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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-volume Longman 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.
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.
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.
- Generous coverage of fiction, drama, and poetry alike. Major prose works are included in their entirety, together with a wealth of poetry and drama, from Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience to Byron’s Manfred —and beyond.
- Cultural breadth. Regional as well as metropolitan perspectives, religious as well as secular writing, popular as well as elite productions, classic works, newly recovered texts, and post-colonial writers all combine to represent the full scope of the British literary tradition.
- Women’s Writing. Extensive selections from a wide range of writers include underrepresented female writers like Mary Wollstonecraft, Dorothy Wordsworth, and Mary Robinson.
- “Perspectives” sections. These groupings shed light on the period as a whole. Examples include a “Perspectives” section on “The Wollstonecraft Controversy and the Rights of Women” and on “Popular Prose and the Problems of Authorship”
- “…and Its Time” sections. These shorter groupings provide context for a particular work. For example, “Manfred” and Its Time: “The Byronic Hero.”
- Rich illustration program. An unrivalled collection of both black-and-white and color illustrations include portraits of major authors as well as images to illustrate artistic and cultural developments.
- Complete Longer Works. The Longman Anthology of British Literature contains a wide variety of complete longer works from all periods including Blake’s Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Byron’s Manfred, and many, many more.
New Selections:
John Ruskin
from Modern Painters
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
from Jacobinism
from Once a Jacobin Always a Jacobin
William Blake
All Religions Are One
There is No Natural Religion [a]
There is No Natural Religion [b]
Charles Lamb
from The Praise of Chimney-Sweepers
Robert Southey
from Poems Concerning the Slave-Trade: Sonnets IV, V, VI
Mary Wollstonecraft
from The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria: “Jemima’s narrative”
Priscilla Bell Wakefield
from Reflections on the Present Condition of the Female Sex
Mary Ann Radcliffe
from The Female Advocate
William Wordsworth
The Excursion
Preface
Book I “The Wanderer”
From Book IV
Responses
William Hazlitt: from the Character of Mr. Wordsworth’s New Poem, The Excursion
Francis Jeffrey: from A Review of William Wordsworth’s Excursion
“Mutability”
George Gordon, Lord Byron
Byron’s Manfred And Its Time.
William Hazlitt: from on Milton’s Satan
Don Juan
from Canto 2 [Shipwreck Juan and Haidee]
from Canto 3 [Juan and Haidee The Poet for Hire]
from Canto 7 [Critique of Military “Glory”]
from Canto 11 [Juan in England]
Web Only Additions
John Wilson, “But is it Christianity? … Was Margaret a Christian?” from “On Sacred Poetry” Blackwood’s Edinburg Magazine, 1828
William Wordsworth, from The Wanderer, 1845 Version
Longman Anthology of British Literature, Volume 2A, The: The Romantics and Their Contemporaries, 5/e
The Romantics and Their Contemporaries
Illustration: Thomas Girtin, Tintern Abbey
THE ROMANTIC PERIOD AT A GLANCE
INTRODUCTION
LITERATURE AND THE AGE: “NOUGHT WAS LASTING”
ROMANCE, ROMANTICISM, AND THE POWERS OF THE IMAGINATION
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND ITS REVERBERATIONS
Illustration: Thomas Rowlandson, after a drawing by Lord George Murray,
The Contrast
THE MONARCHY
Illustration: Thomas Lawrence, Coronation Portrait of the Prince Regent
(later, George IV)
INDUSTRIAL ENGLAND AND “NEVER-RESTING LABOUR”
CONSUMERS AND COMMODITIES
Color Plate 1: John Martin, The Bard
Color Plate 2: Thomas Gainsborough, Mrs. Mary Robinson
Color Plate 3: Thomas Phillips, Lord Byron
Color Plate 4: Anonymous, Portrait of Olaudah Equiano
Color Plate 5: J. M. W. Turner, Slavers Throwing the Dead and Dying
Overboard, Typhoon Coming On
