The Norton anthology of English literature
(Book)

Volume 1. The Middle Ages

The sixteenth century

The seventeenth century

The restoration and the eighteenth century.

Volume 2. The romantic period. Corn riggs an' barley rigs ; To a mouse ; Green grown the rashes ; Holy Willie's prayer ; Willie brewed a peck o' maut ; Tam o' shanter ; Afton Water ; Ae fond kiss ; Ye flowery banks ; Scots, what hae ; For a' that and a' that ; A red, red rose ; Auld lang syne / Robert Burns.

Volume 2. The romantic period. Poetical sketches. Song (How sweet I roam'd from field to field) ; To the evening star ; Song (Memory, hither come) ; Mad song ; To the muses / William Blake --

Songs of innocence. Introduction ; The lamb ; The divine image ; The chimney sweeper ; Nurse's song ; Holy Thursday ; The little black boy / William Blake --

Songs of experience. Introduction. Earth's answer ; The clod & the pebble ; Holy Thursday ; The chimney sweeper ; Nurse's song ; The sick rose ; The tyger ; Ah, sunflower ; The garden of love ; London ; The human abstract ; Infant sorrow ; A poison tree ; To Tirzah ; A divine image / William Blake --

The book of Thel ; The marriage of Heaven and Hell ; A song of liberty ; For the sexes : the gates of paradise (prologue and epilogue) / William Blake --

From Blake's notebook. Never pain to tell thy love ; I asked a thief ; Mock on, mock on Voltaire, Rousseau ; Morning / William Blake --

The mental traveller ; And did those feet ; Jerusalem : the emanation of the giant Albion. Invocation ; The waking of Albion / William Blake --

A vision of the last judgment (Two letters on sight and vision). To Dr. John Trusler (Aug. 23, 1799) ; To Thomas Butts (Nov. 22, 1802 : With happiness stretchd across the hills) / William Blake.

Volume 2. The romantic period. Lyrical ballads. We are seven ; Lines written in early spring ; Expostulation and reply ; The tables turned ; To my sister ; Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey ; Preface to Lyrical ballads / William Wordsworth --

Strange fits of passion have I known ; She dwelt among the untrodden ways ; Three years she grew ; A slumber did my spirit seal ; I travelled among unknown men ; Lucy Gray ; The ruined cottage ; Michael ; Written in March ; Resolution and independence ; The green linnet ; Yew trees ; I wandered lonely as a cloud ; My heart leaps up ; Ode : intimations of immortality ; Ode to duty ; The solitary reaper ; Elegiac stanzas / William Wordsworth --

Sonnets. Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 ; It is a beauteous evening ; Composed in the valley near Dover, on the day of landing London, 1802 ; The world is too much with us ; Surprised by joy ; Composed by the side of Grasmere lake ; Afterthought ; Mutability ; Steamboats, viaducts, and railways ; Extempore effusion upon the death of James Hogg ; Prospectus to The recluse ; The prelude. The two-part prelude ; The prelude, or, Growth of a poet's mind (Books I-XIV) / William Wordsworth.

Volume 2. The romantic period. The Alfoxden journal ; The Grasmere journals / Dorothy Wordsworth.

Volume 2. The romantic period. Sonnet to the river otter ; The Eolian harp ; This lime-tree bower my prison ; The rime of the ancient mariner ; Kubla Khan ; Christabel ; Frost at midnight ; Dejection : an ode ; The pains of sleep ; What is life? ; Phantom ; To William Wordsworth ; Recollections of love ; Limbo ; On Donne's poetry ; Work without hope ; Constancy to an ideal object ; Phantom or fact ; Epitaph ; Biographia literaria (chapters I, IV, XIII, XIV, XVII) ; Lectures on Shakespeare. Fancy and imagination in Shakespeare's poetry ; Mechanic vs. organic form / Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

Volume 2. The romantic period. Written after swimming from Sestos to Abydos ; When we two parted ; She walks in beauty ; Stanzas for music. There be none of beauty's daughters ; They say that hope is happiness / George Gordon, Lord Byron --

Darkness ; Childe Harold's pilgrimage (canto I, III, IV); So we'll go no more a-roving ; Don Juan (canto I-IV, XVI) ; The vision of judgment ; Stanzas to the Po ; When a man hath no freedom to fight for at home ; Stanzas written on the road between Florence and Pisa / George Gordon, Lord Byron.

