Longman Anthology of British Literature, The, Volume 1

List of contents

*** denotes selection is new to this edition.
 
THE MIDDLE AGES
Before the Norman Conquest 
 
BEOWULF***                                                                                        
Response
John Gardner: from Grendel  
 
THE TÁIN***
 
EARLY IRISH VERSE
To Crinog  
Pangur the Cat  
Writing in the Wood  
The Viking Terror  
The Old Woman of Beare  
Findabair Remembers Fróech  
A Grave Marked with Ogam  
from The Voyage of Máel Dúin  
 
JUDITH
 
THE DREAM OF THE ROOD
 
PERSPECTIVES: ETHNIC AND RELIGIOUS ENCOUNTERS
Bede  
from An Ecclesiastical History of the English People  
Bishop Asser  
from The Life of King Alfred  
King Alfred  
Preface to Saint Gregory's Pastoral Care  
Ohthere's Journeys  
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle  
Stamford Bridge and Hastings  
 
TALIESIN
Urien Yrechwydd  
The Battle of Argoed Llwyfain  
The War-Band's Return  
Lament for Owain Son of Urien  
  
THE WANDERER
 
WULF AND EADWACER AND THE WIFE'S LAMENT
 
RIDDLES
Three Anglo-Latin Riddles by Aldhelm  
Five Old English Riddles  
 
After the Norman Conquest 
 
PERSPECTIVES: ARTHURIAN MYTH IN THE HISTORY OF BRITAIN
Geoffrey of Monmouth  
from History of the Kings of Britain  
Gerald of Wales  
from The Instruction of Princes  
Edward I  
Letter sent to the Papal Court of Rome  
Response
A Report to Edward I  
 
Arthurian Romance
 
MARIE DE FRANCE
Lais  
Prologue  
Lanval  
        Chevrefoil (The Honeysuckle)  
 
SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT***
 
SIR THOMAS MALORY
Morte Darthur  
from Caxton's Prologue  
The Miracle of Galahad  
The Poisoned Apple  
The Day of Destiny  
Responses
Marion Zimmer Bradley: from The Mists of Avalon  
Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin: scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail  
 
GEOFFREY CHAUCER
The Canterbury Tales  
The General Prologue (Middle English and modern translation)  
The Miller's Tale  
The Introduction  
The Tale  
The Wife of Bath's Prologue  
The Wife of Bath's Tale  
The Prologue  
The Tale  
The Pardoner's Prologue  
The Pardoner's Tale  
The Nun's Priest's Tale  
The Parson's Tale  
The Introduction  
[The Remedy for the Sin of Lechery]  
Chaucer's Retraction  
To His Scribe Adam  
Complaint to His Purse  
 
WILLIAM LANGLAND
Piers Plowman
Prologue  
Passus 2  
from Passus 6  
Passus 8  
Passus 20  
“Piers Plowman” and Its Time
The Rising of 1381  
from The Anonimalle Chronicle [Wat Tyler's Demands to Richard II, and His Death]  
Three Poems on the Rising of 1381: John Ball's First Letter  • John Ball's Second Letter  • The Course of Revolt  
John Gower: from The Voice of One Crying  
 
Mystical Writings
 
JULIAN OF NORWICH
A Book of Showings  
[Three Graces. Illness. The First Revelation]  
[Laughing at the Devil]  
[Christ Draws Julian in through His Wound]  
[The Necessity of Sin, and of Hating Sin]  
[God as Father, Mother, Husband]  
[The Soul as Christ's Citadel]  
[The Meaning of the Visions Is Love]  
 Companion Readings
Richard Rolle: from The Fire of Love  
from The Cloud of Unknowing  
Response
Rebecca Jackson: The Dream of Washing Quilts  
 
Medieval Biblical Drama
 
THE SECOND PLAY OF THE SHEPHERDS
 
THE YORK PLAY OF THE CRUCIFIXION
 
MARGERY KEMPE
The Book of Margery Kempe  
The Preface  
[Early Life and Temptations, Revelation, Desire for Foreign Pilgrimage]  
[Meeting with Bishop of Lincoln and Archbishop of Canterbury]  
[Visit with Julian of Norwich]  
[Pilgrimage to Jerusalem]  
[Arrest by Duke of Bedford's Men; Meeting with Archbishop of York]  
 
