnaird (Jan. 19, 1819)
637
2
To John Murray (Apr. 6, 1819)
639
1
To Douglas Kinnaird (Oct. 26, 1819)
640
2
To Percy Bysshe Shelley (Apr. 26, 1821)
642
1
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (1792-1822)
643
123
Mutability
647
1
To Wordsworth
648
1
Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude
648
18
Mont Blanc
666
4
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
670
2
Ozymandias
672
1
Stanzas Written in Dejection--December 1818, near Naples
672
1
A Song: "Men of England"
673
1
England in 1819
674
1
To Sidmouth and Castlereagh
675
1
The Indian Girl's Song [the Indian Serenade]
675
1
Ode to the West Wind
676
2
Prometheus Unbound
678
30
Preface
679
3
From Act 1
682
5
Act 2
687
1
Scene 4
687
4
Scene 5
691
3
Act 3
694
1
Scene 1
694
2
From Scene 4
696
3
From Act 4
699
9
The Cloud
708
2
To a Sky-Lark
710
2
Song of Apollo
712
1
To Night
713
1
To--[Music, when soft voices die]
714
1
The flower that smiles today
714
1
O World, O Life, O Time
715
1
Choruses from Hellas
715
3
Worlds on worlds
715
2
The world's great age
717
1
Adonais
718
13
A Dirge
731
1
When the lamp is shattered
731
1
To Jane. The Invitation
732
2
To Jane (The keen stars were twinkling)
734
1
Lines Written in the Bay of Lerici
734
1
The Triumph of Life
735
17
From A Defence of Poetry
752
14
JOHN KEATS (1795-1821)
766
78
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
769
1
Sleep and Poetry
769
2
["O for Ten Years"]
769
2
On Seeing the Elgin Marbles
771
1
Endymion: A Poetic Romance
771
4
Preface
771
1
Book 1
772
1
[A Thing of Beauty]
772
1
[The "Pleasure Thermometer"]
773
2
On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again
775
1
When I have fears that I may cease to be
776
1
To Homer
776
1
The Eve of St. Agnes
777
9
Why did I laugh tonight? No voice will tell
786
1
Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art
786
1
La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad
787
1
Sonnet to Sleep
788
1
Ode to Psyche
788
2
Ode to a Nightingale
790
2
Ode on a Grecian Urn
792
2
Ode on Melancholy
794
1
Ode on Indolence
795
2
Lamia
797
16
To Autumn
813
1
The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream
814
14
LETTERS
828
16
To Benjamin Bailey (Nov. 22, 1817)
829
1
To George and Thomas Keats (Dec. 21, 27 [?], 1817)
830
2
To John Hamilton Reynolds (Feb. 3, 1818)
832
1
To John Taylor (Feb. 27, 1818)
833
1
To John Hamilton Reynolds (May 3, 1818)
834
2
To Richard Woodhouse (Oct. 27, 1818)
836
1
To George and Georgiana Keats (Feb. 14-May 3, 1819)
837
4
To Fanny Brawne (July 25, 1819)
841
1
To Percy Bysshe Shelley (Aug. 16, 1820)
842
1
To Charles Brown (Nov. 30, 1820)
843
1
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY (1797-1851)
844
19
Introduction to Frankenstein
847
4
Transformation
851
12
ROMANTIC LYRIC POETS
863
28
ANNA LAETITIA BARBAULD (1743-1825)
863
3
The Rights of Woman
864
1
To a Little Invisible Being Who Is Expected Soon to Become Visible
865
1
Life
866
1
CHARLOTTE SMITH (1749-1806)
866
2
Written at the Close of Spring
867
1
To Sleep
867
1
To Night
868
1
WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES (1762-1850)
868
1
To the River Itchin, near Winton
868
1
Languid, and sad, and slow
869
1
JOANNA BAILLIE (1762-1851)
869
3
Up! quit thy bower
870
1
Song: Woo'd and married and a'
870
2
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR (1775-1864)
872
3
Mother, I cannot mind my wheel
872
1
Rose Aylmer
872
1
The Three Roses
873
1
Past ruined Ilion
873
1
Dirce
874
1
Twenty years hence
874
1
Well I remember how you smiled
874
1
THOMAS MOORE (1779-1852)
875
2
Believe me, if all those endearing young charms
875
1
The harp that once through Tara's halls
875
1
The time I've lost in wooing
876
1
JOHN CLARE (1793-1864)
877
4
Mouse's Nest
877
1
I Am
878
1
Clock a Clay
878
1
Song [I peeled bits of straw]
879
1
Song [Secret Love]
879
1
An Invite to Eternity
880
1
A Vision
881
1
FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS (1793-1835)
881
4
England's Dead
882
1
The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in New England
883
1
Casabianca
884
1
GEORGE DARLEY (1795-1846)
885
3
The Phoenix
886
1
It is not Beauty I demand
886
1
The Mermaidens' Vesper Hymn
887
1
THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES (1803-1849)
888
3
Song ("How many times do I love thee, dear?")
