POETRY // Beowulf (Verses 703—824) ...17 // Geoffrey Chaucer (1345?—1400) // The Canterbury Tales // The Prologue (Verses 1—41, 447—478, 531-568) ...20 // Popular Ballads // Robin Hood and the Golden Arrow ...24 // The Wife of Usher’s Well ...28 // The Three Ravens ...29 // Thomas Wyatt (1503?—1542) // I Find No Peace ...30 // Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517?—1547) // Vow to Love Faithfully ...31 // Frail Beauty ...31 // Edmund Spenser (1552?—1599) // Amoretti // Ice and Fire ...32 // Another Element ...32 // Epithalamion (Verses 296—352) ...33 // William Shakespeare (1564—1616) // Sonnets (17, 19, 25, 66, 73, 116) ...35 // John Donne (1571 or 1572—1631) // The Canonization ...37 // The Ecstasy ... ...38 // Holy Sonnets (10) ...40 // Robert Herrick (1591—1674) // To Daffodils ...41 // John Milton (1608—1674) // On His Blindness ...42 // Paradise Lost (Book I, Verses 36—109) ...42 // Samson Agonistes (Verses 1268—1296) ...44 // Andrew Marvell (1621—1678) // The Garden ...45 // John Dryden (1631—1700) // London After the Great Fire, 1666 47 // Alexander Pope (1688—1744) // An Essay on Man (Epistle II, Verses 260—282) ...48 // An Essay on Criticism (Part II, Verses 362—373) ...49 // The Rape of the Lock (Canto I, Verses 121—148) ...49 // Thomas Gray (1716—1771) // Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard ...50 // William Blake (1757—1827) // Songs of Innocence // The Lamb ...54 // The Chimney Sweeper ... ...55 // 7 Songs of Experience // The Chimney Sweeper . 56 // The Tyger ...56 // London ...57 // Robert Burns (1759—1796) // To a Mouse ...58 // A Red, Red Rose ...59 // My Heart’s in the Highlands ... ...60 // William Wordsworth (1770—1850) // Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey On Revisiting the Banks // of the Wye During a Tour (July 13, 1798) ...61 // England 1812 ...65 //
The Old Cumberland Beggar (Verses 171—197) ...65 // The Solitary Reaper ...66 // Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772—1834) // On the Prospect of Establishing a Pantisocracy in America ...67 // The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Part II) . . 67 // Kubla Khan; or, A Vision in a Dream (A Fragment) ...70 // Walter Scott (1771—1832) // The Heart of Midlothian // Proud Maisie ...71 // The Antiquary // Time ...72 // The Sun Upon the Weirdlaw Hill ...72 // George Gordon Byron (1788—1824) // Hebrew Melodies // She Walks in Beauty ...73 // Song For the Luddites ...74 // Prometheus (I, II, HI) ...74 // The Prisoner of Chillon (XI, XII, XIII, XIV) ...76 // Don Juan (Canto III, 107, 108) ...79 // Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (Canto IV, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183) ...80 // Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792—1822) // Ode to the West Wind ...81 // England in 1819 ...83 // Song to the Men of England ...83 // John Keats (1795—1821) // Ode to a Nightingale ...84 // Ode to a Grecian Urn ...87 // La Belle Dame Sans Merci ...88 // Thomas Hood (1799—1845) // The Song of the Shirt ...90 // Alfred Tennyson (1809—1892) // Break, Break, Break ...93 // Crossing the Bar ...93 // Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806—1861) // The Cry of the Children (I, II, III) ...94 // Sonnets from the Portuguese (XIV, XLIH) ...95 // Grief ...96 // Robert Browning (1812—1889) // 8 Two in the Canapagna ...96 // Meeting at Night ...98 // The Lost Mistress ...99 // Home-Thoughts, from Abroad ...99 // Ernest Jones (1819—1869) // The Song of the Wage-Slave ...100 // The Song of the Lower Classes ...101 // Danie Gabriel Rossetti (1828—1882) // The Blessed Damozel ...102 // Christina Rossetti (1830—1894) // Sing-Song ...106 // Lewis Carroll (1832—1898) // Through the Looking-Glass // Jabberwocky (Chapter 1) ...107 // Humpty Dumpty (Chapter 6) ...108 //
