Broadview Anthology of Literature: 20th Century, Vol. 6 Book

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction to The Early Twentieth Century: From 1900 to Mid-Century

The Edwardian Period The World Wars Marx, Einstein, Freud, and Modernism The Place of Women Avant-Garde and Mass Culture Sexual Orientation Ireland Ideology and Economics in the 1930s and 1940s The Literature of the 1930s and 1940s Literature and Empire The English Language in the Early Twentieth Century

History of the Language and of Print Culture

THOMAS HARDY

Hap Neutral Tones The Darkling Thrush The Ruined Maid A Broken Appointment Shut Out That Moon The Convergence of the Twain Channel Firing The Voice Transformations In Time of "The Breaking of Nations"
The Photograph During Wind and Rain The Oxen Going and Staying In Context: Hardy's Reflections on the Writing of Poetry

ALICE MEYNELL

A Father of Women The Threshing Machine Reflections: (1) In Ireland Reflections: (2) In Othello Reflections: (3) In Two Poets

BERNARD SHAW

Mrs Warren’s Profession

In Context: Shaw's Prefaces

from "Preface" to Plays Unpleasant from "Preface" to Mrs Warren's Profession

In Context: The Profession of Prostitution

from William Acton, "Prostitution Considered in its Moral, Social, and Sanitary Aspects," in London and Other Large Cities Selected Illustrations

JOSEPH CONRAD

An Outpost of Progress
"Preface" to The Nigger of the "Narcissus"
The Secret Sharer from "Some Reflections on the Loss of the Titanic"
In Context: "The Vilest Scramble for Loot" in Central Africa

from William G. Stairs, Diaries from Henry Morgan Stanley, "Speech Given to the Lotus Club, New York"
from Henry Morgan Stanley, In Darkest Africa from Joseph Chamberlain, "Speech to the House of Commons" (6 August 1901)
from Roger Casement, Congo Report

In Context: Conrad As Seen By His Contemporaries

In Context: Miscommunication at Sea

from Joseph Conrad, The Mirror of the Sea: Memories and Impressions

A.E. HOUSMAN

Loveliest of Trees To an Athlete Dying Young Terence, This Is Stupid Stuff The Chestnut Casts His Flambeaux Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries

EDWARD THOMAS

Tears The Owl Rain

SIEGFRIED SASSOON

They Glory of Women Everyone Sang from Memoirs of an Infantry Officer

RUPERT BROOKE

Clouds The Dead The Soldier The Great Lover

ISAAC ROSENBERG

Break of Day in the Trenches Dead Man's Dump Louse Hunting Returning, We Hear the Larks

WILFRED OWEN

Arms and the Boy Dulce et Decorum Est Anthem for Doomed Youth Strange Meeting Futility Letters

To Susan Owen, 7 January 1917
To Susan Owen, 10 January 1917
To Susan Owen, 16 January 1917
To Colin Owen, 2 March 1917
To Susan Owen, [?16] May 1917
To Susan Owen, 18 May 1917
To Susan Owen, 23 May 1917
To Susan Owen, 22 August 1917
To Tom Owen, 26 August 1917
To Mary Owen, 29 August 1917
To Susan Owen, 4 (or 6) October 1918
To Susan Owen, 8 October 1918
To Susan Owen, 29 October 1918
To Susan Owen, 31 October 1918

CONTEXTS: WAR AND REVOLUTION

from Anonymous, "Introduction" to Songs and Sonnets for England in War Time
"In Flanders Fields": The Poem, and Some Responses

John McCrae, "In Flanders Fields"
John Mitchell, "Reply to In Flanders Fields"
J.A. Armstrong, "Another Reply to In Flanders Fields"
Elizabeth Daryush, "Flanders Fields"

Anonymous, "I Learned to Wash in Shell-Holes"
J.P. Long and Maurice Scott, "Oh! It's a Lovely War"
Jessie Pope, Selected Poems and Prose from Rebecca West, "The Cordite Makers"
from Francis Marion Beynon, Aleta Day

from Chapter 24, War

Ivor Gurney, "To His Love"

