Seventeenth-Century Poetry An Annotated Anthology

by Cummings, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780631210658
• ISBN10: 0631210652
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-04-07
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This book offers an in-depth annotation to a chronologically arranged selection from more than 50 poets including Milton, Denham, Dillon, Anne Wharton.

Author Biography

Robert Cummings teaches at the University of Glasgow. He is author of Spenser: The Critical Heritage (1970) and George Herbert: Language of Canaan. He has a special interest in translation and co-edits Translation and Literature.

Table of Contents

Index of Topics	xiii
Alphabetical List of Authors	xxiii
Acknowledgments	xxiv
Preface	xxv
George Chapman (1559--1634)	1	(13)
The Fight at the Wall	1	(6)
Ulysses in Phaecia	7	(7)
Michael Drayton (1563--1631)	14	(11)
Wildlife in the Fens	15	(4)
To My Most Dearly Loved Friend Henry Reynolds	19	(6)
Thomas Campion (1567--1620)	25	(4)
`My sweetest Lesbia, let us live and love'	25	(1)
`When thou must home to shades of underground'	26	(1)
`Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore'	27	(1)
`Now winter nights enlarge'	27	(1)
`Thrice toss these oaken ashes in the air'	28	(1)
Aemilia Lanyer (1569--1645)	29	(6)
The Description of Cookham	29	(6)
John Donne (1572--1631)	35	(44)
Air and Angels	37	(1)
The Canonization	38	(1)
The Ecstasy	39	(3)
The Funeral	42	(1)
The Good-Morrow	43	(1)
Love's Deity	44	(1)
A Nocturnal upon St Lucy's Day	45	(2)
The Sun Rising	47	(1)
Twickenham Garden	48	(1)
A Valediction Forbidding Mourning	49	(1)
A Valediction of Weeping	50	(1)
Holy Sonnets	51	(9)
`As due by many titles I resign'	52	(1)
`O my black soul! now thou art summoned'	52	(1)
`This is my play's last scene, here heavens appoint'	53	(1)
`At the round earth's imagined corners, blow'	54	(1)
`If poisonous minerals, and if that tree'	55	(1)
`Death be not proud, though some have called thee'	55	(1)
`Spit in my face you Jews, and pierce my side'	56	(1)
`Why are we by all creatures waited on?'	57	(1)
`What if this present were the worlds last night?'	57	(1)
`Batter my heart, three-personed God; for, you'	58	(1)
`Wilt thou love God, as he thee! then digest'	59	(1)
`Father, part of his double interest'	59	(1)
Sonnets from 1635	60	(3)
`Thou hast made me, and shall thy work decay'	60	(1)
`O might those sighs and tears return again'	61	(1)
`I am a little world made cunnigly'	61	(1)
`If faithful souls be alike glorified'	62	(1)
Sonnets from the Westmoreland MS	63	(2)
`Since she whom I loved hath paid her last debt'	63	(1)
`Show me, dear Christ, thy spouse so bright and clear'	63	(1)
`O, to vex me, contraries meet in one'	64	(1)
To the Countess of Beford	65	(3)
Obsequies to the Lord Harington, Brother to the Countess of Bedford	68	(7)
A Hymn to Christ, at the Author's Last Going into Germany	75	(1)
A Hymn to God the Father	76	(1)
A Hymn to God my God, in my Sickness	77	(2)
Ben Jonson (1572--1637)	79	(36)
On My First Daughter	80	(1)
On My First Son	80	(1)
On Lucy Countess of Bedford	81	(1)
Inviting a Friend to Supper	82	(1)
Epitaph on S. P.	83	(1)
Why I Write not of Love	84	(1)
To Penshurst	84	(4)
Song. To Celia (`Come my Celia')	88	(1)
Song. To Celia (`Kiss me, sweet')	89	(1)
Song. To Celia (`Drink to me, only, with thine eyes')	89	(1)
Epode	90	(4)
Her Triumph from A Celebration of Charis	94	(1)
My Picture left in Scotland	95	(1)
An Ode. To Himself	95	(2)
To the Immortal Memory..... of that Noble Pair, Sir Lucius Cary and Sir H. Morison	97	(4)
Horace Epode 2: The Praises of a Country Life	101	(2)
To the memory of.....Mr William Shakespeare	103	(3)
Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue	106	(9)
Martha Moulsworth (1578--1646)	115	(4)
The Memorandum	115	(4)
Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury (1583--1648)	119	(6)
An Ode upon a Question moved	119	(6)
William Drummond of Hawthornden (1585--1649)	125	(10)
Tears, on the Death of Moeliades	125	(6)
Song (`Phoebus arise')	131	(1)
Craton's Death	132	(1)
The Statue of Venus Sleeping	133	(1)
To Sir William Alexander (`Though I have twice been at the doors of Death')	133	(1)
To an Owl	134	(1)
On a Lamp	134	(1)
Lady Mary Wroth (1587--c. 1653)	135	(10)
`Why do you so much wish for rain, when I'	136	(1)
Lindamira's Complaint	136	(4)
`Dear eyes farewell, my sun once, now my end'	137	(1)
`O deadly rancour to a constant heart'	137	(1)
`A surgeon I would ask, but 'tis too late'	137	(1)
`O memory, could I but lose thee now'	138	(1)
`Leave me vain Hope, too long thou hast possessed'	138	(1)
`Though you forsake me, yet alas permit'	139	(1)
`Some do, perhaps, both wrong my love, and care'	139	(1)
`If a clear fountain still keeping a sad course'	140	(1)
`Love leave to urge, thou knowest thou hast the hand'	140	(1)
`Come darkest Night, becoming sorrow best'	141	(1)
`When last I saw thee, I did not thee see'	141	(1)
`When everyone to pleasing pastime hies'	142	(1)
Song: `The Springing time of my first loving'	142	(1)
`Juno still jealous of her husband Jove'	143	(1)
`No time, no room, no thought, nor writing can'	144	(1)
Robert Herrick (1591--1674)	145	(20)
To Perilla	145	(1)
A Song to the Masquers	146	(1)
Delight in Disorder	147	(1)
The Definition of Beauty	147	(1)
To Anthea Lying in Bed	147	(1)
Corinna's Going a-Maying	148	(2)
To the Virgins, to make much of Time	150	(1)
The Hock-Cart, or Harvest Home	151	(1)
To Meadows	152	(1)
A Nuptial Song	153	(5)
Upon a Child that Died	158	(1)
The Mad Maid's Song	159	(1)
To Sycamores	160	(1)
To Daisies, Not to Shut so Soon	160	(1)
Lovers how they Come and Part	161	(1)
Upon Julia's Clothes	161	(1)
The White Island: or Place of the Blest	161	(1)
Good Friday: Rex Tragicus	162	(1)
A Carol presented to Dr Williams	163	(2)
Henry King (1592--1669)	165	(7)
The Exequy	165	(3)
To..... Sir Henry Blount	168	(4)
Francis Quarles (1592--1644)	172	(5)
`Why dost thou shade thy lovely face? O why'	172	(3)
`O whither shall I flee? what path untod'	175	(2)
George Herbert (1593--1633)	177	(31)
The Agony	178	(1)
Affliction 1	178	(3)
Prayer 1	181	(1)
The Temper 1	182	(1)
Jordan 1	183	(1)
Denial	184	(1)
Christmas	185	(1)
Vanity 1	186	(1)
Virtue	187	(1)
The Pearl. Matthew 13	188	(1)
Man	189	(2)
Life	191	(1)
Jordan 2	192	(1)
Providence	193	(5)
Artillery	198	(1)
The Collar	199	(2)
Josph's Coat	201	(1)
The Pulley	202	(1)
The Flower	202	(2)
Aaron	204	(1)
The Forerunners	205	(1)
Love 3	206	(2)
Thomas Carew (1595--1640)	208	(11)
An Elegy upon the Death of Doctor Donne	208	(3)
To Saxham	211	(2)
To Ben Jonson. Upon Occasion of his Ode of Defiance	213	(1)
A Song (`Ask me no more')	214	(1)
In Answer of an Elegiacal Letter	215	(4)
Owen Felltham (1602?--1668)	219	(3)
On the Duke of Buckingham slain by Felton	219	(1)
Upon a Rare Voice	220	(1)
To Phryne	221	(1)
Thomas Randolph (1605--1635)	222	(3)
An Ode to Mr Anthony Stafford to Hasten him into the Country	222	(3)
William Habington (1605--1654)	225	(4)
To Roses in the Bosom of Castara	225	(1)
Upon Castara's Departure	226	(1)
To my Worthy Cousin Mr. E. C.	226	(2)
Against them who lay Unchastity to the Sex of Women	228	(1)
Edmund Waller (1606--1687)	229	(18)
Upon His Majesty's Repairing of Paul's	230	(1)
At Penshurst	231	(1)
To my Young Lady Lucy Sidney	232	(1)
The Self-banished	233	(1)
Song (`Go lovely rose')	234	(1)
On a Girdle	235	(1)
A Panegyric to my Lord Protector	235	(5)
On St James's Park	240	(4)
Of English Verse	244	(1)
Of the Last Verses in the Book	245	(2)
Sir Richard Fanshawe (1608--1666)	247	(6)
An Ode upon Occasion of His Majesty's Proclamation	247	(6)
John Milton (1608--1674)	253	(62)
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity	254	(9)
L'Allegro and II Penseroso	263	(10)
Comus	273	(29)
Lycidas	302	(8)
Sonnets	310	(4)
`Captain or colonel or knight in arms'	310	(1)
To Mr Henry Lawes, on his Airs	311	(1)
On the late Massacre in Piedmont	312	(1)
`When I consider how my light is spent'	312	(1)
`Methought I saw my late espoused saint'	313	(1)
The Fifth Ode Of Horace	314	(1)
Sir John Suckling (1609--1642)	315	(7)
Song (`Why so pale and wan')	315	(1)
Sonnet 3 (`O! for some honest lover's ghost')	316	(1)
A Ballad. Upon a Wedding	317	(4)
`Out upon it, I have loved'	321	(1)
Richard Crashaw (1612--1649)	322	(16)
A Hymn to the Name and Honour of the Admirable Saint Teresa	322	(5)
In the Holy Nativity of our Lord God A Hymn Sung as by the Shepherds	327	(4)
Saint Mary Magdalene or the Weeper	331	(7)
Samuel Butler (1613--1680)	338	(7)
Satyr upon the Weakness and Misery of Man	338	(7)
John Cleveland (1613--1658)	345	(4)
Upon the Death of Mr King	345	(2)
Epitaph on the Earl of Strafford	347	(2)
Sir John Denham (1615--1669)	349	(12)
Cooper's Hill	349	(12)
Richard Lovelace (1618--1658)	361	(8)
Song. To Lucasta, Going Beyond the Seas	361	(1)
Song. To Lucasta, Going to the Wars	362	(1)
The Grasshopper	363	(2)
Lucasta Weeping	365	(1)
To Althea, From Prison. Song	365	(1)
The Snail	366	(3)
Abraham Cowley (1618--1667)	369	(23)
Ode. Of Wit	370	(2)
On the Death of Mr William Hervey	372	(5)
To Mr Hobbes	377	(3)
Brutus	380	(2)
The Grasshopper	382	(1)
The College at Ramah	383	(6)
Horace: Epode 2	389	(3)
Lucy Hutchinson (1620--1681)	392	(7)
The Fear of Death	392	(7)
Andrew Marvell (1621--1678)	399	(43)
The Definition of Love	400	(1)
To His Coy Mistress	401	(2)
Eyes and Tears	403	(2)
An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland	405	(4)
The Picture of little T. C. in a Prospect of Flowers	409	(1)
Upon Appleton House	410	(24)
The Garden	434	(2)
A Dialogue between the Soul and Body	436	(2)
Bermudas	438	(2)
On Mr Milton's Paradise Lost	440	(2)
Henry Vaughan (1622--1695)	442	(18)
Regeneration	442	(3)
The British Church	445	(1)
The Shower	446	(1)
The Retreat	447	(1)
`Silence, and stealth of days'	448	(1)
The World	449	(3)
`I walked the other day'	452	(2)
`They are all gone into the world of light!'	454	(1)
The Night	455	(2)
L'Envoy	457	(3)
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1624--1674)	460	(8)
An Elegy (`Her corpse was borne to church')	461	(1)
A World made by Atoms	461	(1)
The Reason why Thoughts are only in the Head	462	(1)
Of Fish	462	(1)
A Description of an Island	463	(2)
Wherein Poetry chiefly consists	465	(1)
Of the Witches in Lapland that make Winds	465	(1)
Of a Wrought Carpet	466	(1)
The Fairies in the Brain may be the Causes of many Thoughts	466	(1)
A Song (`Since he is gone')	467	(1)
Charles Cotton (1630--1687)	468	(5)
Evening. Quatrains	468	(2)
Night. Quatrains	470	(3)
John Dryden (1631--1700)	473	(42)
Mac Flecknoe	474	(7)
To the Memory of Mr Oldham	481	(2)
Concerning the Nature of Love	483	(2)
From Horace, Epode 2	485	(3)
To the Pious Memory of..... Anne Killigrew	488	(6)
Virgil's Fourth Eclogue	494	(3)
Dido and Aeneas	497	(3)
The After life	500	(2)
Nisus and Euryalus	502	(1)
To my Honoured Kinsman, John Driden	503	(6)
Ovid's Baucis and Philemon	509	(6)
Katherine Philips (1632--1664)	515	(11)
Friendship's Mysteries	515	(1)
To my Excellent Lucasia, on our Friendship	516	(1)
Lucasia..... parting at a Fountain	517	(1)
Epitaph. On her Son H. P.	518	(1)
Upon the Graving of her Name upon a Tree	519	(1)
La Solitude de St. Amant	520	(6)
Thomas Traherne (1637--1674)	526	(7)
Shadows in the Water	526	(3)
On Leaping over the Moon	529	(2)
Dreams	531	(2)
Aphra Behn (1640--1689)	533	(9)
Song. Love Armed	533	(1)
The Disappointment	534	(4)
To the fair Clarinda	538	(1)
Song (`When Jemmy first began to love')	539	(1)
The Counsel. A Song	540	(1)
Song. The Surprise	541	(1)
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647--1680)	542	(15)
A Ramble in St James's Park	542	(5)
Satyr	547	(6)
An Allusion to Horace	553	(4)
John Oldham (1653--1683)	557	(12)
The Lamentation for Adonis	557	(5)
A Letter from the Country	562	(7)
Anne Wharton (1659--1685)	569	(2)
A Paraphrase on the Last Speech of Dido	569	(2)
Index of Authors Cited	571	(11)
Index of Titles and First Lines	582