Norton Anthology of English Literature Vol. 1 : The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century

, by ABRAMS M. H.

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Summary

Supplemental Materials

Collects novels, stories, poems, essays, plays, ballads, and sermons from British authors.

Permissions Acknowledgments

Preface to the Seventh Edition

xvii

Acknowledgments

xxvii

The Middle Ages (to ca. 1485)

(22)

Introduction

(20)

Anglo-Saxon England

(4)

Anglo-Norman England

(2)

Middle English Literature in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries

(5)

Medieval English

(5)

Old and Middle English Prosody

(2)

Timeline

(2)

ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND

(87)

BEDE (ca. 673-735) and CÆDMON'S HYMN

(3)

An Ecclesiastical History of the English People

(2)

[The Story of Cædmon]

(2)

The Dream of the Rood

(3)

Beowulf

(70)

Seamus Heaney

The Wanderer

(3)

The Wife's Lament

102

(1)

The Battle of Maldon

103

(7)

ANGLO-NORMAN ENGLAND

110

(46)

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

110

(5)

[Obituary for William the Conqueror]

110

(3)

[Henry of Poitou Becomes Abbot of Peterborough]

113

(1)

[The reign of King Stephen]

114

(1)

Legendary Histories of Britain

115

(1)

Geoffrey of Monmouth

115

(3)

The History of the Kings of Britain

116

(2)

[The Story of Brutus and Diana's Prophecy]

116

(2)

Wace

118

(4)

Le Roman de Brut

118

(4)

[The Roman Challenge]

118

(4)

Layamon

122

(2)

Brut

122

(2)

[Arthur's Dream]

122

(2)

The Myth of Arthur's Return

124

(2)

Geoffrey of Monmouth: From History of the Kings of Britain

125

(1)

Wace's: From Roman de Brut

125

(1)

Layamon: From Brut

125

(1)

Marie De France

126

(16)

Lanval

127

(13)

Fables

140

(1)

The Wolf and the Lamb

140

(1)

The Wolf and the Sow

141

(1)

Celtic Contexts

142

(1)

Exile of the Sons of Uisliu

142

(8)

Lludd and Lleuelys

150

(3)

Ancrene Riwle (Rule for Anchoresses)

153

(3)

[The Parable of the Christ-Knight]

154

(2)

MIDDLE ENGLISH LITERATURE IN THE FOURTEENTH AND FIFTEENTH CENTURIES

156

(313)

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (ca. 1375-1400)

156

(54)

Geoffrey Chaucer (ca. 1343-1400)

210

(107)

The Canterbury Tales

213

(2)

The General Prologue

215

(20)

The Miller's Prologue and Tale

235

(17)

The Prologue

236

(1)

The Tale

237

(15)

The Man of Law's Epilogue

252

(1)

The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale

253

(28)

The Prologue

253

(19)

The Tale

272

(9)

The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale

281

(15)

The Introduction

281

(1)

The Prologue

282

(3)

The Tale

285

(10)

The Epilogue

295

(1)

The Nun's Priest's Tale

296

(14)

[Close of Canterbury Tales]

310

(1)

The Parson's Tale

311

(2)

The Introduction

311

(2)

Chaucer's Retraction

313

(1)

Lyrics and Occasional Verse

313

(1)

Troilus's Song

314

(1)

Truth

315

(1)

To His Scribe Adam

315

(1)

Complaint to His Purse

316

(1)

William Langland (ca. 1330-1387)

317

(32)

The Vision of Piers Plowman

319

(30)

The Prologue

319

(1)

[The Field of Folk]

319

(3)

Passus 5

322

(1)

[The Confession of Envy]

322

(1)

[The Confession of Gluttony]

323

(2)

[Piers Plowman Shows the Way to Saint Truth]

325

(3)

Passus 6

328

(1)

[The Plowing of Piers's Half-Acre]

328

(8)

Passus 18

336

(1)

[The Harrowing of Hell]

336

(10)

The C-Text

346

(1)

[The Dreamer Meets Conscience and Reason]

346

(3)

Middle English Lyrics

349

(6)

The Cuckoo Song

350

(1)

Alison

351

(1)

My Lief Is Faren in Londe

352

(1)

Western Wind

352

(1)

I Am of Ireland

352

(1)

What is he, this lordling, that cometh from the fight

352

(1)

Ye That Pasen by the Weye

353

(1)

Sunset on Calvary

353

(1)

I Sing of a Maiden

353

(1)

Adam Lay Bound

354

(1)

The Corpus Christi Carol

354

(1)

Julian of Norwich (1342-ca. 1416)

355

(11)

A Book of Showings to the Anchoress Julian of Norwich

356

(10)

