N A E 8E Ma Vol A Pa

by Greenblatt,Stephen

• ISBN13: 9780393928303
• ISBN10: 0393928306
• Edition: 8th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-04-03
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

The classic survey of English literature in a vibrant new edition, with Stephen Greenblatt as general editor. A legendary bestseller for more than forty years, The Norton Anthology of English Literature is the classic survey to the field from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century. With more than ninety authors, the Major Authors Edition deepens its representation of essential works in all genres, ranging from Seamus Heaney's award-winning translation of Beowulf and Shakespeare's Twelfth Night to the greats of the nineteenth century--Blake and Wordsworth, Tennyson and Barrett Browning--to twentieth-century classics of a truly global English literature--Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Woolf's A Room of One's Own, poetry by Derek Walcott, and prose by Nadine Gordimer and Salman Rushdie, to name but a few. Color plates--over seventy-five in all--bring to life the cultural concerns of each period. Concise glosses and annotations, period introductions, biographical headnotes, timelines, and selected bibliographies help readers understand and enjoy the rich diversity of English literature.

Table of Contents

PREFACE TO THE EIGHTH EDITION	xvii
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	xxvii
The Middle Ages (to ca. 1485)	1	(23)
Introduction	1	(21)
Anglo-Saxon Literature	3	(4)
Anglo-Norman Literature	7	(3)
Middle English Literature in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries	10	(5)
Medieval English	15	(4)
Old and Middle English Prosody	19	(3)
Timeline	22	(2)
ANGLO-SAXON LITERATURE	24	(74)
THE DREAM OF THE ROOD	24	(2)
BEOWULF
translated by Seamus Heaney	26	(72)
ANGLO-NORMAN LITERATURE	98	(14)
MARIE DE FRANCE	98	(14)
Lanval	99	(13)
MIDDLE ENGLISH LITERATURE IN THE FOURTEENTH AND FIFTEENTH CENTURIES	112	(155)
SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT (ca. 1375-1400)	112	(53)
GEOFFREY CHAUCER (ca. 1343-1400)	165	(102)
THE CANTERBURY TALES	168	(100)
The General Prologue	170	(20)
Summary: The Knight's Tale	190	(1)
The Miller's Prologue and Tale	191	(16)
The Prologue	191	(2)
The Tale	193	(14)
The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale	207	(28)
The Prologue	207	(19)
The Tale	226	(9)
The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale	235	(15)
The Introduction	235	(1)
The Prologue	236	(3)
The Tale	239	(9)
The Epilogue	248	(2)
The Nun's Priest's Tale	250	(14)
[Close of Canterbury Tales]	263	(1)
The Parson's Tale	264	(2)
The Introduction	264	(2)
Chaucer's Retraction	266	(1)
CHRIST'S HUMANITY	267	(32)
WILLIAM LANGLAND (ca. 1330-1387)	268	(14)
The Vision of Piers Plowman	271	(11)
Passus 18	271	(12)
[The Crucifixion and Harrowing of Hell]	271	(11)
JULIAN OF NORWICH (1342—ca. 1416)	282	(3)
A Book of Showings to the Anchoress Julian of Norwich	283	(2)
Chapter 5 [All Creation as a Hazelnut]	283	(1)
Chapter 7 [Christ as Homely and Courteous]	284	(1)
MARGERY KEMPE (ca. 1373-1438)	285	(5)
The Book of Margery Kempe	286	(15)
Book 1.35-36 [Margery's Marriage to and Intimacy with Christ]	286	(4)
THE YORK PLAY OF THE CRUCIFIXION (ca. 1425)	290	(9)
SIR THOMAS MALORY (ca. 1405-1471)	299	(20)
Morte Darthur	301	(18)
[The Conspiracy against Lancelot and Guinevere]	301	(5)
[War Breaks Out between Arthur and Lancelot]	306	(3)
[The Death of Arthur]	309	(5)
[The Deaths of Lancelot and Guinevere]	314	(5)
The Sixteenth Century (1485-1603)	319	(256)
