William Wordsworth
Earth Has Not Anything to Show More Fair
The Solitary Reaper
The Daffodils
Lines Written Above Tintern Abbey (Excerpts)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Kubla Khan
George Noel Gordon Byron
Song for the Luddites
Sonnet on Chillon
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (Canto III,Stanzas 18-25)
Don Juan
Canto III,The Isles of Greece
Canto IX,Stanzas 1 — 9
Canto XI,Stanzas 9 — 11
Canto XII,Stanzas 5 — 6
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Song to the Men of England
The Mask of Anarchy (Stanzas 37-43, 47-51, 65-79, 89-91)
Liberty
Ode to the West Wind
One Word Is Too Often Profaned
John Keats
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
Isabella (Stanzas 14-16)
Ode to a Nightingale
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Walter Scott
The Heart of Midlothian (Chapters 6 & 7)
William Cobbett
Excerpts from Rural Rides
Excerpt from Cottage Economy
Excerpt from Cobbett's Sermons: On the Rights of the Poor
Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice (Chapter I)
William Hazlitt
On Familiar Style (Excerpt from the essay)
Charles Lamb
The Superannuated Man
Thomas Hood
The Song of the Shirt
Ernest Charles Jones
The Song of the Future
The Song of the Low
A Chartist Chorus
“Organize—Organize—Organize”
John Watkins
Lines on Shell,Killed at Newport
William James Linton
The Gathering of the People
Gerald Massey
The Men of “Forty-Eight”
Thomas Frost
The Secret (Excerpts: Chapters VII & VIII)
An Anonymous Chartist Writer
The Politics of Poets (No.1)
Charles Dickens
Dombey and Son (Excerpt: Chapter I)
A Tale of Two Cities (Excerpt from Book III,Chapter 10)
William Makepeace Thackeray
Vanity Fair (Excerpts from Chapters 36 & 37)
Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre (Excerpts from Chapters 5 & 7)
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Mary Barton (Excerpts from Chapters 8,15&16)
George Eliot
Adam Bede (Chapter 27)
Alfred Tennyson
Break,Break,Break
Maud (Excerpt:“Birds in the high Hall-garden”)
Ulysses
In Memoriam (cxxx)
Robert Browning
My Last Duchess
Home Thoughts from Abroad
A Toccata of Galuppi's
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Cry of the Children
Thomas Carlyle
Past and Present (Book III Chapter XI: Labour)
John Ruskin
The Stones of Venice (Vol.II,Chapter 4: St.Mark's)
Matthew Arnold
Shakespeare
Arthur Hugh Clough
Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth
William Morris
The Earthly Paradise
An Apology
Chants for Socialists
The Day Is Coming
No Master
The Pilgrims of Hope
V. New Birth
XI. A Glimpse of the Coming Day
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Cor Cordium
A Child's Laughter
Thomas Hardy
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
(Excerpts from Chapters 42 & 43)
In Time of “The Breaking of Nations”
Afterwards
Oscar Wilde
An Ideal Husband (Excerpt from Act I)
Appendix I Biographical Sketches
Appendix II A List of Books from Which the Texts
in This Anthology Are Taken