Masters of British Literature, Volume B

VOLUME B
 
Developed by a distringuished editorial team, this highly teachable anthology features comprehensive coverage of the enduring works of the British literary tradition from the Romantics through the twentieth century.  Major works by the most influential authors--Barbauld, Bake, Wollstonecraft, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Barrett Browning, Browning, Tennyson, Yeats, Woolf, Joyce, Eliot, Walcott, Heaney, and Rushdie--are offered alongside shorter pieces in contextual groups that add insight to the wrok and its themes.
 
FEATURES

• Major prose works appear in their entirely, together with a wealth of poetry and drama--from Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest to a generous selection of poems from Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience to Conrad's Heart of Darkness.
• "Perspectives" sections shed light on the period as a whole and link with immediately surrounding works, providing a historical point of entry and reference to modern readers.  For example, "Perspectives:  The Abolition of Slavery and the Slave Trade" in the Romantics section contains peices by Mary Prince, a West indian slave, and William Wordsworth.
• Shorter groupings in "...and Its Time" sections show major works in the context of their own era.  For example, "Manfred and Its Time The Byronic Hero" appears with an excerpt from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and in a section of The Widow of Crescentius by Felicia Hemans.
• "Responses" pairings demonstrate the influence of literary masterpieces on subsequent authors.  Pairings include a selection of Chinua Achebe's "An Image of Africa" to go with Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Fadwa Tuqan's "In the Aging City" to accompany Eliot's The Waste Land. 
• Numerous illustrations, both black-and-white and color plates, provide graphic examples and illustrations of literary texts.

 
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List of contents

THE ROMANTICS and THEIR CONTEMPORARIES
 
ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD
The Mouse's Petition to Dr. Priestley  
    On a Lady's Writing  
    Inscription for an Ice-House  
    To a Little Invisible Being Who Is Expected Soon to Become Visible  
    Eighteen Hundred and Eleven  
 
CHARLOTTE SMITH 
FROM ELEGIAC SONNETS AND OTHER POEMS
To the Moon  
    “Sighing I see yon little troop at play”  
    To melancholy. Written on the banks of the Arun October, 1785  
    The sea view  
    The Dead Beggar  
    from Beachy Head  
 
WILLIAM BLAKE
    All Religions Are One  
    SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND OF EXPERIENCE
    from Songs of Innocence  
        Introduction  
        The Shepherd  
        The Ecchoing Green  
        The Lamb  
        The Little Black Boy  
        The Blossom  
        The Chimney Sweeper  
        The Little Boy lost  
        The Little Boy found  
        The Divine Image  
        HOLY THURSDAY
        Nurses Song  
        Infant Joy  
        A Dream  
        On Anothers Sorrow  
from Songs of Experience  
    Introduction  
    EARTH'S Answer  
    The CLOD & the PEBBLE  
    HOLY THURSDAY
    The Little Girl Lost  
    The Little Girl Found  
    The Chimney Sweeper  
    NURSES Song  
    The SICK ROSE  
    The FLY
    The Angel  
    The Tyger  
    My Pretty ROSE TREE  
    AH! SUN-FLOWER
    THE GARDEN of LOVE  
    LONDON 
    The Human Abstract  
    INFANT SORROW
    The Little BOY Lost  
    The Little GIRL Lost  
    The School-Boy  
    A Divine Image  
PERSPECTIVES
The Abolition of Slavery and the Slave Trade                       
 
Olaudah Equiano  
    from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano  
Mary Prince  
    from The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave  
Thomas Bellamy  
    The Benevolent Planters  
John Newton  
    Amazing Grace!  
Ann Cromartie Yearsley  
    from A Poem on the Inhumanity of the Slave-Trade  
William Cowper  
    Sweet Meat Has Sour Sauce  
    The Negro's Complaint  
Hannah More and Eaglesfield Smith  
    The Sorrows of Yamba  
Robert Southey  
    from Poems Concerning the Slave-Trade  
Dorothy Wordsworth  
    from The Grasmere Journals  
Thomas Clarkson  
    from The History of the Rise, Progress, & Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade by the British Parliament  
William Wordsworth  
    To Toussaint L'Ouverture  
    To Thomas Clarkson  
    from The Prelude  
    from Humanity  
    Letter to Mary Ann Rawson (May 1833)  
The Edinburgh Review  
from Abstract of the Information laid on the Table of the House of Commons, on the Subject of the Slave Trade  
George Gordon, Lord Byron  
    from Detached Thoughts  
 
