The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. 2; The Romantic Period through the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Pages: 3023
ISBN: B019NEQQOM
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controversial history of a genre that continues to shape popular fiction and films. Writings by Horace Walpole, William Beckford, Ann Radcliff, and "Monk" Lewis, together with commentaries and reviews by contemporaries such as Anna Barbauld and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, illuminate the promise and menace that this period saw in a mode of writing that opened up a realm of nightmarish terror to literary exploration. The Victorian Age. Among the major additions to this section, edited by Carol Christ
sequester'd, where the briar And wood-bine wild, embrace the mossy thatch, (Scarce seen amid the forest gloom obscure!) Or more substantial farm, well fenced and warm, Where the full barn, and cattle fodder'd round Speak rustic plenty; nor the statelier dome By dark firs shaded, or the aspiring pine, Close by the village Church (with care conceal'd By verdant foliage, lest the poor man's grave Should mar the smiling prospect of his Lord), Where offices 0 well rang'd, or dove-cote stock'd, Declare
have never ask'd 260 What good or evil means. The boy That on the river's margin gaily plays, Has heard that Death is there.—He knows not Death, And therefore fears it not; and venturing in He gains a bullrush, or a minnow—then, 265 At certain peril, for a worthless prize, A crow's, or raven's nest, he climbs the boll" hole, trunk Of some tall pine; and of his prowess proud, Is for a moment happy. Are your cares, Ye who despise him, never worse applied? 270 The village girl is happy, who sets
harmonious thunderings the seats of heaven among. Beneath them sit the aged men, wise guardians of the poor; Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door.3 ca.1784 1789 Nurse's Song When the voices of children are heard on the green And laughing is heard on the hill, My heart is at rest within my breast And everything else is still. 5 10 "Then come home my children, the sun is gone down And the dews of night arise; Come, come, leave off play, and let us away Till the morning
my Sword sleep in my hand, Till we have built Jerusalem In England's green & pleasant Land. ca. 1 8 0 4 - 1 0 ca. 1 8 0 4 - 1 0 From A Vision of the Last Judgment 1 For the Year 1810 Additions to Blake's Catalogue of Pictures &c The Last Judgment [will be] when all those are Cast away who trouble Religion with Questions concerning Good & Evil or Eating of the Tree of those Knowledges or Reasonings which hinder the Vision of God turning all into a Consuming fire. When Imaginative Art & Science