Longman Anthology of British Literature, Compact Edition, Volume A, The: The Middle Ages to Restoration and the 18th Century

by Damrosch, David; Baswell, Christopher; Carroll, Clare; Dettmar, Kevin J. H.; Henderson, Heather; Jordan, Constance; Manning, Peter J.; Schotter, Anne Howland; Sharpe, William Chapman; Sherman, Stuart; Wicke, Jennifer; Wolfson, Susan

• ISBN13: 9780321198914
• ISBN10: 0321198913
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-01-01
• Publisher: Longman

Summary

The Longman Compact Anthology of British Literature is a concise and thoughtfully arranged survey of British literature for the one semester course.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	xviii
Preface	xxi
Acknowledgments	xxvii
The Middle Ages	2	(388)
Before the Norman Conquest
BEOWULF	27	(65)
EARLY IRISH VERSE	92	(9)
To Crinog	93	(1)
Pangur the Cat	94	(1)
Writing in the Wood	94	(1)
The Viking Terror	95	(1)
The Old Woman of Beare	95	(3)
Findabair Remembers Fróech	98	(1)
A Grave Marked with Ogam	98	(1)
from The Voyage of Máel Dúin	99	(2)
JUDITH	101	(5)
THE DREAM OF THE ROOD	106	(5)
PERSPECTIVES Ethnic and Religious Encounters	111	(15)
BEDE	112	(6)
from An Ecclesiastical History of the English People	112	(6)
BISHOP ASSER	118	(2)
from The Life of King Alfred	118	(2)
KING ALFRED	120	(2)
Preface to Saint Gregory's Pastoral Care	120	(2)
OHTHERE'S JOURNEYS	122	(2)
THE ANGLO-SAXON CHRONICLE	124	(2)
Stamford Bridge and Hastings	125	(1)
TALIESIN	126	(4)
Urien Yrechwydd	127	(1)
The Battle of Argoed Llwyfain	127	(1)
The War-Band's Return	128	(1)
Lament for Owain Son of Urien	129	(1)
THE WANDERER	130	(3)
WULF AND EADWACER and THE WIFE'S LAMENT	133	(3)
After the Norman Conquest
PERSPECTIVES Arthurian Myth in the History of Britain	136	(16)
GEOFFREY OF MONMOUTH	137	(11)
from History of the Kings of Britain	138	(10)
GERALD OF WALES	148	(2)
from The Instruction of Princes	148	(2)
EDWARD I	150	(3)
Letter sent to the Papal Court of Rome	151	(1)
COMPANION READING A Report to Edward I	152	(1)
Arthurian Romance	153	(1)
MARIE DE FRANCE	153	(16)
LAIS	155	(1)
Prologue	155	(1)
Lanval	156	(13)
SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT	169	(56)
SIR THOMAS MALORY	225	(21)
Morte Darthur	226	(20)
The Poisoned Apple	226	(10)
The Day of Destiny	236	(10)
GEOFFREY CHAUCER	246	(41)
THE CANTERBURY TALES	251	(1)
The General Prologue	251	(20)
The Miller's Tale	271	(1)
The Introduction	271	(2)
The Tale	273	(14)
The Wife of Bath's Prologue	287	(19)
The Wife of Bath's Tale	306	(9)
The Pardoner's Prologue	315	(4)
The Pardoner's Tale	319	(11)
The Nun's Priest's Tale	330	(15)
The Parson's Tale	345	(6)
The Introduction	346	(2)
[The Remedy for the Sin of Lechery]	348	(2)
Chaucer's Retraction	350	(1)
To His Scribe Adam	351	(1)
THE SECOND PLAY OF THE SHEPHERDS	351	(19)
MIDDLE ENGLISH LYRICS	370	(8)
The Cuckoo Song ("Sumer is icumen in")	371	(1)
Spring ("Lenten is come with love to toune")	372	(1)
Alisoun ("Bitwene Mersh and Averil")	373	(1)
My Lefe Is Faren in a Lond	374	(1)
Abuse of Women ("In every place ye may well see")	375	(1)
The Irish Dancer ("Gode sire, pray ich thee")	376	(1)
Adam Lay Ibounden	376	(1)