Vance Palmer, "The Farmer Remembers the Somme"

from Robert Graves, Goodbye to All That

from Chapter 17

from May Wedderburn Cannan, Grey Ghosts and Voices

from "Proceedings" of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee of Soviets of Workers', Soldiers', and Peasants' Deputies

WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

The Lake Isle of Innisfree When You Are Old Who Goes with Fergus?
Adam’s Curse No Second Troy Easter 1916
The Wild Swans at Coole In Memory of Major Robert Gregory Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen A Prayer for My Daughter An Irish Airman Foresees his Death The Second Coming Meditations in Time of Civil War Leda and the Swan Among School Children Sailing to Byzantium The Tower A Dialogue of Self and Soul Byzantium For Anne Gregory Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop Lapis Lazuli The Circus Animals' Desertion Under Ben Bulben

In Context: Yeats on Poetic Inspiration

from "The Symbolism of Poetry"
from "Four Years"
from "Introduction" to A Vision

In Context: The Struggle for Irish Independence

Poblacht na h-Eireann: Proclamation of the Irish Republic

Padraic Pearse, "Statement"

H.G. WELLS

The New Accelerator The Star In Context: Wells's Non-Fiction

from H.G. Wells, The Extinction of Man: Some Speculative Suggestions

SAKI (H.H. MUNRO)
Tobermory

DOROTHY RICHARDSON

About Punctuation

Journey to Paradise

"Foreword" to Pilgrimage

ROBERT SERVICE

The Cremation of Sam McGee

E.M. FORSTER

The Machine Stops The Road from Colonus from "What I Believe"

P.G. WODEHOUSE

Honeysuckle Cottage

VIRGINIA WOOLF

The Mark on the Wall Blue & Green Kew Gardens Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street

Modern Fiction

A Room of One's Own

from "A Sketch of the Past"

In Context: Woolf and Bloomsbury

In Context: Woolf as Writer

from Virginia Woolf, A Writer's Diary

from E.M. Forster, "Review of 'Kew Gardens'"

from unsigned "Review of 'Kew Gardens'"

from W.L. Courtney, "Review of Jacob's Room"

from Three Guineas

CONTEXTS: GENDER AND SEXUAL ORIENTATION

from Edward Carpenter, Love's Coming of Age

"The Intermediate Sex"

from Havelock Ellis, Sexual Inversion

from Chapter 3, Sexual Inversion in Men

from Chapter 4, Sexual Inversion in Women

from Chapter 5, The Nature of Sexual Inversion

from Grant Allen, "Woman's Place in Nature"

from Cicely Hamilton, Marriage as a Trade

Female Suffrage

Anonymous, ["There Was a Small Woman Called G"]

from Emmeline Pankhurst, My Own Story

from Marie Stopes, Married Love

from Virginia Woolf, Orlando

from George Orwell, "Boys' Weeklies"

from Frank Richard, "Frank Richard Replies to George Orwell"

from Robert Roberts, The Classic Slum

from E.M. Forster, "Terminal Note" to Maurice

from Virginia Woolf, "Old Bloomsbury"

JAMES JOYCE

Eveline

Araby

The Dead

Ivy Day in the Committee Room

A Little Cloud

The Boarding House

from Ulysses

Chapter 13, Nausicaa

In Context: Joyce's Dublin

In Context: Beckett and Joyce

from Samuel Beckett, "Dante…Bruno. Vico…Joyce"

D.H. LAWRENCE

Tortoise Shout

Snake

Bavarian Gentians

The Prussian Officer

Odour of Chrysanthemums

The Hopi Snake Dance

Why the Novel Matters

CONTEXTS: WORK AND WORKING-CLASS LIFE

from George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier from "A Debate Between G.B. Shaw and G.K. Chesterton, Chaired by Hilaire Belloc"

from Robert Roberts, The Classic Slum

KATHERINE MANSFIELD

Bliss

The Garden Party

Miss Brill

Daughters of the Late Colonel

T.S. ELIOT

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Preludes

Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar

Gerontion

The Waste Land

Journey of the Magi

Marina

Burnt Norton

Tradition and the Individual Talent

The Metaphysical Poets

In Context: T.S. Eliot and Anti-Semitism

CONTEXTS: ELIOT, POUND, AND THE VORTEX OF MODERNISM

from Jules Huret, "Interview with Stephane Mallarme," L'Echo de Paris

Imagist and Futurist Poetry: A Sampling

T.E. Hulme

Autumn

Ezra Pound

In a Station of the Metro

Alba

L'Art, 1910

H.D.

