THE NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE FIFTH EDITION VOLUME 1PDF电子书下载

The Middle Ages (to ca. 1485) 1

Medieval English 12

Old and Middle English Prosody 17

OLD ENGLISH LITERATURE 19

BEDE (ca. 673-735) and CAEDMON'S HYMN 19

An Ecclesiastical History of the English People[The Story of C?dmon] 20

THE DREAM OF THE ROOD 22

BEOWULF 25

The Last Survivor's Speech in Old English with Verse Translation 30

Beowulf 31

THE WANDERER 78

THE BATTLE OF MALDON 81

GEOFFREY CHAUCER (ca. 1343-1400) 88

THE CANTERBURY TALES 92

The General Prologue 95

The Miller's Tale 116

The Introduction 116

The Tale 118

The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale 133

The Prologue 133

The Tale 154

The Franklin's Tale 163

The Introduction 163

The Prologue 164

The Tale 165

The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale 185

The Introduction 185

The Prologue 187

The Tale 190

The Epilogue 200

The Tale of Sir Thopas 201

The Introduction 201

The Tale 202

The Nun's Priest's Tale 209

The Parson's Tale 224

The Introduction 224

Chaucer's Retraction 226

LYRICS AND OCCASIONAL VERSE 227

Merciless Beauty 227

To His Scribe Adam 228

Complaint to His Purse 228

Gentilesse 229

Truth 230

SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT (ca. 1375-1400) 231

PIERS PLOWMAN (ca. 1372-1389) 289

The Prologue 291

[The Field of Folk] 291

Passus 5 294

[The Confession of Envy] 294

[The Confession of Gluttony] 295

Passus 18 [The Harrowing of Hell] 297

MIDDLE ENGLISH LYRICS 309

Fowls in the Frith 310

Alison 310

My Lief Is Faren in Londe 311

Western Wind 311

I Have a Young Sister 312

The Cuckoo Song 312

Tell Me, Wight in the Broom 313

I Am of Ireland 313

Sunset on Calvary 313

I Sing of a Maiden 313

Adam Lay Bound 314

The Corpus Christi Carol 314

THE SECOND SHEPHERDS' PLAY (ca. 1425) 315

THE YORK PLAY OF THE CRUCIFIXION (ca. 1425) 337

EVERYMAN (after 1485) 346

MARGERY KEMPE (ca. 1373-1438) 368

The Book of Margery Kempe 369

[The Birth of Her First Child and Her First Vision] 369

[Her Pride and Attempts To Start a Business] 370

[Margery and Her Husband Reach a Settlement] 371

[Pilgrimage to Jerusalem] 373

[Examination before the Archbishop] 375

POPULAR BALLADS 378

Lord Randall 380

Edward 380

Barbara Allan 382

The Wife of Usher's Well 383

The Three Ravens 384

Sir Patrick Spens 385

The Bonny Earl of Murray 386

Robin Hood and the Three Squires 387

SIR THOMAS MALORY (ca. 1405-1471) 390

Morte Darthur 392

[The Conspiracy against Lancelot and Guinevere] 392

[War Breaks Out between Arthur and Lancelot] 398

[The Death of Arthur] 402

[The Deaths of Lancelot and Guinevere] 408

The Sixteenth Century (1485-1603) 413

SIR THOMAS MORE (1478-1535) 434

Utopia 435

Bookl 435

[More Meets a Returned Traveler] 435

Book 2 440

[The Geography of Utopia] 440

[Their Gold and Silver] 443

[Marriage Customs] 445

[Religions] 447

[Conclusion] 447

The History of King Richard Ⅲ 454

[A King's Mistress] 454

JOHN SKELTON (ca. 1460-1529) 456

Mannerly MargeMilk and Ale 457

To Mistress Margaret Hussey 458

Lullay, Lullay, Like a Child 459

Colin Clout 460

[The Spirituality vs. the Temporality] 460

SIR THOMAS WYATT THE ELDER (1503-1542) 461

The Long Love That in My Thought Doth Harbor 463

Farewell, Love 463

My Galley 464

Madam, Withouten Many Words 464

Whoso List to Hunt 465

My Lute, Awake! 465

They Flee from Me 466

The Lover Showeth How He Is Forsaken of Such as He Sometime Enjoyed 467

Divers Doth Use 468

And Wilt Thou Leave Me Thus? 468

Blame Not My Lute 469

Forget Not Yet 470

Mine Own John Poins 471

HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF SURREY (1517-1547) 473

Love, That Doth Reign and Live Within My Thought 474

The Soote Season 475

Alas! So All Things Now Do Hold Their Peace 475

O Happy Dames, That May Embrace 475

My Friend, the Things That Do Attain 477

Epitaph on Sir Thomas Wy 477

Prisoned in Windsor, He Recounteth His Pleasure There Passed 479

