The Norton Anthology of English Literature

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Author: Stephen Greenblatt
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A sweeping revision that speaks to how English literature is taught today. From the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century, The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Eleventh Edition, showcases exciting new authors, works, and textual clusters that demonstrate the relevance of literature to contemporary students and trace the creative arc that has yielded the ever-changing and ever-fascinating body of material called English literature.

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Útgefandi: W. W. Norton

ISBN: 9781324062806

Print ISBN: 9781324072812

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Útgáfa: 11

Höfundar: Stephen Greenblatt

Tungumál: English

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Cover
Publisher’s Notice
Half-title Page
Periods and Editors
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
VOLUME D: The Romantic Period
PERIOD INTRODUCTION: The Romantic Period (1785–1832)
Period Introduction: Opener
Period Introduction: Revolution and Reaction
Period Introduction: The New Poetries: Theory and Practice
Period Introduction: Writing in the Marketplace and the Law Courts
Period Introduction: Other Literary Forms
Period Introduction: Timeline of the Romantic Period
BALLADRY AND BALLAD REVIVALS
Lord Randall
Bonny Barbara Allan
The Wife of Usher’s Well
The Three Ravens
Sir Patrick Spens
The Dæmon-lover
ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD (1743–1825)
A Summer Evening’s Meditation
Epistle to William Wilberforce, Esq., on the Rejection of the Bill for Abolishing the Slave Trade
The Rights of Woman
To a Little Invisible Being Who Is Expected Soon to Become Visible
Inscription for an Ice-House
Washing-Day
The Caterpillar
SCIENCE, SPECULATION, AND EXPERIMENT
ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD
The Mouse’s Petition
An Inventory of the Furniture in Dr. Priestley’s Study
CAROLINE HERSCHEL
An Account of a New Comet
GILBERT WHITE
From The Natural History of Selborne
ERASMUS DARWIN
From The Loves of the Plants
HUMPHRY DAVY
From A Discourse Introductory to a Course of Lectures on Chemistry
MARY SOMERVILLE
From On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences
CHARLOTTE SMITH (1749–1806)
From Elegiac Sonnets
Written at the Close of Spring
To Sleep
To the North Star (Supposed to Be Written by Werter)
By the Same (Just before his death)
To Night
Written in the Church-Yard at Middleton in Sussex
To Fancy
On Being Cautioned against Walking on an Headland Overlooking the Sea, Because It Was Frequented by a Lunatic
To the Insect of the Gossamer
The Sea View
The Swallow
Beachy Head
MARY ROBINSON (1757?–1800)
January, 1795
London’s Summer Morning
The Poor Singing Dame
The Haunted Beach
The Poet’s Garret
To the Poet Coleridge
The Savage of Aveyron
WILLIAM BLAKE (1757–1827)
All Religions Are One
There Is No Natural Religion [a]
There Is No Natural Religion [b]
From Songs of Innocence and of Experience
From Songs of Innocence
Introduction
The Ecchoing Green
The Lamb
The Little Black Boy
The Chimney Sweeper
The Divine Image
Holy Thursday
Nurse’s Song
Infant Joy
On Anothers Sorrow
From Songs of Experience
Introduction
Earth’s Answer
The Clod & the Pebble
Holy Thursday
The Chimney Sweeper
Nurse’s Song
The Sick Rose
The Fly
The Tyger
My Pretty Rose Tree
Ah! Sun-flower
The Garden of Love
London
The Human Abstract
Infant Sorrow
A Poison Tree
To Tirzah
A Divine Image
Visions of the Daughters of Albion
Text of the Visions of the Daughters of Albion
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Text of the Marriage of Heaven and Hell
A Song of Liberty
America: A Prophecy
Text of America: A Prophecy
And did those feet
ROBERT BURNS (1759–1796)
To a Mouse
To a Louse
Green Grow the Rashes
Holy Willie’s Prayer
Tam o’ Shanter: A Tale
Such a Parcel of Rogues in a Nation
Robert Bruce’s March to Bannockburn
Song: For a’ that and a’ that
A Red, Red Rose
Auld Lang Syne
AN AGE OF REVOLUTIONS
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION CONTROVERSY
RICHARD PRICE
From A Discourse on the Love of Our Country
EDMUND BURKE
From Reflections on the Revolution in France
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT
From A Vindication of the Rights of Men
THOMAS PAINE
From Rights of Man
JAMES GILLRAY
Smelling out a Rat
French Liberty, British Slavery
The Zenith of French Glory
The British Butcher
THE HAITIAN REVOLUTION
BRYAN EDWARDS
From An Historical Survey of the French Colony in the Island of Saint Domingo
MARCUS RAINSFORD
From An Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hayti
TOUSSAINT LOUVERTURE
From Constitution of the French Colony of St. Domingo
JEAN-JACQUES DESSALINES, HENRI CHRISTOPHE, AND AUGUSTIN CLERVEAUX
Declaration of the Independence of the Blacks of St. Domingo
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT (1759–1797)
From A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
From The Dedication to M. Talleyrand-Périgord
Introduction
Chapter 2. The Prevailing Opinion of a Sexual Character Discussed
From Chapter 4. Observations on the State of Degradation to Which Woman Is Reduced by Various Causes.
Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark
Advertisement
Letter 1
From Letter 5
MARIA EDGEWORTH (1768–1849)
The Irish Incognito
THE GOTHIC AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF A MASS READERSHIP
HORACE WALPOLE
From The Castle of Otranto
ANNA LETITIA AIKIN (LATER BARBAULD) AND JOHN AIKIN
On the Pleasure Derived from Objects of Terror; with Sir Bertrand, a Fragment
ANN RADCLIFFE
From The Romance of the Forest
From The Mysteries of Udolpho
MATTHEW GREGORY LEWIS
From The Monk
From Chapter 2
From Chapter 8
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
From Review of The Monk by Matthew Lewis
From Biographia Literaria
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (1770–1850)
From Lyrical Ballads
Goody Blake and Harry Gill
Simon Lee
We Are Seven
Lines Written in Early Spring
The Thorn
Expostulation and Reply
The Tables Turned
Old Man Travelling
Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey
Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1802)
[The Subject and Language of Poetry]
[“What is a Poet?”]
[“Emotion Recollected in Tranquillity”]
Strange fits of passion have I known
She dwelt among the untrodden ways
Three years she grew
A slumber did my spirit seal
I travelled among unknown men
Nutting
The Ruined Cottage
Michael
Resolution and Independence
I wandered lonely as a cloud
My heart leaps up
Ode: Intimations of Immortality
Text of Ode: Intimations of Immortality
The Solitary Reaper
Sonnets
Prefatory Sonnet [Nuns fret not]
Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802
It is a beauteous evening
To Toussaint l’Ouverture
September 1st, 1802
London, 1802
The world is too much with us
Surprised by joy
Steamboats, Viaducts, and Railways
The 1805 Prelude
Book First. Introduction: Childhood and School-time
From Book Second. School-time (Continued)
[“Blessed the Infant Babe”]
[Address to Coleridge]
From Book Fifth. Books
[The Dream of the Arab]
[The Boy of Winander; The Drowned Man]
From Book Sixth. Cambridge and the Alps
[“Human Nature Seeming Born Again”]
[Crossing Simplon Pass]
From Book Seventh. Residence in London [The Blind Beggar; Bartholomew Fair]
From Book Tenth. Residence in France and French Revolution
[Retrospect: First Impression of the Revolution]
[Crisis and Recovery]
From Book Eleventh. Imagination, How Impaired and Restored [Spots of Time]
From Book Thirteenth. Conclusion
[Vision on Mount Snowdon]
[Final Prophecy]
DOROTHY WORDSWORTH (1771–1855)
From The Alfoxden Journal
From The Grasmere Journals
Grasmere—A Fragment
Floating Island
Thoughts on My Sick-Bed
SIR WALTER SCOTT (1771–1832)
From The Lay of the Last Minstrel
Proud Maisie
Wandering Willie’s Tale
From Redgauntlet: Wandering Willie’s Tale
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE (1772–1834)
The Eolian Harp
This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6
Part 7
Kubla Khan
Christabel
Frost at Midnight
Dejection: An Ode
The Pains of Sleep
To William Wordsworth
Epitaph
Biographia Literaria
From Chapter 4
[Mr. Wordsworth’s Earlier Poems]
[On Fancy and Imagination—The Investigation of the Distinction Important to the Fine Arts]
From Chapter 13 [On the Imagination, or Esemplastic Power]
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 Poem and Poetry with Scholia.
From Chapter 17
[Examination of the Tenets Peculiar to Mr. Wordsworth]
[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]
[The Language of Milton as Much the Language of Real Life, Yea, Incomparably More so than that of the Cottager]
SLAVERY AND THE LITERATURE OF ABOLITION
JOHN NEWTON
Faith’s Review and Expectation (Amazing Grace)
THOMAS CLARKSON
From Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species
From Part III, Chapter 1 (“Imaginary conversation with an African”)
From Part III, Chapter 3 (“The dimensions of a slave vessel” and the Zong Incident)
WILLIAM COWPER
The Negro’s Complaint
OLAUDAH EQUIANO
From The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself
From Chapter 3 [From Virginia to England]
From Chapter 4 [Sold Again]
From Chapter 5 [Cruelty of the West Indian Planters]
HANNAH MORE AND EAGLESFIELD SMITH
From The Sorrows of Yamba; or, The Negro Woman’s Lamentation
WILLIAM COBBETT
From Slave Trade
ROBERT WEDDERBURN
From The Axe Laid to the Root
ELIZABETH HEYRICK
From Immediate, Not Gradual Abolition
MARY PRINCE
From The History of Mary Prince, A West Indian Slave, Related by Herself
CHARLES LAMB (1775–1834)
Detached Thoughts on Books and Reading
Old China
JANE AUSTEN (1775–1817)
Love and Friendship
Love and Friendship: A Novel in a Series of Letters
Plan of a Novel, According to Hints from Various Quarters
WILLIAM HAZLITT (1778–1830)
From Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays: From Coriolanus
On Going a Journey
THOMAS DE QUINCEY (1785–1859)
From Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
From Preliminary Confessions [Oxford Street and Ann]
From Introduction to the Pains of Opium [The Malay]
From The Pains of Opium [Opium Reveries and Dreams]
GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON (1788–1824)
Written after Swimming from Sestos to Abydos
She Walks in Beauty
Darkness
So we’ll go no more a roving
From Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage: A Romaunt
From Canto the First [“Sin’s Long Labyrinth”]
From Canto the Third
["Once More upon the Waters"]
[Waterloo]
[Napoleon]
[Switzerland]
Manfred
Act 1
Scene 1
Scene 2
Act 2
Scene 1
Scene 2
Scene 3
Scene 4
Act 3
Scene 1
Scene 2
Scene 3
Scene 4
Don Juan
Fragment
From Canto I [Juan and Donna Julia]
From Canto II [The Shipwreck]
From Canto XI
[Don Juan’s Journey to London]
[Arrival in London]
[Social Success]
[“Change Grows Too Changeable”]
On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year
ROMANTIC LITERATURE AND WARTIME
WILLIAM GODWIN
From Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
The Discharged Soldier
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
From Fears in Solitude
ROBERT SOUTHEY
The Victory
MARY ROBINSON
The Camp
ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD
From Eighteen Hundred and Eleven, a Poem
GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON
From Don Juan, Canto VIII
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (1792–1822)
Mutability
To Wordsworth
Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude
Text of Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude
Mont Blanc
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
Ozymandias
On Love
Stanzas Written in Dejection—December 1818, near Naples
Sonnet [Lift not the painted veil]
The Mask of Anarchy
Text of The Mask of Anarchy
England in 1819
To Sidmouth and Castlereagh
Ode to the West Wind
Prometheus Unbound
Preface
Act 1
From Act 2
Scene 4
Scene 5
From Act 3
Scene 1
From Scene 4
The Cloud
To a Sky-Lark
To Night
To ——— [Music, when soft voices die]
O World, O Life, O Time
Chorus from Hellas
The world’s great age
Adonais
Text of Adonais
When the lamp is shattered
A Defence of Poetry
From A Defence of Poetry
JOHN CLARE (1793–1864)
Life, Death, and Eternity
The Nightingale’s Nest
Insects
The Yellowhammer’s Nest
Pastoral Poesy
[The Lament of Swordy Well]
[Mouse’s Nest]
[The Badger]
A Vision
I Am
An Invite to Eternity
Clock a Clay
The Peasant Poet
FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS (1793–1835)
England’s Dead
Casabianca
Corinne at the Capitol
The Homes of England
Properzia Rossi
Indian Woman’s Death Song
The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in New England
The Image in Lava
A Spirit’s Return
THE ROMANTIC IMAGINATION AND THE “ORIENTAL NATIONS”
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU (CHARLES-LOUIS DE SECONDAT)
From The Spirit of the Laws
Book V, Chapter 13: An Idea of Despotic Power
From Book V, Chapter 14: In What Manner the Laws Are Relative to the Principles of Despotic Government
SIR WILLIAM JONES
From On the Poetry of the Eastern Nations
JAMES BEATTIE
From On Fable and Romance
SIR WILLIAM JONES
Hymn to Camdeo
WILLIAM BECKFORD
From The History of the Caliph Vathek
ROBERT SOUTHEY
From Jaga-Naut
SYDNEY OWENSON
From The Missionary: An Indian Tale
GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON
From The Giaour: A Fragment of a Turkish Tale
LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON
Immolation of a Hindoo Widow
JOHN KEATS (1795–1821)
On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer
From Sleep and Poetry [“O for Ten Years”]
On Seeing the Elgin Marbles
From Endymion: A Poetic Romance
Preface
From Book 1
[“A Thing of Beauty”]
[The “Pleasure Thermometer”]
On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again
When I have fears that I may cease to be
To Homer
The Eve of St. Agnes
Why did I laugh tonight? No voice will tell
Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art
La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad
On Fame
Sonnet to Sleep
Ode to Psyche
On the Sonnet
Ode to a Nightingale
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Ode on Melancholy
Text of Ode on Melancholy
Ode on Indolence
Lamia
Part 1
Part 2
To Autumn
The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream
Canto 1
Canto 2
This living hand, now warm and capable
Letters
To Benjamin Bailey (Nov. 22, 1817) [“The authenticity of the Imagination”]
To George and Thomas Keats (Dec. 21, 27 [?], 1817) [“Negative Capability”]