888
1
Song ("Old Adam, the carrion crow")
889
1
The Phantom Wooer
889
2
The Victorian Age (1830-1901)
891
663
THOMAS CARLYLE (1795-1881)
910
64
[Carlyle's Portraits of His Contemporaries]
915
8
[Queen Victoria at 18]
915
1
[Charles Lamb at 56]
916
1
[Samuel Taylor Coleridge at 53]
916
4
[William Wordsworth in His Seventies]
920
2
[Alfred Tennyson at 34]
922
1
[William Makepeace Thackeray at 42]
923
1
From Characteristics
923
9
Sartor Resartus
932
26
The Everlasting No
933
5
Centre of Indifference
938
6
The Everlasting Yea
944
7
Natural Supernaturalism
951
7
The French Revolution
958
7
September in Paris
958
3
Place de la Revolution
961
3
From Cause and Effect
964
1
Past and Present
965
9
From Democracy
965
5
Captains of Industry
970
4
JOHN HENRY CARDINAL NEWMAN (1801-1890)
974
18
The Idea of a University
976
6
From Discourse 5. Knowledge Its Own End
976
1
From Discourse 7. Knowledge Viewed in Relation to Professional Skill
977
5
Apologia Pro Vita Sua
982
10
From Chapter 3. History of My Religious Opinions from 1839 to 1841
982
5
From Chapter 5. Position of My Mind Since 1845
987
3
From Liberalism
990
2
JOHN STUART MILL (1806-1873)
992
37
What Is Poetry?
994
7
From Coleridge
1001
2
On Liberty
1003
9
From Chapter 3. Of Individuality as One of the Elements of Well-Being
1003
9
The Subjection of Women
1012
10
From Chapter 1
1012
10
Autobiography
1022
7
From Chapter 5. A Crisis in My Mental History. One Stage Onward
1022
7
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING (1806-1861)
1029
23
To George Sand: A Desire
1031
1
To George Sand: A Recognition
1031
1
Sonnets from the Portuguese
1031
2
21 ("Say over again, and yet once over again")
1031
1
22 ("When our two souls stand up erect and strong")
1032
1
32 ("The first time that the sun rose on thine oath")
1032
1
43 ("How do I love thee? Let me count the ways")
1032
1
A Year's Spinning
1033
1
Aurora Leigh
1034
14
From Book 1
1034
1
[The Feminine Education of Aurora Leigh]
1034
6
From Book 2
1040
1
[Aurora's Aspirations]
1040
2
[Aurora's Rejection of Romney]
1042
4
From Book 5
1046
1
[Poets and the Present Age]
1046
2
A Musical Instrument
1048
1
Mother and Poet
1049
3
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON (1809-1892)
1052
118
The Kraken
1056
1
Mariana
1057
2
Sonnet ("She took the dappled partridge flecked with blood")
1059
1
The Lady of Shalott
1059
4
The Lotos-Eaters
1063
4
Ulysses
1067
2
Tithonus
1069
2
Break, Break, Break
1071
1
The Epic [Morte d'Arthur]
1071
2
The Eagle: A Fragment
1073
1
Locksley Hall
1073
7
THE PRINCESS
1080
1
Sweet and Low
1080
1
The Splendor Falls
1080
1
Tears, Idle Tears
1081
1
Ask Me No More
1081
1
Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal
1082
1
Come Down, O Maid
1082
1
["The Woman's Cause Is Man's"]
1083
1
From In Memoriam A. H. H.
