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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.

• Longman Anthology of British Literature, Volume 2A, The: The Romantics and Their Contemporaries, 5/eThe Romantics and Their ContemporariesIllustration: Thomas Girtin, Tintern Abbey THE ROMANTIC PERIOD AT A GLANCEINTRODUCTIONLITERATURE AND THE AGE: “NOUGHT WAS LASTING”ROMANCE, ROMANTICISM, AND THE POWERS OF THE IMAGINATIONTHE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND ITS REVERBERATIONSIllustration: Thomas Rowlandson, after a drawing by Lord George Murray,The Contrast THE MONARCHYIllustration: Thomas Lawrence, Coronation Portrait of the Prince Regent(later, George IV) INDUSTRIAL ENGLAND AND “NEVER-RESTING LABOUR”CONSUMERS AND COMMODITIESColor Plate 1: John Martin, The BardColor Plate 2: Thomas Gainsborough, Mrs. Mary RobinsonColor Plate 3: Thomas Phillips, Lord ByronColor Plate 4: Anonymous, Portrait of Olaudah EquianoColor Plate 5: J. M. W. Turner, Slavers Throwing the Dead and DyingOverboard, Typhoon Coming OnColor 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 TygerColor Plate 9: William Blake, The Sick RoseColor Plate 10: Joseph Wright, An Iron Forge Viewed from WithoutAUTHORSHIP, AUTHORITY, AND “ROMANTICISM”POPULAR PROSEIllustration: George Cruikshank, The Press PERSPECTIVESThe Sublime, the Beautiful, and the PicturesqueIllustration: Thomas Rowlandson, Dr. Syntax Sketching by the Lake Illustration: Joseph Mallord William Turner, The Passage of the St. Gothard,1804 EDMUND BURKEfrom A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublimeand BeautifulIllustration: Benjamin Robert Haydon, Study after the ElginMarbles IMMANUEL KANTfrom The Critique of JudgementWILLIAM GILPINIllustration: Edward Dayes, Tintern Abbey from across theWye, 1794from Three Essays on Picturesque Beauty, on Picturesque Travel,and on Sketching LandscapeIllustration: From William Gilpin's Three Essays, 1792MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTfrom A Vindication of the Rights of MenJANE AUSTENfrom Pride and Prejudicefrom Northanger AbbeyMARIA JANE JEWSBURYA Rural ExcursionJOHN RUSKINfrom Modern PaintersANNA LETITIA BARBAULDThe Mouse's Petition to Dr. PriestleyOn a Lady's WritingInscription for an Ice-HouseTo a Little Invisible Being Who Is Expected Soon to BecomeVisibleTo the PoorWashing-DayEighteen Hundred and ElevenRESPONSEJohn Wilson Croker: from A Review of Eighteen Hundredand Eleven The First FireOn the Death of the Princess CharlotteCHARLOTTE SMITHfrom ELEGIAC SONNETS AND OTHER POEMSTo 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, 1785Far on the sandsTo tranquillityWritten in the church-yard at Middleton in SussexOn being cautioned against walking on an headland overlooking the seaThe sea viewThe Dead BeggarThe Emigrants, Book 1from Beachy HeadPERSPECTIVESThe Rights of Man and the Revolution ControversyHELEN MARIA WILLIAMSfrom Letters Written in France, in the Summer of 1790EDMUND BURKEfrom Reflections on the Revolution in FranceIllustration: James Gillray, Smelling out a Rat; —— or The AtheisticalRevolutionist disturbed in his Midnight Calculations MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTfrom A Vindication of the Rights of MenLetter to Joseph Johnson, from Paris, December 27, 1792THOMAS PAINEfrom The Rights of ManHELEN MARIA WILLIAMSfrom Letters from France, 1796WILLIAM GODWINfrom An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and Its Influence on GeneralVirtue and HappinessTHE ANTI-JACOBIN, OR WEEKLY EXAMINERThe Friend of Humanity and the Knife-GrinderThe WidowIllustration: James Gillray, illustration to The Friend of Humanity and theKnife-Grinder HANNAH MOREVillage PoliticsARTHUR YOUNGfrom Travels in France During the Years 1787–1788, and 1789from The Example of France, a Warning to Britainfrom Jacobinismfrom Once a Jacobin Always a JacobinWILLIAM BLAKEAll Religions Are OneThere Is No Natural Religion [a]There Is No Natural Religion [b]SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND OF EXPERIENCEIllustration: William Blake, frontispiece for Songs of Innocence from Songs of InnocenceIntroductionThe ShepherdThe Ecchoing GreenThe LambIllustration: William Blake, The Lamb