2121 BRITISH LITERATURE I
LINKS/SUPPLEMENTAL COURSE INFORMATION
These websites below offer helpful information for unit study guides
and for supplemental research for class presentations, class documented essays, and research papers.
To see a listing of all of
the selections in the class text, The
Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. I, which is used for this
course, scroll to the end of the list.
The class syllabus has selected literature from the text. However, for students who are searching for a research project topic, this is not a conclusive list of the topics you may select. You must get approval of a topic from your professor after submitting a proposal and working bibliography for that project. Your research project can be either an oral presentation or a research paper.
WEB COMPANION TO OUR TEXTBOOK: THE ANTHOLOGY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE (WW NORTON, PUBLISHING CO.)
http://www.wwnorton.com/nael/
500 B. C.- 1000 A.D. ANGLO-SAXON
LITERATURE
CELTIC
HERITAGE/LANDMARKS/STONHENGE
www.ibiblio.org/gaelic/celts.html
www.rook.org/heritage/celt/celt.html
www.witcombe.sbc.edu/earthmysteries/EMStonehenge.html
www.christiann.com/
www.stonehenge.co.uk/
www.activemind.com/Mysterious/Topics/Stonehenge/
www.exn.ca/mysticplaces/stonehenge.asp
www.sacredsites.com/europe/englands/stonehenge.html
CELTIC RELIGION/MYTHOLOGY
ANGLO-SAXON/SCANDINAVIAN HERITAGE LANDMARKS/HERITAGE--SUTTON HOO –VIKING BURIAL SHIP
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/places/suttonhoo/
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csis.pace.edu/grendel/projs4a/sutton.htm |
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www.wuffings.co.uk/MySHPages/SHPage.html |
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www.britainexpress.com/History/sutton-hoo.htm |
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www.archaeology.co.uk/ca/ timeline/saxon/suttonhoo/suttonhoo.htm |
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tsa.ucsf.edu/~snlrc/britannia/suttonhoo/suttonhoo.html |
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Beowulf: Scyld Scefing and Sutton Hoo
www.fortunecity.com/victorian/eliot/722/Sutthoo.htm
OLD ENGLISH: BEOWULF , THE BEOWULF POET, & “CAEDMON’S HYMN” IN VENERABLE BEDE’S: ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH PEOPLE:
CAEDMON’S HYMN IN OLD ENGLISH and translated (2nd url below):
http://www.ling.upenn.edu/courses/hum100/caedmon.html
www.rado.sk/old_english/texts/Hymn.html
www.heorot.dk/bede-caedmon.html
www.cla.calpoly.edu/~dschwart/engl512/bede.htm
www.shelterbelt.com/BRITISH/caedmon.html
BEOWULF SITES—VERY HELPFUL:
http://www.lnstar.com/literature/beowulf/
(notes and study questions—scroll down)
www.cla.calpoly.edu/~dschwart/engl512/bede.html
BEOWULF IN OLD ENGLISH
http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/library/oe/texts/a4.1.html
OLD ENGLISH LITERATURE TEXTS SITE:
http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/library/oe/oe.html
http://www.georgetown.edu/cball/hwaet/hwaet06.html
http://www.kami.demon.co.uk/gesithas/readings/readings.html
12, 13, AND 14TH CENTURIES: MEDIEVAL LITERATURE
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MEDEVAL DRAMA (LITURGICAL) MIRACLE, MYSTERY, MORALITY PLAYS |
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www.montreat.edu/dking/MiddleEnglishLit/NotesonMedievalDrama.htm |
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Shepherd's
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www.glc.k12.ga.us/BuilderV03/LPTools/LPShared/lpdisplay.asp?LPID=15914 |
Second Shepherds' Play study questions
MIDDLE AGES, MIDDLE ENGLISH AND THE
BACKGROUND ON THE MIDDLE
AGES:
http://www.learner.org/exhibits/middleages/feudal.html
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TRANSLATIONS
OF TALES FROM MIDDLE ENGLISH TO MODERN ENGLISH: |
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www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/canterbury/
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SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT, THE PEARL POET
http://www.ramsdale.org/legend.htm
http://www.mala.bc.ca/~black/gawain.asc
http://www.legends.dm.net/kingarthur/
THE ARTHURIAN LEGEND--OVERVIEW
http://www.legends.dm.net/kingarthur/
http://academics.vmi.edu/english/arthur.html
Music and the Arthurian legend:
http://www.uidaho.edu/student_orgs/arthurian_legend/game/music/arthur.htm
http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/acpbibs/genbib.htm
