An Anthology of London in Literature, 1558-1914 by Hiller, Geoffrey G.; Groves, Peter L.; Dilnot, Alan F.;

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"PART ONE. 1. John Lyly: London the Ideal City.- 2. Donald Lupton: London Bridge.- 3. Robert Herrick Laments Leaving his Native London.- 4. Herrick's Joyful Return to London.- 5. John Webster: The Decrepitude of Some London Buildings.- 6. John Donne: The Lively Streets of London.- 7. William Habington: In Praise of London in the Long Vacation.- 8. Philip Stubbes: Puritan Objections to Stage Plays.- 9. Shakespeare: ""On your imaginary forces work"".- 10. Shakespeare: The best actors are but shadows.- 11. Thomas Nashe: ""Adieu, farewell, earth's bliss"".- 12. Thomas Dekker: The Plague and its Victims in 1603.- 13. Sir John Davies: ""Our glorious English court's divine image"".- 14. Edmund Spenser: Another View of Love at Court.- 15. Anon: A Courtier.- 16. Thomas Dekker: ""How a young gallant should behave himself in an ordinary"".- 17. John Earle: A Shopkeeper.- 18. Thomas Middleton: A Goldsmith Gulled.- 19. Barnabe Rich: Vanity Fair.- 20. Thomas Harman: An Abraham man.- 21. Robert Greene: Bewareof Pickpockets.- 22. Middleton: Roaring Girls.- 23. Ben Jonson: Pickpockets at Bartholomew Fair.- 24. John Earle: A Prison.- 25. Donald Lupton: Bedlam.- 26. Dekker and Middleton: Entertainment Provided by the Inmates of Bedlam.- 27. Andrew Marvell: The Execution of Charles I.- 28. John Evelyn: ""The funeral sermon of preaching"".- 29. Evelyn: Persecution of Royalist Churchgoers.- PART TWO. 1. Celia Fiennes: Some Topographical Features of London.- 2. Daniel Defoe: London Surging in Size.- 3. John Evelyn: Charles II's Triumphal Entry into London.- 4. Evelyn: Bodies of Cromwell and Others Exhumed.- 5. Evelyn: Gambling and Debauchery at the Court of Charles II.- 6. Evelyn: James II's Ill-Timed Feast for the Venetian Ambassadors.- 7. Samuel Pepys Describes the Plague.- 8. Daniel Defoe's Imaginative Reconstruction of the Great Plague.- 9. John Dryden: London on Fire.- 10. Pepys' Buried Treasure.- 11. Defoe: London Before and After the Fire.- 12. John Evelyn: Some Unusual Proceedings of the Royal Society.- 13. Ned Ward: The Rebuilding of St Paul's Cathedral.- 14. Joseph Addison: The Royal Exchange.- 15. Ned Ward: Crowds at the Entrance to the Royal Exchange.- 16. Defoe: Westminster Abbey.- 17. Samuel Johnson in Praise of London.- 18. John Gay: The Labyrinthine Streets of London.- 19. Gay on Pall Mall.- 20. Jonathan Swift: ""A Description of a City Shower"".- 21. Tobias Smollett: Ranelagh and Vauxhall Gardens.- 22. Hannah More: The Bluestocking Circle.- 23. Ned Ward: Pork Sellers at Bartholomew Fair.- 24. Benjamin Franklin: ""Work, the Curse of the Drinking Classes"".- 25. John Gay: Perils of London by Night.- 26. James Smith: Sex-Workers in the Strand.- 27. Daniel Defoe on Shoplifting.- 28. Defoe: Newgate Prison.- 29. Samuel Richardson: An Execution at Tyburn.- 30. Samuel Johnson: The Crime of Poverty.- 31. Thomas Holcoft: The Gordon Riots.- PART THREE. 1. Charlotte Bronte: London as Life and Freedom.- 2. Mary Robinson: ""London's Summer Morning"".- 3. Charles Dickens: A London ""Pea-Souper"".- 4. William Cobbett: The Great Wen.- 5. William Wordsworth: Alienation and Anonymity.- 6. Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The Noise of Life Begins Again.- 7. William Blake: ""Marks of Woe"".- 8. Charles Dickens: A Sunday in London.- 9. William Makepeace Thackeray: ""Going to See a Man Hanged"".- 10. Thomas Hood: Let's All Go Down the Strand.- 11. John Ruskin recalls a childhood paradise at Herne Hill.