[The First Revelation]

356

(1)

Chapter 3

356

(1)

Chapter 4

357

(1)

Chapter 5

358

(1)

From Chapter 7

359

(1)

Chapter 27

360

(1)

[Jesus as Mother]

361

(1)

From Chapter 58

361

(1)

From Chapter 59

362

(1)

Chapter 60

363

(1)

Chapter 61

364

(2)

[Conclusion]

366

(1)

Chapter 86

366

(1)

Margery Kempe (ca. 1373-1438)

366

(13)

The Book of Margery Kempe

367

(12)

[The Birth of Her First Child and Her First Vision]

367

(2)

[Her Pride and Attempts to Start a Business]

369

(1)

[Margery and Her Husband Reach a Settlement]

370

(1)

[A Visit with Julian of Norwich]

371

(1)

[Pilgrimage to Jerusalem]

372

(2)

[Examination before the Archbishop]

374

(3)

[Margery Nurses Her Husband in His Old Age]

377

(2)

Mystery Plays

379

(40)

The Chester Play of Noah's Flood

380

(11)

The Wakefield Second Shepherds' Play

391

(28)

Sir Thomas Malory (ca. 1405-1471)

419

(20)

Morte Darthur

421

(18)

[The Conspiracy against Lancelot and Guinevere]

421

(5)

[War Breaks Out between Arthur and Lancelot]

426

(4)

[The Death of Arthur]

430

(5)

[The Deaths of Lancelot and Guinevere]

435

(4)

Robert Henryson (ca. 1425-ca. 1500)

439

(6)

The Cock and the Fox

439

(6)

Everyman (after 1485)

445

(24)

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

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHIES

Suggested General Readings

The Middle Ages

``The Persistence of English''

Geoffrey Numberg

GEOGRAPHIC NOMENCLATURE

BRITISH MONEY

THE BRITISH BARONAGE

The Royal Lines of England and Great Britain

RELIGIONS IN ENGLAND

POETIC FORMS AND LITERARY TERMINOLOGY

ILLUSTRATION

The Universe According to Ptolemy

Index

Preface to the Seventh Edition

xxiii

Acknowledgments

xxxiii

``The Persistence of English''

xxxvi

Geoffrey Nunberg

The Sixteenth Century (1485-1603)

469

(69)

Introduction

469

(28)

Timeline

497

(2)

John Skelton (ca. 1460-1529)

499

(4)

Mannerly Margery Milk and Ale

500

(1)

Lullay, Lullay, like a child

500

(1)

The Tunning of Elinour Rumming

501

(2)

Secundus Passus

501

(2)

Sir Thomas More (1478-1535)

503

(22)

Utopia

506

(17)

Book 1

506

(1)

[More Meets a Returned Traveler]

506

(5)

Book 2

511

(1)

[The Geography of Utopia]

511

(2)

[Their Gold and Silver]

513

(2)

[Marriage Customs]

515

(1)

[Religions]

516

(4)

[Conclusion]

520

(3)

The History of King Richard III

523

(2)

[A King's Mistress]

523

(2)

Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder (1503-1542)

525

(13)

The long love that in my thought doth harbor

527

(1)

Whoso list to hunt

527

(1)

Farewell, Love

528

(1)

My galley

528

(1)

Divers doth use

528

(1)

Madam, withouten many words

529

(1)

They flee from me

529

(1)

The Lover Showeth How He Is Forsaken of Such as He Sometime Enjoyed

530

(1)

My lute, awake!

530

(1)

And wilt thou leave me thus?

531

(1)

Forget not yet

532

(1)

Blame not my lute

533

(1)

Stand whoso list

534

(1)

Who list his wealth and ease retain

534

(1)

Mine own John Poins

535

(3)

LITERATURE OF THE SACRED

538

(351)

The English Bible

539

(3)

From Tyndale's Translation

540

(1)

From The Geneva Bible

541

(1)

From The Douay-Rheims Version

541

(1)

From The Authorized (King James) Version

542

(1)

The Obedience of a Christian Man

542

(2)

William Tyndale

[The Forgiveness of Sins]

543

(1)

[Scriptural Interpretation]

543

(1)

The Institution of Christian Religion

544

(3)

John Calvin

From Book 3, Chapter 21

545

(2)

From The First Examination of Anne Askew

547

(4)

Anne Askew

Acts and Monuments

551

(2)

John Foxe

[The Death of Anne Askew]

551

(1)

The Words and Behavior of the Lady Jane [Grey] upon the Scaffold

552

(1)

Book of Common Prayer: From The Form of Solemnization of Matrimony

553

(3)