1084
49
The Charge of the Light Brigade
1133
1
Maud
1134
6
Part 1
1134
1
6.5 ("Ah, what shall I be at fifty")
1134
1
6.8 ("Perhaps the smile and tender tone")
1135
1
6.10 ("I have played with her when a child")
1135
1
8 ("She came to the village church")
1135
1
11 ("O let the solid ground")
1135
1
12 ("Birds in the high Hall-garden")
1136
1
16.3 ("Catch not my breath, O clamorous heart")
1137
1
18 ("I have led her home, my love, my only friend")
1137
2
Part 2 4 ("O that 'twere possible")
1139
1
In the Valley of Cauteretz
1140
1
Idylls of the King
1140
25
Pelleas and Ettarre
1141
13
The Passing of Arthur
1154
11
Northern Farmer: New Style
1165
2
Flower in the Crannied Wall
1167
1
To Virgil
1167
1
"Frater Ave atque Vale"
1168
1
The Dawn
1169
1
Crossing the Bar
1169
1
EDWARD FITZGERALD (1809-1883)
1170
12
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
1171
11
ROBERT BROWNING (1812-1889)
1182
84
Porphyria's Lover
1187
1
Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister
1188
2
My Last Duchess
1190
2
The Laboratory
1192
1
The Lost Leader
1193
1
How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix
1194
1
Home-Thoughts, from Abroad
1195
1
Home-Thoughts, from the Sea
1196
1
The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church
1196
3
Meeting at Night
1199
1
Parting at Morning
1200
1
A Toccata of Galuppr's
1200
2
Memorabilia
1202
1
Love Among the Ruins
1202
2
Women and Roses
1204
2
"Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came"
1206
5
Fra Lippo Lippi
1211
8
The Last Ride Together
1219
3
Andrea del Sarto
1222
6
Two in the Campagna
1228
2
A Grammarian's Funeral
1230
3
A Woman's Last Word
1233
1
An Epistle Containing the Strange Medical Experience of Karshish, the Arab Physician
1234
7
Youth and Art
1241
2
Caliban upon Setebos
1243
7
Prospice
1250
1
Abt Vogler
1251
2
Dis Aliter Visum; or, Le Byron de Nos-Jours
1253
4
Rabbi Ben Ezra
1257
5
Apparent Failure
1262
2
House
1264
1
To Edward FitzGerald
1265
1
Epilogue to Asolando
1265
1
EMILY BRONTE (1818-1848)
1266
7
I'm Happiest When Most Away
1267
1
The Night-Wind
1267
1
Remembrance
1268
1
Stars
1269
1
The Prisoner. A Fragment
1270
2
No Coward Soul Is Mine
1272
1
JOHN RUSKIN (1819-1900)
1273
32
Modern Painters
1276
4
[A Definition of Greatness in Art]
1276
1
["The Slave Ship"]
1277
1
From Of the Pathetic Fallacy
1278
2
The Stones of Venice
1280
10
[The Savageness of Gothic Architecture]
1280
10
The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century
1290
8
Lecture 1
1290
8
From Praeterita
1298
7
ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH (1819-1861)
1305
6
Epi-strauss-ium
1306
1
The Latest Decalogue
1307
1
Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth
1307
1
Dipsychus
1308
3
I Dreamt a Dream
1308
2
"There Is No God," the Wicked Saith
1310
1
GEORGE ELIOT (1819-1880)
1311
33
Margaret Fuller and Mary Wollstonecraft
1314
5
The Mill on the Floss
1319
25
From Book First. Boy and Girl
1319
1
Chapter 1. Outside Dorlcote Mill
1319
2
Chapter 2. Mr. Tulliver, of Dorlcote Mill, Declares His Resolution About Tom
1321
4
Chapter 3. Mr. Riley Gives His Advice Concerning a School for Tom
1325
9
Chapter 4. Tom Is Expected
1334
3
Chapter 5. Tom Comes Home
1337
7
MATTHEW ARNOLD (1822-1888)
1344
98
To a Friend
1349
1
The Forsaken Merman
1349
3
Isolation. To Marguerite
1352
1
To Marguerite--Continued
1353
1
The Buried Life
1354
2
Memorial Verses
1356
2
Lines Written in Kensington Gardens
1358
1
The Scholar Gypsy
1359
7
Dover Beach
1366
1
Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse
1367
6
Thyrsis
1373
5
Growing Old
1378
1
Preface to Poems (1853)
1379
10
From The Function of Criticism at the Present Time
1389
14
Maurice de Guerin
1403
1
[A Definition of Poetry]
1403
1
Culture and Anarchy
1404
6
From Chapter 1. Sweetness and Light
1404
2
From Chapter 2. Doing As One Likes
1406
2
From Chapter 5. Porro Unum Est Necessarium
1408
2
From Wordsworth
1410
8
From The Study of Poetry
1418
11
Literature and Science
1429
13
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY (1825-1895)
1442
11
Science and Culture
1443
7
[The Values of Education in the Sciences]
1443
7
Agnosticism and Christianity
1450
3
[Agnosticism Defined]
1450
3
GEORGE MEREDITH (1828-1909)
1453
7
Modern Love
1454
5
1 ("By this he knew she wept with waking eyes")
1454
1
2 ("It ended, and the morrow brought the task")
1454
1
3 ("This was the woman; what now of the man?")
