M. H. ABRAMS
(Ph.D. Harvard)
is Class of 1916
Professor of English,
Emeritus, at Cornell
University. He
received the Phi
Beta Kappa Christian Gauss Prize for
The Mirror and the Lamp and the MLA’s
James Russell Lowell Prize for Natural
Supernaturalism. He is also the author
of The Milk of Paradise; A Glossary
of Literary Terms; The Correspondent
Breeze; and Doing Things with Texts. He is the recipient of Guggenheim,
Ford Foundation, and Rockefeller
Postwar fellowships, the Award in
Humanistic Studies from the Academy
of Arts and Sciences (1984), the
Distinguished Scholar Award by the
Keats–Shelley Society (1987), and the
Award for Literature by the American
Academy of Arts and Letters (1990). In 1999, The Mirror and the Lamp
was ranked twenty–fifth among the
Modern Library’s “100 best nonfiction
books written in English during the
twentieth century.”
CAROL ANN DUFFY (b. 1955) Warming Her Pearls *Valentine
Medusa Mrs Lazarus *KIRAN DESAI (b. 1971)
*The Sermon in the Guava Tree
*ZADIE SMITH (b. 1975)
*The Waiter’s Wife
APPENDIXES
General Bibliography
*Literary Terminology
Geographic Nomenclature
British Money
The British Baronage
The Royal Lines of England and Great Britain Religions in England
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THE MIDDLE AGES
THE BROME PLAY OF ABRAHAM AND ISSAC
(ca. 1400–1425)
MEDIEVAL ATTITUDES TOWARD
LIFE ON EARTH
Contempt for the World
BOETHIUS: From The Consolation of Philosophy
[Triumph Over the World]
The Last Journey
A Change in Perspective
THE ANGLO-SAXON CHRONICLE
[Obituary for William the Conqueror]
[Henry of Poitou Becomes Abbot of
Peterborough]
[The Reign of King Stephen] AN OLD ENGLISH RIDDLE
The Bow
THE BATTLE OF MALDON LEGENDARY HISTORIES OF BRITAIN GEOFFREY OF MONMOUTH: The History of the
Kings of Britain
[The Story of Brutus and Diana’s Prophecy] WACE: Le Roman de Brut
[The Roman Challenge] LLUDD AND LLEUELYS
*WILLIAM LANGLAND (ca. 1330–1387)
*The Vision of Piers Plowman
*Passus 5
* [The Confession of Envy]
[The Confession of Gluttony]
NCE text of Passus 18 in the original
GEOFFREY CHAUCER (ca. 1343–1400)
The Canterbury Tales
The Merchant’s Tale
The Introduction
The Tale
The Epilogue
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WILLIAM CAXTON (ca. 1422–1491)
Preface to Morte Darthur
MIDDLE ENGLISH LYRICS
In Praise of Brunettes
The Appreciative Drinker
A Charm against the Night Goblin
The Blacksmiths
Earth Took of Earth
Spring Has Come With Love
The Henpecked Husband
A Bitter Lullaby
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TOPICS
MEDIEVAL ESTATES AND ORDERS:
MAKING AND BREAKING RULES
ST. BENEDICT: Rule of Saint Benedict
AELFRIC: Lives of the Saints
Ancrene Riwle (Rule for Anchoresses)
RAMÓN LULL: The Book of the Order of Chivalry
JEAN DE MEUN: From Romance of the Rose
HENRY KNIGHTON: Chronicle
THOMAS WALSINGHAM: Chronicle of England
JOHN GOWER: Mirour de l’Omme
JOHN GOWER: Vox Clamantis, Books I, III, IV
KING ARTHUR: ROMANCING POLITICS
CHRÉTIEN DE TROYES: Yvain or the Knight with
the Lion
CHRÉTIEN DE TROYES: The Knight of the Cart
The Prose Vulgate Cycle
From Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
WILLIAM CAXTON: From Morte Darthur
EUSTACHE DESCHAMPS: The Nine Worthies
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ROBERT THE MONK: Jerusalem History
Chronicle of the Rabbi Eliezer Bar Nathan
ANNA COMNENA: The Alexiad
IDN AL-ATHIR: The Perfect History
WILLIAM OF TYRE: A History of Deeds Done
Beyond the Sea
THE LINGUISTIC AND LITERARY
CONTEXTS OF BEOWULF
Widsith
The Saxon Genesis
The Prose Edda
Grettir’s Saga
THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY
ANONYMOUS LYRICS
Back and side go bare, go bare
My mind to me a Kingdom is
Though Amaryllis dance in green
Constant Penelope sends to thee
[The Queen’s Champion Retires]
The Shepherd’s Consort
Come Away, Come, Sweet Love!
Thule, the period of cosmography
Madrigal (“my love in her attire doth show
her wit”)
Weep you no more, sad fountains
The silver swan
THE BOOK OF HOMILIES
From An Exhortation Concerning Good Order
and Obedience to Rulers and Magistrates
JOHN SKELTON (ca. 1460–1529)
*Bouge of Court
Upon a Dead Man’s Head
To Mistress Margaret Hussey
Colin Clout
[The Spirituality vs. the Temporality]
SIR THOMAS MORE (1478–1535)
The History of King Richard III
[A King’s Mistress] HUGH LATIMER (ca. 1492–1555)
From Sermon of the Plowers
SIR THOMAS WYATT (1503–1542)
*Italian originals of the Petrarchan sonnets
*Petrarch, Rima 140
*Petrarch, Rima 190
*Petrarch, Rima 134
*Petrarch, Rima 189
Like to These unmeasurable mountains
Lux, my fair falcon
Tangled I was in love’s snare
In Spain
And wilt thou leave me thus?