Book of Homilies: From An Homily Against Disobedience and Willful Rebellion

556

(2)

Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity

558

(5)

Richard Hooker

Book 1, Chapter 3

559

(2)

[On the Several Kinds of Law, and on the Natural Law]

559

(2)

Book 1, Chapter 10

561

(2)

[The Foundations of Society]

561

(2)

Roger Ascham (1515-1568)

563

(6)

Toxophilus

564

(1)

The Second Book of the School of Shooting

564

(1)

[Comeliness]

564

(1)

The Schoolmaster

565

(4)

The First Book for the Youth

565

(1)

[Teaching Latin]

565

(1)

[A Talk with Lady Jane Grey]

566

(1)

[The Italianate Englishman]

567

(2)

Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517-1547)

569

(8)

The soote season

570

(1)

Love, that doth reign and live within my thought

571

(1)

Alas! so all things now do hold their peace

571

(1)

Th'Assyrians' king, in peace with foul desire

572

(1)

So cruel prison how could betide

572

(2)

Wyatt resteth here, that quick could never rest

574

(1)

O happy dames, that may embrace

575

(1)

Martial, the things that do attain

576

(1)

The Fourth Book of Virgil

576

(1)

[The Jilted Queen]

576

(1)

Sir Thomas Hoby (1530-1566)

577

(16)

Castiglione's the Courtier

578

(15)

Book 1

578

(1)

[Grace]

578

(1)

Book 4

579

(1)

[The Ladder of Love]

579

(14)

Queen Elizabeth (1553-1603)

593

(7)

The doubt of future foes

594

(1)

On Monsieur's Departure

595

(1)

Letters

595

(2)

To Sir Amyas Paulet

595

(1)

To Henry III, king of France

596

(1)

Speech to the Troops at Tibury

597

(1)

The ``Golden Speech''

598

(2)

Arthur Golding (1536-1605)

600

(1)

Ovid's Metamorphoses

601

(1)

[The Golden Age]

601

(1)

George Gascoigne (1539-1578)

601

(5)

Woodmanship

606

(1)

Isabella Whitney (fl. 1567-1573)

606

(8)

Will and Testament

606

(8)

Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)

614

(264)

The Shepheardes Calender

616

(6)

To His Booke

617

(1)

October

617

(5)

The Faerie Queene

622

(241)

A Letter of the Authors

624

(4)

Book 1

628

(144)

Book 2

772

(1)

Canto 12

773

(1)

[The Bower of Bliss]

773

(10)

Book 3

783

(1)

Proem

783

(2)

Canto 1

785

(15)

Canto 2

800

(13)

Canto 3

813

(1)

[The Visit to Merlin]

813

(6)

[Canto 4 Summary]

819

(1)

Canto 5

819

(1)

[Belphoebe and Timias]

819

(7)

Canto 6

826

(13)

[Cantos 7 and 8 Summary]

839

(1)

[Cantos 9 and 10 Summary]

839

(1)

Canto 11

840

(13)

Canto 12

853

(10)

Amoretti

863

(5)

Sonnet 1 (``Happy ye leaves when as those lilly hands'')

864

(1)

Sonnet 34 (``Lyke as a ship that through the Ocean wyde'')

865

(1)

Sonnet 37 (``What guyle is this, that those her golden tresses'')

865

(1)

Sonnet 54 (``Of this worlds Theatre in which we stay'')

865

(1)

Sonnet 64 (``Comming to kisse her lyps [such grace I found]'')

866

(1)

Sonnet 65 (``The doubt which ye misdeeme, fayre love, is vaine'')

866

(1)

Sonnet 67 (``Lyke as a huntsman after weary chace'')

866

(1)

Sonnet 68 (``Most glorious Lord of lyfe, that on this day'')

867

(1)

Sonnet 74 (``Most happy letters fram'd by skilfull trade'')

867

(1)

Sonnet 75 (``One day I wrote her name upon the strand'')

867

(1)

Sonnet 79 (``Men call you fayre, and you doe credit it'')

868

(1)

Epithalamion

868

(10)

Sir Walter Ralegh (1552-1618)

878

(11)

The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd

879

(1)

What is our life?