MARY ROBINSON
Ode to Beauty  
    January, 1795  
    from Sappho and Phaon, in a Series of Legitimate Sonnets  
        III. The Bower of Pleasure  
        IV. Sappho discovers her Passion  
    VII. Invokes Reason  
    XI. Rejects the Influence of Reason  
    XII. Previous to her Interview with Phaon  
    XVIII. To Phaon  
    XXX. Bids farewell to Lesbos  
    XXXVII. Foresees her Death  
   The Old Beggar  
 
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT
    A Vindication of the Rights of Woman  
    from To M.Talleyrand-Périgord, Late Bishop of Autun  
        Introduction  
    from Chapter 1. The Rights and Involved Duties of Mankind Considered  
    from Chapter 2. The Prevailing Opinion of a Sexual Character Discussed  
 
JOANNA BAILLIE
London  
    A Mother to Her Waking Infant  
    A Child to His Sick Grandfather  
    Thunder  
    Song: Woo'd and Married and A'  
Literary Ballads
RELIQUES OF ANCIENT ENGLISH POETRY
    Sir Patrick Spence  
 
ROBERT BURNS
To a Mouse  
    To a Louse  
    Flow gently, sweet Afton  
    Ae fond kiss  
    Comin' Thro' the Rye (1)  
    Comin' Thro' the Rye (2)  
    A Red, Red Rose  
    Auld Lang Syne  
    The Fornicator. A New Song  
 
SIR WALTER SCOTT
    Lord Randal  
 
THOMAS MOORE
The harp that once through Tara's halls  
    Believe me, if all those endearing young charms  
    The time I've lost in wooing
 
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
LYRICAL BALLARDS
Simon Lee  
    Anecdote for Fathers  
    We are seven  
    Expostulation and Reply  
    Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey  
LYRICAL BALLARDS (1800, 1802)  
from Preface  
    [The Principal Object of the Poems. Humble and Rustic Life]  
    [“The Spontaneous Overflow of Powerful Feelings”]  
    [The Language of Poetry]  
    [What is a Poet?]  
    [“Emotion Recollected in Tranquillity”]  
“Strange fits of passion have I known”  
Song (“She dwelt among th' untrodden ways”)  
“A slumber did my spirit seal”  
Lucy Gray  
Poor Susan  
Nutting  
Michael  
 
RESPONSES
Francis Jeffrey: [“the new poetry”]  
Charles Lamb: from a letter to William Wordsworth  
Charles Lamb: from a letter to Thomas Manning  
 
SONNETS, 1802-1807  
Prefatory Sonnet (“Nuns fret not at their Convent's narrow room”)  
Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1802  
“The world is too much with us”  
“It is a beauteous Evening”  
London, 1802  
from THE PRELUDE, OR GROWTH OF A POET'S MIND
Book First. Introduction, Childhood, and School time  
from Book Second. School time continued  
    [Two Consciousnesses]  
    [Blessed Infant Babe]  
from Book Sixth. Cambridge, and the Alps  
    [Arrival in France]  
    [Travelling in the Alps. Simplon Pass]  
from Book Ninth. Residence in France 
        [Revolution, Royalists, and Patriots]  
from Book Tenth. Residence in France and French Revolution  
    [The Reign of Terror. Confusion. Return to England]  
from Book Eleventh. Imagination, How Impaired and Restored  
    [Imagination Restored by Nature]  
    [“Spots of Time.” Two Memories from Childhood and Later Reflections]  
“I travell'd among unknown Men”  
Resolution and Independence 
“I wandered lonely as a cloud”  
“My heart leaps up”  
Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood  
Surprized by joy  
Scorn not the Sonnet  
 
DOROTHY WORDSWORTH
Grasmere-A Fragment  
    Thoughts on My Sick-bed  
    When Shall I Tread Your Garden Path?  
    Lines Written (Rather Say Begun) on the Morning of Sunday April 6th  
    from The Grasmere Journals  
        [Home Alone]  
        [A Leech Gatherer]  
        [A Woman Beggar]  
        [An Old Soldier]  
    [The Grasmere Mailman]  
    [A Vision of the Moon]  
    [A Field of Daffodils]  
    [A Beggar Woman from Cockermouth]  
    [The Circumstances of “Composed upon Westminster Bridge”]  
 