William Morris (1834—1896) // Two Red Roses Across the Moon ...110 // Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844—1889) // The Windhover ...111 // Spring ...112 // Pied Beauty ...112 // Robert Bridges (1844—1930) // On a Dead Child ...113 // Alfred Edward Housman (1859—1936) // When I Was One-and-Twenty ...114 // Bredon Hill ...114 // Rudyard Kipling (1865—1936) // If ...115 // William Butler Yeats (1865—1939) // Easter, 1916 ...116 // Leda and the Swan ...119 // Byzantium ...119 // The Wild Swans at Coole ...120 // A Prayer for My Daughter ...121 // The Lake Isle of Innisfree ...123 // W’alter de la Mare (1873—1956) // The Listeners ...124 // Fare Well ...125 // John Masefield (1878—1967) // Cargoes ...126 // Sea-Fever ...126 // Siegfried Sassoon (1886—1967) // The Rear-Guard ...127 // Aftermath ...127 // Wilfred Owen (1893—1918) // Strange Meeting ...128 // Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888—1965) // The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock ...130 // The Waste Land (I, The Burial of the Dead) ...134 // 9 Robert Graves (1895) // Welsh Incident ...136 // Sick Love ...137 // Cecil Day-Lewis (1904—1972) // The Conflict ...138 // Wystan Hugh Auden (1907—1973) // September 1, 1939 139 // Dylan Thomas (1914—1953) // Especially When the October Wind ...141 // Fern Hill ...142 // The Hunchback in the Park ...144 // A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London ...145 // Keith Douglas (1920—1944) // How to Kill ...146 // Philip Larkin (1922) // Church Going ...147 // Charles Tomlinson (1927) // The Fox ...149 // The Cavern ...149 // Thomas Kinsella (1928) // Another September ...150 // Wormwood ...151 // Thom Gunn (1929) // On the Move ...152 // Ted Hughes (1930) // Six Young Men ...153 // George MacBeth (1935) // The Shell ...154 // Owl ...156 // Douglas Hill (1935) // Sarcophagi in the British Museum ...157 // Glyn Hughes (1935) // The Letter ...158 //
Keith Bosley (1937) // The Old Postcards ...159 // Peter Dale (1938) // In Memory of a Hungarian Poet Murdered by the Nazis ...160 // Derek Mahon (1941) // In Belfast ...160 // Brian Patten (1946) // Little Johnny’s Final Letter ...161 // DRAMA // Thomas Kyd (1558?—1594?) // The Spanish Tragedy (Act IV, Scene 4) ...165 // Christopher Marlowe (1564—1593) // The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus (Act V, Scene 2) ...167 // William Shakespeare (1564—1616) // Twelfth Night: or, What You Will (Act II, Scene 5: Act III, Scene 4) ...169 // 10 Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (Act II, Scene 2; Act III, Scene 1) ...181 // King Lear (Act I, Scene 1) ...202 // Benjamin Jonson (1572—1637) // Volpone, or The Fox (Act I, Scene 3) ...210 // John Webster (1580?—1625?) // The Duchess of Malfi (Act III, Scene 2) ...213 // William Congreve (1670—1729) // The Way of the World (Act IV, Scene 5) ...215 // John Gay (1685—1732) // The Beggar’s Opera (Act I, Scenes 1, 2, 3, 4) ...219 // Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751—1816) // The Critic (Act II, Scene 1) ...222 // Oscar Wilde (1854—1900) // The Importance of Being Earnest (Act III) ...224 // George Bernard Shaw (1856—1950) // Widowers’ Houses (Act II; An Extract) ...227 // Pygmalion (Act III; An Extract) ...229 // John Millington Synge (1871—1909) // Riders to the Sea (An Extract) ...232 // Sean O’Casey (1884—1964) // The Shadow of a Gunman (Act II) ...236 // John Osborne (1929) // Look Back in Anger (Act I; An Extract) ...239 // Harold Pinter (1930) // The Caretaker (Act I; An Extract; Act II; An Extract; Act HI; An Extract) 242 // Arnold Wesker (1932) // Roots (Act III; An Extract) ...251 // Edward Bond (1934) // Saved (Scene 1) ...256 // PROSE AND FICTION // William Caxton (1422?—1491) // Recueil des Histoires de Troye // The Author’s Apology (An Extract) ...263 //
Thomas More (1478—1535) // Utopia // Of Warfare (An Extract) ...264 // Raphael Holinshed (d. 1580?) // Chronicles // The Murder of the Little Princes (An Extract) ...265 // John Lyly (1554?—1606) // Euphues, His England // Constancy (An Extract) ...266 // Francis Bacon (1561—1626) // Essays Civil and Moral // Of Truth ...267 // Thomas Dekker (1570?—1632) // The Gull’s Hornbook // How a Gallant Should Behave Himself in a Play-House (An Extract) ...269 // I Samuel Pepys (1633—1703) // The Diary // September 2nd, 1666 ...270 // Daniel Defoe (1660?—1731) // Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner // (Section V; An Extract; Section XVII; An Extract) ...272 // Jonathan Swift (1667—1745) // Gulliver’s Travels // A Voyage to Lilliput (Chapter 3; An Extract; Chapter 5; An Extract) ...275 // A Modest Proposal (An Extract) ...279 // Richard Steele (1672—1729) // The Spectator Himself (The Spectator, Thursday, March 1, 1711) ...281 // Joseph Addison (1672—1719) // Sir Roger in Westminster Abbey (The Spectator, Tuesday, March 18, 1712) ...284 // Samuel Richardson (1689—1761) // Clarissa (Letter VII) ...286 // Henry Fielding (1707—1754) // Joseph Andrews (Chapter 16; An Extract) ...288 // The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (Book I, Chapter 3; An Extract) . . 290 // Samuel Johnson (1709—1784) // Preface to Shakespeare (An Extract) ...292 // James Boswell (1740—1795) // The Life of Samuel Johnson (A. D. 1763: aetat. 54) ...295 // Laurence Sterne (1713—1768) // Tristram Shandy (Book VIII, Chapters 12, 13, 14, 15, 16) ...296 // Tobias Smollett (1721—1771) // The Adventures of Roderick Random (Chapter 8) ...300 // Oliver Goldsmith (1730?—1774) // The Vicar of Wakefield (Chapter 10) ...306 // William Wordsworth (1770—1850) // Preface to Lyrical Ballads (An Extract) ...309 //
