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:
- Advertisement
- "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)
- 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
- 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
Laura Mandell,
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