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Tables of Contents for Norton Anthology of English Literature
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface to the Seventh Edition
xvii
Acknowledgments
xvii
``The Persistence of English''
xxxi
Geoffrey Numberg
The Victorian Age (1830-1901)
1043
619
Introduction
1043
21
Timeline
1064
2
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
1066
53
[Carlyle's Portraits of His Contemporaries]
1070
7
[Queen Victoria at Eighteen]
1070
1
[Samuel Taylor Coleridge at Fifty-three]
1070
4
[William Wordsworth in His Seventies]
1074
2
[Alfred Tennyson at Thirty-four]
1076
1
Sartor Resartus
1077
26
The Everlasting No
1077
5
Centre of Indifference
1082
7
The Everlasting Yea
1089
7
Natural Supernaturalism
1096
7
The French Revolution
1103
7
September in Paris
1103
3
Place de la Revolution
1106
3
From Cause and Effect
1109
1
Past and Present
1110
9
Democracy
1110
5
Captains of Industry
1115
4
John Henry Cardinal Newman (1801-1890)
1119
18
The Idea of a University
1121
7
From Discourse 5. Knowledge Its Own End
1121
2
From Discourse 7. Knowledge Viewed in Relation to Professional Skill
1123
5
Apologia Pro Vita Sua
1128
9
From Chapter 1. History of My Religious Opinions to the Year 1833
1128
7
From Liberalism
1135
2
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)
1137
36
What Is Poetry?
1139
7
On Liberty
1146
9
From Chapter 3. Of Individuality as One of the Elements of Well-Being
1146
9
The Subjection of Women
1155
11
From Chapter 1
1156
10
Autobiography
1166
7
From Chapter 5. A Crisis in My Mental History. One Stage Onward
1166
7
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)
1173
25
The Cry of the Children
1174
4
To George Sand: A Desire
1178
1
To George Sand: A Recognition
1178
1
Sonnets from the Portuguese
1179
1
(``Say over again, and yet once over again'')
1179
1
(``When our two sould stand up erect and strong'')
1179
1
(``The first time that the sun rose on thine oath'')
1180
1
(``How do I love thee? Let me count the ways'')
1180
1
Aurora Leigh
1180
15
Book 1
1180
1
[The Feminine Education of Aurora Leigh]
1180
6
Book 2
1186
1
[Aurora's Aspirations]
1186
3
[Aurora's Rejection of Romney]
1189
3
Book 5
1192
1
[Poets and the Present Age]
1192
3
Mother and Poet
1195
3
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)
1198
106
The Kraken
1201
1
Mariana
1202
2
The Lady of Shalot
1204
4
The Lotos-Eaters
1208
5
Ulysses
1213
2
Tithonus
1215
1
Break, Break, Break
1216
1
The Epic [Morte d'Arthur]
1217
2
The Eagle: A Fragment
1219
1
Locksley Hall
1219
6
The Princess
1225
1
Sweet and Low
1225
1
The Splendor Falls
1226
1
Tears, Idle Tears
1226
1
Ask Me No More
1227
1
Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal
1227
1
Come Down, O Maid
1228
1
[``The Woman's Cause Is Man's'']
1229
1
From In Memoriam A. H. H.
1230
50
The Charge of the Light Brigade
1280
2
Idylls of the King
1282
1
The Coming of Arthur
1282
11
The Passing of Arthur
1293
11
Flower in the Crannied Wall
1304
1
Crossing the Bar
1304
1
Edward Fitzgerald (1809-1883)
1304
14
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
1305
13
Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865)
1318
15
The Old Nurse's Story
1319
14
Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
1333
12
A Visit to Newgate
1335
10
Robert Browning (1812-1889)
1345
73
Porphyria's Lover
1349
1
Soliloquy of the Spanish Clister
1350
2
My Last Duchess
1352
1
The Laboratory
1353
2
The Lost Leader
1355
1
How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix
1356
2
Home-Thoughts, from Abroad
1358
1
Home-Thoughts, from the Sea
1358
1
The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church
1359
3
Meeting at Night
1362
1
Parting at Morning
1362
1
A Toccata of Galuppi's
1363
2
Memorabilia
1365
1
Love among the Ruins
1365
2
``Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came''
1367
6
Fra Lippo Lippi
1373
9
The Last Ride Together
1382
3
Andrea del Sarto
1385
5
Two in the Campagna
1390
2
A Gramarian's Funeral
1392
4
An Epistle Containing the Strange Medical Experience of Karshish, the Arab Physician
1396
6
Caliban upon Setebos
1402
7
Prospiace
1409
1
Abt Vogler
1410
3
Rabbi Ben Ezra
1413
5
Emily Bronte (1818-1848)
1418
7
I'm Happiest When Most Away
1419
1
The Night-Wind
1420
1
Remembrance
1421
1
Stars
1421
2
The Prisone. A Fragment
1423
1
No Coward Soul Is Mine
1424
1
John Ruskin (1819-1900)
1425
26
Modern Painters
1428
4
[A Definition of Greatness in Art]
1428
1
[``The Slave Ship'']
1429
1
From Of the Pathetic Fallacy
1430
2
The Stones of Venice
1432
11
[The Savageness of Gothic Architecture]
1432
11
The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century
1443
8
Lecture 1
1443
8
Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861)