Oread

The Pool

Mina Loy

from "Three Moments in Paris"

1. One O'Clock at Night

from "Love Songs"

Imagism and Vorticism

from F.S. Flint, "Imagisme," Poetry Magazine

from Ezra Pound, "A Few Don'ts By an Imagiste," Poetry

from Ezra Pound, "Vorticism," Gaudier-Brzeska

from Virginia Woolf, "Character in Fiction"

Reactions to the Poems of T.S. Eliot

from Arthur Waugh, "The New Poetry," Quarterly Review

from Ezra Pound, "Drunken Helots and Mr. Eliot," The Egoist

from unsigned "Review," Literary World

from unsigned "Review," New Statesman

from Conrad Aiken, "Diverse Realists," Dial

from May Sinclair, "Prufrock and Other Observations: A Criticism," Little Review

from "Review of the First Issue of The Criterion," The Times Literary Supplement

from Gilbert Seldes, "Review," The Nation

from I.A. Richards, Principles of Literary Criticism

from Douglas LePan, "Personality of the Poet: Some Recollections of T.S. Eliot"

HUGH MacDIARMID

Another Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries

In the Children's Hospital

from In Memoriam James Joyce

We Must Look at the Harebell

JEAN RHYS

Let them Call It Jazz

DAVID JONES

from In Parenthesis

from "Preface"
from Part 7, The Five Unmistakable Marks

from The Sleeping Lord

ROBERT GRAVES

The Cool Web Down, Wanton, Down!
Recalling War

NANCY CUNARD

from Jamaica: The Negro Island from The White Man’s Duty

from "Preface"

ELIZABETH BOWEN

The Demon Lover Oh, Madam…

STEVIE SMITH

Mother, Among the Dustbins The River God Not Waving but Drowning The New Age Away, Melancholy The Blue from Heaven Pretty

GEORGE ORWELL

from Homage to Catalonia Politics and the English Language Shooting an Elephant In Context: Elephants in Asia

SAMUEL BECKETT

Whoroscope from Texts for Nothing The Calmative Imagination Dead Imagine Krapp’s Last Tape

W.H. AUDEN

[O what is that sound]
[At last the secret is out]
[Funeral Blues]
Spain 1937
[Lullaby]
[As I walked out one evening]
Musee des Beaux Arts In Memory of W.B. Yeats September 1, 1939
from The Sea and the Mirror [Song of the Master and Boatswain]
The Shield of Achilles
"The Truest Poetry is the Most Feigning"
In Context: Auden on the Nature and Craft of Poetry

from Writing

CONTEXTS: WORLD WAR II

Winston Churchill, Speeches to the House of Commons

from "Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat" (13 May 1940)
from "We Shall Fight on the Beaches" (4 June 1940)
from "Their Finest Hour" (18 June 1940)

from Harold Nicholson, The War Years: 1939-1945
from Charles Ritchie, The Siren Years Ross Parker and Hughie Charles, "We'll Meet Again"
Nat Burton and Walter Kent, "The White Cliffs of Dover"
Anonymous, Fucking Tobruk from John Lehmann, "Foreword" to The Penguin New Writing David Campbell, "Men in Green"
Keith Douglas, "Vergissmeinnicht"
from Henry Reed, Lessons of War

1. Naming of Parts

Douglas LePan

"Below Monte Cassino"
"The Haystack"

Life at Home Anti-Semitism and World War II

from Ezra Pound, "Speech to the English"
from George Orwell, "Anti-Semitism in Britain"
from Rebecca West, "Greenhouse with Cyclamens"
from George Bernard Shaw, "The Unavoidable Subject"

[In the split-volume format, this is the end of Volume 6a and the beginning of Volume 6b]