To John Hamilton Reynolds (Feb. 3, 1818) [Wordsworth’s Poetry]
To John Taylor (Feb. 27, 1818) [Keats’s Axioms in Poetry]
To John Hamilton Reynolds (May 3, 1818) [Milton, Wordsworth, and the Chambers of Human Life]
To Richard Woodhouse (Oct. 27, 1818) [“A Poet Has No Identity”]
To George and Georgiana Keats (Feb. 14–May 3, 1819) [“The vale of Soul-making”]
To Fanny Brawne (July 25, 1819) [Fanny Brawne as Keats’s “Fair Star”]
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY (1797–1851)
From The Last Man: Introduction
The Mortal Immortal
LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON (1802–1838)
From The Improvisatrice: Sappho’s Song
Lines Written Under a Picture of a Girl Burning a Love-Letter
Love’s Last Lesson
Lines of Life
The Factory
The Fairy of the Fountains
Part I
Part II
Felicia Hemans
HENRY LOUIS VIVIAN DEROZIO (1809–1831)
The Harp of India
Thomas Moore: Dear Harp of My Country
Freedom to the Slave
Ode (from the Persian of Hafiz)
The Ruins of Rajmahal
[To India]
VOLUME E: The Victorian Age
PERIOD INTRODUCTION: The Victorian Age (1830–1901)
Period Introduction: Prologue: Sarah Forbes Bonetta, Eminent Victorian
Period Introduction: The “Victorian Age”
Period Introduction: The Waning of Belief
Period Introduction: Women and the Politics of Domesticity
Period Introduction: Literary Innovations of the Nineteenth Century
Period Introduction: Timeline of the Victorian Age
GREAT BRITAIN’S IMPERIAL MISSION
RICHARD COBDEN
From How Wars Are Got Up in India
JOHN STUART MILL
A Few Words on Non-Intervention
SIR HENRY JOHN NEWBOLT
Vitaï Lampada
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN
From The True Conception of Empire
J. A. HOBSON
From Imperialism: A Study
SLAVERY, ABOLITION, AND THE PLANTATION SYSTEM
MARY PRINCE
From The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave
THOMAS CARLYLE AND JOHN STUART MILL
Carlyle: From Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question
Mill: From The Negro Question
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE
From Uncle Tom’s Cabin
JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE
From The English in the West Indies
JOHN JACOB THOMAS
From Froudacity
INDIA: THE “JEWEL IN THE CROWN”
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY
From Minute on Indian Education
WILLIAM HOWARD RUSSELL
From My Diary in India, in the Year 1858–59
F. A. (FLORA ANNIE) STEEL AND G. (GRACE) GARDINER
From The Complete Indian Housekeeper and Cook
T. N. MUKHARJI
From A Visit to Europe
SETTLER COLONIALISM: CANADA, AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, SOUTH AFRICA
SUSANNA MOODIE
From Roughing It in the Bush; or, Life in Canada
E. PAULINE JOHNSON/TEKAHIONWAKE
The Corn Husker
ANTHONY TROLLOPE
From South Australia and Western Australia
OLIVE SCHREINER
From Stray Thoughts on South Africa
BRITISH ISLES: IRELAND, SCOTLAND, WALES
SPERANZA [LADY JANE FRANCESCA WILDE]
The Famine Year
ANONYMOUS
Proclamation of an Irish Republic
MATTHEW ARNOLD
From On the Study of Celtic Literature
JANET HAMILTON
Rhymes for the Times, IV.—1865.
THOMAS CARLYLE (1795–1881)
From Signs of the Times
From Past and Present
From Democracy
Captains of Industry
MARY SEACOLE (1805–1881)
From The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands
Chapter I
From Chapter II
From Chapter IV
From Chapter VI
Chapter VIII
Chapter IX
From Chapter XIII
Conclusion
JOHN STUART MILL (1806–1873)
What Is Poetry?
From On Liberty
From Chapter 1. Introductory
From Chapter 3. Of Individuality as One of the Elements of Well-Being
From The Subjection of Women
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING (1806–1861)
The Cry of the Children
To George Sand: A Desire
To George Sand: A Recognition
From Sonnets from the Portuguese
21 (Say over again, and yet once over again)
22 (When our two souls stand up erect and strong)
32 (The first time that the sun rose on thine oath)
43 (How do I love thee? Let me count the ways)
The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point
Hiram Powers’ Greek Slave
From Aurora Leigh
From Book 1 [The Education of Aurora Leigh]
From Book 2
[Aurora’s Aspirations]
[Aurora’s Rejection of Romney]
From Book 5 [Poets and the Present Age]
A Curse for a Nation
Mother and Poet
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON (1809–1892)
Mariana
The Lady of Shalott
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
The Lotos-Eaters
Ulysses
Tithonus
Break, Break, Break
Locksley Hall
From The Princess
Tears, Idle Tears
Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal
[“The woman’s cause is man’s”]
In Memoriam A. H. H.
From In Memoriam A. H. H.
