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Contents
PREFACE TO THE EIGHTH EDITION xxxiii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xliii
The Romantic Period (1785-1830) l
Introduction 1 Timeline 23
ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD (1743-1825) 26 The Mouse's Petition 27 An Inventory of the Furniture in Dr. Priestley's Study 28 A Summer Evening's Meditation 29 Epistle to William Wilberforce, Esq. on the Rejection of the Bill for Abolishing the Slave Trade 32 The Rights of Woman 35 To a Little Invisible Being Who Is Expected Soon to Become Visible 36 Washing-Day 37
CHARLOTTE SMITH (1749-1806) 39
ELEGIAC SONNETS 40
Written at the Close of Spring 40 To Sleep 40 To Night 40 Written in the Church-Yard at Middleton in Sussex 41 On Being Cautioned against Walking on an Headland Overlooking the Sea, Because It Was Frequented by a Lunatic 41 The Sea View 42
The Emigrants 42 Beachy Head 47
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
