Volume 1: The Middle Ages Through the Restoration and the Eighteenth Century The Middle Ages (to ca. 1485) Introduction Timeline

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1 Volume 1: The Middle Ages Through the Restoration and the Eighteenth Century The Middle Ages (to ca. 1485) ANGLO SAXON LITERATURE BEDE (ca ) and CÆDMON S HYMN An Ecclesiastical History of the English People [The Story of Cædmon] THE DREAM OF THE ROOD BEOWULF translated by Seamus Heaney JUDITH **THE WANDERER (New verse translation) **THE WIFE S LAMENT (New verse translation) *IRISH LITERATURE *The Tain Cúchulainn s Boyhood Deeds *EARLY IRISH LYRICS (9th Century) * The Scholar and His Cat *The Scribe in the Woods *The Lord of Creation *My Hand Is Weary with Writing ANGLO NORMAN LITERATURE THE MYTH OF ARTHUR S RETURN Geoffrey of Monmouth: From The History of the Kings of Britain Wace: From Le Roman de Brut Layamon: From Brut THOMAS OF ENGLAND: Le Roman de Tristran [The Deaths of Tristran and Ysolt] **ANCRENE WISSE (Guide for Anchoresses) * [The Sweetness and Pains of Enclosure] *ROMANCE MARIE DE FRANCE * Milun * Lanval * Chevrefoil *SIR ORFEO MIDDLE ENGLISH LITERATURE IN THE FOURTEENTH AND FIFTEENTH CENTURIES **SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT (ca ) translated by Simon Armitage GEOFFREY CHAUCER (ca ) The Canterbury Tales The General Prologue Summary: The Knight s Tale The Miller s Prologue and Tale The Prologue The Tale The Man of Law s Epilogue The Wife of Bath s Prologue and Tale The Prologue The Tale The Pardoner s Prologue and Tale The The Prologue The Tale The Epilogue The Nun s Priest s Tale [Close of Canterbury Tales] The Parson s Tale The Chaucer s Retraction Lyrics and Occasional Verse Troilus s Song Truth To His Scribe Adam Complaint to His Purse JOHN GOWER (ca ) The Lover s Confession The Tale of Philomena and Tereus *THOMAS HOCCLEVE (ca ) * My Complainte WILLIAM LANGLAND (ca ) The Vision of Piers Plowman The Prologue [The Field of Folk] Passus 1 [The Treasure of Truth] Passus 5 [Piers Plowman Shows the Way to Saint Truth] Passus 6 [The Plowing of Piers s Half-Acre] Passus 7 [Piers Hears Truth s Pardon] The C-Text [The Dreamer Meets Conscience and Reason] CHRIST S HUMANITY WILLIAM LANGLAND (ca ) The Vision of Piers Plowman Passus 18 [The Crucifixion and Harrowing of Hell] MIDDLE ENGLISH INCARNATION AND CRUCIFIXION LYRICS What is he, this lordling, that cometh from the fight Ye That Pasen by the Weye Sunset on Calvary I Sing of a Maiden Adam Lay Bound The Corpus Christi Carol JULIAN OF NORWICH (1342 ca. 1416) A Book of Showings Chapter 3 [Julian s Bodily Sickness and the Wounds of Christ] Chapter 4 [Christ s Passion and Incarnation] Chapter 5 [All Creation as a Hazelnut] Chapter 7 [Christ as Homely and Courteous] Chapter 27 [Sin Is Fitting] Chapters 58, 59, 60, 61 [Jesus as Mother] Chapter 86 [Christ s Meaning] MARGERY KEMPE (ca ) The Book of Margery Kempe Book 1.1 [The Birth of Her First Child and Her First Vision] Book 1.11 [Margery and Her Husband Reach a Settlement] Book 1.20 [Margery Sees the Host Flutter at Mass] Book 1.28 [Pilgrimage to Jerusalem] Book [Margery s Marriage to and Intimacy with Christ] Book 1.60 [Margery s Reaction to a Pietà] Book 1.76 [Margery Nurses Her Husband in His Old Age] Book 1.79 [Margery s Vision of the Passion Sequence] THE YORK PLAY OF THE CRUCIFIXION (ca. 1425) MYSTERY PLAYS The Wakefield Second Shepherds Play MIDDLE ENGLISH LYRICS * Fowles in the Frith The Cuckoo Song Alison My Lief Is Faren in Londe Western Wind I Am of Ireland SIR THOMAS MALORY (ca ) Morte Darthur [The Conspiracy against Lancelot and Guinevere] [War Breaks Out between Arthur and