The Broadview Anthology of Seventeenth-Century Verse & Prose : Verse

by Black, Joseph Laurence; Nelson, Holly Faith; Rudrum, Alan

• ISBN13: 9781551114620
• ISBN10: 1551114623
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-04-01
• Publisher: Broadview Pr

Summary

The publication of The Broadview Anthology of Seventeenth-Century Verse and Prose is a literary event; this comprehensive volume is the first anthology of the period to reflect the breadth of seventeenth-century studies in recent decades. Over one hundred writers are included, from John Chamberlain at the beginning of the century to Elisabeth Singer Rowe at its end. There are generous selections from the work of all major writers, and a representation of the work of virtually every writer of significance. The work of women writers figures prominently, with extensive selections not only from canonical writers such as Behn and Bradstreet, but also from other writers (such as Katherine Philips and Margaret Cavendish) who have been receiving considerable scholarly attention in recent years.The anthology is broadly inclusive, with writing from America as well as from the British Isles. Memoirs, letters, political texts, travel writing, prophetic literature, street ballads, and pamphlet literature are all here, as is a full representation of the literary poetry and prose of the period, including the poetry of Jonson; the prose of Bacon; the metaphysical poetry of Donne, Herbert, Marvell, and others; the lyric verse of Herrick; and substantial selections from the poetry and prose of Milton and Dryden. (While Samson Agonistes is included in its entirety, Milton's epic poems have been excluded, in order to allow space for other works not so readily accessible elsewhere.)The editors have included complete works wherever possible. A headnote by the editors introduces each author, and each selection has been newly annotated.

Table of Contents

Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke	1	(6)
The Psalms of David
Psalm 52 Quid Gloriaris?	2	(1)
Psalm 58 Si Vere Utique	3	(1)
Psalm 74 Ut Quid, Deus	4	(2)
Psalm 120 Ad Dominum	6	(1)
Michael Drayton	7	(4)
To the Virginian Voyage	7	(1)
To the Cambro-Britons, and their Harp, his Ballad of Agincourt	8	(2)
Sonnet 61	10	(1)
Thomas Campion	11	(4)
from A Book of Airs	12	(1)
Let him that will be free and keep his heart from care	12	(1)
Follow your Saint, follow with accents sweet	12	(1)
from Two Books of Airs	12	(1)
Sweet, exclude me not, nor be divided	12	(1)
As by the streams of Babylon	13	(1)
from The Third Book of Airs	13	(1)
If Love loves truth, then women do not love	13	(1)
from The Fourth Book of Airs	13	(2)
There is a garden in her face	13	(2)
Henry Wotton	15	(2)
On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia	15	(1)
The Character of a Happy Life	15	(1)
Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton's Wife	16	(1)
On a Bank as I Sat a-Fishing: A Description of the Spring	16	(1)
De Morte	16	(1)
Aemilia Lanyer	17	(73)
Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum (excerpts)	17	(73)
To All Virtuous Ladies in General	17	(2)
The Author's Dream to the Lady Mary	19	(5)
Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum (excerpts)	24	(9)
The Description of Cooke-ham	33	(57)
Lady Mary Wroth	90	(9)
Pamphilia to Amphilanthus	90	(9)
1 When night's black mantle could most darkness prove	90	(1)
8 Love, leave to urge, thou know'st thou hast the hand	91	(1)
13 Cloyed with the torments of a tedious night	91	(1)
15 Dear famish not what you yourself gave food	91	(1)
16 Am I thus conquered? Have I lost the powers	92	(1)
22 Come darkest night, becoming sorrow best	92	(1)
25 Like to the Indians, scorched with the sun	92	(1)
26 When everyone to pleasing pastime hies	93	(1)
39 Take heed mine eyes, how you your looks do cast	93	(1)
40 False hope which feeds but to destroy, and spill	93	(1)
48 If ever Love had force in human breast?	94	(1)
Song 74 Love, a child, is ever crying	94	(1)
A Crown of Sonnets Dedicated to Love
77 In this strange labyrinth, how shall I turn?	94	(1)
78 Is to leave all, and take the thread of Love	95	(1)
79 His flames are joys, his bands true lovers' might	95	(1)
80 And be in his brave court a glorious light	95	(1)
81 And burn, yet burning you will love the smart	95	(1)
82 He may our prophet, and our tutor prove	96	(1)
83 How blest be they then, who his favours prove	96	(1)
84 He that shuns love doth love himself the less	96	(1)
85 But where they may return with honour's grace	96	(1)
86 Be from the Court of Love, and Reason torn	97	(1)
87 Unprofitably pleasing, and unsound	97	(1)
88 Be given to him who triumphs in his right	97	(1)
89 Free from all fogs but shining fair, and clear	98	(1)
90 Except my heart which you bestowed before	98	(1)
103 My muse, now happy, lay thy self to rest	98	(1)
William Browne	99	(1)
On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke	99	(1)
Robert Herrick	100	(15)
To the Most Illustrious, and Most Hopeful Prince, Charles, Prince of Wales	100	(1)
The Argument of his Book	100	(1)
When he would have his verses read	101	(1)
The Difference Betwixt Kings and Subjects	101	(1)
Upon the Loss of His Mistresses	101	(1)
Cherry-Ripe	101	(1)
To the King and Queen, Upon Their Unhappy Distances	102	(1)
Delight In Disorder	102	(1)
Duty to Tyrants	102	(1)
To Dianeme	102	(1)
Corinna's Going A Maying	102	(2)
To live merrily, and to trust to Good Verses	104	(1)
To the Virgins, To make much of Time	105	(1)
The Hock-cart, or Harvest home:	105	(1)
To Anthea, who may command him anything	106	(1)
To Meadows	107	(1)
Upon Prudence Baldwin her sickness	107	(1)
On himself	107	(1)
Casualties	107	(1)
To Daffodils	108	(1)
Matins, or morning Prayer	108	(1)
Evensong	108	(1)
The Bracelet to Julia	108	(1)
The Departure of the Good Daemon	108	(1)
The Power in the People	109	(1)
To His Book	109	(1)
Shame, no Statist	109	(1)
Fresh Cheese and Cream	109	(1)
His Winding-Sheet	109	(1)
His Prayer to Ben. Jonson	110	(1)
An Ode for him	110	(1)
My Ben	110	(1)
The bad season makes the Poet sad	111	(1)
His return to London	111	(1)
His Grange, Or Private Wealth	111	(1)
Upon Julia's Clothes	112	(1)
A Thanksgiving to God, for his House	112	(1)
His Litany, to the Holy Spirit	113	(2)
Francis Quarles	115	(11)
Emblem III (from Book III)	115	(1)
Emblem VII (from Book III)	116	(1)
Epigram III (from Book IV)	117	(2)
Eclogue VIII	119	(7)
