《THE NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE FIFTH EDITION VOLUME 1》求取 ⇩

The Middle Ages (to ca. 1485)1

Medieval English12

Old and Middle English Prosody17

OLD ENGLISH LITERATURE19

BEDE (ca. 673-735) and CAEDMON'S HYMN19

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

THE DREAM OF THE ROOD22

BEOWULF25

The Last Survivor's Speech in Old English with Verse Translation30

Beowulf31

THE WANDERER78

THE BATTLE OF MALDON81

GEOFFREY CHAUCER (ca. 1343-1400)88

THE CANTERBURY TALES92

The General Prologue95

The Miller's Tale116

The Introduction116

The Tale118

The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale133

The Prologue133

The Tale154

The Franklin's Tale163

The Introduction163

The Prologue164

The Tale165

The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale185

The Introduction185

The Prologue187

The Tale190

The Epilogue200

The Tale of Sir Thopas201

The Introduction201

The Tale202

The Nun's Priest's Tale209

The Parson's Tale224

The Introduction224

Chaucer's Retraction226

LYRICS AND OCCASIONAL VERSE227

Merciless Beauty227

To His Scribe Adam228

Complaint to His Purse228

Gentilesse229

Truth230

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

PIERS PLOWMAN (ca. 1372-1389)289

The Prologue291

[The Field of Folk]291

Passus 5294

[The Confession of Envy]294

[The Confession of Gluttony]295

Passus 18 [The Harrowing of Hell]297

MIDDLE ENGLISH LYRICS309

Fowls in the Frith310

Alison310

My Lief Is Faren in Londe311

Western Wind311

I Have a Young Sister312

The Cuckoo Song312

Tell Me, Wight in the Broom313

I Am of Ireland313

Sunset on Calvary313

I Sing of a Maiden313

Adam Lay Bound314

The Corpus Christi Carol314

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 Kempe369

[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 BALLADS378

Lord Randall380

Edward380

Barbara Allan382

The Wife of Usher's Well383

The Three Ravens384

Sir Patrick Spens385

The Bonny Earl of Murray386

Robin Hood and the Three Squires387

SIR THOMAS MALORY (ca. 1405-1471)390

Morte Darthur392

[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

Utopia435

Bookl435

[More Meets a Returned Traveler]435

Book 2440

[The Geography of Utopia]440

[Their Gold and Silver]443

[Marriage Customs]445

[Religions]447

[Conclusion]447

The History of King Richard Ⅲ454

[A King's Mistress]454

JOHN SKELTON (ca. 1460-1529)456

Mannerly MargeMilk and Ale457

To Mistress Margaret Hussey458

Lullay, Lullay, Like a Child459

Colin Clout460

[The Spirituality vs. the Temporality]460

SIR THOMAS WYATT THE ELDER (1503-1542)461

The Long Love That in My Thought Doth Harbor463

Farewell, Love463

My Galley464

Madam, Withouten Many Words464

Whoso List to Hunt465

My Lute, Awake!465

They Flee from Me466

The Lover Showeth How He Is Forsaken of Such as He Sometime Enjoyed467

Divers Doth Use468

And Wilt Thou Leave Me Thus?468

Blame Not My Lute469

Forget Not Yet470

Mine Own John Poins471

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

Love, That Doth Reign and Live Within My Thought474

The Soote Season475

Alas! So All Things Now Do Hold Their Peace475

O Happy Dames, That May Embrace475

My Friend, the Things That Do Attain477

Epitaph on Sir Thomas Wy477

Prisoned in Windsor, He Recounteth His Pleasure There Passed479

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

SIR PHILIP SIDNEY (1554-1586)481

Astrophil and Stella483

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 Arcadia499

[The Country of Arcadia]499

[Kalender Tells about Basileus]500

Ye Goat-Herd Gods502

The Defence of Poesy504

[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 Nightingale526

Thou Blind Man's Mark527

Leave Me, O Love528

EDMUND SPENSER (1552-1599)528

The Shephcardes Calender530

To His Booke530

Aprill531

October537

The Faerie Queene542

A Letter of the Authors544

Book 1547

Book 3688

Proem688

Canto 1690

Canto 2705

Canto 3717

[The Visit to Merlin]717

[Canto 4. Summary]723

Canto 5723

[Belphoebe and Timias]723

Canto 6730

[Cantos 7-8. Summary]742

[Cantos 9-10. Summary]743

Canto 11743

Canto 12756

Amoretti766

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

Epithalamion771

SIR WALTER RALEGH (1552-1618)781

The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd782

[On the Life of Man]783

[Sir Walter Ralegh to His Son]783

The Lie784

Farewell, False Love786

Nature, That Washed Her Hands in Milk787

Methought I Saw the Grave Where Laura Lay788

The Author's Epitaph, Made by Himself788

The History of the World788

That Man Is, As It Were, a Little World: With a Digression Touching Our Mortality788