MIDDLE ENGLISH LYRICS
The Cuckoo Song (“Sumer is icumen in”)  
Spring (“Lenten is come with love to toune”)  
Alisoun (“Bitwene Mersh and Averil”)  
I Have a Noble Cock  
My Lefe Is Faren in a Lond  
Fowls in the Frith  
Abuse of Women (“In every place ye may well see”)  
The Irish Dancer (“Gode sire, pray ich thee”)  
A Forsaken Maiden's Lament (“I lovede a child of this cuntree”)  
The Wily Clerk (“This enther day I mete a clerke”)  
Jolly Jankin (“As I went on YoI Day in our procession”)  
Adam Lay Ibounden  
I Sing of a Maiden  
In Praise of Mary (“Edi be thu, Hevene Quene”)  
Mary Is with Child (“Under a tree”)  
Sweet Jesus, King of Bliss  
Now Goeth Sun under Wood  
Jesus, My Sweet Lover (“Jesu Christ, my lemmon swete”)  
Contempt of the World (“Where beth they biforen us weren?”)  
 
DAFYDD AP GWILYM
Aubade  
One Saving Place  
Tale of a Wayside Inn  
The Winter  
The Ruin  
 
Middle Scots Poets
 
WILLIAM DUNBAR                                                                               
Lament for the Makars  
Done Is a Battell  
In Secreit Place This Hyndir Nycht  
 
ROBERT HENRYSON
Robene and Makyne  
 
Late Medieval Allegory
 
CHARLES D'ORLEANS
Ballade 26  
Ballade 61  
Roundel 94  
 
MANKIND
(acting edition by Peter Meredith)           
 
CHRISTINE DE PIZAN
from Book of the City of Ladies  
(trans. by Earl Jeffrey Richards)
 
THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD
 
JOHN SKELTON*** The Bowge of Courte***
 
PERSPECTIVES: THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY SONNET***
Sir Thomas Wyatt
     The Long Love, That in My Thought Doth Harbor  
Companion Reading
Petrarch: Sonnet 140  
     Whoso List to Hunt  
Companion Reading
Petrarch: Sonnet 190  
     My Galley 
     Some Time I Fled the Fire 
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
     Love That Doth Reign and Live within My Thought  
     Th'Assyrians' King, in Peace with Foul Desire  
     Set Me Whereas the Sun Doth Parch the Green  
     The Soote Season  
    Alas, So All Things Now Do Hold Their Peace  
Companion Reading
Petrarch: Sonnet 164  
George Gascoigne
     Seven Sonnets to Alexander Neville  
Edmund Spenser
     Amoretti  
1 (“Happy ye leaves when as those lilly hands”)  
4 (“New yeare forth looking out of Janus gate”)  
13 (“In that proud port, which her so goodly graceth”)  
22 (“This holy season fit to fast and pray”)  
62 (“The weary yeare his race now having run”)  
65 (“The doubt which ye misdeeme, fayre love, is vaine”)  
66 (“To all those happy blessings which ye have”)  
68 (“Most glorious Lord of lyfe that on this day”)  
75 (“One day I wrote her name upon the strand”)  
Sir Philip Sidney
     Astrophil and Stella  
1 (“Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show”)  
3 (“Let dainty wits cry on the sisters nine”)  
7 (“When Nature made her chief work, Stella's eyes”)  
9 (“Queen Virtue's court, which some call Stella's face”)  
10 (“Reason, in faith thou art well served, that still”)  
14 (“Alas, have I not pain enough, my friend”)  
15 (“You that do search for every purling spring”)  
23 (“The curious wits, seeing dull pensiveness”)  
24 (“Rich fool there be whose base and filthy heart”)  
31 (“With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies”)  
37 (“My mouth doth water and my breast doth swell”)  
39 (“Come sleep, O sleep, the certain knot of peace”)  
45 (“Stella oft sees the very face of woe”)  
47 (“What, have I thus betrayed my liberty?”)  
52 (“A strife is grown between Virtue and Love”)  
60 (“When my good Angel guides me to the place”)  
63 (“O grammar-rules, O now your virtues show”)  
64 (“No more, my dear, no more these counsels try”)  
68 (“Stella, the only planet of my light”)  
71 (“Who will in fairest book of Nature know”)  
Second song (“Have I caught my heavenly jewel”)  
74 (“I never drank of Aganippe well”)  
Fourth song (“Only joy, now here you are”)  
86 (“Alas, whence came this change of looks? If I...”)  
Eighth song (“In a grove most rich of shade”)  
Ninth song (“Go, my flock, go get you hence”)  
89 (“Now that, of absence, the most irksome night”)  
90 (“Stella, think not that I by verse seek fame”)  
91 (“Stella, while now by honor's cruel might”)  
97 (“Dian, that fain would cheer her friend the Night”)  
104 (“Envious wits, what hath been mine offense”)  
106 (“O absent presence, Stella is not here”)  
107 (“Stella, since thou so right a princess art”)  
108 (“When sorrow (using mine own fire's might)”) 
Richard Barnfield
    Sonnets from Cynthia  
1 (“Sporting at fancy, setting light by love”)  
5 (“It is reported of fair Thetis' son”)  
9 (“Diana (on a time) walking the wood”)  
11 (“Sighing, and sadly sitting by my love”)  
13 (“Speak, Echo, tell; how may I call my love?”)  
19 (“Ah no; nor I myself: though my pure love”)  
 Michael Drayton
    Sonnet 12 (“To nothing fitter can I thee compare”)  
     Sonnet 61 (“Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part”)  
 