Women and the Arthurian legend:
http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/wmnshome.htm
THE
http://www.livinghistory.co.uk/homepages/sirgawain/
INTRODUCTION TO AND NOTES ON SIR GAWAIN
AND THE GREEN KNIGHT:
http://www.mala.bc.ca/~black/gawain.asc
http://www.livinghistory.co.uk/homepages/sirgawain/
SUMMARY OF SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT
http://www.livinghistory.co.uk/homepages/sirgawain/
INFO ON THE CHARACTERS AND ESSAYS ABOUT SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT & GAWAIN'S CHARACTER
http://www174.pair.com/mja/Gawain.htm
LINKS TO REFERENCES ON THE
POEM—SEE
FIRST TABLE IN THE SITE BELOW ARE THE
IMPORTANT ONES FOR OUR CLASS:
http://www.wol.pace.edu/grendel/proj2b/main.html
ESSAY ON THE FORBIDDEN FRUIT,
TEMPTATION, AND GAWAIN
http://members.tripod.com/~proclus/essay.html
ESSAY RE: SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT
http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/teams/greenint.htm
ROLE OF WOMEN-- IN SIR GAWAIN
AND THE
GREEN KNIGHT-
http://www.shss.montclair.edu/english/furr/arkin.html
THE HUNT--SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT
http://www.livinghistory.co.uk/homepages/sirgawain/
http://www.livinghistory.co.uk/homepages/sirgawain/
THE
http://www.livinghistory.co.uk/homepages/sirgawain/
THE QUESTIONING OF GAWAIN'S MASCULINITY IN SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT
http://www.livinghistory.co.uk/homepages/sirgawain/
MORTE D’ARTHUR , MALLORY
Sir Thomas Mallory and Morte D’ Arthur
http://www.luminarium.org/medlit/malory.htm
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/Mal1Mor.html
15TH AND 16TH CENTURIES: THE RENAISSANCE
SHAKESPEAREAN AND JACOBEAN DRAMA
GLOBE THEATER (SHAKESPEAREAN THEATER)
http://virtual.clemson.edu/caah/Shakespr/VRGLOBE/
http://www.calvin.edu/academic/engl/346/proj/nathan/globe.htm
http://www.globesw.org/Main.htm
http://www.allshakespeare.com/globe/47517
HAMLET
http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Globe_Theater.html
http://www.pathguy.com/hamlet.htm
http://www.hamlet.org/
http://www.humboldt.k12.ca.us/bridgeville_sd/info/swp/hamlet/
http://nd.essortment.com/shakespearehaml_rmoi.htm
http://www.legends.dm.net/shakespeare/hamlet.html
http://www.netcomuk.co.uk/~iandel/index.html
http://mason.gmu.edu/~nfarrell/web2.html
http://www.absoluteshakespeare.com/guides/hamlet/hamlet.htm
http://www.allshakespeare.com/hamlet.php
http://nd.essortment.com/shakespearehaml_rmoi.htm
http://www.shakespearetavern.com/
http://www.shakespeares-globe.org/
CHRISTOPHER
MARLOWE’S FAUSTUS
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www.h05.cgpublisher.com/proposals/24/manage_workspace
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KING LEAR
OVERVIEWS/NOTES --THEME, CHARACTERS, PLOT http://www.pathguy.com/kinglear.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/bookcase/lear/info.shtml
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www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/lear/ www.netexplosure.com/kinglear/ |
www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/kinglear/
home.pacific.net.au/~greg.hub/lear.html
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THE FOLLOWING LECTURES ARE EXCERPTED FROM A BOOK ENTITLED SHAKESPEAREAN TRAGEDY BY A. C. BRADLEY (SEE ABOVE FOR INFO. ABOUT THIS FAMOUS PROFESSOR, CRITIC, AND AUTHOR): http://www.clicknotes.com/bradley/tr243.html http://www.clicknotes.com/bradley/tr280.html http://www.clicknotes.com/bradley/tr40.html TEXTS/INTERPRETATIONS—KING
LEAR http://rryavisbrown.homestead.com/files/Lear/lear_home.htm www-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/lear/ |
17TH & 18TH CENTURIES: MONARCHY VS THE COMMONWEALTH
METAPHYSICAL POETRY
JOHN DONNE’S POETRY:
Sonnet 14
http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/sevenessay.htm#donne
“The Flea”
http://www.chalacyn.com/%7Etalyce/text/flea.html
Donne’s love poetry:
http://www.lexcie.zetnet.co.uk/fudge/donne.htm
http://www.english-literature.org/essays/donne.html
GEORGE HERBERT’S POETRY: http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/sevenessay.htm#herbert
CAVALIER POETRY
RICHARD LOVELACE’S POETRY:
http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/sevenessay.htm#lovelace
ANDREW MARVELL’S POETRY:
http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/sevenessay.htm#marvell
ROBERT HERRICK’S POETRY:
www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/herrick/
www.bartleby.com/217.0105.html
www.poemhunter.com/robert-herrick/poet-3115/