1455
1
15 ("I think she sleeps; it must be sleep, when low")
1455
1
16 ("In our old shipwrecked days there was an hour")
1455
1
17 ("At dinner, she is hostess, I am host")
1456
1
23 (" 'Tis Christmas weather, and a country house")
1456
1
35 ("It is no vulgar nature I have wived")
1457
1
42 ("I am to follow her. There is much grace")
1457
1
43 ("Mark where the pressing wind shoots javelinlike")
1457
1
48 ("Their sense is with their senses all mixed in")
1458
1
49 ("He found her by the ocean's moaning verge")
1458
1
50 ("Thus piteously Love closed what he begat")
1459
1
Dirge in Woods
1459
1
Lucifer in Starlight
1459
1
DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI (1828-1882)
1460
12
The Blessed Damozel
1461
3
My Sister's Sleep
1464
2
The Sea-Limits
1466
1
The Woodspurge
1467
1
The House of Life
1467
4
The Sonnet
1467
1
4. Lovesight
1467
1
Nuptial Sleep
1468
1
19. Silent Noon
1468
1
49. Willowwood--1
1469
1
50. Willowwood--2
1469
1
51. Willowwood--3
1469
1
52. Willowwood--4
1470
1
63. Inclusiveness
1470
1
97. A Superscription
1470
1
101. The One Hope
1471
1
The Orchard-Pit
1471
1
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI (1830-1894)
1472
22
Song ("She sat and sang alway")
1473
1
Song ("When I am dead, my dearest")
1474
1
After Death
1474
1
Dead Before Death
1475
1
Cobwebs
1475
1
A Triad
1475
1
In An Artist's Studio
1476
1
A Birthday
1476
1
An Apple-Gathering
1477
1
Winter: My Secret
1477
1
Up-Hill
1478
1
Goblin Market
1479
11
"No, Thank You, John"
1490
1
Promises Like Pie-Crust
1491
1
In Progress
1492
1
A Life's Parallels
1492
1
Later Life
1492
1
17 ("Something this foggy day, a something which")
1492
1
Cardinal Newman
1493
1
Sleeping at Last
1493
1
WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896)
1494
15
The Defense of Guenevere
1494
9
The Haystack in the Floods
1503
4
The Earthly Paradise
1507
1
An Apology
1507
1
A Death Song
1508
1
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE (1837-1909)
1509
17
Choruses from Atalanta in Calydon
1510
3
When the Hounds of Spring
1510
1
Before the Beginning of Years
1511
2
The Triumph of Time
1513
1
I Will Go Back to the Great Sweet Mother
1513
1
Hymn to Proserpine
1514
3
The Garden of Proserpine
1517
2
Ave Atque Vale
1519
5
The Lake of Gaube
1524
2
WALTER PATER (1839-1894)
1526
17
The Renaissance
1527
7
Preface
1527
3
["La Gioconda"]
1530
2
Conclusion
1532
2
From The Child in the House
1534
6
Appreciations
1540
3
From Style
1540
3
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS (1844-1889)
1543
11
God's Grandeur
1546
1
The Starlight Night
1546
1
As Kingfishers Catch Fire
1547
1
Spring
1547
1
The Windhover
1548
1
Pied Beauty
1548
1
Hurrahing in Harvest
1548
1
Binsey Poplars
1549
1
Duns Scotus's Oxford
1550
1
Felix Randal
1550
1
Spring and Fall: to a young child
1551
1
[Carrion Comfort]
1551
1
No Worst, There Is None
1552
1
I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark, Not Day
1552
1
Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord
1553
1
LIGHT VERSE
1554
17
EDWARD LEAR (1812-1888)
1554
3
Limerick ("There was an Old Man who supposed")
1554
1
How Pleasant to Know Mr. Lear
1555
1
The Jumblies
1556
1
Cold Are the Crabs
1557
1
LEWIS CARROLL (1832-1898)
1557
9
Jabberwocky
1558
2
[Humpty Dumpty's Explication of Jabberwocky]
1559
1
The White Knight's Song
1560
2
The Walrus and the Carpenter
1562
2
The Hunting of the Snark
1564
2
The Baker's Tale
1564
2
W. S. GILBERT (1836-1911)
1566
5
When I, Good Friends, Was Called to the Bar
1566
1
If You're Anxious for to Shine in the High Aesthetic Line
1567
2
When Britain Really Ruled the Waves
1569
2
VICTORIAN ISSUES
1571
41
EVOLUTION
1571
9
Charles Darwin
The Descent of Man
1571
4
[Natural Selection and Sexual Selection]
1571
4
Leonard Huxley
The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley
1575
3
[The Huxley-Wilberforce Debate at Oxford]
1575
3
Sir Edmund Gosse
Father and Son
1578
2
[The Dilemma of the Fundamentalist and Scientist]
1578
2
INDUSTRIALISM: PROGRESS OR DECLINE?