The Second Book of Virgil [Hector Warns Aeneas to Flee Troy] 480

SIR PHILIP SIDNEY (1554-1586) 481

Astrophil and Stella 483

1 (“Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show”) 483

2 (“Not at first sight, nor with a dribbed shot”) 484

5 (“It is most true that eyes are formed to serve”) 484

6 (“Some lovers speak when they their muses entertain”) 485

7 (“When Nature made her chief work Stella's eyes”) 485

9 (“Queen Virtue's court, which some call Stella's face”) 486

10 (“Reason, in faith thou are well served, that still”) 486

15 (“You that do search for every purling spring”) 486

16 (“In nature apt to like when I did see”) 487

18 (“With what sharp checks I in myself am shent”) 487

21 (“Your words, my friend, right healthful caustics,blame”) 488

31 (“With how sad steps, O moon, thou climb'st the skies”) 488

37 (“My mouth doth water, and my breast doth swell”) 488

39 (“Come sleep, O sleep, the certain knot of peace”) 489

41 (“Having this day my horse, my hand, my lance”) 489

45 (“Stella oft sees the very face of woe”) 490

47 (“What, have I thus betrayed my liberty?”) 490

49 (“I on my horse, and Love on me doth try”) 490

52 (“A strife is grown between Virtue and Love”) 491

53 (“In martial sports I had my cunning tried”) 491

56 (“Fie, school of Patience, fie, your lesson is”) 492

61 (“Oft with true sighs, oft with uncalled tears”) 492

69 (“O joy, too high for my low style to show”) 492

71 (“Who will in fairest book of Nature know”) 493

72 (“Desire, though thou my old companion art”) 493

74 (“I never drank of Aganippe well”) 493

81 (“O kiss, which dost those ruddy gems impart”) 494

Fourth Song (“Only joy, now here you are”) 494

87 (“When I was forced from Stella ever dear”) 496

89 (“Now that of absence the most irksome night”) 496

91 (“Stella, while now by honor's cruel might”) 496

Eleventh Song (“Who is it that this dark night”) 497

108 (“When sorrow using mine own fire's might”) 498

The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia 499

[The Country of Arcadia] 499

[Kalender Tells about Basileus] 500

Ye Goat-Herd Gods 502

The Defence of Poesy 504

[The Poet, Poetry] 505

[Three Kinds of Mimetic Poets] 508

[Poetry, Philosophy, History] 509

[“Parts” or Kinds of Poetry] 514

[Answers to Charges against Poetry] 518

[Poetry in England] 519

[Conclusion] 525

The Nightingale 526

Thou Blind Man's Mark 527

Leave Me, O Love 528

EDMUND SPENSER (1552-1599) 528

The Shephcardes Calender 530

To His Booke 530

Aprill 531

October 537

The Faerie Queene 542

A Letter of the Authors 544

Book 1 547

Book 3 688

Proem 688

Canto 1 690

Canto 2 705

Canto 3 717

[The Visit to Merlin] 717

[Canto 4. Summary] 723

Canto 5 723

[Belphoebe and Timias] 723

Canto 6 730

[Cantos 7-8. Summary] 742

[Cantos 9-10. Summary] 743

Canto 11 743

Canto 12 756

Amoretti 766

Sonnet 1 (“Happy ye leaves when as those lilly hands”) 766

Sonnet 34 (“Lyke as a ship that through the ocean wyde”) 767

Sonnet 37 (“What guyle is this, that those her golden tresses”) 767

Sonnet 54 (“Of this worlds theatre in which we stay”) 768

Sonnet 64 (“Comming to kisse her lyps (such grace I found”) 768

Sonnet 65 (“The doubt which ye misdeeme, faire love, is vaine”) 768

Sonnet 67 (“Lyke as a huntsman, after weary chace”) 769

Sonnet 68 (“Most glorious Lord of lyfe, that on this day”) 769

Sonnet 74 (“Most happy letters framed by skillful trade”) 769

Sonnet 75 (“One day I wrote her name upon the strand”) 770

Sonnet 79 (“Men call you fayre, and you doe credit it”) 770

Epithalamion 771

SIR WALTER RALEGH (1552-1618) 781

The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd 782

[On the Life of Man] 783

[Sir Walter Ralegh to His Son] 783

The Lie 784

Farewell, False Love 786

Nature, That Washed Her Hands in Milk 787

Methought I Saw the Grave Where Laura Lay 788

The Author's Epitaph, Made by Himself 788

The History of the World 788

That Man Is, As It Were, a Little World: With a Digression Touching Our Mortality 788