THE PURITAN LITERARY OR ART EPIC
JOHN MILTON’S
http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/sevenessay.htm#milton
http://www.sparknotes.com/poetry/paradiselost/
http://zenvirus.com/essays/milton-satan-essay.html
http://tom.digitalelite.com/miltonssatan.htm
http://stjohns-chs.org/english/gothic/works/satanhero.html
*CONTENTS OF The Norton Anthology of English Literature, TEXT FOR British Literature I, ENGLISH 2111
THE MIDDLE AGES (TO CA. 1485)
Introduction
*Timeline
ANGLO-SAXON
BEDE (ca. 673–735) and CĆDMON’S HYMN
An Ecclesiastical History of the English People
[The Story of Cćdmon]
THE DREAM OF THE ROOD
+ *BEOWULF translated by Seamus Heaney
The Last Survivor’s Speech in Old English with Verse Translation
THE WANDERER
*THE WIFE’S LAMENT
THE
ANGLO-NORMAN
*THE ANGLO-SAXON CHRONICLE
*[Obituary for William the Conqueror]
*[Henry
of Poitou becomes abbot of
*[The reign of King Stephen]
*LEGENDARY
HISTORIES OF
*GEOFFREY OF MONMOUTH
*The
History of the Kings of
*[The Story of Brutus and Diana’s Prophecy]
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*WACE (ca. 1110–1180)
*Le Roman de Brut
*[The Roman Challenge]
*LAYAMON
*Brut
*[Arthur’s Dream]
*THE MYTH OF ARTHUR’S RETURN
*Geoffrey
of Monmouth: From History of the Kings of
*Wace: From Roman de Brut
*Layamon: From Brut
*MARIE
DE
*Lanval
*Fables
*The Wolf and the Lamb
*The Wolf and the Sow
*CELTIC CONTEXTS
*Exile of the Sons of Uisliu
*Lludd and Lleuelys
*ANCRENE RIWLE (Rule for Anchoresses)
*[The Parable of the Christ- Knight]
MIDDLE ENGLISH LITERATURE IN THE FOURTEENTH
AND FIFTEENTH CENTURIES
+ SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT (ca. 1375–1400)
GEOFFREY CHAUCER (ca. 1343–1400)
THE
The General Prologue
The Miller’s Prologue and Tale
The Prologue
The Tale
*Man of Law’s Epilogue
The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale
The Prologue
The Tale
The Pardoner’s Prologue and Tale
The Introduction
The Prologue
The Tale
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The Epilogue
The Nun’s Priest’s Tale
The Parson’s Tale
The Introduction
Chaucer’s Retraction
LYRICS AND OCCASIONAL VERSE
*Troilus’s Song
Truth
To His Scribe Adam Complaint to His Purse
WILLIAM LANGLAND (ca. 1330–1387)
The Vision of Piers Plowman
The Prologue
[The Field of Folk]
Passus 5
[The Confession of Envy]
[The Confession of Gluttony]
[Piers Plowman Shows the Way to Saint Truth]
Passus 6
[The
Plowing of Piers’s Half-
Passus 18
[The Harrowing of Hell]
The C-Text
[The Dreamer Meets Conscience and Reason]
MIDDLE ENGLISH LYRICS
The Cuckoo Song
Alison
My Lief Is Faren in Londe
Western Wind
I
Am of
*What is He, this lordling, that cometh from the fight
*Ye That Pasen by the Weye
Sunset
on
I Sing of a Maiden
Adam Lay Bound
The Corpus Christi Carol
JULIAN
OF
A
Book of Showings to the Anchoress Julian of
[The First Revelation]
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
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Chapter 5
*From Chapter 7
*Chapter 27
[Jesus as Mother]
*From Chapter 58
*From Chapter 59
*Chapter 60
*Chapter 61
[Conclusion]
Chapter 86
MARGERY KEMPE (ca. 1373–1438)
The Book of Margery Kempe
[The Birth of Her First Child and Her First Vision]
[Her Pride and Attempts to Start a Business]
[Margery and Her Husband Reach a Settlement]
[A
Visit with Julian of
[Pilgrimage
to
[Examination before the Archbishop]
*[Margery Nurses Her Husband in His Old Age]
MYSTERY PLAYS
+
The
+
The
SIR THOMAS MALORY (ca. 1405–1471)
Morte Darthur
[The Conspiracy against Lancelot and Guinevere]
[War Breaks Out between Arthur and Lancelot]
[The Death of Arthur]
[The Deaths of Lancelot and Guinevere]
*ROBERT HENRYSON (ca. 1425–ca. 1500)
*The Cock and the Fox
+ EVERYMAN (after 1485)
THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY (1485–1603)
Introduction
*Timeline
JOHN SKELTON (ca. 1460–1529)
Mannerly Margery Milk and Ale
Lullay, lullay, like a child
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*The Tunning of Elinour Rumming
*Secundus Passus
SIR THOMAS MORE (1478–1535)
Utopia
Book 1
[More Meets a Returned Traveler]
Book 2
[The Geography of Utopia]
[Their Gold and Silver]
[Marriage Customs]
[Religions]
[Conclusion]
The History of King Richard III
[A King’s Mistress]
SIR THOMAS WYATT THE ELDER (1503–1542)
The long love that in my thought doth harbor
Whoso list to hunt
Farewell, Love
My galley
Divers doth use
Madam, withouten many words
They flee from me
The Lover Showeth How He Is Forsaken of Such as He Sometime Enjoyed
My lute, awake!
And wilt thou leave me thus?
