The Norton anthology of English literature : the major authors
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Volume 1. The Middle Ages (to ca. 1485)

Introduction ; Timeline

Anglo-Saxon Literature

Bede (ca. 673-735) and Cædmon's Hymn. An Ecclesiastical History of the English People (The Story of Caedmon) ; The Dream of the Rood ; Beowulf / translated by Seamus Heaney ; The Wanderer ; The Wife's Lament

Irish Literature

Cúchulainn's Boyhood Deeds ; Early Irish Lyrics. The Scholar and His Cat ; The Scribe in the Woods ; The Lord of Creation ; My Hand Is Weary with Writing

Anglo-Norman Literature Romance

Marie De France. Lanval

Middle English Literature in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries

SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT (ca. 1375-1400) ; GEOFFREY CHAUCER (ca. 1343-1400). The Canterbury Tales. The General Prologue; Summary: The Knight's Tale; The Miller's Prologue and Tale. The Prologue; The Tale ; The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale. The Prologue; The Tale ; The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale. The Introduction; The Prologue; The Tale; The Epilogue ; The Nun's Priest's Tale ; [Close of Canterbury Tales] ; Chaucer's Retraction

Christ's Humanity

JULIAN OF NORWICH. A Book of Showings to the Anchoress Julian of Norwich. Chapter 5 [All Creation as a Hazelnut]; Chapter 7 [Christ as Homely and Courteous] ; MARGERY KEMPE. The Book of Margery Kempe. Book I.35-36 [Margery's Marriage to and Intimacy with Christ] ; MYSTERY PLAYS. The Wakefield Second Shepherds' Play ; SIR THOMAS MALORY (ca. 1405-1471). Morte Darthur. [The Conspiracy against Lancelot and Guinevere]; [War Breaks Out between Arthur and Lancelot]; [The Death of Arthur]; [The Deaths of Lancelot and Guinevere]

The Sixteenth Century (1485-1603)

Introduction ; Timeline ; SIR THOMAS WYATT THE ELDER (1503-1542). The long love that in my thought doth harbor; Petrarch, Rima 140; Whoso list to hunt; Petrarch, Rima 190; They flee from me'; Stand whoso list ; HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF SURREY (1517-1547). Love, that doth reign and live within my thought ; THE ENGLISH BIBLE. I Corinthians 13; From Tyndale's Translation; From The Geneva Bible; From The Douay-Rheims Version; From The Authorized (King James) Version ; ELIZABETH I (1533-1603). The doubt of future foes; On Monsieur's Departure; Verse Exchange between Elizabeth and Sir Walter Ralegh; Speech to the Troops at Tilbury; The "Golden Speech" ; EDMUND SPENSER (1552?-1599). The Faerie Queene. Book 1. Canto 1; From Canto 2. [Redcrosse Wins "Fidessa"]; Canto 3 Summary; From Canto 4. [The House of Pride]; Canto 5 Summary; Canto 6 Summary; Cantos 7 and 8 Summary; From Canto 9; From Canto 10; Canto 11; Canto 12 Summary; Book 2. Summary; From Canto 12. [The Bower of Bliss] ; Amoretti. Sonnet 1; Sonnet 34; Sonnet 54; Sonnet 64; Sonnet 67; Sonnet 75; Sonnet 79 ; Epithalamion ; SIR WALTER RALEGH (1552-1618). The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd; The History of the World. [Conclusion: On Death] ; SIR PHILIP SIDNEY (1554-1586]. Astrophil and Stella. 1 ("Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show"); 2 ("Not at first sight, nor with a dribbèd shot"); 6 ("Some lovers speak, when they their muses entertain"); 20 ("Fly, fly, my friends, I have my death-wound, fly"); 28 ("You that with allegory's curious frame"); 31 ("With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies"); 52 ("A strife is grown between Virtue and Love"); 71 ("Who will in fairest book of Nature know"); 72 ("Desire, though thou my old companion art"); 74 ("I never drank of Aganippe well"); 108 ("When Sorrow [using mine own fire's might]") ; MARY (SIDNEY) HERBERT, COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE (1562-1621). Psalm 52 ; CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE (1564-1593). The Passionate Shepherd to His Love; Doctor Faustus. The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616). Sonnets. 1 ("From fairest creatures we desire increase"); 12 ("When I do count the clock that tells the time"); 15 ("When I consider every thing that grows"); 18 ("Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"); 19 ("Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws"); 20 ("A woman's face with Nature's own hand painted"); 23 ("As an unperfect actor on the stage"); 29 ("When, in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes"); 30 ("When to the sessions of sweet silent thought"); 33 ("Full many a glorious morning have I seen"); 55 ("Not marble nor the gilded monuments"); 60 ("Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore"); 62 ("Sin of self-love possesseth all mine eye"); 65 ("Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea"); 71 ("No longer mourn for me when I am dead"); 73 ("That time of year thou may'st in me behold"); 80 ("O, how I faint when I of you do write"); 85 ("My tongue-tied muse in manners holds her still"); 87 ("Farewell: thou art too dear for my possessing"); 93 ("So shall I live supposing thou art true"); 94 ("They that have power to hurt and will do none"); 97 ("How like a winter hath my absence been"); 105 ("Let not my love be called idolatry"); 106 ("When in the chronicle of wasted time"); 116 ("Let me not to the marriage of true minds"); 129 ("Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame"); 130 ("My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun"); 135 ("Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy Will"); 138 ("When my love swears that she is made of truth"); 144 ("Two loves I have of comfort and despair"); 146 ("Poor soul, the center of my sinful earth"); 147 ("My love is as a fever, longing still"); 152 ("In loving thee thou know'st I am forsworn") ; Othello