SIR THOMAS WYATT
They Flee from Me  
My Lute, Awake!  
Tagus, Farewell  
Forget Not Yet  
Blame Not My Lute  
Lucks, My Fair Falcon, and Your Fellows All  
Stand Whoso List  
Mine Own John Poyns  
 
HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF SURREY
So Cruel Prison  
London, Hast Thou Accused Me  
Wyatt Resteth Here  
My Radcliffe, When Thy Reckless Youth Offends  
 
SIR THOMAS MORE
Utopia  
Response***
Sir Francis Bacon: from New Atlantis***  
 
WILLIAM BALDWIN***
Beware the Cat  ***
 
EDMUND SPENSER***
The Faerie Queene  ***
The Sixthe Booke of the Faerie Queene  ***
The Two Cantos of Mutabilitie***
 
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY 
The Apology for Poetry  
 
ISABELLA WHITNEY
The Admonition by the Author  
A Careful Complaint by the Unfortunate Author  
The Manner of Her Will  
 
MARY HERBERT, COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE
Psalm 71: In Te Domini Speravi (“On thee my trust is grounded”)  
Psalm 121: Levavi Oculos (“Unto the hills, I now will bend”)  
The Doleful Lay of Clorinda  
 
PERSPECTIVES: EARLY MODERN BOOKS***
Ranulf Higden  
from Polychronicon  
John Foxe***
  from Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perilous Days***
The Geneva Bible
Thomas Hariot***
  from The True Pictures and Fashions of the People in That Part of America Now Called Virginia**
John Gerard
   from The Herball or Generall historie of plantes
Geoffrey Whitney  
The Phoenix  
Robert Fludd
   from Utriusque cosmic, maioris scilicet et minoris, metaphysica atque technica historia
Francis Bacon
   from Advancement of Learning
English Handwriting Samples**
    Frontispiece to A Certain Relation of the Hog-faced Gentlewoman
 
ELIZABETH I
Written with a Diamond on Her Window at Woodstock  
Written on a Wall at Woodstock  
The Doubt of Future Foes  
On Monsieur's Departure  
Speeches  
On Marriage  
On Mary, Queen of Scots  
On Mary's Execution  
To the English Troops at Tilbury, Facing the Spanish Armada  
The Golden Speech  
 