*SENECA
*Thyestes, lines 391–403
ROGER ASCHAM (1515–1568)
From Toxophilus
The Second Book of the School of Shooting
[Comeliness]
JOHN FOXE (1516–1587)
From Acts and Monuments
HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF SURREY (1517–1547)
*Italian originals of the Petrarchan sonnets
Petrarch, Rima 310
Petrarch, Rima 164
The Fourth Book of Virgil
[The Hunt]
The Second Book of Virgil
[Hector Warns Aeneas to Flee Troy]
Set Me Whereas the Sun Doth Parch the
Green
Give Peace, Ye Lovers, Here Before
RICHARD EDWARDS (ca. 1523–1566)
Amantium Irae Amoris Redintegratio Est
RALPH LANE (1530–1603)
From Hakluyt’s Voyages
ARTHUR GOLDING (1536–1605)
Ovid’s Metamorphoses
[The Four Ages]
THOMAS CRANMER (1489–1556)
The Book of Homilies
From An Exhortation Concerning Good
Order and Obedience to Rulers and
Magistrates
44
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THE WIDER WORLD *HAKLUYT’S DEDICATORY EPISTLE, 1589 *THE FIRST VOYAGE TO GUINEA AND BENIN,
1553–54 *THE ODYSSEY OF MILES PHILIPS, 1568–83
FROBISHER’S VOYAGES TO THE ARCTIC,
1576–78
From a true discourse of the late voyages of
discovery DRAKE’S CIRCUMNAVIGATION OF THE GLOBE,
1577–80
From The Famous Voyage of Sir Francis Drake
into the South Sea AMADAS AND BARLOWE’S VOYAGE TO
VIRGINIA, 1584
From the First Voyage Made to Virginia HARIOT’S REPORT ON VIRGINIA, 1585
From A brief and true report of the new found
land of Virginia *WITHERINGTON AND LISTER’S VOYAGE TO
WEST AFRICA AND SOUTH AMERICA, 1686–87 GEORGE GASCOIGNE (1539–1578)
Gascoigne’s Lullaby
Woodmanship
Farewell with a Mischief
EDMUND SPENSER (1552–1599)
From An Hymne in Honour of Beautie
Amoretti
Sonnet 15 (“Ye tradefull merchants, that
with weary toile”)
Sonnet 35 (“My hungry eyes through
greedy covetize”)
Sonnet 59 (“Thrise happie she, that is so
well assured”)
Sonnet 70 (“Fresh spring the herald of
loves mighty king”)
The Faerie Queene
Book II
Canto VII [The Cave of Mammon]
Book III. Contayning the Legend of
Britomartis, or of Chastitie
Canto 1
Canto 2
From Canto 3 [The Visit to Merlin]
From Canto 5 [Belphoebe and Timias]
Two Cantos of Mutabilie
Canto VI
Canto VII
The VIII Canto, unperfite
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are cast”) SIR WALTER RALEGH (ca. 1552–1618)
A Report on the Truth of the Fight About
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Walsinghame
RICHARD HOOKER (1554–1600)
Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity
From The Preface [On Moderation in
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From Book 1, Chapter 8 [On the Scope of
the Several Laws]
From Book 1, Chapter 10 [The Foundations
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From Book 1, Chapter 12 [The Need for
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SIR PHILIP SIDNEY (1554–1586)
The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia
The Absent Urania
Kalander Tells about Basilus
The Country of Arcadia
GEORGE PEELE (1556–1596)
Fair and Fair
CHIDIOCK TICHBORNE (1558–1586)
Tichborne’s Elegy SAMUEL DANIEL (1562–1619)
Delia
34 (“When winter snows upon thy golden
hairs”)
45 (“Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable
Night”)
46 (“Let others sing of knights and
paladins”)
From Musophilius [Imperial Eloquence]
MICHAEL DRAYTON (1563–1631)
From Idea
Ode to the Virginian Voyage 45
THOMAS CAMPION (1567–1620)
When thou must home to shades of
underground
Rose-cheeked Laura
What if a day
Never love unless you can
Think’st thou to seduce me then
Now winter nights enlarge
“Though your strangeness frets my heart” THOMAS NASHE (1567–1601)
A Litany in Time of Plague
Spring, the Sweet Spring
Pierce Penniless, His Supplication to
the Devil
An Invective Against Enemies of Poetry
[The Defense of Plays]
The Unfortunate Traveler, or The Life
of Jack Wilton
[Roman Summer]
SIR JOHN DAVIES (1569–1626)
From Orchestra
THE DEVELOPMENT OF PROSE STYLE
SIR JOHN CHEKE: [Our Own Tongue Clean and
Pure]
THE BIBLE: Translations of the Twenty-third Psalm
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY: From Arcadia
PHILIP STUBBES: From The Anatomy of Abuses
WILLIAM BULLEIN
A Dialogue Against the Pestilence
[Travelers’ Tales]
“MARTIN MARPRELATE” (fl. 1588–1593)
Hay Any Work for Cooper
[Church Government]
TOPICS
THE MAGICIAN, THE HERETIC,
AND THE PLAYWRIGHT
RICHARD BAINES: To the Privy Council
THOMAS BEARD: The Theatre of God’s
Judgements
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE: From Doctor Faustus
The History of the Damnable Life and Deserved
Death of Doctor John Faustus
News from Scotland [The Torture and Execution of
the Doctor Fian]
REGINALD SCOT: The Discoverie of Witchcraft
RENAISSANCE EXPLORATION, TRAVEL, AND
THE WORLD OUTSIDE EUROPE
ARTHUR BARLOWE: The First Voyage Made
to Virginia
GEORGE PECKHAM: A True Report of the Late
Discoveries
JEAN DÉ LERY: History of a Voyage to the Land
of Brazil
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE: Of Cannibals
ANDREW BORDE: The First Book of the Introduction of Knowledge
JOHN SANDERSON: Purchas His Pilgrims, The
Second Part
RALPH FITCH and PETER MUNDY: Observations
of India
WILLIAM TYNDALE: 1530 Old Testament
Translation, The Bible
EDWARD HALL: The Union of the Two Noble and
Illustre Families of Lancastre and York
ROBERT ASKE: The Pilgrim’s Oath
ROBERT ASKE: [On Abbeys]
A Song for the Pilgrims of Grace
JOHN FOXE: Acts and Monuments
[The First Examination of Anne Askew]
[The Death of Anne Askew]
The Ballad of Anne Askew
JOHN FRITH: [On the Eucharist]
ISLAND NATIONS
ANONYMOUS: Fúbún fúibh, a shluagh Gaoidheal
[Fooboon upon you, ye hosts of the Gael]
JOHN DERRICKE: The Image of Ireland
ANTHONY MUNDAY: The Triumphs of Reunited
Britannia London
EDMUND SPENSER: A View of the Present State of Ireland
JOHN STOW: A Survey of London
THOMAS PLATTER: A Swiss Tourist in London
ROBERT WEDDERBURN: The Complaint of
Scotland
THE EARLY SEVENTEENTH
CENTURY
The Varieties of Wit
The Unicorn: End of a Legend
ANONYMOUS
The Power of Money
Tom a Bedlam
KING JAMES I (1566–1625)
The True Law of Free Monarchies
SIR HENRY WOTTON (1568–1639)
On His Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia
SIR ROBERT AYTOUN (1570–1638)
To an Inconstant One
JOHN DONNE (1572–1631)
*From Biathanatos
Devotions upon Emergent Occasions:
Meditation XI
Twicknam Garden
ISABELLA WHITNEY (fl. 1567–1578)
Will and Testament
46
DISSENT, DOUBT, AND SPIRITUAL VIOLENCE
IN THE REFORMATION
* NEW AUTHOR OR WORK
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To the Countess of Bedford
The Curse
Lovers’ Infiniteness
The Storm
Elegy I. Jealousy
Elegy IV. The Perfume
Paradoxes and Problems
Sermon LXV: On the Weight of Eternal Glory
Sermon LXXVI: On Falling Out of God’s
Hand
A Nocturnal upon Saint Lucy’s Day, Being the
Shortest Day
The Blossom
A Lecture upon the Shadow
Holy Sonnet 17 (“Since she whom I loved
hath paid her last debt”)
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Songs from the Plays
When daises pied
Spring
Winter
The woosel cock so black of hue
Tell me where is fancy bred
Sigh no more, ladies
Under the greenwood tree
Blow, blow, thou winter wind
It was a lover and his lass
Oh mistress mine
Take, oh, take those lips away
Hark, hark! the lark
Fear no more the heat o’ the sun
When daffodils begin to peer
Full fathom five
Where the bee sucks, there suck I
Sonnets
56 (“Sweet love, renew thy force; be it not
said)
104 (“To me, fair friend, you never can be old)
118 (“Like as, to make our appetites more
keen)
121 (“’Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed”)
The Phoenix and the Turtle
The First Part of King Henry the Fourth
Excerpts from the Two Texts of King Lear
From the History of King Lear: Scene 8
From the Tragedy of King Lear: 3.1
BEN JONSON (1572–1637)

The Masque of Blackness My Picture Left in Scotland
Slow, Slow, Fresh Fount
Still to Be Neat
From Timber, or Discoveries
It Was a Beauty That I Saw
An Elegy
Gypsy Songs
The Vision of Delight
An Ode
To William Camden
On Don Surly
In the Person of Womankind
Slow, Slow, Fresh Fount
Epitaph on Elizabeth, L. H.
