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Tables of Contents for The Norton Anthology of English Literature
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface to the Seventh Edition
xvii
Acknowledgments
xxvii
``The Persistence of English''
xxxi
Geoffrey Nunberg
Geographic Nomenclature
xlvi
MAP: London in the 19th and 20th Centuries
xlvii
British Money
xlviii
Religions in England
li
The Twentieth Century
1897
120
Introduction
1897
17
Timeline
1914
2
Thomas Hardy (1840--1928)
1916
36
On the Western Circuit
1918
16
Hap
1934
1
The Impercipient
1935
1
Neutral Tones
1935
1
I Look into My Glass
1936
1
A Broken Appointment
1936
1
Drummer Hodge
1937
1
The Darkling Thrush
1937
1
The Ruined Maid
1938
1
A Trampwoman's Tragedy
1939
3
One We Knew
1942
1
She Hears the Storm
1943
1
Channel Firing
1944
1
The Convergence of the Twain
1945
1
Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?
1946
1
Under the Waterfall
1947
1
The Walk
1948
1
The Voice
1949
1
The Workbox
1949
1
During Wind and Rain
1950
1
In Time of ``The Breaking of Nations''
1951
1
He Never Expected Much
1951
1
Joseph Conrad (1857--1924)
1952
65
Preface to the Nigger of the ``Narcissus''
1954
3
[The Task of the Artist]
1954
3
Heart of Darkness
1957
60
THE RISE AND FALL OF EMPIRE
2017
31
Lectures on Art
2018
2
John Ruskin
[Imperial Duty]
2019
1
The Political Significance of Imperialism
2020
3
John Atkinson Hobson
Easter 1916 Proclamation of an Irish Republic
2023
2
Anonymous
[On the Treaty between Great Britain and Ireland]
2025
2
Richard Mulcahy
[The Partition of India]
2027
7
James Morris
Tryst with Destiny
2034
1
Jawaharlal Nehru
An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness
2035
6
Chinua Achebe
A. E. Housman (1859--1936)
2041
7
Loveliest of Trees
2042
1
When I Was One-and-Twenty
2042
1
To an Athlete Dying Young
2042
1
On Wenlock Edge
2043
1
With Rue My Heart Is Laden
2044
1
Terence, This Is Stupid Stuff
2044
2
The Chestnut Casts His Flambeaux
2046
1
Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries
2047
1
VOICES FROM WORLD WAR I
2048
477
Rupert Brooke (1887--1915)
2049
2
The Soldier
2050
1
Edward Thomas (1878--1917)
2051
3
Adlestrop
2051
1
Tears
2052
1
The Owl
2052
1
Rain
2053
1
The Cherry Trees
2053
1
As the Team's Head Brass
2053
1
Siegfried Sassoon (1886--1967)
2054
6
``They''
2055
1
The Rear-Guard
2056
1
The General
2056
1
Glory of Women
2057
1
Everyone Sang
2057
1
On Passing the New Menin Gate
2057
1
Memoirs of an Infantry Officer
2058
2
[The Opening of the Battle of the Somme]
2058
2
Iovr Gurney (1890--1937)
2060
1
To His Love
2060
1
The Silent One
2061
1
Isaac Rosenberg (1890--1918)
2061
5
Break of Day in the Trenches
2062
1
Louse Hunting
2063
1
Returning, We Hear the Larks
2063
1
Dead Man's Dump
2064
2
Wilfred Owen (1893--1918)
2066
8
Anthem for Doomed Youth
2066
1
Apologia Pro Poemate Meo
2067
1
Miners
2068
1
Dulce Et Decorum Est
2069
1
Strange Meeting
2070
1
Futility
2071
1
Disabled
2071
1
From Owen's Letters to His Mother
2072
2
May Wedderburn Cannan (1893--1973)
2074
4
Rouen
2074
2
From Grey Ghosts and Voices
2076
2
David Jones (1895--1974)
2078
7
In Parenthesis
2079
6
From Preface
2079
2
From Part 7: The Five Unmistakeable Marks
2081
4
William Butler yeats (1865--1939)
2085
46
The Madness of King Goll
2088
2
The Stolen Child
2090
1
Down by the Salley Gardens
2091
1
The Rose of the World
2092
1
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
2092
1
The Sorrow of Love
2093
1
When You Are Old
2093
1
Who Goes with Fergus?