Lancelot] [The Death of Arthur] [The Deaths of Lancelot and Guinevere] ROBERT HENRYSON (ca ca. 1500) The Cock and the Fox EVERYMAN (after 1485) The Sixteenth Century ( ) JOHN SKELTON (ca ) Mannerly Margery Milk and Ale With lullay, lullay, like a child From The Tunning of Elinour Rumming Secundus Passus SIR THOMAS MORE ( ) Utopia SIR THOMAS WYATT THE ELDER ( ) The long love that in my thought doth harbor Petrarch, Rima 140 Whoso list to hunt Petrarch, Rima 190 Farewell, Love I find no peace Petrarch, Rima 134 My galley Petrarch, Rima 189 Divers doth use What vaileth truth? 1

2 Madam, withouten many words They flee from me The Lover Showeth How He Is Forsaken of Such as He Sometime Enjoyed My lute, awake! Forget not yet Blame not my lute Stand whoso list Who list his wealth and ease retain Mine own John Poins HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF SURREY ( ) The soote season Petrarch, Rima 310 Love, that doth reign and live within my thought Alas! so all things now do hold their peace Th Assyrians king, in peace with foul desire So cruel prison how could betide Wyatt resteth here, that quick could never rest O happy dames, that may embrace Martial, the things for to attain The Fourth Book of Virgil [Dido in Love] FAITH IN CONFLICT THE ENGLISH BIBLE 1 Corinthians 13 From Tyndale s Translation From The Geneva Bible From The Douay Rheims Version From The Authorized (King James) Version WILLIAM TYNDALE: The Obedience of a Christian Man [The Forgiveness of Sins] [Scriptural Interpretation] THOMAS MORE: A Dialogue Concerning Heresies From Chapter 28 JOHN CALVIN: The Institution of Christian Religion From Book 3, Chapter 21 ANNE ASKEW: From The First Examination of Anne Askew JOHN FOXE: Acts and Monuments [The Death of Anne Askew] BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER: From The Form of Solemnization of Matrimony BOOK OF HOMILIES: From An Homily Against Disobedience and Willful Rebellion RICHARD HOOKER: Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity Book 1, Chapter 3 [On the Several Kinds of Law, and on the Natural Law] ROBERT SOUTHWELL: The Burning Babe ROGER ASCHAM ( ) The Schoolmaster The First Book for the Youth [Teaching Latin] [The Italianate Englishman] SIR THOMAS HOBY ( ) Castiglione s The Courtier Book 1, Sections [Grace] Book 4, Sections [The Ladder of Love] WOMEN IN POWER MARY I (MARY TUDOR) Letter to Henry VIII From An Ambassadorial Dispatch to the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V: The Coronation of Mary I The Oration of Queen Mary in the Guildhall, on the First of February, 1554 LADY JANE GREY Roger Ascham s Schoolmaster [A Talk with Lady Jane] From A Letter of the Lady Jane to M.H., late chaplain to the duke of Suffolk her father A Letter of the Lady Jane, sent unto her Father A Prayer of the Lady Jane A Second Letter to Her Father Foxe s Acts and Monuments The Words and Behavior of the Lady Jane upon the Scaffold MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS From Casket Letter Number 2 A Letter to Elizabeth I, May 17, 1568 From Narrative of the Execution of the Queen of Scots ELIZABETH I Verses Written with a Diamond From The Passage of Our Most Dread Sovereign Lady Queen Elizabeth through the City of London to Westminster on the Day before Her Coronation Speech to the House of Commons, January 28, 1563 From A Speech to a Joint Delegation of Lords and Commons, November 5, 1566 From A Letter to Mary, Queen of Scots, February 24, 1567 The doubt of future foes On Monsieur s Departure A Letter to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, February 10, 1586 A Letter to Sir Amyas Paulet, August 1586 A Letter to King James