Introduction	319	(27)
Timeline	346	(2)
SIR THOMAS WYATT THE ELDER (1503-1542)	348	(5)
The long love that in my thought doth harbor	349	(1)
Petrarch, Rima 140	350	(1)
Whoso list to hunt	350	(1)
Petrarch, Rima 190	350	(1)
They flee from me	351	(1)
My lute, awake!	351	(1)
Stand whoso list	352	(1)
HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF SURREY (1517-1547)	353	(1)
Love, that doth reign and live within my thought	354	(1)
THE ENGLISH BIBLE	354	(3)
1 Corinthians 13	355	(2)
From Tyndale's Translation	355	(1)
From The Geneva Bible	356	(1)
From The Douay-Rheims Version	356	(1)
From The Authorized (King James) Version	357	(1)
ELIZABETH I (1533-1603)	357	(8)
The doubt of future foes	359	(1)
On Monsieur's Departure	359	(1)
A Letter to Sir Amyas Paulet, August 1586	360	(1)
Verse Exchange between Elizabeth and Sir Walter Ralegh	361	(1)
Speech to the Troops at Tilbury	362	(1)
The "Golden Speech"	363	(2)
EDMUND SPENSER (1552-1599)	365	(82)
The Faerie Queene	368	(2)
Book 1	370	(54)
Canto 1	371	(12)
From Canto 2	383	(6)
[Redcrosse Wins "Fidessa"]	383	(6)
Canto 3 Summary	389	(1)
From Canto 4	389	(8)
[The House of Pride]	389	(8)
Canto 5 Summary	397	(1)
Canto 6 Summary	398	(1)
Cantos 7 and 8 Summary	398	(1)
From Canto 9	398	(8)
From Canto 10	406	(5)
Canto 11	411	(12)
Canto 12 Summary	423	(1)
Book 2	424	(10)
Summary	424	(1)
From Canto 12	424	(10)
Amoretti and Epithalamion	434	(1)
AMORETTI
Sonnet 1 ("Happy ye leaves when as those lilly hands")	435	(1)
Sonnet 34 ("Lyke as a ship that through the Ocean wyde")	435	(1)
Sonnet 54 ("Of this worlds Theatre in which we stay")	436	(1)
Sonnet 64 ("Comming to kisse her lyps [such grace I found]")	436	(1)
Sonnet 67 ("Lyke as a huntsman after weary chace")	436	(1)
Sonnet 75 ("One day I wrote her name upon the strand")	437	(1)
Sonnet 79 ("Men call you fayre, and you doe credit it")	437	(1)
Epithalamion	438	(9)
SIR WALTER RALEGH (1552-1618)	447	(2)
The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd	448	(1)
The History of the World	449	(1)
[Conclusion: On Death]	449	(1)
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY (1554-1586)	449	(7)
Astrophil and Stella	451	(5)
1 ("Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show")	452	(1)
2 ("Not at first sight, nor with a dribbed shot")	452	(1)
6 ("Some lovers speak, when they their muses entertain")	452	(1)
20 ("Fly, fly, my friends, I have my death-wound, fly")	453	(1)
28 ("You that with allegory's curious frame")	453	(1)
31 ("With how sad steps, 0 Moon, thou climb'st the skies")	453	(1)
52 ("A strife is grown between Virtue and Love")	454	(1)
71 ("Who will in fairest book of Nature know")	454	(1)
72 ("Desire, though thou my old companion art")	454	(1)
74 ("I never drank of Aganippe well")	455	(1)
108 ("When Sorrow [using mine own fire's might]")	455	(1)
MARY (SIDNEY) HERBERT, COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE (1562-1621)	456	(2)
Psalm 52	457	(1)
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE (1564-1593)	458	(35)
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love	459	(1)
Doctor Faustus	460	(33)
The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus	461	(32)
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616)	493	(79)
SONNETS	497	(13)
3 ("Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest")	498	(1)
12 ("When I do count the clock that tells the time")	498	(1)
15 ("When I consider every thing that grows")	498	(1)
18 ("Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?")	499	(1)
19 ("Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws")	499	(1)
