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	- A GRACE BEYOND THE REACH OF ART LONGINUS: [Genius and the Rules] QUINTILIAN: [When to Break the Rules] RENÉ RAPIN: [Grace Beyond the Rules] SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE: [The Inadequacy of the Rules] JOHN HUGHES: [“Curiosa Felicitas”] ROGER DE PILES: [Grace Gains the Heart] LEONARD WELSTED: [No Precepts Can Teach Grace] - THE GENERAL AND THE PARTICULAR ARISTOTLE: [Poetry and History Contrasted] HORACE: [Character Types in Comedy] SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT: [Poetry and History Contrasted] ANTHONY ASHLEY COOPER, THIRD EARL OF SHAFTESBURY: [The General and the Particular in Painting] SAMUEL JOHNSON: [The Particular in Biography] SAMUEL JOHNSON: [The Simplicity of Grandeur] SAMUEL JOHNSON: [Hudibras and the Particular] SAMUEL JOHNSON: [The Grandeur of Generality] JOSEPH WARTON: [On Thomson’s Seasons] HUGH BLAIR: [The Particular in Descriptive Poetry] SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS: [The General and the Particular in Painting—The “Grand Style”] WILLIAM BLAKE: [The Aesthetic Value of the General Denied] - GENIUS Samuel Johnson: [Definitions of Genius] John Dryden: [Genius Is above Correctness] Joseph Addison: [The Beauties of Great Geniuses Independent of Rules] Samuel Johnson: [Genius Requires Invention] Edward Young: [Imitation and Genius] Samuel Johnson: [Genius and Knowledge] Alexander Gerard: [The Origins of Genius] John Moir: [The Unique Vision of Original Genius] Sir Joshua Reynolds: [Genius the Child of Imitation] William Blake: [Genius Unbound] William Hazlitt: [Reynolds’ Genius] - THE ART OF ROMANTIC POETRY: Comments on the Poetic Process William Blake William Wordsworth Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Spontaneous and Controlled Composition Lord Byron Edward J. Trelawny: Shelley on Composing Thomas Medwin: Shelley’s Self-Hypercriticism Richard Woodhouse: Keats on Composing - INDUSTRIALISM: PROGRESS OR DECLINE? Charles Dickens: from Dombey and Son Railway-Construction in a London Suburb A Journey by Railway Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: from The Communist Manifesto Bourgeois and Proletarians Herbert Spencer: From Social Statics Progress Through Individual Enterprise - THE SATANIC AND BYRONIC HERO John Milton: Satan Romantic Comments on Milton’s Satan William Blake Percy Bysshe Shelley Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Evolution of the Byronic Hero Ann Radcliffe: The Italian Villain Lord Byron: from Lara Lord Byron: from Manfred: A Dramatic Poem
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	- Addison, Joseph Party Patches The Trial of the Petticoat Sir Roger at Church Sir Roger at the Assizes The Beauties of Great Geniuses Independent of Rules, from Spectator 592 - Anonymous The Battle of Maldon Henry of Poitou becomes Abbot of Peterborough The Reign of King Stephen Sir Orfeo Lludd and Lleuelys The Bow The Brome Play of Abraham and Isaac In Praise of Brunettes The Appreciative Drinker A Charm Against the Night Goblin The Blacksmiths Earth Took of Earth Spring Has Come with Love The Henpecked Husband A Bitter Lullaby Hind Horn Judas Edward Robin Hood and the Three Squires A Vision of Nature in Piers Plowman Aucassin Renounces Paradise, from Aucassin and Nicolete from The Land of Cockaigne Ubi Sunt Qui ante Nos Fuerunt? The Book of Homilies, from An Exhortation Concerning Good Order and Obediance to Rulers and Magistrates Translations of the Twenty-Third Psalm Back and Side Go Bare, Go Bare In Praise of A Contented Mind Though Amaryllis Dance in Green Constant Penelope Sends to Thee The Queen's Champion Retires The Shepherd's Consort Come Away, Come, Sweet Love! Thule, The Period of Cosmography Madrigal Weep You No More, Sad Fountains The Silver Swan Tom a Bedlam The Power of Money Mankind Easter 1916 Proclamation of an Irish Republic - Aristotle Poetry and History Contrasted, from Poetics - Arnold, Matthew The Function of a Professor, from On the Study of Celtic Literature Stanzas in Memory of the Author of Obermann Longing Requiescat Palladium The Better Part Shakespeare In Harmony with Nature Philomela The Forsaken Merman Thyrsis To a Friend Isolation. To Marguerite To Marguerite—Continued Memorial Verses Growing Old A Definition of Poetry, from Maurice de Guerin from Wordsworth from The Function of Criticism at the Present Time - Ascham, Roger Comeliness, from Toxophilus, from The Second Book of the School of Shooting - Aubrey, John from The Life of Thomas Hobbes - Aytoun, Sir Robert To An Inconstant One
