The Middle Ages. BEOWULF. JUDITH. TALIESIN. Urien Yrechwydd. The Battle of Argoed Llwyfain. The War-Band''s Return. Lament for Owain Son of Urien.
THE WANDERER. WULF AND EADWACER and THE WIFE''S LAMENT. PERSPECTIVES ARTHURIAN MYTH IN THE HISTORY OF BRITAIN. GEOFFREY OF MONMOUTH. From History of the Kings of Britain GERALD OF WALES. From The Instruction to Princes EDWARD I. Letter sent to the court of Rome. Companion Reading.
A Report to Edward. ARTHURIAN ROMANCE MARIE DE FRANCE. Lais. Prologue. Lanval. SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT SIR THOMAS MALORY. Morte Darthur-. From The Poisoned Apple.
The Day of Destiny. GEOFFREY CHAUCER. The Canterbury Tales. The General Prologue. The Miller''s Tale. Introduction. The Tale. The Wife of Bath''s Prologue.
The Wife of Bath''s Tale-The Pardoner''s Prologue. The Pardoner''s Tale. Nun''s Priest''s Tale. The Parson''s Tale. Introduction. From The Tale. The Remedy for the Sin of Lechery. Chaucer''s Retraction.
To His Scribe Adam. Complaint to His Purse. THE SECOND PLAY OF THE SHEPHERDS. MEDIEVAL LYRICS. MIDDLE ENGLISH LYRICS. The Cuckoo Song ("Sumer is icumen in"). Spring ("Lenten is come with love to toune"). Alisoun ("Bitwene Mersh and Averil").
My Lief Is Faren in a Lond. I Have a Noble Cock-Fowles in the Frith. Abuse of Women ("In every place ye may well see"). The Irish Dancer ("Gode sire, pray ich thee"). Adam Lay Ibounden. I Sing of a Maiden. Mary Is With Child ("Under a tree"). Jesus, My Sweet Lover ("Jesu Christ, my lemmon swete").
DAFYDD AP GWILYM. One Saving Place. The Hateful Husband. The Winter. The Ruin. WILLIAM DUNBAR. Lament for the Makers. In Secret Place This Hyndir Nycht.
The Early Modern Period. SIR THOMAS WYATT. The Long Love That in My Thought Doth Harbor Companion Reading-Petrarch Sonnet 140. Whoso List to Hunt. They Flee From Me. My Lute, Awake! Blame Not My Lute. Stand Whoso List. HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF SURREY.
Love That Doth Reign and Live Within My Thought. Alas, So All Things Now Do Hold Their Peace. Companion Reading. Petrarch Sonnet 164. So Cruel Prison. EDMUND SPENSER. The Shepheardes Calender. October.
The Faerie Queene. The First Book. Canto 1. From Book 2, Canto 12 (The Bowre of Blisse). Amoretti. 1 ("Happy ye leaves when as those lily hands"). 22 ("This holy season fit to fast and pray"). 62 ("The weary year his race now having run").
68 ("The most glorious Lord of life, that on this day"). 75 ("One day I wrote her name upon the strand"). Epithalamion. SIR PHILIP SIDNEY. Astrophil and Stella. 1 ("Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show"). 31 ("With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb''st the skies"). 39 ("Come sleep, O sleep, the certain knot of peace").
71 ("Who will in fairest book of Nature know"). 106 ("O absent presence, Stella is not here"). 108 ("When sorrow [using mine own fire''s might]"). From The Apology for Poetry. "THE APOLOGY" IN CONTEXT The Art of Poetry. Stephen Gosson from The School of Abuse. George Puttenham from The Art of English Poesie. George Gascoigne from Certain Notes of Instruction.
Samuel Daniel from A Defence of RhymE. ISABELLA WHITNEY. I. W. To Her Unconstant Lover. A Careful Complaint by the Unfortunate Author- MARY HERBERT, COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE. Even Now That Care. To Thee Pure Sprite.
The Doleful Lay of Clorinda. AEMILIA LANYER. The Description of Cookham. Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum. To the Doubtful Reader. To the Virtuous Reader. [Pilate''s Wife Apologizes for Eve]. ELIZABETH I.
Written With a Diamond on Her Window at Woodstock. Written on a Wall at Woodstock. The Doubt of Future Foes. On Monsieur''s Departure. Speeches. On Marriage. On Mary, Queen of Scots. On Mary''s Execution.
To the English Troops at Tilbury. The Golden Speech. SIR WALTER RALEIGH. To the Queen. On the Life of Man. The Author''s Epitaph, Made by Himself. From The Twenty-First and Last Book of the Ocean to Cynthia. The Discovery of the Large and Beautiful Empire of Guiana.
