Renaissance Poetry

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ISBN: 9780631230090 | 0631230092
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 9/10/2002

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This concise collection of Renaissance poetry includes selections from the works of Wyatt, Sidney, Marlow, Shakespeare, Jonson, Donne, Herbert and Milton. Contains a selection of the most significant Renaissance Poetry. Places traditional favourites are alongside less well-known titles, reflecting the ways in which the literary canon has changed in recent years. Includes a succinct introduction, which gives readers a sense of how poetry developed during the period. Ideal for readers seeking a first introduction to the classic texts of English literature.

Series Editor's Preface
Introduction
Acknowledgements
Edmund Spenser (?1552-99)
Epithalamion
Prothalamion
From The Faerie Queene
The bower of Bliss (II. xii.)
The garden of Adonis (III. vi.)
Mutability claims to rule the world (VII. vii.)
Sir Walter Ralegh (?1552-1618)
The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd
Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke (1554-1628)
From Caelica
Sonnet 69 ('When all this All doth pass from age to age')
Sonnet 86 ('The earth with thunder torn, with fire blasted')
Sonnet 99 ('Down in the depth of mine iniquity')
Sonnet 100 ('In night when colours all to black are cast')
Sir Philip Sidney (1554-86)
From Certain Sonnets
Sonnet 31 ('Thou blind man's mark, thou fool's self-chosen snare')
Sonnet 32 ('Leave me, O love which reachest but to dust')
From Astrophil and Stella
Sonnet 1 ('Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show')
Sonnet 27 ('Because I oft, in dark abstracted guise')
Sonnet 31 ('With how sad steps, O moon, thou climb'st the skies!')
Sonnet 34 ('Come, let me write
And to what end? To ease')
Sonnet 39 ('Come sleep! O sleep, the certain knot of peace')
Sonnet 45 ('Stella oft sees the very face of woe')
Sonnet 54 ('Because I breathe not love to every one')
Sonnet 94 ('Grief find the words, for thou hast made my brain')
Michael Drayton (1563-1631)
From Idea
Sonnet 6 ('How many paltry, foolish, painted things')
Sonnet 13 ('You're not alone when you are still alone')
Christopher Marlowe (1564-93)
The Passionate Shepherd to his Love
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
From Sonnets
Sonnet 1 ('From fairest creatures we desire increase')
Sonnet 2 ('When forty winters shall besiege thy brow')
Sonnet 12 ('When I do count the clock that tells the time')
Sonnet 18 ('Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?')
Sonnet 29 ('When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes')
Sonnet 30 ('When to the sessions of sweet silent thought')
Sonnet 55 ('Not marble, not the gilded monuments')
Sonnet 60 ('Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore')
Sonnet 64 ('When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced')
Sonnet 71 ('No longer mourn for me when I am dead')
Sonnet 73 ('That time of year thou mayst in me behold')
Sonnet 90 ('Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now')
Sonnet 91 ('Some glory in their birth, some in their skill')
Sonnet 94 ('They that have power to hurt and will do none')
Sonnet 96 ('Some say thy fault is youth, some wantonness')
Sonnet 110 ('Alas,tis true, I have gone here and there')
Sonnet 115 ('Those lines that I before have writ, do lie')
Sonnet 116 ('Let me not to the marriage of true minds')
Sonnet 121 ('Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed')
Sonnet 129 ('The expense of spirit in a waste of shame')
Sonnet 130 ('My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun')
Sonnet 138 ('When my love swears that she is made of truth')
Sonnet 139 ('O call me not to justify the wrong')
Sonnet 140 ('Be wise as thou art cruel, do not press')
Sonnet 141 ('In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes')
Sonnet 147 ('My love is as a fever, longing still')
Sonnet 148 ('Oh me! What eyes hath Love put in my head')
Thomas Campion (1567-1620)
Cherry-Ripe ('There is a garden in her face')
John Donne (1572-1631)
Love's Deity
Song ('Go and catch a falling star')
Woman's Constancy
The Flea
The Bait
The Will
The Sun Rising
The Co
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