I Sing of a Maiden	377	(1)
Mary Is with Child ("Under a tree")	377	(1)
Jesus, My Sweet Lover ("Jesu Christ, my lemmon swete")	378	(1)
DAFYDD AP GWILYM	378	(6)
One Saving Place	380	(1)
The Hateful Husband	381	(1)
The Winter	382	(1)
The Ruin	383	(1)
WILLIAM DUNBAR	384	(29)
Lament for the Makars	384	(3)
In Secreit Place This Hyndir Nycht	387	(3)
The Early Modern Period	390	(650)
JOHN SKELTON	413	(4)
Womanhod, Wanton	413	(1)
Lullay	414	(1)
Knolege, Aquayntance	415	(1)
Manerly Margery Mylk and Ale	416	(1)
Garland of Laurel	417	(2)
To Maystres Jane Blennerhasset	417	(1)
To Maystres Isabell Pennell	417	(1)
To Maystres Margaret Hussey	418	(1)
SIR THOMAS WYATT	419	(2)
The Long Love, That in My Thought Doth Harbor	420	(1)
Whoso List to Hunt	420	(1)
COMPANION READING Petrarch, Sonnet 190	421	(3)
They Flee from Me	421	(1)
My Lute, Awake!	422	(1)
Blame Not My Lute	423	(1)
Stand Whoso List	424	(1)
EDMUND SPENSER	424	(155)
THE FAERIE QUEENS	425	(154)
The First Booke of the Faerie Queene	426	(142)
from The Second Booke, Canto 12 [Bowre of Blisse]	568	(11)
Amoretti	579	(2)
1 ("Happy ye leaves when as those filly hands")	579	(1)
22 ("This holy season fit to fast and pray")	579	(1)
62 ("The weary yeare his race now having run")	579	(1)
68 ("Most glorious Lord of lyfe that on this day")	580	(1)
75 ("One day I wrote her name upon the strand")	580	(1)
Epithalamion	581	(9)
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY	590	(21)
Astrophil and Stella	592	(2)
1 ("Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show")	592	(1)
31 ("With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies")	592	(1)
39 ("Come sleep, O sleep, the certain knot of peace")	593	(1)
71 ("Who wi11 in fairest book of Nature know")	593	(1)
106 ("O absent presence, Stella is not here")	593	(1)
108 ("When sorrow (using mine own fire's might)")	594	(1)
from The Apology for Poetry	594	(9)
"THE APOLOGY" AND ITS TIME" The Art of Poetry	603	(1)
Stephen Gosson from The School of Abuse	604	(1)
George Puttenham from The Art of English Poesie	605	(2)
George Gascoigne from Certain Notes of Instruction	607	(2)
Samuel Daniel from A Defense of Rhyme	609	(2)
ISABELLA WHITNEY	611	(5)
I.W. To Her Unconstant Lover	611	(4)
A Careful Complaint by the Unfortunate Author	615	(1)
ELIZABETH I	616	(16)
Written with a Diamond on Her Window at Woodstock	618	(1)
Written on a Wall at Woodstock	618	(1)
The Doubt of Future Foes	619	(1)
On Monsieur's Departure	619	(1)
Psalm 13 ("Fools that true faith yet never had")	620	(1)
The Metres of Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy	620	(2)
Book 1, No. 2 ("0 in how headlong depth the drowned mind is dim")	620	(1)
Book 1, No. 7 ("Dim clouds")	621	(1)
Book 2, No. 3 ("In pool when Phoebus with reddy wain")	622	(1)
SPEECHES	622	(1)
On Marriage	622	(1)
On Mary, Queen of Scots	623	(3)
On Mary's Execution	626	(2)
To the English Troops at Tilbury, Facing the Spanish Armada	628	(1)
The Golden Speech	629	(3)
PERSPECTIVES Government and Self-Government	632	(1)
WILLIAM TYNDALE	633	(1)
from The Obedience of a Christian Man	633	(1)
JUAN LUIS VIVES	634	(1)
from Instruction of a Christian Woman	634	(1)
