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| denotes selection is new to this edition. Volume A contains only the section entitled "The Middle Ages." Volume B contains only the section entitled "The Romantics and Their Contemporaries." | |
| The Middle Ages | |
| Before the Norman Conquest | |
| Beowulf.Early Irish Verse | |
| To Crinog | |
| Pangur the Cat | |
| Writing in the Wood | |
| The Viking Terror | |
| The Old Woman of Beare | |
| Findabair Remembers Fróech | |
| A Grave Marked with Ogam | |
| From The Voyage of M̒el D̼in | |
| Judith.The Dream of the Rood | |
| Perspectives: Ethnic and Religious Encounters | |
| Bede | |
| From An Ecclesiastical History of the English People | |
| Bishop Asser | |
| From The Life of King Alfred | |
| King Alfred | |
| Preface to St. Gregory's Pastoral Care | |
| Ohthere's Journeys | |
| The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle | |
| Stamford Bridge and Hastings | |
| Taliesin | |
| Urien Yrechwydd | |
| The Battle of Argoed Llwyfain | |
| The War-Band's Return | |
| Lament for Owain Son of Urien | |
| The Wanderer.Wulf and Eadwacer and the Wife's Lament.After the Norman Conquest | |
| Perspectives: Arthurian Myth in the History of Britain | |
| Geoffrey of Monmouth | |
| From History of the Kings of Britain | |
| Gerald of Wales | |
| From The Instruction of Princes | |
| Edward I | |
| Letter to the Papal Court of Rome | |
| Companion Reading | |
| A Report to Edward I | |
| Arthurian Romance | |
| Marie de France | |
| LAIS | |
| Prologue | |
| Lanval | |
| Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.Sir Thomas Malory | |
| Morte Darthur | |
| The Poisoned Apple | |
| The Days of Destiny | |
| Geoffrey Chaucer | |
| The Canterbury Tales | |
| The General Prologue | |
| The Miller's Tale | |
| The Introduction | |
| The Tale | |
| The Wife of Bath's Prologue | |
| The Wife of Bath's Tale | |
| The Pardoner's Prologue | |
| The Pardoner's Tale | |
| The Nun's Priest's Tale | |
| The Parson's Tale | |
| The Introduction (The Remedy for the Sin of Lechery.) | |
| Chaucer's Retraction | |
| To His Scribe Adam | |
| Medieval Cycle Dramas | |
| The Second Play of the Shepherds.Middle English Lyrics | |
| The Cuckoo Song ("Sumer is icumen in") | |
| Spring ("Lenten is come with love to toune") | |
| Alisoun ("Bitwene Mersh and Averil") | |
| My Lefe Is Faren in a Lond | |
| Abuse of Women ("In every place ye may well see") | |
| The Irish Dancer ("Gode sire, pray ich thee") | |
| Adam Lay Ibounden | |
| Sing of a Maiden | |
| Mary Is With Child ("Under a tree") | |
| Jesus, My Sweet Lover ("Jesu Christ, my lemmon swete") | |
| Dafydd Ap Gwilym | |
| One Saving Place | |
| The Hateful Husband | |
| The Winter | |
| The Ruin | |
| William Dunbar | |
| Lament for the Makars | |
| In Secreit Place This Hyndir Nycht | |
| THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD | |
| John Skelton | |
| Womanhood, Wanton | |
| Lullay | |
| Knolege, Aquayntance | |
| Manerly Margery Mylk and Ale | |
| Garland of Laurel | |
| To Maystres Jane Blennerhasset | |
| To Maystres Isabell Pennell | |
| To Maystres Margaret Hussey | |
| Sir Thomas Wyatt | |
| The Long Love, That in My Thought Doth Harbor | |
| Whoso List to Hunt | |
| Companion Reading | |
| Petrarch | |
| Sonnet 190 | |
| They Flee from Me | |
| My Lute, Awake! | |
| Blame Not My Lute | |
| Stand Whoso List | |
| Edmund Spenser | |
| The Faerie Queene | |
| The First Booke of the Fairie Queene | |
| From The Second Booke | |
| Canto 12: The Bowre of Blisse | |
| Amoretti | |
| 1("Happy ye leaves when as those lilly hands.") | |
| 22("This holy season fit to fast and pray.") | |
| 62("The weary yeare his race now having run.") | |
| 68("Most glorious Lord of lyfe that on this day.") | |
| 75("One day I wrote her name upon the strand.") | |
| Epithalamion | |
| Sir Philip Sidney | |
| Astrophil and Stella | |
| 1 ("Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show.") | |
| 31 ("With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies.") | |
| 39 ("Come sleep, O sleep, the certain knot of peace") | |