AEMILIA LANYER
The Description of Cookham  
 
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
Hero and Leander  
The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus  
Response
C.S. Lewis: from The Screwtape Letters  
 
SIR WALTER RALEIGH
Nature That Washed Her Hands in Milk  
To the Queen  
On the Life of Man  
The Author's Epitaph, Made by Himself  
As You Came from the Holy Land  
from The 21st and Last Book of the Ocean to Cynthia  
 
PERSPECTIVES: ENGLAND, BRITAIN, AND THE WORLD***
Fynes Moryson***
from An Itenerary, Obseravations on the Ottomon Empire***
Fynes Moryson***
from An Itenerary, Obeservations of Italy and Ireland***
Edmund Spenser***
from A View of the State of Ireland***
Thomas Hariot
from A Brief and True Report of the Newfound Land of Virginia  
John Smith  
from General History of Virginia and the Summer Isles  
 
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Sonnets  
1 (“From fairest creatures we desire increase”)  
12 (“When I do count the clock that tells the time”)  
15 (“When I consider every thing that grows”)  
18 (“Shall I compare thee to a summer's day”)  
20 (“A woman's face with Nature's own hand painted”)  
29 (“When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes”)  
30 (“When to the sessions of sweet silent thought”)  
31 (“Thy bosom is endearèd with all hearts”)  
33 (“Full many a glorious morning have I seen”)  
35 (“No more be grieved at that which thou hast done”)  
55 (“Not marble nor the gilded monuments”)  
60 (“Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore”)  
71 (“No longer mourn for me when I am dead”)  
73 (“That time of year thou mayst in me behold”)  
80 (“O, how I faint when I of you do write”)  
86 (“Was it the proud full sail of his great verse”)  
87 (“Farewell! Thou art too dear for my possessing”)  
93 (“So shall I live, supposing thou art true”)  
94 (“They that have pow'r to hurt, and will do none”)  
104 (“To me, fair friend, you never can be old”)  
106 (“When in the chronicle of wasted time”)  
107 (“Not mine own fears nor the prophetic soul”)  
116 (“Let me not to the marriage of true minds”)  
123 (“No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change”)  
124 (“If my dear love were but the child of state”)  
126 (“O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power”)  
128 (“How oft, when thou my music play'st”)  
129 (“The expense of spirit in a waste of shame”)  
130 (“My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun”)  
138 (“When my love swears that she is made of truth”)  
144 (“Two loves I have, of comfort and despair”)  
152 (“In loving thee thou know'st I am forsworn”)  
 
Twelfth Night; or, What You Will  
Othello***
King Lear***
 
PERSPECTIVES: TRACTS ON WOMEN AND GENDER
Joseph Swetnam  
from The Arraignment of Lewd, Idle, Froward, and Unconstant Women  
Rachel Speght  
from A Muzzle for Melastomus  
Ester Sowernam  
from Ester Hath Hanged Haman  
Hic Mulier and Haec-Vir  
from Hic Mulier; or, The Man-Woman  
from Haec-Vir; or, The Womanish-Man  
 
BEN JONSON
The Alchemist  
On Something, That Walks Somewhere  
On My First Daughter  
To John Donne  
On My First Son  
Inviting a Friend to Supper  
To Penshurst  
Song to Celia  
Queen and Huntress  
To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare, and What He Hath Left Us  
To the Immortal Memory, and Friendship of that Noble Pair, Sir Lucius Cary and Sir H. Morison  
Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue  
 
