Longman Anthology of British Literature, Compact Edition, Volume A, The: The Middle Ages to Restoration and the 18th Century

, by Damrosch, David; Baswell, Christopher; Carroll, Clare; Dettmar, Kevin J. H.; Henderson, Heather; Jordan, Constance; Manning, Peter J.; Schotter, Anne Howland; Sharpe, William Chapman; Sherman, Stuart; Wicke, Jennifer; Wolfson, Susan

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The Longman Compact Anthology of British Literature is a concise and thoughtfully arranged survey of British literature for the one semester course.

List of Illustrations

xviii

Preface

xxi

Acknowledgments

xxvii

The Middle Ages

(388)

Before the Norman Conquest

BEOWULF

(65)

EARLY IRISH VERSE

(9)

To Crinog

(1)

Pangur the Cat

(1)

Writing in the Wood

(1)

The Viking Terror

(1)

The Old Woman of Beare

(3)

Findabair Remembers Fróech

(1)

A Grave Marked with Ogam

(1)

from The Voyage of Máel Dúin

(2)

JUDITH

101

(5)

THE DREAM OF THE ROOD

106

(5)

PERSPECTIVES Ethnic and Religious Encounters

111

(15)

BEDE

112

(6)

from An Ecclesiastical History of the English People

112

(6)

BISHOP ASSER

118

(2)

from The Life of King Alfred

118

(2)

KING ALFRED

120

(2)

Preface to Saint Gregory's Pastoral Care

120

(2)

OHTHERE'S JOURNEYS

122

(2)

THE ANGLO-SAXON CHRONICLE

124

(2)

Stamford Bridge and Hastings

125

(1)

TALIESIN

126

(4)

Urien Yrechwydd

127

(1)

The Battle of Argoed Llwyfain

127

(1)

The War-Band's Return

128

(1)

Lament for Owain Son of Urien

129

(1)

THE WANDERER

130

(3)

WULF AND EADWACER and THE WIFE'S LAMENT

133

(3)

After the Norman Conquest

PERSPECTIVES Arthurian Myth in the History of Britain

136

(16)

GEOFFREY OF MONMOUTH

137

(11)

from History of the Kings of Britain

138

(10)

GERALD OF WALES

148

(2)

from The Instruction of Princes

148

(2)

EDWARD I

150

(3)

Letter sent to the Papal Court of Rome

151

(1)

COMPANION READING A Report to Edward I

152

(1)

Arthurian Romance

153

(1)

MARIE DE FRANCE

153

(16)

LAIS

155

(1)

Prologue

155

(1)

Lanval

156

(13)

SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT

169

(56)

SIR THOMAS MALORY

225

(21)

Morte Darthur

226

(20)

The Poisoned Apple

226

(10)

The Day of Destiny

236

(10)

GEOFFREY CHAUCER

246

(41)

THE CANTERBURY TALES

251

(1)

The General Prologue

251

(20)

The Miller's Tale

271

(1)

The Introduction

271

(2)

The Tale

273

(14)

The Wife of Bath's Prologue

287

(19)

The Wife of Bath's Tale

306

(9)

The Pardoner's Prologue

315

(4)

The Pardoner's Tale

319

(11)

The Nun's Priest's Tale

330

(15)

The Parson's Tale

345

(6)

The Introduction

346

(2)

[The Remedy for the Sin of Lechery]

348

(2)

Chaucer's Retraction

350

(1)

To His Scribe Adam

351

(1)

THE SECOND PLAY OF THE SHEPHERDS

351

(19)

MIDDLE ENGLISH LYRICS

370

(8)

The Cuckoo Song ("Sumer is icumen in")

371

(1)

Spring ("Lenten is come with love to toune")

372

(1)

Alisoun ("Bitwene Mersh and Averil")

373

(1)

My Lefe Is Faren in a Lond

374

(1)

Abuse of Women ("In every place ye may well see")

375

(1)

The Irish Dancer ("Gode sire, pray ich thee")

376

(1)

Adam Lay Ibounden

376

(1)

I Sing of a Maiden

377

(1)

Mary Is with Child ("Under a tree")

377

(1)

Jesus, My Sweet Lover ("Jesu Christ, my lemmon swete")

378

(1)

DAFYDD AP GWILYM

378

(6)

One Saving Place

380

(1)

The Hateful Husband

381

(1)

The Winter

382

(1)

The Ruin

383

(1)

WILLIAM DUNBAR

384

(29)

Lament for the Makars

384

(3)

In Secreit Place This Hyndir Nycht

387

(3)

