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ISBN: 9780393928310 | 0393928314
Edition: 8th
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Publisher: W W NORTON
Pub. Date: 4/17/2006

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SummaryTable of Contents
The classic survey of English literature in a vibrant new edition, with Stephen Greenblatt as general editor. A legendary bestseller for more than forty years, The Norton Anthology of English Literature is the classic survey to the field from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century. With more than ninety authors, the Major Authors Edition deepens its representation of essential works in all genres, ranging from Seamus Heaney's award-winning translation of Beowulf and Shakespeare's Twelfth Night to the greats of the nineteenth century--Blake... MORE
PREFACE TO THE EIGHTH EDITIONxix
ACKNOWLEDGMENTSxxix
The Romantic Period (1785-1830)1363(522)
Introduction
1363(22)
... MORE
Timeline
1385(3)
ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD (1743-1825)
1388(9)
The Mouse's Petition
1389(1)
A Summer Evening's Meditation
1390(3)
The Rights of Woman
1393(1)
To a Little Invisible Being Who Is Expected Soon to Become Visible
1394(1)
Washing-Day
1395(2)
CHARLOTTE SMITH (1749-1806)
1397(9)
ELEGIAC SONNETS
1398(8)
Written at the Close of Spring
1398(1)
To Sleep
1398(1)
To Night
1398(1)
Written in the Church-Yard at Middleton in Sussex
1399(1)
On Being Cautioned against Walking on an Headland Overlooking the Sea, Because It Was Frequented by a Lunatic
1399(1)
The Sea View
1400(1)
The Emigrants
1400(6)
WILLIAM BLAKE (1757-1827)
1406(35)
There Is No Natural Religion [a]
1409(1)
There Is No Natural Religion [h]
1410(1)
SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND OF EXPERIENCE
1410(31)
Songs of Innocence
1410(6)
Introduction
1410(2)
The Echoing Green
1412(1)
The Lamb
1412(1)
The Little Black Boy
1413(1)
The Chimney Sweeper
1414(1)
The Divine Image
1414(1)
Holy Thursday
1415(1)
Nurse's Song
1415(1)
Infant Joy
1416(1)
Songs of Experience
1416(9)
Introduction
1416(1)
Earth's Answer
1417(1)
The Clod & the Pebble
1418(1)
Holy Thursday
1419(1)
The Chimney Sweeper
1419(1)
Nurse's Song
1419(1)
The Sick Rose
1420(1)
The Tyger
1420(1)
My Pretty Rose Tree
1421(1)
Ah Sun-flower
1422(1)
The Garden of Love
1422(1)
London
1422(1)
The Human Abstract
1423(1)
Infant Sorrow
1424(1)
A Poison Tree
1424(1)
To Tirzah
1424(1)
A Divine Image
1425(1)
The Book of Thel
1425(5)
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
1430(11)
ROBERT BURNS (1759-1796)
1441(15)
Holy Willie's Prayer
1443(3)
To a Mouse
1446(1)
To a Louse
1447(2)
Tam o' Shanter: A Tale
1449(5)
A Red, Red Rose
1454(1)
Song: For a' that and a' that
1454(2)
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT (1759-1797)
1456(28)
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
1459(25)
Introduction
1459(3)
Chap. 2. The Prevailing Opinion of a Sexual Character Discussed
1462(15)
From Chap. 4. Observations on the State of Degradation to Which Woman Is Reduced by Various Causes
1477(7)
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (1770-1850)
1484(109)
LYRICAL BALLADS
1487(61)
We Are Seven
1487(2)
Lines Written in Early Spring
1489(1)
Expostulation and Reply
1489(1)
The Tables Turned
1490(1)
Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey
1491(4)
Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1802)
1495(12)
[The Subject and Language of Poetry]
1496(6)
["What Is a Poet?"]