Forget not yet
Blame not my lute
*Stand whoso list
Who list his wealth and ease retain
Mine own John Poins
*LITERATURE OF THE SACRED
*THE ENGLISH BIBLE
*From Tyndale’s Translation
*From
The
*From The Douay-Rheims Version
*From The Authorized (King James) Version
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*WILLIAM TYNDALE: The Obedience of a Christian Man
*[The Forgiveness of Sins]
*[Scriptural Interpretation]
*JOHN CALVIN: The Institution of Christian Religion
*From Book 3, Chapter 21
*ANNE ASKEW: The First Examination of Anne Askew
*JOHN FOXE: Acts and Monuments
*[The Death of Anne Askew]
*The Words and Behavior of the Lady Jane [Grey] upon the Scaffold
*BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER From The Form of Solemnization of Matrimony
*BOOK OF HOMILIES: From An Homily Against Disobedience and Willful
Rebellion
RICHARD HOOKER: Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity
Book 1, Chapter 3
[On the Several Kinds of Law, and on the Natural Law]
Book 1, Chapter 10
[The Foundations of Society]
ROGER ASCHAM (1515–1568)
*Toxophilus
*The
Second Book of the
[Comeliness]
The Schoolmaster
The First Book for the Youth
[Teaching Latin]
[A Talk with Lady Jane Grey]
[The Italianate Englishman]
HENRY
HOWARD, EARL OF
The soote season
Love, that doth reign and live within my thought
Alas! so all things now do hold their peace
Th’Assyrians’ king, in peace with foul desire
So cruel prison how could betide
Wyatt resteth here, that quick could never rest
O happy dames, that may embrace
Martial, the things that do attain
*The Fourth Book of Virgil
*[The Jilted Queen]
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SIR THOMAS HOBY (1530–1566)
Castiglione’s The Courtier
Book 1
[Grace]
Book 4
[The Ladder of Love]
QUEEN ELIZABETH (1533–1603)
The doubt of future foes
On Monsieur’s Departure
*Letters
*To Sir Amyas Paulet
*To
Henry III, king of
Speech to the Troops at Tilbury
*The “Golden Speech’’
ARTHUR GOLDING (1536–1605)
Ovid’s Metamorphoses
[The Golden Age]
GEORGE GASCOIGNE (1539–1578)
*Woodmanship
*ISABELLA WHITNEY (fl. 1567–1573)
*Will and Testament
EDMUND SPENSER (1552–1599)
The Shepheardes Calender
To His Booke
October
The Faerie Queene
A Letter of the Authors
Book 1
Book 2
Canto 12
[The Bower of Bliss]
Book 3
Proem
Canto 1
Canto 2
Canto 3
[The Visit to Merlin]
[Canto 4. Summary]
Canto 5
[Belphoebe and Timias]
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Canto 6
[Cantos 7 and 8. Summary]
[Cantos 9 and 10. Summary]
Canto 11
Canto 12
Amoretti
Sonnet 1 (“Happy ye leaves when as those lilly hands’’)
Sonnet 34 (“Lyke as a ship that through the Ocean wyde’’)
Sonnet 37 (“What guyle is this, that those her golden tresses’’)
Sonnet 54 (“Of this worlds Theatre in which we stay’’)
Sonnet 64 (“Comming to kisse her lyps [such grace I found]’’)
Sonnet 65 (“The doubt which ye misdeeme, fayre love, is vaine’’)
Sonnet 67 (“Lyke as a huntsman after weary chace’’)
Sonnet 68 (“Most glorious Lord of lyfe, that on this day’’)
Sonnet 74 (“Most happy letters fram’d by skilfull trade’’)
Sonnet 75 (“One day I wrote her name upon the strand’’)
Sonnet 79 (“Men call you fayre, and you doe credit it’’)
Epithalamion
SIR WALTER RALEGH (1552–1618)
The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
What is our life?
[Sir Walter Ralegh to His Son]
The Lie
Farewell, false love
Methought I saw the grave where Laura lay
Nature, that washed her hands in milk
The Author’s Epitaph, Made by Himself
*From
The discovery of the large, rich, and beautiful Empire of
*The History of the World
[Conclusion: On Death]
*THE WIDER WORLD
*FROBISHER’S
VOYAGES TO THE
*From A true discourse of the late voyages of discovery
*DRAKE’S CIRCUMNAVIGATION OF THE GLOBE, 1577–80
*From
The famous voyage of Sir Francis Drake into the
*AMADAS
AND BARLOWE’S VOYAGE TO
*From
The first voyage made to
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*HARIOT’S
REPORT ON
*From
A brief and true report of the new-found
JOHN LYLY (1554–1606)
Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit
[Euphues Introduced]
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY (1554–1586)
*The
Countess of Pembroke’s
*Book 2, Chapter 1
Astrophil and Stella
1 (“Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show’’)
2 (“Not at first sight, nor with a dribbčd shot’’)
5 (“It is most true that eyes are formed to serve’’)
6 (“Some lovers speak, when they their muses entertain’’)
7 (“When Nature made her chief work, Stella’s eyes’’)
9 (“Queen Virtue’s court, which some call Stella’s face’’)
10 (“Reason, in faith thou art well served, that still’’)
15 (“You that do search for every purling spring’’)
16 (“In nature apt to like when I did see’’)
18 (“With what sharp checks I in myself am shent’’)
*20 (“Fly, fly, my friends, I have my death-wound, fly’’)
21 (“Your words, my friend [right healthful caustics], blame’’)
*28 (“You that with allegory’s curious frame’’)
31 (“With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb’st the skies’’)
37 (“My mouth doth water, and my breast doth swell’’)
39 (“Come sleep! O sleep the certain knot of peace’’)
41 (“Having this day my horse, my hand, my lance’’)
45 (“Stella oft sees the very face of woe’’)
47 (“What, have I thus betrayed my liberty?’’)