The Charge of the Light Brigade
The Defence of Lucknow
Crossing the Bar
CHARLES DARWIN (1809–1882)
From On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
From Chapter 3. Struggle for Existence
From Chapter 14. Conclusion
From The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex
From Chapter 4. Comparison of the Mental Powers of Man and the Lower Animals
From Chapter 7. Of the Races of Man
From Chapter 19. Secondary Sexual Characters of Man
From Chapter 21. General Summary and Conclusion
LEONARD HUXLEY
From The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley [The Huxley–Wilberforce Debate at Oxford]
THE PROMISE AND PRICE OF INDUSTRIALIZATION
POVERTY AND POLITICS
THOMAS HOOD
The Song of the Shirt
ERNEST JONES
The Song of the Low
THE CHILDREN’S EMPLOYMENT COMMISSION
From First Report of the Commissioners, Mines
ADA NIELD CHEW
A Living Wage for Factory Girls at Crewe, 5 May 1894
ADELAIDE A. PROCTER
Homeless
ELIZABETH GASKELL
From Mary Barton
ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE
From Journeys to England and Ireland: Exterior Appearance of Manchester
CHARLES DICKENS
From Bleak House: Chapter I. In Chancery
JOHN RUSKIN
From The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century
THOMAS HARDY
From Tess of the d’Urbervilles
HENRY MAYHEW (1812–1887)
London Labor and the London Poor
From Volume 1. The Street-Folk
Of the London Street-Folk
Of the Coster-Girls
The Life of a Coster-Girl
From Volume 4. Those That Will Not Work
Hindoo Beggars
Negro Beggars
CHARLES DICKENS (1812–1870)
A Christmas Carol
Stave One: Marley’s Ghost
Stave Two: The First of the Three Spirits
Stave Three: The Second of the Three Spirits
Stave Four: The Last of the Spirits
Stave Five: The End of It
ROBERT BROWNING (1812–1889)
Porphyria’s Lover
Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister
My Last Duchess
How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix
The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed’s Church
Love among the Ruins
“Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”
Fra Lippo Lippi
Andrea del Sarto
Caliban upon Setebos
Text of Caliban upon Setebos
Rabbi Ben Ezra
EMILY BRONTË (1818–1848)
I’m happiest when most away
The Night-Wind
Remembrance
Stars
The Prisoner. A Fragment
No coward soul is mine
JOHN RUSKIN (1819–1900)
From Modern Painters
[A Definition of Greatness in Art]
[“The Slave Ship”]
From Of the Pathetic Fallacy
From The Stones of Venice [The Savageness of Gothic Architecture]
GEORGE ELIOT (1819–1880)
The Lifted Veil
Chapter I
Chapter II
VICTORIAN DEBATES ABOUT WOMEN, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY
MIDDLE-CLASS WOMEN
SARAH STICKNEY ELLIS
From The Women of England: Their Social Duties and Domestic Habits
COVENTRY PATMORE
From The Angel in the House
JOHN RUSKIN
From Of Queens’ Gardens
MARRIAGE LAW
WILLIAM BLACKSTONE
From Commentaries on the Laws of England
CAROLINE NORTON
From A Letter to the Queen on Lord Chancellor Cranworth’s Marriage and Divorce Bill
POOR WOMEN AND WOMEN’S WORK
FRIEDRICH ENGELS
From The Condition of the Working Class in England
ANONYMOUS
The Great Social Evil
JOSEPHINE BUTLER
From Testimony Before the Royal Commission
WALTER BESANT
From The Queen’s Reign
PATHOLOGIZING SEX: PROSTITUTION, HOMOSEXUALITY, AND THE “NEW WOMAN”
WILLIAM ACTON
From The Functions and Disorders of the Reproductive System in Childhood, Youth, Adult Age, and Advanced Age
From Masturbation in Childhood
From Marital Excesses
From Want of Sexual Feeling in the Female a Cause of Impotence
CRIMINAL LAW AMENDMENT ACT
From The Criminal Law Amendment Act
LORD ALFRED DOUGLAS
From Two Loves
GENDER AND THE IMPERIAL PROJECT
BRITISH AND FOREIGN SCHOOL SOCIETY
Appeal in Behalf of the Native Females of British India
HARRIET MARTINEAU
From Eastern Life, Present and Past: From The Hareem
CHARLES DARWIN
From Journal of Researches: Wretched State of the Natives
FRIEDRICH ENGELS (1820–1895)
From The Condition of the Working Class in England: The Great Towns
From Single Branches of Industry. Factory-hands
MATTHEW ARNOLD (1822–1888)
Isolation. To Marguerite
To Marguerite—Continued
The Buried Life
Lines Written in Kensington Gardens
The Scholar Gypsy
Text of The Scholar Gypsy
Dover Beach
Preface to Poems (1853)
From Culture and Anarchy
From Chapter 1. Sweetness and Light
From Chapter 2. Doing As One Likes
From Chapter 5. Porro Unum Est Necessarium
Literature and Science
PRE-RAPHAELITISM
CHARLES DICKENS
From Old Lamps for New Ones
JOHN RUSKIN [“The Awakening Conscience”]
[“The Awakening Conscience”]
JOHN RUSKIN: From Pre-Raphaelitism
From Pre-Raphaelitism
WILLIAM MICHAEL ROSSETTI
[The Pre-Raphaelite Manifesto]
ROBERT BUCHANAN
From The Fleshly School of Poetry
DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI (1828–1882)
The Blessed Damozel
My Sister’s Sleep
Jenny
From The House of Life
The Sonnet
Nuptial Sleep
Silent Noon
Soul’s Beauty
Body’s Beauty
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI (1830–1894)
Song (She sat and sang alway)
Song (When I am dead, my dearest)
After Death
Dead before Death
Cobwebs
A Triad
In an Artist’s Studio
A Birthday
An Apple-Gathering
Winter: My Secret