The Little Black BoyThe BlossomThe Chimney SweeperIllustration: William Blake, The Little Boy lost The Little Boy lostIllustration: William Blake, The Little Boy found The Little Boy foundThe Divine ImageHOLY THURSDAYNurses SongInfant JoyA DreamOn Anothers SorrowCOMPANION READINGCharles Lamb: from The Praise of Chimney-Sweepersfrom Songs of ExperienceIntroductionEARTH'S AnswerThe CLOD & the PEBBLEHOLY THURSDAYThe Little Girl LostThe Little Girl FoundTHE Chimney SweeperNURSES SongThe SICK ROSEIllustration: William Blake, THE Chimney Sweeper Illustration: William Blake, THE FLY THE FLYThe AngelThe TygerMy Pretty ROSE TREEAH! SUN-FLOWERThe GARDEN of LOVELONDONThe Human AbstractINFANT SORROWA Little BOY LostIllustration: William Blake, A POISON TREE A Little GIRL LostThe School-BoyA DIVINE IMAGEThe Marriage of Heaven and HellVisions of the Daughters of AlbionIllustration: William Blake, Plate i from Visions of the Daughters of Albion Illustration: William Blake, Plate 8, from Visions of the Daughters of Albion LETTERSTo Dr. John Trusler (23 August 1799)To Thomas Butts (22 November 1802)PERSPECTIVESThe Abolition of Slavery and the Slave TradeOLAUDAH EQUIANOfrom The Interesting Narrative of the Life of OlaudahEquianoMARY PRINCEfrom The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian SlaveTHOMAS BELLAMYThe Benevolent PlantersJOHN NEWTONAmazing Grace!ANN CROMARTIE YEARSLEYfrom A Poem on the Inhumanity of the Slave-TradeWILLIAM COWPERSweet Meat Has Sour SauceThe Negro's ComplaintANNA LETITIA BARBAULDEpistle to William Wilberforce, Esq., On the Rejection of the Bill for Abolishingthe Slave TradeHANNAH MORE AND EAGLESFIELD SMITHThe Sorrows of YambaROBERT SOUTHEYfrom Poems Concerning the Slave-TradeDOROTHY WORDSWORTHfrom The Grasmere JournalsTHOMAS CLARKSONfrom The History of the Rise, Progress, & Accomplishment of the Abolition ofthe African Slave-Trade by the British ParliamentIllustration: Packing methods on a slave shipWILLIAM WORDSWORTHTo Toussaint L'OuvertureTo Thomas Clarksonfrom The Preludefrom HumanityLetter to Mary Ann Rawson (May 1833)THE EDINBURGH REVIEWfrom Abstract of the Information laid on the Table of the House of Commons, on the Subject of the Slave TradeGEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRONfrom Detached ThoughtsMARY ROBINSONOde to BeautyJanuary, 1795from Sappho and Phaon, in a Series of Legitimate SonnetsIII. The Bower of PleasureIV. Sappho discovers her PassionVII. Invokes ReasonXI. Rejects the Influence of ReasonXII. Previous to her Interview with PhaonXVIII. To PhaonXXX. Bids farewell to LesbosXXXVII. Foresees her DeathThe CampThe Haunted BeachLondon's Summer MorningThe Old BeggarMARY WOLLSTONECRAFTIllustration: Portrait of Mary WollstonecraftA Vindication of the Rights of Womanfrom To M. Talleyrand-Périgord, Late Bishop of AutunIntroductionfrom Chapter 1. The Rights and Involved Duties of MankindConsideredfrom Chapter 2. The Prevailing Opinion of a Sexual CharacterDiscussedfrom Chapter 3. The Same Subject Continuedfrom Chapter 5. Animadversions on Some of the Writers Who Have RenderedWomen Objects of Pity, Bordering on Contemptfrom Chapter 13. Some Instances of the Folly Which the Ignoranceof Women Generates; with Concluding Reflections on the MoralImprovement That a Revolution in Female Manners Might NaturallyBe Expected to ProduceRESPONSESAnna Letitia Barbauld, The Rights of WomanAnn Yearsley, The Indifferent Shepherdess to ColinRobert Southey, To Mary WollstonecraftWilliam Blake, from Maryfrom The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria “Jemima's Narrative”PERSPECTIVESThe Wollstonecraft Controversy and the Rights of WomenCATHARINE MACAULAYfrom Letters on EducationRICHARD POLWHELEfrom The Unsex'd FemalesPRISCILLA BELL WAKEFIELDfrom Reflections on the Present Condition of the Female SexMARY ANN RADCLIFFEfrom The Female AdvocateHANNAH MOREfrom Strictures on the Modern System of Female EducationMARY LAMBLetter to The British Lady's Magazine, “On Needlework”WILLIAM THOMPSON AND ANNA WHEELERfrom Appeal of One Half the Human Race, Women, Against the Pretensions ofthe Other Half, Men, to Retain Them in Political, and Thence in Civil andDomestic SlaveryJOANNA BAILLIEPlays on the Passionsfrom