SIR THOMAS ELYOT	635	(3)
from The Book Named the Governor	636	(1)
from The Defence of Good Women	637	(1)
JOHN PONET	638	(2)
from A Short Treatise of Political Power	638	(2)
JOHN FOXE	640	(3)
from The Book of Martyrs	641	(2)
RICHARD HOOKER	643	(2)
from The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity	643	(2)
JAMES I (JAMES vI OF SCOTLAND)	645	(2)
from The True Law of Free Monarchies	646	(1)
BALDASSARE CASTIGLIONE	647	(2)
from The Book of the Courtier	648	(1)
ROGER ASCHAM	649	(2)
from The Schoolmaster	649	(2)
RICHARD MULCASTER	651	(2)
from The First Part of the Elementary	651	(2)
AEMILIA LANYER	653	(10)
The Description of Cookham	653	(5)
Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum	658	(5)
To the Doubtful Reader	658	(1)
To the Virtuous Reader	658	(1)
[Invocation]	659	(1)
[Against Beauty Without Virtue]	660	(1)
[Pilate's Wife Apologizes for Eve]	661	(2)
SIR WALTER RALEIGH	663	(19)
To the Queen	664	(1)
On the Life of Man	665	(1)
The Author's Epitaph, Made by Himself	665	(1)
from The Discovery of the Large, Rich and Beautiful Empire of Guiana	666	(6)
from Epistle Dedicatory	666	(2)
[The Amazons]	668	(1)
[The Orinoco]	668	(1)
[The New World of Guiana]	669	(3)
"THE DISCOVERY" AND ITS TIME Voyage Literature	672	(64)
Arthur Barlow from The First Voyage Made to the Coasts of America	672	(5)
Thomas Harlot from A Brief and True Report of the Newfound Land of Virginia	677	(3)
René Laudonnière from A Notable History Containing Four Voyages Made to Florida	680	(2)
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE	682	(2)
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love	683	(1)
COMPANION READING Sir Walter Raleigh: The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd	684	(49)
The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus	685	(48)
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE	733	(63)
SONNETS	736	(6)
1 ("From fairest creatures we desire increase")	737	(1)
18 ("Shall I compare thee to a summer's day")	737	(1)
20 ("A woman's face with Nature's own hand painted")	737	(1)
29 ("When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes")	738	(1)
30 ("When to the sessions of sweet silent thought")	738	(1)
55 ("Not marble nor the gilded monuments")	738	(1)
60 ("Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore")	739	(1)
73 ("That time of year thou mayst in me behold")	739	(1)
87 ("Farewell! Thou art too dear for my possessing")	739	(1)
106 ("When in the chronicle of wasted time")	740	(1)
116 ("Let me not to the marriage of true minds")	740	(1)
126 ("O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power")	741	(1)
130 ("My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun")	741	(1)
138 ("When my love swears that she is made of truth")	741	(1)
Twelfth Night; or, What You Will	742	(54)
BEN JONSON	796	(2)
On Something, That Walks Somewhere	798	(1)
On My First Daughter	798	(6)
To John Donne	799	(1)
On My First Son	799	(1)
To Penshurst	799	(3)
Song to Celia	802	(1)
To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare, and What He Hath Left Us	802	(2)
JOHN DONNE	804	(12)
The Good Morrow	806	(1)