49 (“I on my horse, and Love on me doth try’’)
52 (“A strife is grown between Virtue and Love’’)
53 (“In martial sports I had my cunning tried’’)
56
(“Fie,
61 (“Oft with true sighs, oft with uncallčd tears’’)
69 (“O joy, too high for my low style to show’’)
71 (“Who will in fairest book of Nature know’’)
72 (“Desire, though thou my old companion art’’)
74 (“I never drank of Aganippe well’’)
81 (“O kiss, which dost those ruddy gems impart’’)
Fourth Song (“Only joy, now here you are’’)
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87 (“When I was forced from Stella ever dear’’)
89 (“Now that of absence the most irksome night’’)
91 (“Stella, while now by Honor’s cruel might’’)
Eleventh Song (“‘Who is it that this dark night’’)
108 (“When Sorrow [using mine own fire’s might]’’)
The nightingale
Thou blind man’s mark
Leave me, O Love
The Defense of Poesy
[The Lessons of Horsemanship]
[The Poet, Poetry]
[Three Kinds of Poets]
[Poetry, Philosophy, History]
[The Poetic Kinds]
[Answers to Charges against Poetry]
[Poetry
in
[Conclusion]
FULKE GREVILLE, LORD BROOKE (1554–1628)
*Caelica
100 (“In night when colors all to black are cast’’)
Chorus Sacerdotum
ROBERT SOUTHWELL (1561–1595)
The Burning Babe
*MARY
(
*To the Angel Spirit of the Most Excellent Sir Philip Sidney
*Psalm 52
*Psalm 139
SAMUEL DANIEL (1562–1619)
Delia
33 (“When men shall find thy flower, thy glory pass’’)
45 (“Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night’’)
46 (“Let others sing of knights and paladins’’)
*Musophilus
*[Imperial Eloquence]
MICHAEL DRAYTON (1563–1631)
Idea
To the Reader of These Sonnets
6 (“How many paltry, foolish, painted things’’)
61 (“Since there’s no help, come, let us kiss and part’’)
Ode. To the Virginian Voyage
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CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE (1564–1593)
+ Hero and Leander
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
+ Doctor Faustus
The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
*The Two Texts of Doctor Faustus
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564–1616)
SONNETS
1 (“From fairest creatures we desire increase’’)
3 (“Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest’’)
12 (“When I do count the clock that tells the time’’)
15 (“When I consider every thing that grows’’)
18 (“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?’’)
19 (“Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion’s paws’’)
20 (“A woman’s face with Nature’s own hand painted’’)
29 (“When, in disgrace with Fortune and men’s eyes’’)
30 (“When to the sessions of sweet silent thought’’)
*33 (“Full many a glorious morning have I seen’’)
35 (“No more be grieved at that which thou hast done’’)
55 (“Not marble, nor the gilded monuments’’)
60 (“Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore’’)
65 (“Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea’’)
71 (“No longer mourn for me when I am dead’’)
73 (“That time of year thou mayst in me behold’’)
74 (“But be contented; when that fell arrest’’)
87 (“Farewell: thou art too dear for my possessing’’)
94 (“They that have power to hurt and will do none’’)
97 (“How like a winter hath my absence been’’)
98 (“From you have I been absent in the spring’’)
106 (“When in the chronicle of wasted time’’)
107 (“Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul’’)
110 (“Alas, ’tis true I have gone here and there’’)
116 (“Let me not to the marriage of true minds’’)
126 (“O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power’’)
127 (“In the old age black was not counted fair’’)
128 (“How oft when thou, my music, music play’st’’)
129 (“Th’ expense of spirit in a waste of shame’’)
130 (“My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun’’)
135 (“Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy Will’’)
138 (“When my love swears that she is made of truth’’)
144 (“Two loves I have of com fort and despair’’)
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146 (“Poor soul, the center of my sinful earth’’)
147 (“My love is as a fever, longing still’’)
+ *Twelfth Night, or What You Will
+ King Lear
*The Two Texts of King Lear
THOMAS CAMPION (1567–1620)
My sweetest Lesbia
I care not for these ladies
When to her lute Corinna sings
Rose-cheeked Laura
There is a garden in her face
Think’st thou to seduce me then
Fain would I wed
*Now winter nights enlarge
THOMAS NASHE (1567–1601)
A Litany in Time of Plague
Pierce Penniless, His Supplication to the Devil
[The Defense of Plays]
*The Unfortunate Traveler, or The Life of Jack Wilton
*[Roman Summer]
THE EARLY SEVENTEENTH CENTURY (1603–1660)
Introduction
*Timeline
JOHN DONNE (1572–1631)
The Flea
The Good-Morrow
Song (“Go and catch a falling star”)
The Undertaking
The Sun Rising
The Indifferent
The Canonization
*Song (“Sweetest love, I do not go”)
Air and Angels
Break of Day
A Valediction: Of Weeping
Love’s Alchemy
A Nocturnal upon Saint Lucy’s Day, Being the Shortest Day
The Bait
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The Apparition
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
The Ecstasy
The Funeral
The Blossom
The Relic
A Lecture upon the Shadow
Elegy 16. On His Mistress
Elegy 19. To His Mistress Going to Bed
+ Satire 3
The Storm
An Anatomy of the World
From The First Anniversary
HOLY SONNETS
1 (“Thou hast made me, and shall thy work decay?”)
5 (“I am a little world made cunningly”)
7 (“At the round earth’s imagined corners, blow”)
9 (“If poisonous minerals, and if that tree”)
10 (“Death, be not proud, though some have callčd thee”)
13 (“What if this present were the world’s last night?”)
