The Longman anthology of British literature. Volume 2A The Romantics and their contemporaries

Synopsis

* denotes selection is new to this edition. THE ROMANTICS AND THEIR CONTEMPORARIES. Perspectives: The Sublime, the Beautiful, and the Picturesque. Edmund Burke.FromA Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful. William Gilpin. FromThree Essays on Picturesque Beauty, on Picturesque Travel, and on Sketching Landscape. Mary Wollstonecraft. FromA Vindication of the Rights of Men. Jane Austen.  FromPride and Prejudice.             * FromNorthhanger Abbey.        Immanuel Kant. FromThe Critique of Judgment. John Ruskin.FromModern Painters.   Anna Laetitia 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:FromA Review of Eighteen Hundred and Eleven. The First Fire. On the Death of the Princess Charlotte.   Charlotte Smith. Elegiac Sonnets and Other Poems. * To the Moon. * “Sighing I see yon little troop at play.” 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 overloooking the sea. The sea view. The Dead Beggar. * FromBeachy Head.   Perspectives: The Rights of Man and the Revolution Controversy. Helen Maria Williams.From Letters Written in France, in the Summer of 1790. FromLetters from France. Edmund Burke.FromReflections on the Revolution in France. Mary Wollstonecraft.FromA Vindication of the Rights of Men.