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New York: W. W. Norton, 1993
Volume II.
From POETICAL SKETCHES
To Spring
To Autumn
To the
Evening Star
Song ("How sweet I roam'd from field to field")
Song ("Memory, hither come")
Mad Song
To the Muses
All Religions are One
There Is No Natural Religion [a]
There Is No
Natural Religions [b]
SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND EXPERIENCE
From 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
From Songs of Experience
Introduction
Earth's Answer
The
Clod & the Pebble
Holy Thursday
The Chimney Sweeper
Nurse's
Song
The Sick Rose
The Fly
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
To a Mouse
To a Louse
Green frow the rashes
Holy Willie's
Prayer
Tam o' Shanter
Afton Water
Ae fond kiss
Ye flowery
banks
Scots, wha hae
For A' That and A' That
A Red, Red Rose
Auld Lang Syne
A Vindiction of the Rights of Woman
Introduction
Chap. 2. The
Prevailing Opinion of a Sexual Character Discussed
From Chp. 4. Observations on the State of Degradation to Which Woman is
Reduced by Various Causes
From LYRICAL BALLADS
Simon Lee
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
Lucy Gray
The Two April
Mornings
Nutting
The Ruined Cottage
Michael
Written in March
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
Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg
Prospectus to The
Recluse
THE PRELUDE, OR GROWTH OF A POET'S MIND
Book First, Introduction,
Childhood, and School-time
Book Second, School-time continued
Book
Third. Residence at Cambridge
[Experiences at St. John's College. The "Heroic
Argument"]
Book Fourth. Summer Vacation
[The Walks with His
Terrier. The Circuit of the Lake]
["The Surface of Past Time."
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. Man Still Subordinate to Nature]
Book Ninth. Residence in France
[Paris and Orleans. 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
Book Thirteenth. Subject concluded
[Return to "Life's
Familiar Face"]
[Discovery of His Poetic Subject. Salisbury Plain.
Sight of "a New World"]
Book Fourteenth. Conclusion
[The
Vision on Mount Snowdon. Fear vs. Love Resolved. Imagination]
[Conclusion: "The
Mind of Man"]
From The Alfoxden Journal
From The Grasmere Journals
The Two Drovers
Lochinvar
Jock of Hazeldean
The Dreary Change
Proud Maisie
Lucy Ashton's Song
The Eolian Harp
This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison
The Rime of the
Ancient Mariner
Kubla Khan
Christabel
Frost at Midnight
Dejection: An Ode
The Pains of Sleep
Phantom
To William
Wordsworth
Recollections of Love
On Donne's Poetry
Work without
Hope
Constancy to an Ideal Object
Epitaph
Biographia Literaria
Chapter 1
[The discipline of his taste at school]
[Bowle's sonnets]
[Comparison between the poets before and since Mr. Pope]
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 term 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 that that of the cottager]
Lectures on
Shakespeare
[Fancy and Imagination in Shakespeare's Poetry]
[Mechanic
vs. Organic Form]
The Statesman's Manual
[On Symbol and Allegory]
[The Satanic Hero]
A Letter to Wordsworth
Christ's Hospital Five-and-Thirty Years Ago
The Two Races of Men
Old China
On Gusto
My First Acquaintance with Poets
From Mr. Wordsworth
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
Preliminary Confessions
[The
Prostitute Ann]
Introduction to the Pains of Opium
[The Malay]
The Pains of Opium
[Opium Reveries and Dreams]
On the Knocking at the
Gate in Macbeth
Alexander Pope
[The Literature of Knowledge and the Literature of
Power]
The Four Ages of Poetry
The War Song of Dinas Vawr
Written after Swimming from Sestos to Abydos
She walks in beauty
They say that Hope is happiness
When we two parted
Stanzas for Music
Darkness
So, we'll go no more a roving
When a man hath no freedom to
fight for at home
Stanzas Written on the Road between Florence and Pisa
January 22nd. Missolonghi
CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE
Canto I
["Sin's
Long Labyrinth"]
Canto 3
["Once More Upon the Waters"]
[Waterloo]
[Napoleon]
[Switzerland]
Canto 4
[Venice]
["Farewell!"]
Manfred
The Vision of Judgment
DON JUAN
Fragment
Canto I
[Juan and Donna Julia]
Canto 2
[The Shipwreck]
[Juan and Haidee]
Canto 3
[Juan and Haidee]
Canto 4
[Juan and Haidee]
LETTERS
Memorandum (May 22, 1811)
To Francis Hodgson (Sept. 3, 1811)
To James
Hogg (Mar. 24, 1814)
To Leigh Hunt (Sept - Oct 30, 1815)
To Thomas
Moore (Jan. 28, 1817)
To John Murray (Sept. 15, 1817)
To John Cam
Hobhouse and Douglas Kinnaird (Jan. 19, 1819)
To John Murray (Apr. 6, 1819)
To Douglas Kinnaird (Oct. 26, 1819)
To Percy Bysshe Shelley (Apr. 26, 1821)
Mutability
To Wordsworth
Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude
Mont Blanc
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
Ozymandias
Stanzas Written
in Dejection -- December 1818, near Naples
A Song: "Men of
England"
England in 1819
To Sidmouth and Castlereagh
The
Indian Girl's Song [The Indian Serenade]
Ode to the West Wind
Prometheus Unbound
Preface
From Act I
Act 2
Scene 4
Scene 5
Act 3
Scene I
From Scene 4
From Act 4
The Cloud
To a Sky-Lark
Song of Apollo
To
Night
To -- [Music, when soft voices die]
The flower that smiles today
O World, O Life, O Time
Choruses from Hellas
Worlds on worlds
The world's great age
Adonais
A Dirge
When the lamp is shattered
To Jane. The Invitation
To Jane (The keen
stars were twinkling)
Lines Written in the Bay of Lerici
The Triumph
of Life
From A Defence of Poetry
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 I
[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
Why did I laugh tonight? No voice will tell
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
The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream
LETTERS
To Benjamin Bailey (Nov. 22, 1817)
To George and Thomas
Keats (Dec. 21, 27 [?], 1817)
To John Hamilton Reynolds (Feb. 3, 1818)
To John Taylor (Feb. 27, 1818)
To John Hamilton Reynolds (May 3, 1818)
To Richard Woodhouse (Oct. 27, 1818)
To George and Georgiana Keats (Feb.