14 (“Batter my heart, three-personed God; for you”)
17 (“Since she whom I loved hath paid her last debt”)
18 (“Show me, dear Christ, thy spouse so bright and clear”)
*19 (“Oh, to vex me, contraries meet in one”)
*Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward
A Hymn to Christ, at the Author’s Last Going into Germany
Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness
A Hymn to God the Father
Devotions upon Emergent Occasions
Meditation 4
Meditation 17
From Expostulation 19 [The Language of God]
*From Death’s Duel
AEMILIA LANYER (1569–1645)
Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum
*To the Doubtful Reader
*To the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty
*To the Virtuous Reader
Eve’s Apology in Defense of Women
+ The Description of Cooke-ham
xiv
BEN JONSON (1572–1637)
+ *The Masque of Blackness
+ Volpone, or The Fox
To My Book
On Something, That Walks Somewhere
To William Camden
On My First Daughter
To John Donne
On Don Surly
On Giles and Joan
On My First Son
*On
Lucy, Countess of
Donne’s Satires
Inviting a Friend to Supper
Epitaph on S. P., a Child of Queen Elizabeth’s Chapel
To Penshurst
Song: To Celia
To Heaven
From A Celebration of Charis in Ten Lyric Pieces
*A Sonnet to the Noble Lady, the Lady Mary Wroth
My
Picture Left in
+ To the Immortal Memory and Friendship of That Noble Pair, Sir Lucius Cary
and Sir H. Morison
Slow, Slow, Fresh Fount
Queen and Huntress
Still to Be Neat
To the Memory of My Beloved, The Author, Mr. William Shakespeare, and
What He Hath Left Us
Ode to Himself
From Timber: or Discoveries
MARY WROTH (1587?–1651?)
The Countess of Montgomery’s Urania
From The First Book
PAMPHILIA TO AMPHILANTHUS
1 (“When night’s black mantle could most darkness prove”)
16 (“Am I thus conquered? Have I lost the powers”)
28 Song (“Sweetest love, return again”)
*39 (“Take heed mine eyes, how you your looks do cast”)
40 (“False hope which feeds but to destroy, and spill”)
68 (“My pain, still smothered in my grievčd breast”)
74 Song (“Love a child is ever crying”)
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From A Crown of Sonnets Dedicated to Love
77 (“In this strange labyrinth how shall I turn?”)
*103 (“My muse now happy, lay thyself to rest”)
JOHN WEBSTER (1580?–1625?)
+ The Duchess of Malfi
*ELIZABETH CARY (1585?–1639)
*The Tragedy of Mariam, the Fair Queen of Jewry
*THE SCIENCE OF SELF AND WORLD
FRANCIS BACON (1561–1626)
Of Truth
Of Marriage and Single Life
Of
Of Superstition
Of Plantations
Of Negotiating
*Of Masques and Triumphs
Of Studies [1597 version]
Of Studies [1625 version]
The Advancement of Learning
[The Abuses of Language]
Novum Organum
[The Idols]
The New Atlantis
[Solomon’s House]
*MARTHA MOULSWORTH (1577–16??)
*The Memorandum of Martha Moulsworth, Widow
xvi
*RACHEL SPEGHT (ca. 1597–16??)
*From A Dream
ROBERT BURTON (1577–1640)
The Anatomy of Melancholy
*Democritus Junior to the Reader
Love Melancholy
SIR THOMAS BROWNE (1605–1682)
Religio Medici
Part 1, Sections 1–6, 9, 15, 16, 34, 59
*Part 2, Section 1
Hydriotaphia, or Urn-Burial
From Chapter 5
IZAAK WALTON (1593–1683)
The Life of Dr. John Donne
[Donne on His Deathbed]
THOMAS HOBBES (1588–1679)
Leviathan
The Introduction
[The Artificial Man]
Part 1
Chapter 1. Of Sense
From Chapter 13. Of the Natural Condition of Mankind as Concerning
Their Felicity and Misery
From Chapter 14. Of the First and Second Natural Laws
From Chapter 15. Of Other Laws of Nature
GEORGE HERBERT (1593–1633)
The Altar
Redemption
Easter
Easter Wings
Affliction (1)
Prayer (1)
Church Monuments
The Windows
Denial
Virtue
Man
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Time
The Bunch of Grapes
The Pilgrimage
*The Holdfast
The Collar
The Pulley
The Flower
The Forerunners
Discipline
Death
Love (3)
HENRY VAUGHAN (1621–1695)
*A Song to Amoret
Regeneration
The Retreat
Silence, and Stealth of Days!
Corruption
Unprofitableness
The World
They Are All Gone into the World of Light!
Cock-Crowing
The Night
The Waterfall
RICHARD CRASHAW (ca. 1613–1649)
*Music’s Duel
To the Infant Martyrs
I Am the Door
On the Wounds of Our Crucified Lord
Luke 11.[27]
In the Holy Nativity of Our Lord God: A Hymn Sung as by the Shepherds
To the Noblest & Best of Ladies, the Countess of Denbigh
The Flaming Heart
ROBERT HERRICK (1591–1674)
The Argument of His Book
Upon the Loss of His Mistresses
The Vine
Dreams
Delight in Disorder
His Farewell to Sack
Corinna’s Going A-Maying
xviii
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
The Hock-Cart, or Harvest Home
*How Roses Came Red
Upon the Nipples of Julia’s Breast
Upon Jack and Jill. Epigram
To Marygolds
His Prayer to Ben Jonson
The Bad Season Makes the Poet Sad
The Night-Piece, to Julia
Upon His Verses
His
Return to
Upon Julia’s Clothes
Upon Prue, His Maid
To His Book’s End
To His Conscience
Another Grace for a Child
THOMAS CAREW (1595–1640)
An Elegy upon the Death of the Dean of Paul’s, Dr. John Donne
To Ben Jonson
A Song (“Ask me no more where Jove bestows”)
A Rapture
SIR JOHN SUCKLING (1609–1642)
Song (“Why so pale and wan, fond lover?”)
Loving and Beloved
*A Ballad upon a Wedding
Out upon It!
RICHARD LOVELACE (1618–1657)
To Lucasta, Going to the Wars
The Grasshopper
To Althea, from Prison
Love Made in the First Age. To Chloris
EDMUND WALLER (1606–1687)
The Story of Phoebus and Daphne Applied
Song (“Go, lovely rose!”)