20 ("A woman's face with Nature's own hand painted")	499	(1)
23 ("As an unperfect actor on the stage")	500	(1)
29 ("When, in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes")	500	(1)
30 ("When to the sessions of sweet silent thought")	501	(1)
33 ("Full many a glorious morning have I seen")	501	(1)
55 ("Not marble, nor the gilded monuments")	501	(1)
60 ("Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore")	502	(1)
62 ("Sin of self-love possesseth all mine eye")	502	(1)
65 ("Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea")	502	(1)
71 ("No longer mourn for me when I am dead")	503	(1)
73 ("That time of year thou mayst in me behold")	503	(1)
80 ("O, how I faint when I of you do write")	503	(1)
85 ("My tongue-tied muse in manners holds her still")	504	(1)
87 ("Farewell: thou art too dear for my possessing")	504	(1)
93 ("So shall I live supposing thou art true")	504	(1)
94 ("They that have power to hurt and will do none")	505	(1)
97 ("How like a winter bath my absence been")	505	(1)
105 ("Let not my love be called idolatry")	506	(1)
106 ("When in the chronicle of wasted time")	506	(1)
116 ("Let me not to the marriage of true minds")	506	(1)
129 ("Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame")	507	(1)
130 ("My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun")	507	(1)
135 ("Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy Will")	507	(1)
138 ("When my love swears that she is made of truth")	508	(1)
144 ("Two loves I have of comfort and despair")	508	(1)
146 ("Poor soul, the center of my sinful earth")	509	(1)
147 ("My love is as a fever, longing still")	509	(1)
152 ("In loving thee thou know'st I am forsworn")	509	(1)
Twelfth Night	510	(62)
THOMAS NASHE (1567-1601)	572	(3)
A Litany in Time of Plague	572	(3)
The Early Seventeenth Century (1603-1660)	575	(278)
Introduction	575	(23)
Timeline	598	(2)
JOHN DONNE (1572-1631)	600	(30)
SONGS AND SONNETS	603	(13)
The Flea	603	(1)
The Good-Morrow	603	(1)
Song ("Go and catch a falling star")	604	(1)
The Undertaking	605	(1)
The Sun Rising	606	(1)
The Indifferent	607	(1)
The Canonization	607	(2)
Air and Angels	609	(1)
Break of Day	609	(1)
A Valediction: Of Weeping	610	(1)
Love's Alchemy	611	(1)
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning	611	(1)
The Ecstasy	612	(3)
The Funeral	615	(1)
The Relic	615	(1)
Elegy 16. On His Mistress	616	(2)
Elegy 19. To His Mistress Going to Bed	618	(1)
Satire 3	619	(3)
Holy Sonnets	622	(3)
1 ("Thou hast made me, and shall thy work decay?")	622	(1)
5 ("I am a little world made cunningly")	622	(1)
7 ("At the round earth's imagined corners, blow")	623	(1)
9 ("If poisonous minerals, and if that tree")	623	(1)
10 ("Death, be not proud, though some have called thee")	623	(1)
13 ("What if this present were the world's last night?")	624	(1)
14 ("Batter my heart, three-personed God; for you")	624	(1)
18 ("Show me, dear Christ, thy spouse so bright and clear")	625	(1)
19 ("Oh, to vex me, contraries meet in one")	625	(1)
Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward	625	(2)
Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness	627	(1)
A Hymn to God the Father	628	(1)
Devotions upon Emergent Occasions	628	(2)
Meditation 17	628	(2)
AEMILIA LANYER (1569-1645)	630	(8)
Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum	630	(3)
To the Doubtful Reader	630	(1)
Eve's Apology in Defense of Women	631	(2)
The Description of Cookham	633	(5)
BEN JONSON (1572-1637)	638	(12)
EPIGRAMS	640	(4)
To My Book	640	(1)
On My First Daughter	640	(1)
To John Donne	641	(1)
On My First Son	641	(1)