The Early Modern Period

390

(650)

JOHN SKELTON

413

(4)

Womanhod, Wanton

413

(1)

Lullay

414

(1)

Knolege, Aquayntance

415

(1)

Manerly Margery Mylk and Ale

416

(1)

Garland of Laurel

417

(2)

To Maystres Jane Blennerhasset

417

(1)

To Maystres Isabell Pennell

417

(1)

To Maystres Margaret Hussey

418

(1)

SIR THOMAS WYATT

419

(2)

The Long Love, That in My Thought Doth Harbor

420

(1)

Whoso List to Hunt

420

(1)

COMPANION READING Petrarch, Sonnet 190

421

(3)

They Flee from Me

421

(1)

My Lute, Awake!

422

(1)

Blame Not My Lute

423

(1)

Stand Whoso List

424

(1)

EDMUND SPENSER

424

(155)

THE FAERIE QUEENS

425

(154)

The First Booke of the Faerie Queene

426

(142)

from The Second Booke, Canto 12 [Bowre of Blisse]

568

(11)

Amoretti

579

(2)

1 ("Happy ye leaves when as those filly hands")

579

(1)

22 ("This holy season fit to fast and pray")

579

(1)

62 ("The weary yeare his race now having run")

579

(1)

68 ("Most glorious Lord of lyfe that on this day")

580

(1)

75 ("One day I wrote her name upon the strand")

580

(1)

Epithalamion

581

(9)

SIR PHILIP SIDNEY

590

(21)

Astrophil and Stella

592

(2)

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

592

(1)

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

592

(1)

39 ("Come sleep, O sleep, the certain knot of peace")

593

(1)

71 ("Who wi11 in fairest book of Nature know")

593

(1)

106 ("O absent presence, Stella is not here")

593

(1)

108 ("When sorrow (using mine own fire's might)")

594

(1)

from The Apology for Poetry

594

(9)

"THE APOLOGY" AND ITS TIME" The Art of Poetry

603

(1)

Stephen Gosson from The School of Abuse

604

(1)

George Puttenham from The Art of English Poesie

605

(2)

George Gascoigne from Certain Notes of Instruction

607

(2)

Samuel Daniel from A Defense of Rhyme

609

(2)

ISABELLA WHITNEY

611

(5)

I.W. To Her Unconstant Lover

611

(4)

A Careful Complaint by the Unfortunate Author

615

(1)

ELIZABETH I

616

(16)

Written with a Diamond on Her Window at Woodstock

618

(1)

Written on a Wall at Woodstock

618

(1)

The Doubt of Future Foes

619

(1)

On Monsieur's Departure

619

(1)

Psalm 13 ("Fools that true faith yet never had")

620

(1)

The Metres of Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy

620

(2)

Book 1, No. 2 ("0 in how headlong depth the drowned mind is dim")

620

(1)

Book 1, No. 7 ("Dim clouds")

621

(1)

Book 2, No. 3 ("In pool when Phoebus with reddy wain")

622

(1)

SPEECHES

622

(1)

On Marriage

622

(1)

On Mary, Queen of Scots

623

(3)

On Mary's Execution

626

(2)

To the English Troops at Tilbury, Facing the Spanish Armada

628

(1)

The Golden Speech

629

(3)

PERSPECTIVES Government and Self-Government

632

(1)

WILLIAM TYNDALE

633

(1)

from The Obedience of a Christian Man

633

(1)

JUAN LUIS VIVES

634

(1)

from Instruction of a Christian Woman

634

(1)

SIR THOMAS ELYOT

635

(3)

from The Book Named the Governor

636

(1)

from The Defence of Good Women

637

(1)

JOHN PONET

638

(2)

from A Short Treatise of Political Power

638

(2)

JOHN FOXE

640

(3)

from The Book of Martyrs

641

(2)

RICHARD HOOKER

643

(2)

from The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity

643

(2)

JAMES I (JAMES vI OF SCOTLAND)

645

(2)

from The True Law of Free Monarchies

646

(1)

BALDASSARE CASTIGLIONE

647

(2)

from The Book of the Courtier

648

(1)

ROGER ASCHAM

649

(2)

from The Schoolmaster

649

(2)

RICHARD MULCASTER

651

(2)

from The First Part of the Elementary

651

(2)

AEMILIA LANYER

653

(10)

The Description of Cookham

653

(5)

Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum

658

(5)

To the Doubtful Reader

658

(1)

To the Virtuous Reader

658

(1)

[Invocation]

659

(1)