1502(4)
["Emotion Recollected in Tranquillity"]
1506(1)
Strange fits of passion have I known
1507(1)
She dwelt among the untrodden ways
1508(1)
Three years she grew
1509(1)
A slumber did my spirit seal
1510(1)
I travelled among unknown men
1510(1)
Nutting
1511(1)
The Ruined Cottage
1512(11)
Michael
1523(10)
Resolution and Independence
1533(4)
I wandered lonely as a cloud
1537(1)
My heart leaps up
1538(1)
Ode: Intimations of Immortality
1538(6)
Ode to Duty
1544(2)
The Solitary Reaper
1546(1)
Elegiac Stanzas
1547(1)
SONNETS
1548(4)
Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3,1802
1548(1)
It is a beauteous evening
1549(1)
London, 1802
1549(1)
The world is too much with us
1550(1)
Surprised by joy
1550(1)
Mutability
1551(1)
Steamboats, Viaducts, and Railways
1551(1)
The Prelude, or Growth of a Poet's Mind
1552(41)
Book First. Introduction, Childhood, and School-time
1553(14)
Book Second. School-time continued
1567(10)
Book Fifth. Books
1577(2)
[The Boy of Winander]
1577(2)
Book Sixth. Cambridge, and the Alps
1579(3)
["Human Nature Seeming Born Again"]
1579(1)
[Crossing Simplon Pass]
1579(3)
Book Tenth. France continued
1582(3)
[The Revolution: Paris and England]
1582(2)
[The Reign of Terror. Nightmares]
1584(1)
Book Twelfth. Imagination and Taste, how impaired and restored
1585(3)
[Spots of Time]
1585(3)
Book Fourteenth. Conclusion
1588(71)
[The Vision on Mount Snowdon]
1588(3)
[Conclusion: "The Mind of Man"]
1591(2)
DOROTHY WORDSWORTH (1771-1855)
1593(16)
From The Alfoxden Journal
1594(2)
From The Grasmere Journals
1596(10)
Grasmere A Fragment
1606(2)
Thoughts on My Sick-Bed
1608(1)
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE (1772-1834)
1609(62)
The Eolian Harp
1612(1)
This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison
1613(2)
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
1615(17)
Kubla Khan
1632(2)
Christabel
1634(16)
Frost at Midnight
1650(2)
Dejection: An Ode
1652(3)
The Pains of Sleep
1655(1)
To William Wordsworth
1656(3)
Epitaph
1659(1)
Biographia Literaria
1659(12)
Chapter 4
1660(3)
[Mr. Wordsworth's earlier poems]
1660(2)
[On fancy and imagination—the investigation of the distinction important to the fine arts]
1662(1)
Chapter 13
1663(1)
[On the imagination, or esemplastic power]
1663(1)
Chapter 14. Occasion of the Lyrical Ballads, and the objects originally proposed—preface to the second edition—the ensuing controversy, its causes and acrimony—philosophic definitions of a poem and poetry with scholia.
1664(5)
Chapter 17
1669(12)
[Examination of the tenets peculiar to Mr. Wordsworth]
1669(1)
[Rustic life (above all, low and rustic life) especially unfavorable to the formation of a human diction—the best parts of language the products of philosophers, not clowns or shepherds]
1669(1)
[The language of Milton as much the language of real life, yea, incomparably more so than that of the cottager]
1670(1)
GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON (1788-1824)
1671(60)
Written after Swimming from Sestos to Abydos
1676(1)
She walks in beauty
1676(1)
They say that Hope is happiness
1677(1)
When we two parted
1678(1)
Darkness
1678(2)
So, we'll go no more a roving
1680(1)
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
1681(50)
Canto 1
1682(1)
["Sin's Long Labyrinth"'
1682(1)
Canto 3
1683(7)
["Once More Upon the Waters"]
1683(4)
[Waterloo]
1687(3)
Don Juan
1690(1)
Fragment
1691(1)
Canto 1
1691(27)
[Juan and Donna Julia]
1691(27)
Canto 2