[Conclusion: On Death]791

CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE (1564-1593)792

Hero and Leander793

The Passionate Shepherd to His Love813

The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Dr. Faustus814

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616)865

SONGS FROM THE PLAYS868

When Daisies Pied868

Tell Me Where Is Fancy Bred869

Under the Greenwood Tree869

Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind870

It Was a Lover and His Lass870

Oh Mistress Mine871

Fear No More the Heat o' the Sun871

Full Fathom Five872

Where the Bee Sucks, There Suck 1872

SONNETS873

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 Fourth887

THOMAS NASHE (1567-160 1)958

Spring, the Sweet Spring958

A Litany in Time of Plague959

Pierce Penniless, His Supplication to the Devil960

An Invective Against Enemies of Poetry960

The Defense of Plays963

SONGS AND POEMS OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY967

ARTHUR GOLDING (1536-1605)969

Ovid's Metamorphoses969

[The Four Ages]969

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

Psalm 58 Si Vere Utique972

QUEEN ELIZABETH I(1533-1603)973

The Doubt of Future Foes973

On Monsieur's Departure974

GEORGE GASCOIGNE (1539-1578)974

The Lullaby of a Lover975

ROBERT SOUTHWELL (1561-1595)976

he Burning Babe976

THOMAS CAMPION (1567-1620)977

My Sweetest Lesbia977

When to Her Lute Corinna Sings978

Rose-Cheeked Laura978

There Is a Garden in Her Face979

Think'st Thou to Seduce Me Then979

Fain Would I Wed980

I Care Not for These Ladies980

SAMUEL DANIEL (1562-1619)981

Delia981

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

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

Ulysses and the Siren982

MICHAEL DRAYTON (1563-1631)984

Idea984

To the Reader of These Sonnets984

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 Voyage985

SIR JOHN DAVIES (1569-1626)987

Orchestra, or a Poem of Dancing988

[Dancing Justified]988

FULKE GREVILLE, LORD BROOKE (1554-1628)990

Chorus Sacerdotum990

LADY MARY WROTH (1587?-1651?)991

Song from Urania991

Pamphilia to Amphilanthus992

Am I Thus Conquered?992

False Hope Which Feeds But to Destroy993

A Crown of Sonnets Dedicated to Love993

In This Strange Labyrinth How Shall I Turn?993

ANONYMOUS LYRICS994

Back and Side Go Bare, Go Bare994

In Praise of a Contented Mind995

Though Amaryllis Dance in Green996

Come Away, Come, Sweet Love!997

Thule, the Period of Cosmography998

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

The Silver Swan999

Constant Penelope Sends to Thee999

PROSE OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY1001

TRANSLATING THE BIBLE (Isaiah 55.3-6)1003

The Coverdale Bible1003

The Great Bible1004

The Geneva Bible1004

The Rheims-Douai Bible1004

The King James Bible1005

