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Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Preface xxv
  4. Acknowledgments xxix
  5. Introduction 1
  6. John Gower (1330?–1408) from Confessio Amantis 27
  7. William Langland (1330?–1386?) from The Vision of Piers Plowman 29
  8. Geoffrey Chaucer (1343?–1400) from The Canterbury Tales 31
  9. Thomas Hoccleve (1367?–1426) from La Male Regle de T. Hoccleue 37
  10. John Lydgate (1370?–1449/50) from King Henry VI’s Triumphal Entry into London 40
  11. Anon. (15th century) London Lickpenny 49
  12. John Skelton (1460?–1529) from Collyn Clout 54
  13. Anon. (1500?) “London, thou art of townes A per se” 56
  14. Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503–1542) “Tagus, farewell, that westward with thy streams” 59
  15. “Who list his wealth and ease retain” 60
  16. Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517?–1547) “London, hast thou accusèd me” 61
  17. Anne Askew (1521–1546) The Ballad Which Anne Askew Made and Sang When She Was in Newgate 63
  18. George Turberville (1544?–1597?) The Lover to the Thames of London, to Favour His Lady Passing Thereon 65
  19. Isabella Whitney (1548?–?) The Manner of Her Will, and What She Left to London and to All Those in It, at Her Departing 66
  20. Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599) Prothalamion 76
  21. George Peele (1556–1596) from King Edward the First 82
  22. Chidiock Tichborne (1558?–1586) Tichborne’s Elegy 83
  23. Michael Drayton (1563–1631) from Poly-Olbion 84
  24. William Shakespeare (1564–1616) from Henry VI, Part II 85
  25. from Henry V 87
  26. from Henry VIII 90
  27. Thomas Nashe (1567?–1601) from Summer’s Last Will and Testament 95
  28. Everard Guilpin (1572?–?) from Skialetheia 96
  29. Ben Jonson (1572?–1637) from The Devil Is an Ass 101
  30. On the Famous Voyage 104
  31. John Donne (1572–1631) Satire 1 110
  32. To Mr. E. G. 114
  33. Epithalamion Made at Lincoln’s Inn 115
  34. Satire 4 118
  35. Twickenham Garden 125
  36. John Taylor (1580–1653) from The Sculler 126
  37. from Sir Gregory Nonsense’s News from No Place 127
  38. Philip Massinger (1583–1640) from The City Madam 129
  39. Francis Beaumont (1584–1616) and John Fletcher (1579–1625) from The Knight of the Burning Pestle 132
  40. Francis Beaumont (1584–1616) Letter to Ben Jonson 134
  41. On the Tombs in Westminster Abbey 137
  42. Thomas Freeman (1590?–1630?) from London’s Progress 139
  43. W. Turner (?) from Turner’s Dish of Lenten Stuff, or a Gallimaufry 140
  44. Abraham Holland (?–1626) from London, Look Back 144
  45. Robert Herrick (1591–1674) An Ode for Him [Ben Jonson] 146
  46. His Return to London 147
  47. His Tears to Thamasis 148
  48. Anon. (1640s, pub. 1662) London Sad London: An Echo 149
  49. Edmund Waller (1606–1687) On the Statue of King Charles I at Charing Cross 150
  50. On St. James’s Park, As Lately Improved by His Majesty 151
  51. John Milton (1608–1674) When the Assault Was Intended to the City 155
  52. Sir John Suckling (1609–1642) A Ballad upon a Wedding 156
  53. Thomas Jordan (1612?–1685) from The Cheaters Cheated 161
  54. from The Triumphs of London 162
  55. A Song Sung at the Lord Mayor’s Table in Honour of the City and the Goldsmiths Company 165
  56. Sir John Denham (1615–1669) from Cooper’s Hill 168
  57. Abraham Cowley (1618–1667) from The Civil War 170
  58. Richard Lovelace (1618–1657/8) To Althea, from Prison: Song 172
  59. Simon Ford (1619?–1699) from London’s Resurrection 174
  60. Henry Vaughan (1621–1695) A Rhapsody 178
  61. Anon. (17th century) The Cries of London 181
  62. Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland 182
  63. John Dryden (1631–1700) from Annus Mirabilis 186
  64. from MacFlecknoe 199
  65. Anon. (pub. 1680) In the Fields of Lincoln’s Inn 203
  66. John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647–1680) from A Letter from Artemisa in the Town to Chloe in the Country 205
  67. Song (“Quoth the Duchess of Cleveland to Counselor Knight”) 211
  68. A Ramble in St. James’s Park 212
  69. John Oldham (1653–1683) from A Satire in Imitation of the Third of Juvenal 217
  70. Anon. (1684) A Winter Wonder; or, the Thames Frozen Over, with Remarks on the Resort There 228
  71. Anon. (1684) from The Wonders of the Deep 231
  72. Pierre Antoine Motteux (1660–1718) A Song 233
  73. Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) A Description of the Morning 234
  74. A Description of a City Shower 235
  75. Clever Tom Clinch 237
  76. A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed 238
  77. from On Poetry: A Rhapsody 241
  78. John Gay (1685–1732) from Trivia: or, The Art of Walking the Streets of London 243
  79. from The Beggar’s Opera 254
  80. Anon. (pub. 1719) The Fair Lass of Islington 255
  81. Alexander Pope (1688–1744) The Alley. An Imitation of Spenser 258
  82. A Farewell to London in the Year 1715 260
  83. Epistle to Miss Blount, on her Leaving the Town, after the Coronation 262
  84. from The Dunciad 264
  85. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762) from Six Town Eclogues 276
  86. Elizabeth Tollet (1694–1754) On the Prospect from Westminster Bridge, March 1750 279
  87. John Bancks (1709–1751) A Description of London 280
  88. Anon. (1739) Hail, London! 281
  89. Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) from London 283
  90. Nursery Rhymes (pub. 18th–19th centuries) London Bridge 289
  91. Oranges and Lemons 290
  92. “Pussy cat, pussy cat, where have you been?” 291
  93. “Poussie, poussie, baudrons” 292
  94. “Up at Piccadilly oh!” 292
  95. “See-saw, sacradown” 292
  96. “Upon Paul’s steeple stands a tree” 293
  97. “As I was going o’er London Bridge” 293
  98. “As I was going o’er London Bridge” 293
  99. “I had a little hobby horse, it was well shod” 293
  100. Pop Goes the Weasel 294
  101. William Whitehead (1715–1785) The Sweepers 295
  102. Oliver Goldsmith (1729–1774) Description of an Author’s Bedchamber 299
  103. William Cowper (1731–1800) from The Task 300
  104. Charles Jenner (1736–1774) from Town Eclogues 303
  105. Anna Letitia Barbauld (1743–1825) Song for the London Volunteers 307
  106. West End Fair 309
  107. Charles Dibdin (1745?–1814) The Jolly Young Waterman 311
  108. Poll of Wapping 312
  109. Hannah More (1745–1833) from The Gin-Shop; or, A Peep into Prison 313
  110. Mary Robinson (1757–1800) London’s Summer Morning 316
  111. William Blake (1757–1827) Holy Thursday 318
  112. The Chimney Sweeper 319
  113. London 320
  114. from Jerusalem 321
  115. Joanna Baillie (1762–1851) London 325
  116. William Wordsworth (1770–1850) The Farmer of Tilsbury Vale 327
  117. The Reverie of Poor Susan 330
  118. Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 331
  119. from The Prelude 332
  120. James Smith (1775–1839) and Horace Smith (1779–1849) from Horace in London 343
  121. Leigh Hunt (1784–1859) To Hampstead 346
  122. Description of Hampstead 347
  123. Lord Byron (1788–1824) from Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage 348
  124. from Don Juan 349
  125. Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) from Letter to Maria Gisborne 357
  126. from Peter Bell the Third 359
  127. John Hamilton Reynolds (1794–1852) Sonnet 362
  128. John Keats (1795–1821) “To one who has been long in city pent” 363
  129. On Seeing the Elgin Marbles 364
  130. Lines on the Mermaid Tavern 365
  131. Thomas Hood (1799–1845) Moral Reflections on the Cross of St. Paul’s 366
  132. The Lord Mayor’s Show 368
  133. Sonnet to Vauxhall 370
  134. The Workhouse Clock: An Allegory 371
  135. Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) Scenes in London: Piccadilly 374
  136. Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1802–1839) Goodnight to the Season 377
  137. Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) from Aurora Leigh 381
  138. Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) from In Memoriam 383
  139. from Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington 384
  140. Cleopatra’s Needle 387
  141. Anon. (1851) Have You Been to the Crystal Palace? 388
  142. Robert Browning (1812–1889) from Waring 392
  143. Edward Lear (1812–1888) There Was an Old Person of Putney 395
  144. There Was an Old Man of Blackheath 395
  145. There Was a Young Person of Kew 395
  146. There Was an Old Person of Bow 395
  147. There Was a Young Lady of Greenwich 395
  148. There Was an Old Person of Ealing 396
  149. There Was an Old Person of Bromley 396
  150. There Was an Old Person of Sheen 396
  151. There Was an Old Man of Thames Ditton 396
  152. Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861) To the Great Metropolis 397
  153. In the Great Metropolis 398
  154. “Blessed are those who have not seen” 399
  155. “Ye flags of Piccadilly” 400
  156. Anon. (19th century) from The Cries of London 401
  157. George Eliot (1819–1880) In a London Drawingroom 402
  158. Anon. (1869) Strike of the London Cabmen 403
  159. Frederick Locker-Lampson (1821–1895) St. James’s Street 405
  160. Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) Lines Written in Kensington Gardens 407
  161. West London 409
  162. East London 410
  163. Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882) Tiber, Nile, and Thames 411
  164. Coventry Patmore (1823–1896) A London Fête 412
  165. James Thomson (1834–1882) from Sunday at Hampstead 414
  166. Henry S. Leigh (1837–1883) A Cockney’s Evening Song 423
  167. Anon. (1893) Bloomsbury 424
  168. Austin Dobson (1840–1921) A New Song of the Spring Garden 426
  169. Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) Beyond the Last Lamp 427
  170. The Coronation 429
  171. In the British Museum 431
  172. In St. Paul’s a While Ago 432
  173. Coming Up Oxford Street: Evening 434
  174. A Refusal 435
  175. To a Tree in London 437
  176. Christmas in the Elgin Room 438
  177. W. H. Hudson (1841–1922) To a London Sparrow 440
  178. Robert Bridges (1844–1930) London Snow 442
  179. Trafalgar Square 444
  180. W. E. Henley (1849–1903) from London Voluntaries 445
  181. from London Types 446
  182. Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Impression du Matin 452
  183. John Davidson (1857–1909) London 453
  184. Thirty Bob a Week 454
  185. In the Isle of Dogs 457
  186. Fog 460
  187. from The Thames Embankment 461
  188. A. E. Housman (1859–1936) “From the wash the laundress sends” 463
  189. Mary E. Coleridge (1861–1907) In London Town 464
  190. Amy Levy (1861–1889) A March Day in London 465
  191. Straw in the Street 466
  192. London Poets 467
  193. Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) In Partibus 468
  194. The River’s Tale 471
  195. London Stone 473
  196. The Craftsman 475
  197. from Epitaphs of the War 476
  198. Arthur Symons (1865–1945) from London Nights 477
  199. from Décor de Théâtre 479
  200. London 481
  201. W. B. Yeats (1865–1939) from Vacillation 482
  202. Lionel Johnson (1867–1902) London Town 483
  203. By the Statue of King Charles at Charing Cross 486
  204. Charlotte Mew (1869–1928) In Nunhead Cemetery 488
  205. Laurence Binyon (1869–1943) As I Walked Through London 491
  206. T. E. Hulme (1883–1917) The Embankment 492
  207. Ezra Pound (1885–1972) 493
  208. D. H. Lawrence (1885–1930) 499
  209. Frances Cornford (1886–1960) 508
  210. Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967) Monody on the Demolition of Devonshire House 510
  211. T. S. Eliot (1888–1965) 511
  212. Isaac Rosenberg (1890–1918) Fleet Street 519
  213. Richard Aldington (1892–1962) 520
  214. Wilfred Owen (1893–1918) “I am the ghost of Shadwell Stair” 527
  215. Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893–1978) 528
  216. John Rodker (1894–1955) 530
  217. Robert Graves (1895–1985) Armistice Day, 1918 533
  218. A. S. J. Tessimond (1902–1962) 535
  219. Stevie Smith (1902–1971) Suburb 540
  220. William Empson (1906–1984) Homage to the British Museum 542
  221. John Betjeman (1906–1984) 543
  222. Louis MacNeice (1907–1963) 557
  223. Stephen Spender (1909–1995) 564
  224. Bernard Spencer (1909–1963) 566
  225. Mervyn Peake (1911–1968) London Buses 568
  226. Kenneth Allott (1912–1973) Memento Mori 569
  227. Roy Fuller (1912–1991) 571
  228. Anne Ridler (1912–2001) Wentworth Place: Keats Grove 574
  229. George Barker (1913–1991) Kew Gardens 575
  230. Alun Lewis (1915–1944) Westminster Abbey 578
  231. Robert Lowell (1917–1977) 579
  232. Nicholas Moore (1918–1986) Monmouth Street 582
  233. John Heath-Stubbs (1918–2006) 584
  234. W. S. Graham (1918–1986) The Night City 586
  235. Muriel Spark (1918–2006) from A Tour of London 588
  236. Keith Douglas (1920–1944) from The “Bête Noire” Fragments 590
  237. D. J. Enright - Ahren Warner (1986–) 591
  238. Credits und Index 727
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Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Preface xxv
  4. Acknowledgments xxix
  5. Introduction 1
  6. John Gower (1330?–1408) from Confessio Amantis 27
  7. William Langland (1330?–1386?) from The Vision of Piers Plowman 29
  8. Geoffrey Chaucer (1343?–1400) from The Canterbury Tales 31
  9. Thomas Hoccleve (1367?–1426) from La Male Regle de T. Hoccleue 37
  10. John Lydgate (1370?–1449/50) from King Henry VI’s Triumphal Entry into London 40
  11. Anon. (15th century) London Lickpenny 49
  12. John Skelton (1460?–1529) from Collyn Clout 54
  13. Anon. (1500?) “London, thou art of townes A per se” 56
  14. Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503–1542) “Tagus, farewell, that westward with thy streams” 59
  15. “Who list his wealth and ease retain” 60
  16. Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517?–1547) “London, hast thou accusèd me” 61
  17. Anne Askew (1521–1546) The Ballad Which Anne Askew Made and Sang When She Was in Newgate 63
  18. George Turberville (1544?–1597?) The Lover to the Thames of London, to Favour His Lady Passing Thereon 65
  19. Isabella Whitney (1548?–?) The Manner of Her Will, and What She Left to London and to All Those in It, at Her Departing 66
  20. Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599) Prothalamion 76
  21. George Peele (1556–1596) from King Edward the First 82
  22. Chidiock Tichborne (1558?–1586) Tichborne’s Elegy 83
  23. Michael Drayton (1563–1631) from Poly-Olbion 84
  24. William Shakespeare (1564–1616) from Henry VI, Part II 85
  25. from Henry V 87
  26. from Henry VIII 90
  27. Thomas Nashe (1567?–1601) from Summer’s Last Will and Testament 95
  28. Everard Guilpin (1572?–?) from Skialetheia 96
  29. Ben Jonson (1572?–1637) from The Devil Is an Ass 101
  30. On the Famous Voyage 104
  31. John Donne (1572–1631) Satire 1 110
  32. To Mr. E. G. 114
  33. Epithalamion Made at Lincoln’s Inn 115
  34. Satire 4 118
  35. Twickenham Garden 125
  36. John Taylor (1580–1653) from The Sculler 126
  37. from Sir Gregory Nonsense’s News from No Place 127
  38. Philip Massinger (1583–1640) from The City Madam 129
  39. Francis Beaumont (1584–1616) and John Fletcher (1579–1625) from The Knight of the Burning Pestle 132
  40. Francis Beaumont (1584–1616) Letter to Ben Jonson 134
  41. On the Tombs in Westminster Abbey 137
  42. Thomas Freeman (1590?–1630?) from London’s Progress 139
  43. W. Turner (?) from Turner’s Dish of Lenten Stuff, or a Gallimaufry 140
  44. Abraham Holland (?–1626) from London, Look Back 144
  45. Robert Herrick (1591–1674) An Ode for Him [Ben Jonson] 146
  46. His Return to London 147
  47. His Tears to Thamasis 148
  48. Anon. (1640s, pub. 1662) London Sad London: An Echo 149
  49. Edmund Waller (1606–1687) On the Statue of King Charles I at Charing Cross 150
  50. On St. James’s Park, As Lately Improved by His Majesty 151
  51. John Milton (1608–1674) When the Assault Was Intended to the City 155
  52. Sir John Suckling (1609–1642) A Ballad upon a Wedding 156
  53. Thomas Jordan (1612?–1685) from The Cheaters Cheated 161
  54. from The Triumphs of London 162
  55. A Song Sung at the Lord Mayor’s Table in Honour of the City and the Goldsmiths Company 165
  56. Sir John Denham (1615–1669) from Cooper’s Hill 168
  57. Abraham Cowley (1618–1667) from The Civil War 170
  58. Richard Lovelace (1618–1657/8) To Althea, from Prison: Song 172
  59. Simon Ford (1619?–1699) from London’s Resurrection 174
  60. Henry Vaughan (1621–1695) A Rhapsody 178
  61. Anon. (17th century) The Cries of London 181
  62. Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland 182
  63. John Dryden (1631–1700) from Annus Mirabilis 186
  64. from MacFlecknoe 199
  65. Anon. (pub. 1680) In the Fields of Lincoln’s Inn 203
  66. John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647–1680) from A Letter from Artemisa in the Town to Chloe in the Country 205
  67. Song (“Quoth the Duchess of Cleveland to Counselor Knight”) 211
  68. A Ramble in St. James’s Park 212
  69. John Oldham (1653–1683) from A Satire in Imitation of the Third of Juvenal 217
  70. Anon. (1684) A Winter Wonder; or, the Thames Frozen Over, with Remarks on the Resort There 228
  71. Anon. (1684) from The Wonders of the Deep 231
  72. Pierre Antoine Motteux (1660–1718) A Song 233
  73. Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) A Description of the Morning 234
  74. A Description of a City Shower 235
  75. Clever Tom Clinch 237
  76. A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed 238
  77. from On Poetry: A Rhapsody 241
  78. John Gay (1685–1732) from Trivia: or, The Art of Walking the Streets of London 243
  79. from The Beggar’s Opera 254
  80. Anon. (pub. 1719) The Fair Lass of Islington 255
  81. Alexander Pope (1688–1744) The Alley. An Imitation of Spenser 258
  82. A Farewell to London in the Year 1715 260
  83. Epistle to Miss Blount, on her Leaving the Town, after the Coronation 262
  84. from The Dunciad 264
  85. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762) from Six Town Eclogues 276
  86. Elizabeth Tollet (1694–1754) On the Prospect from Westminster Bridge, March 1750 279
  87. John Bancks (1709–1751) A Description of London 280
  88. Anon. (1739) Hail, London! 281
  89. Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) from London 283
  90. Nursery Rhymes (pub. 18th–19th centuries) London Bridge 289
  91. Oranges and Lemons 290
  92. “Pussy cat, pussy cat, where have you been?” 291
  93. “Poussie, poussie, baudrons” 292
  94. “Up at Piccadilly oh!” 292
  95. “See-saw, sacradown” 292
  96. “Upon Paul’s steeple stands a tree” 293
  97. “As I was going o’er London Bridge” 293
  98. “As I was going o’er London Bridge” 293
  99. “I had a little hobby horse, it was well shod” 293
  100. Pop Goes the Weasel 294
  101. William Whitehead (1715–1785) The Sweepers 295
  102. Oliver Goldsmith (1729–1774) Description of an Author’s Bedchamber 299
  103. William Cowper (1731–1800) from The Task 300
  104. Charles Jenner (1736–1774) from Town Eclogues 303
  105. Anna Letitia Barbauld (1743–1825) Song for the London Volunteers 307
  106. West End Fair 309
  107. Charles Dibdin (1745?–1814) The Jolly Young Waterman 311
  108. Poll of Wapping 312
  109. Hannah More (1745–1833) from The Gin-Shop; or, A Peep into Prison 313
  110. Mary Robinson (1757–1800) London’s Summer Morning 316
  111. William Blake (1757–1827) Holy Thursday 318
  112. The Chimney Sweeper 319
  113. London 320
  114. from Jerusalem 321
  115. Joanna Baillie (1762–1851) London 325
  116. William Wordsworth (1770–1850) The Farmer of Tilsbury Vale 327
  117. The Reverie of Poor Susan 330
  118. Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 331
  119. from The Prelude 332
  120. James Smith (1775–1839) and Horace Smith (1779–1849) from Horace in London 343
  121. Leigh Hunt (1784–1859) To Hampstead 346
  122. Description of Hampstead 347
  123. Lord Byron (1788–1824) from Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage 348
  124. from Don Juan 349
  125. Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) from Letter to Maria Gisborne 357
  126. from Peter Bell the Third 359
  127. John Hamilton Reynolds (1794–1852) Sonnet 362
  128. John Keats (1795–1821) “To one who has been long in city pent” 363
  129. On Seeing the Elgin Marbles 364
  130. Lines on the Mermaid Tavern 365
  131. Thomas Hood (1799–1845) Moral Reflections on the Cross of St. Paul’s 366
  132. The Lord Mayor’s Show 368
  133. Sonnet to Vauxhall 370
  134. The Workhouse Clock: An Allegory 371
  135. Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) Scenes in London: Piccadilly 374
  136. Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1802–1839) Goodnight to the Season 377
  137. Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) from Aurora Leigh 381
  138. Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) from In Memoriam 383
  139. from Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington 384
  140. Cleopatra’s Needle 387
  141. Anon. (1851) Have You Been to the Crystal Palace? 388
  142. Robert Browning (1812–1889) from Waring 392
  143. Edward Lear (1812–1888) There Was an Old Person of Putney 395
  144. There Was an Old Man of Blackheath 395
  145. There Was a Young Person of Kew 395
  146. There Was an Old Person of Bow 395
  147. There Was a Young Lady of Greenwich 395
  148. There Was an Old Person of Ealing 396
  149. There Was an Old Person of Bromley 396
  150. There Was an Old Person of Sheen 396
  151. There Was an Old Man of Thames Ditton 396
  152. Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861) To the Great Metropolis 397
  153. In the Great Metropolis 398
  154. “Blessed are those who have not seen” 399
  155. “Ye flags of Piccadilly” 400
  156. Anon. (19th century) from The Cries of London 401
  157. George Eliot (1819–1880) In a London Drawingroom 402
  158. Anon. (1869) Strike of the London Cabmen 403
  159. Frederick Locker-Lampson (1821–1895) St. James’s Street 405
  160. Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) Lines Written in Kensington Gardens 407
  161. West London 409
  162. East London 410
  163. Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882) Tiber, Nile, and Thames 411
  164. Coventry Patmore (1823–1896) A London Fête 412
  165. James Thomson (1834–1882) from Sunday at Hampstead 414
  166. Henry S. Leigh (1837–1883) A Cockney’s Evening Song 423
  167. Anon. (1893) Bloomsbury 424
  168. Austin Dobson (1840–1921) A New Song of the Spring Garden 426
  169. Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) Beyond the Last Lamp 427
  170. The Coronation 429
  171. In the British Museum 431
  172. In St. Paul’s a While Ago 432
  173. Coming Up Oxford Street: Evening 434
  174. A Refusal 435
  175. To a Tree in London 437
  176. Christmas in the Elgin Room 438
  177. W. H. Hudson (1841–1922) To a London Sparrow 440
  178. Robert Bridges (1844–1930) London Snow 442
  179. Trafalgar Square 444
  180. W. E. Henley (1849–1903) from London Voluntaries 445
  181. from London Types 446
  182. Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Impression du Matin 452
  183. John Davidson (1857–1909) London 453
  184. Thirty Bob a Week 454
  185. In the Isle of Dogs 457
  186. Fog 460
  187. from The Thames Embankment 461
  188. A. E. Housman (1859–1936) “From the wash the laundress sends” 463
  189. Mary E. Coleridge (1861–1907) In London Town 464
  190. Amy Levy (1861–1889) A March Day in London 465
  191. Straw in the Street 466
  192. London Poets 467
  193. Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) In Partibus 468
  194. The River’s Tale 471
  195. London Stone 473
  196. The Craftsman 475
  197. from Epitaphs of the War 476
  198. Arthur Symons (1865–1945) from London Nights 477
  199. from Décor de Théâtre 479
  200. London 481
  201. W. B. Yeats (1865–1939) from Vacillation 482
  202. Lionel Johnson (1867–1902) London Town 483
  203. By the Statue of King Charles at Charing Cross 486
  204. Charlotte Mew (1869–1928) In Nunhead Cemetery 488
  205. Laurence Binyon (1869–1943) As I Walked Through London 491
  206. T. E. Hulme (1883–1917) The Embankment 492
  207. Ezra Pound (1885–1972) 493
  208. D. H. Lawrence (1885–1930) 499
  209. Frances Cornford (1886–1960) 508
  210. Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967) Monody on the Demolition of Devonshire House 510
  211. T. S. Eliot (1888–1965) 511
  212. Isaac Rosenberg (1890–1918) Fleet Street 519
  213. Richard Aldington (1892–1962) 520
  214. Wilfred Owen (1893–1918) “I am the ghost of Shadwell Stair” 527
  215. Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893–1978) 528
  216. John Rodker (1894–1955) 530
  217. Robert Graves (1895–1985) Armistice Day, 1918 533
  218. A. S. J. Tessimond (1902–1962) 535
  219. Stevie Smith (1902–1971) Suburb 540
  220. William Empson (1906–1984) Homage to the British Museum 542
  221. John Betjeman (1906–1984) 543
  222. Louis MacNeice (1907–1963) 557
  223. Stephen Spender (1909–1995) 564
  224. Bernard Spencer (1909–1963) 566
  225. Mervyn Peake (1911–1968) London Buses 568
  226. Kenneth Allott (1912–1973) Memento Mori 569
  227. Roy Fuller (1912–1991) 571
  228. Anne Ridler (1912–2001) Wentworth Place: Keats Grove 574
  229. George Barker (1913–1991) Kew Gardens 575
  230. Alun Lewis (1915–1944) Westminster Abbey 578
  231. Robert Lowell (1917–1977) 579
  232. Nicholas Moore (1918–1986) Monmouth Street 582
  233. John Heath-Stubbs (1918–2006) 584
  234. W. S. Graham (1918–1986) The Night City 586
  235. Muriel Spark (1918–2006) from A Tour of London 588
  236. Keith Douglas (1920–1944) from The “Bête Noire” Fragments 590
  237. D. J. Enright - Ahren Warner (1986–) 591
  238. Credits und Index 727
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