Introduction to The Late Twentieth Century and Beyond: 1945 to the Twenty-First Century

The End of the War and the Coming of the Welfare State The End of Empire From the 1960s to Century's End Ireland, Scotland, Wales The New Millennium The History of the English Language

LEONORA CARRINGTON

The Debutante

DORIS LESSING

To Room Nineteen from The Golden Notebook

from "Introduction" to the 1971 edition

DYLAN THOMAS

The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower Fern Hill Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night A Refusal To Mourn The Death, By Fire, Of A Child In London In Context: Dylan Thomas in America

from John Malcolm Brinnin, Dylan Thomas in America: An Intimate Journal

JUDITH WRIGHT

Woman to Man The Bull Woman to Child At Cooloola Sports Field Two Dreamtimes from A Human Pattern: Selected Poems

"Foreword"

P.K. PAGE

The Stenographers The Landlady Ecce Homo Stories of Snow Young Girls After Rain Nursing Home from "Address At Simon Fraser"
Planet Earth Calgary

PENELOPE FITZGERALD

The Axe

GRAHAM GREENE

The Basement Room In Context: Reflections on Writing and Filmmaking

"Preface" to The Fallen Idol from "Interview with Marie-Francoise Allain"

LESLIE NORRIS At the Grave of Dylan Thomas The Ballad of Billy Rose Water The Green Bridge The Hawk Maps His Country Borders Bridal Veil Falls, Early Winter

PHILIP LARKIN

Days Church Going Talking in Bed Dockery and Son Annus Mirabilis High Windows This Be The Verse Vers de Societe The Old Fools Aubade

CONTEXTS: POWER, POLITICS, AND THE BOOK

The Case of Mrs Warren's Profession

from An Act for Regulating Theatres, 1843
Bernard Shaw et al., "The Censorship of Plays"

"Not Bloody Likely": The Case of Pygmalion

from Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion, Act 3

The Case of Ulysses

from Hon. John M. Woolsey, United States District Court, Decision in United States of America v. One Book Called "Ulysses"
from James Joyce, Ulysses, Episode 18: Penelope

Publishing "Unnatural Politics": Bernard Shaw's Common Sense about the War

from Bernard Shaw, Common Sense about the War

The Case of J.B. Priestley's Wartime Broadcasts: "He Gave Us... An Ideology"

from "Less Bread and More Taxes"
from "A Few Words to the Pot-and-Kettle Theorists"
from "First Anniversary of the War"
from "Going North"

The Case of Lady Chatterley's Lover

from The Obscene Publications Act from D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover, Chapter 3
from Mervyn Griffith-Jones, Address to the Jury, Regina v. Penguin Books Limited from Gerald Gardiner, Address to the Jury, Regina v. Penguin Books Limited from Dame Rebecca West, Testimony on Behalf of the Defense, Regina v. Penguin Books Limited from Sir Allen Lane, Testimony on Behalf of the Defense, Regina v. Penguin Books Limited The Case of The Satanic Verses

ALAN SILLITOE

The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner In Context: "Angry Young Men"

from John Osborne, A Better Class of Person: An Autobiography

Passing Looks at Christmas

THOM GUNN

The Wound Tamer and Hawk To His Cynical Mistress The Hug The Missing

HAROLD PINTER

The Homecoming

TED HUGHES

The Thought-Fox Pike Wodwo Theology A Childish Prank The Seven Sorrows Heptonstall Old Church You Hated Spain Daffodils

A.S. BYATT

The July Ghost

CONTEXTS: PUBLIC VOICES: THE END OF EMPIRE AND A NEW BRITAIN

The "Quit India" Movement

from Mohandas K. Gandhi, "Speech to the All India Congress Committee"
from Sir Stafford Cripps, "Statement on India"

from Martin Luther King, "The Birth of a New Nation"
from Harold Macmillan, "Speech Made to the South Africa Parliament"
from Manmohan Singh, "Acceptance Speech on the Occasion of the Awarding of the Degree of Doctor of Civil Law, Honoris Causa"
from Winston Churchill, "Campaign Speech"
from Clement Attlee, "Speech on the King's Address"
from Enoch Powell, "Speech on Race and Immigration"
from Margaret Thatcher, "Speech to the Conservative Party Conference"
from Tony Blair, "Speech to the Labour Party Conference"
from Tony Blair, "Speech on the War in Iraq and Global Terrorism"

