The Longman Anthology of British Literature

General Editor David Damrosch

2 vols. (New York: Longman, 1999*)

*Available now, in paper and cloth; cloth ISBN 0-321-04772-9

In Volume 2:

The Romantics & Their Contemporaries

Edited by Susan Wolfson and Peter Manning

INTRODUCTION

* ILLUSTRATIONS Byron, Robinson, political cartoons, Martin's Bard.

ANNA LAETITIA BARBAULD

The Mouse's Petition to Dr. Priestley

On a Lady's Writing

Inscription for an Ice-House

To a Little Invisible Being Who Is Expected Soon to Become Visible

To the Poor

Washing Day

The First Fire

Eighteen-Hundred and Eleven

*COMPANION READING from John Wilson Croker's review of 1811

PERSPECTIVES: THE RIGHTS OF MAN AND THE REVOLUTION CONTROVERSY

HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS, Letters From France (1790, 1796):

(1790) arrival in Paris: "the most sublime spectacle"

"a depiction of the federation"

a visit to the Bastille prison.

(1796): the execution of Louis XVI

EDMUND BURKE, Reflections on the Revolution in France

"this strange chaos"

the constituent parts of the state

"our liberties, as an entailed inheritance"

"levellers can never equalize"

"the real rights of men"

"the morning of 6 October 1789"

the arrest and imprisonment of the king and queen;

"this great drama"

society is a contract

MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT, Vindication of the Rights of Men:

"sensibility"

tradition, authority, slavery and natural rights

property and virtue

romance and chivalry

women

the rich and the poor

THOMAS PAINE, The Rights of Man

"man has no property in man"

"principles not persons"

Burke "pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird"

"the equal rights of man"

"the Republican system"

WILLIAM GODWIN, from Political Justice

Of Justice ["saving the life of Fenelon"]

Of Revolutions

Of the Enjoyment of Liberty: "Evils of cohabitation--and marriage"

*SEE ALSO: selection in MARY SHELLEY: FRANKENSTEIN IN CONTEXT

ANTI-JACOBIN

poetry (22 November 1797)

*ILLUSTRATION:"The Knife-Grinder"

HANNAH MORE, Village Politics

*SEE ALSO selections in ABOLITION and RIGHTS OF WOMEN

ARTHUR YOUNG

from Travels in France, 1787, 1788, 1789 (1792):

beggars
"the eve of some great revolution"
"stupidity, poverty"
"a poor woman"
news of the revolt
ignorant and stupid conversation.

from The Example of France a Warning to Britain (2d edn, 1793)

*SEE ALSO: WILLIAM WORDSWORTH,

The Prelude, selections from 1805 Books 9 and 10,

1850 Book 7: 512-43

*SEE ALSO: SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE,

selections from Once a Jacobin, Always a Jacobin;

Jacobinism

WILLIAM BLAKE

All Religions are One

There is No Natural Religion (a and b)

from Songs of Innocence (1789): Introduction; The Ecchoing Green; The Lamb, with plate; The Little Black Boy, with two plates; The Chimney Sweeper
* COMPANION READING: from Charles Lamb, In Praise of Chimney Sweepers: The Divine Image; Holy Thursday; Nurse's Song; Infant Joy
from Songs of Experience (1794): The Fly, with plate; The Clod and the Pebble; Holy Thursday; The Tyger, with plate; The Chimney Sweeper; The Sick Rose; Ah! Sun-Flower; The Garden of Love; London; The Human Abstract; Infant Sorrow; A Poison Tree, with plate; A Divine Image

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: *SEE ALSO Milton's Satan in MARY SHELLEY: FRANKENSTEIN IN CONTEXT

Visions of the Daughters of Albion: *SEE ALSO selections from Mary in RIGHTS OF WOMEN

LETTERS: To Revd Dr. Trusler, 23 August 1799; from To Thomas Butts, 22 November 1802