1580
15
Thomas Babington Macaulay
A Review of Southey's Colloquies
1581
5
[Evidence of Progress]
1581
5
Friedrich Engels
From The Great Towns
1586
7
Charles Kingsley
Alton Locke
1593
1
[A London Slum]
1593
1
Charles Dickens
Hard Times
1594
1
[Coketown]
1594
1
THE WOMAN QUESTION
1595
17
Sarah Stickney Ellis
The Women of England: Their Social Duties and Domestic Habits
1598
1
[Disinterested Kindness]
1598
1
Coventry Patmore
The Angel in the House
1599
2
The Paragon
1599
2
Harriet Martineau
From Autobiography
1601
3
Dinah Maria Mulock
A Woman's Thoughts About Women
1604
2
[Something to Do]
1604
2
Florence Nightingale
Cassandra
1606
3
[Nothing to Do]
1606
3
Walter Besant
The Queen's Reign
1609
3
[The Transformation of Women's Status between 1837 and 1897]
1609
3
THE NINETIES
1612
71
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY (1849-1903)
1614
2
In Hospital
1614
1
Invictus
1615
1
Madam Life's a Piece in Bloom
1615
1
OSCAR WILDE (1854-1900)
1616
51
Impression du Matin
1618
1
Helas
1618
1
E Tenebris
1619
1
The Harlot's House
1619
1
The Critic as Artist
1620
7
[Criticism Itself an Art]
1620
7
Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray
1627
1
The Importance of Being Earnest
1628
39
FRANCIS THOMPSON (1859-1907)
1667
5
The Hound of Heaven
1668
4
RUDYARD KIPLING (1865-1936)
1672
7
Danny Deever
1674
1
The Widow at Windsor
1675
1
The Ladies
1676
1
Recessional
1677
1
The Hyenas
1678
1
ERNEST DOWSON (1867-1900)
1679
4
Cynara
1680
1
They Are Not Long
1681
1
Carthusians
1681
2
The Twentieth Century
1683
142
THOMAS HARDY (1840-1928)
1692
19
Hap
1694
1
The Impercipient
1694
1
Neutral Tones
1695
1
I Look into My Glass
1695
1
A Broken Appointment
1696
1
Drummer Hodge
1696
1
The Darkling Thrush
1697
1
The Ruined Maid
1698
1
A Trampwoman's Tragedy
1698
3
One We Knew
1701
1
She Hears the Storm
1702
1
Channel Firing
1703
1
The Convergence of the Twain
1704
1
Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?
