An Anthology of London in Literature, 1558–1914 - ‘Flower of Cities All’

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1 Period 1:​ London—Birth of a New Order (1558–1659) INTRODUCTION 1.​1 John Lyly:​ London the Ideal City 1.​2 Donald Lupton:​ London Bridge 1.​3 Robert Herrick Laments Leaving His Native London 1.​4 Herrick’s Joyful Return to London 1.​5 John Webster:​ The Decrepitude of Some London Buildings 1.​6 John Donne:​ The Lively Streets of London 1.​7 William Habington:​ In Praise of London in the Long Vacation DRAMA AND THE THEATRE 1.​8 Philip Stubbes:​ Puritan Objections to Stage Plays 1.​9 Shakespeare:​ “On Your Imaginary Forces Work” 1.​10 Shakespeare:​ The Best Actors Are but Shadows THE PLAGUE 1.​11 Thomas Nashe:​ “Adieu, Farewell, Earth’s Bliss” 1.​12 Thomas Dekker:​ The Plague and Its Victims in 1603 THE COURT AND COURTIERS 1.​13 Sir John Davies:​ “Our Glorious English Court’s Divine Image” 1.​14 Edmund Spenser:​ Another View of Love at Court 1.​15 Anon.​:​ A Courtier 1.​16 Thomas Dekker:​ “How a Young Gallant Should Behave Himself in an Ordinary” WHO SHOULD ’SCAPE WHIPPING?​ 1.​17 John Earle:​ A Shopkeeper 1.​18 Thomas Middleton:​ A Goldsmith Gulled 1.​19 Barnabe Rich:​ Vanity Fair 1.​20 Thomas Harman:​ An Abraham Man 1.​21 Robert Greene:​ Beware of Pickpockets 1.​22 Middleton:​ Roaring Girls 1.​23 Ben Jonson:​ Pickpockets at Bartholomew Fair 1.​24 John Earle:​ A Prison 1.​25 Donald Lupton:​ Bedlam 1.​26 Dekker and Middleton:​ Entertainment Provided by the Inmates of Bedlam THE COMING OF THE COMMONWEALTH 1.​27 Andrew Marvell:​ The Execution of Charles I 1.​28 John Evelyn:​ “The Funeral Sermon of Preaching” 1.​29 Evelyn:​ Persecution of Royalist Churchgoers References 2 Period 2:​ London in the Enlightenment (1660–1780) INTRODUCTION 2.​1 Celia Fiennes:​ Some Topographical Features of London 2.​2 Daniel Defoe:​ London Surging in Size THE RESTORATION 2.​3 John Evelyn:​ Charles II’s Triumphal Entry into London 2.​4 Evelyn:​ Bodies of Cromwell and Others Exhumed 2.​5 Evelyn:​ Gambling and Debauchery at the Court of Charles II 2.​6 Evelyn:​ James II’s Ill-Timed Feast for the Venetian Ambassadors THE GREAT PLAGUE 2.​7 Samuel Pepys Describes the Plague 2.​8 Daniel Defoe’s Imaginative Reconstruction of the Great Plague THE GREAT FIRE 2.​9 John Dryden:​ London on Fire 2.​10 Pepys’ Buried Treasures 2.​11 Defoe:​ London Before and After the Fire INSTITUTIONS 2.​12 John Evelyn:​ Some Unusual Proceedings of the Royal Society 2.​13 Ned Ward:​ The Rebuilding of St Paul’s Cathedral 2.​14 Joseph Addison:​ The Royal Exchange 2.​15 Ned Ward:​ Crowds at the Entrance to the Royal Exchange 2.​16 Defoe:​ Westminster Abbey ALL THAT LIFE CAN AFFORD 2.​17 Samuel Johnson in Praise of London 2.​18 John Gay:​ The Labyrinthine Streets of London 2.​19 Gay on Pall Mall 2.​20 Jonathan Swift:​ “A Description of a City Shower” 2.​21 Tobias Smollett:​ Ranelagh and Vauxhall Gardens 2.​22 Hannah More:​ The Bluestocking Circle 2.​23 Ned Ward:​ Pork Sellers at Bartholomew Fair 2.​24 Benjamin Franklin:​ “Work, the Curse of the Drinking Classes” A WALK ON THE WILD SIDE 2.​25 John Gay:​ Perils of London by Night 2.​26 James Smith:​ Sex-Workers in the Strand 2.​27 Daniel Defoe on Shoplifting 2.​28 Defoe:​ Newgate Prison 2.​29 Samuel Richardson:​ An Execution at Tyburn 2.​30 Samuel Johnson:​ The Crime of Poverty 2.​31 Thomas Holcoft:​ The Gordon Riots References 3 Period 3:​ London—New Riches, New Squalor (1781–1870) INTRODUCTION AN OPENING MISCELLANY 3.​1 Charlotte Bronte:​ London as Life and Freedom 3.​2 Mary Robinson:​ “London’s Summer Morning” 3.​3 Charles Dickens:​ A London ‘Pea-Souper’ 3.​4 William Cobbett:​ The Great Wen 3.​5 William Wordsworth:​ Alienation and Anonymity 3.​6 Alfred, Lord Tennyson:​ The Noise of Life Begins Again 3.​7 William Blake:​ “Marks of Woe” 3.​8 Charles Dickens:​ A Sunday in London 3.​9 William Makepeace Thackeray:​ “Going to See a Man Hanged.​” DELIGHTS AND BEAUTIES 3.​10 Thomas Hood:​ Let’s All Go Down the Strand 3.