[Conclusion: On Death] 791

CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE (1564-1593) 792

Hero and Leander 793

The Passionate Shepherd to His Love 813

The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Dr. Faustus 814

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616) 865

SONGS FROM THE PLAYS 868

When Daisies Pied 868

Tell Me Where Is Fancy Bred 869

Under the Greenwood Tree 869

Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind 870

It Was a Lover and His Lass 870

Oh Mistress Mine 871

Fear No More the Heat o' the Sun 871

Full Fathom Five 872

Where the Bee Sucks, There Suck 1 872

SONNETS 873

3 (“Look in thy glass, and tell the face thou viewest”) 873

12 (“When I do count the clock that tells the time”) 873

15 (“When I consider every thing that grows”) 873

18 (“Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?”) 874

19 (“Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws”) 874

20 (“A woman's face with Nature's own hand painted”) 875

29 (“When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes”) 875

30 (“When to the sessions of sweet silent thought”) 876

35 (“No more be grieved at that which thou hast done”) 876

55 (“Not marble, nor the gilded monuments”) 877

60 (“Like as the waves make towards the pibbled shore”) 877

65 (“Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea”) 878

71 (“No longer mourn for me when I am dead”) 878

73 (“That time of year thou mayst in me behold”) 879

74 (“But be contented; when that fell arrest”) 879

87 (“Farewell: thou are too dear for my possessing”) 879

94 (“They that have power to hurt and will do none”) 880

97 (“How like a winter hath my absence been”) 880

98 (“From you have I been absent in the spring”) 881

106 (“When in the chronicle of wasted time”) 881

107 (“Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul”) 882

116 (“Let me not to the marriage of true minds”) 882

126 (“O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power”) 883

128 (“How oft when thou, my music, music play'st”) 883

129 (“Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame”) 884

130 (“My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun”) 884

135 (“Whoever hath her wish, thou bast thy Will”) 884

138 (“When my love swears that she is made of truth”) 885

144 (“Two loves I have of comfort and despair”) 885

146 (“Poor soul, the center of my sinful earth”) 886

147 (“My love is a fever, longing still”) 886

The First Part of King Henry the Fourth 887

THOMAS NASHE (1567-160 1) 958

Spring, the Sweet Spring 958

A Litany in Time of Plague 959

Pierce Penniless, His Supplication to the Devil 960

An Invective Against Enemies of Poetry 960

The Defense of Plays 963

SONGS AND POEMS OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY 967

ARTHUR GOLDING (1536-1605) 969

Ovid's Metamorphoses 969

[The Four Ages] 969

MARY (SIDNEY) HERBERT, COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE (1562-1621) 971