* PERSPECTIVES: ABOLITION OF SLAVERY AND THE SLAVE TRADE

OLAUDAH EQUIANO, from The Interesting Narrative

the Slave-ship and its Cargo
"horror and anguish"
Employment in the West-Indies
"witness to cruelites of every kind"
the perils of being a freeman
manumission

MARY PRINCE, from The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave

THOMAS BELLAMY, The Benevolent Planters

ANN YEARSLEY, from A Poem on the Inhumanity of the Slave-Trade

WILLIAM COWPER, The Slave-Trader in the Dumps

HANNAH MORE, Cheap Repository Tracts: The Sorrows of Yamba

*SEE ALSO selections from MORE in RIGHTS OF MAN and RIGHTS OF WOMEN

ROBERT SOUTHEY, Sonnets Concerning the Slave Trade

DOROTHY WORDSWORTH, Grasmere Journal, March 1802

GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON, Detached Thoughts (1821-1822)

THOMAS CLARKSON, The Abolition of the Slave-Trade

"the nature of the evil"
recruitment of seamen for the slave-ships
Clarkson's nightmares
the defense of the Trade in Parliament
counter-testimony from a slave-ship investigator
life and death on board

* ILLUSTRATION: the disposition of human cargo on a slave-ship: tight packing
"Reflections on this Great Event" (the passage of the Abolition Bill)

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

To Toussaint L'Ouverture
To Thomas Clarkson.
from The Prelude Bk 10 (1805):"This most rotten branch of human shame"
from Humanity
Letter to Mary Ann Rawson May 1833

from EDINBURGH REVIEW, October 1821: The Foreign Slave Trade

MARY ROBINSON

sonnets from Sappho and Phaon: IV: Sappho discovers her passion; XII: Sappho anticipates meeting Phaon; XVIII: Sappho to Phaon, "Why art thou changed?"; XXX: Sappho's farewell to Lesbos; XXXVII: Sappho foresees her death

Lyrical Tales (1800): The Haunted Beach

The Camp

London's Summer Morning

The Old Beggar

January, 1795

MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: from dedication to M. Talleyrand-Périgord, Late bishop of Antun; Introduction; from Ch 1: Rights and Involved Duties of Mankind Considered; from Ch 2: The Prevailing Opinion of a Sexual Character Discussed; from Ch 3: The Same Subject continued; from Ch 5: [Praise of Catherine Macaulay]; from Chapter 13: Some Instances of the folly Which the Ignorance of Women Generates; with Concluding Reflections on the Moral Improvement that a Revolution in Female Manners Might naturally Be Expected to Produce

Jemima's story from Maria; or, The Wrongs of Woman

* PERSPECTIVES: THE RIGHTS OF WOMAN

CATHERINE MACAULAY, Letters on Education (1790)

from Letter XXII: "No characteristic Difference in Sex"

ANNA LAETITIA BARBAULD, The Rights of Woman

On MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

ROBERT SOUTHEY, To Mary Wollstonecraft
WILLIAM BLAKE, from Mary

RICHARD POLWHELE, from The Unsex'd Females

PRISCILLA WAKEFIELD, The present Condition of the Female Sex:

"the sphere of feminine action"
"educating young women, of small expectations"
"discouragement to the industry of women"

MARY ANNE RADCLIFFE, The Female Advocate

from "To the Reader": the "situation" of "poor, helpless females"
from Introduction: "the cause of complaint"
from Part First. The Fatal Consequences of Men Traders Engrossing
Women's Occupations
from Part Second "the Frailty of Female Virtue more frequently originates from embarrassed Circumstances, than from a depravity of Disposition"

HANNAH MORE, Strictures on Female Education

from Introduction: "the present erroneous system"
from Chapter VIII: "On Female Study"
from Chapter XIV: "The Practical Use of Female Knowledge, with a
Sketch of the Female Character, and a Comparative View of the Sexes"

MARY ANNE LAMB

To the Editor of The British Lady's Magazine (1815): "the state of needlework in this country"
*SEE ALSO Preface to Tales from Shakespear (1807) in COLERIDGE & SHAKESPEARE

WILLIAM THOMPSON & ANNA WHEELER, Appeal of Women Against Men (1825)

from Introductory Letter to Mrs. Wheeler
"a new fabric of social happiness"
on daughters
on wives
exhortation to men
what do women want?