The Early Seventeenth Century (1603-1660)

Introduction ; Timeline ; JOHN DONNE (1572-1631). Songs and Sonnets. The Flea; The Good-Morrow; Song ("Go and catch a falling star"); The Undertaking; The Sun Rising; The Indifferent; The Canonization; Air and Angels; Break of Day; A Valediction of Weeping; Love's Alchemy; A Nocturnal upon Saint Lucy's Day, Being the Shortest Day; The Apparition; A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning; The Ecstasy; The Funeral; The Relic ; Elegy 16. On His Mistress ; Elegy 19. To His Mistress Going to Bed ; Satire ; Holy Sonnets. 1 ("Thou hast made me, and shall thy work decay?"); 5 ("I am a little world made cunningly"); 7 ("At the round earth's imagined corners, blow"); 9 ("If poisonous minerals, and if that tree"); 10 ("Death, be not proud, though some have called thee"); 13 ("What if this present were the world's last night?"); 14 ("Batter my heart, three-personed God; for you"); 18 ("Show me, dear Christ, thy spouse so bright and clear"); 19 ("Oh, to vex me, contraries meet in one") ; Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward ; Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness ; A Hymn to God the Father ; Devotions upon Emergent Occasions. Meditation 4; Meditation 17 ; AEMILIA LANYER (1569-1645). Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum. To the Doubtful Reader; Eve's Apology in Defense of Women ; The Description of Cookham ; BEN JONSON (1572-1637). Epigrams. To My Book; On My First Daughter; To John Donne; On My First Son; On Lucy, Countess of Bedford; Inviting a Friend to Supper; Epitaph on S.P., a Child of Queen Elizabeth's Chapel ; The Forest. To Penshurst ; Underwood. From A Celebration of Charis in Ten Lyric Pieces; 4. Her Triumph ; Queen and Huntress ; To the Memory of My Beloved, The Author, Mr. William Shakespeare ; MARY WROTH (1587-1651?). Pamphilia to Amphilanthus. 1 ("When night's black mantle could most darkness prove"); 16 ("Am I thus conquered? Have I lost the powers"); 40 ("False hope which feeds but to destroy, and spill"); 68 ("My pain, still smothered in my grieved breast"); 74 Song ("Love a child is ever crying"); From A Crown of Sonnets Dedicated to Love; 77 ("In this strange labyrinth how shall I turn?") ; THOMAS HOBBES (1588-1679). Leviathan. Part I. Of Man. Chapter 13. Of the Natural Condition of Mankind as Concerning Their Felicity and Misery ; GEORGE HERBERT (1593-1633). The Temple. The Altar; Redemption; Easter Wings; Prayer (1); Jordan (1); The Windows; Time; The Collar; The Pulley; The Flower; Love (3) ; ROBERT HERRICK (1591-1674). Hesperides. The Argument of His Book; The Vine; Delight in Disorder; Corinna's Going A-Maying; To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time; Upon Julia's Clothes ; RICHARD LOVELACE (1618-1657). Lucasta. To Lucasta, Going to the Wars; To Althea, from Prison.