Psalm 58 Si Vere Utique 972

QUEEN ELIZABETH I(1533-1603) 973

The Doubt of Future Foes 973

On Monsieur's Departure 974

GEORGE GASCOIGNE (1539-1578) 974

The Lullaby of a Lover 975

ROBERT SOUTHWELL (1561-1595) 976

he Burning Babe 976

THOMAS CAMPION (1567-1620) 977

My Sweetest Lesbia 977

When to Her Lute Corinna Sings 978

Rose-Cheeked Laura 978

There Is a Garden in Her Face 979

Think'st Thou to Seduce Me Then 979

Fain Would I Wed 980

I Care Not for These Ladies 980

SAMUEL DANIEL (1562-1619) 981

Delia 981

33 (“When men shall find thy flower, thy glory pass”) 981

45 (“Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night”) 981

Ulysses and the Siren 982

MICHAEL DRAYTON (1563-1631) 984

Idea 984

To the Reader of These Sonnets 984

6 (“How many paltry, foolish, painted things”) 984

61 (“Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part”) 985

Ode to the Virginian Voyage 985

SIR JOHN DAVIES (1569-1626) 987

Orchestra, or a Poem of Dancing 988

[Dancing Justified] 988

FULKE GREVILLE, LORD BROOKE (1554-1628) 990

Chorus Sacerdotum 990

LADY MARY WROTH (1587?-1651?) 991

Song from Urania 991

Pamphilia to Amphilanthus 992

Am I Thus Conquered? 992

False Hope Which Feeds But to Destroy 993

A Crown of Sonnets Dedicated to Love 993

In This Strange Labyrinth How Shall I Turn? 993

ANONYMOUS LYRICS 994

Back and Side Go Bare, Go Bare 994

In Praise of a Contented Mind 995

Though Amaryllis Dance in Green 996

Come Away, Come, Sweet Love! 997

Thule, the Period of Cosmography 998

Madrigal (“My love in her attire doth show her wit”) 999

The Silver Swan 999

Constant Penelope Sends to Thee 999

PROSE OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY 1001

TRANSLATING THE BIBLE (Isaiah 55.3-6) 1003

The Coverdale Bible 1003

The Great Bible 1004

The Geneva Bible 1004

The Rheims-Douai Bible 1004

The King James Bible 1005

SIR THOMAS HOBY (1530-1566) 1005

The Courtier 1006

Book 4 1006

[The Ladder of Love] 1006

ROGER ASCHAM (1515-1568) 1023

The Schoolmaster 1023

The First Book for the Youth 1023

[Teaching Latin] 1023

[A Talk with Lady Jane Grey] 1025

[The Italianate Englishman] 1026

JOHN FOXE (1516-1587) 1028

Acts and Monuments 1029

The Words and Behavior of the Lady Jane [Grey] upon the Scaffold 1029

JOHN LYLY (1554-1606) 1030

Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit 1031

[Euphues Introduced] 1031

RICHARD HOOKER (1554-1600) 1033

Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity 1034

The Preface. [On Moderation in Controversy] 1034

Book 1, Chapter 3. [On the Several Kinds of Law, and on the Natural Law] 1038

Book 1, Chapter 8. [On the Scope of Several Laws] 1040

Book 1, Chapter 10. [The Foundations of Society] 1041

Book 1, Chapter 12. [The Need for Revealed Law] 1043

RALPH LANE (ca. 1530-1603) 1044

Hakluyt's Voyages 1044

An Extract of Master Ralph Lane's Letter 1044

AEMILIA LANYER (1569-1645) 1045

Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum 1046

To the Virtuous Reader 1046

The Early Seventeenth Century (1603-1660) 1049

JOHN DONNE (1572-1631) 1060

The Good-Morrow 1063

Song (“Go and catch a falling star”) 1064

The Undertaking 1064

The Sun Rising 1065

The Indifferent 1066

The Canonization 1067

Air and Angels 1068

Break of Day 1069

A Valediction: Of Weeping 1071

Love's Alchemy 1071

The Flea 1072

A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy's Day, Being the Shortest Day 1073

The Bait 1074

The Apparition 1074

A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning 1075

The Ecstasy 1076

The Funeral 1079

The Blossom 1079

The Relic 1080

A Lecture Upon the Shadow 1081

Elegy 16. On His Mistress 1082

Elegy 19. Going to Bed 1084

Satire 3, Religion 1085

The Storm 1088

An Anatomy of the World 1091

Holy Sonnets 1097

1 (“Thou hast made me, and shall thy work decay?”) 1097

5 (“I am a little world made cunningly”) 1098

7 (“At the round earth's imagined corners, blow”) 1098

9 (“If poisonous minerals, and if that tree”) 1099

10 (“Death, be not proud, though some have called thee”) 1099

13 (“What if this present were the world's last night?”) 1099

14 (“Batter my heart, three-personed God; for you”) 1100

17 (“Since she whom I loved hath paid her last debt”) 1100

18 (“Show me, dear Christ, thy spouse so bright and clear”) 1101

Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward 1101

A Hymn to Christ, at the Author's Last Going into Germany 1102

Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness 1103

A Hymn to God the Father 1104

Devotions upon Emergent Occasions 1105

Meditation 4 1105

Meditation 17 1107

Expostulation 19 1108

[The Language of God] 1108

Sermon 76 1110

[On Falling out of God's Hand] 1110

BEN JONSON (1572-1637) 1111

Volpone 1113

To My Book 1208

On Something, That Walks Somewhere 1209

To William Camden 1209

On My First Daughter 1209

On My First Son 1210

To John Donne 1210

On Don Surly 1211

On Giles and Joan 1211

To Lucy, Countess of Bedford, with Mr. Donne's Satires 1212

Inviting a Friend to Supper 1212

Epitaph on Salomon Pavy, a Child of Queen Elizabeth's Chapel 1214

Epitaph on Elizabeth, L. H 1214

To Penshurst 1215

Song: To Celia 1217

To Heaven 1218

In the Person of Womankind 1219

My Picture Left in Scotland 1219

To the Immortal Memory and Friendship of that Noble Pair, Sir Lucius Cary and Sir H. Morison 1220

