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
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,
