The New Penguin Book of English Verse

by Keegan, Paul

• ISBN13: 9780713992106
• ISBN10: 0713992107
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-10-01
• Publisher: Trafalgar Square

Summary

This anthology emphasizes the community of the poem rather than the isolation of the poet. The result is a more continuous view of English verse than has usually been attempted, from the fourteenth to the late twentieth century. Poems are seen as talking to each other, striking juxtapositions are made and a new chronology comes to light. Equally, it chronicles the evolution of English verse in linguistic and historical, rather than purely biographical, terms. Texts are reproduced with original spelling and punctuation, allowing the printed voice of the poetry to be seen and heard. Space is also given to 'the poetries traditionally excluded by Poetry': readers will find a higher proportion than usual of anonymous verse, and a selection of poems written on surfaces other than paper, such as inscriptions and epitaphs.

Table of Contents

Preface
'Ich am of Irlande'	p. 3
'Maiden in the more lay'	p. 3
'Al night by the rose, rose'	p. 4
'Bitwene March and Averil'	p. 5
'Erthe tok of erthe'	p. 6
'Gold and al this worldes wyn'	p. 7
'Gloria mundi est'	p. 7
'Love me broughte'	p. 8
[The Dragon Speaks]	p. 8
from The Parliament of Fowls: [Catalogue of the Birds]	p. 9
from The Parliament of Fowls: [Roundel]	p. 11
from The Boke of Troilus: [Envoi]	p. 12
'When Adam dalf and Eve span'	p. 15
from The Vision of Pier Plowman: [Prologue]	p. 15
from The Vision of Pier Plowman: [Gluttony in the Ale-house]	p. 17
from The General Prologue 'When that Aprill with his shoures soote'	p. 20
from The General Prologue [The Prioress]	p. 21
from The Knight's Tale [The Temple of Mars]	p. 22
from The Knight's Tale [Saturn]	p. 24
from The Milleres Tale [Alysoun]	p. 25
from The Wife of Bath's Prologue 'My fourthe housebonde was a revelour'	p. 26
from The Pardoner's Tale 'Thise riotoures thre of whiche I telle'	p. 28
from Patience: [Jonah and the Whale]	p. 31
from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: [Gawain Journeys North]	p. 33
Envoy to Scogan	p. 36
from Confessio Amantis: [Pygmaleon]	p. 37
from Confessio Amantis: [The Rape of Lucrece]	p. 39
from The Complaint of Hoccleve 'Afur that hervest inned had hise sheves'	p. 41
[Ballade] ('In the forest of Noyous Hevynes')	p. 44
[Roundel] ('Take, take this cosse, atonys, atonys, my hert!')	p. 45
[Roundel] ('Go forth myn hert wyth my lady')	p. 46
'Adam lay y-bownden'	p. 46
'I syng of a mayden'	p. 47
'The merthe of alle this londe'	p. 48
[Christ Triumphant]	p. 49
[Holly against Ivy]	p. 49
'Ther is no rose of swych vertu'	p. 50
from Phyllyp Sparowe: 'Whan I remembre agayn'	p. 50
from The Testament of Cresseid 'O ladyis fair of Troy and Greece, attend'	p. 54
When He Wes Seik	p. 59
'Done is a battell on the dragon blak'	p. 63
'In to thir dirk and drubile dayis'	p. 64
from The Aeneid: from Book I [Aeolus Looses the Winds]	p. 66
from The Aeneid: from The Proloug of the Sevyax Baik of Eneados	p. 67
[The Corpus Christi Caml]	p. 70
'Farewell, this worldl I take my love for evere'	p. 70
Draw me nere, draw me nere'	p. 72
'Westron wynde when wyll thow blow'	p. 74
from A Goodly Garlande or Chapelet of Laurell: [The Garden of the Muses: lopas' Song]	p. 74
To Maystres Isabell Pennell	p. 75
from Speke Parott: [Parrot's Complaint]	p. 76
'Pleasure it is'	p. 78
Psalm 137: Super flumina	p. 79
'The longe love that in my thought doeth harbar'	p. 79
'Who so list to hount I knowe where is an hynde'	p. 80
'They fle from me that sometyme did me seke'	p. 80
'My lute awake! Perfourme the last'	p. 81
'Forget not yet the tryde entent'	p. 82
'Myne owne John Poyntz, sins ye delight to know'	p. 83
An Excellent Epitaffe of Syr Thomas Wyat	p. 85
The Balade whych Anne Askewe made and sange whan she was in Newgate	p. 87
[Chorus from Thyestes] ('Stond who so list upon the Slipper toppe')	p. 88
'O happy dames, that may embrace'	p. 89
'Alas, so all thinges nowe doe holde their peace'	p. 90
from Certayan bokes of Virgiles Aenaeis	p. 90
[Aeneas searches for his wife]
