The Twentieth Century (1900–present)

646 Pages·1989·48.053 MB·English

by  Neil McEwan (eds.)

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
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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