A Celebration of Charis in Ten Lyric Pieces
Though I Am Young
Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue JOSEPH HALL (1574–1656)
Sir Thomas Overbury and John Earle
FRANCIS BEAUMONT (1584–1616) and JOHN
FLETCHNER (1579–1625)
Songs from The Faithful Shepherdess
Songs from Valentinian
Songs from The Masque of the Inner Temple
and Gray’s Inn
ROBERT BURTON (1577–1640)
From The Anatomy of Melancholy
*From Democritus Junior to the Reader
From Exercise Rectified
Frontispiece to Burton’s Anatomy
47
RICHARD CORBET (1582–1635)
A Proper New Ballad
EDWARD, LORD HERBERT OF CHERBURY
(1583–1648)
Sonnet of Black Beauty
ELIZABETH CARY (1585–1639)
*The Tragedy of Mariam, The Fair Queen
of Jewry
WILLIAM BROWNE (1591–1643)
On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke
ROBERT HERRICK (1591–1674)
An Ode for Him
Discontents in Devon
Upon a Child That Died
Oberon’s Feast
The Pillar of Fame
His Grange, or Private Wealth
Upon His Spaniel Tracy
To Lar
The Lily in a Crystal
To Blossoms
To the Water Nymphs Drinking at the
Fountain
HENRY KING (1592–1669)
The Exequy
GEORGE HERBERT (1593–1633)
Temptation
Anagram
Hope
Sin’s Round
Love Unknown
Aaron
The Altar
Redemption
Easter Wings
Jordan (1)
The Collar
The Pulley
The Flower
Love (3)
IZAAK WALTON (1593–1683)
The Life of Dr. John Donne
48
THOMAS CAREW (1595–1640)
Song
The Second Rapture
Disdain Returned
Song (Persuasions to Enjoy)
JEREMY TAYLOR (1613–1667)
Gems of Pulpit
SIR CHARLES SEDLEY (1639–1701)
Song
JOHN LILBURNE (1615?–1657)
The Picture of the Council of State
JAMES SHIRLEY (1596–1666)
Dirge
RICHARD CRASHAW (1613–1649)
Luke 7
On Our Crucified Lord, Naked and Bloody
CHARLES SACKVILLE, EARL OF DORSET
(1643–1706)
Song
TOPICS
RACHEL SPEGHT (1597–?)
A Dream
SIR THOMAS BROWNE (1605–1682)
Hydriotaphia, or Urn-Burial
From Chapter 5 SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT (1606–1668)
A Song
EDMUND WALLER (1606–1687)
The Story of Phoebus and Daphne Applied Song (“Go, lovely rose!”)
Of the Last Verses in the Book
On a Girdle
Of English Verse JOHN MILTON (1608–1674)
At a Solemn Music
A Book Was Writ of Late Called Tetrachordon
When the Assault Was Intended to the City
Lawrence, of Virtuous Father Virtuous Son
Of Education
Comus
To My Friend, Mr. Henry Lawes, on His Airs
Paradise Lost: The Arguments
Samson Agonistes
GERRARD WINSTANLEY (1609?–?)
The True Leveler’s Standard Advanced
SIR JOHN SUCKLING (1609–1642)
A Song to a Lute
Song (“Why so pale and wan, fond lover?”) Loving and Beloved
A Ballad upon a Wedding
Out upon It! ABRAHAM COWLEY (1618–1667)
Ode: Of Wit
The Wish
To Mr. Hobbes
To the Royal Society RICHARD LOVELACE (1618–1657)
The Snail ABIEZER COPPE (1619–1672)
A Fiery Flying Roll
LUCY HUTCHINSON (1620–1681)
Memoirs of Colonel Hutchinson
ANTHONY ASHLEY COOPER, FIRST EARL OF
SHAFTESBURY (1621–1683)
A Character of Henry Hastings
ANDREW MARVELL (1621–1678)
Mourning
On Paradise Lost
HENRY VAUGHAN (1621–1695)
The Book
Peace
Man
A Rhapsody
I Walked the Other Day (To Spend My Hour)
JOHN AUBREY (1626–1697)
From The Life of Thomas Hobbes
DOROTHY OSBORNE (1627–1695)
The Letters of Dorothy Osborne
[“Servants”]
[Fighting with Brother John]
EDWARD HYDE, EARL OF CLARENDON
(1609–1674)
The History of the Rebellion
ANNA TRAPNELL
Report and Plea
JOHN CLEVELAND (1613–1658)
Mark Antony
THOMAS SPRAT (1635–1713)
The History of the Royal Society
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GERVASE MARKHAM: The English Hus-Wife
RICHARD BRATHWAITE: The English
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the Ten Commandments
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Moses Called Genesis
RICHARD SPEGHT: A Muzzle for Melastomus
JOHN MILTON: From Christian Doctrine
HOMER: From The Iliad
VIRGIL: From The Aeneid
TASSO: From Jerusalem Delivered
OVID: From Metamorphoses
GEORGE SANDYS: [On the Narcissus Story]
SIGMUND FREUD: On Narcissism
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Works
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CIVIL WARS OF IDEAS
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24–40
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King Charls his Tryal at the High Court of Justice
JOHN NALSON: A True Copy of the High Court of
49
JOHN DONNE: A Sermon . . . Preached to the
Honorable Company of the Virginia
Plantation, 13 November 1622
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ROGER WILLIAMS: The Bloody Tenent of Persecution
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MENASSEH BEN ISRAEL: To His Highnesse the
Lord Protector of the Common-wealth of
England, Scotland, and Ireland
W.H.: Anglo-Judaeus, or, The history of the Jews,
whilst here in England
MARGARET FELL: A Loving Salutation to the Seed
of Abraham among the Jews
MATTHEW PRIOR (1664–1721)
A True Maid
An Epitaph
A Better Answer
JONATHAN SWIFT (1667–1745)
From A Tale of a Tub
Abolishing of Christianity in England . . .