879

(1)

[Sir Walter Ralegh to His Son]

880

(1)

The Lie

880

(2)

Farewell, false love

882

(1)

Methought I saw the grave where Laura lay

883

(1)

Nature, that washed her hands in milk

883

(1)

[The Author's Epitaph, Made by Himself]

884

(1)

From The discovery of the large, rich, and beautiful Empire of Guiana

885

(3)

The History of the World

888

(1)

[Conclusion: On Death]

888

(1)

THE WIDER WORLD

889

(320)

Frobisher's Voyages to the Arctic, 1576-78

890

(4)

From A true discourse of the late voyages of discovery

890

(4)

Drake's Circumnavigation of the Globe, 1577-80

894

(3)

From The famous voyage of Sir Francis Drake into the South Sea

894

(3)

Amadas and Barlowe's Voyage to Virginia, 1584

897

(4)

From The first voyage made to Virginia

898

(3)

Hariots Report on Virginia, 1585

901

(5)

From A brief and true report of the new-found land of Virginia

901

(5)

John Lyly (1554-1606)

906

(3)

Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit

907

(2)

[Euphues Introduced]

907

(2)

Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586)

909

(46)

The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia

911

(5)

Book 2, Chapter 1

912

(4)

Astrophil and Stella

916

(16)

1 (``Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show'')

917

(1)

2 (``Not at first sight, nor with a dribbed shot'')

917

(1)

5 (``It is most true that eyes are formed to serve'')

918

(1)

6 (``Some lovers speak, when they their muses entertain'')

918

(1)

7 (``When Nature made her chief work, Stella's eyes'')

918

(1)

9 (``Queen Virtue's court, which some call Stella's face'')

919

(1)

10 (``Reason, in faith thou art well served, that still'')

919

(1)

15 (``You that do search for every purling spring'')

920

(1)

16 (``In nature apt to like when I did see'')

920

(1)

18 (``With what sharp checks I in myself am shent'')

920

(1)

20 (``Fly, fly, my friends, I have my death-wound, fly'')

921

(1)

21 (``Your words, my friend [right healthful caustics], blame'')

921

(1)

28 (``You that with allegory's curious frame'')

921

(1)

31 (``With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies'')

922

(1)

37 (``My mouth doth water, and my breast doth swell'')

922

(1)

39 (``Come sleep! O sleep the certain knot of peace'')

922

(1)

41 (``Having this day my horse, my hand, my lance'')

923

(1)

45 (``Stella oft sees the very face of woe'')

923

(1)

47 (``What, have I thus betrayed my liberty?'')

924

(1)

49 (``I on my horse, and Love on me doth try'')

924

(1)

52 (``A strife is grown between Virtue and Love'')

924

(1)

53 (``In martial sports I had my cunning tried'')

925

(1)

56 (``Fie, school of Patience, fie, your lesson is'')

925

(1)

61 (``Oft with true sighs, oft with uncalled tears'')

925

(1)

69 (``O joy, too high for my low style to show'')

926

(1)

71 (``Who will in fairest book of Nature know'')

926

(1)

72 (``Desire, though thou my old companion art'')

926

(1)

74 (``I never drank of Aganippe well'')

927

(1)

81 (``O kiss, which dost those ruddy gems impart'')

927

(1)

Fourth Song (``Only joy, now here you are'')

928

(1)

87 (``When I was forced from Stella ever dear'')

929

(1)

89 (``Now that of absence the most irksome night'')

929

(1)

91 (``Stella, while now by Honor's cruel might'')

930

(1)

Eleventh Song (``Who is it that this dark night'')

930

(1)

108 (``When Sorrow [using mine own fire's might]'')

931

(1)

The nightingale

932

(1)

Thou blind man's mark

932

(1)

Leave me, O Love

933

(1)

The Defense of Poesy

933

(22)

[The Lessons of Horsemanship]

934

(1)

[The Poet, Poetry]

935

(3)

[Three Kinds of Poets]

938

(1)

[Poetry, Philosophy, History]

939

(4)

[The Poetic Kinds]

943

(4)

[Answers to Charges against Poetry]

947

(1)

[Poetry in England]

948

(5)

[Conclusion]

953

(2)

Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke (1554-1628)

955

(1)

Caelica

955

(1)

100 (``In night when colors all to black are cast'')

955

(1)

Chorus Sacerdotum

955

(1)

Robert Southwell (1561-1595)

956

(1)

The Burning Babe

956

(1)

Mary (Sidney) Herbert, Countess of Pembroke (1562-1621)

957

(7)

To the Angel Spirit of the Most Excellent Sir Philip Sidney

958

(2)

Psalm 52

960

(1)

Psalm 139

961

(3)

Samuel Daniel (1562-1619)

964

(2)

Delia

964

(1)

33 (``When men shall find thy flower, thy glory pass'')

964

(1)

45 (``Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night'')

964

(1)

46 (``Let others sing of knights and paladins'')

965

(1)

Musophilus

965

(1)

[Imperial Eloquence]

965

(1)

Michael Drayton (1563-1631)

966

(4)

Idea

967

(1)

To the Reader of These Sonnets

967

(1)

6 (``How many paltry, foolish, painted things'')

967

(1)

61 (``Since there's no help, come, let us kiss and part'')

967

(1)

Ode. To the Virginian Voyage

968

(2)

Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)

970

(56)

Hero and Leander

971

(18)

The Passionate Shepherd to His Love

989

(1)

Doctor Faustus

990

(36)

The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus

991

(32)

The Two Texts of Doctor Faustus

1023

(3)

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

1026

(170)

Sonnets

1028

(15)

1 (``From fairest creatures we desire increase'')

1029

(1)

3 (``Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest'')

1029

(1)

12 (``When I do count the clock that tells the time'')

1030

(1)

15 (``When I consider every thing that grows'')

1030

(1)

18 (``Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?'')

