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CONTENTS xiii List of Illustrations xv Preface xxi Acknowledgments The Twentieth Century JOSEPH CONRAD 1990 2015 Preface to The Nigger of the “Narcissus” 2018 Heart of Darkness 2020 h COMPANION READINGS Joseph Conrad: from Congo Diary 2074 Sir Henry Morton Stanley: from Address to the Manchester Chamber of Commerce 2076 Gang of Four: We Live As We Dream, Alone 2081 h BERNARD SHAW 2082 Preface: A Professor of Phonetics 2085 Pygmalion 2087 LETTERS 2151 To Francis Collison (20 August 1903) 2151 To The Times (31 October 1906) 2152 THOMAS HARDY 2154 Hap 2156 Neutral Tones 2156 Wessex Heights 2156 The Darkling Thrush 2157 On the Departure Platform 2158 The Convergence of the Twain 2159 At Castle Boterel 2160 Channel Firing 2160 In Time of “The Breaking of Nations” 2161 I Looked Up from My Writing 2162 “And There Was a Great Calm” 2162 v vi Contents Logs on the Hearth 2164 The Photograph 2164 The Fallow Deer at the Lonely House 2165 Afterwards 2165 Epitaph 2166 PERSPECTIVES The Great War: Confronting the Modern 2167 BLAST 2167 Vorticist Manifesto 2169 RUPERT BROOKE 2183 The Great Lover 2184 The Soldier 2185 SIEGFRIED SASSOON 2186 Glory of Women 2186 “They” 2187 The Rear-Guard 2187 Everyone Sang 2188 WILFRED OWEN 2188 Anthem for Doomed Youth 2188 Strange Meeting 2189 Disabled 2190 Dulce Et Decorum Est 2191 ISAAC ROSENBERG 2192 Break of Day in the Trenches 2192 Dead Man’s Dump 2193 DAVID JONES 2195 from In Parenthesis 2196 ROBERT GRAVES 2216 from Goodbye to All That 2217 SPEECHES ON IRISH INDEPENDENCE 2232 Charles Stewart Parnell 2233 At Limerick 2233 Before the House of Commons 2234 At Portsmouth, After the Defeat of Mr. Gladstone’s Home Rule Bill In Committee Room No. 15 2236 2235 Proclamation of the Irish Republic 2237 Padraic Pearse 2238 Kilmainham Prison Michael Collins 2238 2239 The Substance of Freedom WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS 2239 2242 Contents vii The Lake Isle of Innisfree 2246 Who Goes with Fergus? 2246 No Second Troy 2246 The Fascination of What’s Difficult 2247 September 1913 2247 The Wild Swans at Coole 2248 An Irish Airman Foresees His Death 2249 Easter 1916 2249 The Second Coming 2251 A Prayer for My Daughter 2252 Sailing to Byzantium 2253 Meditations in Time of Civil War 2254 Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen 2259 Leda and the Swan 2262 Among School Children 2262 Byzantium 2264 Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop 2265 Lapis Lazuli 2265 The Circus Animals’ Desertion 2267 Under Ben Bulben 2268 JAMES JOYCE 2270 DUBLINERS 2274 Araby 2274 Eveline 2277 Clay 2280 The Dead 2284 Ulysses 2311 [Chapter 13. Nausicaa] 2312 Finnegans Wake, and a First-Draft Version of Finnegans Wake 2338 [Shem the Penman] 2339 T. S. ELIOT 2344 The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock 2347 h COMPANION READINGS Arthur Waugh: [Cleverness and the New Poetry] 2350 Ezra Pound: Drunken Helots and Mr. Eliot 2352 h Gerontion 2354 The Waste Land 2356 Journey of the Magi 2369 Four Quartets 2370 Burnt Norton 2370 Tradition and the Individual Talent 2374 viii Contents VIRGINIA WOOLF 2380 The Lady in the Looking-Glass: A Reflection 2382 Mrs Dalloway 2386 from A Room of One’s Own 2485 from Three Guineas 2520 from The Diaries 2535 Letter to Gerald Brenan (25 December 1922) 2548 PERSPECTIVES Regendering Modernism 2550 VIRGINIA WOOLF 2551 from Orlando 2552 VITA SACKVILLE-WEST 2557 Seducers in Ecuador 2558 E. M. FORSTER 2582 The Life to Come 2583 REBECCA WEST 2594 Indissoluble Matrimony 2594 KATHERINE MANSFIELD 2611 The Daughters of the Late Colonel 2611 JEAN RHYS 2624 Mannequin 2626 ANGELA CARTER 2629 Penetrating