VI of Scotland, February 14, 1587 Verse Exchange between Elizabeth and Sir Walter Ralegh Speech to the Troops at Tilbury The Golden Speech EDMUND SPENSER ( ) The Shepheardes Calender To His Booke October The Faerie Queene A Letter of the Authors Book 1 Book 2 Summary Canto 12 [The Bower of Bliss] Book 3 Summary Canto 6 [The Garden of Adonis] Cantos 7 10 Summary Canto 11 Canto 12 Amoretti Sonnet 1 Sonnet 34 Sonnet 37 Sonnet 54 Sonnet 64 Sonnet 65 Sonnet 67 Sonnet 68 Sonnet 74 Sonnet 75 Sonnet 79 Epithalamion *RENAISSANCE LOVE AND DESIRE *THOMAS, LORD VAUX: The Aged Lover Renounceth Love *GEORGE GASCOIGNE * And if I did, what then? * The Lullaby of a Lover *EDWARD DE VERE, EARL OF OXFORD The lively lark stretched forth her wing *FULKE GREVILLE, LORD BROOKE * Caelica * 61 ( Caelica, while you do swear you love me best ) * 69 ( When all this All doth pass from age to age ) *THOMAS LODGE: Pluck the fruit and taste the pleasure *HENRY CONSTABLE: To live in hell, and heaven to behold *SAMUEL DANIEL (1562/3 1619) * Delia * 9 ( If this be love, to draw a weary breath ) * 32 ( But love whilst that thou may st be loved again ) 33 ( When men shall find thy flower, thy glory, pass ) *MICHAEL DRAYTON Idea To the Reader of These Sonnets 6 ( How many paltry, foolish, painted things ) * 8 ( There s nothing grieves me, but that age should haste ) * 50 ( As in some countries far removed from hence ) 61 ( Since there s no help, come, let us kiss and part) *THOMAS CAMPION My sweetest Lesbia, let us live and love I care not for these ladies When to her lute Corinna sings * When thou must home to shades of underground * Never love unless you can There is a garden in her face *SIR JOHN DAVIES * Mine eye, mine ear, my will, my wit, my heart *BARNABE BARNES * Jove for Europa s sake took shape of bull *RICHARD LINCHE * The last so sweet, so balmy, so delicious RICHARD BARNFIELD Cynthia 9 ( Diana [on a time] walking the wood ) 11 ( Sighing, and sadly sitting by my love ) SIR WALTER RALEGH ( ) The Nymph s Reply to the Shepherd 2

3 What is our life? [Sir Walter Ralegh to His Son] The Lie Farewell, false love Methought I saw the grave where Laura lay Nature, that washed her hands in milk [The Author s Epitaph, Made by Himself] From The discovery of the large, rich, and beautiful Empire of Guiana The History of the World [Conclusion: On Death] JOHN LYLY ( ) Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit [Euphues Introduced] SIR PHILIP SIDNEY ( ) The Countess of Pembroke s Arcadia Book 2, Chapter 1 * The Defense of Poesy Astrophil and Stella 1 ( Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show ) 2 ( Not at first sight, nor with a dribbèd shot ) 5 ( It is most true that eyes are formed to serve ) 6 ( Some lovers speak, when they their muses entertain ) 7 ( When Nature made her chief work, Stella s eyes ) 9 ( Queen Virtue s court, which some call Stella s face ) 10 ( Reason, in faith thou art well served, that still ) 15 ( You that do search for every purling spring ) 16 ( In nature apt to like when I did see ) 18 ( With what sharp checks I in myself am shent ) 20 ( Fly, fly, my friends, I have my deathwound, fly ) 21 ( Your words, my friend [right healthful]) caustics], blame ) 27 ( Because I oft, in dark abstracted guise ) 28 ( You that with allegory s curious frame ) 31 ( With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb st the skies ) 33 ( I might [unhappy word], O me, I might ) 34 ( Come, let me write. And to what end? ) 37 ( My mouth doth water, and my breast doth swell ) 39 ( Come sleep! O sleep the certain knot of peace ) 41 ( Having this day my horse, my hand, my lance ) 45 ( Stella oft sees the very