1031

(1)

19 (``Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws'')

1031

(1)

20 (``A woman's face with Nature's own hand painted'')

1031

(1)

29 (``When, in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes'')

1032

(1)

30 (``When to the sessions of sweet silent thought'')

1032

(1)

33 (``Full many a glorious morning have I seen'')

1033

(1)

35 (``No more be grieved at that which thou hast done'')

1033

(1)

55 (``Not marble, nor the gilded monuments'')

1033

(1)

60 (``Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore'')

1034

(1)

65 (``Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea'')

1034

(1)

71 (``No longer mourn for me when I am dead'')

1034

(1)

73 (``That time of year thou mayst in me behold'')

1035

(1)

74 (``But be contented; when that fell arrest'')

1035

(1)

87 (``Farewell: thou art too dear for my possessing'')

1036

(1)

94 (``They that have power to hurt and will do none'')

1036

(1)

97 (``How like a winter hath my absence been'')

1036

(1)

98 (``From you have I been absent in the spring'')

1037

(1)

106 (``When in the chronicle of wasted time'')

1037

(1)

107 (``Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul'')

1037

(1)

110 (``Alas, 'tis true I have gone here and there'')

1038

(1)

116 (``Let me not to the marriage of true minds'')

1038

(1)

126 (``O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power'')

1039

(1)

127 (``In the old age black was not counted fair'')

1039

(1)

128 (``How oft when thou, my music, music play'st'')

1039

(1)

129 (``Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame'')

1040

(1)

130 (``My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun'')

1040

(1)

135 (``Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy Will'')

1041

(1)

138 (``When my love swears that she is made of truth'')

1041

(1)

144 (``Two loves I have of comfort and despair'')

1041

(1)

146 (``Poor soul, the center of my sinful earth'')

1042

(1)

147 (``My love is as a fever, longing still'')

1042

(1)

Twelfth Night, or What You Will

1043

(63)

King Lear

1106

(90)

The Two Texts of King Lear

1192

(4)

Thomas Campion (1567-1620)

1196

(4)

My sweetest Lesbia

1196

(1)

I care not for these ladies

1196

(1)

When to her lute Corinna sings

1197

(1)

Rose-cheeked Laura

1198

(1)

Now winter nights enlarge

1198

(1)

There is a garden in her face

1199

(1)

Think'st thou to seduce me then

1199

(1)

Fain would I wed

1200

(1)

Thomas Nashe (1567-1601)

1200

(9)

A Litany in Time of Plague

1201

(1)

Pierce Penniless, His Supplication to the Devil

1202

(2)

[The Defense of Plays]

1202

(2)

The Unfortunate Traveler, or The Life of Jack Wilton

1204

(5)

[Roman Summer]

1204

(5)

The Early Seventeenth Century (1603-1660)

1209

(319)

Introduction

1209

(22)

Timeline

1231

(2)

John Donne (1572-1631)

1233

(48)

Songs and Sonnets

1236

(1)

The Flea

1236

(1)

The Good-Morrow

1236

(1)

Song (``Go and catch a falling star'')

1237

(1)

The Undertaking

1238

(1)

The Sun Rising

1239

(1)

The Indifferent

1239

(1)

The Canonization

1240

(2)

Song (``Sweetest love, I do not go'')

1242

(1)

Air and Angles

1243

(1)

Break of Day

1243

(1)

A Valediction: Of Weeping

1244

(1)

Love's Alchemy

1245

(1)

A Nocturnal upon Saint Lucy's Day, Being the Shortest Day

1245

(2)

The Bait

1247

(1)

The Apparition

1247

(1)

A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning

1248

(1)

The Ecstasy

1249

(2)

The Funeral

1251

(1)

The Blossom

1252

(1)

The Relic

1253

(1)

A Lecture upon the Shadow

1254

(1)

Elegy 16. On His Mistress

1254

(2)

Elegy 19. To His Mistress Going to Bed

1256

(1)

Satire 3

1257

(3)

The Storm

1260

(2)

From An Anatomy of the World

1262

(6)

Holy Sonnets

1268

(4)

1 (``Thou hast made me, and shall thy work decay?'')