2094
1
The Man Who Dreamed of Faeryland
2094
1
The Secret Rose
2095
1
The Folly of Being Comforted
2096
1
Adam's Curse
2097
1
No Second Troy
2098
1
The Fascination of What's Difficult
2098
1
September 1913
2099
1
To a Shade
2100
1
A Coat
2100
1
The Wild Swans at Coole
2101
1
In Memory of Major Robert Gregory
2102
2
Easter 1916
2104
2
The Second Coming
2106
1
A Prayer for My Daughter
2107
2
Sailing to Byzantium
2109
1
Leda and the Swan
2110
1
Among School Children
2111
2
A Dialogue of Self and Soul
2113
2
For Anne Gregory
2115
1
Byzantium
2115
1
Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop
2116
1
After Long Silence
2117
1
Lapis Lazuli
2117
2
Long-Legged Fly
2119
1
The Circus Animals' Desertion
2120
1
Under Ben Bulben
2121
3
Reveries over Childhood and Youth
2124
3
[The Yeats Family]
2124
2
[An Irish Literature]
2126
1
The Trembling of the Veil
2127
4
[London and Pre-Raphaelitism]
2127
2
[Oscar Wilde]
2129
1
[The Origin of The Lake Isle of Innisfree]
2130
1
[The Rhymers' Club]
2130
1
E. M. Forster (1879--1970)
2131
10
A Passage to India
2133
8
Chapter 2. Mosque
2133
8
Virginia Woolf (1882--1941)
2141
90
The Mark on the Wall
2143
5
Modern Fiction
2148
5
A Room of One's Own
2153
61
Professions for Women
2214
4
A Sketch of the Past
2218
8
[Moments of Being and Non-Being]
2218
8
The Legacy
2226
5
James Joyce (1882--1941)
2231
82
Araby
2236
4
The Dead
2240
29
Ulysses
2269
40
[Proteus]
2269
14
[Lestrygonians]
2283
26
Finnegans Wake
2309
4
From Anna Livia Plurabelle
2310
3
D. H. Lawrence (1885--1930)
2313
47
Odour of Chrysanthemums
2316
14
The Horse Dealer's Daughter
2330
11
Why the Novel Matters
2341
5
Love on the Farm
2346
1
Piano
2347
1
Tortoise Shell
2348
1
Tortoise Shout
2349
2
Bavarian Gentians
2351
1
Snake
2352
2
Cypresses
2354
2
How Beastly the Bourgeois Is
2356
1
The Ship of Death
2357
3
T. S. Eliot (1888--1965)
2360
48
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
2364
3
Sweeney Among the Nightingales
2367
1
The Waste Land
2368
15
The Hollow Men
2383
3
Journey of the Magi
2386
2
Marina
2388
1
Four Quartets
2389
1
Little Gidding
2389
6
Tradition and the Individual Talent
2395
6
The Metaphysical Poets
2401
7
Katherine Mansfield (1888--1923)
2408
25
The Daughters of the Late Colonel
2409
14
The Garden Party
2423
10
Hugh MacDiarmid (1892--1978)
2433
4
A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle
2435
1
Farewell to Dostoevaski
2435
1
Yet Ha'e I Silence Left
2435
1
In Memoriam James Joyce
2436
1
We Must Look at the Harebell
2436
1
In the Children's Hospital
2437
1
Another Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries
2437
1
Jean Rhys (1894?--1979)
2437
7
Mannequin
2438
4
On Not Shooting Sitting Birds
2442
2
Robert Graves (1895--1985)
2444
6
Down, Wanton, Down!