Volume 2. The romantic period. Mutability ; To Wordsworth ; Alastor, or, The spirit of solitude ; Mont Blanc : lines written in the vale of Chamouni ; Hymn to intellectual beauty ; Ozymandias ; Sonnet (Lift not the painted veil which those who live) ; Stanzas written in dejection, December 1818, near Naples ; A song : Men of England ; England in 1819 ; To Sidmouth and Castlereagh ; The Indian girl's song ; Ode to the west wind ; Prometheus unbound ; The cloud ; To a sky-lark ; Song of Apollo ; Song of Pan ; The two spirits, an allegory ; When passion's trance is overpast ; To night ; To-----

Memory ; O world, o life, o time ; Choruses from Hellas. Worlds on worlds ; The world's great age / Percy Bysshe Shelley --

Adonais : an elegy on the death of John Keats ; A dirge ; When the lamp is shattered ; To Jane, the invitation ; To Jane (The keen stars were twinkling) ; Lines written in the Bay of Lerici ; The triumph of life ; A defence of poetry / Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Volume 2. The romantic period. On first looking into Chapman's house ; Sleep and poetry ; On seeing the Elgin Marbles for the first time ; On the sea ; Endymion (Preface and books I and IV) ; In drear-nighted December ; On sitting down to read King Lear once again ; When I have fears ; To Homer ; The eve of St. Agnes ; Bright star ; Why did I laugh tonight ; La Belle Dame sans merci ; On the sonnet ; To sleep ; On fame ; Ode to psyche ; Ode on a Grecian urn ; Ode to a nightingale ; Ode on Indolence ; Ode on melancholy ; Lamia ; The fall of hyperion ; To autumn ; This living hand / John Keats --

Letters. To Benjamin Bailey ; To George and Thomas Keats ; To John Hamilton Reynolds ; To John Taylor ; To Richard Woodhouse ; To George and Georgiana Keats ; To Percy Bysshe Shelley / John Keats.

Volume 2. The romantic period. Romantic lyric poets. To the River Itchin, near Winton ; Languid, and sad, and slow / William Lisle Bowles --

The dreary change ; Jock of Hazeldean ; Proud Maisie / Sir Walter Scott --

My days among the dead are passed / Robert Southey --

Mother, I cannot mind my wheel ; Rose Aylmer ; The three roses ; On seeing a hair of Lucretia Borgia ; Past ruined lion ; Dirce ; Twenty years hence ; On his seventy-fifth birthday ; Well I remember how you smiled / Walter Savage Landor --

Believe me, if all those endearing young charms ; The harp that once through Tara's halls ; The time I've lost in wooing / Thomas Moore --

The fish, the man, and the spirit ; Rondeau / Leigh Hunt --

The war song of Dinas Vawr / Thomas Love Peacock --

Mouse's nest ; I am ; Clock a clay ; Song (I peeled bits of straw and I got switches too) ; Song (Secret love) ; An invite to eternity ; A vision / John Clare --

The phoenix ; It is not beauty I demand ; The mermaidens' vesper hymn / George Darley --

Song (How many times do I love thee dear?) ; Song (Old Adam, the carrion crow) ; The phantom wooer ; Song of the Stygian Naiades / Thomas Lovell Beddoes.

Volume 2. The romantic period. Romantic essayists. Christ's hospital five-and-thirty years ago ; The two races of men ; New year's eve ; On the artificial comedy of the last century ; Old china / Charles Lamb --

My first acquaintance with poets ; Mr. Wordsworth ; On Shakespeare and Milton ; The fight / William Hazlitt --

Confessions of an English opium-eater. Preliminary confessions ; Introduction to the pains of opium ; The pains of opium / Thomas De Quincey --

On the knocking at the gate in MacBeth ; The English mail coach (II and III) / Thomas De Quincey.

Volume 2. The romantic period. Topics in romantic literature, the Satanic and Byronic hero. Romantic comments on Milton's Satan / William Blake ; Percy Bysshe Shelley ; Samuel Taylor Coleridge --

The evolution of the Byronic hero / Anne Radcliffe ; Lord Byron --

Topics in romantic literature : romantic poems in process. The tyger / William Blake ; She dwelt among the untrodden ways / William Wordsworth ; Dejection : an ode / Samuel Taylor Coleridge ; Don Juan / Lord Byron ; O world, O life, O time / Percy Bysshe Shelley ; The eve of St. Agnes / John Keats.

Volume 2. The Victorian age. Carlyle's portraits of his contemporaries. King William IV at 69 ; Queen Victoria at 18 ; Charles Lamb at 56 ; Samuel Taylor Coleridge at 53 ; William Wordsworth in his seventies ; Alfred Tennyson at 34 ; William Makepeace Thackeray at 42 / Thomas Carlyle --

Characteristics ; Sartor restartus. The everlasting no ; Centre of indifference ; The everlasting yea ; Natural supernaturalism / Thomas Carlyle --

Past and present. Democracy ; Captains of industry / Thomas Carlyle.