Color Plate 6: William Blake, The Little Black Boy (second plate only)
Color Plate 7: William Blake, The Little Black Boy (another version of #6)
Color Plate 8: William Blake, The Tyger
Color Plate 9: William Blake, The Sick Rose
Color Plate 10: Joseph Wright, An Iron Forge Viewed from Without
AUTHORSHIP, AUTHORITY, AND “ROMANTICISM”
POPULAR PROSE
Illustration: George Cruikshank, The Press
PERSPECTIVES
The Sublime, the Beautiful, and the Picturesque
Illustration: Thomas Rowlandson, Dr. Syntax Sketching by the Lake
Illustration: Joseph Mallord William Turner, The Passage of the St. Gothard,
1804
EDMUND BURKE
from A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime
and Beautiful
Illustration: Benjamin Robert Haydon, Study after the Elgin
Marbles
IMMANUEL KANT
from The Critique of Judgement
WILLIAM GILPIN
Illustration: Edward Dayes, Tintern Abbey from across the
Wye, 1794
from Three Essays on Picturesque Beauty, on Picturesque Travel,
and on Sketching Landscape
Illustration: From William Gilpin’s Three Essays, 1792
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT
from A Vindication of the Rights of Men
JANE AUSTEN
from Pride and Prejudice
from Northanger Abbey
MARIA JANE JEWSBURY
A Rural Excursion
JOHN RUSKIN
from Modern Painters
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
To the Poor
Washing-Day
Eighteen Hundred and Eleven
RESPONSE
John Wilson Croker: from A Review of Eighteen Hundred
and Eleven
The First Fire
On the Death of the Princess Charlotte
CHARLOTTE SMITH
from ELEGIAC SONNETS AND OTHER POEMS
To the Moon
“Sighing I see yon little troop at play”
Illustration: Charlotte Smith, engraving for Sonnet IV, “To the Moon”
To melancholy. Written on the banks of the Arun October, 1785
Far on the sands
To tranquillity
Written in the church-yard at Middleton in Sussex
On being cautioned against walking on an headland overlooking the sea
The sea view
The Dead Beggar
The Emigrants, Book 1
from Beachy Head
PERSPECTIVES
The Rights of Man and the Revolution Controversy
HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS
from Letters Written in France, in the Summer of 1790
EDMUND BURKE
from Reflections on the Revolution in France
Illustration: James Gillray, Smelling out a Rat; —— or The Atheistical
Revolutionist disturbed in his Midnight Calculations
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT
from A Vindication of the Rights of Men
Letter to Joseph Johnson, from Paris, December 27, 1792
THOMAS PAINE
from The Rights of Man
HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS
from Letters from France, 1796
WILLIAM GODWIN
from An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and Its Influence on General
Virtue and Happiness
THE ANTI-JACOBIN, OR WEEKLY EXAMINER
The Friend of Humanity and the Knife-Grinder
The Widow
Illustration: James Gillray, illustration to The Friend of Humanity and the
Knife-Grinder
HANNAH MORE
Village Politics
ARTHUR YOUNG
from Travels in France During the Years 1787–1788, and 1789
from The Example of France, a Warning to Britain
from Jacobinism
from Once a Jacobin Always a Jacobin
WILLIAM BLAKE
All Religions Are One
There Is No Natural Religion [a]
There Is No Natural Religion [b]
SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND OF EXPERIENCE
Illustration: William Blake, frontispiece for Songs of Innocence
from Songs of Innocence
Introduction
The Shepherd
The Ecchoing Green
The Lamb
Illustration: William Blake, The Lamb
The Little Black Boy
The Blossom
The Chimney Sweeper
Illustration: William Blake, The Little Boy lost
The Little Boy lost
Illustration: William Blake, The Little Boy found
The Little Boy found
The Divine Image
HOLY THURSDAY
Nurses Song
Infant Joy
A Dream
On Anothers Sorrow
COMPANION READING
Charles Lamb: from The Praise of Chimney-Sweepers
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
Illustration: William Blake, THE Chimney Sweeper
Illustration: William Blake, THE FLY
THE FLY
The Angel
The Tyger
My Pretty ROSE TREE
AH! SUN-FLOWER
The GARDEN of LOVE
LONDON
The Human Abstract
INFANT SORROW
A Little BOY Lost
Illustration: William Blake, A POISON TREE
