Longman Anthology of British Literature, Volume 2A, The: The Romantics and Their Contemporaries, 5/e The Romantics and Their Contemporaries Illustration: Thomas Girtin, Tintern Abbey THE ROMANTIC PERIOD AT A GLANCE INTRODUCTION LITERATURE AND THE AGE: "NOUGHT WAS LASTING" ROMANCE, ROMANTICISM, AND THE POWERS OF THE IMAGINATION THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND ITS REVERBERATIONS Illustration: Thomas Rowlandson, after a drawing by Lord George Murray, The Contrast THE MONARCHY Illustration: Thomas Lawrence, Coronation Portrait of the Prince Regent (later, George IV) INDUSTRIAL ENGLAND AND "NEVER-RESTING LABOUR" CONSUMERS AND COMMODITIES Color Plate 1: John Martin, The Bard Color Plate 2: Thomas Gainsborough, Mrs. Mary Robinson Color Plate 3: Thomas Phillips, Lord Byron Color Plate 4: Anonymous, Portrait of Olaudah Equiano Color Plate 5: J. M. W. Turner, Slavers Throwing the Dead and Dying Overboard, Typhoon Coming On Color Plate 6: William Blake, The Little Black Boy (second plate only) Color Plate 7: William Blake, The Little Black Boy (another version of #6) Color Plate 8: William Blake, The Tyger Color Plate 9: William Blake, The Sick Rose Color Plate 10: Joseph Wright, An Iron Forge Viewed from Without AUTHORSHIP, AUTHORITY, AND "ROMANTICISM" POPULAR PROSE Illustration: George Cruikshank, The Press PERSPECTIVES The Sublime, the Beautiful, and the Picturesque Illustration: Thomas Rowlandson, Dr. Syntax Sketching by the Lake Illustration: Joseph Mallord William Turner, The Passage of the St. Gothard, 1804 EDMUND BURKE from A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful Illustration: Benjamin Robert Haydon, Study after the Elgin Marbles IMMANUEL KANT from The Critique of Judgement WILLIAM GILPIN Illustration: Edward Dayes, Tintern Abbey from across the Wye, 1794 from Three Essays on Picturesque Beauty, on Picturesque Travel, and on Sketching Landscape Illustration: From William Gilpin''s Three Essays, 1792 MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT from A Vindication of the Rights of Men JANE AUSTEN from Pride and Prejudice from Northanger Abbey MARIA JANE JEWSBURY A Rural Excursion JOHN RUSKIN from Modern Painters ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD The Mouse''s Petition to Dr. Priestley On a Lady''s Writing Inscription for an Ice-House To a Little Invisible Being Who Is Expected Soon to Become Visible To the Poor Washing-Day Eighteen Hundred and Eleven RESPONSE John Wilson Croker: from A Review of Eighteen Hundred and Eleven The First Fire On the Death of the Princess Charlotte CHARLOTTE SMITH from ELEGIAC SONNETS AND OTHER POEMS To the Moon "Sighing I see yon little troop at play" Illustration: Charlotte Smith, engraving for Sonnet IV, "To the Moon" To melancholy.
