In all six of its volumes The Broadview Anthology of British Literature presents British literature in a truly distinctive light. Fully grounded in sound literary and historical scholarship, the anthology takes a fresh approach to many canonical authors, and includes a wide selection of work by lesser-known writers. The anthology also provides wide-ranging coverage of the worldwide connections of British literature, and it pays attention throughout to issues of race, gender, class, and sexual orientation. It includes comprehensive introductions to each period, providing in each case an overview of the historical and cultural as well as the literary background. It features accessible and engaging headnotes for all authors, extensive explanatory annotations throughout, and an unparalleled number of illustrations and contextual materials, offering additional perspectives both on individual texts and on larger social and cultural developments. Innovative, authoritative, and comprehensive, The Broadview Anthology of British Literature embodies a consistently fresh approach to the study of literature and literary history.

The full Broadview Anthology of British Literature comprises six bound volumes, together with an extensive website component; the latter has been edited, annotated, and designed according to the same high standards as the bound book component of the anthology, and is accessible through the broadviewpress.com website by using the passcode obtained with the purchase of one or more of the bound volumes.

Highlights of Volume 6: The Twentieth Century and Beyond include: Joseph Conrad’s “The Secret Sharer,” “An Outpost of Progress,” an essay on the Titanic, and a substantial range of background materials, including documents on the exploitation of central Africa that set “An Outpost of Progress” in vivid context; and a large selection of late twentieth and early twenty-first century writers such as Ian McEwan, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Zadie Smith.

For the convenience of those whose focus does not extend to the full period covered in the final volume of The Broadview Anthology of British Literature (Volume 6: The Twentieth Century and Beyond), that volume is now available either in its original one-volume format or in this alternative two-volume format, with Volume 6a (The Early Twentieth Century) extending to the end of WWII, and Volume 6b (The Late Twentieth Century and Beyond) covering from WWII into the present century.

A two-volume alternative format provides added flexibility for a range of courses.

PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY: FROM 1900 TO MID-CENTURY The Edwardian Period
The World Wars
Marx, Einstein, Freud, and Modernism
The Place of Women
Avant-Garde and Mass Culture
Sexual Orientation
Ireland
Ideology and Economics in the 1930s and 1940s
The Literature of the 1930s and 1940s
Literature and Empire
The English Language in the Early Twentieth Century HISTORY OF THE LANGUAGE AND OF PRINT CULTURE THOMAS HARDY Hap
Neutral Tones
The Darkling Thrush
The Ruined Maid
A Broken Appointment
Shut Out That Moon
The Convergence of the Twain
Channel Firing
The Voice
Transformations
In Time of “The Breaking of Nations”
The Photograph
During Wind and Rain
The Oxen
Going and Staying
IN CONTEXT: Hardy’s Reflections on the Writing of Poetry ALICE MEYNELL (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) A Father of Women
The Threshing Machine
Reflections: (1) In Ireland
Reflections: (2) In Othello
Reflections: (3) In Two Poets BERNARD SHAW Mrs Warren’s Profession
IN CONTEXT: Shaw’s Prefaces (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) from “Preface” to Plays Unpleasant
from “Preface” to Mrs Warren’s Profession
IN CONTEXT: The Profession of Prostitution (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) from William Acton, “Prostitution Considered in its Moral, Social, and Sanitary Aspects,” in London and Other Large Cities
Selected Illustrations JOSEPH CONRAD An Outpost of Progress
“Preface” to The Nigger of the “Narcissus”
The Secret Sharer
from “Some Reflections on the Loss of the Titanic” 
IN CONTEXT: “The Vilest Scramble for Loot” in Central Africa from William G. Stairs, Diaries
from Henry Morgan Stanley, “Speech Given to the Lotus Club, New York”
from Henry Morgan Stanley, In Darkest Africa
from Joseph Chamberlain, “Speech to the House of Commons (6 August 1901)”
from Roger Casement, Congo Report IN CONTEXT: Conrad as Seen by His Contemporaries (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)
IN CONTEXT: Miscommunication at Sea (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) from Joseph Conrad, The Mirror of the Sea: Memories and Impressions A.E. HOUSMAN Loveliest of Trees
To an Athlete Dying Young
Terence, This Is Stupid Stuff
The Chestnut Casts His Flambeaux
Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries EDWARD THOMAS Tears
The Owl
Rain SIEGFRIED SASSOON They
Glory of Women
Everyone Sang
from Memoirs of an Infantry Officer RUPERT BROOKE Clouds
The Dead
The Soldier
The Great Lover (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) ISAAC ROSENBERG Break of Day in the Trenches
Dead Man’s Dump
Louse Hunting
Returning, We Hear the Larks WILFRED OWEN Arms and the Boy
Dulce et Decorum Est
Anthem for Doomed Youth
Strange Meeting
Futility
Letters To Susan Owen (7 January 1917)
To Susan Owen (10 January 1917)
To Susan Owen (16 January 1917)
To Colin Owen (2 March 1917)
To Susan Owen ([?16] May 1917)
To Susan Owen (18 May 1917)
To Susan Owen (23 May 1917)
To Susan Owen (22 August 1917)
To Tom Owen (26 August 1917)
To Mary Owen (29 August 1917)
To Susan Owen (4 [or 6] October 1918)
To Susan Owen (8 October 1918)
To Susan Owen (29 October 1918)
To Susan Owen (31 October 1918) CONTEXTS: WAR AND REVOLUTION from Anonymous, “Introduction” to Songs and Sonnets for England in War Time
“In Flanders Fields”: The Poem and Some Responses John McCrae, “In Flanders Fields”
John Mitchell, “Reply to ‘In Flanders Fields’”
J.A. Armstrong, “Another Reply to ‘In Flanders Fields’”
Elizabeth Daryush, “Flanders Fields” Anonymous, “I Learned to Wash in Shell-Holes”
J.P. Long and Maurice Scott, “Oh! It’s a Lovely War”
from Rebecca West, “The Cordite Makers”
from Francis Marion Beynon, Aleta Day from Chapter 24: War Ivor Gurney, “To His Love”
Vance Palmer, “The Farmer Remembers the Somme”
from Robert Graves, Good-Bye to All That from Chapter 17 from May Wedderburn Cannan, Grey Ghosts and Voices
from “Proceedings” of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee of Soviets of Workers’, Soldiers’, and Peasants’ Deputies WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS The Lake Isle of Innisfree
When You Are Old
Who Goes with Fergus?
Adam’s Curse
No Second Troy
Easter 1916
The Wild Swans at Coole
In Memory of Major Robert Gregory
Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen
A Prayer for My Daughter
An Irish Airman Foresees His Death
The Second Coming
Meditations in Time of Civil War
Leda and the Swan
Among School Children
Sailing to Byzantium
The Tower
A Dialogue of Self and Soul
Byzantium
For Anne Gregory
Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop
Lapis Lazuli
The Circus Animals’ Desertion
Under Ben Bulben
IN CONTEXT: Yeats on Poetic Inspiration from “The Symbolism of Poetry”
from “Four Years”
from “Introduction” to A Vision IN CONTEXT: The Struggle for Irish Independence Poblacht na h-Eireann: Proclamation of the Irish Republic
Pádraic Pearse, “Statement” H.G. WELLS (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) The New Accelerator
The Star
IN CONTEXT: Wells’s Non-Fiction from H.G. Wells, The Extinction of Man: Some Speculative Suggestions SAKI (H.H. MUNRO) (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) Tobermory DOROTHY RICHARDSON About Punctuation
Journey to Paradise
“Foreword” to Pilgrimage ROBERT SERVICE (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) The Cremation of Sam McGee E.M. FORSTER The Machine Stops (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)
The Road from Colonus