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	- Barbauld, Anna Letitia Life - Beaumont and Fletcher Songs from The Faithful Shepherdess Songs from Valentinian Lovers, Rejoice! Songs from The Masque of the Inner Temple and Gray's Inn The Passionate Man's Song - Beaumonts, Francis from M. Francis Beaumonts Letter to Ben Jonson - Beddoes, Thomas Lovell Song (How many times do I love thee, dear?) Song (Old Adam, the carrion crow) The Phantom Wooer - Blackmore, Sir Richard from An Essay upon Wit - Blair, Hugh The Particular in Descriptive Poetry, from Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres - Blake, William The Aesthetic Value of the General Denied, from his marginalia in Reynolds' Discourses Genius Unbound, from marginalia to Reynolds' Discourse VI from letter to Thomas Butts from Preface to Jerusalem from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell A Song of Liberty All Religions Are One 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 Judgment There Is No Natural Religion Spring To the Evening Star Song (How sweet I roam'd from field to field) Song (Memory, hither come) Mad Song To the Muses The Mental Traveller With Happiness Stretch'd Across the Hills, from letter to Thomas Butts Letter to William Hayley - Boethius Triumph Over the World, from The Consolation of Philosophy The Last Journey A Change in Perspective Fortune Defends Herself, from The Consolation of Philosophy - Bowles, William Lisle Languid, and sad, and slow To the River Itchin, near Winton - Brooke, Rupert Heaven - Browne, William On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke - Browning, Elizabeth Barrett To George Sand: A Desire To George Sand: A Recognition A Year's Spinning A Musical Instrument - Browning, Robert Up at a Villa—Down in the City In a Year Respectability Confessions The Householder The Laboratory Home-Thoughts, from Abroad Home-Thoughts, from the Sea Meeting at Night Parting at Morning Memorabilia The Last Ride Together Two in the Campagna Prospice Women and Roses A Toccata of Galuppi's A Woman's Last Word Youth and Art Dis Aliter Visum; or, Le Byron de Nos Jours Apparent Failure House To Edward FitzGerald Abt Vogler Epilogue to Asolando - Bullein, William Travelers' Tales, from A Dialogue Against the Pestilence - Bunyan, John from Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners - Burns, Robert Corn Rigs an' Barley Rigs Willie Brewed a Peck o' Maut Ae fond kiss Ye flowery banks - Burton, Robert from The Anatomy of Melancholy - Byron, Lord George Gordon from letters to his publisher, John Murray from Lara from Manfred: A Dramatic Poem Juan and Haidee, from Don Juan, Canto 3 The Vision of Judgment
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	- Campion, Thomas When Thou Must Home to Shades of Underground Rose-cheeked Laura What If a Day Never Love Unless You Can Think'st thou to seduce me then - Carew, Thomas Song The Second Rapture Disdain Returned Song (Persuasions to Enjoy) - Carlyle, Thomas Daniel Webster at 57, from a letter to John Sterling Ralph Waldo Emerson at 30, from a letter to J.S. Mill Emerson at 44, from a letter to Mrs. Baring Bronson Alcott at 42, from a letter to John Sterling Queen Victoria at Eighteen, from a letter to his mother Samuel Taylor Coleridge at fifty-three, from Life of John Sterling William Wordsworth in his seventies, from Reminiscences Alfred Tennyson at thirty-four, from a letter to Emerson Charles Lamb at 56, from Notebooks William Makepeace Thakeray at 42, from a letter to Emerson from Characteristics Natural Supernaturalism, from Sartor Resartus September in Paris, from The French Revolution Place de la Revolution, from The French Revolution from Cause and Effect, from The French Revolution King William IV at 69, from a letter to his mother - Carroll, Lewis Anagrammatic Sonnet The Walrus and the Carpenter The Baker's Tale, from The Hunting of the Snark - Cary, Elizabeth The