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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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	- ANONYMOUS LYRICS Back and Side Go Bare, Go Bare Come Away, Come, Sweet Love! Constant Penelope Sends to Thee Madrigal ("My love in her attire doth show her wit") Mankind In Praise of a Contented Mind The Silver Swan The Shepherd’s Consort Sir Orfeo Though Amaryllis Dance in Green Thule, the Period of Cosmography The Queen’s Champion Retires Weep You No More, Sad Fountains The York Play of the Crucifixion - ANONYMOUS PROSE The Book of Homilies Easter 1916 Proclamation of an Irish Republic Lludd and Lleuelys - JOSEPH ADDISON and SIR RICHARD STEELE Addison: [Party Patches] Addison: [The Trial of the Petticoat] Steele: [The Gentleman; The Pretty Fellow] Steele: [Dueling] Addison: [Sir Roger at Church] - ROGER ASCHAM Comeliness - MATTHEW ARNOLD From On the Study of Celtic Literature: The Function of a Professor 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 From Maurice de Guérin: A Definition of Poetry From Wordsworth From The Function of Criticism at the Present Time
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	- ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Life - THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Song ("How many times do I love thee, dear?") Song ("Old Adam, the carrion crow") The Phantom Wooer - ST. BENEDICT The Rule of St. Benedict - WILLIAM BLAKE From Poetical Sketches To Spring To the Evening Star All Religions Are One There Is No Natural Religion [a] There Is No Natural Religion [b] From Songs of Experience A Song of Liberty Song ("How sweet I roam'd from field to field") Song ("Memory, hither come") Mad Song To the Muses The Mental Traveller From Blake's Notebook Mock on, Mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau Never pain to tell thy love I askèd a thief And Did Those Feet Letters on Sight and Vision To Thomas Butts (Nov. 22, 1802) To William Hayley (Oct. 23, 1804) From A Vision of the Last Judgment - WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES To the River Itchin, near Winton Languid, and sad, and slow - RUPERT BROOKE Heaven - ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING To George Sand: A Desire To George Sand: A Recognition A Year’s Spinning A Musical Instrument - ROBERT BROWNING Women and Roses To Edward FitzGerald 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 A Toccata of Galuppi’s A Woman’s Last Word Youth and Art Dîs Aliter Visum; or, Le Byron de Nos Jours Apparent Failure House Abt Vogler Epilogue to Asolando - JOHN BUNYAN From Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners - ROBERT BURNS Corn Rigs an’ Barley Rigs Willie Brewed a Peck o’ Maut Ae fond kiss Ye flowery banks - GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON The Vision of Judgment Don Juan Canto 3 [Juan & Haidee]
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	- THOMAS CAMPION 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 - THOMAS CARLYLE Carlyle's Portraits of His Contemporaries Daniel Webster at 57 Ralph Waldo Emerson at 30 Emerson at 44 Bronson Alcott at 42 Queen Victoria at Eighteen Samuel Taylor Coleridge at Fifty-Three William Wordsworth In His Seventies Alfred Tennyson at Thirty-Four Charles Lamb at 56 William Makepeace Thackeray at 42 King William IV at 69 From Sartor Resartus: Natural Supernaturalism From The French Revolution: September in Paris From Cause and Effect From Characteristics - LEWIS CARROLL Anagrammatic Sonnet The Walrus and the Carpenter From The Hunting of the Snark: The Baker’s Tale - ELIZABETH CARY The Tragedy of Mariam, The Fair Queen of Jewry - WILLIAM CAXTON Preface to Morte Darthur - GEOFFREY CHAUCER The Canterbury Tales The Merchant's Tale The Introduction The Tale The Epilogue The Franklin's Tale The Introduction The Prologue The Tale The Tale of Sir Thopas The Introduction The Tale The Parson's Tale The Remedy Against Lechery The Parliament of Fowls To Rosamond - ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH "There Is No God," the Wicked Saith Epi-strauss-ium The Latest Decalogue Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth From Dipsychus: I Dreamt a Dream - SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Phantom Recollections of Love Constancy to an Ideal Object On Donne's Poetry Work without Hope Epitaph Biographia Literaria Chapter 1 [The discipline of his taste at school] [Bowles's Sonnets] [Comparison b/w the poets before and since Mr. Pope 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 Dejection: An Ode - WILLIAM COLLINS Ode Written in the Beginning of the Year 1746 Ode on the Death of Mr. Thomson - WILLIAM CONGREVE Love for Love - JOSEPH CONRAD Youth The Brute - RICHARD CRASHAW On Our Crucified Lord, Naked and Bloody - GEORGE CRABBE From The Borough
