The Norton Anthology of English literature. Volume 2

MARY ROBINSON (1757?-1800) 66 January, 1795 68 London's Summer Morning 69 The Camp 70 The Poor Singing Dame 71 The Haunted Beach 72 To the Poet Coleridge 74

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WILLIAM BLAKE (1757-1827) All Religions Are One 79 There Is No Natural Religion [a] 80 There Is No Natural Religion [b] 80

SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND OF EXPERIENCE

Songs of Innocence 81

Introduction 81 The Ecchoing Green 82 The Lamb 83 The Little Black Boy 84 The Chimney Sweeper 85 The Divine Image 85 Holy Thursday 86 Nurse's Song 86 Infant Joy 87 Songs of Experience 87 Introduction 87 Earth's Answer 88 The Clod & the Pebble 89 Holy Thursday 90 The Chimney Sweeper 90 Nurse's Song 90 The Sick Rose 91 The Fly 91 The Tyger 92 My Pretty Rose Tree 93 Ah Sun-flower 93 The Garden of Love 94 London 94 The Human Abstract 95 Infant Sorrow 95 A Poison Tree 96 To Tirzah 96 A Divine Image 97

The BookofThel 97 Visions of the Daughters of Albion 102 The Marriage of Heaven and Hell 110 A Song of Liberty 121

BLAKE'S NOTEBOOK 122

Mock on, Mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau 1 Never pain to tell thy love 122 I asked a thief 123

And did those feet 123 From A Vision of the Last Judgment 124 Two Letters on Sight and Vision 126

ROBERT BURNS (1759-1796) Green grow the rashes 131 Holy Willie's Prayer 132

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To a Mouse 135 To a Louse 136 Auld Lang Syne 137 Afton Water 138 Tam o' Shanter: A Tale 139 Such a parcel of rogues in a nation 144 Robert Bruce's March to Bannockburn 145 A Red, Red Rose 145 Song: For a' that and a' that 146

THE REVOLUTION CONTROVERSY AND THE "SPIRIT OF THE AGE" 148

RICHARD PRICE: From A Discourse on the Love of Our Country 149

EDMUND BURKE: From Reflections on the Revolution in France 152

MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT: From A Vindication of the Rights of Men 158

THOMAS PAINE: From Rights of Man 163

MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT (1759-1797) 167 A Vindication of the Rights of Woman 170 Introduction 170 Chap. 2. The Prevailing Opinion of a Sexual Character Discussed 174 From Chap. 4. Observations on the State of Degradation . . . 189 Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark 195 Advertisement 196 Letter 1 196 Letter 4 202 Letter 8 204 Letter 19 208

JOANNA BAILLIE (1762-1851) 212 A Winter's Day 213 A Mother to Her Waking Infant 220 Up! quit thy bower 221 Song: Woo'd and married and a' 222 Address to a Steam Vessel 223

MARIA EDGEWORTH (1768-1849) 226 The Irish Incognito 228

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (1770-1850) 243

LYRICAL BALLADS 245

Simon Lee 245 We Are Seven 248 Lines Written in Early Spring 250 Expostulation and Reply 250 The Tables Turned 251

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The Thorn 252 Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey 258 Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1802) 262 [The Subject and Language of Poetry] 263 ["What Is a Poet?"] 269 ["Emotion Recollected in Tranquillity"] 273

Strange fits of passion have I known 274 She dwelt among the untrodden ways 275 Three years she grew 275 A slumber did my spirit seal 276 I travelled among unknown men 277 Lucy Gray 277 Nutting 279 The Ruined Cottage 280 Michael 292 Resolution and Independence 302 I wandered lonely as a cloud 305 My heart leaps up 306 Ode: Intimations of Immortality 306 Ode to Duty 312 The Solitary Reaper 314 Elegiac Stanzas 315

SONNETS 31 7

Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 317 It is a beauteous evening 317 To Toussaint 1'Ouverture 318 September 1st, 1802 318 London,1802 319 The world is too much with us 319 Surprised by joy 320 Mutability 320 Steamboats, Viaducts, and Railways 320

Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg 321 The Prelude, or Growth of a Poet's Mind 322 Book First. Introduction, Childhood, and School-time 324 Book Second. School-time continued 338 Book Third. Residence at Cambridge 348 [Arrival at St. John's College. "The Glory of My Youth"] 348 Book Fourth. Summer Vacation 352 [The Walks with His Terrier. The Circuit of the Lake] 352 [The Walk Home from the Dance. The Discharged Soldier] 354 Book Fifth. Books 357 [The Dream of the Arab] 357 [The Boy of Winander] 359 ["The Mystery of Words"] 361 Book Sixth. Cambridge, and the Alps 361 ["Human Nature Seeming Born Again"] 361 [Crossing Simplon Pass] 362 Book Seventh. Residence in London 364 [The Blind Beggar. Bartholomew Fair] 364

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Book Eighth. Retrospect, Love of Nature leading to Love of Man 367 [The Shepherd in the Mist] 367 Book Ninth. Residence in France 368 [Paris and Orleans. Becomes a "Patriot"] 368 Book Tenth. France continued 371 [The Revolution: Paris and England] 371 [The Reign of Terror. Nightmares] 373 Book Eleventh. France, concluded 374 [Retrospect: "Bliss Was It in That Dawn." Recourse to "Reason's Naked Self"] 374 [Crisis, Breakdown, and Recovery] 378 Book Twelfth. Imagination and Taste, how impaired and restored 378 [Spots of Time] 378 Book Thirteenth. Subject concluded 381 [Poetry of "Unassuming Things"] 381 [Discovery of His Poetic Subject. Salisbury Plain. Sight of "a New World"] 382 Book Fourteenth. Conclusion 385 [The Vision on Mount Snowdon] 385 [Conclusion: "The Mind of Man"] 387