| 71 ("Who will in fairest book of Nature know.") | |
| 106 ("O absent presence, Stella is not here.") | |
| 108 ("When sorrow (using mine own fire's might.") | |
| From The Apology for Poetry "The Apology" and Its Time: The Art of Poetry | |
| Stephen Gosson | |
| From The School of Abuse | |
| George Puttenham | |
| From The Art of English Poesie | |
| George Gascoigne.From Certain Notes of Instruction | |
| Samuel Daniel | |
| From A Defense of Rhyme | |
| Isabella Whitney | |
| I.W. To Her Unconstant Lover | |
| A Careful Complaint by the Unfortunate Author | |
| Elizabeth I | |
| Written with a Diamond on Her Window at Woodstock | |
| Written on a Wall at Woodstock | |
| The Doubt of Future Foes | |
| On Monsieur's Departure | |
| Psalm 13 ("Fools that true faith yet never had") | |
| The Metres of Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy | |
| Book 1, No. 2 ("O in how headlong depth the drowned mind is dim.") | |
| Book 1, No. 7 ("Dim clouds.") | |
| Book 2, No. 3 ("In pool when Phoebus with reddy wain." | |
| Speeches | |
| On Marriage | |
| On Mary, Queen of Scots | |
| On Mary's Execution | |
| To the English Troops at Tilbury, Facing the Spanish Armada | |
| The Golden Speech | |
| Perspectives: Government and Self-Government | |
| William Tyndale | |
| From The Obedience of a Christian Man | |
| Juan Luis Vives | |
| From Instruction of a Christian Woman | |
| Sir Thomas Elyot | |
| From The Book Named the Governor | |
| Sir Thomas Elyot | |
| From The Defence of Good Women | |
| John Ponet | |
| From A Short Treatise of Political Power | |
| John Foxe | |
| From The Book of Martyrs | |
| Richard Hooker | |
| From The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity | |
| James I (James VI of Scotland) | |
| From The True Law of Free Monarchies | |
| Baldassare Castiglione | |
| From The Book of the Courtier | |
| Roger Ascham | |
| From The Schoolmaster. Richard Mulcaster | |
| From The First Part of the Elementary | |
| Aemilia Lanyer | |
| The Description of Cookham | |
| Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum | |
| To the Doubtful Reader | |
| To the Virtuous Reader | |
| (Invocation.) | |
| (Against Beauty Without Virtue.) | |
| (Pilate's Wife Apologizes for Eve.) | |
| Sir Walter Raleigh | |
| To the Queen | |
| On the Life of Man | |
| The Author's Epitaph, Made by Himself | |
| The Discovery of the Large, Rich and Beautiful Empire of Guiana | |
| From Epistle Dedicatory | |
| (The Amazons.) | |
| (The Orinoco.) | |
| (The New World of Guiana.) | |
| "The Discovery" and Its Time: Voyage Literature | |
| Arthur Barlow | |
| From The First Vogage Made to the Coasts of America | |
| Thomas Hariot | |
| From A Brief and True Report of the Newfound Land of Virginia | |
| René Laudonniÿre | |
| From A Notable History Containing Four Voygages Made to Florida | |
| Christopher Marlowe | |
| The Passionate Shepherd to His Love | |
| Companion Reading | |
| Sir Walter Raleigh | |
| The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd | |
| The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus | |
| William Shakespeare | |
| Sonnets | |
| 1 ("From fairest creatures we desire increase") | |
| 18 ("Shall I compare thee to a summer's day") | |
| 20 ("A woman's face with Nature's own hand painted") | |
| 29 ("When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes") | |
| 30 ("When to the sessions of sweet, silent thought") | |
| 55 ("Not marble nor the gilded monuments") | |
| 60 ("Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore") | |
| 73 ("That time of year thou mayst in me behold") | |
| 87 ("Farewell! Thou art too dear for my possessing") | |
| 106 ("When in the chronicle of wasted time") | |
| 116 ("Let me not to the marriage of true minds") | |
| 126 ("O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power") | |
| 130 ("My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun") | |
| 138 ("When my love swears that she is made of truth") | |
| Twelfth Night | |
| Or, What You Will | |
| Ben Jonson | |
