Seventeenth-Century British Poetry, 1603-1660 (Norton Critical Editions)

by Rumrich, John P.; Chaplin, Gregory

• ISBN13: 9780393979985
• ISBN10: 0393979989
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-12-29
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

Twenty-nine poets writing from the 1603 ascension of James I, the first Stuart King, and the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660, are included in this Norton Critical Edition. A time of political and social unrest in England, this period produced some of the greatest poetry in English. This volume includes the major poets--John Donne, Ben Jonson, George Herbert, John Milton, and Andrew Marvell--the major women writers of the era--Aemilia Lanyer, Mary Wroth, Anne Bradstreet, Margaret Cavendish, and Katherine Philips--and nineteen other poets essential to an understanding of English literature in the seventeenth century. The poems are accompanied by headnotes and explanatory annotations. "Criticism" is divided into two sections. The first, "Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Criticism," includes commentary by contemporary poets and biographers, among them Ben Jonson, John Dryden, and Samuel Johnson. The second, "Recent Criticism," brings together twenty critical examinations of the period and its poets, including essays by T. S. Eliot, Janel Mueller, Aldous Huxley, W. H. Auden, Joseph Summers, Laurence Babb, Gerald Hammond, Eavan Boland, Leah Marcus, and William Kerrigan. A Selected Biography is also included. About the Series: No other series of classic texts equals the caliber of the Norton Critical Editions. Each volume combines the most authoritative text available with the comprehensive pedagogical apparatus necessary to appreciate the work fully. Careful editing, first-rate translation, and thorough explanatory annotations allow each text to meet the highest literary standards while remaining accessible to students. Each edition is printed on acid-free paper and every text in the series remains in print. Norton Critical Editions are the choice for excellence in scholarship for students at more than 2,000 universities worldwide.

Table of Contents

Preface	xxi
The Texts of the Poems
Aemilia Lanyer (1569-1645)	3	(18)
From Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum (1611)	5	(16)
To the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty	5	(4)
To All Virtuous Ladies in General	9	(2)
From Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum	11	(3)
The Description of Cookham	14	(7)
John Donne (1572-1631)	21	(60)
From Poems (1633)	23	(58)
From Songs and Sonnets	23	(22)
The Good-Morrow	23	(1)
Song ["Go and catch a falling star"]	23	(1)
The Undertaking	24	(1)
The Sun Rising	25	(1)
The Indifferent	26	(1)
The Canonization	26	(2)
Air and Angels	28	(1)
The Anniversary	29	(1)
Twickenham Garden	29	(1)
Confined Love	30	(1)
A Valediction: Of Weeping	31	(1)
Love's Alchemy	32	(1)
The Flea	33	(1)
A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy's Day, Being the Shortest Day	33	(2)
The Bait	35	(1)
The Apparition	36	(1)
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning	36	(1)
The Ecstasy	37	(3)
The Funeral	40	(1)
The Blossom	40	(1)
The Relic	41	(1)
The Damp	42	(1)
Farewell to Love	43	(1)
A Lecture upon the Shadow	44	(1)
From Elegies	45	(8)
Elegy 6. Nature's Lay Idiot	45	(1)
Elegy 8. To His Mistress Going to Bed	46	(1)
Elegy 13. The Autumnal	47	(2)
Elegy 14. Love's Progress	49	(2)
Sappho to Philaenis	51	(2)
From Satires	53	(3)
