Circus Animals' Desertion 2051 From Introduction [A General Introduction for My Work] 2053
E. M. FORSTER (1879-1970) 2058 The Other Boat 2059
VIRGINIA WOOLF (1882-1941) 2080 The Mark on the Wall 2082 Modern Fiction 2087 A Room of One's Own 2092 Professions for Women 2152 A Sketch of the Past 2155 [Moments of Being and Non-Being] 2155
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JAMES JOYCE (1882-1941) 2163 Araby 2168 The Dead 2172 Ulysses 2200 [Proteus] 2200 [Lestrygonians] 2213 Finnegans Wake 2239 From Anna Livia Plurabelle 2239
D. H. LAWRENCE (1885-1930) 2243 Odour of Chrysanthemums 2245 The Horse Dealer's Daughter 2258 Why the Novel Matters 2269 Love on the Farm 2273 Piano 2275 Tortoise Shout 2275 Bavarian Gentians 2278 Snake 2278 Cypresses 2280 How Beastly the Bourgeois Is 2282 The Ship of Death 2283
T. S. ELIOT (1888-1965) 2286 The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock 2289 Sweeney among the Nightingales 2293 The Waste Land 2295 The Hollow Men 2309 Journey of the Magi 2312
FOUR QUARTETS 2312
Little Gidding 2313
Tradition and the Individual Talent 2319 The Metaphysical Poets 2325
KATHERINE MANSFIELD (1888-1923) 2332 The Daughters of the Late Colonel 2333 The Garden Party 2346
JEAN RHYS (1890-1979) 2356 The Day They Burned the Books 2357 Let Them Call It Jazz 2361
STEVIE SMITH (1902-1971) 2372 Sunt Leones 2373 Our Bog Is Dood 2374 Not Waving but Drowning 2374 Thoughts About the Person from Porlock 2375 Pretty 2377
GEORGE ORWELL (1903-1950) 237 8 Shooting an Elephant 2379 Politics and the English Language 238 4
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SAMUEL BECKETT (1906-1989) Endgame 2394
W. H. AUDEN (1907-1973) Petition 2422 On This Island 2422 Lullaby 2423 Spain 2424 As I Walked Out One Evening 2427 Musee des Beaux Arts 2428 In Memory of W. B. Yeats 2429 The Unknown Citizen 2431 September 1, 1939 2432 In Praise of Limestone 2435 The Shield of Achilles 2437 [Poetry as Memorable Speech] 2438
LOUIS MACNEICE (1907-1963) Sunday Morning 2442 The Sunlight on the Garden 2442 Bagpipe Music 2443 Star-Gazer 2444
DYLAN THOMAS (1914-1953) The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower The Hunchback in the Park 2446 Poem in October 2447 Fern Hill 2448 Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night 2450
VOICES FROM WORLD WAR II
EDITH SITWELL (1887-1964) Still Falls the Rain 2453
HENRY REED (1914-1986) Lessons of the War 2455
1. Naming of Parts 2455
KEITH DOUGLAS (1920-1944) Gallantry 2456 Vergissmeinnicht 2457 Aristocrats 2458
CHARLES CAUSLEY (1917-2003) At the British War Cemetery, Bayeux 2459 Armistice Day 2460
NATION AND LANGUAGE
CLAUDE McKAY (1890-1948) Old England 2463 If We Must Die 2464
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HUGH MACDIARMID (1892-1978) [The Splendid Variety of Languages and Dialects] 2465 A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle 2466
1. Farewell to Dostoevski 2466
2. Yet Ha'e I Silence Left 2467 In Memoriam James Joyce 2467 We Must Look at the Harebell 2467 Another Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries 2468
LOUISE BENNETT (1919-2006) Jamaica Language 2469 Dry-Foot Bwoy 2470 Colonization in Reverse 2472 Jamaica Oman 2473
BRIAN FRIEL (b. 1929) Translations 2477
KAMAU BBATHWAITE (b. 1930) [Nation Language] 2523 Calypso 2527
WOLE SOYINKA (b. 1934) Telephone Conversation 2529
TONY HARRISON (b. 1937) Heredity 2531 National Trust 2531 Book Ends 2532 Long Distance 2533 Turns 2534 Marked with D. 2534
NGUGI WA THIONG'O (b. 1938) Decolonising the Mind 2535 From The Language of African Literature 2535
SALMAN RUSHDIE (b. 1947) [English Is an Indian Literary Language] 2540
JOHN AGARD (b. 1949) Listen Mr Oxford Don 2542