Henry King	126	(4)
An Exequy to his Matchless never to be forgotten Friend	126	(2)
Upon the Death of my ever Desired Friend Dr Donne Dean of Paul's	128	(1)
Sic Vita	129	(1)
George Herbert	130	(17)
The Altar	130	(1)
Redemption	130	(1)
Easter Wings	131	(1)
Affliction (I)	131	(1)
Prayer (I)	132	(1)
Jordan (I)	133	(1)
The H. Scriptures I	133	(1)
The H. Scriptures II	133	(1)
Church-monuments	133	(1)
The Windows	134	(1)
Denial	134	(1)
Vanity (I)	135	(1)
Virtue	136	(1)
The Pearl. Matth. 13:45	136	(1)
Man	137	(1)
Life	138	(1)
Jordan (II)	138	(1)
The Quip	138	(1)
Providence	139	(3)
Paradise	142	(1)
The Pilgrimage	142	(1)
The Collar	143	(1)
The Pulley	143	(1)
The Flower	144	(1)
Aaron	145	(1)
The Elixir	145	(1)
Love (III)	146	(1)
L'Envoy	146	(1)
Thomas Carew	147	(10)
A deposition from Love	147	(1)
Disdain returned	148	(1)
To Saxham	148	(1)
A Rapture	149	(3)
To Ben Jonson	152	(1)
An Elegy Upon the Death of the Dean of Pauls, Dr. John Donne	152	(2)
To a Lady that desired I would love her	154	(1)
A Song	154	(1)
The second Rapture	155	(1)
In praise of his Mistress	155	(2)
James Shirley	157	(1)
``The glories of our blood and state''	157	(1)
Rachel Speght	158	(7)
The Dream	158	(7)
Thomas Randolph	165	(8)
The Second Epode of Horace Translated	165	(1)
An Elegy upon the Lady Venetia Digby	166	(1)
Upon his Picture	167	(1)
An Ode to Master Anthony Stafford, to hasten him into the Country	167	(2)
An Answer to Master Ben. Jonson's Ode	169	(1)
On the Death of a Nightingale	170	(1)
A Pastoral Courtship	170	(3)
William Habington	173	(2)
Nox nocti indicat Scientiam	173	(2)
Edmund Waller	175	(5)
On a Girdle	175	(1)
Go, Lovely Rose!	175	(1)
Upon His Majesty's Repairing of Paul's	176	(1)
On St. James's Park, As Lately Improved by His Majesty	177	(2)
Of the last verses in the book	179	(1)
John Milton	180	(51)
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity	181	(6)
L'Allegro	187	(3)
Il Penseroso	190	(3)
Lycidas	193	(4)
Sonnet 7	197	(1)
Sonnet 12 On the detraction which followed upon my writing certain treatises	198	(1)
Sonnet 18 On the Late Massacre in Piedmont	199	(1)
Sonnet 19	199	(1)
On the New Forcers of Conscience under the Long Parliament	200	(1)
Sonnet 15 On the Lord General Fairfax at the Siege of Colchester	201	(1)
Samson Agonistes	201	(30)
Sir John Suckling	231	(10)
To the Reader	231	(1)
Song	232	(1)
A Ballad. Upon a Wedding	232	(2)
The Constant Lover	234	(1)
A Barley-break	235	(1)
Sonnet I	235	(1)
Sonnet II	236	(1)
Sonnet III	236	(1)
The Wits	237	(3)
A Candle	240	(1)
Gerrard Winstanley	241	(3)
The Diggers' Song	241	(3)
Anne Bradstreet	244	(12)
The Prologue	244	(1)
A Dialogue between Old England and New Concerning their Present Troubles	245	(6)
The Flesh and the Spirit	251	(2)
The Author to Her Book	253	(1)
To My Dear and Loving Husband	253	(1)
Another	253	(1)
In Memory of my Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet	254	(1)
Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666	254	(2)
Richard Crashaw	256	(10)
Wishes. To his (supposed) Mistress	256	(3)
Saint Mary Magdalene or The Weeper	259	(3)
A Hymn to the Name and Honour of the Admirable Saint Teresa	262	(4)
John Cleveland	266	(9)
The King's Disguise	266	(3)
The Rebel Scot	269	(4)
Epitaph on the Earl of Strafford	273	(1)
The General Eclipse	273	(2)
Samuel Butler	275	(7)
Hudibras (excerpts)	275	(7)
Rowland Watkyns	282	(4)
To the Reader	283	(1)
The Anabaptist	283	(1)
Upon the mournful death of our late Soveraign Lord Charles the first, King of England, &c.	283	(1)
The Common People	284	(1)
The holy Sepulchre	284	(1)
The new illiterate Lay-Teachers	284	(2)
Sir John Denham	286	(7)
Cooper's Hill	286	(7)
Richard Lovelace	293	(6)
To Lucasta, Going to the Wars	294	(1)
The Grasshopper	294	(1)
To Lucasta. From Prison	295	(1)
To my Worthy Friend Mr. Peter Lilly	296	(1)
To Althea, From Prison	297	(1)
The Ant	297	(1)
To a Lady with child that asked an Old Shirt	298	(1)
Abraham Cowley	299	(13)
The Wish	300	(1)
The Grasshopper	301	(1)
The Innocent Ill	302	(1)
On the Death of Mr. Crashaw	302	(2)
To Mr. Hobbes	304	(1)
Brutus	305	(2)
To the Royal Society	307	(2)
Sors Virgiliana	309	(1)
Of Solitude	310	(2)
Alexander Brome	312	(5)
The Levellers rant	312	(1)
The New-Courtier	313	(1)
The Saints' Encouragement	313	(2)
A Satire on the Rebellion	315	(2)
Lucy Hutchinson	317	(2)
``All Sorts of Men''	317	(2)
Andrew Marvell	319	(43)
Flecknoe, an English Priest at Rome	319	(3)
The Coronet	322	(1)
The Gallery	322	(1)
The Definition of Love	323	(1)
To His Coy Mistress	324	(1)
An Horatian Ode Upon Cromwell's Return From Ireland	325	(2)
The Picture of Little T.C. in a Prospect of Flowers	327	(1)
The Nymph Complaining for the Death of Her Fawn	328	(2)
Upon the Hill and Grove at Bilbrough	330	(1)
Upon Appleton House	331	(14)
The Garden	345	(1)
On a Drop of Dew	346	(1)
A Dialogue between the Soul and Body	347	(1)
The Mower against Gardens	348	(1)
Damon the Mower	348	(2)
The Mower to the Glow-worms	350	(1)
The Mower's Song	350	(1)
The Character of Holland	350	(3)
Bermudas	353	(1)
The First Anniversary of the Government under His Highness the Lord Protector	354	(6)
On Mr. Milton's ``Paradise Lost''	360	(2)
Henry Vaughan	362	(14)
A Rhapsody	362	(1)
Upon a Cloak Lent Him	363	(2)
Mr. J. Ridsley
Regeneration	365	(2)
The Retreat	367	(1)
``Joy of my life! while left me here''	367	(1)
The Morning-Watch	368	(1)
``And do they so?''	369	(1)
``I walked the other day''	369	(2)
``They are all gone into the world of light!''	371	(1)
Cock-Crowing	372	(1)
The Knot	373	(1)
The Night	373	(1)
The Book	374	(1)
To His Books	375	(1)
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle	376	(5)
The Poetress's Hasty Resolution	377	(1)
A Discourse of Beasts	377	(1)
The Hunting of the Hare	377	(2)
The Pastime of the Queen of the Fairies, when she comes upon earth out of the center	379	(1)
Her Descending Down	380	(1)
``I Language want''	380	(1)
John Dryden	381	(41)
Annus Mirabilis	381	(2)
Absalom and Achitophel	383	(18)
Mac Flecknoe	401	(5)
Religio Laici or A Layman's Faith (excerpt)	406	(8)
A Song for St Cecilia's Day, 1687	414	(2)
To the Memory of Mr. Oldham	416	(1)
Juvenal's Sixth Satire (excerpts)	416	(2)
The Empress Messalina	416	(1)
The learned wife	417	(1)
The gaudy gossip	417	(1)
Juvenal's Tenth Satire (excerpt)	418	(1)
Sejanus	418	(1)
The Secular Masque	419	(3)
Katherine Philips	422	(9)
Upon the Double Murder of K. Charles I in Answer to a Libelous Copy of Rimes	422	(1)