ABRAHAM COWLEY (1618–1667)
Ode: Of Wit
KATHERINE PHILIPS (1632–1664)
A
Upon the Double Murder of King Charles
Friendship’s Mystery, To My Dearest Lucasia
xix
To Mrs. M. A. at Parting
On the Death of My First and Dearest Child, Hector Philips
ANDREW MARVELL (1621–1678)
The Coronet
Bermudas
A Dialogue Between the Soul and Body
The Nymph Complaining for the Death of Her Fawn
To His Coy Mistress
The Definition of Love
The Picture of Little T. C. in a Prospect of Flowers
The Mower Against Gardens
Damon the Mower
The Mower to the Glowworms
The Mower’s Song
The Garden
An Horatian Ode
*Upon
VOICES OF THE WAR
LUCY HUTCHINSON (1620–after 1675)
Memoirs of Colonel Hutchinson
[A Confrontation]
LADY ANNE HALKETT (1622–1699)
The Memoirs
[Springing the Duke]
JOHN LILBURNE (1615?–1657)
The Picture of the Council of State
[Lilburne Defies the Authorities]
GERRARD WINSTANLEY (1609–1676?)
From The True Levellers’ Standard Advanced
*ANNA TRAPNEL (1620?–1660?)
*Anna
Trapnel’s Report and Plea, or, a Narrative of Her
Journey from
into
ABIEZER COPPE (1619–1672)
From A Fiery Flying Roll
EDWARD HYDE, EARL OF CLARENDON (1609–1674)
The History of the Rebellion
[The Character of Oliver Cromwell]
xx
THOMAS TRAHERNE (1637–1674)
Centuries of Meditation
From The Third Century
Wonder
On Leaping over the Moon
MARGARET CAVENDISH (1623–1673)
*The Poetess’s Hasty Resolution
*The Hunting of the Hare
*From A True Relation of My Birth, Breeding, and Life
*From
The Description of a
JOHN MILTON (1608–1674)
On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity
On Shakespeare
L’Allegro
Il Penseroso
+ Lycidas
The Reason of Church Government Urged Against Prelaty
[Plans and Projects]
From Areopagitica
SONNETS
How Soon Hath Time
On the New Forcers of Conscience Under the Long Parliament
To the Lord General Cromwell, May 1652
When I Consider How My Light Is Spent
On
the Late Massacre in
Methought I Saw My Late Espousčd Saint
+
THE RESTORATION AND THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY (1660–1785)
Introduction
*Timeline
JOHN DRYDEN (1631–1700)
Annus Mirabilis
[
Song from Marriage ŕ la Mode
+ Absalom and Achitophel: A Poem
+ Mac Flecknoe
To the Memory of Mr. Oldham
xxi
A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day
Epigram
on
Alexander’s Feast
CRITICISM
An Essay of Dramatic Poesy
[Two Sorts of Bad Poetry]
[The Wit of the Ancients: The Universal]
[Shakespeare and Ben Jonson Compared]
The Author’s Apology for Heroic Poetry and Heroic License
[“Boldness” of Figures and Tropes Defended: The Appeal to “Nature”]
[Wit as “Propriety”]
A Discourse Concerning the Original and Progress of Satire
[The Art of Satire]
The Preface to Fables Ancient and Modern
[In Praise of Chaucer]
SAMUEL PEPYS (1633–1703)
The Diary
[The Great Fire]
*[The Deb Willet Affair]
JOHN BUNYAN (1628–1688)
From Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
The Pilgrim’s Progress
[Christian
Sets out for the
[The
[Vanity Fair]
[The
JOHN LOCKE (1632–1704)
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
From The Epistle to the Reader
SIR ISAAC NEWTON (1642–1727)
From A Letter of Mr. Isaac Newton
SAMUEL BUTLER (1612–1680)
Hudibras
From Part 1, Canto 1
JOHN
WILMOT, SECOND EARL OF
The Disabled Debauchee
*The Imperfect Enjoyment
APHRA BEHN (1640?–1689)
*The Disappointment
+ Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave
xxii
WILLIAM CONGREVE (1670–1729)
+ The Way of the World
MARY ASTELL (1666–1731)
From Some Reflections upon Marriage
DANIEL DEFOE (ca. 1660–1731)
Roxana
[The Cons of Marriage]
ANNE FINCH, COUNTESS OF WINCHILSEA (1661–1720)
The Introduction
A Nocturnal Reverie
MATTHEW PRIOR (1664–1721)
An Epitaph
A True Maid
A Better Answer
JONATHAN SWIFT (1667–1745)
A Description of a City Shower
Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift
From A Tale of a Tub
Abolishing
of Christianity in
Gulliver’s Travels
A Letter from Captain Gulliver to His Cousin Sympson
The Publisher to the Reader
Part 1. A Voyage to Lilliput
Part 2. A Voyage to Brobdingnag
Part 3. A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdrib, Luggnagg, and
Chapter
2 [The
Chapter
5 [The
Chapter 10 [The Struldbruggs]
Part 4. A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms
A Modest Proposal
JOSEPH ADDISON (1672–1719) and SIR RICHARD STEELE (1672–1729)
THE PERIODICAL ESSAY: MANNERS
Steele: [The Gentleman; The Pretty Fellow] (Tatler 21)
Steele: [Dueling] (Tatler 25)
Steele: [The Spectator’s Club] (Spectator 2)
THE PERIODICAL ESSAY: IDEAS
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Addison:
[
ALEXANDER POPE (1688–1744)