JOHN DONNE
The Good Morrow  
Song (“Go, and catch a falling star”)  
The Undertaking  
The Sun Rising  
The Indifferent  
The Canonization  
Air and Angels  
Break of Day  
A Valediction: of Weeping  
Love's Alchemy  
The Flea  
The Bait  
The Apparition  
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning  
The Ecstasy  
The Funeral  
The Relic  
Elegy 19: To His Mistress Going to Bed  
Holy Sonnets  
1 (“As due by many titles I resign”)  
2 (“Oh my black soul! Now thou art summoned”)  
3 (“This is my play's last scene, here heavens appoint”)  
4 (“At the round earth's imagined corners, blow”)  
5 (“If poisonous minerals, and if that tree”)  
6 (“Death be not proud, though some have called thee”)  
7 (“Spit in my face ye Jews, and pierce my side”)  
8 (“Why are we by all creatures waited on?”)  
9 (“What if this present were the world's last night?”)  
10 (“Batter my heart, three-personed God; for, you”)  
11 (“Wilt thou love God, as he thee? Then digest”)  
12 (“Father, part of his double interest”)  
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions  
[“For whom the bell tolls”]  
 
LADY MARY WROTH
Pamphilia to Amphilanthus  
1 (“When night's black mantle could most darkness prove”)  
5 (“Can pleasing sight misfortune ever bring?”)  
16 (“Am I thus conquered? Have I lost the powers”)  
17 (“Truly poor Night thou welcome art to me”)  
25 (“Like to the Indians, scorched with the sun”)  
26 (“When everyone to pleasing pastime hies”)  
28 Song (“Sweetest love, return again”)  
39 (“Take heed mine eyes, how you your looks do cast”)  
40 (“False hope which feeds but to destroy, and spill”)  
48 (“If ever Love had force in human breast?”)  
55 (“How like a fire does love increase in me”)  
68 (“My pain, still smothered in my grièved breast”)  
74 Song (“Love a child is ever crying”)  
A Crown of Sonnets Dedicated to Love  
77 (“In this strange labyrinth how shall I turn?”)  
82 (“He may our profit and our tutor prove”)  
83 (“How blessed be they then, who his favors prove”)  
84 (“ He that shuns love does love himself the less”)  
103 (“My muse now happy, lay thyself to rest”)  
 
ROBERT HERRICK
Hesperides  
The Argument of His Book  
To His Book  
Another (“To read my book the virgin shy”)  
Another (“Who with thy leaves shall wipe at need”)  
To the Sour Reader  
When He Would Have His Verses Read  
Delight in Disorder  
Corinna's Going A-Maying  
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time  
The Hock-Cart, or Harvest Home  
His Prayer to Ben Jonson  
Upon Julia's Clothes  
Upon His Spaniel Tracie  
The Dream (“Me thought (last night) Love in an anger came”)  
The Dream (“By dream I saw one of the three”)  
The Vine  
The Vision  
Discontents in Devon  
To Dean-Bourn, a Rude River in Devon  
Upon Scobble: Epigram  
The Christian Militant  
To His Tomb-Maker  
Upon Himself Being Buried  
His Last Request to Julia  
The Pillar of Fame  
His Noble Numbers  
His Prayer for Absolution  
To His Sweet Saviour  
To God, on His Sickness  
 
GEORGE HERBERT
The Altar  
Redemption  
Easter  
Easter Wings  
Affliction (1)  
Prayer (1)  
Jordan (1)  
Church Monuments  
The Windows  
Denial  
Virtue  
Man  
Jordan (2)  
Time  
The Collar  
The Pulley  
The Forerunners  
Love (3)  
 
RICHARD LOVELACE
To Lucasta, Going to the Wars  
The Grasshopper  
To Althea, from Prison  
Love Made in the First Age: To Chloris  
 
HENRY VAUGHAN
Regeneration  
The Retreat  
Silence, and Stealth of Days  
The World  
They Are All Gone into the World of Light!  
The Night  
 
ANDREW MARVELL 
The Coronet  
Bermudas  
The Nymph Complaining for the Death of Her Fawn  
To His Coy Mistress  
The Definition of Love  
The Mower Against Gardens  
The Mower's Song  
The Garden  
An Horatian Ode Upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland  
 
KATHERINE PHILIPS
Friendship in Emblem, or the Seal  
Upon the Double Murder of King Charles  
On the Third of September, 1651  
To the Truly Noble, and Obliging Mrs. Anne Owen  
To Mrs. Mary Awbrey at Parting  
To My Excellent Lucasia, on Our Friendship  
The World  
 