1718(27)
[Juan and Haidee]
1718(13)
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (1792-1822)
1731(67)
Mutability
1734(1)
To Wordsworth
1735(1)
Mont Blanc
1735(4)
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
1739(2)
Ozymandias
1741(1)
A Song: "Men of England"
1741(1)
England in 1819
1742(1)
Ode to the West Wind
1743(2)
Prometheus Unbound
1745(22)
Preface
1746(3)
From Act 1
1749(5)
Act 2
1754(7)
Scene 4
1754(4)
Scene 5
1758(3)
Act 3
1761(5)
Scene 1
1761(2)
From Scene 4
1763(3)
From Act 4
1766(1)
The Cloud
1767(2)
To a Sky-Lark
1769(3)
Adonais
1772(13)
From A Defence of Poetry
1785(13)
JOHN CLARE (1793-1864)
1798(11)
The Nightingale's Nest
1799(2)
Pastoral Poesy
1801(3)
[Mouse's Nest]
1804(1)
A Vision
1804(1)
I Am
1805(1)
An Invite to Eternity
1806(1)
Clock a Clay
1807(1)
The Peasant Poet
1807(1)
Song [I hid my love]
1808(1)
Song [I peeled bits o' straws]
1808(1)
FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS (1793-1835)
1809(11)
England's Dead
1810(2)
Casabianca
1812(1)
The Homes of England
1813(1)
A Spirit's Return
1814(6)
JOHN KEATS (1795-1821)
1820(65)
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
1822(1)
Sleep and Poetry
1823(2)
[O for Ten Years]
1823(2)
On Seeing the Elgin Marbles
1825(1)
Endymion: A Poetic Romance
1825(43)
Preface
1825(1)
Book 1
1826(3)
[A Thing of Beauty]
1826(1)
[The "Pleasure Thermometer"]
1827(2)
On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again
1829(1)
When I have fears that I may cease to be
1830(1)
To Homer
1830(1)
The Eve of St. Agnes
1830(10)
Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art
1840(1)
La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad
1840(2)
Sonnet to Sleep
1842(1)
Ode to Psyche
1843(2)
Ode to a Nightingale
1845(2)
Ode on a Grecian Urn
1847(1)
Ode on Melancholy
1848(2)
Ode on Indolence
1850(1)
Lamia
1851(16)
To Autumn
1867(1)
LETTERS
1868(38)
To Benjamin Bailey (Nov. 22, 1817)
1869(2)
To George and Thomas Keats (Dec. 21, 27 [?], 1817)
1871(1)
To John Hamilton Reynolds (Feb. 3, 1818)
1872(1)
To John Taylor (Feb. 27, 1818)
1873(1)
To John Hamilton Reynolds (May 3, 1818)
1874(2)
To Richard Woodhouse (Oct. 27, 1818)
1876(1)
To George and Georgiana Keats (Feb. 14—May 3, 1819)
1877(4)
To Fanny Brawne (July 25, 1819)
1881(1)
To Percy Bysshe Shelley (Aug. 16, 1820)
1882(1)
To Charles Brown (Nov. 30, 1820)
1883(2)
The Victorian Age (1830-1901)1885(408)
Introduction
1885(21)
Timeline
1906(15)
THOMAS CARLYLE (1795-1881)
1908(13)
Past and Present
1912(14)
Democracy
1912(4)
Captains of Industry
1916(5)
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING (1806-1861)
1921(27)
The Cry of the Children
1922(4)
Sonnets from the Portuguese
1926(1)
21 ("Say over again, and yet once over again")
1926(1)
22 ("When our two souls stand up erect and strong")
1926(1)
32 ("The first time that the sun rose on thine oath")
1926(1)
43 ("How do I love thee? Let me count the ways")
1927(1)
The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point
1927(7)
Aurora Leigh
1934(14)
Book 1
1934(5)
[The Education of Aurora Leigh]
1934(5)
Book 2
1939(7)
[Aurora's Aspirations]
1939(3)
[Aurora's Rejection of Romney]
1942(4)
Book 5
1946(78)
[Poets and the Present Age]
1946(2)
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON (1809-1892)
1948(88)
Mariana
1951(2)
The Lady of Shalott
1953(5)
The Lotos-Eaters
1958(4)
Ulysses
1962(2)
Tithonus
1964(2)
Break, Break, Break
1966(1)
Locksley Hall
1966(6)
From In Memoriam A.H.H.