Satire 3 ("Kind pity chokes my spleen")	53	(3)
Verse Letters	56	(7)
The Storm	56	(2)
The Calm	58	(1)
To Sir Henry Wotton ["Sir, more than kisses"]	59	(2)
To the Countess of Bedford ["Madam, You have refined me"]	61	(2)
From An Anatomy of the World: The First Anniversary	63	(6)
Divine Poems	69	(14)
Holy Sonnets	69	(1)
1 ["As due by many titles I resign"]	69	(1)
2 ["Oh my black soul!"] 7o
3 ["This is my play's last scene"]	70	(1)
4 ["At the round earth's imagined corners"]	71	(1)
5 ["If poisonous minerals"]	71	(1)
6 ["Death be not proud"]	72	(1)
7 ["Spit in my face you Jews"(	72	(1)
8 ["Why are we by all creatures waited on?"]	73	(1)
9 ["What if this present were the world's last night?"]	73	(1)
10 ["Batter my heart"]	73	(1)
17 ["Since she whom I loved hath paid her last debt"]	74	(1)
18 ["Show me, dear Christ"]	74	(1)
19 ["Oh, to vex me"]	75	(1)
Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward	75	(2)
A Hymn to Christ, at the Author's Last Going into Germany	77	(1)
Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness	78	(1)
A Hymn to God the Father	79	(2)
Ben Jonson (1572-1637)	81	(76)
From The Works of Benjamin Jonson (1616)	83	(37)
From Epigrams	83	(14)
I: To the Reader	83	(1)
II: To My Book	83	(1)
IV: To King James	83	(1)
IX: To All, To Whom I Write	84	(1)
XI: On Something that Walks Somewhere	84	(1)
XIV: To William Camden	84	(1)
XVIII: To My Mere English Censurer	85	(1)
XXII: On My. First Daughter	85	(1)
XLV: On My First Son	85	(1)
LIX: On Spies	86	(1)
LXIX: To Pertinax Cob	86	(1)
LXXVI: On Lucy, Countess of Bedford	86	(1)
LXXIX: To Elizabeth, Countess of Rutland	87	(1)
LXXXIII: To a Friend	87	(1)
XCI: To Sir Horace Vere	87	(1)
XCIV: To Lucy, Countess of Bedford, with Mr. Donne's Satires	88	(1)
XCVI: To John Donne	88	(1)
CI: Inviting a Friend to Supper	89	(1)
CXX: Epitaph on S.P., a Child of O. El. Chapel	90	(1)
CXXVIII: To William Roe	91	(1)
CXXXIII: On the Famous Voyage	91	(6)
The Forest	97	(23)
I: Why I Write Not of Love	97	(1)
II: To Penshurst	97	(3)
III: To Sir Robert Wroth	100	(3)
IV: To the World: A Farewell for a Gentlewoman, Virtuous and Noble	103	(1)
V: Song: To Celia	104	(1)
VI: To the Same	105	(1)
VII: Song: That Women Are but Men's Shadows	105	(1)
VIII: To Sickness	106	(1)
IX: Song: To Celia	107	(1)
X: ["And must I sing? What subject shall I choose?"]	108	(1)
XI: Epode	109	(3)
XII: Epistle to Elizabeth, Countess of Rutland	112	(3)
XIII: Epistle to Katharine, Lady Aubigny	115	(3)
XIV: Ode to Sir William Sydney, on His Birthday	118	(1)
XV: To Heaven	119	(1)
From The Works of Benjamin Jonson (1640-1641)	120	(33)
From Underwood	120	(29)
A Hymn on the Nativity of My Savior	120	(1)
A Celebration of Charis in Ten Lyric Pieces	121	(1)
1. His Excuse for Loving	121	(1)
2. How He Saw Her	122	(1)
3. What He Suffered	122	(1)
4. Her Triumph	123	(1)
5. His Discourse with Cupid	124	(1)
6. Claiming a Second Kiss by Desert	125	(1)
7. Begging Another, on Color of Mending the Former	126	(1)
8. Urging Her of a Promise	126	(1)
9. Her Man Described by Her Own Dictamen	127	(1)
10. Another Lady's Exception Present at the Hearing	128	(1)
The Musical Strife, in a Pastoral Dialogue	129	(1)
In the Person of Womankind: A Song Apologetic	130	(1)
Another, in Defense of Their Inconstancy: A Song	130	(1)
A Nymph's Passion	131	(1)
The Hourglass	132	(1)
My Picture Left in Scotland	132	(1)
The Dream	133	(1)
An Epistle to Master John Selden	133	(3)
An Ode to Himself ["Where dost thou careless	136	(1)
A Sonnet to the Noble Lady, the Lady Mary Wroth	137	(1)