Tragedy of Mariam, The Fair Queen of Jewry - Caxton, William Preface to Morte Darthur - Chaucer, Geoffrey The Merchant's Tale The Franklin's Tale The Parliament of Fowls The Tale of Sir Thopas The Parson's Tale To Rosamond - Cheke, Sir John Our Own Tongue Clean and Pure - Cleveland, John Mark Antony - Clough, Arthur Hugh Epi-strauss-ium The Latest Decalogue Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth I Dreamt a Dream, from Dipsychus - Coleridge, Samuel Taylor from Religious Musings What is Life? Limbo Phantom or Fact Sonnet to the River Otter On Donne's Poetry Work Without Hope Recollections of Love Constancy to an Ideal Object Epitaph from Biographia Literaria, Chapter 1 The discipline of his taste at school Bowles's Sonnets Comparison between the poets before and since Mr. Pope from Biographia Literaria, Chapter XVIII Spontaneous and Controlled Composition from The Stateman's Manual Dejection: An Ode Phantom Recollections of Love Constancy to an Ideal Object - Collins, Williams Ode Written in the Beginning of the Year 1746 Ode on the Death of Mr. Thomson - Congreve, William Love for Love - Conrad, Joseph Youth The Brute - Cooper, Anthony Ashley A Character of Henry Hastings The General and the Particular in Painting, from Sensus Communis - Coppe, Abiezer from A Fiery Flying Roll - Corbet, Richard A Proper New Ballad - Cowley, Abraham The Wish To Mr. Hobbes To the Royal Society Ode of Wit - Crabbe, George from The Borough - Crashaw, Richard Luke 7 On Our Crucified Lord, Naked and Bloody
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	- Daniel, Samuel from Delia Imperial Elegance, from Musophilus - Dante Fortune an Agent of God's Will - Darley, George Over Hills and Uplands High The Phoenix It is not Beauty I demand The Mermaidens' Vesper Hymn - Davenant, Sir William A Song from The Author's Preface to His Much Honored Friend Mr. Hobbes Poetry and History Contrasted, from Preface to Gondibert - Davies, Sir John from Orchestra - De Piles, Roger Grace Gains the Heart, from L'Idée de Peintre Parfait - De Quincey, Thomas from The Vision of Sudden Death, from The English Mail Coach On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts - Defoe, Daniel from The History and Remarkable Life of the Truly Honorable Col. Jacque from A True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal - Dickens, Charles Mrs. Gamp and Mr. Mould, from Martin Chuzzlewit from David Copperfield The Journey to Salem House School The Journey from London to Dover In Chancery, from Bleak House from Hard Times The One Thing Needful Murdering the Innocents Coketown Podsnappery, from Our Mutual Friend from Dombey and Son Railway-Construction in a London Suburb A Journey by Railway - Donne, John from Devotions upon Emergent Occasions Twicknam Garden To the Countess of Bedford The Curse Lovers' Infiniteness The Storm Elegy I. Jealousy Elegy IV. The Perfume from Paradoxes and Problems On the Weight of Eternal Glory, from Sermon LXVI On Falling Out of God's Hand, from Sermon LXXVI A Nocturnal upon Saint Lucy's Day, Being the Shortest Day The Blossom A Lecture upon the Shadow Holy Sonnet 17 - Dowson, Ernest To One in Bedlam A Last Word Spleen Flos Lunae Dregs Exchanges Carthusians - Drayton, Michael from Idea - Dryden, John Wit a Noble Spaniel from An Essay on the Dramatic Poetry of the Last Age Epilogue to The Conquest of Granada, II Prologue to The Tempest Epilogue to Tyrannic Love Song from The Indian Emperor Song from An Evening's Love To the Pious Memory of the Accomplished Young Lady Mrs. Anne Killigrew The Secular Masque In Praise of Chaucer, from The Preface to Fables Ancient and Modern Genius is Above Correctness, from The Author's Apology for Heroic Poetry and Heroic License - Dyer, Sir Edward My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is
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	- Earle, John A Pretender to Learning - Edwards, Richard Amantium Irae Amoris Redintegratio Est - Eliot, George Chapters 1-5 from Book First, Boy and Girl, from The Mill on the Floss
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	- Finch, Anne On Myself - Foxe, John from Acts and Monuments - Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke Chorus Sacerdotum, from Mustapha