On Lucy, Countess of Bedford	642	(1)
Inviting a Friend to Supper	642	(1)
Epitaph on S. P., a Child of Queen Elizabeth's Chapel	643	(1)
THE FOREST	644	(2)
To Penshurst	644	(2)
UNDERWOOD	646	(4)
My Picture Left in Scotland	646	(1)
Queen and Huntress	647	(1)
Though I am Young	647	(1)
Still to Be Neat	648	(1)
To the Memory of My Beloved, The Author, Mr. William Shakespeare	648	(2)
MARY WROTH (1587?-1651?)	650	(4)
Pamphilia to Amphilanthus	652	(2)
1 ("When night's black mantle could most darkness prove")	652	(1)
16 ("Am I thus conquered? Have I lost the powers")	652	(1)
40 ("False hope which feeds but to destroy, and spill")	652	(1)
68 ("My pain, still smothered in my grieved breast")	653	(1)
74 Song ("Love a child is ever crying")	653	(1)
From A Crown of Sonnets Dedicated to Love	654	(1)
77 ("In this strange labyrinth how shall I turn?")	654	(1)
THOMAS HOBBES (1588-1679)	654	(5)
Leviathan	656	(3)
Part 1. Of Man	656	(4)
Chapter 13. Of the Natural Condition of Mankind as Concerning Their Felicity and Misery	656	(3)
GEORGE HERBERT (1593-1633)	659	(6)
THE TEMPLE	660	(5)
The Altar	660	(1)
Redemption	661	(1)
Easter Wings	661	(1)
Jordan (1)	662	(1)
The Collar	662	(1)
The Pulley	663	(1)
The Flower	664	(1)
Love (3)	665	(1)
ROBERT HERRICK (1591-1674)	665	(5)
HESPERIDES	666	(4)
The Vine	666	(1)
Delight in Disorder	667	(1)
Corinna's Going A-Maying	667	(2)
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time	669	(1)
Upon Julia's Clothes	669	(1)
RICHARD LOVELACE (1618-1657)	670	(2)
LUCASTA	670	(2)
To Lucasta, Going to the Wars	670	(1)
To Althea, from Prison	671	(1)
KATHERINE PHILIPS (1632-1664)	672	(3)
A Married State	672	(1)
Upon the Double Murder of King Charles	673	(1)
Friendship's Mystery, To My Dearest Lucasia	674	(1)
On the Death of My First and Dearest Child, Hector Philips	675	(1)
ANDREW MARVELL (1621-1678)	675	(11)
POEMS	677	(9)
To His Coy Mistress	677	(1)
The Definition of Love	678	(1)
The Mower to the Glowworms	679	(1)
The Mower's Song	680	(1)
The Garden	681	(1)
An Horatian Ode	682	(4)
MARGARET CAVENDISH (1623-1673)	686	(7)
From The Description of a New World, Called The Blazing World	687	(6)
JOHN MILTON (1608-1674)	693	(160)
POEMS	697	(14)
L'Allegro	697	(4)
Il Penseroso	701	(4)
Lycidas	705	(6)
From Areopagitica	711	(10)
SONNETS	721	(2)
How Soon Hath Time	721	(1)
When I Consider How My Light Is Spent	722	(1)
On the Late Massacre in Piedmont	722	(1)
Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint	723	(1)
Paradise Lost	723	(130)
The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century (1660-1785)	853
Introduction	853	(24)
Timeline	877	(2)
JOHN DRYDEN (1631-1700)	879	(38)
Absalom and Achitophel: A Poem	880	(24)
Mac Flecknoe	904	(6)
To the Memory of Mr. Oldham	910	(1)
A Song for St. Cecilia's Day	911	(2)
CRITICISM	913	(4)
An Essay of Dramatic Poesy	914	(2)
[Shakespeare and Ben Jonson Compared]	914	(2)
A Discourse Concerning the Original and Progress of Satire	916	(58)
[The Art of Satire]	916	(1)
JOHN WILMOT, SECOND EARL OF ROCHESTER (1647-1680)	917	(5)
The Disabled Debauchee	918	(1)
The Imperfect Enjoyment	919	(1)
Upon Nothing	920	(2)
APHRA BERN (1640?-1689)	922	(49)
The Disappointment	924	(3)
Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave	927	(44)
JONATHAN SWIFT (1667-1745)	971	(149)
A Description of a City Shower	973	(1)
Gulliver's Travels	974	(140)
A Letter from Captain Gulliver to His Cousin Sympson	976	(2)
The Publisher to the Reader	978	(1)
Part 1. A Voyage to Lilliput	979	(37)
Part 2. A Voyage to Brobdingnag	1016	(40)
Part 3. A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdrib, Luggnagg, and Japan	1056	(1)