to the Heart of the Forest 2630 D. H. LAWRENCE 2638 Piano 2640 Song of a Man Who Has Come Through 2640 Tortoise Shout 2641 Snake 2643 Bavarian Gentians 2645 Cypresses 2646 Odour of Chrysanthemums 2647 The Horse Dealer’s Daughter 2660 Surgery for the Novel—or a Bomb 2671 P. G. WODEHOUSE Strychnine in the Soup 2674 2675 GRAHAM GREENE A Chance for Mr Lever 2687 2688 Contents PERSPECTIVES World War II and the End of Empire ix 2698 SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL 2699 Two Speeches Before the House of Commons 2700 STEPHEN SPENDER 2707 Icarus 2708 What I Expected 2708 The Express 2709 The Pylons 2709 ELIZABETH BOWEN 2710 Mysterious Kôr 2710 EVELYN WAUGH 2720 The Man Who Liked Dickens 2720 Cruise 2730 h COMPANION READING Monty Python: Travel Agent 2734 h GEORGE ORWELL 2737 Politics and the English Language 2738 Shooting an Elephant 2747 SALMAN RUSHDIE 2751 Christopher Columbus and Queen Isabella of Spain Consummate Their Relationship 2752 DYLAN THOMAS 2757 The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower 2758 Fern Hill 2759 Poem in October 2760 Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night 2762 Return Journey 2762 SAMUEL BECKETT 2770 Krapp’s Last Tape 2771 Texts for Nothing 2777 4 (“Where would I go, if I could go, who would I be, if I could be”) 2777 8 (“Only the words break the silence, all other sounds have ceased”) 2778 The Expelled 2780 Postwar Poets: English Voices W. H. AUDEN Musée des Beaux Arts 2789 In Memory of W. B. Yeats 2790 2788 2788 x Contents Spain 1937 2792 Lullaby 2794 September 1, 1939 2795 In Praise of Limestone 2797 STEVIE SMITH 2799 Not Waving but Drowning 2800 Pretty 2800 How Cruel Is the Story of Eve 2802 The New Age 2804 PHILIP LARKIN 2804 Church Going 2805 High Windows 2807 Talking in Bed 2807 MCMXIV 2807 SYLVIA PLATH 2808 The Colossus 2809 Daddy 2810 Lady Lazarus 2812 Child 2814 TED HUGHES 2814 Wind 2815 Relic 2815 Theology 2816 Dust As We Are 2816 Leaf Mould 2817 Telegraph Wires 2818 THOM GUNN Lines from a Book 2819 Elvis Presley 2820 A Map of the City 2820 Black Jackets 2821 From the Wave 2822 The Hug 2822 Patch Work 2823 The Missing 2824 2819 Contents V. S. NAIPAUL In a Free State xi 2824 2826 Prologue, from a Journal: The Tramp at Piraeus 2826 Epilogue, from a Journal: The Circus at Luxor 2833 CARYL CHURCHILL Cloud Nine 2838 2839 PERSPECTIVES Whose Language? SEAMUS HEANEY 2890 The Toome Road 2891 A Postcard from North Antrim 2891 The Singer’s House 2893 The Skunk 2893 Punishment 2894 Station Island 2895 12 (“Like a convalescent, I took the hand”) 2895 In Memoriam Francis Ledwidge 2897 Postscript 2898 NUALA NÍ DHOMHNAILL 2899 Feeding a Child 2899 Parthenogenesis 2900 Labasheedy (The Silken Bed) 2902 As for the Quince 2903 Why I Choose to Write in Irish, The Corpse That Sits Up and Talks Back NGUGI WA THIONG’O 2912 Decolonizing the Mind 2913 Native African Languages 2913 NADINE GORDIMER 2917 What Were You Dreaming? 2917 JAMES KELMAN 2923 Home for a Couple of Days 2924 EAVAN BOLAND 2933 Anorexic 2934 The Journey 2935 The Pomegranate 2938 A Woman Painted on a Leaf 2939 Mise Eire 2940 PAUL MULDOON 2941 Cuba 2941 Aisling 2942 Meeting the British 2942 Sleeve Notes 2943 2889 2904 xii Contents DEREK WALCOTT 2949 A Far Cry from Africa 2950 Wales 2951 The Fortunate Traveller 2951 Midsummer 2956 50 (“I once gave my daughters, separately, two conch shells”) 2956 52 (“I heard them marching the leaf-wet roads of my head”) 2957 54 (“The midsummer sea, the hot pitch road, this grass, these shacks that made me”) 2957 Political and Religious Orders 2959 Money, Weights, and Measures 2965 Literary and Cultural Terms 2967 Bibliography 2987 Credits 2999 Index 3003