from “What I Believe” P.G. WODEHOUSE Honeysuckle Cottage VIRGINIA WOOLF Monday or Tuesday A Haunted House A Society Monday or Tuesday An Unwritten Novel The String Quartet Blue & Green Kew Gardens The Mark on the Wall Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street from “On Re-reading Novels” from “How It Strikes a Contemporary” Modern Fiction from A Room of One’s Own Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 from “A Sketch of the Past” In Context: Woolf and Bloomsbury In Context: Woolf as Writer from Virgina Woolf, A Writer’s Diary from E.M. Forster, “Review of ‘Kew Gardens’” from unsigned “Review of ‘Kew Gardens’” from W.L. Courtney, “Review of Jacob’s Room” CONTEXTS: GENDER AND SEXUAL ORIENTATION from Edward Carpenter, Love’s Coming of Age “The Intermediate Sex” from Havelock Ellis, Sexual Inversion from Chapter 3: Sexual Inversion in Men
from Chapter 4: Sexual Inversion in Women
from Chapter 5: The Nature of Sexual Inversion from Grant Allen, “Woman’s Place in Nature”
from Cicely Hamilton, Marriage as a Trade
Female Suffrage Anonymous, [“There Was a Small Woman Called G”]
from Emmeline Pankhurst, My Own Story from Marie Stopes, Married Love
from Virginia Woolf, Orlando
from George Orwell, “Boys’ Weeklies”
from Frank Richard, “Frank Richard Replies to George Orwell”
from Robert Roberts, The Classic Slum
from E.M. Forster, “Terminal Note” to Maurice
from Virginia Woolf, “Old Bloomsbury” JAMES JOYCE Araby
Eveline
The Dead
Ivy Day in the Committee Room (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)
A Little Cloud (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)
The Boarding School (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)
from Ulysses Chapter 13, Nausicaa IN CONTEXT: Joyce’s Dublin
IN CONTEXT: Beckett and Joyce From Samuel Beckett, “Dante … Bruno. Vico … Joyce” D.H. LAWRENCE Tortoise Shout
Snake
Bavarian Gentians
The Prussian Officer
Odour of Chrysanthemums
The Hopi Snake Dance
Why the Novel Matters CONTEXTS: WORK AND WORKING-CLASS LIFE from George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
from “A Debate Between G.B. Shaw and G.K. Chesterton, Chaired by Hilaire Belloc”
from Robert Roberts, The Classic Slum KATHERINE MANSFIELD Bliss
The Garden Party
Miss Brill
Daughters of the Late Colonel (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) T.S. ELIOT The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Preludes
Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar
Gerontion
The Waste Land
Journey of the Magi
Marina
Burnt Norton
Tradition and the Individual Talent
The Metaphysical Poets
IN CONTEXT: T.S. Eliot and Anti-Semitism CONTEXTS: ELIOT, POUND, AND THE VORTEX OF MODERNISM from Jules Huret, “Interview with Stephane Mallarmé,” L’Echo de Paris
Imagist and Futurist Poetry: A Sampling T.E. Hulme Autumn Ezra Pound In a Station of the Metro
Alba
L’Art, 1910 H.D. Oread
The Pool Mina Loy from “Three Moments in Paris” 1. One O’Clock at Night. from “Love Songs” Imagism and Vorticism from F.S. Flint, “Imagisme,” Poetry Magazine
from Ezra Pound, “A Few Don’ts by an Imagiste,” Poetry
from Ezra Pound, “Vorticism,” Gaudier-Brzeska from Virginia Woolf, “Character in Fiction” Reactions to the Poems of T.S. Eliot from Arthur Waugh, “The New Poetry,” Quarterly Review
from Ezra Pound, “Drunken Helots and Mr. Eliot,” The Egoist
from unsigned “Review,” Literary World
from unsigned “Review,” New Statesman
from Conrad Aiken, “Diverse Realists,” Dial
from May Sinclair, “Prufrock and Other Observations: A Criticism,” Little Review
from “Review of the First Issue of The Criterion,” The Times Literary Supplement
from Gilbert Seldes, “Review,” The Nation
from I.A. Richards, Principles of Literary Criticism
from Douglas LePan, “Personality of the Poet: Some Recollections of T.S. Eliot” HUGH MACDIARMID (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline) from In Memoriam James Joyce
We Must Look at the Harebell
In the Children’s Hospital
Another Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries JEAN RHYS Let Them Call It Jazz DAVID JONES from In Parenthesis from “Preface”
from Part 7: The Five Unmistakable Marks from The Sleeping Lord (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)
ROBERT GRAVES The Cool Web
Down, Wanton, Down!
Recalling War NANCY CUNARD from Jamaica: The Negro Island
from The White Man’s Duty from “Preface” ELIZABETH BOWEN The Demon Lover (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)
Oh, Madam… STEVIE SMITH Mother, Among the Dustbins
The River God
Not Waving but Drowning
The New Age
Away, Melancholy
The Blue from Heaven
Pretty GEORGE ORWELL from Homage to Catalonia
Politics and the English Language
Shooting an Elephant
IN CONTEXT: Elephants in Asia SAMUEL BECKETT Whoroscope
from Texts for Nothing
The Calmative
Imagination Dead Imagine
Krapp’s Last Tape W.H. AUDEN [O what is that sound]
[At last the secret is out]
[Funeral Blues]
Spain 1937
[Lullaby]
[As I walked out one evening]
Musée des Beaux Arts
In Memory of W.B. Yeats
September 1, 1939
from The Sea and the Mirror [Song of the Master and Boatswain]
The Shield of Achilles
“The Truest Poetry Is the Most Feigning”
IN CONTEXT: Auden on the Nature and Craft of Poetry from Writing CONTEXTS: WORLD WAR II Winston Churchill, Speeches to the House of Commons from “Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat” (13 May 1940)
from “We Shall Fight on the Beaches” (4 June 1940)
from “Their Finest Hour” (18 June 1940) from Harold Nicholson, The War Years: 1939–1945
from Charles Ritchie, The Siren Years
Ross Parker and Hughie Charles, “We’ll Meet Again”
Nat Burton and Walter Kent, “The White Cliffs of Dover”
Anonymous, Fucking Tobruk (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)
from John Lehmann, “Foreword” to The Penguin New Writing
David Campbell, “Men in Green”
Keith Douglas, “Vergissmeinnicht”
from Henry Reed, Lessons of War 1. Naming of Parts Douglas LePan “Below Monte Cassino”
“The Haystack” Life at Home
Anti-Semitism and World War II from Ezra Pound, “Speech to the English”
from George Orwell, “Anti-Semitism in Britain”
from Rebecca West, “Greenhouse with Cyclamens”
from George Bernard Shaw, “The Unavoidable Subject”