face of woe ) 47 ( What, have I thus betrayed my liberty? ) 49 ( I on my horse, and Love on me doth try ) 52 ( A strife is grown between Virtue and Love ) 53 ( In martial sports I had my cunning tried ) 54 ( Because I breathe not love to everyone ) 56 ( Fie, school of Patience, fie, your lesson is ) 61 ( Oft with true sighs, oft with uncallèd tears ) 69 ( O joy, too high for my low style to show ) 71 ( Who will in fairest book of Nature know ) 72 ( Desire, though thou my old companion art ) 74 ( I never drank of Aganippe well ) 81 ( O kiss, which dost those ruddy gems impart ) Fourth Song ( Only joy, now here you are ) 87 ( When I was forced from Stella ever dear ) 89 ( Now that of absence the most irksome night ) 91 ( Stella, while now by Honor s cruel might ) 94 ( Grief, find the words; for thou hast made my brain ) Eleventh Song ( Who is it that this dark night ) 106 ( O absent presence, Stella is not here ) 108 ( When Sorrow [using mine own fire s might] ) MARY (SIDNEY) HERBERT, COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE ( ) Psalm 52 Psalm 139 CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE ( ) Hero and Leander The Passionate Shepherd to His Love Doctor Faustus The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus The Two Texts of Doctor Faustus WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ( ) Sonnets 1 ( From fairest creatures we desire increase ) 3 ( Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest ) 12 ( When I do count the clock that tells the time ) 15 ( When I consider every thing that grows ) 18 ( Shall I compare thee to a summer s day? ) 19 ( Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion s paws ) 20 ( A woman s face with Nature s own hand painted ) 23 ( As an unperfect actor on the stage ) 29 ( When, in disgrace with Fortune and men s eyes ) 30 ( When to the sessions of sweet silent thought ) 33 ( Full many a glorious morning have I seen ) 35 ( No more be grieved at that which thou hast done ) 55 ( Not marble, nor the gilded monuments ) 60 ( Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore ) 62 ( Sin of self-love possesseth all mine eye ) 65 ( Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea ) 71 ( No longer mourn for me when I am dead ) 73 ( That time of year thou mayst in me behold ) 74 ( But be contented; when that fell arrest ) 80 ( O, how I faint when I of you do write ) 85 ( My tongue-tied muse in manners holds her still ) 87 ( Farewell: thou art too dear for my possessing ) 93 ( So shall I live supposing thou art true ) 94 ( They that have power to hurt and will do none ) 97 ( How like a winter hath my absence been ) 98 ( From you have I been absent in the spring ) 105 ( Let not my love be called idolatry ) 106 ( When in the chronicle of wasted time ) 107 ( Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul ) 110 ( Alas, tis true I have gone here and there ) 116 ( Let me not to the marriage of true minds ) 126 ( O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power ) 127 ( In the old age black was not counted fair ) 128 ( How oft when thou, my music, music play st ) 129 ( Th expense of spirit in a waste of shame ) 130 ( My mistress eyes are nothing like the sun ) 135 ( Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy Will ) 138 ( When my love swears that she is made of truth ) 144 ( Two loves I have of comfort and despair ) 146 ( Poor soul, the center of my sinful earth ) 147 ( My love is as a fever, longing still ) 152 ( In loving thee thou know st I am forsworn ) Twelfth Night King Lear The Early Seventeenth Century ( ) JOHN DONNE ( ) The Flea The Good-Morrow Song ( Go and catch a falling star ) The Undertaking The Sun Rising 3