JOANNA BAILLIE

from "Introductory Discourse" to Plays on the Passions (1798)

Fugitive Verses (1790-1840): London; A Mother to Her Waking Infant; A Child to his sick Grandfather; Thunder; Song: Woo'd and married and a'

*LITERARY BALLADS

RELIQUES OF ANCIENT ENGLISH POETRY (1765)

Sir Patrick Spence

ROBERT BURNS

To a Mouse
Flow Gently, Sweet Afton
Ae Fond Kiss
Comin' thro' the Rye (both versions)
Scots, what hae: Robert Bruce's Address to His Army
Is there for Honest Poverty
A Red, Red Rose
Auld Lang Syne
The Bonniest Lass

THOMAS MOORE, from Irish Melodies (1807-1834)

The harp that once through Tara's halls
Believe me, if all those endearing young charms
The time I've lost in wooing

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

from Lyrical Ballads, 1798

*SEE ALSO COLERIDGE: The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere (1798)

Simon Lee, The Old Huntsman, with an Incident in which He was Concerned

We are seven

Lines written in early spring

The Thorn

Note (1800)

Expostulation and Reply

The Tables Turned; an Evening Scene, on the same subject

Old Man travelling, Animal Tranquillity and Decay, A Sketch

Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey

from Lyrical Ballads, 1800

from Preface:

"The principal object of the poems"
"humble and rustic life"
"the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings"
"the language of poetry"
"What is a poet?"
"emotion recollected in tranquillity."

There was a Boy

Strange fits of passion I have known

Song (A slumber did my spirit seal)

Song (She dwelt among th'undtrodden ways)

Lucy Gray

Poor Susan

Nutting

Three years she grew in sun and shower

Michael, a pastoral

*COMPANION READINGS:

Francis Jeffrey on Lyrical Ballads, Edinburgh Review, 1802

Charles Lamb,

from letter to Wm Wordsworth, 30 Jan 1800, on Lyrical Ballads, 1800; on city life
from letter to Thomas Manning, 15 Feb. 1801, on Wordsworth's and Coleridge's reaction to his letter of 30 January

*SEE ALSO COLERIDGE, selections from Biographia Literaria, chs 14 and 17

KEATS, letters of 3 February 1818, 3 May 1818 and 27 October 1818

Sonnets 1802-1807

Prefatory Sonnet: ("Nuns fret not at their Convent's narrow room")

The World is too much with us

Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1803

*SEE ALSO DOROTHY WORDSWORTH, Journal, 29 July 1802

It is a beauteous Evening, calm and free

*SEE ALSO DOROTHY WORDSWORTH, Journal, 1 August 1802

1801 ("I grieved for Buonaparte")

London, 1802

*SEE ALSO sonnets by William Wordsworth in ABOLITION:

To Toussaint L'Ouverture
To Thomas Clarkson.

*COMPANION READING, CHARLOTTE SMITH, Elegiac Sonnets

XXXII: To Melancholy

XL: "Far on the sands, the low, retiring tide"

XLI: To Tranquillity

XLIV: Written in the Church Yard at Middleton in Sussex

LXX: On being cautioned

The Prelude (1805)

Book First. Introduction, Childhood, and School-time

from Book Second: School-time continued

Two Consciousnesses
Blessed Infant Babe

from Book Fourth: Summer Vacation

Encounter with a "Dismissed" soldier

from Book Fifth: Books

Meditation on the perishability of books
The Dream of the Arab
The Drowned Man
Visionary Power
*SEE ALSO There was a Boy (Lyrical Ballads, 1800)

from Book Sixth: Cambridge, and the Alps

Geometry
Arrival in France
The Alps,Simplon Pass and the Ravine of Gondo

from Book Seventh: Residence in London

A blind beggar

*COMPANION READING: "Genius of Burke!" (Prelude, 1850)
Bartholomew Fair

from Book Ninth: Residence in France

Paris
Revolution and Patriots

from Book Tenth: Residence in France and the French Revolution

The Reign of Terror
Confusion and return to England

*SEE ALSO selection from Book Tenth in ABOLITION
Further Events in France
Death of Robespierre and renewed optimism
Britain declares war on France
The rise of Napoleon and Imperialist France

