The Broadview Anthology of Seventeenth-Century Verse & Prose

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

• ISBN13: 9781551114637
• ISBN10: 1551114631
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-03-01
• 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

John Chamberlain	1	(4)
Letters	1	(4)
The Death of Queen Elizabeth (1603)	1	(1)
The Marriage of Princess Elizabeth (1613)	2	(3)
Lancelot Andrewes	5	(10)
A Sermon Preached Before the King's Majesty at Whitehall (1609)	5	(10)
Nicholas Breton	15	(3)
The Good and the Bad (excerpts) (1616)	15	(3)
An Atheist or Most Bad Man	15	(1)
A Wanton Woman	16	(1)
A Quiet Woman	16	(1)
An Unworthy Lawyer	16	(2)
Francis Bacon	18	(39)
Essays (excerpts)	19	(22)
Of Truth	19	(1)
Of Simulation and Dissimulation	20	(2)
Of Marriage and Single Life	22	(1)
Of Love	22	(2)
Of Seditions and Troubles	24	(3)
Of Travel	27	(2)
Of Empire	29	(3)
Of the True Greatness of Kingdoms and Estates	32	(5)
Of Plantations	37	(1)
Of Masques and Triumphs	38	(1)
Of Studies	39	(1)
Of Studies	40	(1)
Aphorisms (excerpts)	41	(16)
The Idols	43	(2)
Idols of the Tribe	45	(1)
Idols of the Cave	46	(1)
Idols of the Market-place	47	(1)
Idols of the Theatre	48	(3)
Application of the Method	51	(6)
King James VI/I	57	(3)
A Speech to the Lords and Commons (1610)	57	(3)
Aemilia Lanyer	60	(2)
To the Virtuous Reader	60	(2)
Lady Margaret Hoby	62	(5)
The Diary of Lady Margaret Hoby 1599-1605 (excerpts)	62	(5)
John Donne	67	(18)
Devotions: Upon Emergent Occasions (excerpts)	68	(4)
Expostulation	68	(1)
Meditation	69	(1)
Meditation	70	(1)
Meditation	71	(1)
The second of my Prebend Sermons (January 29, 1626)	72	(13)
William Laud	85	(19)
Diary (excerpts)	85	(19)
Elizabeth Clinton, Countess of Lincoln	104	(5)
The Countess of Lincoln's Nursery (excerpts)	104	(5)
Robert Burton	109	(30)
The Anatomy of Melancholy (excerpts)	109	(30)
Democritus Junior To the Reader	109	(13)
Love of Learning, or Overmuch Study	122	(17)
The Overburian Character	139	(4)
A Good Woman	139	(1)
A Fair and Happy Milkmaid	140	(1)
A Waterman	140	(1)
A Prisoner	141	(2)
Thomas Hobbes	143	(33)
Leviathan, or The Matter, Form, and Power of a Commonwealth (excerpts)	143	(33)
The Introduction	143	(1)
Chapter XIII	144	(3)
Chapter XVII	147	(3)
Chapter XVIII	150	(4)
Chapter XIX	154	(6)
Chapter XX	160	(2)
Chapter XXI	162	(3)
Chapter XLVII	165	(6)
A Review, and Conclusion	171	(5)
Lady Eleanor Davies	176	(6)
The Lady Eleanor Her Appeal (excerpts) (1646)	176	(6)
Sir Robert Filmer	182	(11)
Patriarcha (excerpts)	182	(7)
Directions for Obedience to Government in Dangerous or Doubtful Times	189	(4)
William Bradford	193	(7)
History of Plymouth Plantation (excerpts)	193	(7)
Book I, Chapter 9	193	(3)
Book II, Chapter 19	196	(4)
Anne Clifford	200	(12)
The Knole Diary (1603--1619) (excerpts)	201	(11)
1603	201	(5)
1616	206	(3)
1617	209	(3)
Benjamin Laney	212	(19)
The Study of Quiet, in Two Sermons	212	(19)
A Sermon Preached Before His Majesty at Whitehall, March 12, 1665	212	(11)
A Sermon Preached before the King At Whitehall, March 18, 1666	223	(8)
William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle	231	(5)
Advice to Charles II (excerpts)	231	(5)
For Trade	232	(1)
For Ceremony and Order	232	(1)
The Errors of State and Their Remedies	233	(1)
The Recreations for Your Majesty's People	234	(2)
Edward Winslow	236	(6)
Good News from New England (excerpts)	236	(6)
The Religion and Customs of the Indians Near New Plymouth	236	(6)
Rachel Speght	242	(4)
A Muzzle for Melastomus	242	(4)
To Joseph Swetnam	242	(1)
Of Woman's Excellency	243	(3)
Thomas Edwards	246	(13)
Gangraena (1646) (excerpts)	246	(13)
The Catalogue of Errors	246	(13)
King Charles I	259	(4)
A Proclamation and Declaration to Inform Our Loving Subjects of Our Kingdom of England of the Seditious Practices of Some in Scotland (1639)	259	(4)
Bathsua Makin	263	(10)
An Essay to Revive the Ancient Education of Gentlewomen (excerpts)	264	(9)
To her Highness the Lady Mary	264	(1)
Care ought to be taken by us to Educate Women in Learning	265	(7)
Postscript	272	(1)
William Walwyn	273	(9)
The Bloody Project (1649)	273	(9)
John Earle	282	(3)
Microcosmography
To the Reader	282	(1)
A Child	282	(1)
A Surgeon	283	(1)
