Renaissance Poetry

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ISBN: 9780631230106 | 0631230106
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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

xii

Acknowledgements

xiii

Introduction

(11)

Duncan Wu

Edmund Spenser (?1552--1599)

(23)

Prothalamion

(4)

From The Faerie Queene

The bower of Bliss (II. xii)

(4)

The garden of Adonis (III. vi)

(5)

Mutability claims to rule the world (VII. vii)

(10)

Sir Walter Ralegh (?1552--1618)

(1)

The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd

(1)

Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke (1554--1628)

(3)

From Caelica

Sonnet 69 (`When all this All doth pass from age to age')

(1)

Sonnet 86 (`The earth with thunder torn, with fire blasted')

(1)

Sonnet 99 (`Down in the depth of mine iniquity')

(1)

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

(2)

Sir Philip Sidney (1554--1586)

(4)

From Certain Sonnets

Sonnet 31 (`Thou blind man's mark, thou fool's self chosen snare')

(1)

Sonnet 32 (`Leave me, O love which reachest but to dust')

(1)

From Astrophil and Stella

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

(1)

Sonnet 27 (`Because I oft, in dark abstracted guise')

(1)

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

(1)

Sonnet 34 (`Come, let me write: And to what end? To ease')

(1)

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

(1)

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

(1)

Sonnet 54 (`Because I breathe not love to every one')

(1)

Sonnet 94 (`Grief find the words, for thou hast made my brain')

(1)

Michael Drayton (1563--1631)

(1)

From Idea

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

(1)

Sonnet 13 (`You're not alone when you are still alone')

(1)

Christopher Marlowe (1564--1593)

(1)

The Passionate Shepherd to his Love

(1)

William Shakespeare (1564--1616)

(10)

From Sonnets

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

(1)

Sonnet 2 (`When forty winters shall besiege thy brow')

(1)

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

(1)

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

(1)

Sonnet 29 (`When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes')

(1)

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

(1)

Sonnet 55 ('Not marble, not the gilded monuments')

(1)

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

(1)

Sonnet 64 (`When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced')

(1)

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

(1)

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

(1)

Sonnet 90 (`Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now')

(1)

Sonnet 91 (`Some glory in their birth, some in their skill')

(1)

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

(1)

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

(1)

Sonnet 115 (`Those lines that I before have writ, do lie')

(1)

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

(1)

Sonnet 121 (''Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed')

(1)

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

(1)

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

(1)

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

(1)

Sonnet 139 (`O call not me to justify the wrong')

(1)

Sonnet 140 (`Be wise as thou art cruel, do not press')

(1)

Sonnet 141 (`In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes')

(1)

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

(1)

Sonnet 148 (`Oh me! what eyes hath Love put in my head')

(1)

Thomas Campion (1567--1620)

(1)

Cherry-Ripe (`There is a garden in her face')

(1)

John Donne (1572--1631)

(23)

Love's Deity

(1)

Song (`Go and catch a falling star')

(1)

Woman's Constancy

(1)

The Flea

(1)

The Bait

(1)

The Will

(1)

The Sun Rising

(1)

The Computation

(1)

A Lecture upon the Shadow

(1)

Love's Alchemy

(1)

The Ecstasy

(1)

The Good-Morrow

(1)

Air and Angels

(1)

The Prohibition

(1)

Lovers' Infiniteness

(1)

Love's Growth

(1)

The Anniversary

(1)

The Canonization

(1)

A Valediction: Of Weeping

(1)

A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning

(1)

The Funeral

(1)

The Relic

(1)

Twicknam Garden

(1)

A Nocturnal upon St Lucy's Day, being the Shortest Day

(1)

To his Mistress Going to Bed

(1)

From Holy Sonnets

Sonnet 6 (`Death be not proud, though some have called thee')

(1)

Sonnet 10 (`Batter my heart, three-personed God, for you')

(1)

Good Friday, 1613. Riding westward

(1)

A Hymn to God the Father

(1)

Hymn to God, my God, in my Sickness

(1)

Ben Jonson (?1573--1637)

(18)

From Epigrams

On Court-Worm

(1)

On my First Daughter

(1)

On my First Son

(1)

On Gut

(1)

From The Forest

To Penshurst

(2)

To Sir Robert Wroth

(2)

Song. To Celia (`Drink to me only with thine eyes')

(1)

Epistle. To Katharine, Lady Aubigny

(3)

From Underwoods

A Celebration of Charis in ten lyric pieces (extract)

(1)

Her Triumph

(1)

My Picture, left in Scotland

(1)

An Epitaph on Master Vincent Corbet

(1)

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

(3)

An Elegy. On the Lady Jane Pawlet, Marchioness of Winton

(3)

From Cynthia's Revels

Slow, slow, fresh fount

(1)

Robert Herrick (1591--1674)

(5)

From Hesperides

The Argument of his Book (`I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds, and bowers')

(1)

When he would have his Verses Read

(1)

Delight in Disorder

(1)

To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time

(1)

Upon Julia's Clothes

(1)

The Funeral Rites of the Rose

(1)

To Daisies, not to shut so soon

(1)

Cherry-Ripe

(1)

His Cavalier

100

(1)

The Difference betwixt Kings and Subjects

100

(1)

Kings and Tyrants

100

(1)

Slavery

100

(1)

Ill Government

100

(1)

His Return to London

100

(2)

Henry King (1592--1669)

102

(3)

The Exequy

102

(3)

George Herbert (1593--1633)

105

(7)

From The Temple

The Pulley

105

(1)

Church Monuments

105

(1)

Redemption

106

(1)

Nature

106

(1)

Prayer

107

(1)

The Pilgrimage

107

(1)

Artillery

108

(1)

The Collar

109

(1)

The Flower

110

(1)

Love

111

(1)

John Milton (1608--1674)

112

(15)

L'Allegro

112

(3)

Il Penseroso

115

(4)

Lycidas

119

(4)

On the Lord General Fairfax at the Siege of Colchester

123

(1)

To the Lord General Cromwell

123

(1)

To Sir Henry Vane the Younger

124

(1)

On the Late Massacre in Piedmont

124

(1)

On his Blindness

125

(1)

To Cyriack Skinner

125

(1)

To the Same

125

(1)

On his Deceased Wife

126

(1)

Andrew Marvell (1621--1678)

127

(37)

The Garden

127

(1)

On a Drop of Dew

128

(1)

The Mower against Gardens

129

(1)

The Coronet

130

(1)

A Dialogue between the Soul and Body

131

(1)

Bermudas

132

(1)

The Nymph complaining for the Death of her Fawn

133

(3)

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

136

(1)

To his Coy Mistress

137

(1)

An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland

138

(2)

Tom May's Death

140

(3)

Upon Appleton House

143

(21)

Henry Vaughan (1621--1695)

164

(12)

From Silex Scintillans

The Seed growing Secretly

164

(1)

The Night

165

(1)

The Morning Watch

166

(1)

Regeneration

167

(2)

The Retreat

169

(1)

Silence, and stealth of days!

170

(1)

The World

171

(2)

I walked the other day (to spend my hour)

173

(1)

They are all gone into the world of light!

174

(2)

Thomas Traherne (1637--1674)

176

(6)

Eden

176

(1)

Innocence

177

(2)

My Spirit

179

(3)

Index of Titles and First Lines

182

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