Slow, Slow, Fresh Fount 1225

Queen and Huntress 1225

Still to Be Neat 1226

Though I Am Young 1226

To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare, and What He Hath Left Us 1227

Ode to Himself 1229

Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue 1230

JOHN WEBSTER (1580?-1625?) 1240

The Duchess of Malfi 1241

ROBERT HERRICK (1591-1674) 1319

The Argument of His Book 1320

Upon the Loss of His Mistresses 1321

The Vine 1321

Dreams 1322

Delight in Disorder 1322

His Farewell to Sack 1322

Corinna's Going A-Maying 1324

The Lily in a Crystal 1326

To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time 1327

The Hock-Cart, or Harvest Home 1328

Upon the Nipples of Julia's Breasts 1329

To Blossoms 1329

To Water Nymphs Drinking at a Fountain 1330

Upon Jack and Jill. Epigram 1330

To Marygolds 1330

His Prayer to Ben Jonson 1331

The Bad Season Makes the Poet Sad 1331

The Night-Piece to Julia 1331

Upon His Verses 1332

His Return to London 1332

Upon Julia's Clothes 1333

Upon Prue, His Maid 1333

To His Book's End 1333

To His Conscience 1333

A Grace for a Child 1334

GEORGE HERBERT (1593-1633) 1334

The Altar 1336

Redemption 1336

Easter 1337

Easter Wings 1338

Affliction (1) 1338

Prayer (1) 1340

Jordan (1) 1341

Church Monuments 1341

The Windows 1342

Denial 1342

Virtue 1343

Man 1344

Jordan (2) 1345

Time 1346

The Bunch of Grapes 1347

The Pilgrimage 1348

The Collar 1349

The Pulley 1350

The Flower 1350

The Forerunners 1352

Discipline 1353

Death 1354

Love (3) 1354

RICHARD CRASHAW (ca. 1613-1649) 1355

To the Infant Martyrs 1357

I Am the Door 1357

On the Wounds of Our Crucified Lord 1357

On Our Crucified Lord, Naked and Bloody 1358

In the Holy Nativity of Our Lord God: A Hymn Sung as by the Shepherds 1358

To the Noblest and Best of Ladies, the Countess of Denbigh 1361

The Flaming Heart 1363

HENRY VAUGHAN (1621-1695) 1367

A Rhapsody 1368

Regeneration 1370

The Retreat 1372

Silence and Stealth of Days! 1373

Corruption 1374

The World 1375

They Are All Gone into the World of Light! 1376

The Night 1378

The Waterfall 1379

ANDREW MARVELL (1621-1678) 1380

The Coronet 1381

Bermudas 1382

A Dialogue Between the Soul and Body 1383

The Nymph Complaining for the Death of Her Fawn 1384

To His Coy Mistress 1387

The Definition of Love 1388

The Picture of Little T. C. in a Prospect of Flowers 1389

The Mower Against Gardens 1390

Damon the Mower 1391

The Mower to the Glow-Worms 1394

The Mower's Song 1394

The Garden 1395

An Horatian Ode 1397

JOHN MILTON (1608-1674) 1401

On the Morning of Christ's Nativity 1403

On Shakespeare 1410

L'Allegro 1411

Il Penseroso 1414

Lycidas 1419

The Reason of Church Government Urged Against Prelaty [Plans and Projects] 1425

Areopagitica 1430

SONNETS 1441

How Soon Hath Time 1441

On the New Forcers of Conscience Under the Long Parliament 1442

To the Lord General Cromwell 1442

When I Consider How My Light Is Spent 1443

On the Late Massacre in Piedmont 1444

Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint 1444

Paradise Lost 1445

Book 1 1446

Book 2 1467

Book 3 1493

[The Invocation, the Council in Heaven, and the Conclusion of Satan's Journey] 1493

Book 4 1507

[Satan's Entry into Paradise; Adam and Eve in Their Bower of Bliss] 1507

Book 5 1525

[Eve's Dream: Trouble in Paradise] 1525

[A Visit with the Angel: The Scale of Nature] 1529

[Book 6. Summary] 1532

Book 7 1533

[The Invocation] 1533

Book 8 1534

[Adam Describes His Own Creation, and that of Eve;Having Repeated His Waming, the Angel Departs] 1534