1705
1
Under the Waterfall
1706
1
The Walk
1707
1
The Voice
1707
1
The Workbox
1708
1
During Wind and Rain
1709
1
In Time of "The Breaking of Nations"
1710
1
He Never Expected Much
1710
1
BERNARD SHAW (1856-1950)
1711
43
Mrs. Warren's Profession
1714
40
JOSEPH CONRAD (1857-1924)
1754
63
Preface to The Nigger of the "Narcissus"
1756
2
[The Task of the Artist]
1756
2
Heart of Darkness
1758
59
A. E. HOUSMAN (1859-1936)
1817
8
Loveliest of Trees
1818
1
When I Was One-and-Twenty
1818
1
To an Athlete Dying Young
1819
1
Bredon Hill
1820
1
On Wenlock Edge
1821
1
With Rue My Heart Is Laden
1821
1
Terence, This Is Stupid Stuff
1821
2
The Chestnut Casts His Flambeaux
1823
1
Could Man Be Drunk Forever
1824
1
Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries
1824
1
POETRY OF WORLD WAR I
1825
462
RUPERT BROOKE (1887-1915)
1826
2
The Soldier
1827
1
EDWARD THOMAS (1878-1917)
1828
3
Adlestrop
1828
1
Tears
1829
1
The Owl
1829
1
Rain
1830
1
The Cherry Trees
1830
1
As the Team's Head Brass
1830
1
SIEGFRIED SASSOON (1886-1967)
1831
4
"They"
1832
1
The Rear-Guard
1832
1
The General
1833
1
Glory of Women
1833
1
Everyone Sang
1834
1
On Passing the New Menin Gate
1834
1
IVOR GURNEY (1890-1937)
1835
3
To His Love
1835
1
Towards Lillers
1836
1
The Silent One
1837
1
December 30th
1837
1
ISAAC ROSENBERG (1890-1918)
1838
4
Break of Day in the Trenches
1838
1
Louse Hunting
1839
1
Returning, We Hear the Larks
1840
1
Dead Man's Dump
1840
2
WILFRED OWEN (1893-1918)
1842
7
Anthem for Doomed Youth
1843
1
Apologia Pro Poemate Meo
1843
1
Miners
1844
1
Dulce Et Decorum Est
1845
1
Strange Meeting
1846
1
Futility
1847
1
Disabled
1848
1
MAY WEDDERBURN CANNAN (1893-1973)
1849
2
Rouen
1850
1
DAVID JONES (1895-1974)
1851
8
In Parenthesis
1853
1
From Preface
1853
2
From Part 7: The Five Unmistakeable Marks
1855
4
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS (1865-1939)
1859
47
The Madness of King Goll
1863
2
The Stolen Child
1865
1
Down by the Salley Gardens
1866
1
The Rose of the World
1866
1
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
1867
1
The Sorrow of Love
1867
1
When You Are Old
1868
1
Who Goes with Fergus?
1868
1
The Man Who Dreamed of Faeryland
1868
2
The Secret Rose
1870
1
The Folly of Being Comforted
1871
1
Adam's Curse
1871
1
No Second Troy
1872
1
The Fascination of What's Difficult
1872
1
September 1913
1873
1
To a Shade
1874
1
A Coat
1875
1
The Wild Swans at Coole
1875
1
In Memory of Major Robert Gregory
1876
2
Easter 1916
1878
2
The Second Coming
1880
1
A Prayer for My Daughter
1881
2
Sailing to Byzantium
1883
1
Leda and the Swan
1884
1
Among School Children
1885
1
A Dialogue of Self and Soul
1886
2
For Anne Gregory
1888
1
Byzantium
1889
1
Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop
1890
1
After Long Silence
1890
1
Lapis Lazuli
1891
1
Long-Legged Fly
1892
1
The Circus Animals' Desertion
1893
1
Under Ben Bulben
1894
3
Reveries over Childhood and Youth
1897
3
[The Yeats Family]
1897
2
[An Irish Literature]
1899
1
The Trembling of the Veil
1900
6
[London and Pre-Raphaelitism]
1900
2
[Oscar Wilde]
1902
1
[The Handiwork of Art]
1903
1
[The Origin of The Lake Isle of Innisfree]
1904
1
[The Rhymers' Club]
1905
1
E. M. FORSTER (1879-1970)
1906
9
The Road from Colonus
1907
8
VIRGINIA WOOLF (1882-1941)
1915
88
The Mark on the Wall
1916
5
Modern Fiction
1921
5
A Room of One's Own
1926
60
Professions for Women
1986
4