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
Sonnet to the River Otter 
    The Eolian Harp  
    This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison  
    Frost at Midnight  
    The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1817)  
    Christabel  
    Kubla Khan  
    The Pains of Sleep  
    Dejection: An Ode  
    Biographia Literaria  
        Chapter 4  
            [Wordsworth's Earlier Poetry]  
        Chapter 11  
             [The Profession of Literature]  
        Chapter 13  
            [Imagination and Fancy]  
        Chapter 14  
            [Occasion of the Lyrical Ballads-Preface to the Second Edition-The Ensuing Controversy]  
            [Philosophic Definitions of a Poem and Poetry]
    from Lectures on Shakespeare  
    [Mechanic vs. Organic Form]  
 
GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON
     She walks in beauty  
    So, we'll go no more a-roving  
    Manfred  
 
" MANFRED' AND ITS TIME
    THE BYRONIC HERO
Byron's Earlier Heroes  fromThe Giaour  • fromThe Corsair   fromLara • Prometheus  • from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto the Third[Napoleon Buonaparte]
Samuel Taylor Coleridge  fromThe Statesman's Manual [“Satanic Pride and Rebellious Self-Idolatry”]  
Caroline Lamb  fromGlenarvon  
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley  from Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus  
Felicia Hemans  fromThe Widow of Crescentius  
Percy Bysshe Shelley  from Preface to Prometheus Unbound • from Prometheus Unbound, Act 1
Robert Southey  from Preface to A Vision of Judgement 
George Gordon, Lord Byron  from The Vision of Judgement  
 
CHILD HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE
from Canto the Third  
    [Thunderstorm in the Alps]  
    [Byron's Strained Idealism. Apostrophe to His Daughter]  
from Canto the Fourth  
    [Rome. Political Hopes]  
    [Apostrophe to the Ocean. Conclusion]  
 
DON JUAN
Dedication  
Canto 1  
from Canto 7 [Critique of Military “Glory”]  
from Canto 11 [Juan in England]  
Stanzas (“When a man hath no freedom to fight for at home”)  
On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year  
 
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
    To Wordsworth  
    Mont Blanc  
    Hymn to Intellectual Beauty  
    Ozymandias  
    Sonnet: Lift not the painted veil  
    Sonnet: England in 1819  
    Ode to the West Wind  
    To a Sky-Lark  
    To-(“Music, when soft voices die”)  
    Adonais  
    The Cloud  
    from Hellas  
        Chorus (“Worlds on worlds are rolling ever”)  
        Chorus (“The world's great age begins anew”)  
from ADefence of Poetry  
 
FELICIA HEMANS
    from TALES, AND HISTORIC SCENES, IN VERSE
    Evening Prayer, at a Girls' School  
   Casabianca  
from RECORDS OF WOMAN
Indian Woman's Death-Song  
    Joan of Arc, in Rheims  
    The Homes of England  
    The Graves of a Household  
    Corinne at the Capitol  
    Woman and Fame  
 
JOHN CLARE
Written in November (manuscript)  
    Written in November  
    Songs Eternity  
    [The Mouse's Nest]  
 
JOHN KEATS
ON FIRST LOOKING INTO CHAPMAN'S HOMER
 Young Poets  
    On First Looking into Chapman's Homer.  
    “To one who has been long in city pent”  
    On Seeing the Elgin Marbles  
    On sitting down to read King Lear once again  
    Sonnet: When I have fears  
    The Eve of St. Agnes  
    La Belle Dame sans Mercy  
    THE ODES OF 1819
     Ode to Psyche  
    Ode to a Nightingale  
    Ode on a Grecian Urn  
    Ode on Indolence  
    Ode on Melancholy  
    To Autumn  
    This living hand  
    Bright Star  
LETTERS
To George and Thomas Keats [“Intensity” and “Negative Capability”]  
    To Richard Woodhouse [The “Camelion Poet” vs. The “Egotistical Sublime”]  
    To Charles Brown [Keats's Last Letter]  
 
THE VICTORIAN AGE
 
THOMAS CARLYLE
    from Gospel of Mammonism [The Irish Widow]  
    from Labour [Know Thy Work]  
    from Democracy [Liberty to Die by Starvation]  
    Captains of Industry  
 
JOHN STUART MILL                                         
    On Liberty  
        from Chapter 2. Of the Liberty of Thought and Discussion  
        from Chapter 3. Of Individuality, as One of the Elements of Well-Being  
 