1451
3
Epi-strauss-ium
1452
1
The Latest Decalogue
1452
1
Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth
1453
1
George Eliot (1819-1880)
1454
17
Margaret Fuller and Mary Wollstonecraft
1456
5
Silly Novels by Lady Novelists
1461
8
The Mill on the Floss
1469
2
Book First. Boy and Girl
1469
1
Chapter 1. Outside Dorlcote Mill
1469
2
Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)
1471
87
The Forsaken Merman
1475
3
Isolation. To Marguerite
1478
1
To Marguerite---Continued
1479
1
The Buried Life
1480
2
Memorial Verses
1482
2
Lines Written in Kensington Gardens
1484
1
The Scholar Gypsy
1485
7
Dover Beach
1492
1
Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse
1493
5
Thyrsis
1498
6
Preface to Poems (1853)
1504
10
From The Function of Criticism at the Present Time
1514
14
Culture and Anarchy
1528
6
From Chapter 1. Sweetness and Light
1528
2
From Chapter 2. Doing As One Likes
1530
2
From Chapter 5. Porro Unum Est Necessarium
1532
2
From The Study of Poetry
1534
11
Literature and Science
1545
13
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)
1558
12
Science and Culture
1559
7
[The Values of Education in the Sciences]
1559
7
Agnosticism and Christianity
1566
4
[Agnosticism Defined]
1566
4
George Meredith (1828-1909)
1570
3
Modern Love
1570
2
(``By this he knew she wept with waking eyes'')
1570
1
(``It ended, and the morrow brought the task'')
1571
1
(``At dinner, she is hostess, I am host'')
1571
1
(``He found her by the ocean's moaning verge'')
1572
1
(``Thus piteously Love closed what he begat'')
1572
1
Lucifer in Starlight
1572
1
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)
1573
10
The Blessed Damozel
1574
4
My Sister's Sleep
1578
1
The Woodspurge
1579
1
The House of Life
1580
3
The Sonnet
1580
1
Nuptial Sleep
1580
1
Silent Noon
1581
1
Soul's Beauty
1581
1
Body's Beauty
1581
1
A Superscription
1582
1
The One Hope
1582
1
Christiana Rossetti (1830-1894)
1583
22
Song (``She sat and sang alway'')
1584
1
Song (``When I am dead, my dearest'')
1584
1
After Death
1585
1
Dead before Death
1585
1
Cobwebs
1585
1
A Triad
1586
1
In an Artist's Studio
1586
1
A Birthday
1587
1
An Apple-Gathering
1587
1
Winter: My Secret
1588
1
Up-Hill
1589
1
Goblin Market
1589
12
``No, Thank You, John''
1601
1
Promises Like Pie-Crust
1602
1
In Progress
1603
1
A Life's Parallels
1603
1
Later Life
1603
1
17 (``Something this foggy day, a something which'')
1603
1
Cardinal Newman
1604
1
Sleeping at Last
1604
1
William Morris (1834-1896)
1605
16
The Defense of Guenevere
1606
8
The Hystack in the Floods
1614
4
How I Became a Socialist
1618
3
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909)
1621
15
Choruses from Atalanta in Calydon
1623
2
When the Hounds of Spring
1623
1
Before the Beginning of Years
1624
1
Hymn to Proserpine
1625
3
The Garden of Proserpine
1628
3
Ave Atque Vale
1631
5
Walter Pater (1839-1894)
1636
12
The Renaissance
1638
7
Preface
1638
3
[``La Gioconda'']
1641
1
Conclusion
1642
3
Appreciations
1645
3
From Style
1645
3
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)
1648
14
God's Grandeur
1651
1
The Starlight Night
1651
1
As Kingfishers Catch Fire
1652
1
Spring
1652
1
The Windhover
1652
1
Pied Beauty
1653
1
Hurrahing in Harvest
1653
1
Binsey Poplars
1654
1
Duns Scotus's Oxford
1654
1
Felix Randal
1655
1
Spring and Fall: to a young child
1655
1
[Carrion Comfort]
1656
1
No Worst, There Is None
1657
1
I Wake and Feel the Feel of Dark, Not Day
1657
1
That Nature Is a Heraclitean Fire
1658
1
Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord
1658
1
From Journal
1659
3
LIGHT VERSE
1662
17
Edward Lear (1812-1888)
1662
4
Limerick (``There was an Old Man who supposed'')
1663
1
How Pleasant to Know Mr. Lear
1663
1
The Jumblies
1664
1
Cold Are the Crabs
1665
1
Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)
1666
8
Jabberwocky
1666
1
[Humpty Dumpty's Explication of Jabberwocky]
1667
1
The White Knight's Song
1668
2
The Walrus and the Carpenter
1670
2
The Hunting of the Snark
1672
2
The Baker's Tale
1672
2
W. S. Gilbert (1836-1911)
1674
5
When I, Good Friends, Was Called to the Bar
1675
1
If You're Anxious for to Shine in the High Aesthetic Line
1676
2
When Britain Really Ruled the Waves
1678
1
VICTORIAN ISSUES
1679
61
Evolution
1679
17
Charles Darwin: The Origin of Species
1679
7
Struggle for Existence
1679
3
Recapitulation and Conclusion
1682
4
The Descent of Man
1686
4
Charles Darwin
[Natural Selection and Sexual Selection]
1686
4
The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley
1690
3
Leonard Huxley
[The Huxley-Wilberforce Debate at Oxford]
1690
3
Father and Son
1693
3
Sir Edmund Gosse
[The Dilemma of the Fundamentalist and Scientist]
1694
2
Industrialism: Progress or Decline?