1972(51)
The Charge of the Light Brigade
2023(1)
IDYLLS OF THE KING
2024(12)
The Passing of Arthur
2025(10)
Crossing the Bar
2035(1)
ELIZABETH GASKELL (1810-1865)
2036(15)
The Old Nurse's Story
2037(14)
ROBERT BROWNING (1812-1889)
2051(40)
Porphyria's Lover
2054(2)
Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister
2056(2)
My Last Duchess
2058(1)
The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church
2059(3)
Love among the Ruins
2062(2)
"Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came"
2064(6)
Fra Lippo Lippi
2070(8)
Andrea del Sarto
2078(6)
Caliban upon Setebos
2084(7)
MATTHEW ARNOLD (1822-1888)
2091(47)
To Marguerite—Continued
2096(1)
The Buried Life
2096(2)
The Scholar Gypsy
2098(7)
Dover Beach
2105(1)
Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse
2106(6)
From The Function of Criticism at the Present Time
2112(14)
Culture and Anarchy
2126(1)
From Chapter 1. Sweetness and Light
2126(1)
From The Study of Poetry
2127(11)
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI (1830-1894)
2138(20)
Song ("She sat and sang alway")
2139(1)
Song ("When I am dead, my dearest")
2139(1)
After Death
2140(1)
Dead before Death
2140(1)
Cobwebs
2140(1)
A Triad
2141(1)
In an Artist's Studio
2141(1)
A Birthday
2142(1)
An Apple-Gathering
2142(1)
Up-Hill
2143(1)
Goblin Market
2143(12)
"No, Thank You, John"
2155(1)
Promises Like Pie-Crust
2156(1)
Cardinal Newman
2157(1)
Sleeping at Last
2157(1)
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS (1844-1889)
2158(10)
God's Grandeur
2160(1)
The Starlight Night
2161(1)
As Kingfishers Catch Fire
2161(1)
Spring
2161(1)
The Windhover
2162(1)
Pied Beauty
2162(1)
Hurrahing in Harvest
2163(1)
Binsey Poplars
2163(1)
Duns Scotus's Oxford
2164(1)
Felix Randal
2165(1)
Spring and Fall: to a young child
2165(1)
[Carrion Comfort]
2166(1)
No worst, there is none
2166(1)
I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day
2167(1)
Thou art indeed just, Lord
2167(1)
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894)
2168(43)
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
2169(42)
OSCAR WILDE (1854-1900)
2211(53)
The Critic as Artist
2212(1)
[Criticism Itself an Art]
2212(8)
Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray
2220(1)
The Importance of Being Earnest
2221(43)
RUDYARD KIPLING (1865-1936)
2264(29)
The Man Who Would Be King
2265(24)
The White Man's Burden
2289(1)
If—
2290(3)
The Twentieth Century and After2293
Introduction
2293(21)
Timeline
2314(3)
THOMAS HARDY (1840-1928)
2317(9)
Hap
2318(1)
Neutral Tones
2319(1)
Drummer Hodge
2319(1)
The Darkling Thrush
2320(1)
The Ruined Maid
2321(1)
Channel Firing
2321(2)
The Convergence of the Twain
2323(1)
Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?
2324(1)
In Time of The Breaking of Nations'
2325(1)
He Never Expected Much
2325(1)
JOSEPH CONRAD (1857-1924)
2326(60)
Heart of Darkness
2328(58)
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS (1865-1939)
2386(37)
The Stolen Child
2389(1)
The Rose of the World
2390(1)
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
2391(1)
The Sorrow of Love
2391(1)
When You Are Old
2392(1)
Who Goes with Fergus?
2392(1)
The Man Who Dreamed of Faeryland
2392(2)
Adam's Curse
2394(1)
No Second Troy
2395(1)
The Fascination of What's Difficult
2395(1)
A Coat
2395(1)
September 1913
2396(1)
Easter, 1916
2397(2)
The Wild Swans at Goole
2399(1)
In Memory of Major Robert Gregory
2400(2)
The Second Coming
2402(1)
A Prayer for My Daughter
2403(2)
Leda and the Swan
2405(1)
Sailing to Byzantium
2406(1)
Among School Children
2407(1)
A Dialogue of Self and Soul
2408(2)
Byzantium
2410(1)
Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop
2411(1)
Lapis Lazuli
2412(1)
Under Ben Bulben
2413(3)
The Circus Animals' Desertion
2416(1)
From Introduction [A General Introduction for My Work]
