CENTURY READINGS FOR A COURSE IN ENGLISH LITERATURE EDITED AND ANNOTATED BY J. W. CUNLIFFE, D.Lit. PROFESSOR of engLISH AND DIRECTOR OF THE J. F. A. PYRE, PH.D. PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN KARL YOUNG, PH.D. PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, YALE UNIVERSITY NEW YORK The method of CENTURY READINGS FOR A COURSE IN ENGLISH LITERATURE has been so widely adopted since the publication of the first edition in 1910 that it needs no longer to be explained or justified. The editors have received the compliment of imitation by numerous competitors, but the book has more than held its own, partly on account of the sound principles on which the original issue was based, partly, no doubt, owing to the improvements introduced successive later editions. The collection aims at selecting the most important authors and their most significant works, in wholes rather than in samples, and it makes attempt to include plays or novels. The scheme of combined lectures and reading assignments (including drama and fiction), as originally outlined in A Chronological Study Course, has been supplemented by a Course by Types, which some teachers prefer, though the editors cling to their personal preference for the historical method, which seems to them to have manifest advantages. Of this they are so convinced that in this edition the older texts, originally presented in translation in an Appendix, have been moved to their chronological position at the beginning of the book, with the addition of 'Pearl' and 'Noah's Flood,' which will, it is hoped, make this section of increased value and usefulness. For the translation of 'Pearl' the editors are indebted to The Century Company. They wish also to acknowledge their obligations to the Houghton Mifflin Company and to Professor R. E. N. Dodge for permission to use the latter's Cambridge edition of Spenser. In the modern field they offer sincere thanks for the generosity of numerous authors and publishers, who have permitted the reproduction of a large amount of copyright material. They wish, in particular, to make the following acknowledgments: D. Appleton & Co., for 'Emancipation: Black and White' by T. H. Huxley. Cambridge University Press, for 'All the Hills and Vales Along' by Charles Hamilton Sorley. Century Magazine, for William and Mary' by Max Beerbohm. Country Life, for 'The Defenders' by John Drinkwater; "The Wykhamist' by Nora Griffiths; Canadians' by W. H. Ogilvie. Doran & Co., for 'Salary Earning Girls' by Arnold Bennett. Doubleday, Page & Co., for 'The Ballad of Iskander' by James Elroy Flecker. Duffield & Co., for The Death of Ailill' by Francis Ledwidge. E. P. Dutton & Co., for 'My First Visit to Buenos Ayres' by W. H. Hudson; 'The Spires of Oxford' by Winifred M. Letts; 'The Old Huntsman' by Siegfried Sassoon. The Fortnightly Review, for 'The First Battle of Ypres' by Margaret L. Woods. Harcourt, Brace and Howe, for 'English Hills,' 'Happy is England Now' and 'The Return' by John Freeman; Europe Before the War' by John Maynard Keynes. Harper & Bros., for 'With the Marseilles Pilots' by Joseph Conrad; 'What England Thinks of America' by Sir Philip Gibbs; "The_Contemporary Novel' by H. G. Wells. The Harrovian, for 'A Harrow Grave in Flanders' by Lord Crewe. Henry Holt & Co., for 'The Plougher' and 'What the Shuiler Said as She Lay by the Fire in the Farmer's House' by Padraic Colum; 'All That's Past' and 'Miss Loo' by Walter de la Mare; 'Sowing,' 'Bright Clouds' and 'The Gallows' by Edward Thomas; 'Romance and Realism' by Hugh Walpole. Houghton Mifflin Co., for 'For the Fallen' by Laurence Binyon. B. W. Huebsch, for 'The Bride' and 'Study by D. H. Lawrence. Mitchell Kennerley, for selections from "The Note Books' by Samuel Butler, and "The South Country' by Hilaire Belloc. Alfred Knopf, for 'Leisure,' 'Money,' 'Sheep' and 'The Muse' by William H. Davies; 'Goliath and David' and 'Not Dead' by Robert Graves. John Lane Co., for The Old Vicarage, Grantchester' and 'The Soldier' by Rupert Brooke; "The Return of the Barbarian' and 'The Wife of Flanders' by G. K. Chesterton; Thirty Bob a Week' by John Davidson; 'An Idol of the Market Place' and 'Ars Immortalis' by Helen Parry Eden; A Shropshire Lad' by A. E. Housman; 'Clifton Chapel,' 'Drake's Drum' and 'Vitai Lampada' by Sir Henry Newbolt; 'Revenge for Rheims' by Stephen Phillips; 'Wordsworth's Grave' by Sir William Watson. |