PERSPECTIVES: THE CIVIL WAR, OR THE WARS OF THREE KINGDOMS
John Gauden  
from Eikon Basilike  
John Milton  
from Eikonoklastes  
Oliver Cromwell  
from Letters from Ireland  
John O'Dwyer of the Glenn  
The Story of Alexander Agnew; or, Jock of Broad    Scotland  
 
JOHN MILTON 
L'Allegro  
Il Penseroso  
Lycidas  
How Soon Hath Time  
On the New Forcers of Conscience Under the Long Parliament  
To the Lord General Cromwell  
On the Late Massacre in Piedmont  
When I Consider How My Light Is Spent  
Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint  
from Areopagitica  
Paradise Lost  
Book 1  
Book 2  
Book 3  
Book 4  
Book 5  
Book 6  
Book 7  
Book 8  
Book 9  
Book 10  
Book 11  
Book 12  
Responses
Mary Wollstonecraft: from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman  
William Blake: A Poison Tree  

About the author

David Damrosch is Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University. He is a past president of the American Comparative Literature Association, and has written widely on world literature from antiquity to the present. His books include What Is World Literature? (2003),The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh (2007), and How to Read World Literature (2009). He is the founding general editor of the six-volumeLongman Anthology of World Literature, 2/e (2009) and the editor of Teaching World Literature (2009).
 
Kevin J. H. Dettmar is W. M. Keck Professor and Chair, Department of English, at Pomona College, and Past President of the Modernist Studies Association.  He is the author of The Illicit Joyce of Postmodernism and Is Rock Dead?, and the editor of Rereading the New: A Backward Glance at Modernism; Marketing Modernisms: Self-Promotion, Canonization, and Rereading; Reading Rock & Roll: Authenticity, Appropriation, Aesthetics; the Barnes & Noble Classics edition of James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Dubliners; and The Blackwell Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture, and co-general editor of The Longman Anthology of British Literature.  
 
Christopher Baswell is A. W. Olin Chair of English at Barnard College, and Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.  His interests include classical literature and culture, medieval literature and culture, and contemporary poetry.  He is author of Virgil in Medieval England: Figuring the "Aeneid" from the Twelfth Century to Chaucer, which won the 1998 Beatrice White Prize of the English Association.  He has held fellowships from the NEH, the National Humanities Center, and the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.
 
Clare Carroll is Director of Renaissance Studies at The Graduate Center, City University of New York and Professor of Comparative Literature at Queens College and at The Graduate Center, CUNY.  Her research is in Renaissance Studies, with particular interests in early modern colonialism, epic poetry, historiography, and translation. She is the author of The Orlando Furioso: A Stoic Comedy, and editor of Richard Beacon's humanist dialogue on the colonization of Ireland,Solon His Follie. Her most recent book isCirce's Cup: Cultural Transformations in Early Modern Ireland. She has received Fulbright Fellowships for her research and the Queens College President's Award for Excellence in Teaching.
 
Andrew Hadfield is Professor of English at The University of Sussex. He is the author of a number of books, including Shakespeare and Republicanism (2005), which was awarded the 2006 Sixteenth-Century Society Conference Roland H. Bainton Prize for Literature; Literature, Travel and Colonialism in the English Renaissance, 1540-1625 (1998); and Spenser's Irish Experience: Wilde Fruyt and Salvage Soyl (1997). He has also edited a number, most recently, with Matthew Dimmock, Religions of the Book: Co-existence and Conflict, 1400-1660 (2008), and with Raymond Gillespie, The Oxford History of the Irish Book, Vol. III: The Irish Book in English, 1550-1800 (2006). He is a regular reviewer for the TLS.
 
Heather Henderson is a freelance writer and former Associate Professor of English Literature at Mount Holyoke College.  A specialist in Victorian literature, she is the recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities.  She is the author of The Victorian Self: Autobiography and Biblical Narrative.  Her current interests include home-schooling, travel literature, and autobiography. 
 