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	- Gascoigne, George Gascoigne's Lullaby Woodmanship Farewell with a Mischief The Lullaby of a Lover - Gay, John The Birth of the Squire. An Eclogue Recitativo and Air from Acis and Galatea - Gerard, Alexander The Origins of Genius, from An Essay on Genius - Gilbert, W. S. When Britain Really Ruled the Waves - Golding, Arthur The Four Ages, from Ovid's Metamorphoses - Goldsmith, Oliver from Letters From a Citizen of the World - Gray, Thomas Hymn to Adversity
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	- Hall, Joseph The Malcontent - Hariot, Thomas from The Principal Navigations, Traffics, Voyages, and Discoveries of the English Nation - Hayman, Robert Of the Great and Famous Ever-To-Be-Honored Knight, Sir Francis Drake, and of My Little-Little Self - Hazlitt, William Reynolds' Genius, from Third Conversation with Northcote from On Shakespeare and Milton from The Fight On Going a Journey from Mr. Wordsworth - Henley, William Ernest In Hospital Madam Life's a Piece of Bloom Barmaid - Herbert, Edward Sonnet of Black Beauty - Herbert, George Temptation Anagram Hope Sin's Round Love Unknown Aaron The Altar Redemption Easter Wings Jordan (1) The Collar The Pulley The Flower Love (3) - Herbert, Mary Sidney To the Angel Spirit of the Most Excellent Sir Philip Sidney Psalm 58 Si Vere Utique - Herrick, Robert An Ode for Him Discontents in Devon Upon a Child that Died Oberon's Feast The Pillar of Fame His Grange, or Private Wealth Upon His Spaniel Tracy To Lar The Lily in a Crystal To Blossoms To the Water Nymphs Drinking at the Fountain - Hobbes, Thomas from The Answer to Sir Will. D'Avenant's Preface Before Gondibert - Hoby, Sir Thomas Love, from The Courtier, Book IV - Hooker, Richard from The Laws of Ecclesiastical Piety On Moderation in Controversy, from the Preface On the Scope of the Several Laws, from Book 1, Chapter 8 The Foundations of Society, from Book 1, Chapter 10 The Need for Revealed Law, from Book 1, Chapter 12 Conclusion, from Book 1, Chapter 16 - Hopkins, Gerard Manley The Lantern out of Doors Inversnaid - Horace Character Types in Comedy, from Ars Poetica - Howard, Henry The Hunt, from The Fourth Book of Virgil Hector Warns Aeneas to Flee Troy, from The Second Book of Virgil Set Me Whereas the Sun Doth Parch the Green Give Place, Ye Lovers, Here Before - Hughes, John Curiosa Felicitas, from Of Style - Hunt, Leigh The Fish, the Man, and the Spirit - Hutchinson, Lucy A Confrontation, from Memoirs of Colonel Hutchinson - Huxley, Thomas Henry A Game of Chess, from A Liberal Education The Function of a Professor, from An Address on University Education - Hyde, Edward The Character of John Hampden, from The History of the Rebellion
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	- Johnson, Lionel The Precept of Silence Mystic and Cavalier The Dark Angel - Johnson, Samuel from Prayers and Meditations Futurity, from Rambler No. 203 Expectations of Pleasure, from Idler No. 58 Prologue Spoken by Mr. Garrick Translation of Horace, Odes, Book 4.7 from Lives of the Poets Lycidas, from Milton L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, from Milton Paradise Lost, from Milton Metaphysical Wit, from Cowley Pope's Intellectual Character. Pope and Dryden Compared, from Pope The Particular in Biography, from Rambler The Simplicity of Grandeur, from Rambler Hudibras and the Particular, from Life of Butler The Grandeur of Generality, from Life of Cowley Definitions of Genius, from the English Dictionary Genius Requires Invention, from Rambler 154 Genius and Knowledge, from Diaries and Letters of Madame d'Arblay Rasselas - Jonson, Ben It Was a Beauty That I Saw An Elegy Gypsy Songs The Vision of Delight An Ode To William Camden On Don Surly In the Person of Womankind (In Defense of their Inconstancy) Slow, Slow, Fresh Fount Epitaph on Elizabeth, L.H. A Celebration of Charis in Ten Lyric Pieces Though I Am Young Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue
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	- Keats, John O Sorrow, from Endymion, Book IV In Drear-Nighted December On the Sonnet - King, Henry The Exequy - Kipling, Rudyard Harp Song of the Dane Women

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