Introductory DiscourseLondonA Mother to Her Waking InfantA Child to His Sick GrandfatherThunderSong: Woo'd and Married and A'LITERARY BALLADSRELIQUES OF ANCIENT ENGLISH POETRYSir Patrick SpenceJAMES MACPHERSONCarric-Thura: A PoemROBERT BURNSTo a MouseTo a LouseFlow gently, sweet AftonAe fond kissComin' Thro' the Rye (1)Comin' Thro' the Rye (2)Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bledIs there for honest povertyRESPONSECharlotte Smith, To the shade of BurnsA Red, Red RoseAuld Lang SyneThe Fornicator. A New SongTHOMAS MOOREThe harp that once through Tara's hallsBelieve me, if all those endearing young charmsThe time I've lost in wooingWILLIAM WORDSWORTHLYRICAL BALLADS (1798)Simon LeeAnecdote for FathersWe are sevenLines written in early springThe ThornNote to The Thorn (1800)Expostulation and ReplyThe Tables TurnedOld Man TravellingLines written a few miles above Tintern AbbeyLYRICAL 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 GrayPoor SusanNutting“Three years she grew in sun and shower”The Old Cumberland BeggarMichaelRESPONSESFrancis Jeffrey: [“the new poetry”]Charles Lamb: from a letter to William WordsworthCharles Lamb: from a letter to Thomas ManningSONNETS, 1802–1807Prefatory 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, 1802THE PRELUDE, OR GROWTH OF A POET'S MINDBook First. Introduction, Childhood, and School timefrom 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 andImperialist 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 LaterReflections]from Book Thirteenth. Conclusion[Climbing Mount Snowdon. Moonlit Vista. Meditation on “Mind,” “Self,”“Imagination,” “Fear,” and “Love”][Concluding Retrospect and Prophecy]RESPONSESamuel Taylor Coleridge: To a Gentleman“I travell'd among unknown Men”Resolution and IndependenceRESPONSELewis Carroll: Upon the Lonely Moor“I wandered lonely as a Cloud”“My heart leaps up”Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of EarlyChildhoodThe Solitary ReaperElegiac Stanzas (“Peele Castle”)RESPONSEMary Shelley: On Reading Wordsworth's Lines on Peele CastleExcursionPrefaceBook I “The Wanderer”From Book IVRESPONSESWilliam Hazlitt: from the Character of Mr. Wordsworth's New Poem, The ExcursionFrancis Jeffrey: from A Review of William Wordsworth's ExcursionJohn Wilson, “But is it Christianity? ... Was Margaret a Christian?” from “On Sacred Poetry” Blackwood's Edinburg Magazine, 1828from The Wanderer, 1845 Version“Surprised by Joy”“Mutability”“Scorn not the Sonnet”Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James HoggDOROTHY WORDSWORTHGrasmere—A FragmentAddress to a ChildIrregular VersesFloating IslandLines Intended for My Niece's AlbumThoughts on My Sick-bedWhen Shall I Tread Your Garden Path?Lines Written (Rather Say Begun) on the Morning of SundayApril 6thfrom 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]LETTERSTo 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]RESPONSESSamuel Taylor Coleridge: from A letter to Joseph CottleThomas De Quincey: from Recollections of the LakePoetsSAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGESonnet to the River OtterCOMPANION READINGWilliam Lisle Bowles: To the River Itchin, Near WintonThe Eolian HarpThis Lime-Tree Bower My PrisonFrost at Midnightfrom The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere (1798)Part 1The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1817)COMPANION READINGSWilliam Cowper: The CastawaySamuel Taylor Coleridge: from Table TalkChristabelCOMPANION READINGMary Elizabeth Coleridge: The WitchKubla KhanRESPONSEMary Robinson: To the Poet ColeridgeThe Pains of SleepDejection: An OdeLETTERSTo William GodwinTo Thomas PooleOn Donne's PoetryWork Without HopeConstancy to an Ideal ObjectEpitaphfrom The Statesman's Manual[Symbol and Allegory]from The Friend[My Ghost-Theory]Biographia LiterariaChapter 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 EnsuingControversy][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 TIMEShakespeare in the Nineteenth CenturyCharles 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 Charactersof Shakespeare's Plays *GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRONShe walks in beautySo, we'll go no more a-roving