SIR THOMAS HOBY (1530-1566)1005

The Courtier1006

Book 41006

[The Ladder of Love]1006

ROGER ASCHAM (1515-1568)1023

The Schoolmaster1023

The First Book for the Youth1023

[Teaching Latin]1023

[A Talk with Lady Jane Grey]1025

[The Italianate Englishman]1026

JOHN FOXE (1516-1587)1028

Acts and Monuments1029

The Words and Behavior of the Lady Jane [Grey] upon the Scaffold1029

JOHN LYLY (1554-1606)1030

Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit1031

[Euphues Introduced]1031

RICHARD HOOKER (1554-1600)1033

Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity1034

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 Voyages1044

An Extract of Master Ralph Lane's Letter1044

AEMILIA LANYER (1569-1645)1045

Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum1046

To the Virtuous Reader1046

The Early Seventeenth Century (1603-1660)1049

JOHN DONNE (1572-1631)1060

The Good-Morrow1063

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

The Undertaking1064

The Sun Rising1065

The Indifferent1066

The Canonization1067

Air and Angels1068

Break of Day1069

A Valediction: Of Weeping1071

Love's Alchemy1071

The Flea1072

A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy's Day, Being the Shortest Day1073

The Bait1074

The Apparition1074

A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning1075

The Ecstasy1076

The Funeral1079

The Blossom1079

The Relic1080

A Lecture Upon the Shadow1081

Elegy 16. On His Mistress1082

Elegy 19. Going to Bed1084

Satire 3, Religion1085

The Storm1088

An Anatomy of the World1091

Holy Sonnets1097

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 Westward1101

A Hymn to Christ, at the Author's Last Going into Germany1102

Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness1103

A Hymn to God the Father1104

Devotions upon Emergent Occasions1105

Meditation 41105

Meditation 171107

Expostulation 191108

[The Language of God]1108

Sermon 761110

[On Falling out of God's Hand]1110

BEN JONSON (1572-1637)1111

Volpone1113

To My Book1208

On Something, That Walks Somewhere1209

To William Camden1209

On My First Daughter1209

On My First Son1210

To John Donne1210

On Don Surly1211

On Giles and Joan1211

To Lucy, Countess of Bedford, with Mr. Donne's Satires1212

Inviting a Friend to Supper1212

Epitaph on Salomon Pavy, a Child of Queen Elizabeth's Chapel1214

Epitaph on Elizabeth, L. H1214

To Penshurst1215

Song: To Celia1217

To Heaven1218

In the Person of Womankind1219

My Picture Left in Scotland1219

To the Immortal Memory and Friendship of that Noble Pair, Sir Lucius Cary and Sir H. Morison1220

Slow, Slow, Fresh Fount1225

Queen and Huntress1225

Still to Be Neat1226

Though I Am Young1226

To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare, and What He Hath Left Us1227