- 12. William Wordsworth: ""Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept 2, 1802"".- 13. Matthew Arnold, ""Lines Written in Kensington Gardens"".- 14. George Borrow on Cheapside.- 15. Frederick Locker-Lampson, ""St James's Street"", 1867.- 16. Charles Dickens: Going Up the River.- 17. Nathaniel Hawthorne: a London Suburb.- 18. William Blake: St Paul's Cathedral on Holy Thursday.- 19. Thomas de Quincey: Tourists Must Pay to See the Sights of St Paul's Cathedral.- 20. Charles Dickets: The Building of a Railway.- 21. Henry Mayhew and George Cruikshank: The Great Exhibition and the Crystal Palace.- 22. John Ruskin: The Crystal Palace.- 23. Thomas De Quincey: The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, Destroyed.- 24. Benjamin Disraeli: A View of Politicians.- 25. Anthony Trollope: Publicans and Sinners.- 26. Alfred, Lord Tennyson: ""Ode Sung at the Opening of the International Exhibition"" (1862).- 27. Charles Dickens: A London Hackney-Coach.- 28. Charles Lamb: ""The Old Benchers of the Inner Temple"".- 29. Wilkie Collins: A Child's Sunday in London.- 30. Elizabeth Gaskell: Haste to the Wedding.- 31. Charles Dickens: Dinner in Harley Street.- 32. Charles Dickens: Bran-New People.- 33. William Thackeray: Wars and Rumours of Wars.- 34. Robert Smith Surtees, Sponge in the City.- 35. Herman Melville: The Temple.- 36. William Makepeace Thackeray: ""Great City Snobs"".- 37. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Writing Woman.- 38. Leigh Hunt: A London Waiter.- 39. Henry Mayhew: Covent Garden Market.- 40. Charles Dickens: Bleeding Heart Yard.- 41. Charles Kingsley: The Making of a Chartist.- 42. William Morris: ""Prologue: The Wanderers"".- 43. Henry Mayhew: ""The Narrative of a Gay Woman"".- 44. Thomas De Quincey: ""Preliminary Confessions"".- 45. Dante Gabriel Rossetti: ""Jenny"".- 46. Christina Rossetti: ""In an Artist's Studio"".- 47. Thomas Hardy: ""The Ruined Maid"".- PART FOUR. 1. Thomas Hardy: ""Snow in the Suburbs"".- 2. Henry James: A Saturday Evening Stroll.- 3. Lionel Johnson: ""By the Statue of King Charles at Charing Cross.- 4. George Moore: A Train Journey.- 5. Emily Constance Cook: The Respectable Grime of Ages.- 6. Henry James: The Appeal of the Great City.- 7. Oscar Wilde, ""Impression du Matin"".- 8. H G Wells: An evening in Hyde Park.- 9. Robert Bridges, ""London Snow"".- 10. Oscar Wilde: ""London Models"".- 11. Vernon Lee: the mazes of aesthetic London.- 12. George Moore: Bohemian Life in Mayfair.- 13. George Gissing: A Struggling Writer.- 14. William S. Gilbert: The House of Peers.- 15. Anthony Trollope: The House of Commons.- 16. George Gissing: The Crystal Palace Park.- 17. Arnold Bennett: A London Bank.- 18. C W Murphy: ""I live in Trafalgar Square"".- 19. Henry James: A Steamer down the Thames.- 20. Joseph Conrad: Sunset on the Thames.- 21. George Eliot: A House by the Thames.- 22. Margaret Oliphant: The Painter and the Philistine.- 23. George Gissing: The Women's Movement.- 24. Mary Augusta Ward: A Politician and his Wife.- 25. Lady St Helier: Politics and the Music-Hall.- 26. George and Weedon Grossmith: Nobody is Invited to a Ball.- 27. George Gissing: Supreme Ugliness in the Caledonian Road.- 28. Joseph Conrad: Bombs and Pornography.- 29. Israel Zangwill: A Child of Ghetto.- 30. D H Lawrence: Outcasts of Waterloo Bridge.- 31. Amy Levy: ""Ballade of an Omnibus"".- 32. Arthur Morrison: A Slum.- 33. Baroness Emmuska Orczy: Death on the Tube.- 34. Virginia Woolf: Leaving London.- 35. Richard Jeffries: Drowned London.- 36. Beatrix Potter: Town Mouse and Country Mouse.
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