The Norton Anthology of English
ِLiterature Volume 2
Contents
PREFACE TO THE EIGHTH EDITION xvii
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xxvii
The Romantic Period (1785–1830) 1
Introduction 1
Timeline 23
1. ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD (1743–1825) 26
The Mouse’s Petition 27
An Inventory of the Furniture in Dr. Priestley’s Study 28
A Summer Evening’s Meditation 29
Epistle to William Wilberforce, Esq. on the Rejection of the Bill
for Abolishing the Slave Trade 32
The Rights of Woman 35
To a Little Invisible Being Who Is Expected Soon to Become
Visible 36
Washing-Day 37
2.CHARLOTTE SMITH (1749–1806) 39
elegiac sonnets 40
Written at the Close of Spring 40
To Sleep 40
To Night 40
Written in the Church-Yard at Middleton in Sussex 41
On Being Cautioned against Walking on an Headland Overlooking the
Sea, Because It Was Frequented by a Lunatic 41
The Sea View 42
The Emigrants 42
Beachy Head 47
'Wordsworth observed in 1833 that Smith 'wrote … with true feeling for rural
nature…' . Coleridge in his 1796 introductory essay on the sonnet, using Smith as a
principal example, remarked that ' those sonnets …the most exquisite, in which the
Sentiments , Affections,, or Feelings, are deduced from, and associated with, the
scenery of Nature.' …the connecting of feelings and nature became a central theme
and strategy in Romantic poetry. Under the influence of Smith , Coleridge himself
quickly progressed from the sonnet to the conversation poem, beginning The Eolian
Harp, and in turn influenced Wordsworth and subsequent writers of odes and kindred
types of descriptive-meditative verse. Thus Smith helped to originate one of the most
distinctive genres of English literature, what has been called 'the greater Romantic
lyric'. ' (The Norton Anthology of English Literature Volume 2 ,Seventh edition,
pp.32-33 )
3.MARY ROBINSON (1757?–1800) 66
January, 1795 68
London’s Summer Morning 69
The Camp 70
The Poor Singing Dame 71
The Haunted Beach 72
To the Poet Coleridge 74
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4.WILLIAM BLAKE (1757–1827) 76
All Religions Are One 79
There Is No Natural Religion [a] 80
There Is No Natural Religion [b] 80
songs of innocence and of experience 81
Songs of Innocence 81
Introduction 81
The Ecchoing Green 82
The Lamb 83
The Little Black Boy 84
The Chimney Sweeper 85
The Divine Image 85
Holy Thursday 86
Nurse’s Song 86
Infant Joy 87
Songs of Experience 87
Introduction 87
Earth’s Answer 88
The Clod & the Pebble 89
Holy Thursday 90
The Chimney Sweeper 90
Nurse’s Song 90
The Sick Rose 91
The Fly 91
The Tyger 92
My Pretty Rose Tree 93
Ah Sun-flower 93
The Garden of Love 94
London 94
The Human Abstract 95
Infant Sorrow 95
A Poison Tree 96
To Tirzah 96
A Divine Image 97
The Book of Thel 97
Visions of the Daughters of Albion 102
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell 110
A Song of Liberty 121
blake’snotebook 122
Mock on, Mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau 122
Never pain to tell thy love 122
I aske`d a thief 123
And did those feet 123
From A Vision of the Last Judgment 124
Two Letters on Sight and Vision 126
5. ROBERT BURNS (1759–1796) 129
Green grow the rashes 131
Holy Willie’s Prayer 132
Contents /ix
To a Mouse 135
To a Louse 136
Auld Lang Syne 137
Afton Water 138
Tam o’ Shanter: A Tale 139
Such a parcel of rogues in a nation 144
Robert Bruce’s March to Bannockburn 145
A Red, Red Rose 145
Song: For a’ that and a’ that 146
The revolution controversy and the “spirit of the age” 148
RICHARD PRICE: From A Discourse on the Love of Our Country 149
EDMUND BURKE: From Reflections on the Revolution in France 152
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT: From A Vindication of the Rights of Men 158