WILLIAM CONGREVE (1670–1729)
*Love for Love
THE RESTORATION AND
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
JOSEPH ADDISON (1672–1719) and SIR
RICHARD STEELE (1672–1729)
Steele: [The Gentleman; The Pretty Fellow]
Steele: [Dueling]
Addison: [The Trial of the Petticoat]
Addison: [Party Patches]
Addison: [Sir Roger at Church]
Addison: [Sir Roger at the Assizes]
JOHN BUNYAN (1628–1688)
From Grace Abounding to the Chief of
Sinners
JOHN GAY (1685–1732)
The Birth of the Squire. An Eclogue
Recitativo and Air from Acis and Galatea
JOHN DRYDEN (1631–1700)
Song from The Indian Emperor
Prologue to The Tempest
Epilogue to Tyrannic Love
Song from An Evening’s Love
Epilogue to The Conquest of Granada, II
To the Pious Memory of the Accomplished
Young Lady Mrs. Anne Killigrew
The Secular Masque
From The Preface to Fables Ancient and
Modern
[In Praise of Chaucer]
*WILLIAM WYCHERLEY (1641–1716)
*The Country Wife
DANIEL DEFOE (ca. 1660–1731)
A True Relation of the Apparition of One
Mrs. Veal
From The History and Remarkable Life of the
Truly Honorable Col. Jacque
50
ANNE FINCH, COUNTESS OF WINCHILSEA
(1661–1720)
On Myself
The Answer (To Pope’s Impromptu)
ALEXANDER POPE (1688–1744)
Impromptu to Lady Winchelsea
Epistle to Miss Blount
Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady
The First Satire of the Second Book of Horace
Imitated
Ode on Solitude
The Universal Prayer
The Dunciad
From Book the Fourth
[The Carnation and the Butterfly]
JAMES THOMSON (1700–1748)
The Seasons
From Winter
From Summer
An Ode on Aeolus’s Harp
SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709–1784)
Prologue Spoken by Mr. Garrick
Rambler No. 203
[Futurity]
Idler No. 58
[Expectations of Pleasure]
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia
Prayers and Meditations
Easter Eve, 1761
Good Friday, 1779, 11 P.M.
Lives of the Poets
Milton
[Lycidas]
[L’Allegro, II Penseroso]
[Paradise Lost]
From Cowley
[Metaphysical Wit]
From Pope
[Pope’s Intellectual Character. Pope and
Dryden Compared]
On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet
Translation of Horace, Odes, Book 4.7
LAURENCE STERNE (1713–1768)
Reply to Sancho
Tristram Shandy
Volume 9, Chapter 6
THOMAS GRAY (1716–1771)
Hymn to Adversity
WILLIAM COLLINS (1721–1759)
Ode Written in the Beginning of the Year
1746
Ode on the Death of Mr. Thomson
LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU (1689–1762)
The Lover: A Ballad
CHRISTOPHER SMART (1722–1771)
A Song to David
ANTHONY ASHLEY COOPER, THIRD EARL OF
SHAFTESBURY (1671–1713)
Sensus Communis: An Essay on the Freedom
of Wit and Humor
Part 1, Sections 1 and 2
OLIVER GOLDSMITH (ca. 1730–1774)
Letters from a Citizen of the World
Letter XXVI. The Character of the Man
in Black; With Some Instances of His
Inconsistent Conduct
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN (1751–1816)
*The School for Scandal
* NEW AUTHOR OR WORK
 COMPLETE LONGER WORK
GEORGE CRABBE (1754–1832)
The Village
From Book I
The Borough
Letter XXII, The Poor of The Borough:
Peter Grimes
A GRACE BEYOND THE REACH OF ART
LONGINUS: Genius and the Rules
QUINTILIAN: When to Break the Rules
RENÉ RAPIN: Grace Beyond the Rules
SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE: The Inadequacy of the
Rules
JOHN HUGHES: “Curiosa Felicitas”
ROGER DE PILES: Grace Gains the Heart
LEONARD WELSTED: No Precepts Can Teach
Grace
SUPPLEMENTAL EBOOK CONTENTS
Justice for the Tryal of K. Charls
EMIGRANTS AND SETTLERS
THE GENERAL AND THE PARTICULAR
ARISTOTLE: Poetry and History Contrasted
HORACE: Character Types in Comedy
SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT: Poetry and History
Contrasted
ANTHONY ASHLEY COOPER, THIRD EARL OF
SHAFTESBURY: The General and the
Particular in Painting
SAMUEL JOHNSON: The Particular in Biography
The Simplicity of Grandeur
Hudibras and the Particular
The Grandeur of Generality
JOSEPH WARTON: On Thomson’s Seasons
HUGH BLAIR: The Particular in Descriptive
Poetry
SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS: The General and the
Particular in Painting—The “Grand Style”
WILLIAM BLAKE: The Aesthetic Value of the
General Denied
GENIUS
SAMUEL JOHNSON: Definitions of Genius
JOHN DRYDEN: Genius Is above Correctness
JOSEPH ADDISON: The Beauties of Great
Geniuses Independent of Rules
SAMUEL JOHNSON: Genius Requires Invention
EDWARD YOUNG: Imitation and Genius
SAMUEL JOHNSON: Genius and Knowledge
ALEXANDER GERARD: The Origins of Genius
JOHN MOIR: The Unique Vision of Original
Genius
SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS: Genius the Child of
Imitation
WILLIAM BLAKE: Genius Unbound
WILLIAM HAZLITT: Reynolds’ Genius
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A DAY IN EIGHTEENTH–CENTURY LONDON
ROBERT DODSLEY: The Footman. An Epistle to My Friend Mr. Wright
JONATHAN SWIFT: A Description of the Morning
JOSEPH ADDISON: The Spectator, No. 251
WILLIAM HOGARTH: The Enraged Musician
JOHN GARRETSON: The School of Manners
THOMAS JORDAN: News from the Coffeehouse
The Female Tatler
TOBIAS SMOLLETT: From Humphry Clinker
From The Gentleman’s Magazine
JAMES BOSWELL: From The Life of Samuel Johnson
SLAVERY AND THE SLAVE TRADE IN BRITAIN
JOHN NEWTON: Thoughts Upon the African Slave
Trade
WILLIAM SNELGRAVE: A New Account of . . .