from The Geneva Bible, Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 ('To all things there is an appointed time')	p. 92
'OF Youth He Singeth'	p. 93
Commynge Horne-warde out of Spayne	p. 93
An Epytaphe of the Death of Nicolas Grimoald	p. 94
from The First Four Books of Ovid: [Proserpine and Dis]	p. 95
from The First Four Books of Ovid: [Dasphne and Apollo]	p. 95
from The Fifteen Books of Ovid [Medes's Incantation]	p. 98
'To luve unluvit it is ane pane'	p. 99
'Christ was the word that spake it'	p. 100
from The Shepheardes Calendar [Roundelay]	p. 100
lambicurn Trimetrum	p. 102
[Chorus from Hercules Furens]	p. 103
My Love is Past	p. 103
A New Courtly Sonet, of the Lady Greensleeves	p. 105
'My prime of youth is but a froste of cares'	p. 106
'Constant Penelope, sends to thee carelesse Ulisses'	p. 107
from Sixe idillia ... chosen out of ... Theocritus: [Adonis]	p. 107
'My true love hath my hart, and I have his'	p. 108
'As you came from the holy land'	p. 109
Sonet ('Fra bane to banc fra wod to wod I rin')	p. 110
'His Golden lockes, Time hath to Silver turn'd'	p. 110
from The Faerie Queene: from Book II, Canto XII [The Bower of Blisse Destroyed]	p. 111
from The Faerie Queene: from Book III, Canto VI [The Gardin of Adonis]	p. 114
from The Faerie Queene: from Book III, Canto XI [Britomart in the House of the Enchanter Busyrane]	p. 117
from Astrophil and Stella: 1 'Loving in truth, and faine in verse my love to show'	p. 119
from Astrophil and Stella: 31 'With how sad steps, o Moone, thou climb'st the skies'	p. 120
from Astrophil and Stella: 33 'I might, unhappie word, o me, I might'	p. 120
'Harke, al you ladies that do sleep'	p. 121
from Ariosto's Orlando Furioso: [Astolfo flies by Chariot to the Moon]	p. 122
from Midas: 'Pan's Syrinx was a Girle indeed'	p. 125
from Delia: 45 'Care-charmer sleepe, sonne of the Sable night'	p. 125
'Deere to my soule, then leave me not forsaken'	p. 126
The Lie	p. 126
'Praisd be Dianas faire and harmles light'	p. 129
The Sheepheards Sorrow, Being Disdained in Love	p. 129
from Parthenophil and Parthenophe [Sestina]: ('Then, first with lockes disheveled, and bare')	p. 132
from The Countress of Pembroke's Arcadia: 'Yee Gote-heard Gods, that love the grassie mountaines'	p. 134
from Love's Labours Lost: 'When Dasies pied, and Violets blew'	p. 137
'Weare I a Kinge I coude commande content'	p. 138
from Amoretti: Sonnet LXVII ('Lyke as huntsman after weary chace')	p. 138
from Amoretti: Sonnet LXVIII ('Most glorious Lord of lyfe that on this day')	p. 139
Decease Release	p. 139
New Heaven, New Warre	p. 141
The Burning Babe	p. 141
from The Old Wives Tale: 'When as the Rie reach to the chin'	p. 142
from The Old Wives Tale: 'Gently dip: but not too deepe'	p. 142
Prothalamion	p. 143
In Cosmum	p. 148
from Orchestra, or a Poeme of Dauncing: ['The speach of Love persuading men to learn Dancing']	p. 148
'Since Bonny-boots was dead, that so divinely'	p. 150
Of the Reed That the Jews Set in Our Saviour's Hand	p. 150
Of His Conversion	p. 151
'Forsaken woods, trees with sharpe storms opprest'	p. 151
'When to my deadlie pleasure'	p. 152
'Leave me o Love, which reachest but to dust'	p. 153
Psalm 58 ('And call yee this to utter what is just')	p. 154
from Psalm 139 ['Each inmost peece in me is thine']	p. 155
from Hero and Leander: 'His bodie was a straight as Circes wand'	p. 156
'Hark, all ye lovely saints above'	p. 159
from All Ovids Elegies: Book I, Elegia 5 ('In summers heat and mid-time of the day')	p. 159
from All Ovids Elegies: Book III, Elegia 13 ('Seeing thou art faire, I barre not thy false playing')	p. 160
On His Mistris	p. 161
from Idea: 5 'Nothing but No and I, and I and No'	p. 163
from Of the Day Estivall: 'O perfite light, quhilk schaid away'	p. 163
from David and Fair Bethsabe: 'Hot sunne, coole fire, temperd with sweet aire'	p. 167
from Musophilus: [Stonehenge]	p. 168
from Caelica: Sonnet XLV ('Absence, the noble truce')	p. 169
from Caelica: Sonnet LXXXIV ('Farewell sweet boy, complaine not of my truth')	p. 170
from Caelica: Sonnet LXXXV ('Love is the Peace, whereto all thoughts doe strive')	p. 171
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