British Literature, 1640-1789 : An Anthology

by DeMaria, Robert

• ISBN13: 9781405119283
• ISBN10: 1405119284
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-01-14
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

The third edition of this successful anthology is a thoroughly updated collection of historical literatures that span the period from the British Civil War to the French Revolution. Fully updated, this anthology retains the historical span and range of major and minor literatures that made the first two editions so successful Represents many texts in their entirety and in their earliest recoverable versions Includes longer selections from some writers too scantly represented in the previous edition including Equiano Mary Barber and Anne Wharton Additional works by major authors, including Pope's Eloisa to Abelard, and a portion of Lucy Hutchinson's Order in Disorder. Writers such as Abiezer Cope, John Armstrong, and Ephraim Chambers, have been restored from the first edition Includes new drama selections Added timelines, an alternative listing of contents by theme, and updated head notes make this volume especially accessible to beginning students

Author Biography

Robert DeMaria, Jr., is the Henry Noble MacCracken Professor of English at Vassar College, where he has taught and often served as chair of his department since 1975. He has been a Guggenheim fellow and a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. He is the author of several books about Samuel Johnson and the editor (with the late Gwin Kolb) of Johnson on the English Language, volume 18 in the Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson. Most recently he has edited (with Robert D. Brown) Classical Literature and its Reception (Blackwell, 2007).

Table of Contents

List Of Authors

Chronology

Thematic Table of Contents

Introduction

Editorial Principles

Acknowledgments

Ballads And Newsbooks From The Civil War (1640-1649)

The World Is Turned Upside Down (1646)

The King''s Last Farewell To The World, Or The Dead King''s Living Meditations

At The Approach Of Death Denounced Against Him (1649)

The Royal Health To The Rising Sun (1649)

From A Perfect Diurnal Of Some Passages In Parliament (1949)

Number 288 29 January - 5 February 1649 From Mercurius Pragmaticus (1649)

Number 43 30 January - 6 February 1649

Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679):From Leviathan (1651)

Chapter XIII Of The Natural Condition Of Mankind, As Concerning Their Felicity And Misery

Robert Filmer (1588?-1653)

From Patriarcha, Or The Natural Power Of Kings Asserted (1680)

V Kings Are Either Fathers Of Their People, Or Heirs Of Such Fathers, Or The Usurpes Of The Rights Of Such Fathers

VI Of The Escheating Of Kingdoms

VII Of The Agreement Of Paternal And Regal Power

Robert Herrick (1591-1674)

From Hersperides (1648)

The Argument Of His Book

To Daffodils

The Night-Piece, To Julia

The Hock-Cart, Or Harvest Home

Upon Julia''s Cloths

When He Would Have His Verses Read

Delight In Disorder

To The Virgins, To Make Much Of Time

His Return To London

The Bad Season Makes The Poet Sad

The Pillar Of Fame

John Reeve (1608-1658) and Lodowicke Muggleton (1609-1698)

From Joyful News from Heaven or the Last Intelligence from Our Glorified Jesus above

John Milton (1608-1674)

From The Dontrine And Discipline Of Divorce

Restored To The Good Of Both Sexes, From The Bondage Of Canon Law, And Other Mistakes, To Christian Freedom, Guided By The Rule Of Charity

Wherein Also Many Places Of Scripture, Have Recovered Their Long-Lost Meaning

Seasonable To Be Now Thought On In The Reformation Intended (1643)

Book I The Preface

From Chapter I

From Chapter VI

From Areopagitica; A Speech

For The Liberty Of Unlicensed Printing, To The Parliament Of England (1644)

From Poems (1673)

Sonnet 18 (1655) On The Late Massacre In Piemont

Sonnet 19 (1652?) ''When I Consider How My Light Is Spent''Sonnet 16 (To The Lord General Cromwell, 1652)

From Paradise Lost (1667)

The Verse

Book I

Book II

Book IV

Book IX

Margaret Fell Fox (1614-1702)

From Women''s Speaking Justified, Proved And Allowed By The Scriptures (1666)

Richard Lovelace (1618-1657):From Lucasta (1649)

Song To Lucasta, Going To The Wars

Song To Amarantha, That She Would Dishevel Her Hair

To Althea, From Prison Song

Abraham Cowley (1618-1667): From Poems (1656)

ODE Of Wit

To Mr Hobbes

Abiezer Coppe (1619-1672)

From A Fiery Flying Roll (1649)

From A Second Fiery Flying Roll (1649)

Lucy Apsley Hutchinson (1620-1681):From Order and Disorder (1679)

Andrew Marvell (1621-1678):From Miscellaneous Poems (1681)

Bermudas (1653?)

The Mower To The Glo-Worms (1651-2?)

An Horatian Ode Upon Cromwells'' Return From Ireland (1650)

The Garden (1651-2)

On A Drop Of Dew (1651-2?)

To His Coy Mistress (C.1645)

Henry Vaughan (1621-1695):From Silex Scintillans (1655)''They Are All Gone Into The World Of Light!''The Night

Margaret Cavendish, Duchess Of Newcastle (1623-1673):From Poems And Fancies (1653)

Poets Have Most Pleasure In This Life

From The Description Of A New World, Called The Blazing World (1666)

Dorothy Osborne Temple (1627-1695):From Letters To William Temple

Letter 3 8 January 1653Letter 28 2 July 1653

Letter 58 11 February 1654

From Grace Abounding To The Chief Of Sinners (1666)

John Dryden (1631-1700):To My Honoured Friend

On His Learned And Useful Works; And More Particularly This Of Stone-Henge, By Him Restored To The True Founders (1663)

Mac Flecknoe (1676?)

Absalom And Achitophel: A Poem (1681)

To The Memory Of Mr. Oldham (1684)

To The Pious Memory Of The Accomplished Young Lady Mrs. Anne Killigrew (1686) An ODEA Song For St. Cecilia''s Day (1687)

From Fables Ancient And Modern (1700)

Pygmalion And The Statue

Katherine Philips (1631-1664):From Poems By The Most Deservedly Admired Mrs. Katherine Philips, the matchless Orinda (1667).Friendship

Friendship''

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