the Slave Trade
JOHN LOCKE: From The First and Second Treatises
of Government
WILLIAM BLACKSTONE: Commentaries on the
Laws of England
PHILLIS WHEATLEY: On Being Brought from Africa to America
RICHARD SAVAGE: Of Public Spirit in Regard to
Public Works
HANNAH MORE: Slavery, A Poem
WILLIAM COWPER: The Negro’s Complaint
NICHOLAS OWEN: Journal of a Slave-Dealer
A Petition of Liverpool to the House of Commons
Regarding the Slave Trade
HESTER PIOZZI: Letter to Penelope Pennington,
June 19, 1802
WILLIAM BLAKE: The Little Black Boy
THE PLURALITY OF WORLDS
ROBERT HOOKE: Micrographia
ANTONY VAN LEEUWENHOEK: a Journal
GALILEO GALILEI: The Phases of the Moon
JAMES THOMSON: From The Seasons
BLAISE PASCAL: From Pensées
MARGARET CAVENDISH: A World in an Eare Ring
BERNARD LE BOVIER DE FONTENELLE:
Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds
Letter to The Female Spectator
JOSEPH ADDISON: The Spectator, Nos. 420 and 465
CHRISTIAAN HUYGENS: Cosmotheoros
STEPHEN DUCK: On Mites
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THOMAS WRIGHT: An Original Theory . . . of the
Universe
LAURENCE STERNE: A Dream
J. J. GRANDVILLE: A Juggler of Worlds
TRAVEL, TRADE, AND THE EXPANSION
OF EMPIRE
SAMUEL JOHNSON: From A Dictionary of the
English Language
SAMUEL JOHNSON: Idler, No. 97
CELIA FIENNES: The Journeys of Celia Fiennes
LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU: The Turkish
Embassy Letters
PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE: From Letters
Written by the Late Right Honourable Philip
Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to His
Son Philip Stanhope
WILLIAM BECKFORD: From Dreams, Waking
Thoughts and Incidents, in a Series of Letters,
From Various Parts of Europe
The Gentleman’s Pocket Companion, For
Traveling into Foreign Parts
Common Talke at an Inn
CAPTAIN JAMES COOK: The Journals of
Captain James Cook on His Voyages of
Discovery
GEORGE VANCOUVER: A Voyage of Discovery
to the North Pacific Ocean and Round the
World 1791–1795
“CAPTAIN CHARLES JOHNSON”: A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the
Most Notorious Pyrates
JOSEPH PITTS: A True and Faithful Account of the
Religion and Manners of the Mohammetans
SIR WILLIAM “ORIENTAL” JONES: From The
Works of Sir William Jones
NATHANIEL BRASSEY HALHEAD: A Code of
Gentoo Laws, or Ordinates of the Pundits
OLIVER GOLDSMITH: From The Citizen of the World
* NEW AUTHOR OR WORK
THE ROMANTIC PERIOD
*“SELF–CONSTITUTED JUDGE OF POESY”:
REVIEWER VS. POET IN THE ROMANTIC PERIOD
*LORD BYRON: From English Bards and Scotch
Reviewers
*SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE: Remarks on
the present mode of conducting critical journals, chapter 21 of Biographia Literaria
*WILLIAM HAZLITT: From The Periodical Press,
Edinburgh Review 38 (1823)
*CHARLES BURNEY: From Review (unsigned)
of Lyrical Ballads, with a few other Poems,
Monthly Review, 2nd series, 29 (1799)
*FRANCIS JEFFREY: From Review (unsigned)
of Thalaba, The Destroyer: A Metrical
Romance by Robert Southey. Edinburgh
Review 1 (1802)
*ANONYMOUS: Review of The Poetical Works of the Late Mrs. Mary Robinson, Annual Review
5 (1806)
*JOHN WILSON: From Review (unsigned) of Childe
Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto the Fourth, by
Lord Byron. Edinburgh Review 30 (1818)
*ANONYMOUS [John Gibson Lockhart]: From John
Bull’s Letter to Lord Byron (1821)
*Z. [John Gibson Lockhart]: From “On the Cockney
School of Poetry, no. 4.” Blackwood’s
Edinburgh Magazine 3 (1818)
ROMANTIC LITERATURE AND WARTIME
*WILLIAM GODWIN: From Of the Causes of War,
in Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and
Its Influence on General Virtue and
Happiness (1793)
*WILLIAM WORDSWORTH: The Discharged
Soldier (1798)
*SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE: From Fears in
Solitude, Written in April 1798, during the
Alarm of an Invasion
*ROBERT SOUTHEY: The Victory (1799)
*SIR WALTER SCOTT: From Marmion: A Tale of
Flodden Field (1808)
*ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD: From Eighteen
Hundred and Eleven, a Poem. (1812)
*ROBERT SOUTHEY: From The Life of Nelson (1813)
*GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON: From Don
Juan, Canto 8 (1823)
*THOMAS DE QUINCY: From Going Down with
Victory, in “The English Mail-Coach, or the
Glory of Motion,” Blackwood’s Edinburgh
Magazine (1849)
 COMPLETE LONGER WORK
BALLAD: The Bonny Earl of Murray JOSEPH PRIESTLEY (1733–1804)
From The Present State of Europe Compared
with Antient Prophecies
ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD (1743–1825)
Life
ELHANAN WINCHESTER (1751–1797)
From The Three Woe-Trumpets
MARY ROBINSON (1757?–1800) The Camp WILLIAM BLAKE (1757–1827) A Vision of the Last Judgment Poetical Sketches
To Spring
To the Evening Star
All Religions Are One
There Is No Natural Religion
Songs of Experience
A Song of Liberty
Song (“How sweet I roam’d from field to field”)
Song (“Memory, hither come”)
Mad Song
To the Muses
The Mental Traveller
Blake’s Notebook
Mock on, Mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau
Never pain to tell thy love
I askèd a thief
And Did Those Feet
Letters on Sight and Vision
To Thomas Butts (Nov. 22, 1802)
To William Hayley (Oct 23, 1804)
From A Vision of the Last Judgment ROBERT BURNS (1759–1796)
Afton Water Corn Rigs an’ Barley Rigs
Willie Brewed a Peck o’ Maut
Ae fond kiss
Ye flowery banks
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT (1759–1797) Letters Written during a Short Residence in
Sweden, Norway, and Denmark
Letter 4
Letter 8
Letter 19 SUPPLEMENTAL EBOOK CONTENTS
TOPICS
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WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES (1762–1850)
To the River Itchin, near Winton
Languid, and sad, and slow
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (1770–1850)
Lucy Gray
Ode to Duty
Extempore Effusion upon the Death of
James Hogg The Prelude, or Growth of a Poet’s Mind
(1850 version)
Book First. Introduction, Childhood, and
School-time
Book Second. School-time continued
Book Third. Residence at Cambridge
[Arrival at St. John’s College. “The
Glory of My Youth”]
Book Fourth. Summer Vacation
[The Walks with His Terrier. The
Circuit of the Lake]
[The Walk Home from the Dance. The
Discharged Soldier]
Book Fifth. Books
[The Dream of the Arab]
[The Boy of Winander]
[“The Mystery of Words”]
Book Sixth. Cambridge, and the Alps
[“Human Nature Seeming Born Again”]
[Crossing Simplon Pass]
Book Seventh. Residence in London
[The Blind Beggar. Bartholomew Fair]
Book Eighth. Retrospect, Love of
Nature leading to Love of Man
[The Shepherd in the Mist]
Book Ninth. Residence in France
[Paris and Orléans. Becomes a “Patriot”]
Book Tenth. France continued
[The Revolution: Paris and England]
[The Reign of Terror. Nightmares]
Book Eleventh. France, concluded
[Retrospect: “Bliss Was It in That
Dawn.” Recourse to “Reason’s Naked
Self”]
[Crisis, Breakdown, and Recovery]
Book Twelfth. Imagination and Taste,
how impaired and restored [Spots of
Time]
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Book Thirteenth. Subject concluded
[Poetry of “Unassuming Things”]
[Discovery of His Poetic Subject.