[Against Beauty Without Virtue]

660

(1)

[Pilate's Wife Apologizes for Eve]

661

(2)

SIR WALTER RALEIGH

663

(19)

To the Queen

664

(1)

On the Life of Man

665

(1)

The Author's Epitaph, Made by Himself

665

(1)

from The Discovery of the Large, Rich and Beautiful Empire of Guiana

666

(6)

from Epistle Dedicatory

666

(2)

[The Amazons]

668

(1)

[The Orinoco]

668

(1)

[The New World of Guiana]

669

(3)

"THE DISCOVERY" AND ITS TIME Voyage Literature

672

(64)

Arthur Barlow from The First Voyage Made to the Coasts of America

672

(5)

Thomas Harlot from A Brief and True Report of the Newfound Land of Virginia

677

(3)

René Laudonnière from A Notable History Containing Four Voyages Made to Florida

680

(2)

CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE

682

(2)

The Passionate Shepherd to His Love

683

(1)

COMPANION READING Sir Walter Raleigh: The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd

684

(49)

The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus

685

(48)

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

733

(63)

SONNETS

736

(6)

1 ("From fairest creatures we desire increase")

737

(1)

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

737

(1)

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

737

(1)

29 ("When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes")

738

(1)

30 ("When to the sessions of sweet silent thought")

738

(1)

55 ("Not marble nor the gilded monuments")

738

(1)

60 ("Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore")

739

(1)

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

739

(1)

87 ("Farewell! Thou art too dear for my possessing")

739

(1)

106 ("When in the chronicle of wasted time")

740

(1)

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

740

(1)

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

741

(1)

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

741

(1)

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

741

(1)

Twelfth Night; or, What You Will

742

(54)

BEN JONSON

796

(2)

On Something, That Walks Somewhere

798

(1)

On My First Daughter

798

(6)

To John Donne

799

(1)

On My First Son

799

(1)

To Penshurst

799

(3)

Song to Celia

802

(1)

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

802

(2)

JOHN DONNE

804

(12)

The Good Morrow

806

(1)

Song ("Go, and catch a falling star")

806

(1)

The Undertaking

807

(1)

The Sun Rising

808

(1)

The Canonization

808

(2)

The Flea

810

(1)

The Bait

810

(1)

A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning

811

(1)

The Ecstasy

812

(2)

HOLY SONNETS

814

(2)

1 ("As due by many titles I resign")

814

(1)

5 ("If poisonous minerals, and if that tree")

814

(1)

6 ("Death be not proud, though some have called thee")

815

(1)

9 ("What if this present were the world's last night?")

815

(1)

10 ("Batter my heart, three-personed God; for, you")

815

(1)

LADY MARY WROTH

816

(8)

Pamphilia to Amphilanthus

817

(3)

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

817

(1)

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

817

(1)

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

818

(1)

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

818

(1)

74. Song ("Love a child is ever crying")

819

(1)

A Crown of Sonnets Dedicated to Love

819

(1)

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

819

(1)

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

820

(1)

from The Countess of Montgomery's Urania

820

(4)

PERSPECTIVES Tracts on Women and Gender

824

(20)

DESIDERIUS ERASMUS

825

(2)

from In Laude and Praise of Matrimony

825

(2)

BARNABE RICHE

827

(1)

from My Lady's Looking Glass

827

(1)

MARGARET TYLER

828

(2)

from Preface to The First Part of the Mirror of Princely Deeds

829

(1)

JOSEPH SWETNAM

830

(3)

from The Arraignment of Lewd, Idle, Froward, and Unconstant Women

830

(3)

ESTER SOWERNAM

833

(3)

from Ester Hath Hanged Haman

833

(3)

HIC MULIER AND HAEC-VIR

836

(9)

from Hic Mulier; or, The Man-Woman 837 from Haec-Vir; or, The Womanish-Man

839

(5)

ROBERT HERRICK

844

(1)

HESPERIDES

845

(1)

The Argument of His Book

845

(1)

To the Sour Reader

845

(1)

When He Would Have His Verses Read

845

(5)

Delight in Disorder

846

(1)

Corinna's Going A-Maying

846

(2)

To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time

848

(1)

Upon Julia's Clothes

848

(1)

Discontents in Devon

848

(1)

To Dean-Bourne, a Rude River in Devon

848

(1)

His Last Request to Julia

849

(1)

HIS NOBLE NUMBERS

849

(1)

His Prayer for Absolution

849

(1)

To God, on His Sickness

849

(1)

GEORGE HERBERT

850

(4)