1268

(1)

5 (``I am a little world made cunningly'')

1268

(1)

7 (``At the round earth's imagined corners, blow'')

1269

(1)

9 (``If poisonous minerals, and if that tree'')

1269

(1)

10 (``Death, be not proud, though some have called thee'')

1270

(1)

13 (``What if this present were the world's last night?'')

1270

(1)

14 (``Batter my heart, three-personed God; for you'')

1271

(1)

17 (``Since she whom I loved hath paid her last debt'')

1271

(1)

18 (``Show me, dear Christ, thy spouse so bright and clear'')

1271

(1)

19 (``Oh, to vex me, contraries meet in one'')

1272

(1)

Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward

1272

(1)

A Hymn to Christ, at the Author's Last Going into Germany

1273

(1)

Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness

1274

(1)

A Hymn to God the Father

1275

(1)

Devotions upon Emergent Occasions

1276

(4)

Meditation 4

1276

(1)

Meditation 17

1277

(1)

From Expostulation 19 [The Language of God]

1278

(2)

From Death's Duel

1280

(1)

Aemilia Lanyer (1569-1645)

1281

(11)

Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum

1282

(5)

To the Doubtful Reader

1282

(1)

To the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty

1282

(1)

To the Virtuous Reader

1283

(2)

Eve's Apology in Defense of Women

1285

(2)

The Description of Cooke-ham

1287

(5)

Ben Jonson (1572-1637)

1292

(130)

The Masque of Blackness

1294

(9)

Volpone, or The Fox

1303

(90)

Epigrams

1393

(1)

To My Book

1393

(1)

On Something, That Walks Somewhere

1394

(1)

To William Camden

1394

(1)

On My First Daughter

1394

(1)

To John Donne

1395

(1)

On Don Surly

1395

(1)

On Giles and Joan

1396

(1)

On My First Son

1396

(1)

On Lucy, Countess of Bedford

1397

(1)

To Lucy, Countess of Bedford, with Mr. Donne's Satires

1397

(1)

Inviting a Friend to Supper

1398

(1)

Epitaph on S. P., a Child of Queen Elizabeth's Chapel

1399

(1)

The Forest

1399

(1)

To Penshurst

1399

(3)

Song: To Celia

1402

(1)

To Heaven

1402

(1)

Underwood

1403

(1)

From A Celebration of Charis in Ten Lyric Pieces

1403

(5)

A Sonnet to the Noble Lady, the Lady Mary Wroth

1408

(1)

My Picture Left in Scotland

1409

(1)

To the Immortal Memory and Friendship of That Noble Pair, Sir Lucius Cary and Sir H. Morison

1409

(4)

Slow, Slow, Fresh Fount

1413

(1)

Queen and Huntress

1413

(1)

Still to Be Neat

1414

(1)

To the Memory of My Beloved, The Author, Mr. William Shakespeare, and What He Hath Left Us

1414

(2)

Ode to Himself

1416

(2)

From Timber, or Discoveries

1418

(4)

Mary Wroth (1587?-1651?)

1422

(10)

The Countess of Montgomery's Urania

1423

(5)

From The First Book

1423

(4)

Song (``Love what art thou? A vain thought'')

1427

(1)

Pamphilia to Amphilanthus

1428

(4)

1 (``When night's black mantle could most darkness prove'')

1428

(1)

16 (``Am I thus conquered? Have I lost the powers'')

1428

(1)

28 Song (``Sweetest love, return again'')

1428

(1)

39 (``Take heed mine eyes, how you your looks do cast'')

1429

(1)

40 (``False hope which feeds but to destroy, and spill'')

1429

(1)

68 (``My pain, still smothered in my grieved breast'')

1430

(1)

74 Song (``Love a child is ever crying'')

1430

(1)

From A Crown of Sonnets Dedicated to Love

1431

(1)

77 (``In this strange labyrinth how shall I turn?'')

1431

(1)

103 (``My muse now happy, lay thyself to rest'')

1431

(1)

John Webster (1580?-1625?)