A Little GIRL Lost
The School-Boy
A DIVINE IMAGE
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Visions of the Daughters of Albion
Illustration: William Blake, Plate i from Visions of the Daughters of Albion
Illustration: William Blake, Plate 8, from Visions of the Daughters of Albion
LETTERS
To Dr. John Trusler (23 August 1799)
To Thomas Butts (22 November 1802)
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
ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD
Epistle to William Wilberforce, Esq., On the Rejection of the Bill for Abolishing
the Slave Trade
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
Illustration: Packing methods on a slave ship
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 Camp
The Haunted Beach
London’s Summer Morning
The Old Beggar
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT
Illustration: Portrait of 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
from Chapter 3. The Same Subject Continued
from Chapter 5. Animadversions on Some of the Writers Who Have Rendered
Women Objects of Pity, Bordering on Contempt
from Chapter 13. Some Instances of the Folly Which the Ignorance
of Women Generates; with Concluding Reflections on the Moral
Improvement That a Revolution in Female Manners Might Naturally
Be Expected to Produce
RESPONSES
Anna Letitia Barbauld, The Rights of Woman
Ann Yearsley, The Indifferent Shepherdess to Colin
Robert Southey, To Mary Wollstonecraft
William Blake, from Mary
from The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria “Jemima’s Narrative”
PERSPECTIVES
The Wollstonecraft Controversy and the Rights of Women
CATHARINE MACAULAY
from Letters on Education
RICHARD POLWHELE
from The Unsex’d Females
PRISCILLA BELL WAKEFIELD
from Reflections on the Present Condition of the Female Sex
MARY ANN RADCLIFFE
from The Female Advocate
HANNAH MORE
from Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education
MARY LAMB
Letter to The British Lady’s Magazine, “On Needlework”
WILLIAM THOMPSON AND ANNA WHEELER
from Appeal of One Half the Human Race, Women, Against the Pretensions of
the Other Half, Men, to Retain Them in Political, and Thence in Civil and
Domestic Slavery
JOANNA BAILLIE
Plays on the Passions
from Introductory Discourse
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
JAMES MACPHERSON
Carric-Thura: A Poem
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)
Scots, wha hae wi’ Wallace bled
Is there for honest poverty
RESPONSE
Charlotte Smith, To the shade of Burns
A Red, Red Rose
Auld Lang Syne
The Fornicator. A New Song
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 BALLADS (1798)
Simon Lee
Anecdote for Fathers
We are seven
Lines written in early spring
The Thorn
Note to The Thorn (1800)
Expostulation and Reply
The Tables Turned
Old Man Travelling
Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey
LYRICAL BALLADS (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?]
[The Function of Metre]
[“Emotion Recollected in Tranquillity”]
“There was a Boy”
“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
“Three years she grew in sun and shower”
The Old Cumberland Beggar
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”
“I griev’d for Buonaparte”
London, 1802
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 Fourth. Summer Vacation
[A Simile for Autobiography]
[Encounter with a “Dismissed” Soldier]
from Book Fifth. Books
[Meditation on Books. The Dream of the Arab]
[A Drowning in Esthwaite’s Lake]
[“The Mystery of Words”]
from Book Sixth. Cambridge, and the Alps
[The Pleasure of Geometric Science]
[Arrival in France]
[Travelling in the Alps. Simplon Pass]
from Book Seventh. Residence in London
[A Blind Beggar. Bartholomew Fair]
from Book Ninth. Residence in France
[Paris]
[Revolution, Royalists, and Patriots]
from Book Tenth. Residence in France and French Revolution
[The Reign of Terror. Confusion. Return to England]
[Further Events in France]
[The Death of Robespierre and Renewed Optimism]
[Britain Declares War on France. The Rise of Napoleon and
Imperialist France]
from The Prelude 1850 490
