The Longman Anthology of British Literature, Volume 1, Part 1Volume 2A: The Romantics and Their Contemporaries of The Longman Anthology of British Literature is a comprehensive and thoughtfully arranged anthology that offers a rich selection of major British authors throughout the Romantic period. The text includes Perspectives, Companion Readings, and "and Its Time" sections which show how major literary writings interrelate with and respond to various social, historical, and cultural events of Great Britain in the Romantic period. With a generous representation of fiction, drama, and poetry, the second edition includes major additions of important works and an expanded illustration program. Fresh and up-to-date introductions and notes are written by an editorial team whose members are all actively engaged in teaching and in current scholarship, and illustrations show both artistic and cultural developments of the period. For those interested in British Literature of the Romantic Period. |
Contents
List of Illustrations | xix |
Acknowledgments | xxvii |
Credits | xlix |
ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD | 31 |
from A Review of Eighteen Hundred | 45 |
from Beachy Head | 54 |
EDMUND BURKE | 67 |
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT | 76 |
Floating Island | 472 |
The Grasmere Journals | 478 |
LETTERS | 484 |
PERSPECTIVES | 496 |
WILLIAM GILPIN | 505 |
JANE AUSTEN | 511 |
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE | 520 |
The Castaway | 543 |
THOMAS PAINE | 84 |
WILLIAM GODWIN | 91 |
HANNAH MORE | 100 |
ARTHUR YOUNG | 107 |
SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND OF EXPERIENCE | 118 |
from Songs of Experience | 126 |
Visions of the Daughters of Albion | 148 |
To Thomas Butts 22 November 1802 | 156 |
MARY PRINCE | 169 |
JOHN NEWTON | 180 |
HANNAH MORE and EAGLESFIELD SMITH | 188 |
DOROTHY WORDSWORTH | 198 |
MARY ROBINSON | 214 |
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT | 227 |
from Letters on Education | 270 |
PRISCILLA BELL WAKEFIELD | 280 |
HANNAH MORE | 291 |
MARY LAMB | 297 |
JOANNA BAILLIE | 309 |
Literary Ballads | 320 |
SIR WALTER SCOTT | 333 |
We Are Seven | 341 |
LYRICAL BALLADS 1800 1802 | 356 |
Strange fits of passion have I known | 363 |
Michael | 369 |
SONNETS 18021807 | 385 |
Book Second School time continued | 403 |
Book Fifth Books | 409 |
Book Seventh Residence in London | 420 |
Book Tenth Residence in France and French Revolution | 429 |
Book Eleventh Imagination How Impaired and Restored | 439 |
travelld among unknown Men | 450 |
The Solitary Reaper | 460 |
COLERIDGES LECTURES AND THEIR TIME | 590 |
Thomas De Quincey On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth | 597 |
MANFRED AND ITS TIME | 638 |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge from The Statesmans Manual Satanic | 644 |
600 | 654 |
Canto the Fourth | 660 |
COMPANION READINGS | 666 |
Canto 1 | 672 |
from Canto 2 Shipwreck Juan and Haidée | 717 |
from Canto 3 Juan and Haidée The Poet for Hire | 733 |
from Canto 7 Critique of Military Glory | 741 |
LETTERS | 747 |
COMPANION READINGS | 791 |
With a Guitar to Jane | 799 |
FELICIA HEMANS | 810 |
Evening Prayer at a Girls School | 818 |
Properzia Rossi | 825 |
The Homes of England | 833 |
from Prefatory Note to Extempore Effusion on | 840 |
JOHN KEATS | 852 |
from On the Cockney School of Poetry | 859 |
This living hand | 899 |
PERSPECTIVES | 916 |
CHARLES LAMB | 923 |
WILLIAM HAZLITT | 934 |
THOMAS DE QUINCEY | 950 |
JANE AUSTEN | 981 |
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY | 992 |
Political and Religious Orders | 1007 |
Literary and Cultural Terms | 1013 |
367 | 1033 |
Copyright | |