Up-Hill
Goblin Market
The Round Tower at Jhansi—June 8, 1857
“No, Thank You, John”
Promises Like Pie-Crust
In Progress
A Life’s Parallels
WILLIAM MORRIS (1834–1896)
The Defence of Guenevere
Text of The Defence of Guenevere
How I Became a Socialist
AUGUSTA WEBSTER (1837–1894)
Circe
A Castaway
Medea in Athens
From Mother and Daughter
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE (1837–1909)
Hymn to Proserpine
Hermaphroditus
Ave atque Vale
WALTER PATER (1839–1894)
From Studies in the History of the Renaissance
Preface
[“La Gioconda”]
Conclusion
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS (1844–1889)
God’s Grandeur
The Starlight Night
As Kingfishers Catch Fire
Spring
The Windhover
Pied Beauty
Hurrahing in Harvest
Binsey Poplars
Duns Scotus’s Oxford
Felix Randal
Spring and Fall
[Carrion Comfort]
No worst, there is none
I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day
That Nature Is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of the Resurrection
Thou art indeed just, Lord
MICHAEL FIELD [KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY (1846–1914) AND EDITH EMMA COOPER (1862–1913)]
Maids, not to you my mind doth change
La Gioconda
A Pen-Drawing of Leda
The Sleeping Venus
[A girl]
Unbosoming
[It was deep April, and the morn]
Tiger-Lilies
To Christina Rossetti
Nests in Elms
Eros
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850–1894)
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Story of the Door
Search for Mr. Hyde
Dr. Jekyll Was Quite at Ease
The Carew Murder Case
Incident of the Letter
Remarkable Incident of Dr. Lanyon
Incident at the Window
The Last Night
Dr. Lanyon’s Narrative
Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case
OSCAR WILDE (1854–1900)
Impression du Matin
The Harlot’s House
From The Critic as Artist
Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Importance of Being Earnest
First Act
Second Act
Third Act
From De Profundis
OLIVE SCHREINER (1855–1920)
From Stray Thoughts on South Africa
The Woman’s Rose
From Woman and Labor
TORU DUTT (1856–1877)
Our Casuarina Tree
Lakshman
Buttoo
France: 1870
Sonnet—Baugmaree
Sonnet—The Lotus
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE (1859–1930)
The Speckled Band
AMY LEVY (1861–1889)
Xantippe. A Fragment
Magdalen
To Lallie
Ballade of an Omnibus
New Love, New Life
Cohen of Trinity
RABINDRANATH TAGORE (1861–1941)
Gitanjali 35
The Cabuliwallah
E. PAULINE JOHNSON/TEKAHIONWAKE (1861–1913)
Brant: A Memorial Ode
The Song My Paddle Sings
Lullaby of the Iroquois
Canadian Born
From A Strong Race Opinion: On the Indian Girl in Modern Fiction
RUDYARD KIPLING (1865–1936)
The Man Who Would Be King
Danny Deever
The Widow at Windsor
Recessional
The White Man’s Burden
If—
MOHANDAS GANDHI (1869–1948)
From Hind Swaraj
From Chapter IX. The Condition of India
From Chapter XVII. Passive Resistance
From Chapter XIX. Machinery
VOLUME F: The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
PERIOD INTRODUCTION: The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
Period Introduction: Historical Background
Period Introduction: Poetry
Period Introduction: Fiction
Period Introduction: Drama
Period Introduction: Timeline of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
THOMAS HARDY (1840–1928)
On the Western Circuit
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
Hap
Neutral Tones
Drummer Hodge
The Darkling Thrush
The Ruined Maid
Channel Firing
The Convergence of the Twain
Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?
Under the Waterfall
The Walk
The Voice
During Wind and Rain
In Time of ‘The Breaking of Nations’
He Never Expected Much
JOSEPH CONRAD (1857–1924)
Preface to The Nigger of the “Narcissus” [The Task of the Artist]
Heart of Darkness
1
2
3
ON THE REPRESENTATION OF AFRICA
CARYL PHILLIPS: From Out of Africa
CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE: The Danger of a Single Story
A. E. HOUSMAN (1859–1936)
Loveliest of Trees
When I Was One-and-Twenty
To an Athlete Dying Young
Terence, This Is Stupid Stuff
Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries
VOICES FROM WORLD WAR I
RUPERT BROOKE
The Soldier
ROBERT SERVICE
Only a Boche
EDWARD THOMAS
Adlestrop
The Owl
Rain
The Cherry Trees
As the Team’s Head Brass
MARY BORDEN
Belgium
The Song of the Mud
SIEGFRIED SASSOON
‘They’
The Rear-Guard
The General
Glory of Women
Everyone Sang
On Passing the New Menin Gate
From Memoirs of an Infantry Officer [The Opening of the Battle of the Somme]
IVOR GURNEY
To His Love
The Silent One
ISAAC ROSENBERG
Break of Day in the Trenches
Louse Hunting
Returning, We Hear the Larks
Dead Man’s Dump
WILFRED OWEN
Anthem for Doomed Youth
Apologia Pro Poemate Meo
Miners
Dulce Et Decorum Est
Strange Meeting
Futility
Disabled
From Owen’s Letters to His Mother
Preface
MAY WEDDERBURN CANNAN
Rouen
ROBERT GRAVES
From Goodbye to All That [The Attack on High Wood]
Recalling War
DAVID JONES
From In Parenthesis
From Preface
From Part 7: The Five Unmistakable Marks
MODERNIST MANIFESTOS
T. E. HULME
From Romanticism and Classicism
F. S. FLINT AND EZRA POUND
Imagisme
A Few Don’ts by an Imagiste
AN IMAGIST CLUSTER: T. E. HULME, EZRA POUND, H.D.