Volume 2. The Victorian age. What is poetry? ; Coleridge ; On liberty (chapter III) ; The subjection of women ; Autobiography (chapter V) / John Stuart Mill.

Volume 2. The Victorian age. The kraken ; Mariana ; Sonnet (She took the dappled partridge flecked with blood) ; The lady of Shalott ; The lotos-eaters ; You ask me, why, though ill at ease ; Lines (Here often, when a child I lay reclined) ; Ulysses ; Tithonus ; Break, break, break ; The epic (Morte d' Arthur) ; Sonnet (How thought you that this thing could captivate?) ; Move eastward, happy Earth ; The eagle ; Locksley Hall ; The princess. Sweet and low ; The splendor falls ; Tears, idle tears ; Ask me no more ; Now sleeps the crimson petal ; Come down, o maid ; The woman's cause is man's / Alfred, Lord Tennyson --

In memoriam A.H.H. ; The charge of the light brigade ; Maud (VIII, XVI, XVIII) ; In the valley of Cauteretz ; Idylls of the king. Dedication ; Pelleas and Ettarre ; The passing of Arthur / Alfred, Lord Tennyson --

A dedication ; I stood on a tower ; Northern farmer : new style ; Flower in the crannied wall ; The revenge ; To Virgil ; "Frate ave atque vale" ; The dawn ; The silent voices ; Crossing the bar / Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

Volume 2. The Victorian age. Porphyria's lover ; Soliloquy of the Spanish cloister ; My last duchess ; The laboratory ; The lost leader ; How they brought the good news from Ghent to Aix ; Home-thoughts, from abroad ; Home-thoughts, from the sea ; 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 ; Women and roses ; "Childe Roland to the dark tower came" ; Respectability ; Fra lippo lippi ; The last ride together ; Andrea del Sarto ; Two in the Campagna ; A Grammarian's funeral ; Confessions ; Youth and art ; Caliban upon Setebos ; Prospice ; Abt Vogler ; Dîs aliter visum, or, Le Byron de Nos Jours ; Rabbi Ben Ezra ; Apparent failure ; O lyric love ; The householder ; House ; To Edward Fitzgerald ; Epilogue to Asolando / Robert Browning.

Volume 2. The Victorian age. Martin Chuzzlewit [selections] ; David Copperfield [selections] ; Bleak house [selections] ; Hard times [selections] ; Our mutual friend [selections] / Charles Dickens.

Volume 2. The Victorian age. The mill on the floss [selections] ; Margaret Fuller and Mary Wollstonecraft / George Eliot.

Volume 2. The Victorian age. Shakespeare ; In harmony with nature ; To a friend ; The forsaken merman ; Isolation. To Marguerite ; To Marguerite, continued ; The buried life ; Memorial verses ; Longing ; Lines written in Kensington Gardens ; Philomela ; Requiescat ; The scholar gypsy ; Dover Beach ; Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse ; Thyrsis ; Palladium ; The better part ; Growing old ; The last word ; Preface to Poems ; The function of criticism at the present time ; Maurice de Guérin (A definition of poetry) ; Culture and anarchy (chapters I, II, V) ; Wordsworth ; The study of poetry ; Literature and science / Matthew Arnold.

Volume 2. The Victorian age. Lyric and narrative poetry. Sonnets from the Portuguese (22, 43) / Elizabeth Barrett Browning --

Remembrance ; The prisoner ; No coward soul is mine / Emily Brontë --

The blessed damozel ; My sister's sleep ; The woodspurge ; The house of life [selections from The sonnet] ; She bound her green sleeve ; The orchard-pit / Dante Gabriel Rossetti --

Song (When I am dead, my dearest) ; After death ; A birthday ; An apple gathering ; Uphill ; Goblin market ; A life's parallels ; Cardinal Newman ; Sleeping at last / Christina Rossetti --

Modern love (1, 2, 3, 15, 16, 17, 50) ; Dirge in the woods ; Lucifer in starlight / George Meredith --

Christ keep the hollow land ; The haystack in the floods ; The earthly paradise (An apology) ; A death song ; For the bed at Kelmscott / William Morris --

The rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám / Edward Fitzgerald --

Epi-strauss-ium ; The latest decalogue ; Say not the struggle nought availeth ; Dipsychus. I dreamt a dream. "There is no God", the wicked saith / Arthur Hugh Clough --

Atalanta in Calydon. When the hounds of spring ; Before the beginning of years / Algernon Charles Swinburne --

In the orchard ; The triumph of time (I will go back to the great sweet mother) ; Hymn to Proserpine ; The garden of Proserpine ; Ave Atque Vale / Algernon Charles Swinburne --

The hound of heaven ; The kingdom of God / Francis Thompson.