KATHERINE PHILIPS (1632-1664). A Married State; Upon the Double Murder of King Charles; Friendship's Mystery, To My Dearest Lucasta; On the Death of My First and Dearest Child, Hector Philips ; ANDREW MARVELL (1621-1678). To His Coy Mistress; The Definition of Love; The Mower to the Glowworms; The Mower's Song; The Garden; An Horatian Ode ; MARGARET CAVENDISH (1623-1673). From The Description of a New World, Called The Blazing World ; JOHN MILTON (1608-1674). Poems. On Shakespeare; L'Allegro; Il Penseroso; Lycidas ; From Areopagitica ; Sonnets. How Soon Hath Time; When I Consider How My Light Is Spent; On the Late Massacre in Piedmont; Methought I Saw My Late Espousèd Saint ; From Paradise Lost. The Verse; Book 1. The Argument; Book 2; From Book 3. [The Invocation, the Council in Heaven, and the Conclusion of Satan's Journey]; From Book 4. [Satan's Entry into Paradise; Adam and Eve in Their Bower]; From Book 5. [Eve's Dream; Trouble in Paradise]; [A Visit with the Angel. The Scale of Nature]; Book 6 Summary; From Book 7. [The Invocation]; From Book 8. [Adam Describes His Own Creation and That of Eve; Having Repeated His Warning, the Angel Departs]; Book 9; From Book 10. [Consequences of the Fall]; [Adam, Eve, and the First Steps to Redemption]; Book 11 Summary; From Book 12. [The Departure from Eden]

The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century (1660-1785)

Introduction ; Timeline ; JOHN DRYDEN (1631-1700). Absalom and Achitophel: A Poem; Mac Flecknoe; To the Memory of Mr. Oldham; A Song for St. Cecilia's Day; Criticism. An Essay of Dramatic Poesy. [Shakespeare and Ben Jonson Compared]; A Discourse Concerning the Original and Progress of Satire; [The Art of Satire] ; JOHN WILMOT, SECOND EARL OF ROCHESTER (1647-1680). The Disabled Debauchee; The Imperfect Enjoyment; Upon Nothing ; APHRA BEHN (1640?-1689). The Disappointment; Oroonoko; or, The Royal Slave ; JONATHAN SWIFT (1667-1745). A Description of a City Shower; Gulliver's Travels. A Letter from Captain Gulliver to His Cousin Sympson; The Publisher to the Reader; Part 1. A Voyage to Lilliput; Part 2. A Voyage to Brobdingnag; Part 3. A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdrib, Luggnagg, and Japan. Chapter 2 [The Flying Island of Laputa]; Chapter 5 [The Academy of Lagado]; Chapter 10 [The Struldbruggs]; Part 4. A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms; A Modest Proposal ; ALEXANDER POPE (1688-1744). An Essay on Criticism; The Rape of the Lock; An Essay on Man. Epistle 1. Of the Nature and State of Man, with Respect to the Universe; From Epistle 2. Of the Nature and State of Man with Respect to Himself, as an Individual; Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot; The Dunciad: Book the Fourth. [The Educator]; [The Triumph of Dulness] ; LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU (1689-1762). The Turkish Embassy Letters. ["The Women's Coffee House"; or, the Turkish Baths]; [The Turkish Method of Inoculation for the Small Pox]; Epistle from Mrs. Yonge to Her Husband ; WILLIAM HOGARTH (1697-1764). Marriage A-la-Mode ; SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-1784). The Vanity of Human Wishes; From The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; Rambler No. 4 [On Fiction]; Rambler No. 60 [Biography]; A Dictionary of the English Language. Preface; [Some Definitions: A Small Anthology]; The Preface to Shakespeare. [Shakespeare's Excellence. General Nature]; [Shakespeare's Faults. The Three Dramatic Unities]; [Othello]; Lives of the Poets. Milton. ["Lycidas"]; [Paradise Lost] ; JAMES BOSWELL (1740-1795). The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. [Plan of the Life]; [Johnson's Early Years. Marriage and London]; [The Letter to Chesterfield]; [A Memorable Year: Boswell Meets Johnson]; [Fear of Death]; [Johnson Faces Death] ; FRANCES BURNEY (1752-1840). The Journal and Letters. [First Journal Entry]; ["Down with her, Burney!"]; [Encountering the King]; [A Mastectomy]; [M. D'Arblay's Postscript] ; OLAUDAH EQUIANO (ca. 1745-1797). The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself. [The Middle Passage]; [A Free Man] ; THOMAS GRAY (1716-1771). Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat; Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard ; WILLIAM COLLINS (1721-1759). Ode on the Poetical Character; Ode to Evening ; Christopher Smart. Julilate Agno. [My Cat Jeoffry] ; WILLIAM COWPER (1731-1800). The Castaway.

