Table of Contents, Volume 6a: The Early Twentieth 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 

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

Mrs Warren’s Profession 

 

In Context: Shaw's Prefaces - VIEW THIS SELECTION

from "Preface" to Plays Unpleasant 

from "Preface" to Mrs Warren's Profession 

In Context: The Profession of Prostitution - VIEW THIS SELECTION

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 - VIEW THIS SELECTION

 

In Context: Miscommunication at Sea - VIEW THIS SELECTION

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

Loveliest of Trees

To an Athlete Dying Young

Terence, This Is Stupid Stuff

The Chestnut Casts His Flambeaux

Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries

Tears

The Owl

Rain

They

Glory of Women

Everyone Sang
from Memoirs of an Infantry Officer

Clouds

The Dead

The Soldier

The Great Lover - VIEW THIS SELECTION

Break of Day in the Trenches

Dead Man's Dump

Louse Hunting

Returning, We Hear the Larks

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

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 - VIEW THIS SELECTION - *NEW* 

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

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"

 

 

DOROTHY RICHARDSON

About Punctuation

Journey to Paradise

"Foreword" to Pilgrimage

E.M. FORSTER 

The Machine Stops - VIEW THIS SELECTION

The Road from Colonus
from "What I Believe"

 

P.G. WODEHOUSE

Honeysuckle Cottage

VIRGINIA WOOLF

    Monday or Tuesday
        A Haunted House
        A Society
        Monday or Tuesday
        An Unwritten Novel
        The String Quartet
        Blue & Green
        Kew Gardens
        The Mark on the Wall
    Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street
    from “On Re-reading Novels”
    from “How it Strikes a Contemporary”
    Modern Fiction
    from A Room of One's Own
        Chapter 1
        Chapter 2
        Chapter 3
    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”

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 - VIEW THIS SELECTION

 

A Little Cloud - VIEW THIS SELECTION

 

The Boarding House - VIEW THIS SELECTION

 

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 - VIEW THIS SELECTION

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" 

 

JEAN RHYS

Let them Call It Jazz

from In Parenthesis

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

from The Sleeping Lord - VIEW THIS SELECTION

The Cool Web

Down, Wanton, Down!

Recalling War

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

from "Preface"  

The Demon Lover - VIEW THIS SELECTION

Oh, Madam…

Mother, Among the Dustbins

The River God

Not Waving but Drowning

The New Age

Away, Melancholy

The Blue from Heaven

Pretty

from Homage to Catalonia

Politics and the English Language

Shooting an Elephant

In Context: Elephants in Asia

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

[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

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 - VIEW THIS SELECTION

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"

 

APPENDICES

 

Reading Poetry

  

Maps

  

Monarchs and Prime Ministers of Great Britain

 

Glossary of Terms

 

Texts and Contexts: A Chronological Chart - VIEW THIS SELECTION

 

Bibliography - VIEW THIS SELECTION

 

Permissions Acknowledgments

   

Index of First Lines

 

Index of Authors and Titles