Volume 2. The Victorian age. Nonsense verse. How pleasant to know Mr. Lear ; Limerick (There was a young man in Iowa) ; The jumblies ; Cold are the crabs / Edward Lear --

Jabberwocky (Humpty Dumpty's explication of Jabberwocky) ; The white knight's song ; The walrus and the carpenter ; The hunting of the snark ; The baker's tale / Lewis Carroll.

Volume 2. The Victorian age. Critical and controversial prose. The idea of a university (discourse V and VII) ; Apologia pro vita sua (chapters III, V, and from Liberalism) / John Henry Cardinal Newman --

Modern painters. The slave ship ; Of the pathetic fallacy / John Ruskin --

The stones of Venice (The savageness of Gothic architecture) ; The storm-cloud of the nineteenth century (Lecture I) / John Ruskin --

A liberal education (A game of chess) ; An address on university education (The function of a professor) ; Science and culture ; Agnosticism and Christianity / Thomas Henry Huxley --

The Renaissance. Preface ; La Gioconda Conclusion / Walter Pater --

Appreciations (Style) / Walter Pater.

Volume 2. The Victorian age. Topics in Victorian literature : evolution. The descent of man [selection] / Charles Darwin --

The Belfast address [selection] / John Tyndall --

The life and letter of Thomas Henry Huxley [selection] / Leonard Huxley --

Father and son [selection] / Edmund Gosse.

Volume 2. The Victorian age. Topics in Victorian literature : industrialism, progress or decline? A review of Southey's Colloquies [selection] / Thomas Babington Macaulay --

The great towns / Friedrich Engels --

Alton Locke [selection] / Charles Kingsley --

Social statics [selection] / Herbert Spencer.

Volume 2. The twentieth century. Impression du Matin ; Hélas ; E tenebris ; The harlot's house ; The critic as artist ; Preface to The picture of Dorian Gray / Oscar Wilde --

Cynara ; Flos lunae ; To one in Bedlam ; A last word ; Spleen ; Dregs ; Exchanges / Ernest Dowson --

Hap ; The impercipient ; Neutral tones ; I look into my glass ; A broken appointment ; Drummer hodge ; Lausanne ; The darkling thrush ; A trampwoman's tragedy ; Let me enjoy ; The rash bride ; One we knew ; She hears the storm ; Channel firing ; The convergence of the Twain ; Ah, are you digging on my grave ; Under the waterfall ; The walk ; During wind and rain ; In time of "The breaking of nations" ; He never expected much / Thomas Hardy --

God's grandeur ; The starlight night ; Spring ; The lantern out of doors ; The windhover ; Pied beauty ; Hurrahing in harvest ; Binsey poplars ; Dun's Scotus's Oxford ; Felix Randal ; Spring and fall ; Inversnaid ; Carrion comfort ; No worst, there is none ; Thou art indeed just, Lord / Gerard Manley Hopkins.

Volume 2. The twentieth century. Preface to Major Barbara ; Major Barbara / George Bernard Shaw --

Heart of darkness / Joseph Conrad --

The madness of King Goll ; The stolen child ; Down by the Sally Gardens ; The rose of the world ; The lake isle of Innisfree ; The sorrow of love ; When you are old ; Who goes with Fergus ; The man who dreamed of Faeryland ; The secret rose ; The folly of being comforted ; Adam's curse ; The old men admiring themselves in the water ; No second Troy ; The fascination of what's difficult ; September 1913 ; To a shade ; The cold heaven ; The wild swans at Coole ; Easter 1916 ; On a political prisoner ; The second coming ; A prayer for my daughter ; Sailing to Byzantium ; Leda and the swan ; Among school children ; A dialogue of self and soul ; For Anne Gregory ; Byzantium ; Crazy Jane talks with the bishop ; After long silence ; Lapis lazuli ; Long-legged fly ; The circus animals' desertion ; Under Ben Bulben / William Butler Yeats --

Memoirs. Autobiography ; Journal / William Butler Yeats.