Paul's Walk	284	(1)
Owen Felltham	285	(9)
Resolves	285	(9)
Of Puritans	285	(2)
Of Poverty	287	(2)
Of Woman	289	(1)
Of Poets and Poetry	290	(3)
A Rule in Reading Authors	293	(1)
Sir Thomas Browne	294	(33)
Religio Medici	294	(24)
To the Reader	294	(1)
The First Part (excerpts)	295	(17)
The Second Part (excerpts)	312	(6)
Hydriotaphia, Urne-Burial	318	(9)
Chapter 1 (excerpts)	319	(1)
Chapter 2 (excerpts)	319	(3)
Chapter 5	322	(5)
John Milton	327	(42)
from the Reason of Church Government (1641)	328	(6)
Areopagitica (1644)	334	(28)
Of True Religion, Heresy, Schism, and Toleration (1673)	362	(7)
Queen Henrietta Maria	369	(3)
The Queen's Letter	369	(1)
The Queen's Letter Sent to the King's most excellent Majesty from Holland	370	(2)
Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon	372	(23)
The Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon and The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England (excerpts)	372	(23)
The Character of William Laud	372	(9)
The Temper and Spirit of the Nation after 1660	381	(4)
The Plague and the Fire of London, 1665-6	385	(10)
Gerrard Winstanley	395	(7)
A Declaration from the Poor Oppressed People of England (1649)	395	(5)
The Diggers' Song	400	(2)
Anne Bradstreet	402	(4)
To My Dear Children	402	(4)
Jeremy Taylor	406	(19)
A Funeral Sermon, Preached at the Obsequies of the Right Honourable and Most Virtuous Lady The Lady Frances, Countess of Carbery	406	(12)
The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living (excerpts)	418	(2)
Consideration of the general instruments, and means serving to a holy life: by way of introduction	418	(2)
The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying (excerpt)	420	(5)
Three precepts preparatory to a holy death to be practised in our whole life	420	(3)
Of daily examination of our actions, in the whole course of our health, preparatory to our death-bed	423	(1)
Reasons for a daily examination	423	(2)
Samuel Butler	425	(2)
A Romance-Writer	425	(1)
A Rabble	426	(1)
Margaret Fell	427	(9)
Women's Speaking Justified, Proved, and Allowed of by the Scriptures	428	(8)
Lawrence Clarkson (Claxton)	436	(20)
The Lost Sheep Found (1660)	436	(20)
Richard Overton	456	(15)
The Proceedings of the Council of State Against Richard Overton, now Prisoner in the Tower of London, 1649	457	(14)
Sir Roger L'Estrange	471	(9)
Considerations and Proposals in Order to the Regulation of the Press (1663)	471	(9)
Abraham Cowley	480	(11)
Extracts from the Preface to the Poems of 1656	481	(1)
Of Solitude	482	(4)
Of Obscurity	486	(2)
Of My Self	488	(3)
Abiezer Coppe	491	(5)
A Fiery Flying Roll and A Second Fiery Flying Roll (excerpts)	491	(5)
John Evelyn	496	(7)
The Diary of John Evelyn (extracts)	496	(7)
The Restoration	496	(1)
The Fire of London	497	(6)
Lucy Hutchinson	503	(21)
The Life of Mrs. Lucy Hutchinson Written by Herself, A Fragment	503	(10)
Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson (excerpts)	513	(11)
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle	524	(11)
The Philosophical and Physical Opinions	525	(1)
To the Two Universities	525	(1)
Nature's Pictures Drawn by Fancy's Pencil to the Life	526	(1)
The Loving Cuckold	526	(1)
Orations of Diverse Sorts, Accommodated to Diverse Places	527	(1)
An Oration for Liberty of Conscience	527	(1)
An Oration against Liberty of Conscience	528	(1)
An Oration proposing a Mean betwixt the two former Opinions	528	(1)
CCXI Sociable Letters (excerpts)	528	(5)
Philosophical Letters: or, Modest Reflections (excerpts)	533	(2)
Mary Howgill	535	(4)
A Remarkable Letter of Mary Howgill to Oliver Cromwell, Called Protector	535	(4)
Lady Anne Halkett	539	(10)
The Memoirs of Anne, Lady Halkett (excerpts)	539	(10)
Katharine Evans and Sarah Chevers	549	(8)
This is a Short Relation of Some of the Cruel Sufferings (For the Truth's Sake) of Katharine Evans and Sarah Chevers, in the Inquisition in the Isle of Malta (excerpts)	549	(8)
John Aubrey	557	(14)
Brief Lives (excerpts)	557	(14)
Lancelot Andrewes (1555--1626)	557	(1)
Sir Francis Bacon (1561--1626)	558	(2)
Venetia Digby (1600--33)	560	(2)
Thomas Fairfax (1612--71)	562	(1)
Thomas Hobbes (1588--1679)	562	(3)
Robert Hooke (1635--1703)	565	(1)
Andrew Marvell (1621--78)	566	(1)
Sir Robert Moray (d. 1673)	567	(1)
John Milton (1608--74)	567	(4)
Dorothy Osborne	571	(16)
The Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652--54	571	(16)
Saturday, January 8, 1653	571	(2)
Thursday-Saturday, June 2--4, 1653	573	(2)
October 1653	575	(2)
October 1653	577	(3)
Saturday, February 4, 1654	580	(2)
Saturday, February 11, 1654	582	(3)
March 18, 1654	585	(2)
John Bunyan	587	(12)
Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners (excerpt)	587	(6)
The Pilgrim's Progress (excerpt)	593	(6)
Christian and Faithful visit Vanity Fair	593	(6)
King Charles II	599	(2)
The Declaration of Breda (1660)	599	(2)
Anthony A Wood	601	(8)
The Life and Times of Anthony a Wood (extracts)	601	(4)
Notes on Oxford during the Interregnum	601	(2)
The Restoration	603	(2)
Athenae Oxoniensis (excerpts)	605	(4)
Robert Burton	605	(1)
Jeremy Taylor	606	(3)
John Locke	609	(7)
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (excerpts)	609	(7)
Of Enthusiasm	609	(7)
George Savile, Marquis Of Halifax	616	(11)
A Character of King Charles II (excerpts)	616	(11)
Of his Religion	616	(2)
His Amours, Mistresses, &c.	618	(2)
His Conduct to his Ministers	620	(1)
Of his Wit and Conversation	621	(1)
His Talents, Temper, Habits, &c.	622	(2)
Conclusion	624	(3)
Samuel Pepys	627	(9)
The Diary of Samuel Pepys (excerpt)	627	(9)
The Fire of London	627	(9)
Robert South	636	(12)
Ecclesiastical Policy the Best Policy: or Religion the Best Reason of State	636	(12)
Mary Rowlandson	648	(12)
The Sovereignty and Goodness of God Together, with the Faithfulness of His Promises Displayed; Being a Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (excerpts)	648	(12)
The First Remove	650	(1)
The Second Remove	651	(1)
The Third Remove	651	(3)
The Fourth Remove	654	(1)
The Eighth Remove	655	(1)
The Twentieth Remove	656	(4)
Thomas Sprat	660	(3)
The History of The Royal Society of London (excerpts)	660	(3)
A Proposal for Erecting an English Academy	660	(1)
Their Manner of Discourse	661	(2)
Thomas Traherne	663	(4)
The Third Century (excerpts)	663	(4)
Aphra Behn	667	(19)
Love Letters by Mrs. A. Behn	667	(6)
The Dumb Virgin: Or, The Force of Imagination	673	(13)
Pierre-Esprit Radisson	686	(19)
Travel Journal: Lake Superior, 1659--60 (excerpts)	686	(19)
Bishop Gilbert Burnet	705	(6)
History of My Own Time	705	(6)
The Restoration	705	(4)
Reign of King Charles II	709	(2)
Elinor James	711	(6)
Mrs. James's Vindication of the Church of England, in an answer to a pamphlet entitled a New Test of the Church of England's Loyalty (excerpts)	711	(6)
Cotton Mather	717	(8)
Diary of Cotton Mather (excerpts)	717	(8)
Elizabeth Johnson	725	(4)
Preface to the Reader, Poems on Several Occasions. Written by Philomela	725	(4)
A MISCELLANY
Letters	729	(4)
Oliver Cromwell to Colonel Valentine Walton	729	(1)
Charles I to Prince Rupert	730	(1)
Eleanor Gwynne to Laurence Hyde	730	(1)
John Evelyn to Sir Christopher Wren	731	(2)
Information from the Scottish Nation	733	(2)
to all the True English, Concerning the Present Expedition (1640)	733	(2)
The Putney Debates	735	(24)
The Putney Debates: The Debate on the Franchise	736	(23)
The Trial of King Charles I	759	(15)
The King's Reasons for Declining the Jurisdiction of the High Court of Justice	759	(2)
The Sentence of the High Court of Justice Upon the King	761	(3)
A True Relation
of the Inhumane and Unparallel'd Actions and Barbarous Murders of Negroes or Moors: Committed on three English-men in Old Calabar in Guinny (1672)	764	(10)
The Gentlewoman's Companion (1673)	774	(8)
The Introduction	774	(8)
What Qualifications Best Become and are Most Suitable to a Gentlewoman	775	(1)
Of the Government of the Eye	776	(1)
Of Speech and Complement	777	(1)
Of Wanton Songs, and Idle Ballads	778	(1)
What Recreations and Pleasures are Most Fitting and Proper for Young Gentlewomen	779	(3)
The Judgment And Decree Of The University Of Oxford	782	(5)
Passed in Their Convocation, July 21, 1683, against Certain Pernicious Books and Damnable Doctrines, Destructive to the Sacred Persons of Princes, Their State and Government, and of All Humane Society.(1683)	782	(5)
Indexes
Index of Authors and Titles	787