Salisbury Plain. Sight of “a New
World”]
Book Fourteenth. Conclusion
[The Vision on Mount Snowdon]
[Conclusion: “The Mind of Man”]
From Descriptive Sketches
From The Excursion: Book 3, Despondency
A Poet!—He Hath Put His Heart to School
To My Sister
The Green Linnet
Composed in the Valley near Dover, On the
Day of Landing
Composed by the Side of Grasmere Lake
Afterthought
Yew Trees
The Two April Mornings
She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways
SIR WALTER SCOTT (1771–1832)
Coronach
From The Heart of Midlothian
Lochinvar
Jock of Hazeldean
The Two Drovers
The Dreary Change
Lucy Ashton’s Song
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE (1772–1834)
Phantom
Recollections of Love
Constancy to an Ideal Object
On Donne’s Poetry
Work without Hope
Epitaph
Bibliograpia Literatura
Chapter 1
[The discipline of his taste at school]
[Bowles’s Sonnets]
[Comparison b/w the poets before and
since Mr. Pope]
From Religious Musings
What Is Life?
Limbo
Phantom or Fact
Sonnet to the River Otter
Recollections of Love
Dejection: An Ode
CHARLES LAMB (1775–1834) Christ’s Hospital Five-and-Thirty Years Ago A Letter to Wordsworth
New Year’s Eve
From On the Artificial Comedy of the Last
Century
Witches, and Other Night Fears
The Two Races of Men
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR (1775–1864)
On Seeing a Hair of Lucretia Borgia
On His Seventy-fifth Birthday
Rose Aylmer
Past Ruined Ilion
Twenty Years Hence
The Three Roses
Dirce
Well I remember how you smiled
WILLIAM HAZLITT (1778–1830)
On Gusto
From On Shakespeare and Milton
From The Flight
On Going on a Journey
From Mr. Wordsworth
THOMAS MOORE (1779–1852)
Believe me, if all those endearing young
charms
The harp that once through Tara’s halls
The time I’ve lost in wooing
LEIGH HUNT (1784–1859)
The Fish, the Man, and the Spirit
THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK (1785–1866)
The Four Ages of Poetry
The War Song of Dinas Vawr
THOMAS DE QUINCEY (1785–1859)
Alexander Pope [The Literature of Knowledge
and the Literature of Power] The English Mall Coach
From The Vision of Sudden Death
On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts
ANONYMOUS: Terrorist Novel Writing JOHN KEATS (1795–1821)
Endymion
Book IV
O Sorrow
In Drear-Nighted December
On the Sonnet
GEORGE DARLEY (1795–1846)
Over Hills and Uplands High
The Phoenix
It is nor Beauty I demand
The Mermaidens’ Vesper Hymn
LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON (1802–1838) The Proud Ladye Revenge The Little Shroud THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES (1803–1849)
Song (“How many times do I love thee,
dear?”)
Song (“Old Adam, the carrion crow”)
The Phantom Wooer
ROBERT SOUTHEY (1774–1843)
From Joan of Arc: An Epic Poem
My Days Among the Dead Are Passed
* NEW AUTHOR OR WORK
GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON (1788–1824) They say that Hope is happiness
When we two parted
Stanzas for Music
Don Juan
Canto 3
[Juan and Haidee]
Canto 4
[Juan and Haidee] Stanzas Written on the Road between
Florence and Pisa PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (1792–1822)
A Song: “Men of England” To William Shelley Alastor; or, the Spirit of Solitude
Choruses from Hellas
Worlds on Worlds
A Dirge
Song of Apollo
To Jane. The Invitation
The Triumph of Life
JOHN CLARE (1793–1864) Song [I hid my love] Song [I peeled bits o’ straws] From Autobiographical Fragments FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS (1793–1835) The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in
New England SUPPLEMENTAL EBOOK CONTENTS
JOANNA BAILLIE (1762–1851)
A Winter’s Day
A Mother to Her Waking Infant
Up! quit thy bower
Song: Woo’d and married and a’ Address to a Steam Vessel  COMPLETE LONGER WORK
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ROMANTIC ORIENTALISM
TINTERN ABBEY, TOURISM,
AND ROMANTIC LANDSCAPE
FRANCES SHERIDAN: The History of Nourjahad
SIR WILLIAM JONES: The Palace of Fortune, An
Indian Tale Written in the Year 1769
SIR WILLIAM JONES: A Hymn to Narayena
CLARA REEVE: The History of Charoba, Queen of
Ægypt
WILLIAM BECKFORD: From Vathek
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR: Gebir: A Poem in Seven Books
ROBERT SOUTHEY: The Curse of Kehama
GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON: From The
Giaour: A Fragment of a Turkish Tale
THOMAS MOORE: Lalla Rookh: An Oriental
Romance
Beauties of Claude Lorrain
THOMAS GRAY: Journal in the Lakes
WILLIAM GILPIN: Observations on the River Wye
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH: Guide to the Lakes
JOHN KEATS: Letter to Tom Keats, June 25–27, 1818
EDMUND BURKE: From A Philosophical Enquiry
into the Origins of Our Ideas of the Sublime
and Beautiful
THE SATANIC AND BYRONIC HERO
JOHN MILTON: From Paradise Lost
WILLIAM BLAKE: From The Marriage of Heaven
and Hell
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY: From A Defence of Poetry
WILLIAM HAZLITT: From Lectures on the English
Poets
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY: From Preface to
Prometheus Unbound
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE: From The
Statesman’s Manual
ANN RADCLIFFE: From The Italian, or The
Confessional of the Black Penitents
GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON: From Lara
GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON: From The
Giaour: A Fragment of a Turkish Tale
LADY CAROLINE LAMB: From Glenarvon
JOHN POLIDORI: From The Vampyre: A Tale
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH: Sonnet (“Look now on
that Adventurer who hath paid”)
GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON: From Ode to