APPENDICES

Reading Poetry

Maps

Monarchs and Prime Ministers of Great Britain

Glossary of Terms

Texts and Contexts: Chronological Chart (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)

Bibliography (sites.broadviewpress.com/bablonline)

Permissions Acknowledgements

Index of First Lines

Index of Authors and Titles

Praise for The Twentieth Century and Beyond:

“[The Twentieth Century and Beyond] is better [than the competition] on cultural and social contexts, in its introductions, in its number and quality of images and in the choices of texts beyond the classic ones. … Overall, the Broadview Anthology is an immensely attractive one—adventurous and very wide ranging.” — Enda Duffy, University of California, Santa Barbara

Comments on The Broadview Anthology of British Literature:

“ … sets a new standard by which all other anthologies of British Literature will now have to be measured.” — Graham Hammill, SUNY Buffalo

“With the publication of the Broadview Anthology of British Literature, teachers and students in survey and upper-level undergraduate courses have a compelling alternative to the established anthologies by Norton and Longman. … This is a very real intellectual, as well as pedagogical, achievement.” — Nicholas Watson, Harvard University

“ … an excellent anthology. Good selections for my purposes (including some nice surprises), just the right level of annotation, affordable—and a hit with my students. I will definitely use it again.” — Ira Nadel, University of British Columbia

“After twenty years of teaching British literature from the Norton anthologies, I’m ready to switch to the Broadview. The introductions to each period are key to teaching a survey course, and those in the Broadview seem to me to be both more accessible to students and more detailed in their portraits of each era than are those of the Norton. And Broadview’s selection of authors and texts includes everything I like to teach from the Norton, plus a good deal else that’s of real interest.” — Neil R. Davison, Oregon State University

“Norton’s intros are good; Broadview’s are better, with greater clarity and comprehension, as well as emphasis upon how the language and literature develop, both reacting or responding to and influencing or modifying the cultural, religious/philosophical, political, and socio-economic developments of Britain. The historian and the linguist in me thoroughly enjoyed the flow and word-craftsmanship. If you have not considered the anthology for your courses, I recommend that you do so.” — Robert J. Schmidt, Tarrant County College