4 The Indifferent The Canonization Song ( Sweetest love, I do not go ) Air and Angels Break of Day A Valediction: Of Weeping Love s Alchemy A Nocturnal upon Saint Lucy s Day, Being the Shortest Day The Bait The Apparition A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning The Ecstasy The Funeral The Blossom The Relic A Lecture upon the Shadow Elegy 16. On His Mistress Elegy 19. To His Mistress Going to Bed Satire 3 Sappho to Philaenis * An Anatomy of the World: The First Anniversary Holy Sonnets 1 ( Thou hast made me, and shall thy work decay? ) 5 ( I am a little world made cunningly ) 7 ( At the round earth s imagined corners, blow ) 9 ( If poisonous minerals, and if that tree ) 10 ( Death, be not proud, though some have callèd thee ) 11 ( Spit in my face, you Jews ) 13 ( What if this present were the world s last night? ) 14 ( Batter my heart, three-personed God; for you ) 17 ( Since she whom I loved hath paid her last debt ) 18 ( Show me, dear Christ, thy spouse so bright and clear ) 19 ( Oh, to vex me, contraries meet in one ) Good Friday, Riding Westward A Hymn to Christ, at the Author s Last Going into Germany Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness A Hymn to God the Father Devotions upon Emergent Occasions Meditation 4 Meditation 17 From Expostulation 19 [The Language of God] From Death s Duel IZAAK WALTON ( ) The Life of Dr. John Donne [Donne on His Deathbed] AEMILIA LANYER ( ) Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum To the Doubtful Reader To the Queen s Most Excellent Majesty To the Virtuous Reader Eve s Apology in Defense of Women The Description of Cookham BEN JONSON ( ) Volpone, or The Fox To My Book On Something, That Walks Somewhere To William Camden On My First Daughter To John Donne On Giles and Joan On My First Son On Lucy, Countess of Bedford To Lucy, Countess of Bedford, with Mr. Donne s Satires To Sir Thomas Roe Inviting a Friend to Supper On Gut Epitaph on S.P., a Child of Queen Elizabeth s Chapel To Penshurst Song: To Celia To Heaven From A Celebration of Charis in Ten Lyric Pieces: 4. Her Triumph A Sonnet to the Noble Lady, the Lady Mary Wroth My Picture Left in Scotland To the Immortal Memory and Friendship of That Noble Pair, Sir Lucius Cary and Sir H. Morison Queen and Huntress To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare Ode to Himself MARY WROTH ( ?) The Countess of Montgomery s Urania From The First Book Song ( Love what art thou? A vain thought ) Pamphilia to Amphilanthus 1 ( When night s black mantle could most darkness prove ) 16 ( Am I thus conquered? Have I lost the powers ) * 25 ( Like to the Indians scorched with the sun ) 28 Song ( Sweetest love, return again ) 39 ( Take heed mine eyes, how you your looks do cast ) 40 ( False hope which feeds but to destroy, and spill ) * 64 ( Love like a juggler comes to play his prize ) 68 ( My pain, still smothered in my grievèd breast ) 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 ) JOHN WEBSTER (1580? 1625?) The Duchess of Malfi GENDER RELATIONS: CONFLICT AND COUNSEL JOSEPH SWETNAM: From The Arraignment of Lewd, Idle, Froward, and Unconstant Women RACHEL SPEGHT: From A Muzzle for Melastomus *WILLIAM GOUGE: From Of Domestical Duties INQUIRY AND EXPERIENCE SIR FRANCIS BACON ( ) Essays Of Truth Of Marriage and Single Life Of Great Place Of Superstition Of Plantations Of Negotiating Of Masques and Triumphs Of Studies [1597 version] Of Studies [1625 version] The Advancement of Learning [The Abuses of Language] From Novum Organum The New Atlantis [Solomon s House] *WILLIAM HARVEY ( ) * From The Circulation of the Blood ROBERT BURTON ( ) The