From Epistle Dedicatory. [The Amazons]. [The Orinoco]. [The New World of Guiana]. CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE. The Passionate Shepherd to His Love. Companion Reading-Sir Walter Raleigh The Nymph''s Reply to the Shepherd. The Tragical History of Dr.
Faustus. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. sonnets. 1 ("From fairest creatures we desire increase"). 18 ("Shall I compare thee to a summer''s day"). 20 ("A woman''s face with Nature''s own hand painted"). 29 ("When, in disgrace with fortune and men''s eyes"). 55 ("Not marble nor the gilded monuments").
60 ("Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore"). 73 ("That time of year thou mayst in me behold"). 87 ("Farewell! Thou are too dear for my possessing"). 106 ("When in the chronicle of wasted time"). 116 ("Let me not to the marriage of true minds"). 126 ("O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power"). 130 ("My mistress'' eyes are nothing like the sun"). 138 ("When my love swears that she is made of truth").
Othello, the Moor of Venice. "OTHELLO" IN CONTEXT Ethnography in the Literature of Travel and Colonization. Peter Martyr from Decades of the New World. Pliny the Elder from The History of the World. Leo Africanus from The History and Description of Africa. Edmund Spenser from A View of the Present State of Ireland Sir John Smith. From The General History of Virginia, New England and the Summer Isles. SEVENTEENTH CENTRY LYRICS.
BEN JONSON. On Something, That Walks Somewhere. On My First Daughter. To John Donne. On My First Son. Inviting a Friend to Supper. To Penshurst. Song To Celia.
To the Memory of My Beloved, The Author, Mr. William Shakespeare, and What He Hath Left Us. JOHN DONNE. The Good Morrow. Song ("Go, and catch a falling star"). The Undertaking. The Sun Rising. The Canonization.
Break of Day. The Flea. The Bait. A Valediction Forbidding Mourning. The Ecstasy. Holy Sonnets. 1 ("As due by many title I resign"). 5 ("If poisonous minerals, and if that tree").
6 ("Death be not proud, though some have called thee"). 9 ("What if this present were the world''s last night?"). 10 ("Batter my heart, three-personed God; for you"). LADY MARY WROTH. Pamphilia to Amphilanthus. 1 ("When night''s black mantle could most darkness prove"). 16 ("Am I thus conquered? Have I lost the powers"). 39 ("Take heed mine eyes, how you your looks do cast").
40 ("False hope which feeds but to destroy, and spill"). 74 Song ("Love a child is ever crying") From A Crown of Sonnets Dedicated to Love. 77 ("In this strange labyrinth how shall I turn?"). 103 ("My muse now happy, lay thyself to rest")-ROBERT HERRICK. The Argument of His Book. Delight in Disorder. To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time-Upon Julia''s Clothes. GEORGE HERBERT.
The Altar-Easter Wings. Prayer. Jordan (1). The Collar-Love (3)-RICHARD LOVELACE -To Lucasta, Going to the Wars-Love Made in the First Age. O Chloris. ANDREW MARVELL. To His Coy Mistress. The Definition of Love.
The Mower''s Song. The Garden. An Horatian Ode. KATHERINE PHILIPS. Friendship in Emblem, or the Seal. Upon the Double Murder of King Charles. To the Truly Noble, and Obliging Mrs. Anne Owen.
To Mrs. Awbrey at Parting. To My Excellent Lucasia, on Our Friendship. The World. PERSPECTIVES TRACTS ON WOMEN AND GENDER. DESIDERIUS ERASMUS, translated by Tavernour. From In Laude and Praise of Matrimony. BARNABE RICHE.
From My Ladies Looking Glass. MARGARET TYLER. From Preface to The First Part of the Mirror of Princely Deeds. JOSEPH SWETNAM. From The Arraignment of Lewd, Idle, Forward, and Unconstant Women. RACHEL SPEGHT. From A Muzzle for Melastomus. ESTHER SOWERNAM.
From Ester Hath Hang''d Haman. HIC MULIER and HAEC-VIR-from Hic-Mulier; or, The Man-Woman-from Haec. Vir; or, The Womanish Man. PERSPECTIVES THE CIVIL WAR, OR THE WARS OF THREE KINGDOMS. JOHN GAUDEN. From Eikon Basilike. JOHN MILTON. From Eikonoklastes.
THE PETITION OF GENTLEWOMEN AND TRADESMEN''S WIVES. A True Copy of the Petition of the Gentlewomen and Tradesmen''s Wives, in and about the City of London. JOHN LILBURNE from England''s New Chains Discovered-OLIVER CROMWELL from Letters from Ireland. JOHN O''DWYER OF THE GLENN. THE STORY OF ALEXANDER AGNEW; or, Jock of Broad Scotland. EDWARD HYDE, EARL OF CLARENDON from True Historical Narrative of the Rebellion. JOHN MILTON. L''Allegro-Il.