Ode to Himself1229

Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue1230

JOHN WEBSTER (1580?-1625?)1240

The Duchess of Malfi1241

ROBERT HERRICK (1591-1674)1319

The Argument of His Book1320

Upon the Loss of His Mistresses1321

The Vine1321

Dreams1322

Delight in Disorder1322

His Farewell to Sack1322

Corinna's Going A-Maying1324

The Lily in a Crystal1326

To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time1327

The Hock-Cart, or Harvest Home1328

Upon the Nipples of Julia's Breasts1329

To Blossoms1329

To Water Nymphs Drinking at a Fountain1330

Upon Jack and Jill. Epigram1330

To Marygolds1330

His Prayer to Ben Jonson1331

The Bad Season Makes the Poet Sad1331

The Night-Piece to Julia1331

Upon His Verses1332

His Return to London1332

Upon Julia's Clothes1333

Upon Prue, His Maid1333

To His Book's End1333

To His Conscience1333

A Grace for a Child1334

GEORGE HERBERT (1593-1633)1334

The Altar1336

Redemption1336

Easter1337

Easter Wings1338

Affliction (1)1338

Prayer (1)1340

Jordan (1)1341

Church Monuments1341

The Windows1342

Denial1342

Virtue1343

Man1344

Jordan (2)1345

Time1346

The Bunch of Grapes1347

The Pilgrimage1348

The Collar1349

The Pulley1350

The Flower1350

The Forerunners1352

Discipline1353

Death1354

Love (3)1354

RICHARD CRASHAW (ca. 1613-1649)1355

To the Infant Martyrs1357

I Am the Door1357

On the Wounds of Our Crucified Lord1357

On Our Crucified Lord, Naked and Bloody1358

In the Holy Nativity of Our Lord God: A Hymn Sung as by the Shepherds1358

To the Noblest and Best of Ladies, the Countess of Denbigh1361

The Flaming Heart1363

HENRY VAUGHAN (1621-1695)1367

A Rhapsody1368

Regeneration1370

The Retreat1372

Silence and Stealth of Days!1373

Corruption1374

The World1375

They Are All Gone into the World of Light!1376

The Night1378

The Waterfall1379

ANDREW MARVELL (1621-1678)1380

The Coronet1381

Bermudas1382

A Dialogue Between the Soul and Body1383

The Nymph Complaining for the Death of Her Fawn1384

To His Coy Mistress1387

The Definition of Love1388

The Picture of Little T. C. in a Prospect of Flowers1389

The Mower Against Gardens1390

Damon the Mower1391

The Mower to the Glow-Worms1394

The Mower's Song1394

The Garden1395

An Horatian Ode1397

JOHN MILTON (1608-1674)1401

On the Morning of Christ's Nativity1403

On Shakespeare1410

L'Allegro1411

Il Penseroso1414

Lycidas1419

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

Areopagitica1430

SONNETS1441

How Soon Hath Time1441

On the New Forcers of Conscience Under the Long Parliament1442

To the Lord General Cromwell1442

When I Consider How My Light Is Spent1443

On the Late Massacre in Piedmont1444

Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint1444

Paradise Lost1445

Book 11446

Book 21467

Book 31493

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

Book 41507

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

Book 51525

[Eve's Dream: Trouble in Paradise]1525

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

[Book 6. Summary]1532

Book 71533

[The Invocation]1533

Book 81534

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

Book 91543

Book 101572

[Consequences of the Fall]1572

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

[Book 11. Summary]1586

Book 121586

[The Departure from Eden]1586

Samson Agonistes1590

POETIC MODES OF THE EARLY SEVENTEENTH CENTURY1635

HENRY KING (1592-1669)1636

The Exequy1636

THOMAS CAREW (1595-1640)1639

An Elegy upon the Death of the Dean of Paul's, Dr. John Donne1640

To Ben Jonson1642

Song (Persuasions to Enjoy)1644

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

A Rapture1645

SIR JOHN SUCKLING (1609-1642)1649

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

Loving and Beloved1650

Out upon It!1651

RICHARD LOVELACE (1618-1657)1651

To Lucasta, Going to the Wars1652

To Althea, from Prison1652

The Grasshopper1653

Love Made in the First Age. To Chloris1654

EDMUND WALLER (1606-1687)1656

The Story of Phoebus and Daphne Applied1657

Song (“Go, lovely rose!”)1657

On a Girdle1658

Of English Verse1659

SIR JOHN DENHAM (1615-1669)1660

Cooper's Hill1661

[Chertsey Abbey and the Thames]1661

ABRAHAM COWLEY (1618-1667)1663

Ode: Of Wit1664

THOMAS TRAHERNE (1637-1674)1666

Wonder1666

On Leaping over the Moon1668

PROSE OF THE EARLY SEVENTEENTH CENTURY1670

FRANCIS BACON (1561-1626)1671

ESSAYS1673

Of Truth1673

Of Marriage and Single Life1674

Of Great Place1676

Of Superstition1678

Of Negotiating1679

Of Studies (1597)1680

Of Studies (1625)1681

The Advancement of Learning1682

[The Abuses of Language]1682

Novum Organum1684

[The Idols]1684

The New Atlantis1690

[Salomon's House]1690

ROBERT BURTON (1577-1640)1695

The Anatomy of Melancholy1696

Love Melancholy1696

THOMAS HOBBES (1588-1679)1700

Leviathan1701

The Introduction1701

[The Artificial Man]1701

Part 1, Chapter 1. Of Sense1702

Part 1, Chapter 13. Of the Natural Condition of Mankind as Conceming Their Felicity and Misery1703