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	- SAMUEL DANIEL Delia From Musophilus [ Imperial Eloquence] - GEORGE DARLEY Over Hills and Uplands High The Phoenix It is not Beauty I demand The Mermaidens’ Vesper Hymn - SIR JOHN DAVIES Orchestra - DANIEL DEFOE From The History and Remarkable Life of the Truly Honorable Col. Jacque A True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal - THOMAS DE QUINCEY On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts From The English Mail Coach Tumultuosissimamente - THE DEVELOPMENT OF PROSE STYLE Sir John Cheke: [Our Own Tongue Clean and Pure] The Bible: Translations of the Twenty-third Psalm Sir Philip Sidney: From Arcadia Philip Stubbes: From The Anatomy of Abuses William Bullein: From A Dialogue Against the Pestilence [Travelers’ Tales] - CHARLES DICKENS From Martin Chuzzlewit: Mrs. Gamp and Mr. Mould From David Copperfield: The Journey to Salem House School The Journey from London to Dover From Bleak House: In Chancery From Hard Times: The One Thing Needful Murdering the Innocents Coketown From Our Mutual Friend: Podsnappery - JOHN DONNE A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy's Day, Being the Shortest Day The Blossom A Lecture Upon the Shadow 17 ("Since she whom I loved hath paid her last debt") - ERNEST DOWSON To One in Bedlam A Last Word Spleen Flos Lunae Dregs Exchanges Carthusians - MICHAEL DRAYTON Idea - JOHN DRYDEN 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 From The Preface to Fables Ancient and Modern In Praise of Chaucer - SIR EDWARD DYER My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is
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	- GEORGE ELIOT The Mill on the Floss From Book First. Boy and Girl Chapters 1–5 - RICHARD EDWARDS Amantium Irae Amoris Redintegratio Est
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	- JOHN FOXE Acts and Monuments - ANNE FINCH, COUNTESS OF WINCHILSEA On Myself
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	- GEORGE GASCOIGNE Gascoigne’s Lullaby Woodmanship Farewell with a Mischief The Lullaby of a Lover - JOHN GAY The Birth of the Squire. An Eclogue Recitativo and Air from Acis and Galatea - W. S. GILBERT When Britain Really Ruled the Waves - ARTHUR GOLDING From Ovid's Metamorphoses [The Four Ages] - OLIVER GOLDSMITH From Letters from a Citizen of the World - THOMAS GRAY Hymn to Adversity - FULKE GREVILLE, LORD BROOKE From Mustapha [Chorus Sacerdotum]
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	- HAKLUYT’S VOYAGES A Brief and True Report An Extract of Master Ralph Lane’s Letter - WILLIAM HAZLITT From On Shakespeare and Milton From The Fight On Going a Journey From Mr. Wordsworth - WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY In Hospital: Waiting Madam Life's a Piece in Bloom Barmaid - GEORGE HERBERT The Altar Redemption Easter Wings Jordan (1) The Collar The Pulley The Flower Love (3) - MARY (SIDNEY) HERBERT, COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE To the Angel Spirit of the Most Excellent Sir Philip Sidney Psalm 58 Si Vere Utique - ROBERT HERRICK The Lily in a Crystal To Blossoms To the Water Nymphs Drinking at the Fountain - SIR THOMAS HOBY From The Courtier [Love] - RICHARD HOOKER Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity From The Preface [On Moderation in Controversy] From Book 1, Chapter 8 [On the Scope of the Several Laws] From Book 1, Chapter 10 [The Foundations of Society] From Book 1, Chapter 12 [The Need for Revealed Law] From Book 1, Chapter 16 [Conclusion] - GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS The Lantern out of Doors Inversnaid - HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF SURREY The Second Book of Virgil [Hector Warns Aeneas to Flee Troy] TheFourth Book of Virgil [The Hunt] Set Whereas the Sun Doth Parch the Green Give Place, Ye Lovers, Here Before - LEIGH HUNT The Fish, the Man, and the Spirit - THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY From A Liberal Education: A Game of Chess From An Address on University Education: [The Function of a Professor
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	- SAMUEL JOHNSON From Prayers and Meditations Rambler No. 203 Idler No. 58 Prologue Spoken by Mr. Garrick Translation of Horace, Odes, Book 4.7 From Lives of the Poets Milton LYCIDAS L’ALLEGRO, IL PENSEROSO PARADISE LOST Cowley Metaphysical Wit Pope Pope’s Intellectual Character. Pope and Dryden Compared The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia - BEN JONSON To William Camden To Penshurst In the Person of Woman Kind (In Defense of their Inconstancy) Slow, Slow, Fresh Fount Epitaph on Elizabeth, L. H. A Celebration of Charis in Ten Lyric Pieces 5. His Discourse with Cupid 6. Claiming a Second Kiss by Desert Though I Am Young Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue
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	- KEATS From Endymion From Book IV O Sorrow In Drear-Nighted December On the Sonnet - HENRY KING The Exequy - RUDYARD KIPLING Harp Song of the Dane Women

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