The Altar

851

(1)

Easter Wings

851

(1)

Jordan(1)

852

(1)

Jordan (2)

852

(1)

The Collar

852

(1)

Love (3)

853

(1)

ANDREW MARVELL

854

(8)

To His Coy Mistress

855

(1)

The Definition of Love

856

(1)

The Garden

857

(2)

An Horatian Ode Upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland

859

(3)

KATHERINE PHILIPS

862

(7)

Friendship in Emblem, or the Seal

863

(2)

Upon the Double Murder of King Charles

865

(1)

To the Truly Noble, and Obliging Mrs. Anne Owen

865

(1)

To My Excellent Lucasia, on Our Friendship

866

(1)

The World

867

(2)

PERSPECTIVES The Civil War, or The Wars of Three Kingdoms

869

(2)

JOHN GAUDEN

871

(3)

from Eikon Basilike

872

(2)

JOHN MILTON

874

(7)

from Eikonoklastes

875

(6)

THE PETITION OF GENTLEWOMEN AND TRADESMEN'S WIVES

881

(4)

JOHN LILBURNE

885

(4)

from England's New Chains Discovered

886

(3)

OLIVER CROMWELL 888 from Letters from Ireland

889

(4)

JOHN O'DWYER OF THE GLENN

893

(1)

JOHN MILTON

894

(171)

L'Allegro

897

(3)

Il Penseroso

900

(4)

Lycidas

904

(5)

How Soon Hath Time

909

(1)

On the New Forcers of Conscience Under the Long Parliament

909

(1)

When I Consider How My Light Is Spent

910

(1)

Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint

910

(1)

from Areopagitica

911

(9)

PARADISE LOST

920

(1)

Book 1

921

(19)

from Book 2

940

(15)

from Book 3

955

(13)

from Book 4

968

(18)

from Books 5-8 The Arguments

986

(1)

Book 9

987

(26)

from Book 10

1013

(19)

from Book 11

1032

(1)

from Book 12

1033

(7)

The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century

1040

(379)

SAMUEL PEPYS

1065

(10)

from The Diary

1066

(1)

[First Entries]

1066

(2)

[The Coronation of Charles II]

1068

(2)

[The Fire of London]

1070

(5)

COMPANION READING John Evelyn: from Kalendarium

1075

(11)

[The Royal Society]

1077

(3)

[Elizabeth Pepys and Deborah Willett]

1080

(6)

PERSPECTIVES The Royal Society and the New Science

1086

(1)

THOMAS SPRAT

1087

(3)

from The History of the Royal Society of London

1088

(2)

PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS

1090

(3)

from Philosophical Transactions

1090

(3)

ROBERT HOOKS

1093

(7)

from Micrographia

1094

(6)

MARGARET CAVENDISH, DUCHESS OF NEWCASTLE

1100

(7)

Observations upon Experimental Philosophy

1101

(2)

Of Micrography, and of Magnifying and Multiplying Glasses

1101

(2)

The Description of a New Blazing World

1103

(4)

from To the Reader

1103

(1)

[Creating Worlds]

1104

(1)

[Empress, Duchess, Duke]

1105

(1)

Epilogue

1106

(1)

JOHN DRYDEN

1107

(7)

Mac Flecknoe

1108

(6)

APHRA BERN

1114

(5)

The Disappointment

1116

(3)

COMPANION READING John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester: The Imperfect Enjoyment

1119

(15)

To Lysander at the Music-Meeting

1121

(1)

To the Fair Clarinda, Who Made Love to Me, Imagined More than Woman

1122

(1)

APHRA BERN AND HER TIME Coterie Writing

1122

(1)

Mary, Lady Chudleigh To the Ladies

1123

(1)

To Almystrea

1124

(1)

Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea The Introduction

1125

(1)

Friendship Between Ephelia and Ardelia

1126

(1)

A Ballad to Mrs. Catherine Fleming in London

1127

(2)

Mary Leapor The Headache. To Aurelia

1129

(1)

Advice to Sophronia

1130

(1)

An Essay on Woman

1131

(1)

The Epistle of Deborah Dough

1132

(2)

Oroonoko

1134

(42)

JONATHAN SWIFT

1176

(9)

A Description of a City Shower

1178

(2)

Stella's Birthday, 1719

1180

(1)

The Lady's Dressing Room

1181

(4)

COMPANION READING Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: The Reasons that Induced Dr. S. to write a Poem called The Lady s Dressing Room

1185

(52)

Gulliver's Travels

1187

(44)

Part 3. A Voyage to Laputa

1188

(1)