2417(6)
VIRGINIA WOOLF (1882-1941)
2423(75)
The Mark on the Wall
2424(5)
Modern Fiction
2429(6)
A Room of One's Own
2435(59)
Professions for Women
2494(4)
JAMES JOYCE (1882-1941)
2498(76)
Araby
2503(4)
The Dead
2507(28)
Ulysses
2535(39)
[Proteus]
2535(13)
[Lestrygonians]
2548(26)
D.H. LAWRENCE (1885-1930)
2574(33)
Odour of Chrysanthemums
2576(14)
The Horse Dealer's Daughter
2590(11)
Why the Novel Matters
2601(4)
Piano
2605(1)
Snake
2605(2)
T.S. ELIOT (1888-1965)
2607(38)
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
2610(4)
The Waste Land
2614(14)
The Hollow Men
2628(3)
Journey of the Magi
2631(1)
FOUR QUARTETS
2632(13)
Little Gidding
2632(7)
Tradition and the Individual Talent
2639(6)
KATHERINE MANSFIELD (1888-1923)
2645(10)
The Garden Party
2646(9)
JEAN RHYS (1890-1979)
2655(6)
The Day They Burned the Books
2657(4)
SAMUEL BECKETT (1906-1989)
2661(28)
Endgame
2662(27)
W.H. AUDEN (1907-1973)
2689(16)
Lullaby
2690(1)
As I Walked Out One Evening
2691(2)
Musée des Beaux Arts
2693(1)
In Memory of W.B. Yeats
2693(3)
The Unknown Citizen
2696(1)
September 1,1939
2696(3)
In Praise of Limestone
2699(2)
The Shield of Achilles
2701(4)
[Poetry as Memorable Speech]
2703(2)
DYLAN THOMAS (1914-1953)
2705(5)
The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower
2706(1)
Poem in October
2707(1)
Fern Hill
2708(2)
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
2710(1)
PHILIP LARKIN (1922-1985)
2710(8)
Church Going
2711(2)
MC MXIV
2713(1)
Talking in Bed
2714(1)
Ambulances
2714(1)
High Windows
2715(1)
Homage to a Government
2715(1)
This Be The Verse
2716(1)
Aubade
2716(2)
NADINE GORDIMER (b. 1923)
2718(4)
The Moment before the Gun Went Off
2718(4)
BRIAN FRIEL (b. 1929)
2722(48)
Translations
2724(46)
DEREK WALCOTT (h. 1930)
2770
A Far Cry from Africa
2771(1)
The Schooner Flight
2772(1)
1 Adios, Carenage
2772(1)
The Season of Phastasmal Peace
2773(1)
OMEROS
2774(3)
1.3.3 ["'Mais qui ça qui rivait-'ous, Philoctete?'"]
2774(1)
6.49.1-2 ["She bathed him in the brew of the root. The basin"]
2775(2)
ALICE MUNRO (b. 1931)
2777(11)
Walker Brothers Cowboy
2778(10)
SEAMUS HEANEY (b. 1939)
2788(15)
Digging
2789(1)
The Forge
2790(1)
The Grauballe Man
2791(1)
Punishment
2792(1)
Casualty
2793(3)
The Skunk
2796(1)
Station Island
2797(1)
12 ("Like a convalescent, I took the hand")
2797(1)
Clearances
2798(4)
The Sharping Stone
2802(1)
J.M. COETZEE (b. 1940)
2803(10)
From Waiting for the Barbarians
2804(9)
SALMAN RUSHDIE (b. 1947)
2813(11)
The Prophet's Hair
2815(9)
ANNE CARSON (b. 1950)
2824
The Glass Essay
2825(4)
Hero
2825(4)
Epitaph: Zion
2829(3129075)
POEMS IN PROCESSA1
William Blake
A2
The Tyger
A2
William Wordsworth
A4
She dwelt among the untrodden ways
A4
Lord Byron
A5
Don Juan
A5
Canto 3, Stanza 9
A5
Canto 14, Stanza 95
A6
Percy Bysshe Shelley
A7
O World, O Life, O Time
A7
John Keats
A9
The Eve of St. Agnes
A9
To Autumn
A10
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
A11
The Lady of Shalott
A11
Tithonus
A14
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A15
The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point
A15
Gerard Manley Hopkins
A18
Thou art indeed just, Lord
A18
William Butler Yeats
A19
The Sorrow of Love
A19
Leda and the Swan
A21
D.H. Lawrence
A23
The Piano
A23
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHIESA25
Suggested General Readings
A25
The Romantic Period
A28
The Victorian Age
A34
The Twentieth Century and After
A39
APPENDICES
Literary Terminology
A53
Geographic Nomenclature
A74
British Money
A76
The British Baronage
A81
The Royal Lines of England and Great Britain
A83
Religions in England
A86
Map: London in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
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Permissions AcknowledgmentsA91
IndexA95

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