1432

(76)

The Duchess of Malfi

1433

(75)

Elizabeth Cary (1585?-1639)

1508

(20)

The Tragedy of Mariam, the Fair Queen of Jewry

1509

(19)

From Act 1

1510

(6)

From Act 3

1516

(3)

From Act 4

1519

(5)

From Act 5

1524

(4)

THE SCIENCE OF SELF AND WORLD

1528

(197)

Francis Bacon

1529

(23)

Essays

1531

(1)

Of Truth

1531

(1)

Of Marriage and Single Life

1532

(1)

Of Great Place

1533

(2)

Of Superstition

1535

(1)

Of Plantations

1536

(2)

Of Negotiating

1538

(1)

Of Masques and Triumphs

1539

(2)

Of Studies [1597 version]

1541

(1)

Of Studies [1625 version]

1541

(1)

The Advancement of Learning

1542

(2)

[The Abuses of Language]

1542

(2)

Novum Organum

1544

(4)

[The Idols]

1544

(4)

The New Atlantis

1548

(4)

[Solomon's House]

1548

(4)

Martha Moulsworth: The Memorandum of Martha Moulsworth, Widow

1552

(4)

Rachel Speght: Mortality's Memorandum

1556

(4)

From A Dream

1556

(4)

Robert Burton: The Anatomy of Melancholy

1560

(9)

From Democritus Junior to the Reader

1561

(4)

From Love Melancholy

1565

(4)

Sir Thomas Browne

1569

(13)

Religio Medici

1570

(8)

Part 1, Sections 1-6, 9, 15, 16, 34, 59

1570

(7)

Part 2, Section 1

1577

(1)

Hydriotaphia, or Urn-Burial

1578

(4)

From Chapter 5

1578

(4)

Izaak Walton: The Life of Dr. John Donne

1582

(5)

[Donne on His Deathbed]

1583

(4)

Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan

1587

(8)

The Introduction

1588

(1)

[The Artificial Man]

1588

(1)

Part 1

1589

(6)

Of Sense

1589

(1)

Of the Natural Condition of Mankind as Concerning Their Felicity and Misery

1590

(3)

Of the First and Second Natural Laws

1593

(1)

Of Other Laws of Nature

1594

(1)

George Herbert (1593-1633)

1595

(20)

The Temple

1597

(1)

The Altar

1597

(1)

Redemption

1597

(1)

Ester

1598

(1)

Easter Wings

1599

(1)

Affliction (1)

1599

(2)

Prayer (1)

1601

(1)

Jordan (1)

1601

(1)

Church Monuments

1602

(1)

The Windows

1602

(1)

Denial

1603

(1)

Virtue

1604

(1)

Man

1604

(1)

Jordan (2)

1605

(1)

Time

1606

(1)

The Bunch of Grapes

1607

(1)

The Pilgrimage

1608

(1)

The Holdfast

1609

(1)

The Collar

1609

(1)

The Pulley

1610

(1)

The Flower

1610

(2)

The Forerunners

1612

(1)

Discipline

1613

(1)

Death

1613

(1)

Love (3)

1614

(1)

Henry Vaughan (1621-1695)

1615

(14)

Poems

1616

(1)

A Song to Amoret

1616

(1)

Silex Scintillans

1617

(1)

Regeneration

1617

(2)

The Retreat

1619

(1)

Silence, and Stealth of Days!

1620

(1)

Corruption

1621

(1)

Unprofitableness

1622

(1)

The World

1622

(2)

They Are All Gone into the World of Light!

1624

(1)

Cock-Crowing

1625

(1)

The Night

1626

(2)

The Waterfall

1628

(1)

Richard Crashaw (ca. 1613-1649)

1629

(14)

Delights of the Muses

1630

(1)

Music's Duel

1630

(4)

Steps to the Temple

1634

(1)

To the Infant Martyrs

1634

(1)

I Am the Door

1634

(1)

On the Wounds of Our Crucified Lord

1634

(1)

Luke 11.[27]

1635

(1)

Carmen Deo Nostro

1635

(1)

In the Holy Nativity of Our Lord God: A Hymn Sung as by the Shepherds

1635

(4)

To the Noblest & Best of Ladies, the Countess of Denbigh

1639

(1)

The Flaming Heart

1640

(3)

Robert Herrick (1591-1674)

1643

(13)

Hesperides

1644

(1)

The Argument of His Book

1644

(1)

Upon the Loss of His Mistresses

1645

(1)

The Vine

1645

(1)

Dreams

1646

(1)

Delight in Disorder

1646

(1)

His Farewell to Sack

1646

(2)

Corinna's Going A-Maying

1648

(1)

To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time

1649

(1)

The Hock-Cart, or Harvest Home

1650

(1)

How Roses Came Red

1651

(1)

Upon the Nipples of Julia's Breast

1651

(1)

Upon Jack and Jill. Epigram

1652

(1)

To Marygolds

1652

(1)

His Prayer to Ben Jonson

1652

(1)

The Bad Season Makes the Poet Sad

1653

(1)

The Night-Piece, to Julia

1653

(1)

Upon His Verses

1654

(1)

His Return to London

1654

(1)

Upon Julia's Clothes

1654

(1)

Upon Prue, His Maid

1655

(1)

To His Book's End

1655

(1)

Noble Numbers

1655

(1)

To His Conscience

1655

(1)

Another Grace for a Child

1655

(1)

Thomas Carew (1595-1640)

1656

(8)

An Elergy upon the Death of the Dean of Paul's, Dr. John Donne

1656

(3)

To Ben Jonson

1659

(1)

A Song (``Ask me no more where Jove bestows'')

1660

(1)

A Rapture

1661

(3)

Sir John Suckling (1609-1642)

1664

(6)

Song (``Why so pale and wan, fond lover?'')