Volume 2. The Romantic Period (1785-1832)

Introduction ; Timeline ; ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD (1743-1825). The Mouse's Petition; A Summer Evening's Meditation; The Rights of Woman; To a Little Invisible Being Who Is Expected Soon to Become Visible; Washing-Day ; CHARLOTTE SMITH (1749-1806). Elegiac Sonnets. Written at the Close of Spring; To Sleep; To Night; Written in the Church-Yard at Middleton in Sussex; On Being Cautioned against Walking on an Headland Overlooking the Sea, Because It Was Frequented by a Lunatic ; WILLIAM BLAKE (1757-1827). There Is No Natural Religion [a]; There Is No Natural Religion [b]; Songs of Innocence and of Experience; 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; Songs of Experience. Introduction; Earth's Answer; The Clod & the Pebble; Holy Thursday; The Chimney Sweeper; Nurse's Song; The Sick Rose; 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; The Book of Thel; The Marriage of Heaven and Hell ; ROBERT BURNS (1759-1796). Holy Willie's Prayer; To a Mouse; To a Louse; Auld Lang Syne; Tam o' Shanter: A Tale; A Red, Red Rose; Song: For a' that and a' that ; MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT (1759-1797). A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Introduction; Chapter 2. The Prevailing Opinion of a Sexual Character Discussed; From Chapter 4. Observations on the State of Degradation ... ; WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (1770-1850). Lyrical Ballads. We Are Seven; Lines Written in Early Spring; Expostulation and Reply; The Tables Turned; 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; Ode to Duty; The Solitary Reaper; Elegiac Stanzas; Sonnets. Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802; It is a beauteous evening; London, 1802; The world is too much with us; Surprised by joy; Mutability; Steamboats, Viaducts, and Railways; The Prelude. The Versions of the Prelude; The Crossing of the Alps. From 1805. Book Sixth; From 1850. Book Sixth; The Climbing of Snowdon. From 1805. Book Thirteenth; From 1850. Book Fourteenth; The 1805 Prelude; Book First. Introduction: Childhood and School-time; From Book Second. School-time (continued). [Boyhood Adventures; "Blest 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 Tenth. Residence in France and French Revolution. [Retrospect: First Impression of the Revolution; the Outbreak of War Between France and Britain]; [Crisis, Breakdown, 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; Thoughts on My Sick-Bed.

SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE (1772-1834). The Eolian Harp; The Lime-Tree Bower My Prison; The Rime of the Ancient Mariner; Kubla Khan; Christabel; Frost at Midnight; Dejection: An Ode; The Pains of Sleep; To William Wordsworth; Epitaph; Biographia Literaria. Chapter 4. [Mr. Wordsworth's earlier poems]; [On fancy and imagination-the investigation of the distinction important to the fine arts]; 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; 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] ; GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON (1788-1824). Written after Swimming from Sestos to Abydos; She Walks in Beauty; Stanzas for Music; When We Two Parted; Darkness; So we'll go no more a roving; Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto 1. ["Sin's Long Labyrinth"]; Canto 3. ["Once More upon the Waters"]; [Waterloo]; Don Juan. Fragment; Canto 1. [Juan and Donna Julia]; Canto 2. [Juan and Haidee] ; PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (1792-1822). Mutability; To Wordsworth; Mont Blanc; Hymn to Intellectual Beauty; Ozymandias; A Song: "Men of England"; England in 1819; Ode to the West Wind; Prometheus Unbound. Preface; From Act 1; Act 2. Scene 4; Scene 5; Act 3. Scene 1; From Scene 4; From Act 4; The Cloud; To a Sky-Lark; Adonais; From A Defence of Poetry ; JOHN CLARE (1793-1864). The Nightingale's Nest; Pastoral Poesy; [The Lament of Swordy Well]; [Mouse's Nest]; A Vision; I Am ; FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS (1793-1835). England's Dead; Casabianca; The Homes of England; Properzia Rossi; Indian Woman's Death Song ; JOHN KEATS (1795-1821). On First Looking into Chapman's Homer; Sleep and Poetry. ["O for Ten Years"]; On Seeing the Elgin Marbles; Endymion: A Poetic Romance. Preface; 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; Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art; La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad; Sonnet to Sleep; Ode to Psyche; Ode to a Nightingale; Ode on a Grecian Urn; Ode on Melancholy; Ode on Indolence; Lamia; To Autumn; 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"]; To Percy Bysshe Shelley (Aug. 16, 1820). ["Load Every Rift with Ore"]; To Charles Brown (Nov. 30, 1820). [Keats's Last Letter]

