From Enlightenment to Romanticism: Anthology II Book

	List of illustrations	xii
	Acknowledgements	xiv
	Introduction	xvii
Part I	Industry and changing landscapes	1
The Lake District 1	The Picturesque, the Beautiful and the Sublime	3
	extracts from A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful	6
Reading (A)	On Beauty (i)	6
Reading (B)	On Beauty (ii)	7
Reading (C)	On the Sublime	9
	extracts from A Guide to the Lakes, in Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire	14
Reading (A)	General introduction	14
Reading (B)	Windermere	18
Reading (C)	Rydal Falls	19
Reading (D)	Keswick	19
Reading (E)	Borrowdale	20
	extracts from Observations, relative chiefly to Picturesque Beauty, Made in the Year 1772, On Several Parts of England; particularly the Mountains, and Lakes of Cumberland, and Westmoreland	22
Reading (A)	Tourism as 'proper' amusement	23
Reading (B)	The 'general face of the country'	23
Reading (C)	England as picturesque landscape	27
Reading (D)	Mountains	30
Reading (E)	Lakes	36
Reading (F)	Windermere	41
Reading (G)	Keswick	45
Reading (H)	Figures in the landscape: 'picturesque appendages'	51
Reading (I)	The manners of the country	52
	extracts from Essays on the Picturesque, as compared with the Sublime and the Beautiful and, on the Use of studying Pictures, for the Purpose of Improving Real Landscape	55
Reading (A)55
Reading (B)56
	The Tour of Dr Syntax in search of the Picturesque, a Poem, with Thirty-One Illustrations by Thomas Rowlandson	60
	Canto I	61
	extract from Northanger Abbey	65
The Lake District 2	Into the Romantic: Wordsworth and the Lakes	67
	extract from an unsigned review of Robert Southey's Thalaba, 1802	71
	The Lake School of Poetry	73
	Wordsworth and the Lakes School	75
	The Minstrel; or, The Progress of Genius	76
	The Task	78
	An Evening Walk	80
	'The Sublime and the Beautiful'	83
	'There was a Boy'	85
	Note to 'There was a Boy'	86
	'There is an Eminence'	87
	Two extracts from The Prelude	88
	'Airey-Force Valley'	90
	extracts from A Guide Through the District of the Lakes in the North of England, with a Description of the Scenery, etc. for the use of Tourists and Residents	91
Reading (A)	The 'visual interest' of mountains	91
Reading (B)	The 'margins of these lakes'	93
Reading (C)	Mountain tarns	96
Reading (D)	The woods	97
Reading (E)	The 'most intense cravings for the tranquil, the lovely, and the perfect'	98
Reading (F)	Cottages	99
Reading (G)	The 'profanation' of the landscape	100
Reading (H)	Respecting 'the spirit of the place'	104
Reading (I)	A sense of stability and permanence	105
	A New View of Society	107
	First Essay	107
	Second Essay	113
	Third Essay	125
	Fourth Essay	134
Part II	New forms of knowledge	145
	Science as public culture	147
	Introductory Discourse on Chemistry	148
	Conversations on Chemistry	158
	Preface	158
Conversation I	On the General Principles of Chemistry	160
Conversation VI	On the Chemical Agencies of Electricity	168
Conversation VIII	On Hydrogen	176
	Sir John Soane	188
	Extract from Crude Hints towards an History of my House in L[incoln's] I[nn] Fields, 1812	189
	Extract from George Soane (attrib.), 'The present low state of the Arts in England, and more particularly architecture', The Champion, 10 September 1815	194
	Extract from George Soane (attrib.), 'The present low state of the Arts in England, and more particularly architecture', The Champion, 24 September 1815	195
	Extract from descriptions of Soane's House written by Mrs Barbara Hofland and added to Soane's Description of the Residence of Sir John Soane Architect, 1835	197
Part III	New conceptions of art and the artist	203
	Two conceptions of art	205
Extract 1	from David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature	206
Extract 2	from Jean Le Rond D'Alembert, Preliminary Discourse to the Encyclopaedia	207
Extract 3	from Novalis, Miscellaneous Observations	210
Extract 4	from Novalis, Logological Fragments II	211
Extract 5	from Wilhelm Wackenroder, Concerning Two Wonderful Languages and Their Mysterious Power	212
Extract 6	from Wilhelm Wackenroder, How and in what manner one actually must regard and use the Works of the Great Artists of Earth for the Well-Being of his Soul	216
Extract 7	from Friedrich Schlegel, Critical Fragments	219
Extract 8	from August Wilhelm Schlegel, Course of Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature	220
Extract 9	from Friedrich Schlegel, Athenaeum Fragments	229
Extract 10	from Wilhelm Wackenroder, The Marvels of the Musical Art	230
Extract 11	from August Wilhelm Schlegel, Lectures on Belles-lettres and Art	234
	Goethe, Faust Part One	236
	Weimar and the Germans	237
	Goethe	238
	Faust, A Fragment	239
	Faust, A Fragment	241
	Goethe, Faust Part One	242
	Dedication	242
	Two souls speech	244
	Translation speech	245
	Goethe, Faust Part Two	247
	Faust's last speech	247
	Last lines	249
	Schubert's Lieder: settings of Goethe's poems	250
	A Selection of Schubert's Lieder and Scores	251
	Heidenroslein (Wild Rose)	251
	Wandrers Nachtlied II (Wanderer's Night Song II)	252
	Harfenspieler I (The Harper's Songs I)	252
	Gretchen am Spinnrade (Gretchen at the Spinning-wheel)	253
	Erlkonig (The Erl-King)	254
	Prometheus	256
	Ganymed (Ganymede)	257
	Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, III	259
	Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto the Third, 1816	260
	Cantos I and II. Preface to Childe Harold's Pilgrimage	303
	From a letter sent from Sir Walter Scott to the Earl of Buccleuch	306
	Letters sent by George Gordon, Lord Byron in the summer of 1816	309
	The Field of Waterloo, 1815	317
	Confessions (completed 1770, published posthumously 1782)	334
	from his review of Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, III, in the Quarterly Review	337
Part IV	The exotic and oriental	345
	The Royal Pavilion at Brighton	347
	The Absentee	348
	Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, 1822	355
	Kubla Khan	357
	Essay in The London Magazine, June 1821	360
	Contemporary reactions to the Royal Pavilion at Brighton	364
	The Journal of Eugene Delacroix	369
	The Jewish wedding, extract from The Journal of Eugene Delacroix	369
	Index	373