The Longman Anthology of Gothic Verse

ISBN-13: 9781405899314 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 616 str.

Caroline Franklin

Opis

Gothic literature has never been as popular as it is today, both in academia (as a dark, seductive extension of Romanticism) and the general market (as a starting point for all that we call fantasy). This anthology is specifically devoted to Gothic poetry.

Spis treści

Preface  Acknowledgements  Timeline  Introduction  Traditional Ballads Thomas Percy: Edward; Sweet William’s Ghost  Walter Scott: The Cruel Sister  Edward Young: From Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality in Nine Nights  Robert Blair: From The Grave, a Poem  Thomas Gray: The Fatal Sisters. An Ode  Wolfgang von Goethe: The Erl-King; The Bride of Corinth  Charlotte Turner Smith: Sonnet 44  George Crabbe: ‘Peter Grimes’ from The Borough; The World of Dreams  Mary Robinson: The Haunted Beach  Robert Burns: Tam o’Shanter: A Tale  Joanna Baillie: The Ghost of Faden  Helen Maria Williams: Part of an Irregular Fragment  Ann Radcliffe: From The Mysteries of Udolpho: Shipwreck  William Taylor: Ellenore  James Hogg: The Witch of Fife; Kilmeny; Superstition; A Witch’s Chant  William Wordsworth: The Thorn; The Danish Boy; From The Prelude, Book 1 lines 357-475  Sir Walter Scott: The Lay of the Last Minstrel  Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner; Christabel  Robert Southey: The Old Woman of Berkeley; God’s Judgement on a Wicked Bishop; Cornelius Agrippa’s Bloody Book; From Thalaba the Destroyer Book 8  M.G. Lewis: From The Monk; Midnight Hymn; Alonzo The Brave and Fair Imogine  John Herman Merivale: The Dead Men of Pest  Thomas Moore: The Lake of the Dismal Swamp  Charlotte Dacre: Death and the Lady; The Mistress to the Spirit of her Lover; Mildew  Leigh Hunt: Politics and Poetics  Thomas Love Peacock: From Maid Marian: A Damsel Came in Midnight Rain; It was a Friar of Orders Free  From Crotchet Castle: The Pool of the Diving Friar  George Gordon, Lord Byron: Manfred, A dramatic poem; The Black Friar, from Don Juan, Canto XVI  Percy Bysshe Shelley: From St Irvine, or, the Rosicrucian: Fragment, or the Triumph of Conscience; The Drowned Lover; Zeinab and Kathema; Ginevra  John Clare: The Haunted Pond; An Invite to Eternity  Felicia Hemans: Second Sight; The Haunted House  John Keats: Lamia; Isabella, or, the Pot of Basil. A Story from Boccaccio; The Eve of St Agnes; La Belle Dame Sans Merci  Nathaniel Thomas Haynes Bayly: The Mistletoe Bough  Thomas Hood: The Last Man; Mary’s Ghost  Thomas Lovell Beddoes: From Death’s Jest-Book, or the Fool’s Tragedy: Dirge; Song; A voice from the water  Edgar Allan Poe: The Raven; The Haunted Palace; The Sleeper  Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The Lady of Shalott  Robert Browning: Porphyria’s lover  Emily Brontë: I’m Happiest When Most Away; The Night is Darkening Round Me; In the Earth, the Earth, Thou Shalt be Laid  Emily Dickinson: I Like a Look of Agony; One Need not be a Chamber to be Haunted; Because I Could not Stop for Death; I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died  Christina Georgina Rossetti: Goblin Market  James Thomson: In the Room  Algernon Charles Swinburne: After death; Itylus  John Davidson: A Ballad of a Nun  (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling: The Vampire  Bibliography

O autorze

Caroline Franklin is Professor of English at the University of Swansea, UK.