Napoleon Buonaparte
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION:
APOCALYPTIC EXPECTATIONS
The Revelation of St. John the Divine
RICHARD PRICE: A Discourse on the Love of Our
Country
JOSEPH PRIESTLEY: The Present State of Europe
WILLIAM BLAKE: From The French Revolution: A
Poem in Seven Books
WILLIAM BLAKE: From America, A Prophecy
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH: From Descriptive
Sketches
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH: From The Excursion
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE: Religious Musings
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY: From Queen Mab
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THE ART OF ROMANTIC POETRY
WILLIAM BLAKE
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE: Spontaneous and
Controlled Composition
LORD BYRON
EDWARD J. TRELAWNY: Shelley on Composing
THOMAS MEDWIN: Shelley’s Self-Hypercriticism
RICHARD WOODHOUSE: Keats on Composing
THE VICTORIAN AGE
THOMAS CARLYLE (1795–1881)
Carlyle’s Portraits of His Contemporaries
Daniel Webster at 57
Ralph Waldo Emerson at 30
Emerson at 44
Bronson Alcott at 42
Queen Victoria at 18
King William IV at 69
Samuel Taylor Coleridge at 53
William Wordsworth in His Seventies
Alfred Tennyson at 34
Charles Lamb at 56
William Makepeace Thackeray at 42
From Characteristics
From Sartor Resartus: Natural Supernaturalism
The French Revolution
September in Paris
Place de la Revolution
From Cause and Effect
* NEW AUTHOR OR WORK
JOHN HENRY CARDINAL NEWMAN
(1801–1890)
Doubt and Faith
Apologia Pro Vita Sua
From Chapter 1. History of My Religious
Opinions to the Year 1833
From Chapter 3. History of My Religious
Opinions from 1839 to 1841
From Chapter 5. Position of My Mind Since
1845
From Liberalism
JOHN STUART MILL (1806–1873)
From Coleridge
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING (1806–1861)
A Year’s Spinning
A Musical Instrument
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON (1809–1892)
The Kraken
St. Agnes’ Eve
Move Eastward, Happy Earth
You Ask Me, Why, Though Ill at Ease
Come Down, O Maid
Lines
Sweet and Low
The Splendor Falls
Ask Me No More
The Eagle: A Fragment
Maud
Part 1
6.5 (“Ah, what shall I be at fifty”)
6.8 (“Perhaps the smile and tender tone”)
6.10 (“I have played with her when a child”)
8 (“She came to the village church”)
11 (“O let the solid ground”)
12 (“Birds in the high Hall-garden”)
16.3 (“Catch not my breath, O clamorous
heart”)
18 (“I have led her home, my love, my only
friend”)
Part 2
4 (“O that ’twere possible”)
Idylls of the King
Dedication
Pelleas and Ettarre
A Dedication
In the Valley of Cauteretz
Flower in the Crannied Wall
The Passing of Arthur
I Stood on a Tower
Northern Farmer
New Style
 COMPLETE LONGER WORK
The Revenge
Rizpah
To Virgil
The Dawn
“Frater Ave atque Vale”
In Love, If Love Be Love
To E. FitzGerald
Locksley Hall Sixty Years After
By an Evolutionist
Crossing the Bar
June Bracken and Heather
The Silent Voices
Sonnet
EDWARD FITZGERALD (1809–1883)
*The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
SUPPLEMENTAL EBOOK CONTENTS
TOPICS
CHARLES DICKENS (1812–1870)
A Visit to Newgate
Martin Chuzzlewit
Mrs. Gamp and Mr. Mould
David Copperfield
The Journey to Salem House School
The Journey from London to Dover
Bleak House
In Chancery
Hard Times
The One Thing Needful
Murdering the Innocents
[Coketown]
Our Mutual Friend
Podsnappery
ROBERT BROWNING (1812–1889)
The Laboratory
Home-Thoughts, from Abroad
Home-Thoughts, from the Sea
Meeting at Night
Parting at Morning
Memorabilia
The Last Ride Together
Two in the Campagna
Women and Roses
A Toccata of Galuppi’s
A Woman’s Last Word
Up at a Villa—Down in the City in a Year
Respectability
A Grammarian’s Funeral An Epistle Containing the Strange Medical
Experience of Karshish, the Arab
Physician Confessions
Prospice
Dîs Aliter Visum; or, Le Byron de Nos Jours
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Youth and Art
Apparent Failure
Abt Volger The Householder
House
To Edward FitzGerald
Epilogue to Asolando ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH (1819–1861)
From Dipsychus: I Dreamt a Dream
“There Is No God,” the Wicked Saith
GEORGE ELIOT (1819–1880)
The Mill on the Floss
Book First. Boy and Girl
Chapter 1. Outside Dorlcote Mill
Chapter 2. Mr. Tulliver, of Dorlcote
Mill, Declares His Resolution about
Tom
Chapter 3. Mr. Riley Gives His Advice
Concerning a School for Tom
Chapter 4. Tom Is Expected
Chapter 5. Tom Comes Home
JOHN RUSKIN (1819–1900)
The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century
From Lectures on Art: Imperial Duty
MATTHEW ARNOLD (1822–1888)
Shakespeare
The Forsaken Merman
In Harmony with Nature
To a Friend
Memorial Verses
Isolation. To Marguerite
To Marguerite—Continued
Stanzas in Memory of the Author of
Obermann
Longing
Requiescat
Philomela
Thyrsis
From On the Study of Celtic Literature: The
Function of a Professor
Palladium
The Better Part
Growing Old
From Maurice de Guérin: A Definition of
Poetry
From Wordsworth
From The Function of Criticism at the Present
Time
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COVENTRY PATMORE (1823–1896)
The Angel in the House
The Spirit’s Epochs
The Kiss
The Unknown Eros
Magna Est Veritas
A Farewell
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY (1825–1895)
From A Liberal Education: A Game of Chess
An Address on University Education
[The Function of a Professor]
GEORGE MEREDITH (1828–1909)
Modern Love
1 (“By this he knew she wept with making
eyes”)
2 (“It ended, and the morrow brought the
task”)
3 (“This was the woman; what now of the
man?”)