Volume 2. The twentieth century. Araby ; Clay ; A portrait of the artist as a young man. The interview with the director ; The walk on the shore / James Joyce --

Ulysses. Proteus ; Lestrygonians / James Joyce --

Finnegans wake (Anna Livia Plurabelle) / James Joyce --

Odor of chrysanthemums ; The rainbow (chapter II) ; The horse dealer's daughter ; The fox ; Why the novel matters ; Love on the farm ; The bride ; A young wife ; Piano ; Bavarian gentians ; Snake ; The ship of death / D.H. Lawrence --

The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock ; Landscapes. Rannoch, by Glencoe ; Cape Ann / T.S. Eliot --

Sweeney among the nightingales ; Whispers of immortality ; The waste land ; Journey of the magi ; Marina ; Four quartets (Little gidding) ; Tradition and the individual talent ; The metaphysical poets / T.S. Eliot --

The watergaw ; The Bonnie Broukit Bairn ; Moonstruck ; The Eemis stane ; A drunk man looks at the thistle. Farewell to Dostoevski ; Yet ha'e I silence left / Hugh MacDiarmid --

To circumjack cencrastus (Lourd on my hert) ; On a raised beach ; Second hymn to Lenin ; In memoriam James Joyce (We must look at the harebell) / Hugh MacDiarmid --

Endgame (The end) ; Molloy. Overture : A and C ; Molloy and his sucking stones ; Moran in service ; Two encounters ; Moran back from service / Samuel Beckett --

The unnamable (Into the silence) / Samuel Beckett.

Volume 2. The twentieth century. Distinctive voices in poetry and fiction. Loveliest of trees ; When I was one-and-twenty ; To an athlete dying young ; Bredon Hill ; The Lent lily ; On Wenlock Edge ; With rue my heart is laden ; Terence, this is stupid stuff ; The chestnut casts his flambeaux ; Could man be drunk forever ; Epitaph on an army of mercenaries / A.E. Housman --

Danny Deever ; Recessional ; Edgehill fight ; The runes on Weland's sword / Rudyard Kipling --

Heaven ; The soldier / Rupert Brooke --

Tears ; The owl ; The path ; Adlestrop ; The gallows ; Ambition / Edward Thomas --

Greater love ; Futility ; Sonnet on seeing a piece of our artillery brought into action ; Anthem for doomed youth ; Apologia pro poemate meo ; Strange meeting / Wilfred Owen --

The road from Colonus / E.M. Forster --

The mark on the wall / Virginia Woolf --

Troy ; The return ; The animals ; Adam's dream ; The horses / Edwin Muir --

In parenthesis (Preface and part 7) / David Jones --

Flying crooked ; Down, wanton, down! ; The reader over my shoulder ; The devil's advice to story-tellers ; A civil servant ; Gulls and men ; The white goddess ; The straw ; Dialogue on the headland ; The blu-fly ; A plea to boys and girls ; Friday night ; The naked and the nude ; A slice of wedding cake / Robert Graves --

This lunar beauty ; Petition ; On this island ; Spain 1937 ; Musée des beaux arts ; Lullaby ; In memory of W.B. Yeats ; Their lonely betters ; In praise of limestone / W.H. Auden --

Sunday morning ; The sunlight on the garden ; Bagpipe music ; Mahabalipuram ; Good dream / Louis MacNiece --

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower ; This bread I break ; After the funeral ; There was a saviour ; The hunchback in the park ; Poem in October ; Do not go gentle into that good night / Dylan Thomas --

To room nineteen / Doris Lessing.

Volume 2. The twentieth century. The critical revolt against romanticism and impressionism. Romanticism and classicism / T.E. Hulme --

Practical criticism (part I) / I.A. Richards --

Revaluation (chapter 6) / F.R. Leaves --

Seven types of ambiguity (Wordsworth) / William Empson.

Volume 2. The twentieth century. Poetry after mid-century. A voice from the garden ; Across the bay / Donald Davie --

Lines on a young lady's photograph album ; Faith healing ; Ambulances / Philip Larkin --

An English summer ; In memory of anyone unknown to me / Elizabeth Jennings --

Reflections ; A meditation on John Constable ; Hawks ; Autumn piece / Charles Tomlinson --

Considering the snail ; Human condition ; Moly / Thom Gunn --

Wind ; A dream of horses ; Relic ; Examination at the womb-door ; A disaster / Ted Hughes --

Seahorses ; Five generations / Peter Porter --

Nature with man ; A bluebell ; Creatures / Jon Silkin --

September song ; Funeral music (3 and 7) / Geoffrey Hill --

Churning day ; Poor women in a city church / Seamus Heaney.