THOMAS PAINE: From Rights of Man 163
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT (1759–1797) 167
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman 170
Introduction 170
Chap. 2. The Prevailing Opinion of a Sexual Character
Discussed 174
From Chap. 4. Observations on the State of Degradation... 189
Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and
Denmark 195
Advertisement 196
Letter 1 196
Letter 4 202
Letter 8 204
Letter 19 208
JOANNA BAILLIE (1762–1851) 212
A Winter’s Day 213
A Mother to Her Waking Infant 220
Up! quit thy bower 221
Song: Woo’d and married and a’ 222
Address to a Steam Vessel 223
MARIA EDGEWORTH (1768–1849) 226
The Irish Incognito 228
6.WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (1770–1850) 243
lyrical ballads 245
Simon Lee 245
We Are Seven 248
Lines Written in Early Spring 250
Expostulation and Reply 250
The Tables Turned 251
The Thorn 252
Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey 258
Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1802) 262
The Subject and Language of Poetry] 263[
What Is a Poet?”] 269“[
Emotion Recollected in Tranquillity”] 273“[
Strange fits of passion have I known 274
She dwelt among the untrodden ways 275
6. Wordsworth
Three years she grew 275
A slumber did my spirit seal 276
I travelled among unknown men 277
Lucy Gray 277
Nutting 279
The Ruined Cottage 280
Michael 292
Resolution and Independence 302
I wandered lonely as a cloud 305
My heart leaps up 306
Ode: Intimations of Immortality 306
Ode to Duty 312
The Solitary Reaper 314
Elegiac Stanzas 315
sonnets 317
Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 317
It is a beauteous evening 317
To Toussaint l’Ouverture 318
September 1st, 1802 318
London, 1802 319
The world is too much with us 319
Surprised by joy 320
Mutability 320
Steamboats, Viaducts, and Railways 320
Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg 321
The Prelude, or Growth of a Poet’s Mind 322
Book First. Introduction, Childhood, and School-time 324
Book Second. School-time continued 338
Book Third. Residence at Cambridge 348
Arrival at St. John’s College. “The Glory of My Youth”] 348[
Book Fourth. Summer Vacation 352
The Walks with His Terrier. The Circuit of the Lake] 352[
The Walk Home from the Dance. The Discharged Soldier] 354[
Book Fifth. Books 357
The Dream of the Arab] 357[
The Boy of Winander] 359[
The Mystery of Words”] 361“[
Book Sixth. Cambridge, and the Alps 361
Human Nature Seeming Born Again”] 361“[
Crossing Simplon Pass] 362[
Book Seventh. Residence in London 364
The Blind Beggar. Bartholomew Fair] 364[
Book Eighth. Retrospect, Love of Nature leading to Love of
Man 367
The Shepherd in the Mist] 367[
Book Ninth. Residence in France 368
Paris and Orle´ans. Becomes a “Patriot”] 368[
Book Tenth. France continued 371
The Revolution: Paris and England] 371[
The Reign of Terror. Nightmares] 373[
Book Eleventh. France, concluded 374
Retrospect: “Bliss Was It in That Dawn.” Recourse to “Reason’s Naked[
Self”] 374
Crisis, Breakdown, and Recovery] 378[
Book Twelfth. Imagination and Taste, how impaired and
restored 378
Spots of Time] 377[
Book Thirteenth. Subject concluded 381
Poetry of “Unassuming Things”] 381[
Discovery of His Poetic Subject. Salisbury Plain. Sight of “a New[
World”] 382
Book Fourteenth. Conclusion 385
The Vision on Mount Snowdon] 385[
Conclusion: “The Mind of Man”] 387[
DOROTHY WORDSWORTH (1771–1855) 389
From The Alfoxden Journal 390
From The Grasmere Journals 392
Grasmere—A Fragment 402
Thoughts on My Sick-Bed 404
7. SIR WALTER SCOTT (1771–1832) 406
The Lay of the Last Minstrel: Introduction 407
Proud Maisie 410
redgauntlet 411
Wandering Willie’s Tale 411
8.SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE (1772–1834) 424
The Eolian Harp 426