A Sketch of the Past
1990
8
[Moments of Being and Non-Being]
1990
8
The Legacy
1998
5
JAMES JOYCE (1882-1941)
2003
77
The Dead
2008
28
Ulysses
2036
40
[Proteus]
2036
14
[Lestrygonians]
2050
26
Finnegans Wake
2076
4
From Anna Livia Plurabelle
2076
4
D. H. LAWRENCE (1885-1930)
2080
51
Odor of Chrysanthemums
2083
14
The Horse-Dealer's Daughter
2097
11
Etruscan Places
2108
5
From Tarquinia
2108
5
Why the Novel Matters
2113
4
Love on the Farm
2117
2
Piano
2119
1
Tortoise Shell
2119
1
Tortoise Shout
2120
3
Bavarian Gentians
2123
1
Snake
2123
2
Cypresses
2125
2
How Beastly the Bourgeois Is
2127
1
The Ship of Death
2128
3
EDITH SITWELL (1887-1964)
2131
5
Facade
2132
2
Trio for Two Cats and a Trombone
2132
1
Sir Beelzebub
2133
1
Still Falls the Rain
2134
1
The Poet Laments the Coming of Old Age
2135
1
T. S. ELIOT (1888-1965)
2136
47
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
2140
3
Sweeney Among the Nightingales
2143
1
The Hippopotamus
2144
2
The Waste Land
2146
14
Journey of the Magi
2160
2
Marina
2162
1
Landscapes
2163
1
Rannoch, by Glencoe
2163
1
Cape Ann
2163
1
Four Quartets
2164
6
Little Gidding
2164
6
Tradition and the Individual Talent
2170
6
The Metaphysical Poets
2176
7
KATHERINE MANSFIELD (1888-1923)
2183
25
The Daughters of the Late Colonel
2184
14
The Garden-Party
2198
10
HUGH MacDIARMID (1892-1978)
2208
5
The Watergaw
2209
1
Moonstruck
2210
1
The Eemis Stane
2210
1
A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle
2211
1
1. Farewell to Dostoevski
2211
1
2. Yet Ha'e I Silence Left
2211
1
In Memoriam James Joyce
2212
1
We Must Look at the Harebell
2212
1
In the Children's Hospital
2213
1
Another Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries
2213
1
ROBERT GRAVES (1895-1985)
2213
8
Down, Wanton, Down!
2215
1
Love Without Hope
2215
1
The Cool Web
2215
1
The Reader Over My Shoulder
2216
1
The Devil's Advice to Story-tellers
2216
1
A Love Story
2217
1
To Juan at the Winter Solstice
2218
1
The White Goddess
2219
1
The Blue-Fly
2220
1
A Plea to Boys and Girls
2220
1
A Slice of Wedding Cake
2220
1
STEVIE SMITH (1902-1971)
2221
6
Is It Wise?
2222
1
Our Bog Is Dood
2222
1
Not Waving but Drowning
2223
1
The New Age
2223
1
Thoughts About the Person from Porlock
2224
1
Exeat
2225
1
Pretty
2226
1
GEORGE ORWELL (1903-1950)
2227
15
Shooting an Elephant
2228
5
Politics and the English Language
2233
9
SAMUEL BECKETT (1906-1989)
2242
19
Happy Days
2243
18
W. H. AUDEN (1907-1973)
2261
12
Petition
2262
1
On This Island
2262
1
Spain 1937
2263
3
Musee des Beaux Arts
2266
1
Lullaby
2266
1
In Memory of W. B. Yeats
2267
2
Their Lonely Betters
2269
1
In Praise of Limestone
2269
3
The Shield of Achilles
2272
1
LOUIS MacNEICE (1907-1963)
2273
5
Sunday Morning
2274
1
Carrickfergus
2274
2
The Sunlight on the Garden
2276
1
Bagpipe Music
2276
1
Soap Suds
2277
1
Star-Gazer
2278
1
DYLAN THOMAS (1914-1953)
2278
9
The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower
2279
1
After the Funeral
2280
1
There Was a Saviour
2281
1
The Hunchback in the Park
2282
1
Poem in October
2283
1
Fern Hill
2284
2
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
2286
1
POETRY OF WORLD WAR II
2287
182
HENRY REED (1914-1986)
2289
3
Lessons of the War
2289
3
1. Naming of Parts
2289
1
2. Judging Distances
2290
1
4. Unarmed Combat
2291
1
ALUN LEWIS (1915-1944)
2292
4
All Day It Has Rained
2293
1
Goodbye
2294
1