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
To George Sand: A Desire  
    To George Sand: A Recognition  
    A Year's Spinning  
    Sonnets from the Portuguese  
        1 (“I thought once how Theocritus had sung”)  
        13 (“And wilt thou have me fashion into speech”)  
        14 (“If thou must love me, let it be for nought”)  
        21 (“Say over again, and yet once over again”)  
        22 (“When our two souls stand up erect and strong”)  
        43 (“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways”)  
    Aurora Leigh  
    Book 1  
        [Self-Portrait]  
        [Her Mother's Portrait]  
        [Aurora's Education]  
        [Discovery of Poetry]  
    Book 2 
        [Woman and Artist]  
        [No Female Christ]  
    Book 5  
        [Epic Art and Modern Life] 
 
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON
    The Kraken  
    Mariana  
    The Lady of Shalott  
   The Lotos-Eaters  
   Ulysses  
   Tithonus  
   Break, Break, Break  
   The Epic [Morte d'Arthur]  
THE PRINCESS
      Sweet and Low 
    Come Down, O Maid  
    [The Woman's Cause Is Man's]  
from In Memoriam A. H. H.  
    The Charge of the Light Brigade  
    Idylls of the King  
        The Coming of Arthur  
The Higher Pantheism  
    Flower in the Crannied Wall  
    Crossing the Bar 
 
CHARLES DARWIN
    On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection  
        from  Chapter 3. Struggle for Existence  
 
PERSPECTIVES                                 
Religion and Science                                         
 
Thomas Babington Macaulay  
    from Lord Bacon  
Charles Dickens 
    from Sunday Under Three Heads  
David Friedrich Strauss  
    from The Life of Jesus Critically Examined  
Charlotte Brontë  
    from Jane Eyre  
Arthur Hugh Clough  
    Epi-strauss-ium  
    The Latest Decalogue  
    from Dipsychus  
John William Colenso  
    from The Pentateuch and Book of Joshua Critically Examined  
John Henry Cardinal Newman  
    from Apologia Pro Vita Sua  
Thomas Henry Huxley  
    from Evolution and Ethics  
Sir Edmund Gosse  
    from Father and Son  
 
ROBERT BROWNING
    Porphyria's Lover  
    Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister  
    My Last Duchess  
    The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church 
    Meeting at Night 
    Parting at Morning 
    A Toccata of Galuppi's  
    Memorabilia  
    Love Among the Ruins  
    “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”  
    Fra Lippo Lippi  
    The Last Ride Together  
    Andrea del Sarto  
 
CHARLES DICKENS
    A Christmas Carol  
 
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
    A Scandal in Bohemia  
 
JOHN RUSKIN
    Modern Painters  
        from Definition of Greatness in Art  
        from Of Water, As Painted by Turner  
    The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century  
 
MATTHEW ARNOLD
Isolation. To Marguerite  
    To Marguerite-Continued  
    Dover Beach  
                    
RESPONSE
Anthony Hecht: The Dover Bitch  
 
Lines Written in Kensington Gardens  
    The Buried Life  
    The Scholar-Gipsy  
    Culture and Anarchy
        from Sweetness and Light  
        from Doing as One Likes  
        from Hebraism and Hellenism  
        from Conclusion  
 
DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI
      The Blessed Damozel  
    The Woodspurge 
    The House of Life 
        The Sonnet
        4. Lovesight
        6. The Kiss
        Nuptial Sleep
 
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI
      Song (“She sat and sang alway”)  
    Song (“When I am dead, my dearest”)  
    Remember  
    After Death  
    A Pause  
    Echo  
    Dead Before Death  
    An Apple-Gathering  
    Up-Hill  
...

About the author

David Damrosch is a lecturer at Columbia University.

Summary

Written by an editorial team whose members are all actively engaged in teaching and in current scholarship, Masters of British Literature is a concise, yet comprehensive survey of the key writers whose classic works have shaped British literature.
 
Featuring major works by the most influential authors in the British literary tradition-Barbauld, Blake, Wollstonecraft, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Barrett Browning, Browning, Tennyson, Yeats, Woolf, Joyce, Eliot, Walcott, Heaney, and Rushdie-this compact anthology combines comprehensive coverage of the enduring works of the British literary tradition from the Romantics through the twentieth century. Core texts are complemented by contextual materials that help students understand the literary, historical, and cultural environments out of which these texts arose, and within which they find their richest meaning.

Product details

• Authors: Christopher Baswell, Clare Carroll, David Damrosch, Kevin J. H. Dettmar, Heather Henderson, Constance Jordan
• Publisher: Pearson Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2007
• EAN: 9780321334008
• ISBN: 978-0-321-33400-8
• No. of pages: 1471
• Weight: 1090 g
• Series: Longman; Longman
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies