Rereading the New: A Backward Glance at Modernism; Marketing Modernisms: Self-Promotion,
Table of Contents
The Twentieth Century and Beyond
Illustration: Richard Nevinson, The Arrival, 1913—1914 1918
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY AND BEYOND AT A GLANCE 1919
INTRODUCTION 1923
BEYOND THE PALE 1923
BURYING VICTORIA 1924
THE FOUNDATIONS OF MODERN SKEPTICISM 1925
REVOLUTIONS OF STYLE 1928
Illustration: Soldiers of the 9th Cameronians division near Arras, France, 24
March 1917 1929
MODERNISM AND THE MODERN CITY 1932
Illustration: Archibald Hatrick, A Lift Girl, 1916 1933
PLOTTING THE SELF 1934
THE RETURN OF THE REPRESSED 1935
Illustration: Poster for the Wembley Exhibition, 1925 1937
WORLD WAR I I AND ITS AFTERMATH 1938
Illustration: London during the Blitz 1939
Color Plate 21: The British Empire Stretched Thin
Color Plate 22: Vera Willoughby, General Joy
Color Plate 23: Charles Ginner, Piccadilly Circus
Color Plate 24: Anna Airy, Shop for Machining 15-inch Shells
Color Plate 25: Sir William Orpen, Ready to Start
Color Plate 26: Vanessa Bell, The Tub
Color Plate 27: Sir John Lavery, Lady Lavery as Kathleen Ni Houlihan
Color Plate 28: Stanley Spencer, Shipbuilding on the Clyde: Furnaces
Color Plate 29: Gilbert and George, Death Hope Life Fear
Color Plate 30: Francis Bacon, Study after Velasquez
Color Plate 31: Richard Hamilton, Just What Is It That Makes Today’s Homes
So Different, So Appealing?
Color Plate 32: Chris Ofili, No Woman, No Cry
Illustration: The Beatles preparing for a television broadcast, c. 1963 1944
LANGUAGE AND IDENTITY 1946
JOSEPH CONRAD 1949
Illustration: Joseph Conrad 1949
Preface to The Nigger of the “Narcissus” 1952
Heart of Darkness 1954
“HEART OF DARKNESS” AND ITS TIME
Joseph Conrad: from Congo Diary 2010
Sir Henry Morton Stanley: from Address to the Manchester Chamber of
Commerce 2012 *
RESPONSES
Chinua Achebe: An Image of Africa 2016
Gang of Four: We Live As We Dream, Alone 2025h
BERNARD SHAW 2026
Preface: A Professor of Phonetics 2029
Pygmalion 2032
THOMAS HARDY 2096
Hap 2098
Neutral Tones 2098
Wessex Heights 2099
The Darkling Thrush 2099
On the Departure Platform 2100
The Dead Man Walking 2101
A Wife and Another 2102
To Sincerity 2103
The Convergence of the Twain 2104
At Castle Boterel 2105
Channel Firing 2106
In Time of “The Breaking of Nations” 2107
I Looked Up from My Writing 2107
“And There Was a Great Calm” 2108
Logs on the Hearth 2109
The Photograph 2110
The Fallow Deer at the Lonely House 2110
Afterwards 2111
Epitaph 2111
J. M. SYNGE (Web)
The Playboy of the Western World (Web)
PERSPECTIVES
The Great War: Confronting the Modern 2112
ALYS FANE TROTTER 2112
The Hospital Visitor 2112
CICELY HAMILTON 2113
Non-Combatant 2113
BLAST 2114
Illustration: Wyndham Lewis, The Creditors, 1912—1913 2115
Vorticist Manifesto 2116
SIGFRIED SASSOON 2130
Glory of Women 2131
“They” 2131
The Rear-Guard 2131
Everyone Sang 2132
PAULINE BARRINGTON 2132
“Education” 2132
HELEN DIRCKS 2133
After Bourlon Wood 2133
RUPERT BROOKE 2134
The Great Lover 2135
The Soldier 2136
TERESA HOOLEY 2137
A War Film 2137
ISAAC ROSENBERG 2138
Break of Day in the Trenches 2138
Dead Man’s Dump 2139
REBECCA WEST 2141
Indissoluble Matrimony 2141
WILFRED OWEN 2157
Anthem for Doomed Youth 2158
Strange Meeting 2158
Disabled 2159
Dulce et Decorum Est 2160
MAY WEDDERBURN CANNAN 2161
Lamplight 2161
Rouen 2162
SPEECHES ON IRISH INDEPENDENCE 2163
Illustration: Jack B. Yeats, The Felons of Our Land, 1910 2164
Wolf Tone (Web)
Court-Martial Speech, November 10, 1798 (Web)
Robert Emmett (Web)
The Speech from the Dock (Web)
Daniel O’Connell (Web)
Speech to House of Commons, February 4, 1836 (Web)
William Gladstone (Web)
A speech by William Ewart Gladstone MP, British Prime Minister, to the House
of Commons on Home Rule for Ireland, given on 7 June 1886 (Web)
Charles Stewart Parnell 2165
At Limerick 2165
Before the House of Commons 2166
At Portsmouth, After the Defeat of Mr. Gladstone’s Home Rule Bill 2167
In Committee Room No. 15 2168
Proclamation of the Irish Republic 2169
Padraic Pearse 2170
Kilmainham Prison 2170
Michael Collins 2171
The Substance of Freedom 2171
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS 2174
Illustration: William Butler Yeats 2174
The Lake Isle of Innisfree 2177
Who Goes with Fergus? 2178
No Second Troy 2178
The Fascination of What’s Difficult 2178
September 1913 2179
The Wild Swans at Coole 2180
An Irish Airman Foresees His Death 2180
Easter 1916 2181
The Second Coming 2183
A Prayer for My Daughter 2183
Sailing to Byzantium 2185
Meditations in Time of Civil War 2186
Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen 2191
Leda and the Swan 2194
Among School Children 2195
Byzantium 2197
Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop 2198
Lapis Lazuli 2198
The Circus Animals’ Desertion 2200
Under Ben Bulben 2201
E. M. FORSTER 2203
The Life to Come 2204
JAMES JOYCE 2215
Illustration: Man Ray, Portrait of James Joyce, 1922 2215
Illustration: Photo of Sackville Street (now O’Connell Street), Dublin, with
view of Nelson’s Pillar 2217
DUBLINERS 2218
Araby 2218
Eveline 2222
Clay 2225
The Dead 2229
Ulysses 2257
[Chapter 13. “Nausicaa”] 2257
RESPONSES
Hon. John M. Woolsey: 1933 Decision of the United States District
Court Lifting the Ban on Ulysses 2279
Seamus Heaney: from Station Island 2283h
T. S. ELIOT 2284
Illustration: T. S. Eliot 2284
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock 2287
RESPONSES
Arthur Waugh: [Cleverness and the New Poetry] 2291
Ezra Pound: Drunken Helots and Mr. Eliot 2293h
Gerontion 2295
The Waste Land 2297
RESPONSES
Fadwa Tuqan: In the Aging City 2310
Martin Rowson: from The Waste Land 2312h
The Hollow Men 2318
Journey of the Magi 2320
Four Quartets 2321
Burnt Norton 2321
Tradition and the Individual Talent 2326
VIRGINIA WOOLF 2331
Illustration: Virginia Woolf 2331
Illustration: Virginia Woolf and T. S. Eliot 2333
The Lady in the Looking-Glass: A Reflection 2334
Mrs Dalloway 2338
Illustration: View of Regent Street, London, 1927 2349
RESPONSE
Sigrid Nunez: On Rereading Mrs. Dalloway 2437h
from A Room of One’s Own 2442
KATHERINE MANSFIELD 2478
The Daughters of the Late Colonel 2478
D. H. LAWRENCE 2491
Piano 2494
Song of a Man Who Has Come Through 2494
Tortoise Shout 2494
Snake 2497
Bavarian Gentians 2499
Cypresses 2499
Odour of Chrysanthemums 2501
Surgery for the Novel–or a Bomb 2514
P. G. WODEHOUSE (Web)
The Clicking of Cuthbert (Web)
GRAHAM GREENE 2517
A Chance for Mr Lever 2517
PERSPECTIVES
World War II and the End of Empire 2527
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL 2528
Illustration: Winston Churchill, June 1943 2529
Two Speeches Before the House of Commons 2529
STEPHEN SPENDER 2536
Icarus 2537
What I Expected 2537
The Express 2538
The Pylons 2538
ELIZABETH BOWEN 2539
Mysterious Kôr 2540
EVELYN WAUGH 2549
The Man Who Liked Dickens 2550
Cruise 2559
RESPONSE
Monty Python: Travel Agent 2563h
GEORGE ORWELL 2566
Shooting an Elephant 2567
DYLAN THOMAS 2572
The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the
Flower 2573
Fern Hill 2574
Poem in October 2575
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night 2576
SAMUEL BECKETT 2577
Illustration: Samuel Beckett 2577
Endgame 2579
POSTWAR ENGLISH VOICES 2614
W. H. AUDEN 2614
“Sir, no man’s enemy, forgiving all” 2615
Lullaby 2616
Spain 2617
September 1, 1939 2619
Musée des Beaux Arts 2621
In Memory of W. B. Yeats 2622
Law Like Love 2624
In Memory of Sigmund Freud 2625
The Hidden Law 2628
In Praise of Limestone 2628
PHILIP LARKIN 2631
Church Going 2631
The Importance of Elsewhere 2633
MCMXIV 2633
Talking in Bed 2634
High Windows 2635
Annus Mirabilis 2635
Homage to a Government 2636
Aubade 2636
THOM GUNN 2637
Lines for a Book 2638
Elvis Presley 2639
A Map of the City 2639
Black Jackets 2640
From the Wave 2640
The Hug 2641
Patch Work 2642
The Missing 2642
TED HUGHES 2643
Wind 2644
Relic 2645
Theology 2645
Dust As We Are 2645
Leaf Mould 2646
Telegraph Wires 2647
CAROL ANN DUFFY 2648
Originally 2648
Translating the English, 1989 2649
Little Red-Cap 2650
Elvis’s Twin Sister 2651
The Diet 2652
Anon 2653
NADINE GORDIMER 2654
What Were You Dreaming? 2655
DEREK WALCOTT 2661
A Far Cry from Africa 2662
Volcano 2662
Wales 2663
The Fortunate Traveller 2664
Midsummer 2669
50 (“I once gave my daughters, separately, two conch shells”) 2669
52 (“I heard them marching the leaf-wet roads of my head”) 2669
54 (“The midsummer sea, the hot pitch road, this grass, these shacks
that made me”) 2670
V. S. NAIPAUL 2671
In a Free State 2672
Prologue, from a Journal: The Tramp at Piraeus 2672
Epilogue, from a Journal: The Circus at Luxor 2679
TOM STOPPARD 2684
The Invention of Love 2685
SEAMUS HEANEY 2739
Personal Helicon 2740
Requiem for the Croppies 2740
Punishment 2740
Act of Union 2742
The Skunk 2742
The Toome Road 2743
The Singer’s House 2744
In Memorium Francis Ledwidge 2745
Postscript 2746
A Call 2746
The Errand 2747
The Gaeltacht 2747
SALMAN RUSHDIE 2748
Illustration: Salman Rushdie 2748
Chekov and Zulu 2749
The Courter 2758
PERSPECTIVES
Whose Language? 2772
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I WA THIONG’O 2773
Decolonizing the Mind 2774
Native African Languages 2774
EAVAN BOLAND 2777
Anorexic 2778
Mise Eire 2780
The Pomegranate 2781
A Woman Painted on a Leaf 2782
PAUL MULDOON 2783
Cuba 2783
Aisling 2784
Meeting the British 2784
Sleeve Notes 2785
NUALA NÍ DHOMHNAILL 2791
Feeding a Child 2792
Parthenogenesis 2793
Labasheedy (The Silken Bed) 2795
As for the Quince 2796
Why I Choose to Write in Irish, The Corpse That Sits Up and Talks Back 2797
GWYNETH LEWIS 2805
Therapy 2805
Mother Tongue 2806
ROBERT CRAWFORD 2807
The Saltcoats Structuralists 2807
Alba Einstein 2808
W. N. HERBERT 2809
Cabaret McGonagall 2809
Smirr 2812
CONTEMPORARY BRITISH FICTION 2812
ALAN MOORE AND DAVID LLOYD 2812
from V for Vendetta 2813
HANIF KUREISHI 2836
Something to Tell You 2836
NICK HORNBY 2847
from Speaking with the Angel 2848
ZADIE SMITH 2861
Martha, Martha 2862
Credits 2873
Index 2879