This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison 428
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner 430
Kubla Khan 446
Christabel 449
Frost at Midnight 464
Dejection: An Ode 466
The Pains of Sleep 469
To William Wordsworth 471
Epitaph 473
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Biographia Literaria 474
Chapter 4 474
Mr. Wordsworth’s earlier poems] 474[
On fancy and imagination—the investigation of the distinction[
important to the fine arts] 476
Chapter 13 477
On the imagination, or esemplastic power] 477[
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 poem and poetry with scholia. 478
Chapter 17 483
Examination of the tenets peculiar to Mr. Wordsworth] 483[
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] 483
,The language of Milton as much the language of real life, yea[
incomparably more so than that of the cottager] 484
Lectures on Shakespeare 485
Fancy and Imagination in Shakespeare’s Poetry] 485[
Mechanic vs. Organic Form] 487[
The Statesman’s Manual 488
On Symbol and Allegory] 488[
The Satanic Hero] 490[
CHARLES LAMB (1775–1834) 491
From On the Tragedies of Shakespeare, Considered with Reference to
Their Fitness for Stage Representation 493
Christ’s Hospital Five-and-Thirty Years Ago 496
Detached Thoughts on Books and Reading 505
Old China 510
JANE AUSTEN (1775–1817) 514
Love and Friendship: A Novel in a Series of Letters 515
Plan of a Novel, According to Hints from Various Quarters 535
WILLIAM HAZLITT (1778–1830) 537
On Gusto 538
My First Acquaintance with Poets 541
THOMAS DE QUINCEY (1785–1859) 554
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater 556
Preliminary Confessions 556
The Prostitute Ann] 556[
Introduction to the Pains of Opium 559
The Malay] 559[
The Pains of Opium 560
Opium Reveries and Dreams] 560[
On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth 569
Alexander Pope 572
The Literature of Knowledge and the Literature of Power] 572[
the gothic and the development of a mass readership 577
HORACE WALPOLE: From The Castle of Otranto 579
ANNA LETITIA AIKIN (later BARBAULD) and JOHN AIKIN: On the
Pleasure Derived from Objects of Terror; with Sir Bertrand, a
Fragment 582
WILLIAM BECKFORD: From Vathek 587
ANN RADCLIFFE 592
From The Romance of the Forest 592
From The Mysteries of Udolpho 594
MATTHEW GREGORY LEWIS: From The Monk 595
ANONYMOUS: Terrorist Novel Writing 600
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE 602
From Review of The Monk by Matthew Lewis 602
From Biographia Literaria 606
9.GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON (1788–1824) 607
Written after Swimming from Sestos to Abydos 611
She walks in beauty 612
They say that Hope is happiness 613
When we two parted 613
Stanzas for Music 614
Darkness 614
So, we’ll go no more a roving 616
childe harold’s pilgrimage 617
Canto 1 617
Sin’s Long Labyrinth”] 617“[
Canto 3 619
Once More Upon the Waters”] 619“[
Waterloo] 622[
Napoleon] 625[
Switzerland] 628[
Manfred 635
don juan 669
Fragment 670
Canto 1 670
Juan and Donna Julia] 670[
Canto 2 697
The Shipwreck] 697[
Juan and Haidee] 704[
Canto 3 718
Juan and Haidee] 718[
Canto 4 725
Juan and Haidee] 725[
Stanzas Written on the Road between Florence and Pisa 734
January 22nd. Missolonghi 735
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letters 736
To Thomas Moore (Jan. 28, 1817) 736
To Douglas Kinnaird (Oct. 26, 1819) 738
To Percy Bysshe Shelley (Apr. 26, 1821) 740
10. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (1792–1822) 741
Mutability 744
To Wordsworth 744
Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude 745
Mont Blanc 762
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty 766
Ozymandias 768
Stanzas Written in Dejection—December 1818, near Naples 769