Peter J. Manning is Professor at Stony Brook University. He is the author of Byron and His Fictions and Reading Romantics, and of numerous essays on the British Romantic poets and prose writers. With Susan J. Wolfson, he has co-edited Selected Poems of Byron, and Selected Poems of Beddoes, Hood, and Praed. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the Distinguished Scholar Award of the Keats-Shelley Association.
 
Anne Howland Schotter is Professor and Chair of English and Associate Dean of the Faculty at Wagner College.  She is the co-editor of Ineffability: Naming the Unnamable from Dante to Beckett and author of articles on Middle English poetry, Dante, and Medieval Latin poetry.  Her current interests include the medieval reception of classical literature, particularly the work of Ovid.  She has held fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson and Andrew W. Mellon foundations.
 
William Sharpe is Professor of English Literature at Barnard College.  A specialist in Victorian poetry and the literature of the city, he is the author of Unreal Cities: Urban Figuration in Wordsworth, Baudelaire, Whitman, Eliot, and Williams.  He is also co-editor of The Passing of Arthur and Visions of the Modern City.  He is the recipient of Guggenheim, National Endowment of the Humanities, Fulbright, and Mellon fellowships, and recently published New YorkNocturne: The City After Dark in Literature, Painting, and Photography.
 
Stuart Sherman is Associate Professor of English at Fordham University. He received the Gottschalk Prize from the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies for his book Telling Time: Clocks, Diaries, and English Diurnal Form, 1660-1775, and is currently at work on a study called “News and Plays: Evanescences of Page and Stage, 1620-1779.” He has received the Quantrell Award for Undergraduate Teaching, as well as fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Chicago Humanities Institute, and Princeton University.
 
Susan J. Wolfson is Professor of English at Princeton University and is general editor of Longman Cultural Editions. A specialist in Romanticism, her critical studies include The Questioning Presence:  Wordsworth, Keats, and the Interrogative Mode in Romantic Poetry, Formal Charges: The Shaping of Poetry in British Romanticism, and Borderlines: The Shiftings of Gender in British Romanticism. She has also produced editions of Felicia Hemans, Lord Byron, Thomas L. Beddoes, William M. Praed, Thomas Hood, as well as the Longman Cultural Edition of Shelley's Frankenstein. She received Distinguished Scholar Award from Keats-Shelley Association, and grants and fellowships from American Council of Learned Societies, National Endowment for the Humanities, J. S. Guggenheim Foundation, and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.  She is President (2009-2010) of the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers.
 

Summary

The Longman Anthology of British Literatureis the most comprehensive and thoughtfully arranged text in the field, offering a rich selection of compelling British authors through the ages.
 
With its first edition, The Longman Anthology of British Literature created a new paradigm for anthologies.  Responding to major shifts in literary studies over the past thirty years, it was the first collection to pay sustained attention to the contexts within which literature is produced, even as it broadened the scope of that literature to embrace the full cultural diversity of the British Isles.  Within its pages, canonical authors mingle with newly visible writers; English accents are heard next to Anglo-Norman, Welsh, Gaelic, and Scottish ones; female and male voices are set in dialogue; literature from the British Isles is integrated with post-colonial writing; and major works are illuminated by clusters of shorter texts that bring literary, social, and historical issues vividly to life.
 
Fresh and up-to-date introductions and notes are written by an editorial team whose members are all actively engaged in teaching and in current scholarship, and 150 illustrations show both artistic and cultural developments from the medieval period to the present.
 
The Fourth Edition builds on the pioneering features of the previous three editions, expanding the strong core of frequently taught works while continuing to lead the way in responding to the shifting interests of the discipline.

Product details

• Authors: Christopher Baswell, Clare Carroll, David Damrosch, Kevin J. H. Dettmar, Andrew David Hadfield, Heather Henderson
• Publisher: Pearson Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2009
• EAN: 9780205655243
• ISBN: 978-0-205-65524-3
• No. of pages: 2960
• Series: Longman; Longman
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies