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Of Slavery....

The Lot of Poverty..

Of War....

Of Tyranny.

My Country...

The Reality of Humble Life, George Crabbe.

Democratic Ideals in the Poetry of Robert Burns

The Cotter's Saturday Night ..

A Winter Night......

A Man's a Man for A' That..

The Twa Dogs...

To a Mouse..

Macpherson's Farewell.

A Dream....

The TI of Liberty.

The American War.

Scots Wha Hae ...

A Vision..

The Dumfries Volunteers.

The Toast.....

Address to the Deil..

The Sincerity of Burns, Thomas Carlyle..

2. THE STRUGGLE AGAINST TYRANNY IN ENGLAND AND AMERICA

The Character of Pitt, John Richard Green ..

Cabinet Government under George III, “Junius”.

An Address to the King, "Junius”.

An Imperial Britain, Edmund Burke.

On Conciliating the Colonies, Edmund Burke.

On the Affairs of America, Edmund Burke.

Concord Hymn, Ralph Waldo Emerson .

Lexington, John Greenleaf Whittier .

Liberty or Death, Patrick Henry....

Washington Anticipates the Declaration, George Washington.

- From the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson..

Times That Try Men's Souls, Thomas Paine.

On the American Revolution, William Cowper.

The Destiny of England and America, John Richard Green .

England and America in 1782, Alfred Tennyson....

3. THE UPHEAVAL IN FRANCE

Storm and Victory, Thomas Carlyle....

The Death-Birth of a World, Thomas Carlyle .

The Storm, Matthew Arnold......

4. THE THEORY OF POLITICAL JUSTICE

Burke, William Wordsworth...

The Character of Burke, John Morley....

"A Liberty Connected with Order," Edmund Burke .

Of the Nature of Liberty......

The Nature of the British Constitution.

Of the Rights of Men....

Of Chivalry.....

Of Free Government.

The Rights of Man, Thomas Paine.

Government is for the Living.

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Of "Chivalry".

What Are “The Rights of Man"?..

Of an Ambitious Norman, and of Titles

America and the French Revolution.

“Made in Germany".

A League of Nations.

Political Justice, William Godwin.

Wealth and Poverty.

Of Perfectibility..

The Moral Effects of Aristocracy.

5. ENGLAND AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

On the French Revolution, William Cowper....

Experiences of an English Idealist, William Wordsworth.

First View of the Revolution..

An Idealist of the Revolution.

Disappointment and Restoration.

France: An Ode, Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

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II. THE CONFLICT WITH NAPOLEON-

1. THE ISSUE

The War of Liberty, William Wordsworth.....

The Cause.....

The Relation of National Happiness and National Independence..

The Grounds of Hope. ...

Sonnets on the Crisis, William Wordsworth.

"Fair Star of Evening”.

On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic.

Thought of a Briton.

September, 1802, Near Dover...

Written in London, September, 1802.

“Milton! Thou Shouldst Be Living”.

"It Is Not to Be Thought of”..

“When I Have Borne in Memory”

"There Is a Bondage Worse”.

"These Times Strike Monied Worldlings".

"England! The Time Is Come”...

“Here Pause: The Poet Claims at Least This Praise"

"Vanguard of Liberty".

"Come Ye-Who, If”.

“Another Year!”.....

2. THE DOWNFALL OF TYRANNY

Sonnets on Napoleon, William Wordsworth..

October, 1803..

Anticipation.

Nelson at Trafalgar, Robert Southey.

Waterloo, Lord Byron.

Waterloo, William Makepeace Thackeray.

Waterloo, William Wordsworth...

Moscow, William Wordsworth..

Political Greatness, Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Ozymandias, Percy Bysshe Shelley...

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III. THE FAILURE OF REVOLUTION: SOLUTIONS OF THE SPIRITUAL PROBLEMS-

1. THE RETURN TO NATURE

The Poet, William Wordsworth.....

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The Poet's Mission, William Wordsworth.

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The Divine Life in Man and Nature, William Wordsworth.

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Expostulation and Reply....

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Tintern Abbey........

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Ode: Intimations of Immortality

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The World Is Too Much with Us.

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Toussaint L'Ouverture...

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Peele Castle..

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Ode to Duty.

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The Mountain Echo..

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To a Skylark..

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Laodamia .....

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Character of the Happy Warrior..

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On Universal Education (The Excursion).

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Propaganda and Poetry, Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

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Christabel, Samuel Taylor Coleridge...

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Dejection: An Ode, Samuel Taylor Coleridge .

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2. THE FREE PERSONALITY

Selections from the Poetry of Lord Byron..

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Prometheus....

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Sonnet on Chillon.

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Solitude (Childe Harold).....

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The Onward March of Freedom (Childe Harold).

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The Ocean (Childe Harold)....

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The Renegade Poets (Don Juan)..

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The Isles of Greece (Don Juan).

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The Vision of Judgment (Selection).

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3. A VISION OF PERFECTION

Poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley.

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Hymn to Intellectual Beauty.

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Ode to the West Wind...

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England in 1819..

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The Power of Man (Prometheus Unbound).

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A Vision of the Future (Prometheus Unbound).

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The Day! (Prometheus Unbound)..

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The World's Great Age Begins Anew (Hellas).

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A Dirge..

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4. THE IMMORTALITY OF BEAUTY

The Poetry of John Keats..

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Beauty (Endymion)

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Le Belle Dame Sans Merci.

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Ode To a Nightingale.

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Ode on a Grecian Urn.

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On Chapman's Homer.

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When I Have Fears..

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Adonais......

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1. THE PROGRESS OF DEMOCRACY AND SOCIAL REFORM,

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1. UTILITARIAN IDEAS OF LIBERTY

On Liberty, John Stuart Mill......

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2. THE PRINCIPLES AND POLICIES OF BRITISH LIBERALISM-

The Spirit of Liberalism, Viscount Morley.

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Progress of the Nation under the Liberal Regime, John Bright .

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Why I Am a Liberal, Robert Browning..

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The Lost Leader, Robert Browning.

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3. FREEDOM AND THE EMPIRE

Home-Thoughts, from Abroad, Robert Browning..

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Home-Thoughts, from the Sea, Robert Browning..

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You Ask Me, Why, Tho' Ill at Ease, Alfred Tennyson.

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Of Old Sat Freedom on the Heights, Alfred Tennyson.

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Love Thou Thy Land, Alfred Tennyson..

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Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington, Alfred Tennyson.

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Hands All Round, Alfred Tennyson.

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To the Queen, Alfred Tennyson..

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A Song in Time of Order, Algernon Charles Swinburne

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An Appeal, Algernon Charles Swinburne.

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Recessional, Rudyard Kipling ....

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4. INTERNATIONAL SYMPATHIES

At the Sunrise in 1848, Dante Gabriel Rossetti ...

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Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth, Arthur Hugh Clough..

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The Italian in England, Robert Browning.

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The Patriot, Robert Browning ..

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To Louis Kossuth, Algernon Charles Swinburne..

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France 1870, George Meredith..

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America, Sidney Dobell...

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To Walt Whitman in America, Algernon Charles Swinburne.

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1. THE GOSPEL OF WORK

The Inheritance, Thomas Carlyle...

Happiness and Labor, Thomas Carlyle.

Plugson of Undershot, Thomas Carlyle..

Labor, Thomas Carlyle....

Captains of Industry, Thomas Carlyle.

2. The Poet's COMMENT

The Song of the Shirt, Thomas Hood...

West London, Matthew Arnold...

The Day Is Coming, William Morris.

Northern Farmer: New Style, Alfred Tennyson.

3. WEALTH AND COMMONWEALTH

Traffic, John Ruskin...

The Soldier's Duty to His Country, John Ruskin.

The White Thorn Blossom, John Ruskin..

4. THE MINISTRY OF CULTURE

Sweetness and Light, Matthew Arnold.

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The Garden of Proserpine, Algernon Charles Swinburne..

Invictus, William Ernest Henley....

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