*SEE ALSO REVOLUTION PERSPECTIVES

from Book Eleventh: Imagination

"Spots of Time"
Two memories from childhood;
later reflections

from Book Thirteenth: Conclusion

Climbing Mount Snowden, moonlit vista, meditation
Concluding retrospect and prophecy

Resolution and Independence

I wandered lonely as a cloud

My heart leaps up

Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood

The Solitary Reaper

Elegiac Stanzas Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle

from Preface to The Excursion (1814): *COMPANION READINGS: Francis Jeffrey, 1814 review of The Excursion

Surprised by Joy--Impatient as the Wind

Scorn not the Sonnet (1827)

Extempore Effusion Upon the Death of James Hogg

*SEE ALSO excerpt from the headnote in FELICIA HEMANS
WORDSWORTH in REVOLUTION and ABOLITION Perspectives

DOROTHY WORDSWORTH

An Address to a child in a high wind

Grasmere--A Fragment

Irregular Verses

Lines intended for my Niece's Album

Floating Island at Hawkshead, An Incident in the Schemes of Nature

Thoughts on my sick-bed

When shall I tread your garden path

The Worship of this sabbath morn

GRASMERE JOURNAL

Home alone: 14 and 18 May, 1800

Meeting a leech-gatherer: 3 October 1800

A beggar-woman: 27 November 1801

An old soldier: 22 December 1801

The Grasmere mailman: 8 February 1802

*SEE ALSO ABOLITION: Journal, 15 March 1802, a sailor from a slave-ship

A vision of the moon: 18 March 1802

A field of daffodils: 15 April 1802

A beggar-woman from Cockermouth: 4 May 1802

London: 27 July 1802

Calais, France: 1 August 1802

The household in winter 25 Dec. 1802-3 Jan. 1803

LETTERS

To Jane Pollard [a scheme of happiness] 16 Feb 1793

To Lady Beaumont [a gloomy Christmas] 25 December 1805

To Lady Beaumont [her poetry, William's poetry] 20 April 1806

To Mrs. Thomas Clarkson [household labors] 8 December 1808

To Mrs. Thomas Clarkson [a prospect of publishing] 9 December 1810

To William Johnson [mountain-climbing with a woman] 21 October 1818

SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

Sonnet to the River Otter: *COMPANION READING: William Lisle Bowles, To the River Itchin, Near Winton

The Eolian Harp, Composed at Clevedon, Somersetshire

This Lime-Tree Bower, My Prison

The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere, Argument and Part I (1798)

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1817)

*COMPANION READINGS:

William Cowper, The Castaway (1799)
from Table-Talk (1830)

Kubla Khan, or, A Vision in a Dream, A Fragment

Christabel

Frost at Midnight

Dejection an Ode

On Donne's Poetry (1836)

Work Without Hope

Constancy to an Ideal Object (1828)

Epitaph (1834)

from The Statesman's Manual:"Symbol" and "Allegory"

Biographia Literaria

from Chapter 4

Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads
Wordsworth's earlier poems
Fancy and Imagination

from Chapter 11

The Profession of Literature

from Chapter 13

The Imagination and the Fancy

from Chapter 14

Occasion of Lyrical Ballads;
remarks on the Preface of 1800;
the ensuing controversy and acrimony;
philosophical definitions of a poem and poetry

from Chapter 17

Examination of the tenets peculiar to Mr. Wordsworth
Rustic life and poetic language

*SEE Preface to Lyrical Ballads in WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