14-May 3, 1819)
To Fanny Brawne (July 25, 1819)
To Percy Bysshe
Shelley (Aug. 16, 1820)
To Charles Brown (Nov. 30, 1820)
Introduction to Frankenstein
Transformation
The Rights of Woman
To a Little Invisible Being Who Is Expected Soon to
Become Visible
Life
Written at the Close of Spring
To Sleep
To Night
To the River Itchin, near Winton
Languid, and sad, and slow
Up! quit thy bower
Song: Woo'd and married and a'
Mother, I cannot mind my wheel
Rose Aylmer
The Three Roses
Past ruined Ilion
Dirce
Twenty years hence
Well I remember
how you smiled
Believe me, if all those endearing young charms
The harp that once
through Tara's halls
The time I've lost in wooing
Mouse's Nest
I Am
Clock a Clay
England's Dead
The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in New England
Casabianca
The Phoenix
It is not Beauty I demand
The Mermaidens' Vesper Hymn
Song ("How many times do I love thee, dear?")
Song ("Old
Adam, the carrion crow")
The Phantom Wooer
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A cardinal innovation in this sixth edition is the use of a larger trim size that make for a more readable page and allows the volume, even in the middle section, [xxxv / xxxvi] and stay flat. Another advantage of this altered format is that it makes possible a number of added texts, without requiring more pages or affecting the portability of each volume. Some of these additions are in response to changing interests of teachers. For example, we have continued to increase the number of women writers, as well as to enlarge the selections by some of the women included in earlier editions. There are now forty female authors represented in the two volumes. Texts that have been added include Aphra Behn's Oroonoko and Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own, both in their entirety. Also, the inclusion of works by Nadine Gordimer, the South African writer of prose fiction, and Fleur Adcock, the New Zealand poet, extends the geographical reach of the anthology, so that with this edition it reflects even more the international nature of literature in English.
Another type of added material consists of writings especially useful for teachers who present literary texts in their intellectual, political, and cultural contexts; this type includes a selection from Sir Walter Raleigh's Discovery of the large, rich, and beautiful Empire of Guiana and Thomas Hariot's observations about the native Americans in his Brief and True Report of the Newfound Land of Virginia; Francis Bacon's Of Plantations; pungent pieces from radical pamphleteers of the seventeenth-century Commonwealth, Gerard Winstanley and Abiezer Coppe; and writings by Coventry Patmore and Harriet Martineau in the Victorian section "The Woman Question."
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The anthology fully represents English poetry in its major writers, forms, and genres. it also includes enough plays to provide a comprehensive overview of the evolution of English drama. There are twelve plays in volume 1, ranging from three medieval dramas to Congreve's Way of the World; notable among them is Shakespeare's King Lear, restored in the sixth edition in response to widespread demand. There are seven plays in volume 2, ranging from Byron's closet drama Manfred to contemporary works by Beckett, Pinter, and Stoppard. The greatest challenge, of course, with the space available in a general anthology, is to represent adequately the genre of prose fiction. Our solution has been to make available texts that show the development of narrative techniques and style, from Sidney's Arcadia and Lyly's Euphues through Swift's Gulliver's Travels and Johnson's Rasselas to Joyce's Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, and to include also a great number and variety of complete short works of prose fiction from Mary Shelley on, as well as such longer works as Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Joyce's The Dead. To all these texts the altered format has now made it possible to add Sir Walter Scott's remarkable tale The Two Drovers, as well as short stories by Katherine Mansfield and Nadine Gordimer and a largely self-contained section from book I of George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss.
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The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century. The principal addition is the entire text, especially edited for the anthology by Joanna Lipking, of Oroonoko, written by Aphra Behn, the first professional woman of letters, and remarkable for its early representation of a plantation in the new sugar colony of Surinam and for its choice, as its larger-than-life tragic hero, of a black male slave. In the texts of this period, the section from Samuel Johnson's Preface to Shakespeare on King Lear has been added to the earlier section on Henry IV, so that we have Johnson's comments on both the Shakespeare plays in the anthology.
The Romantic Period. A major addition is nine of Lord Byron's incomparable letters and one significant journal entry; also, that poet's On this day I complete my thirty sixth year has been added to his poems. The selections from Sir Walter Scott have been enlarged by his fine short story The Two Drovers, as well as by two new poems. To the section "Romantic Lyric Poets" have been added Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Charlotte Smith, William Lisle Bowles, Joanna Baillie, and Felicia Dorothea Hemans.
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