Part 1, Chapter 14. Of the First and Second Natural Laws1707

Part I, Chapter 15. Of Other Laws of Nature1708

IZAAK WALTON (1593-1683)1710

The Life of Dr. John Donne1711

[Donne on His Deathbed]1711

SIR THOMAS BROWNE (1605-1682)1715

Religio Medici1717

Part 1, Sections 1-6, 9, 15, 16, 34, 591717

Part 2, Section 111724

Hydriotaphia, Urn-Burial1726

Chapter 51726

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

The History of the Rebellion1733

[The Character of Oliver Cromwell]1733

JOHN LILBURNE (1615?-1657)1736

The Picture of the Council of State1737

[Lilburne Defies the Authorities]1737

LADY ANNE HALKE (1622-1699)1742

The Memoirs1743

[Springing the Duke]1743

DOROTHY OSBORNE (1627-1695)1746

The Letters of Dorothy Osborne1747

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

4 February 1654. [Fighting with Brother John]1749

TERMINI: JOHN LOCKE AND ISAAC NEWTON1751

JOHN LOCKE (1632-1704)1752

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding1752

The Epistle to the Reader1752

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 Colors1758

The Restoration and the EighteenthCentu (1660-1798)1765

JOHN DRYDEN (1631-1700)1787

Annus Mirabilis1789

[London Reborn]1789

Song from Marriage a la Mode1791

Absalom and Achitophel: A Poem1792

Mac Flecknoe1818

To the Memory of Mr. Oldham1824

To the Pious Memory of the Accomplished Young Lady Mrs. Anne Killigrew1825

A Song for St. Cecilia's Day1831

Epigram on Milton1833

Alexander's Feast1834

The Secular Masque1839

CRITICISM1842

An Essay of Dramatic Poesy1842

[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 License1847

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

[Wit as “Propriety”]1848

A Discourse Concerning the Original and Progress of Satire1849

[The Art of Satire]1849

The Preface to Fables Ancient and Modern1850

[In Praise of Chaucer]1850

SAMUEL PEPYS (1633-1703)1851

The Diary1852

[The Great Fire]1852

JOHN BUNYAN (1628-1688)1857

Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners1858

The Pilgrim's Progress1863

[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 World1874

MARY ASTELL (1666-1731)1937

Some Reflections upon Marriage1938

DANIEL DEFOE (ca. 1660-1731)1942

Roxana1943

[The Cons of Marriage]1942

POETRY: AUGUSTAN MODES1950

SAMUEL BUTLER (1612-1680)1950

Hudibras1951

Part 1, Canto 11951

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

The Disabled Debauchee1957

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

The Introduction1959

A Nocturnal Reverie1961

MATTHEW PRIOR (1664-1721)1962

An Epitaph1963

A True Maid1965

A Better Answer1965

JOHN GAY (1685-1732)1966

The Birth of the Squire. An Eclogue1967

Songs from The Beggar's Opera1970

Were I Laid on Greenland's Coast1970

If the Heart of a Man Is Depressed with Cares1970

Since Laws Were Made for Every Degree1970

Recitativo and Air from Acis and Galatea1971

LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU (1689-1762)1971

The Lover: A Ballad1972

Epistle from Mrs. Yonge to Her Husband1974

JONATHAN SWIFT (1667-1745)1976

A Description of a City Shower1978

Stella's Birthday, 17211980

Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift1982

A Tale of a Tub1993

A Digression Concerning the Original, the Use, and Improvement of Madness in a Commonwealth1993