An Epistle Answering to One That Asked to Be Sealed of the Tribe of Ben	137	(2)
An Epigram to the Household	139	(1)
To the Immortal Memory and Friendship of That Noble Pair, Sir Lucius Cary and Sir H. Morison	140	(4)
Epithalamion, or a Song Celebrating the Nuptials of that Noble Gentleman, Mr. Jerome Weston, Son and Heir of the Lord Weston, Lord High Treasurer of England, with the Lady Frances Stuart, Daughter of Esme Duke of Lenox, Deceased, and Sister of the Surviving Duke of the Same Name	144	(5)
From Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies (1623)	149	(2)
To the Memory of My Beloved, The Author, Mr. William Shakespeare, and What He Hath Left Us	149	(2)
From Ben Jonson's Execration Against Vulcan (1640)	151	(2)
Ode to Himself ["Come leave the loathed stage"]	151	(2)
Songs from the Plays and Masques	153	(4)
From The Works (1616)	153	(2)
"Slow, slow, fresh fount"	153	(1)
"If I freely may discover"	153	(1)
"Swell me a bowl with lusty wine"	154	(1)
"Still to be neat, still to be dressed"	154	(1)
From The Works (1640-1641)	155	(4)
"Though I am young, and cannot tell"	155	(2)
Richard Corbett (15 8 2-1 63 5)	157	(10)
From Certain Elegant Poems (1647)	159	(3)
A Proper New Ballad, Intituled the Fairies' Farewell...	159	(2)
An Elegy upon the Death of His Own Father	161	(1)
From Poetica Stromata (1648)	162	(5)
Upon Fairford Windows	162	(1)
The Distracted Puritan	163	(4)
Lady Mary Wroth (1587?-1651?)	167	(12)
From Pamphilia to Amphilanthus (1621)	169	(8)
1 ["When night's black mantle could most darkness prowl	169	(1)
7 Song ["The spring now come at last"]	169	(1)
16 ["Am I thus conquered? Have I lost the powers"]	170	(1)
24 ["When last I saw thee, I did not thee see"'	171	(1)
25 ["Like to the Indians scorched with the sun"]	171	(1)
26 l"When everyone to pleasing pastime hies"]	172	(1)
39 ["Take heed mine eyes, how you your looks do cast"]	172	(1)
40 ["False hope, which feeds but to destroy and spill"]	172	(1)
68 ["My pain, still smothered in my grieved breast"]	173	(1)
74 Song ["Love, a child, is ever crying"]	173	(1)
77 ["In this strange labyrinth how shall I turn?"]	174	(1)
90 ["Except my heart, which you bestowed before"]	174	(1)
94 Song ["Lovers learn to speak but truth"]	175	(1)
99 ["Like to huge clouds of smoke which well may hide"]	176	(1)
103 ["My Muse, now happy, lay thyself to rest"]	176	(1)
From The Countess of Montgomery's Urania (1621)	177	(2)
Song ["Love, what art thou? A vain thought"]	177	(2)
Robert Herrick (1591-1674)	179	(46)
From Hesperides (1648)	181	(39)
The Argument of His Book	181	(1)
When He Would Have His Verses Read	181	(1)
To Perilla	182	(1)
No Loathsomeness in Love	182	(1)
Upon the Loss of His Mistresses	183	(1)
The Vine	183	(1)
Discontents in Devon	184	(1)
Cherry-Ripe	184	(1)
His Request to Julia	184	(1)
Dreams	184	(1)
To the King, Upon His Coming with His Army into the West	185	(1)
Delight in Disorder	185	(1)
Dean-bourn, a Rude River in Devon, By Which Sometimes He Lived	185	(1)
The Definition of Beauty	186	(1)
To Anthea Lying in Bed	186	(1)
Upon Scobble. Epigram	186	(1)
The Hourglass	187	(1)
His Farewell to Sack	187	(1)
To Dianeme ["Sweet, be not proud of those two eyes"]	188	(1)
Julia's Petticoat	189	(1)
Corinna's Going A-Maying	189	(2)
How Lilies Came White	191	(1)
Upon Some Women	191	(1)
The Welcome to Sack	192	(2)
To Live Merrily, and to Trust to Good Verses	194	(1)
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time	195	(1)
His Poetry His Pillar	196	(1)
To the Rose. Song '97 The Hock-Cart, or Harvest Home: To the Right Honorable Mildmay, Earl of Westmorland	197	(1)