2445
1
Love Without Hope
2446
1
The Cool Web
2446
1
The Reader Over My Shoulder
2446
1
To Juan at the Winter Solstice
2447
1
The White Goddess
2448
1
The Blue-Fly
2449
1
A Slice of Wedding Cake
2450
1
Stevie Smith (1902--1971)
2450
6
Is It Wise?
2451
1
Our Bog Is Dood
2451
1
Not Waving but Drowning
2452
1
The New Age
2453
1
Thoughts About the Person from Porlock
2453
2
Pretty
2455
1
George Orwell (1903--1950)
2456
15
Shooting an Elephant
2457
5
Politics and the English Language
2462
9
Samuel Beckett (1906--1989)
2471
29
Endgame
2472
28
W. H. Auden (1907--1973)
2500
13
Petition
2501
1
On This Island
2502
1
Spain 1937
2502
3
Mussee des Beaux Arts
2505
1
Lullaby
2505
1
In Memory of W. B. Yeats
2506
2
Their Lonely of Limestone
2508
1
In Praise of Limestone
2509
2
The Shield of Achilles
2511
2
Louis MacNeice (1907--1963)
2513
3
Sunday Morning
2513
1
The Sunlight on the Garden
2514
1
Bagpipe Music
2514
1
Soap Suds
2515
1
Star-Gazer
2516
1
Dylan Thomas (1914--1953)
2516
9
The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower
2517
1
After the Funeral
2518
1
There Was a Saviour
2519
1
The Hunchback in the Park
2520
1
Poem in October
2521
1
Fern Hill
2522
2
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
2524
1
VOICES FROM WORLD WAR II
2525
Edith Sitwell (1887--1964)
2527
1
Still Falls the Rain
2527
1
Henry Reed (1914--1986)
2528
3
Lessons of the War
2529
2
Naming of Parts
2529
1
Judging Distances
2530
1
Richard Hillary (1919--1943)
2531
4
From the Last Enemy
2532
3
Keith Douglas (1920--1944)
2535
4
Gallantry
2536
1
Vergissmeinnicht
2537
1
Aristocrats
2537
1
From Alamein to Zem Zem
2538
1
Charles Causley (b. 1917)
2539
2
At the British War Cemetery, Bayeux
2540
1
Armistice Day
2540
1
Doris Lessing (b. 1919)
2541
23
To Room Nineteen
2542
22
Philip Larkin (1922--1985)
2564
8
Church Going
2565
1
MCMXIV
2566
1
Talking in Bed
2567
1
Ambulances
2568
1
High Windows
2568
1
Sad Steps
2569
1
The Explosion
2570
1
Aubade
2570
2
Nadine Gordimer (b. 1923)
2572
4
The Moment before the Gun Went Off
2573
3
Thom Gunn (b. 1929)
2576
4
Considering the Snail
2576
1
A Map of the City
2577
1
Black Jackets
2577
1
My Sad Captains
2578
1
From the Wave
2579
1
Derek Walcott (b. 1930)
2580
7
A Far Cry from Africa
2580
1
Nights in the Gardens of Port of Spain
2581
1
The Glory Trumpeter
2582
1
The Schooner Flight
2583
1
1 Adios, Carenage
2583
1
Midsummer
2584
1
Omeros
2585
2
Chapter XXX
2585
2
Ted Hughes (1930--1998)
2587
7
Wind
2587
1
Relic
2588
1
Pike
2589
1
Examination at the Womb-Door
2590
1
Theology
2590
1
The Seven Sorrows
2591
1
Daffodils
2592
2
Harold Pinter (b. 1930)
2594
22
The Dumb Waiter
2594
22
Chinua Achebe (b. 1930)
2616
90
Things Fall Apart
2617
89
Alice Munro (b. 1931)
2706
11
Walker Brothers Cowboy