Anatomy of Melancholy * From Love Melancholy SIR THOMAS BROWNE ( ) Religio Medici Part 1, Sections 1 6, 9, 15, 16, 34, 59 Part 2, Section 1 Hydriotaphia, or Urn-Burial From Chapter 5 GEORGE HERBERT ( ) The Altar Redemption Easter Easter Wings Affliction (1) Prayer (1) Jordan (1) Church Monuments The Windows Denial Virtue Man Jordan (2) Time The Bunch of Grapes The Pilgrimage The Holdfast The Collar The Pulley The Flower The Forerunners Discipline Death Love (3) HENRY VAUGHAN ( ) A Song to Amoret Regeneration The Retreat Silence, and Stealth of Days! 4

5 Corruption Unprofitableness The World They Are All Gone into the World of Light! Cock-Crowing The Night The Waterfall RICHARD CRASHAW (ca ) Music s Duel To the Infant Martyrs I Am the Door On the Wounds of Our Crucified Lord Luke 11.[27] In the Holy Nativity of Our Lord God: A Hymn Sung as by the Shepherds To the Noblest & Best of Ladies, the Countess of Denbigh The Flaming Heart ROBERT HERRICK ( ) The Argument of His Book Upon the Loss of His Mistresses The Vine Dreams Delight in Disorder His Farewell to Sack Corinna s Going A-Maying To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time The Hock-Cart, or Harvest Home How Roses Came Red Upon the Nipples of Julia s Breast Upon Jack and Jill. Epigram To Marigolds His Prayer to Ben Jonson The Bad Season Makes the Poet Sad The Night-Piece, to Julia Upon His Verses His Return to London Upon Julia s Clothes Upon Prue, His Maid To His Book s End To His Conscience Another Grace for a Child THOMAS CAREW ( ) An Elegy upon the Death of the Dean of Paul s, Dr. John Donne To Ben Jonson A Song ( Ask me no more where Jove bestows ) To Saxham A Rapture RICHARD LOVELACE ( ) To Lucasta, Going to the Wars The Grasshopper To Althea, from Prison Love Made in the First Age. To Chloris KATHERINE PHILIPS ( ) A Married State Upon the Double Murder of King Charles Friendship s Mystery, To My Dearest Lucasia To Mrs. M. A. at Parting On the Death of My First and Dearest Child, Hector Philips ANDREW MARVELL ( ) The Coronet Bermudas A Dialogue Between the Soul and Body The Nymph Complaining for the Death of Her Fawn To His Coy Mistress The Definition of Love The Picture of Little T. C. in a Prospect of Flowers The Mower Against Gardens Damon the Mower The Mower to the Glowworms The Mower s Song The Garden An Horatian Ode Upon Appleton House CRISIS OF AUTHORITY Reporting the News The Moderate, No. 28, January 1649 [The Trial of King Charles I, the first day] A Perfect Diurnal of Some Passages in Parliament, No. 288 [The Execution of Charles I] Political Writing ROBERT FILMER: From Patriarcha JOHN MILTON: From The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates GERRARD WINSTANLEY: From A New Year s Gift Sent to the Parliament and Army HOBBES: From Leviathan Writing the Self LUCY HUTCHINSON: Memoirs of the Life of Colonel John Hutchinson [Charles I and Henrietta Maria] EDWARD HYDE, EARL OF CLARENDON: The History of the Rebellion [The Character of Oliver Cromwell] LADY ANNE HALKETT: The Memoir [Springing the Duke] DOROTHY WAUGH: From A Relation Concerning Dorothy Waugh s Cruel Usage by the Mayor of Carlisle SIR THOMAS BROWNE: Religio Medici: Part 1, Sections 1 6, 9, 15, 16, 34, 59 and Part 2, Section 1 THOMAS TRAHERNE ( ) Centuries of Meditation From The Third Century Wonder On Leaping over the Moon MARGARET CAVENDISH ( ) The Poetess s Hasty Resolution The Hunting of the Hare From A True Relation of My Birth, Breeding, and Life From The Description of a New World, Called The Blazing World JOHN MILTON ( ) On the Morning of Christ s Nativity On Shakespeare L Allegro Il Penseroso Lycidas The Reason of Church Government Urged