COMPREHENSIVE
INDEX OF
TEXTS
ANONYMOUS:
‘To the City of London’
(c.1501/02)
WALTER
BAGEHOT: from ‘Charles
Dickens’ (1858)
BIBLE
(OT): Genesis, Ch. 4—The story
of Cain and the founding of the City of Enoch
BIBLE
(OT): Genesis, Ch. 11—The
City of Babel
BIBLE
(OT): Ezekiel, Ch. 9
BIBLE
(OT & NT): Biblical passages
which lie behind the use of the name ‘Babylon’
BIBLE
(OT & NT): Key Biblical passages
concerning Sodom
BIBLE
(NT): Gospel according to St
Luke, Ch. 19—Jesus weeps over Jerusalem
BIBLE:
from the Psalms—the protection
and punishment of the Holy City of Jerusalem
WILLIAM
BLAKE: ‘London’
(1794)
JAMES
BOSWELL: from his Life
of Samuel Johnson LL.D. (1791)
JAMES
BOSWELL: entry in his London
Journal (1762)
CHARLOTTE
BRONTË: from Villette
(1853)
ROBERT
BUCHANAN: ‘The
City of Man’
EDWARD
BULWER-LYTTON: from
The Last Days of Pompeii
(1834)
GEORGE
GORDON, LORD BYRON:
from Don Juan,
Canto X (1822)
THOMAS
CARLYLE: from letters
to Alexander Carlyle (1824)
EDWARD
CARPENTER: from Towards
Democracy (1883–1902)
LEWIS
CARROLL: from Sylvie
and Bruno (1889–93)
JAMES
CLERK-MAXWELL: ‘Reflex
Musings: Reflections from Various Surfaces’ (1853)
ARTHUR
HUGH CLOUGH: from
The Bothie of Tober-na-Vuolich,
Book IX (1848)
WILLIAM
COWPER: from The
Task (1784)
JOHN
DAVIDSON: ‘A
Northern Suburb’ (1897)
SIR
HUMPHRY DAVY: ‘London’
(1814)
CHARLES
DICKENS: from Oliver
Twist (1837–38)
CHARLES
DICKENS: from American
Notes (1842)
CHARLES
DICKENS: from Great
Expectations (1860–61)
GUSTAVE
DORÉ AND BLANCHARD
JERROLD: illustrations from London:
A Pilgrimage (1872)
JOHN
EVELYN: from Fumifugium
(1661)
FRANCIS
GALTON: from Inquiries
into Human Faculty (1883)
JOHN
GAY: Trivia
(1716) <full text>
ERIK
GUSTAF GEIJER: entry
from his Recollections
(1809)
JAMES
GLAISHER: entry in his Travels
in the Air (1863)
WILLIAM
GRACE: from The
Picture of London, for 1813 (1813)
NATHANIEL
HAWTHORNE: journal entry from his Passages
from the English Notebooks … (1857)
BENJAMIN
ROBERT HAYDON: journal
entry from his Autobiography
and Journal (1806)
ALEXANDER
HERZEN: entry from his Memoirs
(1852)
LEIGH
HUNT: The
Town: Its Memorable Characters and Events (1848) <full
text>
WASHINGTON
IRVING: ‘Little
Britain’ (1819–20)
WASHINGTON
IRVING: ‘London
Antiques’ (1819–20)
WASHINGTON
IRVING: ‘A
Sunday in London’ (1819–20)
HENRY
JAMES: from The
Ambassadors (1903)
RICHARD
JEFFERIES: from The
Story of My Heart (1883)
RICHARD
JEFFERIES: from After
London (1885)
SAMUEL
JOHNSON: London
(1738) <full text>
CHARLES
LAMB: from a letter
to William Wordsworth (1801)
LETITIA
ELIZABETH LANDON
(‘L.E.L.’): ‘Changes
in London’
LETITIA
ELIZABETH LANDON
(‘L.E.L.’): ‘The Country
Retreat’
EDWARD
LEAR: from a letter
to Lady Waldegrave (1862)
MACAULAY,
WALPOLE, BARBAULD:
Visions of a future London
KARL
MARX & FREDERICK
ENGELS: from The
Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848)
DAVID
MASSON: from British
Novelists and their Styles (1859)
HENRY
MAYHEW & JOHN
BINNY: from The
Criminal Prisons of London (1862)
JOHN
MILTON: from Areopagitica
(1644)
WILLIAM
MORRIS: from The
Earthly Paradise (1868–70)
SIR
RICHARD PHILLIPS:
‘The Road to Putney’
(1817)
EDGAR
ALLAN POE: ‘The
Man of the Crowd’ (1840)
TOMAS
PRYS OF PLASIOLYN:
‘Kowydd i ddangos mae uffern
yw Llvndain’/‘London is Hell’ <restricted
to Cardiff users only>
JEAN-JACQUES
ROUSSEAU: from his Confessions
(1781–88)
RICHARD
RUSH: from A
Residence at the Court of London (1833)
JOHN
RUSKIN: from ‘Fiction,
Fair and Foul’ (1880–81)
SEVENTH
EARL OF SHAFTESBURY:
entry in his journal (1883)
PERCY
BYSSHE SHELLEY:
from Peter Bell the Third
(1819–39)
PERCY
BYSSHE SHELLEY:
‘Letter to Maria Gisborne’
(1820)
ALEXANDER
SMITH: ‘Glasgow’
TOBIAS
SMOLLETT: from The
Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771)
ROBERT
LOUIS STEVENSON:
from ‘The Man with Cream
Tarts’ (1882)
WILLIAM
THOMAS THOMAS: ‘The
Chelsea Steamers!’
JAMES
THOMSON (‘B.V.’): The
City of Dreadful Night (1870–74) <full
text>
ANTHONY
TROLLOPE: from South
Africa (1878)
JOHN
TYNDALL: from ‘Atoms,
Molecules and Ether Waves’ (1882)
WILLIAM
WORDSWORTH: ‘The
Reverie of Poor Susan’ (1797)
WILLIAM
WORDSWORTH: The
Prelude, Book VII
(1805–50) <restricted to Cardiff
users only>