How Roses Came Red ["Roses at first were white"]	198	(1)
How Violets Came Blue	199	(1)
A Nuptial Song, or Epithalamie, on Sir Clipsby Crew and His Lady	199	(4)
Oberon's Feast	203	(2)
Upon a Child That Died	205	(1)
To Daffodils	205	(1)
Upon Master Ben Jonson: Epigram	205	(1)
Upon Electra	206	(1)
Upon Parson Beanes	206	(1)
To Daisies, Not to Shut So Soon	206	(1)
To the Right Honorable Mildmay, Earl of Westmorland	207	(1)
To Blossoms	207	(1)
Kissing and Bussing	208	(1)
Art above Nature: To Julia	208	(1)
His Prayer to Ben Jonson	208	(1)
The Bad Season Makes the Poet Sad	209	(1)
The Night-Piece, To Julia	209	(1)
The Hag	210	(1)
The Country Life, To the Honored Mr. Endymion Porter, Groom of the Bedchamber to His Majesty	210	(2)
The Maypole	212	(1)
His Return to London	212	(1)
His Grange, or Private Wealth	213	(1)
Upon Julia's Clothes	214	(1)
Upon Prue, His Maid	214	(1)
Ceremonies for Christmas	214	(1)
Poetry Perpetuates the Poet	215	(1)
Kisses	215	(1)
The Amber Bead	215	(1)
Upon Love ["Love brought me to a silent grovel	215	(1)
Charms	216	(1)
Another	216	(1)
Another to Bring in the Witch	216	(1)
Another Charm for Stables	216	(1)
Ceremonies for Candlemas Eve	217	(1)
Upon Ben Jonson	217	(1)
An Ode for Him	218	(1)
To the King, Upon His Welcome to Hampton Court	218	(1)
On Himself	219	(1)
Upon His Spaniel Tracy	219	(1)
The Pillar of Fame	219	(1)
"To his hook's end this last line he'd have placed"	219	(1)
From His Noble Numbers (1647)	220	(5)
His Prayer for Absolution	220	(1)
To Find God	220	(1)
What God Is	221	(1)
Calling, and Correcting	221	(1)
Upon Time	221	(1)
To His Savior, a Child; A Present by a Child	221	(1)
To His Conscience	222	(1)
His Creed	222	(1)
Another Grace for a Child	223	(1)
The Bellman	223	(1)
The White Island, or Place of the Blest	223	(2)
George Herbert (1593-1633)	225	(68)
From The Temple (1633)	227	(66)
The Altar	227	(1)
The Sacrifice	227	(6)
The Thanksgiving	233	(2)
The Reprisal	235	(1)
The Agony	235	(1)
The Sinner	236	(1)
Good Friday	236	(1)
The Passion	237	(1)
Redemption	237	(1)
Sepulcher	238	(1)
Easter [I]	238	(1)
Easter [II]	239	(1)
Easter-wings [I]	239	(1)
Easter-wings [II]	240	(1)
H. Baptism [I]	240	(1)
H. Baptism [II]	240	(1)
Sin [I]	241	(1)
Affliction [I]	241	(2)
Prayer [I]	243	(1)
The H. Communion	243	(1)
Prayer [II]	244	(1)
Love I	245	(1)
[Love II]	245	(1)
The Temper [I]	245	(1)
The Temper [II]	246	(1)
Jordan [I]	247	(1)
Employment [I]	247	(1)
The H. Scriptures I	248	(1)
[The H. Scriptures II]	249	(1)
Whitsunday	249	(1)
Grace	250	(1)
Church-monuments	251	(1)
Church-music	251	(1)
Church-lock and Key	252	(1)
The Windows	252	(1)
The Quiddity	252	(1)
Sunday	253	(1)
Employment [II]	254	(1)
Denial	255	(1)
Christmas	256	(1)
The World	257	(1)
Vanity [I]	258	(1)
Virtue	258	(1)
The Pearl. Matthew 13:45	259	(1)
Affliction [IV]	260	(1)
Man	261	(1)
Life	262	(1)
Mortification	263	(1)
Jordan [II]	264	(1)
Obedience	264	(2)
The British Church	266	(1)
The Quip	267	(1)
Dullness	267	(1)
Sin's Round	268	(1)
Peace	269	(1)
The Bunch of Grapes	270	(1)
The Storm	271	(1)
Paradise	271	(1)
The Size	272	(1)
Artillery	273	(1)
The Pilgrimage	274	(1)
The Bag	275	(1)
The Collar	276	(1)
Joseph's Coat	277	(1)
The Pulley	277	(1)
The Search	278	(2)
The Flower	280	(1)
The Son	281	(1)
A True Hymn	281	(1)
Bitter-sweet	282	(1)
Mary Magdalene	282	(1)
Aaron	283	(1)
The Forerunners	284	(1)
Discipline	285	(1)
The Banquet	286	(1)
The Elixir	287	(1)
A Wreath	288	(1)
Death	288	(1)
Doomsday	289	(1)
Judgment	290	(1)
Heaven	290	(1)
Love [III]	291	(2)