Chapter 2 [The Flying Island of Laputa]	1056	(6)
Chapter 5 [The Academy of Lagado]	1062	(2)
Chapter 10 [The Struldbruggs]	1064	(5)
Part 4. A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms	1069	(45)
A Modest Proposal	1114	(6)
ALEXANDER POPE (1688-1744)	1120	(58)
An Essay on Criticism	1123	(13)
The Rape of the Lock	1136	(19)
An Essay on Man	1155	(7)
Epistle 1. Of the Nature and State of Man, with Respect to the Universe	1156	(6)
From Epistle 2. Of the Nature and State of Man with Respect to Himself, as an Individual	1162	(1)
Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot	1162	(12)
The Dunciad: Book the Fourth	1174	(4)
[The Educator]	1176	(1)
[The Triumph of Dulness]	1176	(2)
ELIZA HAYWOOD (1693?-1756)	1178	(19)
Fantomina; or, Love in a Maze	1179	(18)
LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU (1689-1762)	1197	(5)
The Lover: A Ballad	1198	(2)
Epistle from Mrs. Yonge to Her Husband	1200	(2)
WILLIAM HOGARTH (1697-1764)	1202	(8)
Marriage A-la-Mode	1204	(6)
SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-1784)	1210	(103)
The Vanity of Human Wishes	1212	(8)
On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet	1220	(1)
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia	1221	(64)
Rambler No. 4 [On Fiction]	1285	(3)
Rambler No. 60 [Biography]	1288	(3)
A Dictionary of the English Language	1291	(6)
From Preface	1291	(15)
[Some Definitions: A Small Anthology]	1295	(2)
The Preface to Shakespeare	1297	(9)
[Shakespeare's Excellence. General Nature]	1298	(3)
[Shakespeare's Faults. The Three Dramatic Unities]	1301	(5)
[Twelfth Night]	1306	(1)
LIVES OF THE POETS	1306	(7)
Milton	1306	(8)
["Lycidas"]	1306	(1)
[Paradise Lost]	1307	(6)
JAMES BOSWELL (1740-1795)	1313	(17)
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.	1314	(16)
[Plan of the Life]	1314	(2)
[Johnson's Early Years. Marriage and London]	1316	(5)
[The Letter to Chesterfield]	1321	(3)
[A Memorable Year: Boswell Meets Johnson]	1324	(3)
[Fear of Death]	1327	(1)
[Johnson Faces Death]	1327	(3)
THOMAS GRAY (1716-1771)	1330	(5)
Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat	1331	(1)
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard	1332	(3)
WILLIAM COLLINS (1721-1759)	1335	(2)
Ode Written in the Beginning of the Year 1746	1336	(1)
Ode to Evening	1336	(1)
WILLIAM COWPER (1731-1800)	1337	(3)
The Castaway	1338	(2)
OLAUDAH EQUIANO (ca. 1745-1797)	1340	(9)
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself	1340	(9)
[The Middle Passage]	1340	(4)
[A Free Man]	1344	(5)
FRANCES BURNEY (1752-1840)	1349
The Journal and Letters	1350
[First Journal Entry]	1350	(1)
["Down with her, Burney!"]	1351	(2)
[Encountering the King]	1353	(2)
[A Mastectomy]	1355	(5)
[M. D'Arblay's Postscript]	1360
POEMS IN PROCESS	A1
John Milton	A3
From Lycidas	A3
Alexander Pope	A5
From The Rape of the Lock	A5
From An Essay on Man	A6
Samuel Johnson	A7
From The Vanity of Human Wishes	A8
Thomas Gray	A9
From Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard	A9
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHIES	A13
Suggested General Readings	A13
The Middle Ages	A16
The Sixteenth Century	A21
The Early Seventeenth Century	A30
The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century	A38
APPENDICES
Literary Terminology	A45
Geographic Nomenclature	A67
British Money	A69
The British Baronage	A74
The Royal Lines of England and Great Britain	A76
Religions in England	A79
Illustration: The Universe According to Ptolemy	A83
Illustration: A London Playhouse of Shakespeare's Time	A84
Permissions Acknowledgments	A85
Index	A87