Vavasour Powell
On the Numerous Access of the English to wait upon the King in Flanders	423	(1)
On the 3 of September, 1651	423	(1)
Friendship's Mystery, To My Dearest Lucasia	424	(1)
A Retired Friendship, To Ardelia	425	(1)
Wiston Vault	425	(1)
To My Excellent Lucasia, On Our Friendship	426	(1)
A Country Life	426	(2)
Orinda to Lucasia parting October 1661 at London	428	(1)
Orinda Upon Little Hector Philips	429	(1)
Orinda to Lucasia	429	(1)
A Married State	430	(1)
Philo-Philippa	431	(4)
To the Excellent Orinda	431	(4)
Thomas Traherne	435	(9)
Wonder	435	(2)
Innocence	437	(1)
The Preparative	438	(1)
The Instruction	439	(1)
The Demonstration	439	(2)
The Anticipation	441	(3)
Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset	444	(1)
My Opinion	444	(1)
Sir Charles Sedley	445	(2)
Young Coridon and Phillis	445	(2)
Aphra Behn	447	(14)
Song ``I Led my Silvia to a Grove''	447	(1)
The Golden Age. A Paraphrase on a Translation out of French	448	(3)
Song ``Love Armed''	451	(1)
On a Juniper Tree, Cut Down to Make Busks	451	(2)
The Disappointment	453	(2)
On the Death of the late Earl of Rochester	455	(2)
A Pindaric on the Death of our Late Sovereign	457	(2)
To the fair Clarinda	459	(2)
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester	461	(12)
Song	461	(1)
Upon His Leaving His Mistress	462	(1)
A Satire Against Reason and Mankind	462	(3)
The Disabled Debauchee	465	(1)
Song	466	(1)
The Imperfect Enjoyment	466	(1)
A Ramble in St. James's Park	467	(3)
A Song of a Young Lady to her Ancient Lover	470	(1)
Signior Dildo	470	(2)
Impromptu on Charles II	472	(1)
Elinor James	473	(2)
An Injured Prince Vindicated, or, A Scurrilous and Detracting Pamphlet Answered	473	(2)
Thomas Wharton	475	(2)
Lilli Burlero	475	(2)
Jane Barker	477	(5)
An Invitation to my Friends at Cambridge	477	(1)
A Virgin Life	478	(1)
The Prospect of a Landscape, Beginning with a Grove	479	(1)
To My Young Lover	480	(1)
To My Friends Against Poetry	481	(1)
John Oldham	482	(6)
An Imitation of Horace	482	(3)
Upon a Bookseller	485	(3)
Anne Killigrew	488	(8)
A Farewell to Worldly Joys	488	(1)
The Complaint of a Lover	488	(1)
On a Picture Painted by Herself, Representing Two Nymphs of Diana's	489	(1)
Upon the Saying that my Verses were Made by Another	490	(1)
The Discontent	491	(2)
Cloris' Charms Dissolved by Eudora	493	(3)
John Tutchin	496	(4)
The Foreigners	496	(4)
Elizabeth Singer Rowe ``Philomela''	500	(7)
Platonic Love	500	(1)
A Poetical Question concerning the Jacobites, sent to the Athenians	501	(1)
The Athenians' Answer	501	(1)
A Pindaric, to the Athenian Society	502	(1)
To Celinda	503	(1)
The Reply to Mr.--	503	(4)
A MISCELLANY
Ballads	507	(12)
Tom o' Bedlam	507	(1)
A sweet and pleasant Sonnet, entitled: My mind to me a kingdom is	508	(1)
Ditties Lamentation for the cruelty of this age	509	(3)
The King's Last Farewell to the World	512	(1)
The Royal Health to the Rising Sun	513	(2)
A Looking-Glass for Men and Maids	515	(2)
No ring, no Wedding	517	(2)
Poems on the Duke of Buckingham	519	(2)
Upon the Duke of Buckingham	519	(1)
Epitaph on the Duke of Buckingham	520	(1)
Epitaph	520	(1)
Court Satire (1682)	521	(2)
INDEXES
Index of First Lines	523	(5)
Index of Authors and Titles	528