CHINUA ACHEBE

The Sacrificial Egg from "An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness"

DEREK WALCOTT

A Far Cry from Africa Ruins of a Great House A Letter from Brooklyn from Midsummer

52

SEAMUS HEANEY

Digging Thatcher The Wife's Tale The Grauballe Man Punishment Casualty Seeing Things Englands of the Mind

ALICE MUNRO

Silence The View from Castle Rock

NGUGI WA THIONG’O

from Decolonising the Mind

Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5

LES MURRAY

An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow Bent Water in the Tasmanian Highland The Quality of Sprawl Pigs The Mare out on the Road

MARGARET ATWOOD

Further Arrivals Death of a Young Son by Drowning The Immigrants Later in Belleville: Career Daguerreotype Taken in Old Age Thoughts from Underground A Bus along St. Clair: December We are hard
[you fit into me]
"The Handmaid’s Tale and Oryx and Crake in Context"
In Context: Susanna Moodie

from Susanna Moodie, Roughing it in the Bush from Susanna Moodie, Life in the Clearings versus the Bush

MICHAEL ONDAATJE

Letters & Other Worlds Travels in Ceylon (from Running in the Family)

TOM STOPPARD

Professional Foul

CARYL CHURCHILL

Top Girls

ANGELA CARTER

The Bloody Chamber

JOHN CLEESE AND GRAHAM CHAPMAN

from Monty Python’s Flying Circus

Dead Parrot Sketch Pet Conversation Dirty Hungarian Phrasebook Spam

SALMAN RUSHDIE

Is Nothing Sacred?

IAN McEWAN

Last Day of Summer

PAUL MULDOON

Good Friday, 1971. Driving Westward Our Lady Of Ardboe The Sightseers Cherish The Ladies Milkweed And Monarch The Plot Anonymous: Myself And Pangur

KAZUO ISHIGURO

A Village After Dark

HANIF KUREISHI

My Son the Fanatic

DAVID DABYDEEN

Slave Song Coolie Odyssey from Turner: New and Selected Poems

"Preface"
Turner

CAROL ANN DUFFY

Stealing Adultery The Good Teachers Drunk Mean Time Mrs. Lazarus Wish Rapture

DIRECTIONS IN LATE TWENTIETH- AND EARLY TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY POETRY

Geoffrey Hill

from Mercian Hymns A Short History of British India (2)
from The Triumph of Love

Tony Harrison

Them & [uz]
t'Ark from V from Sonnets for August 1945

The Morning After

Tom Raworth

Out of A Sudden Looking for Language

David Harsent

Art

Craig Raine

A Martian Sends a Postcard Home

Eavan Boland

Night Feed Anna Liffey Listen. This is the Noise of Myth Against Love Poetry

Veronica Forrest-Thomson

Identi-Kit Phrase-Book

James Fenton

A German Requiem

Grace Nichols

Skanking Englishman Between Trains Epilogue Love White

Medbh McGuckian

Slips The Sofa The Dream-Language of Fergus

Maggie O'Sullivan

from "Starlings"

Linton Kwesi Johnson

Inglan Is a Bitch

Monica Alvi

And If How the World Split in Two

Jean Binta Breeze

earth cries

Gwyneth Lewis

Mother Tongue

Jackie Kay

In My Country High Land

Simon Armitage

The English It Could Be You

Alice Oswald

Wedding Woods etc.

Caitriona O'Reilly

Hide A Brief History of Light

BERNARDINE EVARISTO

from Lara

One (1949, Taiwo)

JEANETTE WINTERSON

Lives of Saints

ZADIE SMITH

Hanwell in Hell

APPENDICES

Reading Poetry

Maps

Monarchs and Prime Ministers of Great Britain

Glossary of Terms

Texts and Contexts: A Chronological Chart

Bibliography

Permissions Acknowledgments

Index of First Lines

Index of Authors and Titles