2707
10
Geoffrey Hill (b. 1932)
2717
5
In Memory of Jane Fraser
2717
1
Requiem for the Plantagenet Kings
2718
1
September Song
2718
1
Mercian Hymns
2719
2
6 (``The princes of Mercia were badger and raven. Thrall'')
2719
1
7 (``Gasholders, russet among fields, Milldams, marlpools'')
2719
1
28 (``Proceses of generation; deeds of settlement. The'')
2720
1
30 (``And it seemed, while we waited, he began to walk'')
2720
1
An Apology for the Revival of Christian Architecture in England
2721
1
9. The Laurel Axe
2721
1
V. S. Naipaul (b. 1932)
2722
23
One Out of Many
2722
23
Edna O'Brien (b. 1932)
2745
14
Sister Imelda
2746
13
Fleur Adcock (b. 1934)
2759
4
The Ex-Queen Among the Astronomers
2759
1
Poem Ended by a Death
2760
1
The Soho Hospital for Women
2761
2
Tony Harrison (b. 1937)
2763
5
Heredity
2764
1
National Trust
2764
1
Book Ends
2765
1
Long Distance
2766
1
Turns
2767
1
Marked with D.
2767
1
Anita Desai (b. 1937)
2768
17
Scholar and Gypsy
2768
17
Tom Stoppard (b. 1937)
2785
30
The Real Inspector Hound
2786
29
Les Murray (b. 1938)
2815
3
Noonday Axeman
2816
2
Morse
2818
1
Seamus Heaney (b. 1939)
2818
11
Digging
2819
1
The Forge
2820
1
Punishment
2821
1
Casualty
2822
3
The Skunk
2825
1
Station Island
2825
2
12 (``Like a convalescent, I took the hand'')
2825
2
The Sharping Stone
2827
2
J. M. Coetzee (b. 1940)
2829
5
From Waiting for the Barbarians
2829
5
Eavan Boland (b. 1944)
2834
4
That the Science of Cartography Is Limited
2835
1
The Dolls Museum in Dublin
2836
1
The Lost Land
2837
1
Craig Raine (b. 1944)
2838
4
The Onion, Memory
2839
1
A Martian Sends a Postcard Home
2840
2
Salman Rushdie (b. 1947)
2842
11
The Prophet's Hair
2843
10
James Fenton (b. 1949)
2853
3
A German Requiem
2853
2
Wind
2855
1
Paul Muldoon (b. 1951)
2856
Gathering Mushrooms
2856
2
Milkwood and Monarch
2858
POEMS IN PROCESS
A-1
1
William Blake
A-2
1
The Tyger
A-2
1
William Wordsworth
A-4
1
She dwelt among the untrodden ways
A-4
1
Lord Byron
A-5
1
Don Juan
A-5
1
Canto 3, Stanza 9
A-5
1
Canto 14, Stanza 95
A-6
1
Percy Bysshe Shelley
A-6
1
O World, O Life, O Time
A-7
1
John Keats
A-9
1
The Eve of St. Agnes
A-9
1
To Autumn
A-10
1
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
A-11
1
The Lady of Shalott
A-11
1
Tithonus
A-14
1
Gerard Manley Hopkins
A-15
1
Thou art indeed just, Lord
A-15
1
William Butler Yeats
A-15
1
The Sorrow of Love
A-16
1
Leda and the Swan
A-17
1
After Long Silence
A-19
1
D. H. Lawrence
A-21
1
The Piano
A-21
1
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHIES
A-23
1
Suggested General Readings
A-23
1
The Twentieth Century
A-25
1
THE BRITISH BARONAGE
A-43
1
The Royal Lines of England and Great Britain
A-45
1
POETIC FORMS AND LITERARY TERMINOLOGY
A-48
1
Permissions Acknowledgments
A-65
1
Index
A-69