The Norton Anthology of English literature. Volume 2

DOROTHY WORDSWORTH (1771-1855) 389 From The Alfoxden Journal 390 From The Grasmere Journals 392 Grasmere�A Fragment 402 Thoughts on My Sick-Bed 404

SIR WALTER SCOTT (1771-1832) 406 The Lay of the Last Minstrel: Introduction 407 Proud Maisie 410

REDGAUNTLET 41 1

Wandering Willie's Tale 411

SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE (1772-1834) 424 The Eolian Harp 426 This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison 428 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner 430 Kubla Khan 446 Christabel 449 Frost at Midnight 464 Dejection: An Ode 466 The Pains of Sleep 469 To William Wordsworth 471 Epitaph 473 Biographia Literaria 474 Chapter 4 474 [Mr. Wordsworth's earlier poems] 474 [On fancy and imagination�the investigation of the distinction important to the fine arts] 476

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Chapter 13 477 [On the imagination, or esemplastic power] 477 Chapter 14. Occasion of the Lyrical Ballads, and the objects originally proposed-�preface to the second edition�the ensuing controversy, its causes and acrimony�philosophic definitions of a poem and poetry with scholia. 478 Chapter 17 483 [Examination of the tenets peculiar to Mr. Wordsworth] 483 [Rustic life (above all, low and rustic life) especially unfavorable to the formation of a human diction-�the best parts of language the products of philosophers, not clowns or shepherds] 483 [The language of Milton as much the language of real life, yea, incomparably more so than that of the cottager] 484 Lectures on Shakespeare 485 [Fancy and Imagination in Shakespeare's Poetry] 485 [Mechanic vs. Organic Form] 487 The Statesman's Manual 488 [On Symbol and Allegory] 488 [The Satanic Hero] 490

CHARLES LAMB (1775-1834) 491 From On the Tragedies of Shakespeare, Considered with Reference to Their Fitness for Stage Representation 493 Christ's Hospital Five-and-Thirty Years Ago 496 Detached Thoughts on Books and Reading 505 Old China 510

JANE AUSTEN (1775-1817) 514 Love and Friendship: A Novel in a Series of Letters 515 Plan of a Novel, According to Hints from Various Quarters 535

WILLIAM HAZLITT (1778-1830) 537 On Gusto 538 My First Acquaintance with Poets 541

THOMAS DE QUINCEY (1785-1859) 554 Confessions of an English Opium-Eater 556 Preliminary Confessions 556 [The Prostitute Ann] 556 Introduction to the Pains of Opium 559 [The Malay] 559 The Pains of Opium 560 [Opium Reveries and Dreams] 560 On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth 569 Alexander Pope 572 [The Literature of Knowledge and the Literature of Power] 572

THE GOTHIC AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF A MASS READERSHIP 577

HORACE WALPOLE: From The Castle of Otranto 579

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ANNA LETITIA AIKIN (later BARBAULD) and JOHN AIKIN: On the Pleasure Derived from Objects of Terror; with Sir Bertrand, a Fragment 582

WILLIAM BECKFORD: From Vathek 587

ANN RADCLIFFE 592 From The Romance of the Forest 592 From The Mysteries of Udolpho 594

MATTHEW GREGORY LEWIS: From The Monk 595

ANONYMOUS: Terrorist Novel Writing 600

SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE 602 From Review of The Monk by Matthew Lewis 602 From Biographia Literaria 606

GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON (1788-1824) 607 Written after Swimming from Sestos to Abydos 611 She walks in beauty 612 They say that Hope is happiness 613 When we two parted 613 Stanzas for Music 614 Darkness 614 So, we'll go no more a roving 616

CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE 617

Canto 1 617 ["Sin's Long Labyrinth"] 617 Canto 3 619 ["Once More Upon the Waters"] 619 [Waterloo] 622 [Napoleon] 625 [Switzerland] 628

Manfred 635

DON JUAN 669

Fragment 670 Canto 1 670 [Juan and Donna Julia] 670 Canto 2 697 [The Shipwreck] 697 [Juan and Haidee] 704 Canto 3 718 [Juan and Haidee] 718 Canto 4 725 [Juan and Haidee] 725

Stanzas Written on the Road between Florence and Pisa 734 January 22nd. Missolonghi 735

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LETTERS 736

To Thomas Moore (Jan. 28, 1817) 736 To Douglas Kinnaird (Oct. 26, 1819) 738 To Percy Bysshe Shelley (Apr. 26,1821) 740

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (1792-1822) 741 Mutability 744 To Wordsworth 744 Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude 745 Mont Blanc 762 Hymn to Intellectual Beauty 766 Ozymandias 768 Stanzas Written in Dejection�December 1818, near Naples 769 A Song: "Men of England" 770 England in 1819 771 To Sidmouth and Castlereagh 771 To William Shelley 772 Ode to the West Wind 772 Prometheus Unbound 775 Preface 775 Act 1 779 Act 2 802 Scene 4 802 Scene 5 806 Act 3 809 Scene 1 809 From Scene 4 811 From Act 4 814 The Cloud 815 To a Sky-Lark 817 To Night 819 To [Music, when soft voices die] 820 O World, O Life, O Time 820 Chorus from Hellas 821 The world's great age 821 Adonais 822 When the lamp is shattered 836 To Jane (The keen stars were twinkling) 836 From A Defence of Poetry 837

JOHN CLARE (1793-1864) 850 The Nightingale's Nest 851 Pastoral Poesy 853 [Mouse's Nest] 856 A Vision 856 I Am 857 An Invite to Eternity 858 Clock a Clay 859 The Peasant Poet 859 Song [I hid my love] 860 Song [I peeled bits o' straws] 860 From Autobiographical Fragments 86 1

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