Song ("Go, and catch a falling star")	806	(1)
The Undertaking	807	(1)
The Sun Rising	808	(1)
The Canonization	808	(2)
The Flea	810	(1)
The Bait	810	(1)
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning	811	(1)
The Ecstasy	812	(2)
HOLY SONNETS	814	(2)
1 ("As due by many titles I resign")	814	(1)
5 ("If poisonous minerals, and if that tree")	814	(1)
6 ("Death be not proud, though some have called thee")	815	(1)
9 ("What if this present were the world's last night?")	815	(1)
10 ("Batter my heart, three-personed God; for, you")	815	(1)
LADY MARY WROTH	816	(8)
Pamphilia to Amphilanthus	817	(3)
1 ("When night's black mantle could most darkness prove")	817	(1)
16 ("Am I thus conquered? Have I lost the powers")	817	(1)
39 ("Take heed mine eyes, how you your looks do cast")	818	(1)
40 ("False hope which feeds but to destroy, and spill")	818	(1)
74. Song ("Love a child is ever crying")	819	(1)
A Crown of Sonnets Dedicated to Love	819	(1)
77 ("In this strange labyrinth how shall I turn?")	819	(1)
103 ("My muse now happy, lay thyself to rest')	820	(1)
from The Countess of Montgomery's Urania	820	(4)
PERSPECTIVES Tracts on Women and Gender	824	(20)
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS	825	(2)
from In Laude and Praise of Matrimony	825	(2)
BARNABE RICHE	827	(1)
from My Lady's Looking Glass	827	(1)
MARGARET TYLER	828	(2)
from Preface to The First Part of the Mirror of Princely Deeds	829	(1)
JOSEPH SWETNAM	830	(3)
from The Arraignment of Lewd, Idle, Froward, and Unconstant Women	830	(3)
ESTER SOWERNAM	833	(3)
from Ester Hath Hanged Haman	833	(3)
HIC MULIER AND HAEC-VIR	836	(9)
from Hic Mulier; or, The Man-Woman 837 from Haec-Vir; or, The Womanish-Man	839	(5)
ROBERT HERRICK	844	(1)
HESPERIDES	845	(1)
The Argument of His Book	845	(1)
To the Sour Reader	845	(1)
When He Would Have His Verses Read	845	(5)
Delight in Disorder	846	(1)
Corinna's Going A-Maying	846	(2)
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time	848	(1)
Upon Julia's Clothes	848	(1)
Discontents in Devon	848	(1)
To Dean-Bourne, a Rude River in Devon	848	(1)
His Last Request to Julia	849	(1)
HIS NOBLE NUMBERS	849	(1)
His Prayer for Absolution	849	(1)
To God, on His Sickness	849	(1)
GEORGE HERBERT	850	(4)
The Altar	851	(1)
Easter Wings	851	(1)
Jordan(1)	852	(1)
Jordan (2)	852	(1)
The Collar	852	(1)
Love (3)	853	(1)
ANDREW MARVELL	854	(8)
To His Coy Mistress	855	(1)
The Definition of Love	856	(1)
The Garden	857	(2)
An Horatian Ode Upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland	859	(3)
KATHERINE PHILIPS	862	(7)
Friendship in Emblem, or the Seal	863	(2)
Upon the Double Murder of King Charles	865	(1)
To the Truly Noble, and Obliging Mrs. Anne Owen	865	(1)
To My Excellent Lucasia, on Our Friendship	866	(1)
The World	867	(2)
PERSPECTIVES The Civil War, or The Wars of Three Kingdoms	869	(2)
JOHN GAUDEN	871	(3)
from Eikon Basilike	872	(2)
JOHN MILTON	874	(7)
from Eikonoklastes	875	(6)
THE PETITION OF GENTLEWOMEN AND TRADESMEN'S WIVES	881	(4)
JOHN LILBURNE	885	(4)
from England's New Chains Discovered	886	(3)
OLIVER CROMWELL 888 from Letters from Ireland	889	(4)
JOHN O'DWYER OF THE GLENN	893	(1)