Book 9 1543

Book 10 1572

[Consequences of the Fall] 1572

[Adam, Eve, and the First Steps to Redemption] 1577

[Book 11. Summary] 1586

Book 12 1586

[The Departure from Eden] 1586

Samson Agonistes 1590

POETIC MODES OF THE EARLY SEVENTEENTH CENTURY 1635

HENRY KING (1592-1669) 1636

The Exequy 1636

THOMAS CAREW (1595-1640) 1639

An Elegy upon the Death of the Dean of Paul's, Dr. John Donne 1640

To Ben Jonson 1642

Song (Persuasions to Enjoy) 1644

A Song (“Ask me no more where Jove bestows”) 1644

A Rapture 1645

SIR JOHN SUCKLING (1609-1642) 1649

Song (“Why so pale and wan, fond lover?”) 1649

Loving and Beloved 1650

Out upon It! 1651

RICHARD LOVELACE (1618-1657) 1651

To Lucasta, Going to the Wars 1652

To Althea, from Prison 1652

The Grasshopper 1653

Love Made in the First Age. To Chloris 1654

EDMUND WALLER (1606-1687) 1656

The Story of Phoebus and Daphne Applied 1657

Song (“Go, lovely rose!”) 1657

On a Girdle 1658

Of English Verse 1659

SIR JOHN DENHAM (1615-1669) 1660

Cooper's Hill 1661

[Chertsey Abbey and the Thames] 1661

ABRAHAM COWLEY (1618-1667) 1663

Ode: Of Wit 1664

THOMAS TRAHERNE (1637-1674) 1666

Wonder 1666

On Leaping over the Moon 1668

PROSE OF THE EARLY SEVENTEENTH CENTURY 1670

FRANCIS BACON (1561-1626) 1671

ESSAYS 1673

Of Truth 1673

Of Marriage and Single Life 1674

Of Great Place 1676

Of Superstition 1678

Of Negotiating 1679

Of Studies (1597) 1680

Of Studies (1625) 1681

The Advancement of Learning 1682

[The Abuses of Language] 1682

Novum Organum 1684

[The Idols] 1684

The New Atlantis 1690

[Salomon's House] 1690

ROBERT BURTON (1577-1640) 1695

The Anatomy of Melancholy 1696

Love Melancholy 1696

THOMAS HOBBES (1588-1679) 1700

Leviathan 1701

The Introduction 1701

[The Artificial Man] 1701

Part 1, Chapter 1. Of Sense 1702

Part 1, Chapter 13. Of the Natural Condition of Mankind as Conceming Their Felicity and Misery 1703

Part 1, Chapter 14. Of the First and Second Natural Laws 1707

Part I, Chapter 15. Of Other Laws of Nature 1708

IZAAK WALTON (1593-1683) 1710

The Life of Dr. John Donne 1711

[Donne on His Deathbed] 1711

SIR THOMAS BROWNE (1605-1682) 1715

Religio Medici 1717

Part 1, Sections 1-6, 9, 15, 16, 34, 59 1717

Part 2, Section 11 1724

Hydriotaphia, Urn-Burial 1726

Chapter 5 1726

EDWARD HYDE, EARL OF CLARENDON (1609-1674) 1732

The History of the Rebellion 1733

[The Character of Oliver Cromwell] 1733

JOHN LILBURNE (1615?-1657) 1736

The Picture of the Council of State 1737

[Lilburne Defies the Authorities] 1737

LADY ANNE HALKE (1622-1699) 1742

The Memoirs 1743

[Springing the Duke] 1743

DOROTHY OSBORNE (1627-1695) 1746

The Letters of Dorothy Osborne 1747

Saturday, 11 June 1653. [“Servants”] 1747

4 February 1654. [Fighting with Brother John] 1749

TERMINI: JOHN LOCKE AND ISAAC NEWTON 1751

JOHN LOCKE (1632-1704) 1752

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding 1752

The Epistle to the Reader 1752

SIR ISAAC NEWTON (1642-1727) 1757

A Letter of Mr. Isaac Newton, Professor of the Mathematics in the University of Cambridge, Containing His New Theory about Light and Colors 1758

