Anthologies

The Norton Anthology of English Literature

Seventh Edition, Volume 2

General Editors, M. H. Abrams and Stephen Greenblatt

New York: W. W. Norton, 2000

CONTENTS

"The Persistence of English" by Geoffrey Nunberg

THE ROMANTIC PERIOD (1785-1830)

ANNA LAETITIA BARBAULD (1743-1825)

A Summer Evening's Meditation

The Rights of Woman

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

Washing-Day

Life

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

The Sea View

WILLIAM BLAKE (1757-1827)

POETICAL SKETCHES

To Spring

To Autumn

To the Evening Star

All Religions Are One

There Is No Natural Religion [a]

There Is No Natural Religion [b]

SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND 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 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

The Book of Thel

Visions of the Daughters of Albion

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

A Song of Liberty

BLAKE'S NOTEBOOK

Mock on, Mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau

Never pain to tell thy love

I asked a thief

And did those feet

From A Vision of the Last Judgement

Two Letters on Sight and Vision

MARY ROBINSON (1758-1800)

London's Summer Morning

January, 1795

The Poor Singing Dame

The Haunted Beach

To the Poet Coleridge

ROBERT BURNS (1759-1796)

Green grow the rashes

Holy Willie's Prayer

To a Mouse

To a Louse

Auld Lang Syne

Tam o' Shanter: A Tale

Robert Bruce's March to Bannockburn

A Red, Red Rose

Song: For a' that and a' that

THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND "THE SPIRIT OF THE AGE"

ENGLISH CONTROVERSY ABOUT THE REVOLUTION

Richard Price: From A Discourse on the Love of Our Country

Edmund Burke: From Recollections on the Revolution in France

Mary Wollstonecraft: From A Vindication of the Rights of Men

Thomas Paine: From Rights of Man

APOCALYPTIC EXPECTATIONS BY PREACHERS AND POETS

Elhanan Winchester: From The Three Woe-Trumpets

Joseph Priestley: From The Present State of Europe Compared with Antient Prophecies

William Blake: From The French Revolution

    From America: A Prophecy

Robert Southey: From Joan of Arc: An Epic Poem

William Wordsworth: From Descriptive Sketches

    From The Excursion

Samuel Taylor Coleridge: From Religious Musings

Percy Bysshe Shelley: From Queen Mab: A Philosophical Poem

APOCALYPSE BY IMAGINATION

MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT (1759-1797)

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

    Introduction

    Chap. 2. The Prevailing Opinion of a Sexual Character Discussed

    From Chap. 4. Observations on the State of Degradation . . .

Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark

    Advertisement

    Letter 1

    Letter 4

    Letter 8

    Letter 19

JOANNA BAILLIE (1762-1851)

A Winter's Day

Up! quit thy bower

Song: Woo'd and married and a'

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (1770-1850)

LYRICAL BALLADS

Simon Lee

We Are Seven

Lines Written in Early Spring

Expostulation and Reply

The Tables Turned

The Thorn

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

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"]

DOROTHY WORDSWORTH (1771-1855)

From The Alfoxden Journal

From The Grasmere Journals

Grasmere--A Fragment

Thoughts on My Sick-Bed

SIR WALTER SCOTT (1771-1832)

The Heart of Midlothian

Chapter I. Being Introductory

Lochinvar

Jock of Hazeldean

Proud Maisie

SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE (1772-1834)

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

To William Wordsworth

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]

WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR (1775-1864)

Mother, I cannot mind my wheel

Rose Aylmer

Past ruined Ilion

Twenty years hence

CHARLES LAMB (1775-1834)

Christ's Hospital Five-and-Thirty Years Ago

Old China

WILLIAM HAZLITT (1778-1830)

On Gusto

My First Acquaintance with Poets

THOMAS MOORE (1779-1852)

Believe me, if all those endearing young charms

The harp that once through Tara's halls

The time I've lost in wooing

THOMAS DE QUINCEY (1758-1859)

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]

GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON (1788-1824)

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

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

To Leigh Hunt (Sept.-Oct 30, 1815)

To Thomas Moore (Jan. 28, 1817)

To John Cam Hobhouse and Douglas Kinnaird (Jan. 19, 1819)

To Douglas Kinnaird (Oct. 26, 1819)

To Percy Bysshe Shelley (Apr. 26, 1821)

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (1792-1822)

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

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 keen stars were twinkling)

Lines Written in the Bay of Lerici

From A Defence of Poetry

JOHN CLARE (1793-1864)

The Nightingale's Nest

Pastoral Poesy

Mouse's Nest

I Am

An Invite to Eternity

Clock a Clay

The Peasant Poet

Song [I hid my love]

Song [I peeled bits of straw]

FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS (1793-1835)

England's Dead

The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in New England

Casabianca

The Homes of England

A Spirit's Return

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 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)

MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY (1797-1851)

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus

LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON (1802-1838)

The Proud Ladye

Love's Last Lesson

Revenge

The Little Shroud