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