1696
23
A Review of Southey's Colloquies
1697
5
Thomas Babington Macaulay
[Evidence of Progress]
1697
5
From The Great Towns
1702
8
Friedrich Engels
Alton Locke
1710
1
Charles Kingsley
[A London Slum]
1710
1
Hard Times
1711
1
Charles Dickens
[Coketown]
1711
1
Anonymous: Poverty Knock
1712
2
London Labour and the London Poor
1714
1
Henry Mayhew
[Boy Inmate of the Casual Wards]
1714
1
The ``White Slavery'' of London Match Workers
1715
2
Annie Besant
A Living Wage for Factory Girls at Crewe
1717
2
Ada Nield Chew
The ``Woman Question'': The Victorian Debate About Gender
1719
21
The Women of England: Their Social Duties and Domestic Habits
1721
2
Sarah Stickney Ellis
[Disinterested Kindness]
1721
2
The Angel in the House
1723
2
Coventry Patmore
The Paragon
1723
2
From Autobiography
1725
3
Harriet Martineau
Anonymous: The Great Social Evil
1728
4
A Woman's Thoughts about Women
1732
2
Dinah Maria Mulock
[Something to Do]
1732
2
Cassandra
1734
4
Florence Nightingale
[Nothing to Do]
1734
4
The Queen's Reign
1738
2
Walter Besant
[The Transformation of Women's Status between 1837 and 1897]
1738
2
THE NINETIES
1740
2
Michael Field (Katherine Bradley: 1846-1914; and Edith Cooper: 1862-1913)
1742
4
[Maids, not to you my mind doth change]
1742
1
[A girl]
1743
1
Unbosoming
1743
1
[It was deep April, and the morn]
1744
1
To Christina Rossetti
1744
1
Nests in Elms
1745
1
Eros
1745
1
William Ernest Henley (1849-1903)
1746
1
In Hospital
1746
1
Invictus
1747
1
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
1747
61
Impression du Matin
1749
1
Helas
1749
1
E Tenebris
1750
1
The Harlot's House
1750
2
The Critic as Artist
1752
8
[Criticism Itself an Art]
1752
8
Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray
1760
1
The Importance of Being Earnest
1761
44
From De Profundis
1805
3
Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
1808
48
Mrs. Warren's Profession
1810
46
Francis Thompson (1859-1907)
1856
5
The Hound of Heaven
1857
4
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861-1907)
1861
2
The Other Side of a Mirror
1861
1
The Witch
1862
1
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
1863
31
The Man Who Would Be King
1865
23
Danny Deever
1888
1
The Widow at Windsor
1889
1
The Ladies
1890
2
Recessional
1892
1
The Hyenas
1893
1
Ernest Dowson (1867-1900)
1894
1
Cynara
1894
1
They Are Not Long
1895
1
Carthusians
1895
POEMS IN PROCESS
1
22
William Blake
2
2
The Tyger
2
2
William Wordsworth
4
1
She dwelt among the untrodden ways
4
1
Lord Byron
5
1
Don Juan
5
1
Canto 3, Stanza 9
5
1
Canto 14, Stanza 95
6
1
Percy Bysshe Shelley
6
3
O World, O Life, O Time
7
2
John Keats
9
2
The Eve of St. Agnes
9
1
To Autumn
10
1
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
11
4
The Lady of Shalott
11
3
Tithonus
14
1
Gerard Manley Hopkins
15
1
Thou art indeed just, Lord
15
1
William Butler Yeats
15
6
The Sorrow of Love
16
1
Leda and the Swan
17
2
After Long Silence
19
2
D. H. Lawrence
21
2
The Piano
21
2
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHIES
23
12
Suggested General Readings
23
2
The Victorian Age
25
10
GEOGRAPHIC NOMENCLATURE
35
1
MAP: London in the 19th and 20th Centuries
36
1
BRITISH MONEY
37
3
THE BRITISH BARONAGE
40
5
The Royal Lines of England and Great Britain
42
3
RELIGIONS IN ENGLAND
45
2
POETIC FORMS AND LITERARY TERMINOLOGY
47
17
Permissions Acknowledgments
64
1
Index
65