Against Prelaty [Plans and Projects] From Areopagitica How Soon Hath Time On the New Forcers of Conscience Under the Long Parliament To the Lord General Cromwell, May 1652 When I Consider How My Light Is Spent On the Late Massacre in Piedmont Methought I Saw My Late Espousèd Saint Paradise Lost The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century ( ) JOHN DRYDEN ( ) Annus Mirabilis [London Reborn] Song from Marriage à la Mode Absalom and Achitophel: A Poem Mac Flecknoe To the Memory of Mr. Oldham A Song for St. Cecilia s Day Epigram on Milton Alexander s Feast Criticism An Essay of Dramatic Poesy [Two Sorts of Bad Poetry] [The Wit of the Ancients: The Universal] [Shakespeare and Ben Jonson Compared] The Author s Apology for Heroic Poetry and Heroic License [ Boldness of Figures and Tropes Defended: The Appeal to Nature ] [Wit as Propriety ] A Discourse Concerning the Original and Progress of Satire [The Art of Satire] The Preface to Fables Ancient and Modern [In Praise of Chaucer] SAMUEL PEPYS ( ) The Diary [The Great Fire] [The Deb Willet Affair] JOHN BUNYAN ( ) The Pilgrim s Progress [Christian Sets out for the Celestial City] [The Slough of Despond] [Vanity Fair] [The River of Death and the Celestial City] JOHN LOCKE ( ) An Essay Concerning Human Understanding From The Epistle to the Reader ISAAC NEWTON ( ) From A Letter of Mr. Isaac Newton SAMUEL BUTLER ( ) Hudibras From Part 1, Canto 1 5

6 JOHN WILMOT, SECOND EARL OF ROCHESTER ( ) The Disabled Debauchee The Imperfect Enjoyment Upon Nothing A Satire against Reason and Mankind APHRA BEHN (1640? 1689) The Disappointment Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave WILLIAM CONGREVE ( ) The Way of the World MARY ASTELL ( ) From Some Reflections upon Marriage DANIEL DEFOE (ca ) Roxana [The Cons of Marriage] ANNE FINCH, COUNTESS OF WINCHILSEA ( ) The A Nocturnal Reverie *LOW PEOPLE AND HIGH PEOPLE *HENRY FIELDING: From The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews: A Dissertation Concerning High People and Low People *MATTHEW PRIOR: An Epitaph STEPHEN DUCK From The Thresher s Labour On Mites, to a Lady MARY COLLIER: From The Woman s Labour *MARY BARBER: An Unanswerable Apology for the Rich *MARY JONES: Soliloquy, on an Empty Purse *LAURENCE STERNE: A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy [The Beautiful Grisset] The Pulse, Paris The Husband, Paris The Gloves, Paris *THOMAS CHATTERTON: An Excelente Balade of Charitie *SAMUEL JOHNSON: On the Death of Robert Levet *GEORGE CRABBE: From The Village JONATHAN SWIFT ( ) A Description of a City Shower Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift From A Tale of a Tub Gulliver s Travels A Letter from Captain Gulliver to His Cousin Sympson The Publisher to the Reader Part 1. A Voyage to Lilliput Part 2. A Voyage to Brobdingnag Part 3. A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdrib, Luggnagg, and Japan Chapter 2 [The Flying Island of Laputa] Chapter 5 [The Academy of Lagado] Chapter 10 [The Struldbruggs] Part 4. A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms A Modest Proposal JOSEPH ADDISON ( ) and SIR RICHARD STEELE ( ) The Periodical Essay: Manners, Society, Gender Steele: [The Spectator s Club] Spectator 2 Addison: [The Aims of the Spectator] Spectator 10 Steele: [Inkle and Yarico] Spectator 11 Addison: [The Royal Exchange] Spectator 69 The Periodical Essay: Ideas Addison: [Wit: True, False, Mixed] Spectator 62 Addison: [Paradise Lost: General Critical Remarks] Spectator 267 Addison: [The Pleasures of the Imagination] Spectator 411 Addison: [On the Scale of Being] Spectator 519 ALEXANDER POPE ( ) An Essay on Criticism The Rape of the Lock Eloisa to Abelard An Essay on Man Epistle 1. Of the Nature and State of Man, with Respect to the Universe From Epistle 2. Of the Nature and State of Man with Respect to Himself, as an Individual Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot The Dunciad: Book the Fourth [The Educator] [The Carnation and the Butterfly] [The Triumph of Dulness] ELIZA HAYWOOD (1693? 