The Restoration and the EighteenthCentu (1660-1798) 1765

JOHN DRYDEN (1631-1700) 1787

Annus Mirabilis 1789

[London Reborn] 1789

Song from Marriage a la Mode 1791

Absalom and Achitophel: A Poem 1792

Mac Flecknoe 1818

To the Memory of Mr. Oldham 1824

To the Pious Memory of the Accomplished Young Lady Mrs. Anne Killigrew 1825

A Song for St. Cecilia's Day 1831

Epigram on Milton 1833

Alexander's Feast 1834

The Secular Masque 1839

CRITICISM 1842

An Essay of Dramatic Poesy 1842

[Two Sorts of Bad Poetry] 1842

[The Wit of the Ancients: The Universal] 1843

[Shakespeare and Ben Jonson Compared] 1845

The Author's Apology for Heroic Poetry and Heroic License 1847

[“Boldness” of Figures and Tropes Defended: The Appeal to“Nature”] 1847

[Wit as “Propriety”] 1848

A Discourse Concerning the Original and Progress of Satire 1849

[The Art of Satire] 1849

The Preface to Fables Ancient and Modern 1850

[In Praise of Chaucer] 1850

SAMUEL PEPYS (1633-1703) 1851

The Diary 1852

[The Great Fire] 1852

JOHN BUNYAN (1628-1688) 1857

Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners 1858

The Pilgrim's Progress 1863

[Christian Sets out for the Celestial City] 1863

[The Slough of Despond] 1866

[Vanity Fair] 1867

[The River of Death and the Celestial City] 1869

WILLIAM CONGREVE (1670-1729) 1872

The Way of the World 1874

MARY ASTELL (1666-1731) 1937

Some Reflections upon Marriage 1938

DANIEL DEFOE (ca. 1660-1731) 1942

Roxana 1943

[The Cons of Marriage] 1942

POETRY: AUGUSTAN MODES 1950

SAMUEL BUTLER (1612-1680) 1950

Hudibras 1951

Part 1, Canto 1 1951

JOHN WILMOT, SECOND EARL OF ROCHESTER (1647-1680) 1957

The Disabled Debauchee 1957

ANNE FINCH, COUNTESS OF WINCHILSEA (1661-1720) 1959

The Introduction 1959

A Nocturnal Reverie 1961

MATTHEW PRIOR (1664-1721) 1962

An Epitaph 1963

A True Maid 1965

A Better Answer 1965

JOHN GAY (1685-1732) 1966

The Birth of the Squire. An Eclogue 1967

Songs from The Beggar's Opera 1970

Were I Laid on Greenland's Coast 1970

If the Heart of a Man Is Depressed with Cares 1970

Since Laws Were Made for Every Degree 1970

Recitativo and Air from Acis and Galatea 1971

LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU (1689-1762) 1971

The Lover: A Ballad 1972

Epistle from Mrs. Yonge to Her Husband 1974

JONATHAN SWIFT (1667-1745) 1976

A Description of a City Shower 1978

Stella's Birthday, 1721 1980

Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift 1982

A Tale of a Tub 1993

A Digression Concerning the Original, the Use, and Improvement of Madness in a Commonwealth 1993

An Argument Against the Abolishing of Christianity in England 2002

Gulliver's Travels 2012

A Letter from Captain Gulliver to His Cousin Sympson 2013

The Publisher to the Reader 2016

Part 1. A Voyage to Lilliput 2017

Part 2. A Voyage to Brobdingnag 2060

Part 3. A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdrib, Luggnagg, and Japan 2108

[The Flying Island of Laputa] 2108

[The Academy of Lagado] 2114

[The Struldbruggs] 2117

Part 4. A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms 2123

A Modest Proposal 2174

JOSEPH ADDISON (1672-1717) and SIR RICHARD STEELE (1672-1729) 2181

THE PERIODICAL ESSAY: MANNERS 2183

Steele: [The Gentleman; The Pretty Fellow] (Tatler 21) 2183

Steele: [Dueling] (Tatler 25) 2184

Steele: [The Spectator's Club] (Spectator 2) 2186

Addison: [Sir Roger at Church] (Spectator 112) 2190

Addison: [Sir Roger at the Assizes] (Spectator 122) 2192

THE PERIODICAL ESSAY: IDEAS 2195

Addison: [The Aims of the Spectator] (Spectator 10) 2195

Addison: [Wit: True, False, Mixed] (Spectator 62) 2197

Addison: [Paradise Lost: General Critical Remarks] (Spectator 267) 2202

Addison: [On the Scale of Being] (Spectator 519) 2206

ALEXANDER POPE (1688-1744) 2209

An Essay on Criticism 2214

Part 1 2214

Part 2 2219

Part 3 2227

The Rape of the Lock 2233

Ode on Solitude 2252

Epistle to Miss Blount 2253

Eloisa to Abelard 2254

An Essay on Man 2263

Epistle 1. Of the Nature and State of Man, with Respect to the Universe 2264

Epistle 2. Of the Nature and State of Man with Respect to Himself, as an Individual 2271