1665

(1)

Fragmenta Aurea

1665

(1)

Loving and Beloved

1665

(1)

A Ballad upon a Wedding

1666

(3)

The Last Remains of Sir John Suckling

1669

(1)

Out upon It!

1669

(1)

Richard Lovelace (1618-1657)

1670

(5)

Lucasta

1670

(1)

To Lucasta, Going to the Wars

1670

(1)

The Grasshopper

1671

(1)

To Althea, from Prison

1672

(1)

Love Made in the First Age. To Chloris

1673

(2)

Edmund Waller (1606-1687)

1675

(1)

The Story of Phoebus and Daphne Applied

1675

(1)

Song (``Go, lovely rose!'')

1676

(1)

Abraham Cowley (1618-1667)

1676

(3)

Ode: Of Wit

1677

(2)

Katherine Philips (1632-1664)

1679

(5)

A Married State

1679

(1)

Upon the Double Murder of King Charles

1680

(1)

Friendship's Mystery, To My Dearest Lucasia

1681

(1)

To Mrs. M. A. at Parting

1682

(1)

On the Death of My First and Dearest Child, Hector Philips

1683

(1)

Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)

1684

(41)

Poems

1685

(1)

The Coronet

1685

(1)

Bermudas

1686

(1)

A Dialogue Between the Soul and Body

1687

(1)

The Nymph Complaining for the Death of Her Fawn

1688

(3)

To His Coy Mistress

1691

(1)

The Definition of Love

1692

(1)

The Picture of Little T. C. in a Prospect of Flowers

1693

(1)

The Mower Against Gardens

1694

(1)

Damon the Mower

1695

(2)

The Mower to the Glowworms

1697

(1)

The Mower's Song

1698

(1)

The Garden

1698

(2)

An Horatian Ode

1700

(4)

Upon Appleton House

1704

(21)

VOICES OF THE WAR

1725

(320)

Lucy Hutchinson: Memoirs of Colonel Hutchinson

1726

(4)

[A Confrontation]

1727

(3)

Lady Anne Halkett: The Memoirs

1730

(4)

[Springing the Duke]

1731

(3)

John Lilburne: The Picture of the Council of State

1734

(5)

[Lilburne Defies the Authorities]

1735

(4)

Gerrard Winstanley: From The True Levellers' Standard Advanced

1739

(4)

Anna Trapnel: From Anna Trapnel's Report and Plea, or, a Narrative of Her Journey from London into Cornwall

1743

(4)

Abiezer Coppe: From A Fiery Flying Roll

1747

(4)

Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon: The History of the Rebellion

1751

(3)

[The Character of Oliver Cromwell]

1751

(3)

Thomas Traherne (1637-1674)

1754

(5)

Centuries of Meditation

1755

(1)

From The Third Century

1755

(1)

Wonder

1756

(1)

On Leaping over the Moon

1757

(2)

Margaret Cavendish (1623-1673)

1759

(12)

Poems and Fancies

1759

(1)

The Poetess's Hasty Resolution

1759

(1)

The Hunting of the Hare

1760

(2)

From A True Relation of My Birth, Breeding, and Life

1762

(3)

From The Description of a New World, Called The Blazing World

1765

(6)

John Milton (1608-1674)

1771

(274)

Poems

1774

(1)

On the Morning of Christ's Nativity

1774

(8)

On Shakespeare

1782

(1)

L'Allegro

1782

(4)

Il Penseroso

1786

(4)

Lycidas

1790

(6)

The Reason of Church Government Urged Against Prelaty

1796

(5)

[Plans and Projects]

1796

(5)

From Areopagitica

1801

(11)

Sonnets

1811

(1)

How Soon Hath Time

1812

(1)

On the New Forcers of Conscience Under the Long Parliament

1812

(1)

To the Lord General Cromwell, May 1652

1813

(1)

When I Consider How My Light Is Spent

1814

(1)

On the Late Massacre in Piedmont

1814

(1)

Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint

1815

(1)

Paradise Lost

1815

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

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