Longman Anthology of British Literature The Romantics And Their Contemporaries

* denotes selection is new to this edition. THE ROMANTICS AND THEIR CONTEMPORARIES. Perspectives: The Sublime, the Beautiful, and the Picturesque. Edmund Burke. From A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful. William Gilpin. From Three Essays on Picturesque Beauty, on Picturesque Travel, and on Sketching Landscape. Mary Wollstonecraft. From A Vindication of the Rights of Men. Jane Austen. From Pride and Prejudice. * From Northhanger Abbey. Immanuel Kant. From The Critique of Judgment. John Ruskin. From Modern 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: From A 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.

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