+ An Essay on Criticism
+ The Rape of the Lock
Epistle to Miss Blount
Eloisa to Abelard
An Essay on Man
Epistle 1. Of the Nature and State of
From Epistle
2. Of the Nature and State
of
as an Individual
+ Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
The Dunciad: Book the Fourth
[The Educator]
[The Carnation and the Butterfly]
[The Triumph of Dulness]
LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU (1689–1762)
\\The Lover: A Ballad
Epistle from Mrs. Yonge to Her Husband
*DEBATING WOMEN: ARGUMENTS IN VERSE
*JONATHAN SWIFT: The Lady’s Dressing Room
*LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU: The Reasons that Induced Dr. Swift to
Write a Poem Called the Lady’s Dressing Room
*ALEXANDER POPE: The Impromptu To Lady Winchelsea
*ANNE FINCH, COUNTESS OF WINCHILSEA: The Answer (To Pope’s
Impromptu)
*ALEXANDER POPE: Epistle 2. To a Lady
*ANNE INGRAM, VISCOUNTESS IRWIN: An Epistle to Mr. Pope
MARY LEAPOR: An Essay on Woman
*JOHN GAY (1685–1732)
+ *The Beggar’s Opera
*William Hogarth’s engraving for The Beggar’s Opera
*WILLIAM HOGARTH (1697–1764)
*Marriage A-la-Mode
xxiv
SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709–1784)
+ The Vanity of Human Wishes
Prologue Spoken by Mr. Garrick
On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet
Translation of Horace, Odes, Book 4.7
Rambler No. 5 [On Spring]
Idler No. 31 [On Idleness]
From The History of Rasselas, Prince of
Rambler No. 4 [On Fiction]
Rambler No. 60 [Biography]
A Dictionary of the English Language
From Preface
[Some Definitions: A Small Anthology]
The Preface to Shakespeare
[Shakespeare’s Excellence. General Nature]
[Shakespeare’s Faults. The Three Dramatic Unities]
*[Twelfth Night]
[King Lear]
LIVES OF THE POETS
Cowley
[Metaphysical Wit]
[Lycidas]
[L’Allegro, Il Penseroso]
[
Pope
[Pope’s Intellectual Character. Pope and Dryden Compared]
JAMES BOSWELL (1740–1795)
Boswell on the Grand Tour
[Boswell Interviews Voltaire]
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
[Plan of the Life]
[Johnson’s Early Years. Marriage and
[The
Letter to
[A Memorable Year: Boswell Meets Johnson]
[Goldsmith. Sundry Opinions. Johnson Meets His King]
[Fear of Death]
[Ossian. “Talking for Victory”]
[Dinner with Wilkes]
[Dread of Solitude]
[“A Bottom of Good Sense.” Bet
xxv
[Johnson Prepares for Death]
[Johnson Faces Death]
*FRANCES BURNEY (1752–1840)
*The Journal and Letters
*[The First Journal Entry]
*[Mr. Barlow’s Proposal]
*[“Down with her, Burney!”]
*[A Young and Agreeable Infidel]
*[Encountering the King]
*A Mastectomy
*SLAVERY AND FREEDOM
*IGNATIUS SANCHO and LAURENCE STERNE
*A Letter to Laurence Sterne (July 21, 1766)
*Sterne’s Reply to Sancho
*Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy (1767)
*Volume 9, Chapter 6
*IGNATIUS SANCHO: From Letter to Mr. Jack Wingrave
*SAMUEL JOHNSON: [A Brief to Free a Slave]
*OLAUDAH EQUIANO: The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah
Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself
*[The Middle Passage]
*[A Free Man]
JAMES THOMSON (1700–1748)
The Seasons
Autumn
[Evening and Night]
Ode: Rule, Britannia
THOMAS GRAY (1716–1771)
Ode
on a Distant Prospect of
Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat
+ Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
WILLIAM COLLINS (1721–1759)
Ode Written in the Beginning of the Year 1746
Ode on the Poetical Character
Ode to Evening
Ode on the Death of Mr. Thomson
xxvi
CHRISTOPHER SMART (1722–1771)
Jubilate Agno
[My Cat Jeoffry]
A Song to David
OLIVER GOLDSMITH (ca. 1730–1774)
+ The Deserted Village
GEORGE CRABBE (1754–1832)
The Village
Book 1
WILLIAM COWPER (1731–1800)
The Task
Book 1
[A Landscape Described. Rural Sounds]
[Crazy Kate]
Book 3
[The Stricken Deer]
Book 4
[The Winter Evening: A Brown Study]
The Castaway
POPULAR BALLADS
Lord Randall
Bonny Barbara Allan
The Wife of Usher’s Well
The Three Ravens
Sir Patrick Spens
The
Bonny Earl of
POEMS IN PROCESS
John Milton
Lycidas
Alexander Pope
The Rape of the Lock
An Essay on Man
Samuel Johnson
The Vanity of Human Wishes
Thomas Gray
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
xxvii
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHIES
Suggested General Readings
The Middle Ages
The Sixteenth Century
The Early Seventeenth Century
The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century
*GEOGRAPHIC NOMENCLATURE
BRITISH MONEY
THE BRITISH BARONAGE
The
Royal Lines of
RELIGIONS
IN
POETIC FORMS AND LITERARY TERMINOLOGY
ILLUSTRATIONS
The Universe According to Ptolemy
A London Playhouse of Shakespeare’s Time