| On Something, That Walks Somewhere | |
| On My First Daughter | |
| To John Donne | |
| On My First Son | |
| To Penshurst | |
| Song to Celia | |
| To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare, and What He Hath Left Us | |
| John Donne | |
| The Good Morrow | |
| Song ("Go, and catch a falling star") | |
| The Undertaking | |
| The Sun Rising | |
| The Canonization | |
| The Flea | |
| The Bait | |
| A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning | |
| The Ecstasy | |
| Holy Sonnets | |
| 1 ("As due by many titles I resign.") | |
| 5 ("If poisonous minerals, and if that tree.") | |
| 6 ("Death be not proud, though some have called thee.") | |
| 9 ("What if this present were the world's last night?") | |
| 10 ("Batter my heart, three-personed God | |
| For, you.") | |
| Lady Mary Wroth | |
| Pamphilia to Amphilanthus | |
| 1 ("When night's black mantle could most darkness prove.") | |
| 16 ("Am I thus conquered? Have I lost the powers.") | |
| 39 ("Take heed mine eyes, how you your looks do cast.") | |
| 40 ("False hope which feeds but to destroy, and spill.") | |
| 74 Song ("Love a child is ever crying.") | |
| A Crown of Sonnets Dedicated to Love | |
| 77 ("In this strange labyrinth how shall I turn?") | |
| 103 ("My muse now happy, lay thyself to rest.") | |
| Lady Mary Wroth | |
| From The Countess of Mountgomery's Urania | |
| Perspectives: Tracts on Women and Gender | |
| Desiderius Erasmus | |
| From In Laude and Praise of Matrimony | |
| Barnabe Riche | |
| From My Lady's Looking Glass | |
| Margaret Tyler | |
| From Preface to The First Part of the Mirror of Princely Deeds | |
| Joseph Swetnam | |
| From The Arraignment of Lewd, Idle, Froward, and Unconstant Women | |
| Esther Sowernam | |
| From Ester Hath Hanged Haman | |
| Hic Mulier and Haec-Vir | |
| From Hic-Mulier | |
| Or, The Man-Woman | |
| From Haec-Vir | |
| Or, The Womanish Man | |
| Robert Herrick | |
| Hesperides | |
| The Argument of His Book | |
| To the Sour Reader | |
| When He Would Have His Verses Read | |
| Delight in Disorder | |
| Corinna's Going A-Maying | |
| To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time | |
| Upon Julia's Clothes | |
| Discontents in Devon | |
| To Dean-Bourne, a Rude River in Devon | |
| His Last Request to Julia | |
| His Noble Numbers | |
| His Prayer for Absolution | |
| To God, on His Sickness | |
| George Herbert | |
| The Altar | |
| Easter Wings | |
| Jordan (1) | |
| Jordan (2) | |
| The Collar | |
| Love (3).Andrew Marvell | |
| To His Coy Mistress | |
| The Definition of Love | |
| The Garden | |
| An Horatian Ode Upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland | |
| Katherine Philips | |
| Friendship in Emblem, or the Seal | |
| Upon the Double Murder of King Charles | |
| To the Truly Noble, and Obliging Mrs. Anne Owen | |
| To My Excellent Lucasia, on Our Friendship | |
| The World | |
| Perspectives: The Civil War, or the Wars of Three Kingdoms | |
| John Gauden | |
| From Eikon Basilike | |
| John Milton | |
| From Eikonoklastes | |
| The Petition of Gentlewomen and Tradesmen's Wives | |
| John Lilburne | |
| From England's New Chains Discovered | |
| Oliver Cromwell | |
| From Letters from Ireland | |
| John O'Dwyer of the Glenn | |
| John Milton | |
| L'Allegro | |
| Il Penseroso | |
| Lycidas | |
| How Soon Hath Time | |
| On the New Forcers of Conscience Under the Long Parliament | |
| When I Consider How My Light Is Spent | |
| Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint | |
| From Areopagitica.PARADISE LOST | |
| Book 1 | |
| From Book 2 | |
| From from Book 3 | |
| From Book 4 | |
| Book 9 | |
| From Book 10 | |
| From Book 11 | |
| From Book 12 | |
| The Restoration and The Eighteenth Century | |
| Samuel Pepys | |
| The Diary | |
| (First Entries.) | |
| (The Coronation of Charles II.) | |
| (The Fire of London.)Companion Reading | |
| John Evelyn: From Kalendarium | |
| The Royal Society | |
| Elizabeth Pepys and Deborah Willett | |
| Perspectives: The Royal Society and the New Science | |
| Thomas Sprat | |
| From The History of the Royal Society of London | |
| Philosophical Transactions | |
| From Philosophical Transactions | |
| Robert Hooke | |
| From Micrographia | |
| Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle | |
| Observations upon Experimental Philosophy | |
| Of Micrography, and of Magnifying and Multiplying Glasses | |
| The Description of a New Blazing World | |
| From To the Reader | |
| (Creating Worlds.) | |
| (Empress, Duchess, Duke.) | |
| Epilogue | |
| John Dryden | |
| Mac Flecknoe | |
| Aphra Behn | |
| The Disappointment | |
| Companion Reading | |
| John Wilmot, Earl Of Rochester, The Imperfect Enjoyment | |
| To Lysander at the Music-Meeting | |
| To the Fair Clarinda, Who Made Love to Me, Imagined More than Woman | |
| Aphra Behn and Her Time: Coterie Writing | |
| Mary, Lady Chudleigh | |
| To the Ladies. To Almystrea | |
| Anne Finch, Countess of Winchelsea | |
| The Introduction | |
| Friendship Between Ephelia and Ardelia | |
| A Ballad to Mrs. Catherine Fleming in London | |
| Mary Leapor | |
| The Headache | |
| To Aurelia | |
| Advice to Sophronia | |
| An Essay on Woman | |
| The Epistle of Deborah Dough | |
| Oroonoko | |
| Jonathan Swift | |
| A Description of a City Shower | |
| Stella's Birthday, 1719 | |
| The Lady's Dressing Room | |
| Companion Reading | |
| Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, The Reasons That Induced Dr. S. to write a Poem called The Lady's Dressing Room | |
| Gulliver's Travels | |
| From Part | |
| 3 A Voyage to Laputa | |
| From Part | |
| 4 A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms | |
| A Modest Proposal.Companion Reading | |
| William Petty: | |
| From Political Arithmetic | |
| Alexander Pope | |
| From An Essay on Criticism | |
| The Rape of the Lock | |
| An Essay on Man | |
| Epistle 1 | |
| To the Reader | |
| The Design | |
| Argument | |
| John Gay | |
| The Beggar's Opera."The Beggar's Opera" and Its Time: Influences and Impact | |
| Thomas D'Urfey: | |
| From Wit and Mirth | |
| Or, Pills to Purge Melacholy | |
| Daniel Defoe: | |
| From The True and Genuine Account of the Life and Actions of the Late Jonathan Wild | |
| Henry Fielding: | |
| From The Life of Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great | |
| (Anonymous.) From A Narrative of All the Robberies, Escapes, &c. of John Sheppard | |
| John Thurmond | |
| From Harlequin Sheppard | |
| Charlotte Charke | |
| From A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke | |
| James Boswell | |
| From London Journal (Entries on Macheath.) | |
| William Hogarth | |
| A Rake's Progress | |
| Perspectives: Mind and God | |
| Isaac Newton | |
| From Letter to Richard Bentley | |
| John Locke | |
| From An Essay Concerning Human Understanding | |
| Isaac Watts | |
| A Prospect of Heaven Makes Death Easy | |
| The Hurry of the Spirits, in a Fever and Nervous Disorders | |
| Against Idleness and Mischief | |
| Man Frail, and God Eternal | |
| Miracles Attending Israel's Journey | |
| David Hume | |
| From A Treatise of Human Nature | |
| From An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding | |
| Christopher Smart | |
| From Jubilate Agno | |
| William Cowper | |
| Light Shining out of Darkness | |
| From The Task | |
| The Cast-away | |
| Thomas Gray | |
| Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard | |
| Samuel Johnson | |
| The Rambler | |
| No. 4 (On Fiction) | |
| No. 60 (On Biography) | |
| The Idler | |
| No. 31 (On Idleness) | |
| No. 32 (On Sleep) | |
| A Dictionary of the English Language | |
| From Preface | |
| (Some Entries.) | |
| James Boswell | |
| The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D | |
| (Introduction Boswell's Method.) | |
| (Dinner with Wilkes.) | |
| Hester Salusbury Thrale Piozzi | |
| Thraliana | |
| (First Entries.) | |
| (The Death of Henry Thrale | |
| Marriage to Gabriel Piozzi.) | |
| (The Death of Johnson.) | |
| Political and Religious Orders | |
| Money, Weights, and Measures | |
| Bibliographies | |
| Credits | |
| Index | |
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