Essays in The Morning Post

from Jacobinism (4 January 1800)

from Once a Jacobin, Always a Jacobin (21 October 1802)

from Lectures on Shakespeare

Mechanic vs. Organic Form

The character of Hamlet

Stage illusion and the willing suspension of disbelief

Oxymoron

Othello

*COLERIDGE'S LECTURES ON SHAKESPEARE IN CONTEXT

Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb, Preface to Tales from Shakespear (1807)

Charles Lamb, from On the Tragedies of Shakspeare Considered with Reference to Their Fitness for Stage Representation (1811)

William Hazlitt: from Lecture 3, On the English Poets: On Shakespeare and Milton (1818); from Hamlet, in The Characters of Shakespear's Plays

Thomas DeQuincey, On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth (1821)

GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON

She walks in beauty

So, we'll go no more a'roving

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III: 92-97: lightning and thunder over the Rhone; 111-113 Byron's strained idealism
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto IV (1818): 93-98: political despair; 139-45: dying gladiator; 178-186: apostrophe to the Ocean; conclusion
*COMPANION READINGS: John Wilson, from Edinburgh Review (1818); John Scott, from London Magazine (1821)
Don Juan (1819-1824): Dedication; Canto I (1819); from Canto II (1819): shipwreck; Juan and Haidée; from Canto III (1821): Juan and Haidée; the poet for hire; from Canto VII (1823): critique of military "glory"; from Canto XI (1823): Juan in England

When a man hath no freedom to fight for at home

On this day, I complete my thirty-sixth year

LETTERS: On Childe Harold's Pilgrimage III, 28 January 1817; On Don Juan, 6 April 1819 and from 12 August 1819; On Don Juan, 26 October 1819; On Don Juan, 16 February 1821; *SEE ALSO selections from letters in PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY: to Shelley 26 April 1821 and to Murray 30 July 1821, on the death of John Keats

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

To Wordsworth

Mont Blanc

Hymn to Intellectual Beauty

Sonnet: Lift not the Painted Veil

Ozymandias

England in 1819

The Mask of Anarchy

Ode to the West Wind

To a Sky-Lark

To--("Music, when soft voices die")

Adonais

*COMPANION READING, George Gordon, Lord Byron

Letter to Shelley on the death of Keats, 26 April 1821
Letter to John Murray on the death of Keats, 30 July 1821
Don Juan, Canto 11: 59 (1823)

from Hellas, including the choruses:

Worlds on worlds are rolling ever

The world's great age begins anew

from A Defence of Poetry

SEE ALSO:: selections from Alastor and A Defence of Poetry in FRANKENSTEIN IN CONTEXT;; and JOHN KEATS, letter to Shelley 16 August 1820

FELICIA DOROTHEA BROWNE HEMANS

Tales and Historical Scenes: The Wife of Asdrubal; The Last Banquet of Antony and Cleopatra

Evening Prayer at a Girls' School

Casabianca

Records of Woman: The Bride of the Greek Isles; Properzia Rossi; Indian-Woman's Death Song; Joan of Arc, in Rheims

The Homes of England

The Graves of a Household

Corinne at the Capitol

Woman and Fame

*COMPANION READINGS:

Francis Jeffrey, from Edinburgh Review 1828

William Wordsworth, from headnote to Extempore Effusion

SEE ALSO Extempore Effusion, lines 37-40

JOHN CLARE: Written in November (both Clare's version and his editor's version); Songs Eternity; The Lament of Swordy Well; The Mouse's Nest; Cock a Clay; I am

JOHN KEATS

On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer

*COMPANION READINGS

Pope: Odyssey, from Book 5: Ulysses washed up on Phaecia
Chapman Odyssey, from Book 5: Ulysses washed up on Phaecia
Pope: Odyssey, from Book 5: Diomedes' helmet and shield
Chapman: Odyssey, from Book 5: Diomedes' helmet and shield

On Seeing the Elgin Marbles

On the Grasshopper and the Cricket

*SEE ALSO To One Who Has Been Long in City Pent (1817) in FRANKENSTEIN IN CONTEXT

from Sleep and Poetry (1817): *COMPANION READING from "On the Cockney School of Poetry," Papers I and IV, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine

On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again

When I have fears that I may cease to be

The Eve of St. Agnes

La Belle Dame sans Mercy (Indicator version)

Incipit Altera Sonneta (If by dull rhymes)

The Odes of 1819: Ode to Psyche; Ode to a Nightingale; Ode on a Grecian Urn; Ode on Indolence; Ode on Melancholy; To Autumn
The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream: *SEE ALSO selections from Keats's marginalia to Paradise Lost (1818) in MARY SHELLEY: FRANKENSTEIN IN CONTEXT

This Living Hand

Bright star

LETTERS:: November 1817: "Imagination" versus "Philosophy"; December 1817: "Negative Capability"; 3 February 1818: On Wordsworth's egotism; 27 February 1818: " a few axioms" on "Poetry"; March 1818: "reality" and "ardent pursuit"; May 1818: Life as a "Mansion of Many Apartments" with a Chamber of Maiden-Thought" and "dark passages"; Wordsworth greater than Milton; July 1818: "I have not a right feeling about women.; October 1818: Keats as "camelion Poet" versus "the wordsworthian or egotistical sublime"; February-May 1818: indolence, misfortune, speculative minds; Life as a "vale of soul-making"; July 1819: "You take possession of me"; To Percy Bysshe Shelley, 16 August 1820: "an artist must serve Mammon"; November 1820: "I always made an awkward bow"

MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818 text)

from the edition of 1831

Introduction
Victor's childhood and the adoption of Elizabeth

*COMPANION READINGS

Percy Bysshe Shelley, from Alastor (1815)
Mary Shelley's Journal, March 1815
Mary Shelley to Edward John Trelawny, 1829

*FRANKENSTEIN IN CONTEXT:

John Milton, Paradise Lost (1674)

from Book 1: Satan speaks

from Book 4:

Satan soliloquizes;
Satan sees Adam and Eve for the first time;
Eve recounts her awakening in Paradise

from Book 8: Adam recounts his awakening in Paradise

from Book 9: Satan in Paradise, ready to seduce Eve; Satan in Hell

from Book 10: Adam's soliloquy after the Fall (the source of Mary Shelley's epigraph)

from Book 12: exile from Eden (the conclusion of Paradise Lost)

William GODWIN, from Political Justice (1793)

Lady Caroline LAMB, from Glenarvon

John KEATS

Sonnet: To one who has been long in city pent;

marginalia to Paradise Lost

William HAZLITT, On Shakespeare and Milton

Percy Bysshe SHELLEY

from Preface to Prometheus Unbound;

from A Defence of Poetry

Thomas DE QUINCEY, from a review, What do we mean by Literature?

*SEE ALSO WILLIAM BLAKE, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

*PERSPECTIVES: POPULAR PROSE AND THE PROBLEMS OF AUTHORSHIP

SIR WALTER SCOTT

Introduction to Tales from My Landlord, with illustration

CHARLES LAMB

Oxford in the Vacation

Old China

Dream Children

*SEE ALSO In Praise of Chimney-Sweepers in WILLIAM BLAKE and selections in SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE: SHAKESPEARE IN CONTEXT

WILLIAM HAZLITT

On Gusto

My First Acquaintance with Poets

*SEE ALSO selections in SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE: SHAKESPEARE IN CONTEXT and MARY SHELLEY: FRANKENSTEIN IN CONTEXT

THOMAS DE QUINCEY

London Magazine (1820), from Confessions of an English Opium Eater

*SEE ALSO selections in SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE: SHAKESPEARE IN CONTEXT, DOROTHY WORDSWORTH, and MARY SHELLEY: FRANKENSTEIN IN CONTEXT

JANE AUSTEN

Pride and Prejudice (1813), Volume I, Chapter 1

Emma (1816), Volume 1, Chapter 1

Letter to J. S. Clarke, 11 December 1815

WILLIAM COBBETT, Rural Rides, 8 August 1823

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