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MACMILLAN ANTHOLOGIES OF ENGLISH LITERATURE General Editors: A. Norman Jeffares, formerly Professor of English, University of Stirling Michael Alexander, Berry Professor of English Literature, University of St Andrews MACMILLAN ANTHOLOGIES OF ENGLISH LITERATURE Volume 1 THE MIDDLE AGES (700-1550) Michael Alexander and Felicity Riddy Volume 2 THE RENAISSANCE (1550-1660) Gordon Campbell Volume 3 THE RESTORATION AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURY (1660-1798) Ian McGowan Volume 4 THE NINETEENTH CENTURY (1798-1900) Brian Martin Volume 5 THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (1900-present) Neil McEwan MACMILLAN ANTHOLOGIES OF ENGLISH LITERATURE _______T HE _______ TWENTIETH CENTURY (1900-present) Edited by Neil McEwan MACMILLAN © Selection and editorial matter Neil McEwan 1989 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London WIP 9HE. Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. First published 1989 by MACMILLAN PRESS LTD Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS and London Companies and representatives throughout the world ISBN 978-0-333-46477-9 ISBN 978-1-349-20151-8 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-20151-8 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. 1098765432 05 04 03 02 01 00 99 98 97 v Contents Acknowledgements xv General Introduction xx Introduction xxu Note on Annotation and Glossing xxvu Note on Dates xxvii THOMAS HARDY 1 I Said to Love 1 The Darkling Thrush 2 The Dark-Eyed Gentleman 3 Shut Out That Moon 4 'When I set out for Lyonnesse' 5 The Year's Awakening 6 My Spirit Will Not Haunt the Mound 6 The Haunter 7 The Going 8 After a Journey 9 At Castle Boterel 10 The Oxen 11 During Wind and Rain 12 The Glimpse 13 The Shadow on the Stone 14 Afterwards 15 If It's Ever Spring Again 15 The Sundial on a Wet Day 16 When Oats Were Reaped 17 He Never Expected Much 17 Family Portraits 18 HENRY JAMES 20 Fordham Castle 20 GEORGE BERNARD SHAW 38 From Major Barbara [Proper Names] 38 JOSEPH CONRAD 49 From Typhoon [Bad Weather] 49 VI CONTENTS From The Secret Agent 56 [England is Absurd] A. E. HOUSMAN 74 Others, I am Not the First 74 On Wenlock Edge 75 The Chestnut Casts His Flambeaux 75 The Oracles 76 Could Man Be Drunk For Ever 77 The First of May 78 When I Would Muse in Boyhood 79 In Valleys Green and Still 79 Stars, I Have Seen Them Fall 80 Parta Quies 80 W. B. YEATS 82 Down by the Salley Gardens 82 The Lake Isle of Innisfree 83 The Fiddler of Dooney 83 Never Give all the Heart 84 Words 85 No Second Troy 85 A Coat 86 The Scholars 86 The Fisherman 86 An Irish Airman Foresees his Death 88 The Second Coming 88 Leda and the Swan 89 Sailing to Byzantium 90 Among School Children 91 Swift's Epitaph 93 Byzantium 93 Coole Park and Ballylee, 1931 95 Lapis Lazuli 96 Beautiful Lofty Things 98 Why Should Not Old Men Be Mad? 98 The Circus Animals' Desertion 99 Under Ben Bulben 101 RUDYARD KIPLING 104 From Kim [Friend of All the World] 104 The Song of the Little Hunter 124 CONTENTS Vll Recessional 125 Sussex 126 Harp Song of the Dane Women 129 Cities and Thrones and Powers 129 If ... 130 The Land 131 Gethsemane 1914-18 134 H. G. WELLS 135 The New Accelerator 135 ARNOLD BENNElT 147 From The Old Wives' Tale Elephant 147 JOHN GALSWORTHY 162 From Strife [Breaking the Men1 162 H. H. MUNRO ('SAKI') 173 Sredni Vashtar 173 IDLAIRE BELLOC 178 Lord Lundy 178 From 'Epigrams' 180 WALTER DE LA MARE 182 Autumn 182 All That's Past 182 The Ghost 183 FORD MADOX FORD 185 From The Good Soldier [The Ashburnhams 1 185 G. K. CHESTERTON 194 The Praise of Dust 194 The Secret People 195 The House of Christmas 197 Variations of an Air 198 WINSTON CHURCHILL 201 A Speech to the House of Commons, 13 May 1940 201 The Dunkirk Evacuation, 4 June 1940 203 The Finest Hour, 18 June 1940 204 A Broadcast Speech, 11 September 1940 205 JOHN MASEFIELD 208 Sea-Fever 208 Cargoes 209 Vlll CONTENTS EDWARD THOMAS 210 Adlestrop 210 Swedes 211 The Owl 211 As the Team's Head Brass 212 Lights Out 213 Home 214 Good-night 215 HAROLD MONRO 216 Great City 216 Street Fight 217 Living 218 E. M. FORSTER 220 From A Room With a View [Not Truly Refined] 220 LY TION STRACHEY 229 From Eminent Victorians Dr Arnold 229 P. G. WODEHOUSE 241 From The Inimitable Jeeves The Great Sermon Handicap 241 VIRGINIA WOOLF 257 From To the Lighthouse [Loneliness] 257 Letters To Gerald Brenan, Christmas Day 1922 262 To V. Sackville-West, 16 March 1926 264 JAMES JOYCE 269 From A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man [Mortal Beauty] 270 From Ulysses [Hades] 277 JAMES ELROY FLECKER 291 The Parrot 291 To a Poet a Thousand Years Hence 292 The Old Ships 293 CONTENTS IX D. H. LAWRENCE 294 From Women in Love Classroom 294 The Bride 304 Snake 304 The Mosquito 307 Kangaroo 309 Innocent England 311 The Ship of Death 312 Bavarian Gentians 316 SIEGFRIED SASSOON 317 The General 317 To Any Dead Officer 317 Everyone Sang 319 RUPERT BROOKE 320 Heaven 320 Clouds 321 Peace 322 The Dead 322 The Soldier 323 EDWIN MUIR 324 The Covenant 324 The Labyrinth 324 The Horses 326 EDITH SITWELL 329 Still Falls the Rain 329 T. E. LAWRENCE 331 From Seven Pillars of Wisdom [Death was Cheap] 331 T. S. ELIOT 337 The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock 337 Sweeney Among the Nightingales 342 From Four Quartets Little Gidding 343 ISAAC ROSENBERG 350 God Made Blind 350 Break of Day in the Trenches 351 Louse Hunting 352 Returning, We Hear the Larks 352 Dead Man's Dump 353

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