​11 John Ruskin Recalls a Childhood Paradise at Herne Hill 3.​12 William Wordsworth:​ “Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802” 3.​13 Matthew Arnold, “Lines Written in Kensington Gardens” 3.​14 George Borrow on Cheapside 3.​15 Frederick Locker-Lampson, “St.​ James’s Street,” 1867 3.​16 Charles Dickens:​ Going Up the River 3.​17 Nathaniel Hawthorne:​ A London Suburb INSTITUTIONS 3.​18 William Blake:​ St Paul’s Cathedral on Holy Thursday 3.​19 Thomas De Quincey:​ Tourists Must Pay to See the Sights of St Paul’s Cathedral 3.​20 Charles Dickens:​ The Building of a Railway 3.​21 Henry Mayhew and George Cruikshank:​ The Great Exhibition and the Crystal Palace 3.​22 John Ruskin:​ The Crystal Palace 3.​23 Thomas de Quincey:​ The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, Destroyed 3.​24 Benjamin Disraeli:​ A View of Politicians MIDDLE CLASS LIFE 3.​25 Anthony Trollope:​ Publicans and Sinners 3.​26 Alfred, Lord Tennyson:​ “Ode Sung at the Opening of the International Exhibition” (1862) 3.​27 Charles Dickens:​ A London Hackney-Coach 3.​28 Charles Lamb:​ “The Old Benchers of the Inner Temple” 3.​29 Wilkie Collins:​ A Child’s Sunday in London 3.​30 Elizabeth Gaskell:​ Haste to the Wedding 3.​31 Charles Dickens:​ Dinner in Harley Street 3.​32 Charles Dickens:​ Bran-New People 3.​33 William Thackeray:​ Wars and Rumours of Wars 3.​34 Robert Smith Surtees, Sponge in the City 3.​35 Herman Melville:​ The Temple 3.​36 William Makepeace Thackeray:​ “Great City Snobs” 3.​37 Elizabeth Barrett Browning:​ A Writing Woman WORKING-CLASS LIFE 3.​38 Leigh Hunt:​ A London Waiter 3.​39 Henry Mayhew:​ Covent Garden Market 3.​40 Charles Dickens:​ Bleeding Heart Yard 3.​41 Charles Kingsley:​ The Making of a Chartist 3.​42 William Morris:​ “Prologue:​ The Wanderers” 3.​43 Henry Mayhew:​ “The Narrative of a Gay Woman” 3.​44 Thomas De Quincey:​ “Preliminary Confessions” 3.​45 Dante Gabriel Rossetti:​ “Jenny” 3.​46 Christina Rossetti, ‘In an Artist’s Studio’ 3.​47 Thomas Hardy:​ “The Ruined Maid” References 4 Period 4:​ London—Capital of Empire, 1871–1914 INTRODUCTION AN OPENING MISCELLANY 4.​1 Thomas Hardy, “Snow in the Suburbs” 4.​2 Henry James, a Saturday Evening Stroll 4.​3 Lionel Johnson:​ “By the Statue of King Charles at Charing Cross” 4.​4 George Moore:​ A Train Journey DELIGHTS AND BEAUTIES 4.​5 Emily Constance Cook:​ The Respectable Grime of Ages 4.​6 Henry James:​ The Appeal of the Great City 4.​7 Oscar Wilde, “Impression du Matin” 4.​8 H.​ G.​ Wells:​ An Evening in Hyde Park 4.​9 Robert Bridges, “London Snow” THE AESTHETIC MOVEMENT 4.​10 Oscar Wilde:​ “London Models” 4.​11 Vernon Lee:​ The Mazes of Aesthetic London 4.​12 George Moore:​ Bohemian Life in Mayfair 4.​13 George Gissing:​ A Struggling Writer INSTITUTIONS 4.​14 William S.​ Gilbert:​ The House of Peers 4.​15 Anthony Trollope:​ The House of Commons 4.​16 George Gissing:​ The Crystal Palace Park 4.​17 Arnold Bennett:​ A London Bank 4.​18 C.​ W.​ Murphy:​ “I Live in Trafalgar Square” THE THAMES 4.​19 Henry James:​ A Steamer Down the Thames 4.​20 Joseph Conrad:​ Sunset on the Thames MIDDLE CLASS LIFE 4.​21 George Eliot:​ A House by the Thames 4.​22 Margaret Oliphant:​ The Painter and the Philistine 4.​23 George Gissing:​ The Women’s Movement 4.​24 Mary Augusta Ward:​ A Politician and His Wife 4.​25 Lady St Helier:​ Politics and the Music-Hall 4.​26 George and Weedon Grossmith:​ Nobody Is Invited to a Ball WORKING-CLASS LIFE 4.​27 George Gissing:​ Supreme Ugliness in the Caledonian Road 4.​28 Joseph Conrad:​ Bombs and Pornography 4.​29 Israel Zangwill:​ A Child of the Ghetto 4.​30 D.​ H.​ Lawrence:​ Outcasts of Waterloo Bridge 4.​31 Amy Levy:​ “Ballade of an Omnibus” 4.​32 Arthur Morrison:​ A Slum 4.​33 Baroness Emmuska Orczy:​ Death on the Tube 4.​34 Virginia Woolf:​ Leaving London AFTER LONDON 4.​35 Richard Jefferies:​ Drowned London EPILOGUE: TOWN VERSUS COUNTRY 4.​36 Beatrix Potter:​ Town Mouse and Country Mouse References Further Reading Part 1:​ Historical Contexts Part 2:​ Literary Contexts Index