The Victorian Age (1830-1901)

Introduction ; Timeline ; THOMAS CARLYLE (1795-1881). Sartor Resartus. The Everlasting No; The Everlasting Yea ; Past and Present. Democracy; Captains of Industry ; ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING (1806-1861). The Cry of the Children; 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; Aurora Leigh. Book 1. [The Education of Aurora Leigh]; Book 2. [Aurora's Aspirations]; [Aurora's Rejection of Romney]; Book 5. [Poets and the Present Age] ; ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON (1809-1892). Mariana; The Lady of Shalott; The Lotos-Eaters; Ulysses; Tithonus; Break, Break, Break; Locksley Hall; From In Memoriam A.H.H.; The Charge of the Light Brigade; Idylls of the King; The Passing of Arthur ; Crossing the Bar ; ELIZABETH GASKELL (1810-1865). The Old Nurse's Story.

ROBERT BROWNING (1812-1889). Porphyria's Lover; Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister; My Last Duchess; 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 ; MATTHEW ARNOLD (1822-1888). To Marguerite-Continued; The Buried Life; The Scholar Gypsy; Dover Beach; Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse; From The Function of Criticism at the Present Time; Culture and Anarchy. From Chapter 1, Sweetness and Light ; From The Study of Poetry ; 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; Up-Hill; Goblin Market; "No, Thank You, John"; Promises Like Pie-Crust; Cardinal Newman; Sleeping at Last ; 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: to a young child; [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; From Journal ; ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894). The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ; OSCAR WILDE (1854-1900). The Critic as Artist. [Criticism Itself an Art] ; Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray; The Importance of Being Earnest ; RUDYARD KIPLING (1865-1936). The Man Who Would Be King; The White Man's Burden; If ...

The Twentieth Century and After

Introduction ; Timeline ; THOMAS HARDY (1840-1928). 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?; In Time of 'The Breaking of Nations'; He Never Expected Much ; JOSEPH CONRAD (1857-1924). Heart of Darkness ; WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS (1865-1939). The Stolen Child; 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; Easter, 1916; The Wild Swans at Coole; In Memory of Major Robert Gregory; 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; The Circus Animals' Desertion; From Introduction [A General Introduction for My Work] ; VIRGINIA WOOLF (1882-1941). The Mark on the Wall; Modern Fiction; Mrs. Dalloway; Professions for Women ; JAMES JOYCE (1882-1941). Araby; The Dead; Ulysses. [From Penelope] ; D.H. LAWRENCE (1885-1930). Odour of Chrysanthemums; The Horse Dealer's Daughter; Why the Novel Matters; Piano; Snake ; T.S. ELIOT (1888-1965). The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock; The Waste Land; The Hollow Men; Journey of the Magi; Four Quartets. Little Gidding ; Tradition and the Individual Talent ; KATHERINE MANSFIELD (1888-1923). The Garden Party ; JEAN RHYS (1890-1979). The Day They Burned the Books ; SAMUEL BECKETT (1906-1989). Waiting for Godot ; W.H. AUDEN (1907-1973). Lullaby; 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; [Poetry as Memorable Speech] ; DYLAN THOMAS (1914-1953). The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower; Poem in October; Fern Hill; Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night ; PHILIP LARKIN (1922-1985). Church Going; MCMXIV; Talking in Bed; Ambulances; High Windows; Homage to a Government; This Be The Verse; Aubade ; NADINE GORDIMER (b. 1923). The Moment before the Gun Went Off ; DEREK WALCOTT (b. 1930). A Far Cry from Africa; The Schooner Flight. 1 Adios, Carenage ; The Season of Phantasmal Peace; 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"] ; CHINUA ACHEBE (b. 1930). Civil Peace ; ALICE MUNRO (b. 1931). Walker Brothers Cowboy ; SEAMUS HEANEY (b. 1939). Digging; The Forge; The Grauballe Man; Punishment; Casualty; The Skunk; Station Island. 12 ("Like a convalescent, I took the hand"); Clearances; The Sharping Stone ; MARGARET ATWOOD (b. 1939). Death by Landscape; Miss July Grows Older ; J.M. COETZEE (b. 1940). From Waiting for the Barbarians ; SALMAN RUSHDIE (b. 1947). The Prophet's Hair ; IAN McEWAN (b. 1948). From Enduring Love ; ZADIE SMITH (b. 1975). The Waiter's Wife.