T. E. HULME: Autumn
EZRA POUND: In a Station of the Metro
H.D.: Oread
H.D.: Sea Rose
BLAST
Long Live the Vortex!
Blast 6
MINA LOY
Feminist Manifesto
From Songs to Joannes
I
III
XIV
XXVI
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS (1865–1939)
The Stolen Child
Down by the Salley Gardens
The Rose of the World
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
The Sorrow of Love
When You Are Old
Who Goes with Fergus?
The Man Who Dreamed of Faeryland
Adam’s Curse
No Second Troy
The Fascination of What’s Difficult
A Coat
September 1913
Easter, 1916
The Wild Swans at Coole
An Irish Airman Foresees His Death
The Second Coming
A Prayer for My Daughter
Leda and the Swan
Sailing to Byzantium
Among School Children
A Dialogue of Self and Soul
Byzantium
Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop
Lapis Lazuli
Under Ben Bulben
Man and the Echo
The Circus Animals’ Desertion
From Introduction [A General Introduction for My Work]
I. The First Principle
II. Subject-Matter
III. Style and Attitude
IV. Whither?
E. M. FORSTER (1879–1970)
The Machine Stops
Part 1. The Air-Ship
Part II. The Mending Apparatus
Part III. The Homeless
VIRGINIA WOOLF (1882–1941)
The Mark on the Wall
Modern Fiction
Mrs. Dalloway
Text of Mrs. Dalloway
From A Room of One’s Own [Shakespeare’s Sister]
Professions for Women
JAMES JOYCE (1882–1941)
Araby
Clay
The Dead
Ulysses
From Ulysses: From [Penelope]
D. H. LAWRENCE (1885–1930)
Odour of Chrysanthemums
The Horse Dealer’s Daughter
Why the Novel Matters
Love on the Farm
Piano
Snake
How Beastly the Bourgeois Is
T. S. ELIOT (1888–1965)
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Sweeney among the Nightingales
The Waste Land
I. The Burial of the Dead
II. A Game of Chess
III. The Fire Sermon
IV. Death by Water
The Hollow Men
Journey of the Magi
From Four Quartets: Little Gidding
Tradition and the Individual Talent
I
II
III
The Metaphysical Poets
KATHERINE MANSFIELD (1888–1923)
The Daughters of the Late Colonel
The Garden Party
JEAN RHYS (1890–1979)
The Day They Burned the Books
On Not Shooting Sitting Birds
CLAUDE MCKAY (1889–1948)
A Midnight Woman to the Bobby
Old England
If We Must Die
Outcast
From Banjo: A Story without a Plot: Jelly Roll
STEVIE SMITH (1902–1971)
Sunt Leones
Our Bog Is Dood
Not Waving but Drowning
Thoughts About the Person from Porlock
Pretty
GEORGE ORWELL (1903–1950)
Shooting an Elephant
Politics and the English Language
MULK RAJ ANAND (1905–2004)
The Liar
SAMUEL BECKETT (1906–1989)
Waiting for Godot
Act 1
Act 2
W. H. AUDEN (1907–1973)
Petition
On This Island
Lullaby
Spain
As I Walked Out One Evening
Musée des Beaux Arts
In Memory of W. B. Yeats
The Unknown Citizen
September 1, 1939
In Praise of Limestone
The Shield of Achilles
DYLAN THOMAS (1914–1953)
The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower
The Hunchback in the Park
Poem in October
Fern Hill
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
VOICES FROM WORLD WAR II
VIRGINIA WOOLF
From Three Guineas [As a Woman I Have No Country]
PABLO PICASSO
Guernica
EDITH SITWELL
Still Falls the Rain
HENRY REED
From Lessons of the War: 1. Naming of Parts
ELIZABETH BOWEN
The Demon Lover
NATION, RACE, AND LANGUAGE
UNA MARSON
Nigger
The Stranger
LOUISE BENNETT
Jamaica Language
Dry-Foot Bwoy
Colonization in Reverse
Jamaica Oman
KAMAU BRATHWAITE
[Nation Language]
NGŨGĨ WA THIONG’O
From Decolonising the Mind: From The Language of African Literature
III
IV
V
IX
SAMUEL SELVON
Waiting for Aunty to Cough
M. NOURBESE PHILIP
Discourse on the Logic of Language
SALMAN RUSHDIE
[The British Indian Writer and a Dream-England]
[English Is an Indian Literary Language]
GRACE NICHOLS
Epilogue
The Fat Black Woman Goes Shopping
Wherever I Hang
LINTON KWESI JOHNSON
Inglan Is a Bitch
BERNARDINE EVARISTO
From The Emperor’s Babe: Amo Amas Amat
DALJIT NAGRA
A Black History of the English-Speaking Peoples
DORIS LESSING (1919–2013)
To Room Nineteen
PHILIP LARKIN (1922–1985)
Church Going
MCMXIV
Talking in Bed
High Windows
Going, Going
Sad Steps
Homage to a Government
The Explosion
This Be The Verse
Aubade
A. K. RAMANUJAN (1929–1993)
Self-Portrait
Elements of Composition
THOM GUNN (1929–2004)
Black Jackets
My Sad Captains
From the Wave
Still Life
The Missing
DEREK WALCOTT (1930–2017)
A Far Cry from Africa
From The Schooner Flight: 1 Adios, Carenage
The Season of Phantasmal Peace
From Omeros
1.3.3 [“‘Mais qui ça qui rivait-’ous, Philoctete?’”]