An Argument Against the Abolishing of Christianity in England2002

Gulliver's Travels2012

A Letter from Captain Gulliver to His Cousin Sympson2013

The Publisher to the Reader2016

Part 1. A Voyage to Lilliput2017

Part 2. A Voyage to Brobdingnag2060

Part 3. A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdrib, Luggnagg, and Japan2108

[The Flying Island of Laputa]2108

[The Academy of Lagado]2114

[The Struldbruggs]2117

Part 4. A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms2123

A Modest Proposal2174

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

THE PERIODICAL ESSAY: MANNERS2183

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: IDEAS2195

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 Criticism2214

Part 12214

Part 22219

Part 32227

The Rape of the Lock2233

Ode on Solitude2252

Epistle to Miss Blount2253

Eloisa to Abelard2254

An Essay on Man2263

Epistle 1. Of the Nature and State of Man, with Respect to the Universe2264

Epistle 2. Of the Nature and State of Man with Respect to Himself, as an Individual2271

Epistle 2. To a Lady2271

Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot2278

The Dunciad2291

Book the Fourth2291

[The Educator]2292

[The Carnation and the Butterfly]2293

[The Triumph of Dulness]2294

SAMUEL JOHNSON (1 709-1784)2297

The Vanity of Human Wishes2300

Prologue Spoken by Mr. Garrick2308

On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet2310

A Short Song of Congratulation2311

Translation of Horace, Odes, Book 4.72312

Rambler No. 5. [On Spring]2313

Idler No. 31. [On Idleness]2316

The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia2318

[A Brief to Free a Slave]2391

Rambler No. 4. [On Fiction]2393

Rambler No. 60. [Biography]2397

A Dictionary of the English Language2401

Preface2401

[Some Definitions: A Small Anthology]2405

The Preface to Shakespeare2407

[Shakespeare's Excellence. General Nature]2407

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

[Henry Ⅳ]2417

LIVES OF THE POETS2418

Cowley2418

[Metaphysical Wit]2418

Milton2420

[Lycidas]2420

[L'Allegro. Il Penseroso]2421

[Paradise Lost]2423

Popc2429

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

JAMES BOSWELL (1740-1795)2433

Boswell on the Grand Tour2435

[Boswell Interviews Voltaire]2435

The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D2436

[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 SENSIBILITY2471

JAMESTHOMSON (1700-1748)2471

The Seasons2472

Autumn. [Evening and Night]2472

Ode: Rule. Britannia2474

THOMAS GRAY (1716-1771)2475

Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College2476

Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat2476

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard2480

WILLIAM COLLINS (1721-1759)2483

Ode Written in the Beginning of the Year 17462484

Ode on the Poetical Character2484

Ode to Evening2487

Ode on the Death of Mr. Thomson2488

CHRISTOPHER SMART (1722-1771)2489

Jubilate Agno2490

[My Cat Jeoffry2490

A Song to David2493

OLVIER GOLDSMITH (ca. 1730-1774)2507

The Deserted Village2507

CEORGE CRABBE (1754-1832)2517

The Village2517

Book 12517

WILLIAM COWPER (1731-1800)2525

The Task2526

Book 12526

[A Landscape Described. Rural Sounds]2526

Crazy Kate]2527

Book 32528

[The Stricken Deer2529

Book 42529

[The Winter Evening: A Brown Study]2529

The Castaway2531

POEMS IN PROCESS2533

John Milton2534

Lycidas2534

Alexander Pope2536

The Rape of the Lock2536

An Essay on Man2537

Samuel Johnson2539

The Vanity of Human Wishes2539

Thomas Gray2540

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard2540

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHIES2544

Suggested General Readings2544

The Middle Ages2546

The Sixteenth Century2550

The Early Seventeenth Century2557

The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century2568

BRITISH MONEY2576

THE BRITISH BARONAGE2579

RELIGIOUS SECTS IN ENGLAND2583

POETIC FORMS AND LITERARY TERMINOLOGY2584

ILLUSTRATIONS2599

A London Playhouse of Shakespeare's Time2599

The Universe According to Ptolemy2600

INDEX2605