A Song: “Men of England” 770
England in 1819 771
To Sidmouth and Castlereagh 771
To William Shelley 772
Ode to the West Wind 772
Prometheus Unbound 775
Preface 775
Act 1 779
Act 2 802
Scene 4 802
Scene 5 806
Act 3 809
Scene 1 809
From Scene 4 811
From Act 4 814
The Cloud 815
To a Sky-Lark 817
To Night 819
To ——— [Music, when soft voices die] 820
O World, O Life, O Time 820
Chorus from Hellas 821
The world’s great age 821
Adonais 822
When the lamp is shattered 836
To Jane (The keen stars were twinkling) 836
From A Defence of Poetry 837
JOHN CLARE (1793–1864) 850
The Nightingale’s Nest 851
Pastoral Poesy 853
Mouse’s Nest] 856[
A Vision 856
I Am 857
An Invite to Eternity 858
Clock a Clay 859
The Peasant Poet 859
Song [I hid my love] 860
Song [I peeled bits o’ straws] 860
From Autobiographical Fragments 861
Contents /xv
FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS (1793–1835) 864
England’s Dead 865
The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in New England 867
Casabianca 868
The Homes of England 870
Corinne at the Capitol 871
A Spirit’s Return 872
11. JOHN KEATS (1795–1821) 878
On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer 880
Sleep and Poetry 881
O for Ten Years] 881[
On Seeing the Elgin Marbles 883
Endymion: A Poetic Romance 883
Preface 883
Book 1 884
A Thing of Beauty] 884[
The “Pleasure Thermometer”] 885[
On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again 887
When I have fears that I may cease to be 888
To Homer 888
The Eve of St. Agnes 888
Why did I laugh tonight? No voice will tell 898
Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art 898
La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad 899
Sonnet to Sleep 900
Ode to Psyche 901
Ode to a Nightingale 903
Ode on a Grecian Urn 905
Ode on Melancholy 906
Ode on Indolence 908
Lamia 909
To Autumn 925
The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream 926
This living hand, now warm and capable 939
letters 940
To Benjamin Bailey (Nov. 22, 1817) 940
To George and Thomas Keats (Dec. 21, 27 [?], 1817) 942
To John Hamilton Reynolds (Feb. 3, 1818) 943
To John Taylor (Feb. 27, 1818) 944
To John Hamilton Reynolds (May 3, 1818) 945
To Richard Woodhouse (Oct. 27, 1818) 947
To George and Georgiana Keats (Feb. 14–May 3, 1819) 948
To Fanny Brawne (July 25, 1819) 952
To Percy Bysshe Shelley (Aug. 16, 1820) 953
To Charles Brown (Nov. 30, 1820) 954
12. MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY (1797–1851) 955
The Last Man: Introduction 958
The Mortal Immortal 961
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13. LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON (1802–1838) 970
The Proud Ladye 971
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Love’s Last Lesson 973
Revenge 976
The Little Shroud 977
POEMS IN PROCESS A1
William Blake A2
The Tyger A2
William Wordsworth A4
She dwelt among the untrodden ways
Lord Byron A5
Don Juan A5
A4
Canto 3, Stanza 9 A5
Canto 14, Stanza 95 A6
Percy Bysshe Shelley A7
O World, O Life, O Time A7
John Keats A9
The Eve of St. Agnes
To Autumn A10
A9
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Lady of Shalott
Tithonus A14
A11
A11
Elizabeth Barrett Browning A15
The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point
Gerard Manley Hopkins A18
Thou art indeed just, Lord A18
William Butler Yeats A19
A15
The Sorrow of Love A19
Leda and the Swan A21
D. H. Lawrence A23
The Piano A23
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHIES A25
Suggested General Readings
The Romantic Period A27
A25
APPENDIXES A37
Literary Terminology A37
Geographic Nomenclature A59
British Money A61
The British Baronage A66
The Royal Lines of England and Great Britain
Religions in England A72
A69
Permissions Acknowledgments A76
Index A77