The Norton Anthology of English Literature: Archive

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Lyric Poets of the 18th Century
	- MATTHEW PRIOR A True Maid A Better Answer
The Romantic Period
	- ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Life - 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 - THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Song ("How many times do I love thee, dear?") Song ("Old Adam, the carrion crow") The Phantom Wooer - 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 - ROBERT BURNS Corn Rigs an’ Barley Rigs Willie Brewed a Peck o’ Maut Ae fond kiss Ye flowery banks - 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 - GEORGE DARLEY Over Hills and Uplands High The Phoenix It is not Beauty I demand The Mermaidens’ Vesper Hymn - GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON The Vision of Judgment Don Juan Canto 3 [Juan & Haidee] - WILLIAM HAZLITT From On Shakespeare and Milton From The Fight On Going a Journey From Mr. Wordsworth - KEATS From Endymion From Book IV O Sorrow In Drear-Nighted December On the Sonnet - LEIGH HUNT The Fish, the Man, and the Spirit - CHARLES LAMB A Letter to Wordsworth New Year’s Eve From On the Artificial Comedy of the Last Century Witches, and Other Night Fears The Two Races of Men - WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR On Seeing a Hair of Lucretia Borgia On his Seventy-fifth Birthday Rose Aylmer Past ruined Ilion Twenty years hence The Three Roses Dirce Well I remember how you smiled - THOMAS MOORE Believe me, if all those endearing young charms The harp that once through Tara’s halls The time I’ve lost in wooing - THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK The Four Ages of Poetry The War Song of Dinas Vawr - JOSEPH PRIESTLEY From The Present State of Europe Compared with Antient Prophecies - 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 - ROBERT SOUTHEY From Joan of Arc: An Epic Poem My Days Among the Dead Are Passed - SIR WALTER SCOTT Coronach From The Heart of Midlothian Lochinvar Jock of Hazeldean The Two Drovers The Dreary Change Lucy Ashton’s Song - ELHANAN WINCHESTER From The Three Woe-Trumpets - WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Ode to Duty The Prelude, or Growth of a Poet's Mind Book Seventh. Residence in London Book Ninth. Residence in France From Descriptive Sketches From The Excursion: Book 3, Despondency A Poet!—He Hath Put His Heart to School To My Sister The Green Linnet Composed in the Valley near Dover, On the Day of Landing Composed by the Side of Grasmere Lake Afterthought Yew Trees The Two April Mornings She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways - PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Alastor; or, the Spirit of Solitude Stanzas Written in Dejection — December 1818, near Naples To — [Music, When Soft Voices Die] O World, O Life, O Time Choruses from Hellas Worlds on Worlds The World's Great Age A Dirge To Jane. The Invitation Song of Apollo To Jane. The Invitation The Triumph of Life
The Victorian Age
	- 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 - 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 - JOHN STUART MILL From Coleridge - JOHN HENRY CARDINAL NEWMAN Doubt and Faith From Apologia Pro Vita Sua From Chapter 1. History of My Religious Opinions to the Year 1833 From Chapter 3. History of My Religious Opinions from 1839 to 1841 From Chapter 5. Position of My Mind Since 1845 From Liberalis - 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 - LEWIS CARROLL Anagrammatic Sonnet The Walrus and the Carpenter From The Hunting of the Snark: The Baker’s Tale - 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 - 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 - GEORGE ELIOT The Mill on the Floss From Book First. Boy and Girl Chapters 1–5 - WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY In Hospital: Waiting Madam Life's a Piece in Bloom Barmaid - W. S. GILBERT When Britain Really Ruled the Waves - THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY From A Liberal Education: A Game of Chess From An Address on University Education: [The Function of a Professor - 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 - GEORGE MEREDITH Lucifer in Starlight Modern Love 3 ("This was the woman; what now of the man?") 15 ("I think she sleeps; it must be sleep, when lo"w) 16 ("In our old shipwrecked days there was an hour") 23 ("'Tis Christmas weather, and a country house") 35 ("It is no vulgar nature I have wived") 42 ("I am to follow her. There is much grace") 43 ("Mark where the pressing wind shoots javelinlik"e) 48 ("Their sense is with their senses all mixed in") Dirge in Woods - WILLIAM MORRIS I Know a Little Garden-Close Christ Keep the Hollow Land For the Bed at Kelmscott The Haystack in the Floods From The Earthly Paradise: An Apology A Death Song - WALTER PATER From Appreciations: From Style From The Child in the House - COVENTRY PATMORE From The Angel in the House The Spirit’s Epochs The Kiss From The Unknown Eros Magna Est Veritas A Farewell - DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI The House of Life 4. Lovesight 49. Willowwood—1 50. Willowwood—2 51. Willowwood—3 52. Willowwood—4 63. Inclusiveness 71. The Choice—I 71. The Choice—II 73. The Choice—III 97. A Superscription 101. The One Hope She Bound Her Green Sleeve The Woodspurge The Sea-Limits The Orchard-Pit - CHRISTINA ROSSETTI Winter: My Secret - JOHN RUSKIN The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century From Lectures on Art: imperial duty - ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE In Memory of Walter Savage Landor An Interlude In the Orchard (Provençal Burden) Choruses from Atalanta in Calydon When the Hounds of Spring Before the Beginning of Years The Garden of Proserpine From The Triumph of Time: I Will Go Back to the Great Sweet Mother The Lake of Gaube - ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON Mariana Sonnet ("She took the dappled partridge flecked with blood") Maud Part 1 6.5 ("Ah, what shall I be at fifty") 6.8 ("Perhaps the smile and tender ton"e) 6.10 (""I have played with her when a child) 8 ("She came to the village church") 11 ("O let the solid ground") 12 ("Birds in the high Hall-garden") 16.3 ("Catch not my breath, O clamorous heart") 18 ("I have led her home, my love, my only friend") Part 2 4 ("O that 'twere possible") Rizpah In Love, If Love Be Love To E. FitzGerald Locksley Hall Sixty Years After By an Evolutionist June Bracken and Heather A Dedication I Stood on a Tower The Silent Voices St. Agnes’ Eve You Ask Me, Why, Though Ill at Ease Lines Sonnet Move Eastward, Happy Earth The Revenge The Eagle: A Fragment From The Princess Sweet and Low The Splendor Falls Ask Me No More Come Down, O Maid Flower in the Crannied Wall Sonnet From Maud In the Valley of Cauteretz From Idylls of the King Dedication Pelleas and Ettarre The Passing of Arthur Northern Farmer To Virgil “Frater Ave atque Vale” The Dawn Crossing the Bar - FRANCIS THOMPSON The Kingdom of God The Hound of Heaven - OSCAR WILDE Sonnet: On the Sale by Auction of Keats’ Love Letters Symphony in Yellow Hélas E Tenebris
The Twentieth Century
	- ANONYMOUS Easter 1916 Proclamation of an Irish Republic - RUPERT BROOKE Heaven - JOSEPH CONRAD Youth The Brute - ERNEST DOWSON To One in Bedlam A Last Word Spleen Flos Lunae Dregs Exchanges Carthusians - GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS The Lantern out of Doors Inversnaid - LIONEL JOHNSON The Precept of Silence Mystic and Cavalier The Dark Angel - RUDYARD KIPLING Harp Song of the Dane Women - JAMES MORRIS The Partition of India - RICHARD MULCAHY On the Treaty Between Great Britain and Ireland - JAWAHARLAL NEHRU Tryst with Destiny - EDWARD THOMAS The Path The Gallows Ambition A Private :: back to the first page of the Chronological Index