Thomas Carew (1594?-1640)	293	(26)
From Poems (1640)	295	(24)
The Spring	295	(1)
A Divine Mistress	295	(1)
Song: Mediocrity in Love Rejected	296	(1)
To My Mistress Sitting by a River's Side: An Eddy	296	(1)
Song: To My Inconstant Mistress	297	(1)
Song: Persuasions to Enjoy	297	(1)
Ingrateful Beauty Threatened	298	(1)
Disdain Returned	298	(1)
To My Mistress in Absence	299	(1)
Song: Eternity of' Love Protested	300	(1)
To Saxham	300	(2)
Upon a Ribbon	302	(1)
A Rapture	302	(4)
Epitaph on the Lady Mary Villiers	306	(1)
Another ["The purest soul that e'er was sent"]	307	(1)
Another ["This little vault, this narrow room']	307	(1)
To Ben Jonson: Upon Occasion of His Ode of Defiance Annexed to His Play of The New Inn	307	(2)
An Elegy upon the Death of Dr. Donne, Dean of Paul's	309	(2)
In Answer of an Elegiacal Letter, upon the Death of the King of Sweden, from Aurelian Townshend, Inviting Me to Write on That Subject	311	(3)
To a Lady That Desired I Would Love Her	314	(1)
To My Friend G. IN., from Wrest	315	(2)
A Song ["Ask me no more where Jove bestows"]	317	(2)
James Shirley (1596-1666)	319	(8)
From Poems (1646)	321	(6)
Cupid's Call	321	(1)
To Odelia	321	(1)
Love for Enjoying	322	(1)
To the Excellent Pattern of Beauty and Virtue, Lady Elizabeth, Countess of Ormonde	323	(1)
To a Lady upon a Looking-Class Sent	324	(1)
Two Gentlemen That Broke Their Promise of a Meeting, Made When They Drank Claret	324	(1)
The Garden	325	(1)
From The Contention of Ajax and Ulysses for the Armor of Achilles (1659)	326	(3)
Dirge	326	(1)
Mildmay Fane (1600-1666)	327	(10)
From Otia Sacra (1648)	329	(8)
My Country Audit	329	(1)
My Observation at Sea	329	(2)
A Dedication of My First Son	331	(1)
Upon the Times	332	(1)
My Close-Committee	332	(1)
In Praise of Fidelia	333	(1)
To Retiredness	334	(3)
Thomas Randolph (1605-1635)	337	(12)
From Poems, with The Muses' Looking-Glass and Amyntas (1638)	339	(10)
A Gratulatory to Mr. Ben Jonson for His Adopting of Him To Be His Son	339	(1)
Upon the Loss of His Little Finger	340	(1)
An Elegy	341	(1)
An Ode to Mr. Anthony Stafford to Hasten Him into the Country	342	(2)
On the Death of a Nightingale	344	(1)
A Mask for Lydia	344	(2)
Upon Love Fondly Refused for Conscience's Sake	346	(3)
William Habington (1605-1654)	349	(10)
From Castara (1640)	351	(8)
To Roses in the Bosom of Castara	351	(1)
To Castara ["Do not their profane orgies hear"]	351	(1)
To a Wanton	352	(1)
To the World. The Perfection of Love	353	(1)
To a Friend, Inviting Him to a Meeting upon Promise	354	(1)
To Castara, upon Beauty	355	(1)
Against Them Who Lay Unchastity to the Sex of Women	355	(1)
To Castara, upon an Embrace	356	(1)
Nox Nocti Indicat Scientiam. David	356	(3)
Edmund Waller (1606-1687)	359	(18)
From Poems (1686)	361	(16)
To the King, on His Navy	361	(1)
The Story of Phoebus and Daphne Applied	362	(1)
Upon Ben Jonson	362	(1)
At Penshurst ["Had Sacharissa lived when mortals made"]	363	(1)
The Battle of the Summer Islands	364	(5)
On a Girdle	369	(1)
Song ["Go, lovely rose!"]	369	(1)
On St. James's Park, As Lately Improved by His Majesty	370	(3)
Of English Verse	373	(1)
Of the Last Verses in the Book	374	(3)
John Milton (1608-1674)	377	(32)
From Poems (1645)	379	(25)
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity	379	(8)
On Time	387	(1)
On Shakespeare	387	(1)
L'Allegro	388	(4)
Il Penseroso	392	(4)
Sonnet 7 ["How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth"]	396	(1)
Sonnet 8 ["Captain or colonel, or knight in arms"]	397	(1)
Sonnet 9 ]"Lady that in the prime of earliest youth"]	397	(1)
Lycidas	398	(6)
From Poems (1673)	404	(5)
Sonnet 12 ["I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs"]	404	(1)
Sonnet 13: To Mr. H. Lawes, on his Airs	404	(1)
Sonnet 16: To the Lord General Cromwell, May 1652	405	(1)
Sonnet 18: On the Late Massacre in Piedmont	406	(1)
Sonnet 19 ["When I consider how my light is spent"]	406	(1)
Sonnet 20 ["Lawrence of virtuous father virtuous son"]	407	(1)
Sonnet 23 ["Methought I saw my late espousèd saint"]	407	(2)
Sir John Suckling (1609-1641)	409	(20)
From Fragmenta Aurea (1646)	411	(16)
Loving and Beloved	411	(1)
A Sessions of the Poets	412	(3)
Sonnets	415	(3)
I	415	(1)
II	416	(1)
III	417	(1)
Against Fruition [1]	418	(1)
Upon My Lady Carlisle's Walking in Hampton Court Garden	419	(1)
"That none beguiled be by time's quick flowing"	420	(1)
Against Fruition [2]	421	(1)
A Ballad upon a Wedding	421	(4)
"My dearest rival, lest our love"	425	(1)
Song ["Why so pale and wan, fond lover?"]	426	(1)
From The Last Remains of Sir John Suckling (1659)	427	(2)
"Out upon it! I have loved"	427	(1)
A Song to a Lute	427	(2)
William Cartwright (1611-1643)	429	(6)
From Comedies, Tragi-Comedies, With Other Poems (1651)	431	(4)
To Mr. W.B., at the Birth of His First Child	431	(1)
To Chloe, Who Wished Herself Young Enough for Me	432	(1)
A Valediction	433	(1)
No Platonic Love	433	(2)
James Graham (1612-1650)	435	(4)
From A Choice Collection of Comic and Serious Scots Poems (1711)	437	(2)
"My dear and only love, 1 pray"	437	(2)
Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672)	439	(12)
From The Tenth Muse Latch Sprung up in America (1650)	441	(10)
The Prologue	441	(1)
A Dialogue between Old England and New...	442	(9)
Richard Crashaw (1612/13-1649)	451	(26)
From Steps to the Temple (1646)	453	(2)
Upon the Infant Martyrs	453	(1)
Upon the Ass that Bore Our Savior	453	(1)
Upon Lazarus His Tears	453	(1)
On the Wounds of Our Crucified Lord	453	(1)
On Mr. G. Herbert's Book	454	(1)
From Delights of the Muses (1646)	455	(4)
Music's Duel	455	(4)
From Carmen Deo Nostro (1652)	459	(18)
In the Holy Nativity of Our Lord God: A Hymn Sung as by the Shepherds	459	(3)
Saint Mary Magdalene or The Weeper	462	(5)
A Hymn to the Name and Honor of the Admirable Saint Teresa	467	(4)
The Flaming Heart	471	(3)
To the Noblest and Best of Ladies, The Countess of Denbigh	474	(3)
Sir John Denham (1615-1669)	477	(12)
From Poems and Translations (1668)	479	(10)
Cooper's Hill	479	(10)
Richard Lovelace (1618-1657/8)	489	(20)
From Lucasta (1649)	491	(9)
To Lucasta. Going Beyond the Seas. Song. Set by Mr. Henry Lawes	491	(1)
To Lucasta. Going to the Wars. Song. Set by Mr. John Lanière	491	(1)
To Amarantha, That She Would Dishevel Her Hair. Song. Set by Mr. Henry Lawes	492	(1)
Gratiana Dancing and Singing	493	(1)
The Scrutiny. Song. Set by Mr. Thomas Charles	493	(1)
The Grasshopper. Ode. To My Noble Friend, Mr. Charles Cotton	494	(1)
The Vintage to the Dungeon. A Song. Set by Mr. William Lawes	495	(1)
To Lucasta. From Prison. An Epode	496	(1)
To Althea. From Prison. Song. Set by Dr. John Wilson	497	(1)
La Bella Bona Roba	498	(1)
The Fair Beggar	499	(1)
From Lucasta. Posthume Poems (1659)	500	(9)
The Snail	500	(1)
A Loose Saraband	501	(2)
Love Made in the First Age. To Chloris	503	(1)
A Mock-Song	504	(1)
A Fly Caught in a Cobweb	505	(1)
Advice to My Best Brother, Colonel Francis Lovelace	506	(3)
Abraham Cowley (1618-1667)	509	(22)
From The Works of Mr. Abraham Cowley (1668)	511	(10)
From Miscellanies	511	(8)
The Motto	511	(1)
Ode. Of Wit	512	(2)
On the Death of Mr. William Hervey	514	(4)
On the Death of Mr. Crashaw	518	(1)
From Anacreontics; Or, Some Copies of Verses Translated Periphrastically out of Anacreon	519	(2)
I. Love	519	(1)
VIII. The Epicure	520	(1)
X. The Grasshopper	520	(1)
From The Mistress	521	(3)
The Spring	521	(1)
Platonic Love	522	(1)
Against Fruition	523	(1)
From Pindaric Odes	524	(3)
To Mr. Hobbes	524	(3)
From Verses Written on Several Occasions	527	(4)
Ode. Upon Dr. Harvey	527	(4)
Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)	531	(52)
From Miscellaneous Poems (1681)	533	(50)
A Dialogue between the Resolved Soul and Created Pleasure	533	(2)
On a Drop of Dew	535	(1)
The Coronet	536	(1)
Eyes and Tears	537	(1)
Bermudas	538	(1)
A Dialogue between the Soul and Body	539	(1)
The Nymph Complaining for the Death of Her Fawn	540	(3)
To His Coy Mistress	543	(1)
The Definition of Love	544	(2)
The Picture of Little T.C. in a Prospect of Flowers	546	(1)
The Mower against Gardens	547	(1)
Damon the Mower	548	(2)
The Mower to the Glowworms	550	(1)
The Mower's Song	551	(1)
Music's Empire	552	(1)
The Garden	553	(3)
An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland	556	(3)
Upon Appleton House	559	(24)
Henry Vaughan (1621?-1695)	583	(30)
From Poems (1646)	585	(2)
To My Ingenuous Friend, R.W.	585	(1)
To Amoret, of the Difference 'twixt Him and Other Lovers, and What True Love Is	586	(1)
From Silex Scintillans, Part I (1650)	587	(17)
Regeneration	587	(3)
The Search	590	(2)
The Shower	592	(1)
Distraction	593	(1)
The Pursuit	594	(1)
Vanity of Spirit	594	(1)
The Retreat	595	(1)
The Morning Watch	596	(1)
Peace	597	(1)
["And do they so? Have they a sense"]	597	(1)
Corruption	598	(1)
The World	599	(3)
Man 6o
["I walked the other day..."]	602	(2)
From Silex Scintillans, Part II (1655)	604	(9)
["They are all gone into the world of light!"]	604	(1)
Cock-crowing	605	(1)
The Bird	606	(1)
The Timber	607	(2)
The Dwelling Place	609	(1)
The Night	609	(2)
Quickness	611	(1)
The Book	612	(1)
Margaret Cavendish (1623-1673)	613	(14)
From Poems and Fancies (1664)	615	(12)
The Poetress's Hasty Resolution	615	(1)
The Poetress's Petition	615	(1)
An Apology for Writing So Much upon This Book	616	(1)
A World Made by Atoms	616	(1)
What Atoms Make a Palsy, or Apoplexy	617	(1)
In All Other Diseases Atoms Are Mixed, Taking Parts and Factions	617	(1)
All Things Are Governed by Atoms	617	(1)
A War betwixt Atoms	617	(1)
Atoms and Motion Fall Out	618	(1)
An Agreement of Some Kind of Motion with Some Kind of Atoms	618	(1)
Motion Directs while Atoms Dance	618	(1)
If Infinite Worlds, There Must Be Infinite Centers	618	(1)
Of Infinite Matter	619	(1)
Of the Motion of the Blood	619	(1)
Of Many Worlds in This World	620	(1)
The Hunting of the Hare	620	(3)
A Description of an Island	623	(1)
The Ruin of This Island	624	(2)
Upon the Funeral of My Dear Brother, Killed in These Unhappy Wars	626	(1)
Thomas Stanley (1625-1678)	627	(8)
From Poems (1651)	629	(4)
The Glowworm	629	(1)
Changed, Yet Constant	629	(2)
Celia Singing	631	(1)
Love's Innocence	631	(1)
La Belle Confidente	632	(1)
The Bracelet	632	(1)
From Poems and Translations (1647)	633	(2)
Expectation	633	(2)
John Dryden (1631-1700)	635	(18)
From Three Poems upon the Death of His Highness Oliver Lord Protector (1659)	637	(6)
Heroic Stanzas	637	(6)
Astraea Redux (1660)	643	(7)
From Chorea Gigantism (1663)	650	(3)
To My Honored Friend, Dr. Charleton	650	(3)
Katherine Philips (1631-1664)	653	(16)
From Poems (1667)	655	(14)
Upon the Double Murder of king, Charles I...	655	(1)
Arion on a Dolphin, To His Majesty at His Passage into England	656	(1)
On the Third of September, 1651	657	(1)
Friendship's Mystery, To My Dearest Lucasia	658	(2)
A Retired Friendship, To Ardelia	660	(1)
To the Excellent Mrs. Anne Owen...	661	(1)
To My Excellent Lucasia, on Our Friendship	662	(1)
To Mrs. M.A. at Parting	662	(2)
A Country Life	664	(3)
Epitaph. On Her Son H.P. at St. Sith's Church	667	(1)
Against Love	667	(1)
An Answer to Another Persuading a Lady to Marriage	668	(1)
Thomas Traherne (163 7-1 674)	669	(21)
From the Dobell Folio	671	(9)
The Salutation	671	(1)
Wonder	672	(2)
Eden	674	(1)
The Rapture	675	(1)
My Spirit	676	(3)
Love	679	(1)
From The Third Century	680	(2)
On News	680	(2)
From the Burney Manuscript	682	(39)
The Return	682	(1)
Shadows in the Water	682	(2)
On Leaping over the Moon	684	(6)
Textual Notes
Aernilia Langer	690	(1)
John Donne	690	(2)
Ben Jonson	692	(3)
Richard Corbett	695	(1)
Lady Mary Wroth	696	(1)
Robert Herrick	696	(1)
George Herbert	697	(5)
Thomas Carew	702	(1)
James Shirley	703	(2)
Mildmav Fane	705	(1)
Thomas Randolph	705	(1)
William Habington	706	(1)
Edmund Waller	706	(1)
John Milton	707	(1)
Sir John Suckling	707	(1)
William Cartwright	708	(1)
James Graham	708	(1)
Anne Bradstreet	708	(1)
Richard Crashaw	709	(1)
Sir John Denham	710	(2)
Richard Lovelace	712	(1)
Abraham Cowley	713	(1)
Andrew Marvell	713	(2)
Henry Vaughan	715	(1)
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle	715	(1)
Thomas Stanley	716	(1)
John Dryden	716	(1)
Katherine Philips	717	(1)
Thomas Traherne	717	(4)
Criticism
SEVENTEENTH- AND EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY CRITICISM	721	(28)
Ben Jonson
From Timber, or Discoveries	721	(9)
[Poets and "Wits"]	721	(4)
[Knowledge and Ignorance]	725	(1)
[Language and Learning]	725	(2)
[Poets and Poetry]	727	(3)
Ben Jonson
From Conversations with William Drummond of Hawthornden	730	(3)
Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon
From The Life of Edward, Earl of Clarendon	733	(1)
John Dryden	734	(2)
[Observations on Jonson's Art]	734	(1)
[Donne "Affects the Metaphysics"]	735	(1)
Dr. Samuel Johnson
From Lives of the English Poets	736	(13)
[Waller]	736	(2)
[Denham]	738	(1)
[Cowley]	739	(5)
[Dryden]	744
RECENT CRITICISM
Lawrence Babb
The Physiology and Psychology of the Renaissance	749	(15)
T.S. Eliot
The Metaphysical Poets	764	(7)
William Empson
Donne the Space Man	771	(24)
Janel Mueller
Women among the Metaphysicals: A Case, Mostly, of Being Donne For	795	(10)
Earl Miner
[The Cavalier Ideal of the Good Life]	805	(12)
Raymond Williams
Pastoral and Counter-Pastoral	817	(6)
Ann Baynes Coiro
Writing in Service: Sexual Politics and Class Position in the Poetry of Aemilia Lanyer and Ben Jonson	823	(15)
Gordon Braden
Beyond Frustration: Petrarchan Laurels in the Seventeenth Century	838	(13)
William Kerrigan
Kiss Fancies in Robert Herrick	851	(11)
Gerald Hammond
Caught in the Web of Dreams: The Dead	862	(13)
Aldous Huxley
[The Inner Weather]	875	(1)
W.H. Auden
[Anglican George Herbert]	875	(3)
Joseph H. Summers
The Poem as Hieroglyph	878	(12)
Michael Schoenfeldt
"That Spectacle of Too Much Weight": The Poetics of Sacrifice in Donne, Herbert, and Milton	890	(17)
Eavan Boland
Finding Anne Bradstreet	907	(11)
William Empson
Marvell's 'Garden'	918	(3)
Joseph H. Summers
Marvell's "Nature"	921	(10)
Leah Marcus
Children of Light: Vaughan and Traherne	931	(24)
William Kerrigan
Transformations of Friendship in the Work of Katherine Philips	955	(16)
Select Bibliography	971	(10)
Index	981