1756) Fantomina; or, Love in a Maze LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU ( ) *The Turkish Embassy Letters * [The Turkish Method of Inoculation for the Small Pox] * [ The Ladys Coffeehouse ; or, the Turkish Baths] Epistle from Mrs. Yonge to Her Husband DEBATING WOMEN: ARGUMENTS IN VERSE JONATHAN SWIFT: The Lady s Dressing Room LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU: The Reasons That Induced Dr. Swift to Write a Poem Called the Lady s Dressing Room ALEXANDER POPE: Epistle 2. To a Lady ANNE INGRAM, VISCOUNTESS IRWIN: An Epistle to Mr. Pope MARY LEAPOR An Essay on Woman An Epistle to a Lady JOHN GAY ( ) The Beggar s Opera WILLIAM HOGARTH ( ) Marriage A-la-Mode SAMUEL JOHNSON ( ) The Vanity of Human Wishes Rambler No. 5 [On Spring] Idler No. 31 [On Idleness] The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia Rambler No. 4 [On Fiction] Rambler No. 60 [Biography] A Dictionary of the English Language From Preface [Some Definitions: A Small Anthology] The Preface to Shakespeare [Shakespeare s Excellence. General Nature] [Shakespeare s Faults. The Three Dramatic Unities] [Twelfth Night] [King Lear] Lives of the Poets Cowley [Metaphysical Wit] Milton [ Lycidas ] [Paradise Lost] Pope [Pope s Intellectual Character. Pope and Dryden Compared] JAMES BOSWELL ( ) Boswell on the Grand Tour [Boswell Interviews Voltaire] The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. [Plan of the Life] [Johnson s Early Years. Marriage and London] [The Letter to Chesterfield] [A Memorable Year: Boswell Meets Johnson] [Goldsmith. Sundry Opinions. Johnson Meets His King] [Fear of Death] [Ossian. Talking for Victory ] [Dinner with Wilkes] [Dread of Solitude] [ A Bottom of Good Sense. Bet Flint. Clear Your Mind of Cant ] [Johnson Prepares for Death] [Johnson Faces Death] FRANCES BURNEY ( ) The Journal and Letters [First Journal Entry] [Mr. Barlow s Proposal] [ Down with her, Burney! ] [A Young and Agreeable Infidel] [Encountering the King] [A Mastectomy] [M. D Arblay s Postscript] LIBERTY JOHN LOCKE Two Treatises of Government Chapter IV. Of Slavery Chapter IX. Of the Ends of Political Society and Government MARY ASTELL: A Preface, in Answer to Some Objections to Reflections upon Marriage 6

7 JAMES THOMSON: Ode: Rule, Britannia DAVID HUME: Of the Liberty of the Press EDMUND BURKE: Speech on the Conciliation with the American Colonies SAMUEL JOHNSON: [A Brief to Free a Slave] OLAUDAH EQUIANO: The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself [The Middle Passage] [A Free Man] JAMES THOMSON ( ) The Seasons Autumn [Evening and Night] THOMAS GRAY ( ) Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard WILLIAM COLLINS ( ) Ode on the Poetical Character Ode to Evening CHRISTOPHER SMART ( ) Jubilate Agno [My Cat Jeoffry] OLIVER GOLDSMITH (ca ) The Deserted Village WILLIAM COWPER ( ) The Task Book 1 [A Landscape Described. Rural Sounds] [Crazy Kate] Book 3 [The Stricken Deer] Book 4 [The Winter Evening: A Brown Study] The Castaway APPENDIXES * Literary Terminology General Bibliography Geographic Nomenclature British Money The British Baronage The Royal Lines of England and Great Britain Religions in England Illustration: The Universe According to Ptolemy Illustration: A London Playhouse of Shakespeare s Time 7