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772—1834) // Characteristics of Shakespeare’s Dramas (An Extract) ...310 // Walter Scott (1771—1832) // The Heart of Midlothian (Chapter 37; An Extract) ...313 // Kenilworth (Chapter 25; An Extract) ...317 // Jane Austen (1775—1817) // Pride and Prejudice (Chapter 20; An Extract) ...319 // Thomas Carlyle (1795—1881) // Past and Present (Book III, Chapter 11 ; An Extract) // Labour ...320 // Elizabeth Gaskell (1810—1865) // Mary Barton, a Tale of Manchester Life (Chapter 9; An Extract) ...321 // Emily Bronte (1818—1848) // Wuthering Heights (Chapter 2; An Extract; Chapter 15; An Extract) ...323 // William Makepeace Thackeray (1811—1863) // Vanity Fair (Chapter 2; An Extract; Chapter 7; An Extract) ...329 // The History of Henry Esmond (Book III, Chapter 10; An Extract) ...335 // Charles Dickens (1812—1870) // The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (Chapter 5; An Extract) ...337 // 12 Bleak House (Chapter 6; An Extract) ...341 // George Eliot (1819—1880) // The Mill on the Floss (Chapter 4; An Extract) ...343 // William Morris (1834—1896) // How I Became a Socialist ...345 // Thomas Hardy (1840—1928) // Tess of the D’Urbervilles (Chapter 43; An Extract) ...347 // Joseph Conrad (1857—1924) // The Nigger of the Narcissus (Chapter 1; An Extract) ...349 // Heart of Darkness (Chapter 1; An Extract) ...350 // Herbert George Wells (1866—1946) // The History of Mr Polly (Chapter 6; An Extract; Chapter 7; An Extract) . . 352 // The Time Machine (Chapter 4; An Extract) ...354 // Arnold Bennett (1867—1931) // The Old Wives’ Tale (Book III, Chapter 3; An Extract) // An Ambition Satisfied ...356 // John Galsworthy (1867—1933) // The Forsyte Saga // The Man of Property (Part II, Chapter 10-, An Extract) ...359 // William Somerset Maugham (1874—1965) // The Fall of Edward Barnard (An Extract) ...360 //
Edward Morgan Forster (1879—1970) // A Passage to India (Part I, Chapter 2; An Extract) ...363 // James Joyce (1882—1941) // Dubliners // Eveline ...З65 // Virginia Woolf (1882—1941) // Mrs Dalloway (An Extract) ...369 // David Herbert Lawrence (1885—1930) // A Sick Collier ...371 // Joyce Cary (1888—1957) // The Horse’s Mouth (Chapter 24; An Extract) ...377 // Aldous Huxley (1894—1963) // Point Counter Point (Chapter 1; An Extract) ...381 // Evelyn Waugh (1903—1966) // Decline and Fall (Part I, Chapter 13) // The Passing of a Public School Man ...383 // Graham Greene (1904) // A Sense of Reality // A Discovery in the Woods (An Extract) ...386 // Charles Percy Snow (1905—1980) // The Masters (Part I, Chapter 8; An Extract) // Three Kinds of Power ...387 // William Golding (1911) // Lord of the Flies (Chapter 12; An Extract) // Cry of the Hunters ...389 // Lawrence Durrell (1912) // Justine (Part I; An Extract) ...390 // Angus Wilson (1913) // No Laughing Matter (An Extract) ...392 // 13 James Aldridge (1918) // The Hunter (Chapter 15) // Muriel Spark (1918) // You Should Have Seen the Mess // Doris Lessing (1919) // The Old Chief Mshlanga (An Extract) // Iris Murdoch (1919) // A Word Child // Thursday // Kingsley Amis (1922) // Lucky Jim (Chapter 4; An Extract) // John Braine (1922) // Room at the Top (Chapter 20; An Extract) // John Wain (1925) // Hurry On Down (Chapter 8; An Extract) // Alan Sillitoe (1928) // On Saturday Afternoon (An Extract) // John Fowles (1926) // The French Lieutenant’s Woman // Malcolm Bradbury (1932) // The History Man (Chapter 1 ; An Extract) // David Storey (1933) // This Sporting Life (An Extract) // David Lodge (1935) // Changing Places (Chapter 1 ; An Extract) // Flying // James Gordon Farrell (1935—1979) // Troubles (An Extract) // Margaret Drabble (1939) // The Ice Age (Chapter 1 ; An Extract) // ALPHABETICAL LIST OF AUTHORS