Chapter 5. The author permitted to see the grand Academy of Logado

1188

(1)

Chapter 10. The Luggnaggians commended. A particular description of the Struldbruggs

1193

(5)

Part 4. A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms

1198

(1)

Chapter 1. The author sets out as Captain of a ship

1198

(1)

Chapter 2. The author conducted by a Houyhnhnm to his house

1202

(1)

Chapter 3. The author studious to learn the language, the Houyhnhnm his master assists in teaching him

1205

(1)

Chapter 4. The Houyhnhnms' notion of truth and falsehood

1208

(1)

from Chapter 5. The author at his master's commands informs him of the state of England

1211

(1)

from Chapter 8. The author relateth several particulars o£ the Yahoos

1214

(1)

from Chapter 9. A grand debate at the general Assembly of the Houyhnhnms

1216

(1)

Chapter 10. The author's economy and happy life among the Houyhnhnms

1218

(1)

Chapter 11. The author's dangerous voyage

1222

(1)

Chapter 12. The author's veracity. His design in publishing this work

1227

(4)

A Modest Proposal

1231

(6)

COMPANION READING William Petty: from Political Arithmetic

1237

(2)

ALEXANDER POPE

1239

(36)

from An Essay on Criticism

1241

(6)

The Rape of the Lock

1247

(20)

An Essay on Man

1267

(1)

Epistle 1

1267

(8)

To the Reader

1267

(1)

The Design

1267

(1)

Argument

1268

(7)

JOHN GAY

1275

(61)

The Beggar's Opera

1278

(44)

"THE BEGGAR'S OPERA" AND ITS TIME Influences and Impact

1322

(1)

Thomas D'Urfey from Wit and Mirth: or, Pills to Purge Melancholy

1322

(3)

Daniel Defoe from The True and Genuine Account of the Life and Actions of the Late Jonathan Wild

1325

(4)

Henry Fielding from The Life of Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great

1329

(2)

[Anonymous] from A Narrative of All the Robberies, Escapes, &c. of John Sheppard

1331

(2)

John Thurmond from Harlequin Sheppard

1333

(1)

Charlotte Charke from A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke

1334

(1)

James Boswell from London Journal [Entries on Macheath]

1335

(1)

WILLIAM HOGARTH

1336

(10)

A Rake's Progress

1338

(8)

PERSPECTIVES Mind and God

1346

(1)

ISAAC NEWTON

1347

(3)

from Letter to Richard Bentley

1348

(2)

JOHN LOCKE

1350

(5)

from An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

1351

(4)

ISAAC WATTS

1355

(5)

A Prospect of Heaven Makes Death Easy

1355

(1)

The Hurry of the Spirits, in a Fever and Nervous Disorders

1356

(1)

Against Idleness and Mischief

1357

(1)

Man Frail, and God Eternal

1358

(1)

Miracles Attending Israel's Journey

1359

(1)

DAVID HUME

1360

(6)

from A Treatise of Human Nature

1360

(3)

from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

1363

(3)

CHRISTOPHER SMART

1366

(3)

from Jubilate Agno

1366

(3)

WILLIAM COWPER

1369

(4)

Light Shining out of Darkness

1370

(1)

from The Task

1370

(1)

The Cast-away

1371

(2)

THOMAS GRAY

1373

(4)

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

1374

(3)

SAMUEL JOHNSON

1377

(21)

THE RAMBLER

1380

(1)

No. 4 [On Fiction]

1381

(3)

No. 60 [On Biography]

1384

(3)

THE IDLER

1387

(1)

No. 31 [On Idleness]

1387

(1)

No. 32 [On Sleep]

1388

(2)

A Dictionary of the English Language

1390

(8)

from Preface

1391

(3)

[Some Entries]

1394

(4)

JAMES BOSWELL

1398

(10)

The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

1400

(8)

[Introduction; Boswell's Method]

1400

(2)

[Dinner with Wilkes]

1402

(6)

HESTER SALUSBURY THRALE PIOZZI

1408

(11)

Thraliana

1409

(10)

[First Entries]

1409

(4)

[The Death of Henry Thrale; Marriage to Gabriel Piozzi]

1413

(4)

[The Death of Johnson]

1417

(2)

Political and Religious Orders

1419

(6)

Money, Weights, and Measures

1425

(2)

Bibliographies

1427

(26)

Credits

1453

(2)

Index

1455

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Longman Anthology of British Literature, Compact Edition, Volume A, The: The Middle Ages to Restoration and the 18th Century

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