15 (“I think she sleeps; it must be sleep,
when low”)
16 (“In our old shipwrecked days there was
an hour”)
17 (At dinner, she is hostess, I am host”)
23 (“’Tis Christmas weather, and a country
house”)
35 (“It is no vulgar nature I have wived”)
42 (“I am to follow her. There is much grace”)
43 (“Mark where the pressing wind shoots
javelinlike”)
48 (“Their sense is with their senses all
mixed in”)
49 (“He found her by the ocean’s moaning
verge”)
50 (“Thus piteously Love closed what he
begat”)
Dirge in Woods
Lucifer in Starlight
DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI (1828–1882)
The Woodspurge
The Sea-Limits
The House of Life
4. Lovesight
49. Willowwood-1
50. Willowwood-2
51. Willowwood-3
52. Willowwood-4
63. Inclusiveness
71. The Choice-I
72. The Choice-II
73. The Choice-III
97. A Superscription
* NEW AUTHOR OR WORK
101. The One Hope
She Bound Her Green Sleeve
The Orchard-Pit
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI (1830–1894)
Winter: My Secret
WILLIAM MORRIS (1834–1896)
Christ Keep the Hollow Land
The Haystack in the Floods
I Know a Little Garden-Close
From The Earthly Paradise: An Apology
A Death Song
For the Bed at Kelmscott
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE (1837–1909)
In the Orchard (Provençal Burden)
Choruses from Atalanta in Calydon
When the Hounds of Spring
Before the Beginning of Years
In Memory of Walter Savage Landor
An Interlude
The Garden of Proserpine
From The Triumph of Time: I Will Go Back to
the Great Sweet Mother
The Lake of Gaube
WALTER PATER (1839–1894)
From Appreciations: Style
From The Child in the House
LIGHT VERSE
EDWARD LEAR (1812–1888) Limerick (“There was an Old Man who
supposed”) The Jumblies LEWIS CARROLL (1832–1898)
Jabberwocky
[Humpty Dumpty’s Explication of
“Jabberwocky”]
The White Knight’s Song
The Walrus and the Carpenter
From The Hunting of the Snark: The Baker’s
Tale
Anagrammatic Sonnet
W. S. GILBERT (1836–1911)
When I, Good Friends, Was Called to the Bar
If You’re Anxious for to Shine in the High
Aesthetic Line
When Britain Really Ruled the Waves
 COMPLETE LONGER WORK
*VICTORIAN ISSUES: EDUCATION
DICKENS: From Hard Times
CARROLL: From Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
HUGHES: From Tom Brown’s School Days
The Education Department of the Committee of
Council: From The New Code of 1879
THOMPSON: From Lark Rise
The University of London: From Statement by the
Council of the University of London Explanatory
of the Nature and Objects of the Institution
KINGSLEY: From Alton Locke
NEWMAN: From Preface to The Idea of a University
MAURICE: From Learning and Working
From The Studies in a Working College
From The Teachers in a Working College
COBBE: The Education of Women, and How It
Would be Affected by University
Examinations
MILL: From Inaugural Address Delivered to the
University of St. Andrews
GISSING: From Born in Exile
HARDY: From Jude the Obscure
SUPPLEMENTAL EBOOK CONTENTS
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY (1849–1903)
In Hospital Invictus Madam Life’s a Piece in Bloom
Barmaid
OSCAR WILDE (1854–1900)
Hélas
E Tenebris
Sonnet: On the Sale by Auction of Keats’ Love
Letters
Symphony in Yellow
FRANCIS THOMPSON (1859–1907)
The Kingdom of God
The Hound of Heaven
TOPICS
INDUSTRIALISM: PROGRESS OR DECLINE?
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING: Cry of the
Children
ELIZABETH GASKELL: From Mary Barton
HENRY MAYHEW: London Labour . . .
London Poor
WILLIAM BOOTH: In Darkest England and the
Way Out
ANNIE BESANT: White Slavery in London
C. DUNCAN LUCAS: Scenes from Factory in
London
ADA NIELD CHEW: Letter of a Factory Girl
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Before the Sadler Committee
CHARLES DICKENS: Railway Construction in a
London Suburb
CHARLES DICKENS: A Journey by Railway
KARL MARX AND FRIEDRICH ENGELS:
Bourgeois and Proletarians
HERBERT SPENCER: Progress Through
Individual Enterprise
THE WOMAN QUESTION
JOHN RUSKIN: From Of Queen’s Gardens
CHARLOTTE BRONTË: From Jane Eyre
ELIZABETH EASTLAKE: Lady Travellers
ELIZA LYNN LINTON: The Girl of the Period
GEORGE GISSING: From The Odd Women
HENRY MAYHEW: The Life of a Coster Girl
HENRY MAYHEW: Interview of a Trousers Hand
THE PAINTERLY IMAGE IN POETRY
ARTHUR HENRY HALLAM: From On Some of the
Characteristics of Modern Poetry, and on the Lyrical Poems of Alfred Tennyson
The Illustrated Text
Prose Descriptions of Paintings
VICTORIAN IMPERIALISM
EDWARD TAYLOR: Primitive Culture
BENJAMIN KIDD: The Control of the Tropics
J. J. THOMAS: Froudacity
CHARLOTTE BRONTË: From Jane Eyre
ANNA LEONOWENS: The English Governess at the Siamese Court
JOSEPHINE BUTLER: Our Indian Fellow Subjects
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY: Minute on
Indian Education
RUDYARD KIPLING: The White Man’s Burden
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN: The True Conception of
Empire
ELIZA COOK: The Englishman
CHARLES MACKAY: Songs from “The Emigrants” THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
AND AFTER
THOMAS HARDY (1840–1928)
I Look in to My Glass
A Broken Appointment
She Hears the Storm
The Workbox
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS (1844–1889)
The Lantern out of Doors
Inversnaid
JOSEPH CONRAD (1857–1924)
Youth
The Brute
RUDYARD KIPLING (1865–1936)
Harp Song of the Dane Women
ERNEST DOWSON (1867–1900)
To One in Bedlam
A Last Word
Spleen
Flos Lunae
Dregs
Exchanges
Carthusians
LIONEL JOHNSON (1867–1902)
The Precept of Silence
Mystic and Cavalier
The Dark Angel
EDWARD THOMAS (1878–1917) Tears The Path
The Gallows
Ambition
A Private
RICHARD MULCAHY (1886–1971)
On the Treaty Between Great Britain and
Ireland
RUPERT BROOKE (1887–1915)
Heaven
TOPICS
REPRESENTING THE GREAT WAR
H. V. MORTON: From The Heart of London
JESSIE POPE: The Call
JESSIE POPE: War Girls
EZRA POUND: From Hugh Selwyn Mauberly
W. B. YEATS: From Preface to The Oxford Book of
Modern Verse
W. B. YEATS: An Irish Airman Foresees His Death
CHARLOTTE MEW: The Cenotaph
SIR HENRY NEWBOLT: Vitai Lampada
SIEGFRIED SASSOON: Finished with the War:
A Soldier’s Declaration
IMAGINING IRELAND
Easter 1916 Proclamation of an Irish Republic
Proclamation of Irish Independence
SEAN O’CASEY: The Plough and the Stars
MARTIN MCDONAGH: The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Scenes 1 and 2
FIONA BARR: The Wall-Reader
MICHAEL LONMGLEY: Ceasefire “Declaration of
Support” from The Good Friday Agreement
POEMS IN PROCESS
John Milton
Lycidas
Alexander Pope
The Rape of the Lock
An Essay on Man
William Blake
The Tyger
William Wordsworth
She dwelt among the untrodden ways
Lord Byron
Don Juan
Canto 3, Stanza 9
Canto 14, Stanza 95
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Lady of Shalott
Tithonus
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord
SUPPLEMENTAL EBOOK CONTENTS
PARLIAMENTARY TESTIMONY:
EVIDENCE GIVEN
BIBLIOGRAPHIES
MODERNIST EXPERIMENT
Blast Manifesto
F. T. MARINETTI: Futurist Manifesto
MINA LOY: Brancusi’s Golden Bird
HENRI GAUDIER-BRZESKA: Vortex Gaudier Brzeska
WYNDHAM LEWIS: The Cubist Room
NATIVISM AND GLOBALISM IN A
POSTCOLONIAL WORLD
LOUISE BENNETT: Anancy and Dialect Verse
HOMI K. BHABHA: The Vernacular
Cosmopolitan
ONWUCHEWKA JEMIE CHINWEIZA and
IHECHUKWU MADUBUIKE: Towards a
Decolonization of African Literature
WOLE SOYINKA: Neo-Tarzanism: The Poetics of
Pseudo-Tradition
DEREK WALCOTT: The Muse of History
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU (1889–1964)
Tryst with Destiny
JAMES MORRIS
The Partition of India
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