Epistle 2. To a Lady 2271

Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot 2278

The Dunciad 2291

Book the Fourth 2291

[The Educator] 2292

[The Carnation and the Butterfly] 2293

[The Triumph of Dulness] 2294

SAMUEL JOHNSON (1 709-1784) 2297

The Vanity of Human Wishes 2300

Prologue Spoken by Mr. Garrick 2308

On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet 2310

A Short Song of Congratulation 2311

Translation of Horace, Odes, Book 4.7 2312

Rambler No. 5. [On Spring] 2313

Idler No. 31. [On Idleness] 2316

The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia 2318

[A Brief to Free a Slave] 2391

Rambler No. 4. [On Fiction] 2393

Rambler No. 60. [Biography] 2397

A Dictionary of the English Language 2401

Preface 2401

[Some Definitions: A Small Anthology] 2405

The Preface to Shakespeare 2407

[Shakespeare's Excellence. General Nature] 2407

[Shakespeare's Faults. The Three Dramatic Unities] 2411

[Henry Ⅳ] 2417

LIVES OF THE POETS 2418

Cowley 2418

[Metaphysical Wit] 2418

Milton 2420

[Lycidas] 2420

[L'Allegro. Il Penseroso] 2421

[Paradise Lost] 2423

Popc 2429

[Pope's Intellectual Character. Pope and Dryden Compared] 2429

JAMES BOSWELL (1740-1795) 2433

Boswell on the Grand Tour 2435

[Boswell Interviews Voltaire] 2435

The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D 2436

[Plan of the Life] 2436

[Johnson's Early Years. Marriage and London] [1709-52] 2438

[The Letter to Chesterfield] [1754-62] 2444

[A Memorable Year: Boswell Meets Johnson] [1763] 2448

[Goldsmith. Sundry Opinions. Johnson Meets His King] [1763-67] 2451

[Fear of Death] [1769] 2455

[Ossian. “Talking for Victory”] [1775-76] 2456

[Dinner with Wilkes] [1776] 2458

[Dread of Solitude] [1777] 2464

[“A Bottom of Good Sense.” Bet Flint. “Clear Your Mind of Cant” ] [1781-83] 2464

[Johnson Prepares for Death] [1783-84] 2466

[Johnson Faces Death] [1784] 2467

THE POETRY OF SENSIBILITY 2471

JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748) 2471

The Seasons 2472

Autumn. [Evening and Night] 2472

Ode: Rule. Britannia 2474

THOMAS GRAY (1716-1771) 2475

Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College 2476

Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat 2476

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard 2480

WILLIAM COLLINS (1721-1759) 2483

Ode Written in the Beginning of the Year 1746 2484

Ode on the Poetical Character 2484

Ode to Evening 2487

Ode on the Death of Mr. Thomson 2488

CHRISTOPHER SMART (1722-1771) 2489

Jubilate Agno 2490

[My Cat Jeoffry 2490

A Song to David 2493

OLVIER GOLDSMITH (ca. 1730-1774) 2507

The Deserted Village 2507

CEORGE CRABBE (1754-1832) 2517

The Village 2517

Book 1 2517

WILLIAM COWPER (1731-1800) 2525

The Task 2526

Book 1 2526

[A Landscape Described. Rural Sounds] 2526

Crazy Kate] 2527

Book 3 2528

[The Stricken Deer 2529

Book 4 2529

[The Winter Evening: A Brown Study] 2529

The Castaway 2531

POEMS IN PROCESS 2533

John Milton 2534

Lycidas 2534

Alexander Pope 2536

The Rape of the Lock 2536

An Essay on Man 2537

Samuel Johnson 2539

The Vanity of Human Wishes 2539

Thomas Gray 2540

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard 2540

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHIES 2544

Suggested General Readings 2544

The Middle Ages 2546

The Sixteenth Century 2550

The Early Seventeenth Century 2557

The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century 2568

BRITISH MONEY 2576

THE BRITISH BARONAGE 2579

RELIGIOUS SECTS IN ENGLAND 2583

POETIC FORMS AND LITERARY TERMINOLOGY 2584

ILLUSTRATIONS 2599

A London Playhouse of Shakespeare's Time 2599

The Universe According to Ptolemy 2600

INDEX 2605