JOHN MILTON	894	(171)
L'Allegro	897	(3)
Il Penseroso	900	(4)
Lycidas	904	(5)
How Soon Hath Time	909	(1)
On the New Forcers of Conscience Under the Long Parliament	909	(1)
When I Consider How My Light Is Spent	910	(1)
Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint	910	(1)
from Areopagitica	911	(9)
PARADISE LOST	920	(1)
Book 1	921	(19)
from Book 2	940	(15)
from Book 3	955	(13)
from Book 4	968	(18)
from Books 5-8 The Arguments	986	(1)
Book 9	987	(26)
from Book 10	1013	(19)
from Book 11	1032	(1)
from Book 12	1033	(7)
The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century	1040	(379)
SAMUEL PEPYS	1065	(10)
from The Diary	1066	(1)
[First Entries]	1066	(2)
[The Coronation of Charles II]	1068	(2)
[The Fire of London]	1070	(5)
COMPANION READING John Evelyn: from Kalendarium	1075	(11)
[The Royal Society]	1077	(3)
[Elizabeth Pepys and Deborah Willett]	1080	(6)
PERSPECTIVES The Royal Society and the New Science	1086	(1)
THOMAS SPRAT	1087	(3)
from The History of the Royal Society of London	1088	(2)
PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS	1090	(3)
from Philosophical Transactions	1090	(3)
ROBERT HOOKS	1093	(7)
from Micrographia	1094	(6)
MARGARET CAVENDISH, DUCHESS OF NEWCASTLE	1100	(7)
Observations upon Experimental Philosophy	1101	(2)
Of Micrography, and of Magnifying and Multiplying Glasses	1101	(2)
The Description of a New Blazing World	1103	(4)
from To the Reader	1103	(1)
[Creating Worlds]	1104	(1)
[Empress, Duchess, Duke]	1105	(1)
Epilogue	1106	(1)
JOHN DRYDEN	1107	(7)
Mac Flecknoe	1108	(6)
APHRA BERN	1114	(5)
The Disappointment	1116	(3)
COMPANION READING John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester: The Imperfect Enjoyment	1119	(15)
To Lysander at the Music-Meeting	1121	(1)
To the Fair Clarinda, Who Made Love to Me, Imagined More than Woman	1122	(1)
APHRA BERN AND HER TIME Coterie Writing	1122	(1)
Mary, Lady Chudleigh To the Ladies	1123	(1)
To Almystrea	1124	(1)
Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea The Introduction	1125	(1)
Friendship Between Ephelia and Ardelia	1126	(1)
A Ballad to Mrs. Catherine Fleming in London	1127	(2)
Mary Leapor The Headache. To Aurelia	1129	(1)
Advice to Sophronia	1130	(1)
An Essay on Woman	1131	(1)
The Epistle of Deborah Dough	1132	(2)
Oroonoko	1134	(42)
JONATHAN SWIFT	1176	(9)
A Description of a City Shower	1178	(2)
Stella's Birthday, 1719	1180	(1)
The Lady's Dressing Room	1181	(4)
COMPANION READING Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: The Reasons that Induced Dr. S. to write a Poem called The Lady s Dressing Room	1185	(52)
Gulliver's Travels	1187	(44)
Part 3. A Voyage to Laputa	1188	(1)
Chapter 5. The author permitted to see the grand Academy of Logado	1188	(1)
Chapter 10. The Luggnaggians commended. A particular description of the Struldbruggs	1193	(5)
Part 4. A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms	1198	(1)
Chapter 1. The author sets out as Captain of a ship	1198	(1)
Chapter 2. The author conducted by a Houyhnhnm to his house	1202	(1)
Chapter 3. The author studious to learn the language, the Houyhnhnm his master assists in teaching him	1205	(1)
Chapter 4. The Houyhnhnms' notion of truth and falsehood	1208	(1)
from Chapter 5. The author at his master's commands informs him of the state of England	1211	(1)
from Chapter 8. The author relateth several particulars o£ the Yahoos	1214	(1)
from Chapter 9. A grand debate at the general Assembly of the Houyhnhnms	1216	(1)
Chapter 10. The author's economy and happy life among the Houyhnhnms	1218	(1)
Chapter 11. The author's dangerous voyage	1222	(1)
Chapter 12. The author's veracity. His design in publishing this work	1227	(4)
A Modest Proposal	1231	(6)
COMPANION READING William Petty: from Political Arithmetic	1237	(2)
ALEXANDER POPE	1239	(36)
from An Essay on Criticism	1241	(6)
The Rape of the Lock	1247	(20)
An Essay on Man	1267	(1)
Epistle 1	1267	(8)
To the Reader	1267	(1)
The Design	1267	(1)
Argument	1268	(7)
JOHN GAY	1275	(61)
The Beggar's Opera	1278	(44)
"THE BEGGAR'S OPERA" AND ITS TIME Influences and Impact	1322	(1)
Thomas D'Urfey from Wit and Mirth: or, Pills to Purge Melancholy	1322	(3)
Daniel Defoe from The True and Genuine Account of the Life and Actions of the Late Jonathan Wild	1325	(4)
Henry Fielding from The Life of Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great	1329	(2)
[Anonymous] from A Narrative of All the Robberies, Escapes, &c. of John Sheppard	1331	(2)
John Thurmond from Harlequin Sheppard	1333	(1)
Charlotte Charke from A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke	1334	(1)
James Boswell from London Journal [Entries on Macheath]	1335	(1)
WILLIAM HOGARTH	1336	(10)
A Rake's Progress	1338	(8)
PERSPECTIVES Mind and God	1346	(1)
ISAAC NEWTON	1347	(3)
from Letter to Richard Bentley	1348	(2)
JOHN LOCKE	1350	(5)
from An Essay Concerning Human Understanding	1351	(4)
ISAAC WATTS	1355	(5)
A Prospect of Heaven Makes Death Easy	1355	(1)
The Hurry of the Spirits, in a Fever and Nervous Disorders	1356	(1)
Against Idleness and Mischief	1357	(1)
Man Frail, and God Eternal	1358	(1)
Miracles Attending Israel's Journey	1359	(1)
DAVID HUME	1360	(6)
from A Treatise of Human Nature	1360	(3)
from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding	1363	(3)
CHRISTOPHER SMART	1366	(3)
from Jubilate Agno	1366	(3)
WILLIAM COWPER	1369	(4)
Light Shining out of Darkness	1370	(1)
from The Task	1370	(1)
The Cast-away	1371	(2)
THOMAS GRAY	1373	(4)
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard	1374	(3)
SAMUEL JOHNSON	1377	(21)
THE RAMBLER	1380	(1)
No. 4 [On Fiction]	1381	(3)
No. 60 [On Biography]	1384	(3)
THE IDLER	1387	(1)
No. 31 [On Idleness]	1387	(1)
No. 32 [On Sleep]	1388	(2)
A Dictionary of the English Language	1390	(8)
from Preface	1391	(3)
[Some Entries]	1394	(4)
JAMES BOSWELL	1398	(10)
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.	1400	(8)
[Introduction; Boswell's Method]	1400	(2)
[Dinner with Wilkes]	1402	(6)
HESTER SALUSBURY THRALE PIOZZI	1408	(11)
Thraliana	1409	(10)
[First Entries]	1409	(4)
[The Death of Henry Thrale; Marriage to Gabriel Piozzi]	1413	(4)
[The Death of Johnson]	1417	(2)
Political and Religious Orders	1419	(6)
Money, Weights, and Measures	1425	(2)
Bibliographies	1427	(26)
Credits	1453	(2)
Index	1455