Written on the banks of the Arun October, 1785 Far on the sands To tranquillity Written in the church-yard at Middleton in Sussex On being cautioned against walking on an headland overlooking the sea The sea view The Dead Beggar The Emigrants, Book 1 from Beachy Head PERSPECTIVES The Rights of Man and the Revolution Controversy HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS from Letters Written in France, in the Summer of 1790 EDMUND BURKE from Reflections on the Revolution in France Illustration: James Gillray, Smelling out a Rat; ---- or The Atheistical Revolutionist disturbed in his Midnight Calculations MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT from A Vindication of the Rights of Men Letter to Joseph Johnson, from Paris, December 27, 1792 THOMAS PAINE from The Rights of Man HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS from Letters from France, 1796 WILLIAM GODWIN from An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness THE ANTI-JACOBIN, OR WEEKLY EXAMINER The Friend of Humanity and the Knife-Grinder The Widow Illustration: James Gillray, illustration to The Friend of Humanity and the Knife-Grinder HANNAH MORE Village Politics ARTHUR YOUNG from Travels in France During the Years 1787-1788, and 1789 from The Example of France, a Warning to Britain from Jacobinism from Once a Jacobin Always a Jacobin WILLIAM BLAKE All Religions Are One There Is No Natural Religion [a] There Is No Natural Religion [b] SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND OF EXPERIENCE Illustration: William Blake, frontispiece for Songs of Innocence from Songs of Innocence Introduction The Shepherd The Ecchoing Green The Lamb Illustration: William Blake, The Lamb The Little Black Boy The Blossom The Chimney Sweeper Illustration: William Blake, The Little Boy lost The Little Boy lost Illustration: William Blake, The Little Boy found The Little Boy found The Divine Image HOLY THURSDAY Nurses Song Infant Joy A Dream On Anothers Sorrow COMPANION READING Charles Lamb: from The Praise of Chimney-Sweepers from Songs of Experience Introduction EARTH''S Answer The CLOD & the PEBBLE HOLY THURSDAY The Little Girl Lost The Little Girl Found THE Chimney Sweeper NURSES Song The SICK ROSE Illustration: William Blake, THE Chimney Sweeper Illustration: William Blake, THE FLY THE FLY The Angel The Tyger My Pretty ROSE TREE AH! SUN-FLOWER The GARDEN of LOVE LONDON The Human Abstract INFANT SORROW A Little BOY Lost Illustration: William Blake, A POISON TREE A Little GIRL Lost The School-Boy A DIVINE IMAGE The Marriage of Heaven and Hell Visions of the Daughters of Albion Illustration: William Blake, Plate i from Visions of the Daughters of Albion Illustration: William Blake, Plate 8, from Visions of the Daughters of Albion LETTERS To Dr. John Trusler (23 August 1799) To Thomas Butts (22 November 1802) PERSPECTIVES The Abolition of Slavery and the Slave Trade OLAUDAH EQUIANO from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano MARY PRINCE from The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave THOMAS BELLAMY The Benevolent Planters JOHN NEWTON Amazing Grace! ANN CROMARTIE YEARSLEY from A Poem on the Inhumanity of the Slave-Trade WILLIAM COWPER Sweet Meat Has Sour Sauce The Negro''s Complaint ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Epistle to William Wilberforce, Esq., On the Rejection of the Bill for Abolishing the Slave Trade HANNAH MORE AND EAGLESFIELD SMITH The Sorrows of Yamba ROBERT SOUTHEY from Poems Concerning the Slave-Trade DOROTHY WORDSWORTH from The Grasmere Journals THOMAS CLARKSON from The History of the Rise, Progress, & Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade by the British Parliament Illustration: Packing methods on a slave ship WILLIAM WORDSWORTH To Toussaint L''Ouverture To Thomas Clarkson from The Prelude from Humanity Letter to Mary Ann Rawson (May 1833) THE EDINBURGH REVIEW from Abstract of the Information laid on the Table of the House of Commons, on the Subject of the Slave Trade GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON from Detached Thoughts MARY ROBINSON Ode to Beauty January, 1795 from Sappho and Phaon, in a Series of Legitimate Sonnets III. The Bower of Pleasure IV. Sappho discovers her Passion VII. Invokes Reason XI. Rejects the Influence of Reason XII. Previous to her Interview with Phaon XVIII.
To Phaon XXX. Bids farewell to Lesbos XXXVII. Foresees her Death The Camp The Haunted Beach London''s Summer Morning The Old Beggar MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT Illustration: Portrait of Mary Wollstonecraft A Vindication of the Rights of Woman from To M. Talleyrand-Périgord, Late Bishop of Autun Introduction from Chapter 1. The Rights and Involved Duties of Mankind Considered from Chapter 2. The Prevailing Opinion of a Sexual Character Discussed from Chapter 3. The Same Subject Continued from Chapter 5. Animadversions on Some of the Writers Who Have Rendered Women Objects of Pity, Bordering on Contempt from Chapter 13.
Some Instances of the Folly Which the Ignorance of Women Generates; with Concluding Reflections on the Moral Improvement That a Revolution in Female Manners Might Naturally Be Expected to Produce RESPONSES Anna Letitia Barbauld, The Rights of Woman Ann Yearsley, The Indifferent Shepherdess to Colin Robert Southey, To Mary Wollstonecraft William Blake, from Mary from The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria "Jemima''s Narrative" PERSPECTIVES The Wollstonecraft Controversy and the Rights of Women CATHARINE MACAULAY from Letters on Education RICHARD POLWHELE from The Unsex''d Females PRISCILLA BELL WAKEFIELD from Reflections on the Present Condition of the Female Sex MARY A.