[Apostrophe to Edmund Burke]
from Book Eleventh. Imagination, How Impaired and Restored
[Imagination Restored by Nature]
[“Spots of Time.” Two Memories from Childhood and Later
Reflections]
from Book Thirteenth. Conclusion
[Climbing Mount Snowdon. Moonlit Vista. Meditation on “Mind,” “Self,”
“Imagination,” “Fear,” and “Love”]
[Concluding Retrospect and Prophecy]
RESPONSE
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: To a Gentleman
“I travell’d among unknown Men”
Resolution and Independence
RESPONSE
Lewis Carroll: Upon the Lonely Moor
“I wandered lonely as a Cloud”
“My heart leaps up”
Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early
Childhood
The Solitary Reaper
Elegiac Stanzas (“Peele Castle”)
RESPONSE
Mary Shelley: On Reading Wordsworth’s Lines on Peele Castle
Excursion
Preface
Book I “The Wanderer”
From Book IV
RESPONSES
William Hazlitt: from the Character of Mr. Wordsworth’s New Poem, The Excursion
Francis Jeffrey: from A Review of William Wordsworth’s Excursion
John Wilson, “But is it Christianity? … Was Margaret a Christian?” from “On Sacred Poetry” Blackwood’s Edinburg Magazine, 1828
from The Wanderer, 1845 Version
“Surprised by Joy”
“Mutability”
“Scorn not the Sonnet”
Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg
DOROTHY WORDSWORTH
Grasmere—A Fragment
Address to a Child
Irregular Verses
Floating Island
Lines Intended for My Niece’s Album
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 Sailor]
[The Grasmere Mailman]
[A Vision of the Moon]
[A Field of Daffodils]
[A Beggar Woman from Cockermouth]
[The Circumstances of “Composed upon Westminster Bridge”]
[The Circumstances of “It is a beauteous Evening”]
[The Household in Winter, with William’s New Wife. Gingerbread]
LETTERS
To Jane Pollard [A Scheme of Happiness]
To Lady Beaumont [A Gloomy Christmas]
To Lady Beaumont [Her Poetry, William’s Poetry]
To Mrs Thomas Clarkson [Household Labors]
To Mrs Thomas Clarkson [A Prospect of Publishing]
To William Johnson [Mountain-Climbing with a Woman]
RESPONSES
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: from A letter to Joseph Cottle
Thomas De Quincey: from Recollections of the Lake
Poets
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
Sonnet to the River Otter
COMPANION READING
William Lisle Bowles: To the River Itchin, Near Winton
The Eolian Harp
This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison
Frost at Midnight
from The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere (1798)
Part 1
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1817)
COMPANION READINGS
William Cowper: The Castaway
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: from Table Talk
Christabel
COMPANION READING
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge: The Witch
Kubla Khan
RESPONSE
Mary Robinson: To the Poet Coleridge
The Pains of Sleep
Dejection: An Ode
LETTERS
To William Godwin
To Thomas Poole
On Donne’s Poetry
Work Without Hope
Constancy to an Ideal Object
Epitaph
from The Statesman’s Manual
[Symbol and Allegory]
from The Friend
[My Ghost-Theory]
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]
Chapter 17
[Examination of the Tenets Peculiar to Mr. Wordsworth. Rustic Life and Poetic Language]
Chapter 22
[Defects of Wordsworth’s Poetry]
from Lectures on Shakespeare
[Mechanic vs. Organic Form]
[The Character of Hamlet]
[Stage Illusion and the Willing Suspension of Disbelief]
[Shakespeare’s Images]
[Othello]
COLERIDGE’ S “LECTURES” AND THEIR TIME
Shakespeare in the Nineteenth Century
Charles Lamb [and Mary Lamb] Preface to Tales from Shakespear
Charles Lamb from On the Tragedies of Shakspeare
William Hazlitt from Lectures on the English Poets • The Characters
of Shakespeare’s Plays *
GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON
She walks in beauty
So, we’ll go no more a-roving
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| Author | David Damrosch, Kevin J. H. Dettmar, Peter J. Manning, Susan J. Wolfson |
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| Subjects | Literature, english, LIT000000, British literature, higher education, Language Arts / Literacy |