The Norton Anthology of English literature. Volume 2

1.3.3 [" 'Mais qui qa qui rivait-'ous, Philoctete?' "] 2591 6.49.1�2 ["She bathed him in the brew of the root. The basin"] 2592

TED HUGHES (1930-1998) 2594 Wind 2594 Relic 2595 Pike 2595 Out 2597 Theology 2598 Crow's Last Stand 2599 Daffodils 2599

HAROLD PINTER (b. 1930) 2601 The Dumb Waiter 2601

CHINUAACHEBE (b. 1930) 2622 Things Fall Apart 2624 From An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness 2709

ALICE MUNRO (b. 1931) 2714 Walker Brothers Cowboy 2715

GEOFFREY HILL (b. 1932) 2725 In Memory of Jane Fraser 2725 Requiem for the Plantagenet Kings 2726

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September Song 2726 Mercian Hymns 2727 6 ("The princes of Mercia were badger and raven. Thrall") 2727 7 ("Gasholders, russet among fields. Milldams, marlpools") 2727 28 ("Processes of generation; deeds of settlement. The") 2728 30 ("And it seemed, while we waited, he began to walk to-") 2728 An Apology for the Revival of Christian Architecture in England 2728

9. The Laurel Axe 2728

V. S. NAIPAUL (b. 1932) 2729 One Out of Many 2730

TOM STOPPARD (b. 1937) 2752 Arcadia 2753

LES MURRAY (b. 1938) 2820 Morse 2821 On Removing Spiderweb 2821 Corniche 2822

SEAMUS HEANEY(b. 1939) 2822 Digging 2824 The Forge 2825 The Grauballe Man 2825 Punishment 2826 Casualty 2828 The Skunk 2830 Station Island 2831 12 ("Like a convalescent, I took the hand") 2831 Clearances 2833 The Sharping Stone 2836

J. M. COETZEE (b. 1940) 2838 From Waiting for the Barbarians 2839

EAVAN BOLAND (b. 1944) 2848 Fond Memory 2848 That the Science of Cartography Is Limited 2849 The Dolls Museum in Dublin 2850 The Lost Land 2851

SALMAN RUSHDIE (b. 1947) 2852 The Prophet's Hair 2854

ANNE CARSON (b. 1950) 2863 The Glass Essay 2864 Hero 2864 Epitaph: Zion 2868

PAUL MULDOON (b. 1951) 2868 Meeting the British 2869 Gathering Mushrooms 2870 Milkweed and Monarch 2871 The Grand Conversation 2872

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CAROL ANN DUFFY (b. 1955) 2873 Warming Her Pearls 2874 Medusa 2875 Mrs Lazarus 2876

POEMS IN PROCESS A1 William Blake A2 The Tyger A2 William Wordsworth A4 She dwelt among the untrodden ways A4 Lord Byron A5

Don Juan A5 Canto 3, Stanza 9 A5 Canto 14, Stanza 95 A6

Percy Bysshe Shelley A7 O World, O Life, O Time A7

John Keats A9 The Eve of St. Agnes A9 To Autumn A10

Alfred, Lord Tennyson A11 The Lady of Shalott A11 Tithonus A14

Elizabeth Barrett Browning A15 The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point A15 Gerard Manley Hopkins A18 Thou art indeed just, Lord A18

William Butler Yeats A19 The Sorrow of Love A19 Leda and the Swan A21

D. H. Lawrence A23 The Piano A23 SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHIES A25 Suggested General Readings A25 The Romantic Period A28 The Victorian Age A36 The Twentieth Century and After A45

APPENDIXES A74 Literary Terminology A74 Geographic Nomenclature A96 Map: London in the 19th and 20th Centuries A98 British Money A99 The British Baronage A104

The Royal Lines of England and Great Britain A106 Religions in England A109

Permissions Acknowledgments A113

Index A119

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Preface to the Eighth Edition

The outpouring of English literature overflows all boundaries, including the capacious boundaries of The Norton Anthology of English Literature. But these pages manage to contain many of the most remarkable works written in English during centuries of restless creative effort. We have included epic poems and short lyrics; love songs and satires; tragedies and comedies written for performance on the commercial stage, and private meditations meant to be perused in silence; prayers, popular ballads, prophecies, ecstatic visions, erotic fantasies, sermons, short stories, letters in verse and prose, critical essays, polemical tracts, several entire novels, and a great deal more. Such works generally form the core of courses that are designed to introduce students to English literature, with its history not only of gradual development, continuity, and dense internal echoes, but also of sudden change and startling innovation.