Song (On seeing dead bodies floating off the Cape)
2295
1
KEITH DOUGLAS (1920-1944)
2296
2
Gallantry
2296
1
Vergissmeinnicht
2297
1
Aristocrats
2298
1
CHARLES CAUSLEY (1917- )
2298
2
At the British War Cemetery, Bayeux
2299
1
Armistice Day
2299
1
DORIS LESSING (1919- )
2300
23
To Room Nineteen
2301
22
PHILIP LARKIN (1922-1985)
2323
7
Church Going
2324
1
MCMXIV
2325
1
Talking in Bed
2326
1
Ambulances
2326
1
High Windows
2327
1
Sad Steps
2328
1
The Explosion
2328
1
Aubade
2329
1
NADINE GORDIMER (1923- )
2330
5
The Moment before the Gun Went Off
2331
4
THOM GUNN (1929- )
2335
3
Considering the Snail
2335
1
A Map of the City
2336
1
Black Jackets
2336
1
My Sad Captains
2337
1
From the Wave
2337
1
EDNA O'BRIEN (1930- )
2338
14
Sister Imelda
2339
13
TED HUGHES (1930- )
2352
6
Wind
2353
1
Relic
2353
1
Pike
2354
1
Examination at the Womb-Door
2355
1
Theology
2356
1
The Seven Sorrows
2356
1
River
2357
1
DEREK WALCOTT (1930- )
2358
3
A Far Cry from Africa
2358
1
Nights in the Gardens of Port of Spain
2359
1
The Glory Trumpeter
2359
1
Midsummer
2360
1
HAROLD PINTER (1930- )
2361
21
The Dumb Waiter
2362
20
GEOFFREY HILL (1932- )
2382
4
In Memory of Jane Fraser
2382
1
Requiem for the Plantagenet Kings
2383
1
September Song
2383
1
Mercian Hymns
2384
1
6 ("The princes of Mercia were badger and raven. Thrall")
2384
1
7 ("Gasholders, russet among fields. Milldams, marlpools")
2384
1
28 ("Processes of generation; deeds of settlement. The")
2385
1
30 ("And it seemed, while we waited, he began to walk")
2385
1
Lachrimae
2385
1
1. Lachrimae Verae
2385
1
An Apology for the Revival of Christian Architecture in England
2386
1
9. The Laurel Axe
2386
1
FLEUR ADCOCK (1934- )
2386
5
The Ex-Queen Among the Astronomers
2387
1
Poem Ended by a Death
2388
1
The Soho Hospital for Women
2388
3
TONY HARRISON (1937- )
2391
4
Heredity
2391
1
National Trust
2391
1
Book Ends
2392
1
Long Distance
2393
1
Turns
2394
1
Marked with D.
2394
1
TOM STOPPARD (1937- )
2395
27
The Real Inspector Hound
2396
26
SEAMUS HEANEY (1939- )
2422
9
Digging
2422
1
The Forge
2423
1
Punishment
2424
1
Casualty
2425
3
The Skunk
2428
1
Station Island
2428
2
12 ("Like a convalescent, I took the hand")
2428
2
A Ship of Death
2430
1
SUSAN HILL (1942- )
2431
8
How Soon Can I Leave?
2431
8
CRAIG RAINE (1945- )
2439
4
The Onion, Memory
2440
1
A Martian Sends a Postcard Home
2441
2
JAMES FENTON (1949- )
2443
4
A German Requiem
2443
2
Wind
2445
2
POEMS IN PROCESS
2447
22
William Blake
2448
2
The Tyger
2448
2
William Wordsworth
2450
1
She dwelt among the untrodden ways
2450
1
George Gordon, Lord Byron
2451
1
Don Juan
2451
1
Percy Bysshe Shelley
2452
3
O World, O Life, O Time
2453
2
John Keats
2455
2
The Eve of St. Agnes
2455
1
To Autumn
2456
1
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
2457
4
The Lady of Shalott
2457
2
Tithonus
2459
2
Gerard Manley Hopkins
2461
1
Thou art indeed just, Lord
2461
1
William Butler Yeats
2461
6
The Sorrow of Love
2462
1
Leda and the Swan
2463
2
After Long Silence
2465
2
D. H. Lawrence
2467
2
The Piano
2467
2
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHIES
2469
28
Suggested General Readings
2469
2
The Romantic Period
2471
7
The Victorian Age
2478
6
The Twentieth Century
2484
13
BRITISH MONEY
2497
3
THE BRITISH BARONAGE
2500
5
The Royal Lines of England and Great Britain
2502
3
RELIGIOUS SECTS IN ENGLAND
2505
2
POETIC FORMS AND LITERARY TERMINOLOGY
2507
22
INDEX
2529