6.49.1–2 [“She bathed him in the brew of the root. The basin”]
TED HUGHES (1930–1998)
Wind
Pike
Out
Theology
Crow’s Last Stand
Crow Tyrannosaurus
ALICE MUNRO (1931-2024)
Walker Brothers Cowboy
GEOFFREY HILL (1932–2016)
In Memory of Jane Fraser
Requiem for the Plantagenet Kings
September Song
Broken Hierarchies
V. S. NAIPAUL (1932–2018)
One Out of Many
WOLE SOYINKA (b. 1934)
Death and the King’s Horseman
Act 1
Act 2
Act 3
Act 4
Act 5
CARYL CHURCHILL (b. 1938)
Top Girls
Act One
Scene 1
Scene 2
Scene 3
Act Two
Scene 1
Scene 2
LES MURRAY (1938–2019)
Morse
Corniche
The Kitchen Grammars
SEAMUS HEANEY (1939–2013)
Digging
The Grauballe Man
Punishment
Casualty
From Station Island: 12 [Like a convalescent, I took the hand]
Clearances
Anything Can Happen
ENVIRONMENTAL LITERATURE AND CLIMATE CHANGE
J. G. BALLARD
From The Drowned World: The Causeways of the Sun
BESSIE HEAD
Looking for a Rain God
BEN OKRI
What the Tapster Saw
ARUNDHATI ROY
From The God of Small Things: God’s Own Country
AMITAV GHOSH
From The Great Derangement
ROBERT MACFARLANE
From Underland: The Understorey (Epping Forest, London)
POETRY OF CLIMATE CHANGE
SEAMUS HEANEY
Höfn
PATIENCE AGBABI
ECO2nomics
PETER READING
Clockwise (from the bottom),
VAHNI CAPILDEO
From The Book of Dreams / Livre de Cauchemars
CRAIG SANTOS PEREZ
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Glacier
PASCALE PETIT
Rainforest in the Sleep Room
SIMON ARMITAGE
Ark
MARGARET ATWOOD (b. 1939)
Death by Landscape
Miss July Grows Older
J. M. COETZEE (b. 1940)
From Waiting for the Barbarians
EAVAN BOLAND (1944–2020)
Fond Memory
The Dolls Museum in Dublin
The Lost Land
SALMAN RUSHDIE (b. 1947)
The Prophet’s Hair
ANNE CARSON (b. 1950)
From The Glass Essay
PAUL MULDOON (b. 1951)
Anseo
Meeting the British
From 7, Middagh Street (And were Yeats living at this hour)
Milkweed and Monarch
The Loaf
Turtles
HILARY MANTEL (1952–2022)
Sorry to Disturb
BORN-DIGITAL LITERATURE
KAMAU BRATHWAITE
[On Sycorax Video Style]
Letter Sycorax
CAROLINE BERGVALL
The Franker Tale (Deus Hic, 2)
BPNICHOL
First Screening
YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES
BUST DOWN THE DOOR!
TRAVELING TO UTOPIA
ALI SMITH
From How to Be Both
DAVID MITCHELL
From The Right Sort
TEJU COLE
Seven Short Stories about Drones
From Hafiz
KAZUO ISHIGURO (b. 1954)
A Village after Dark
HANIF KUREISHI (b. 1954)
My Son the Fanatic
CAROL ANN DUFFY (b. 1955)
Warming Her Pearls
Valentine
Medusa
Mrs Lazarus
The Christmas Truce
CARYL PHILLIPS (b. 1958)
Growing Pains
SIMON ARMITAGE (b. 1963)
The Tyre
Horses, M62
The English Astronaut
Beck
PATIENCE AGBABI (b. 1965)
Prologue (Word)
Prologue (Grime Mix)
The Kiss
What Do Women Like Bes’? (The Wife of Bath’s Tale)
The Doll’s House
RACHEL CUSK (b. 1967)
Freedom
KIRAN DESAI (b. 1971)
The Sermon in the Guava Tree
ZADIE SMITH (b. 1975)
The Embassy of Cambodia
CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE (b. 1977)
Checking Out
Appendices
Volume D: The Romantic Period
General Bibliography
Literary Terminology
Geographic Nomenclature
British Money
The British Baronage
The Royal Lines of England and Great Britain
Religions in Great Britain
Volume E: The Victorian Age
General Bibliography
Literary Terminology
Geographic Nomenclature
British Money
The British Baronage Religions in Great Britain
The Royal Lines of England and Great Britain
Religions in Great Britain
Volume F: The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
General Bibliography
Literary Terminology
Geographic Nomenclature
MAP: London in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
British Money
The British Baronage
The Royal Lines of England and Great Britain
Religions in Great Britain
Permissions Acknowledgments
Volume D: The Romantic Period (1785–1832)
Volume E: The Victorian Age (1830–1901)
Volume F: The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
Index
Volume D: The Romantic Period (1785–1832)
Volume E: The Victorian Age (1830–1901)
Volume F: The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
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Volume D: The Romantic Period (1785–1832)
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Volume F: The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries