| Description |
1480 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliography. |
| Contents |
THE OLD ENGLISH PERIOD: 450-1150 (introduction) / Harold S. Stine -- Beowulf -- from The Ecclesiastical history of English people / Bede -- Deor's Lament -- The husband's message -- The ruin -- The battle of Brunanburh -- The riddles -- Preface to Pastoal care / King Alfred -- THE MIDDLE ENGLISH PERIOD: 1150-1500 (introduction) / Albert C. Baugh -- Sir Gawain and the Green knight -- Cuckoo song -- Alysoun -- When the nightingale sings -- Prayer to the virgin -- Quia Amore Langueo -- A Christmas Carol -- Sodenly afraid -- A warning -- Drinking song -- from Piers Plowman -- The second Shepperds' Play -- from The Morte Darthur / Sir Thomas Malory -- The cruel brother -- Edward -- The twa Corbies -- The Twa sisters -- Sir Patrick Spence -- Lord Thomas And fair Annet -- Bonny Barbara Allan -- Young Waters -- The gay Gos-hawk -- Robin Hood and Allen a Dale -- Captain Car -- The Bunny Earl of Murray -- Bonny George Campbell -- The Daemon Lover -- Get up and bar the door -- THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY (introduction) / Matthew W. Black -- from Utopia / Sir Thomas More -- the lover compareth his state to a ship in perilous storm tossed on the sea / Sir Thomas Wyatt -- A renouncing of love / Sir Thomas Wyatt -- An earnest suit to his unkind mistress not to forsake him / Sir Thomas Wyatt -- Forget not yet / Sir Thomas Wyatt -- The lover complaineth the unkindness of his love / Sir Thomas Wyatt -- Description of spring, wherein each thing renews, save only the lover / Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey -- Complaint of a lover rebuked / Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey -- Vow to love faithfully howsoever he be rewarded / Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey -- The means to attain a happy life / Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey -- A tribute to Wyatt / Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey -- from Virgil's Aeneid, Book IV / Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey -- from Astrophel and Stella / Sir Philip Sidney -- Ditty: Heart exchange / Sir Philip Sidney -- Leave me, O love, which reachest but to dust / Sir Philip Sidney -- from The Shepherd's calendar / Edmund Spencer -- from The Faerie Queene / Edmund Spencer -- from Amoretti -- Prothalamion / Edmund Spencer -- The tragical history of Doctor Faustus / Christopher Marlowe -- from The Schoolmaster / Roger Ascham -- from Euphues: The anatomy of Wit / John Lyly -- from The Defense of poesy / Sir Hpillip Sidney -- from A notable discovery of Cosenage / Robert Greene -- from The Gull's Hornbook / Thomas Dekker -- from The history of the world / Sir Walter Raleigh -- The execution of Sir Walter Raleigh / John Chamberlain -- A strange passion of a lover / George Gascoigne -- Apelle's Song / John Lyly -- Rosalind's Madrigal / Thomas Lodge -- Sephestia's song to her child / Robert Greene -- The shepherd's wife's song / Robert Greeene -- The passionate Shepherd to his love / Christopher Marlowe -- My mind to me a Kingdom is / Sir Edward Dyer -- The burning babe / Robert Southwell -- from Delia, sonnets / Samuel Daniel -- His pilgramage / Sir Walter Raleigh -- A vision upon this conceit of the faerie Queene / Sir Walter Raleigh -- The author's epitaph, made by himself / Sir Walter Raleigh -- Sweet content / Thomas Dekker -- Songs from the plays by Shakespeare -- Sonnets / Shakespeare -- THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY (introduction) / Alfred Harbage -- from Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral / Francis Bacon -- Go and catch a falling star / John Donne -- Woman's constancy / John Donne -- The indifferent / John Donne -- The message / John Donne -- Love's deity / John Donne -- Death / John Donne -- from The Litany / John Donne -- Song: Sweetest love, I do not go / John Donne -- A valediction forbidding mourning / John Donne -- A hymn to God the father / John Donne -- Hymn to Diana / Ben Johnson -- To Celia / Ben Johnson -- Simplex Munditiis / Ben Johnson -- Song: that women are but men's shadows / Ben Johnson -- Why I write not of love / Ben Johnson -- A nymph's passion / Ben Johnson -- To the memory of my beloved, the author Mr. William Shakespeare, and what he hath left us / Ben Johnson -- From Hesperides / Robert Herrick -- from Holy Numbers / Robert Herrick -- The indifferent / Francis Beaumont -- from Master Francis Beaumont's letter to Ben Johnson / Francis Beaumont -- Melancholy / John Fletcher -- Drink today, and drown all sorrow / John Fletcher -- Of Corinna's singing / Thomas Campion -- Cherry ripe / Thomas Campion -- Advice to a girl / Thomas Campion -- From Idea / Michael Drayton -- from The contention of Ajax and Ulysses / James Shirley -- The lover's resolution / George Wither -- Mediocrity in love rejected / Thomas Carew -- Celia Singing / Thomas Carew -- Ask me no more / Thomas Carew -- To my inconstant mistress / Thomas Carew -- Disdain returned / Thomas Carew -- Why so pale and wan, fond lover? / Sir John Suckling -- I prithee send me back heart / Sir John Suckling -- Out upon it! / Sir John Suckling -- To Lucasta on going to the wars / Richard Lovelace -- To Althea, from prison / Richard Lovelace -- The scrutiny / Richard Lovelace -- Love / George Herbert -- Virtue / George Herbert -- The quip / George Herbert -- The collar / George Herbert -- Wishes to his (supposed) mistress / Richard Crawshaw -- The retreat / Henry Vaughan -- Peace / Henry Vaughan -- The world / Henry Vaughan -- Go, lovely rose / Edmund Waller -- On a Girdle / Edmund Waller -- The thief / Abraham Cowley -- The wish / Abraham Cowley -- To his coy mistress / Andrew Marvell -- from The complete Angler / Izaac Walton -- from Religio Medici / Sir Thomas Browne -- L'Allegro / John Milton -- Il Penseroso / John Milton -- Lycidas / John Milton -- On his being arrived at his twenty-third year / John Milton -- On Shakespeare / John Milton -- To the Lord General Cromwell / John Milton -- On the late massacre in Piedmont / John Milton -- On his blindness / John Milton -- from Paradise Lost / John Milton -- from Areopagitica / John Milton -- from Grace Abounding to the chief of sinners / John Bunyan -- from The Pilgrim's Process / John Bunyan -- from The Diary / Samuel Pepys -- Mac Fecknoe / John Dryden -- A song for St. Celia's day / John Dryden -- Alexander's feats, or the power of music / John Dryden -- Epigram on Milton / John Dryden -- from An essay of dramatic poesy / John Dryden -- from Fables, ancient and modern / John Dryden -- All for love; or, The world well lost -- THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY (introduction) / John C. Mendenhall -- from A journal of the plague year / Daniel Defoe -- from An essay on projects / Daniel Defoe -- from Gulliver's Travels / Jonathan Swift -- A modest proposal / Jonathan Swift -- from The Tatler / Joseph Addison and Richard Steele -- from The spectator / Joseph Addison and Richard Steele -- Alexander Pope -- An essay on criticism, parts I and II -- The rape of the lock -- from An essay on man -- Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot -- On a certain lady at court -- The universal prayer -- from The seasons / James Thomson -- Rule, Britannia! / James Thomson -- Ode on a distant prospect of Eton College / Thomas Gray -- Sonnet: On the death of Richard West / Thomas Gray -- Ode on the death of a favorite cat / Thomas Gray -- Elegy written in a country churchyard / Thomas Gray -- The progress of poesy / Thomas Gray -- Sketch of his own character / Thomas Gray -- Letter 55 / Philip Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield -- Letter 59 / Philip Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield -- Letter 74 / Philip Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield -- from The Rambler / Samuel Johnson -- from The Idler / Samuel Johnson -- from The lives of the English poets / Samuel Johnson -- from The life of Samuel / James Boswell -- from The citizen of the world / Oliver Goldsmith -- The deserted village / Oliver Goldsmith -- Stanzas on women / Oliver Goldsmith -- from Reflections on the Revolution in France / Edmund Burke -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan -- from The task, Book IV / William Cowper -- On the recepit of my mother's picture out of Norfol / William Cowper -- The castaway / Wiliam Cowper -- Mary Morrison / Robert Burns -- The cotter's sturday night / Robert Burns -- To a mouse / Robert Burns -- To a mountain daisy / Robert Burns -- To a louse / Robert Burns -- Address to the Unco Grid, or the rigidly religious / Robert Burns -- Green grow in the rashes, O / Robert Burns -- Auld Lang Syne / Robert Burns -- To mary in heaven / Robert Burns -- I love my Jean / Robert Burns -- John Anderson, My Jo / Robert Burns -- Willie Brewed a Peck o' Maut / Robert Burns -- Flow gently, sweet afton / Robert Burns -- Tam o' Shanter / Robert Burns -- Bonnie Doom / Robert Burns |
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English literature.
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English literature. |
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English literature -- History and criticism.
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| Added Author |
McClelland, George William, 1880-1955.
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