The Norton Anthology of English Literature (Package 1: Volumes A, B, C)

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Útgefandi: W. W. Norton

ISBN: 9781324062752

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Útgáfa: 11

Höfundar: Stephen Greenblatt

Tungumál: English

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Cover
Publisher’s Notice
Periods and Editors
Half-title Page
Editor Affiliations
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Preface to the Eleventh Edition
Acknowledgments
VOLUME A: The Middle Ages
PERIOD INTRODUCTION: The Middle Ages to ca. 1485
Period Introduction: Opener
Period Introduction: Literature of the Early Middle Ages
Period Introduction: Literature of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
Period Introduction: Literature of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries
Period Introduction: Medieval Englishes
Period Introduction: The Meters of Old and Middle English Poetry
Period Introduction: The Canon of Old and Middle English Poetry
Period Introduction: Timeline of the Middle Ages
LITERATURE OF THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES (eighth to eleventh centuries)
BEDE (ca. 673–735) AND CÆDMON’S HYMN
From An Ecclesiastical History of the English People [The Story of Cædmon]
THE DREAM OF THE ROOD
Text of The Dream of the Rood
BEOWULF
[Prologue: The Rise of the Danish Nation]
[Heorot Is Attacked]
[The Hero Comes to Heorot]
[Feast at Heorot]
[The Fight with Grendel]
[Celebration at Heorot]
[Another Attack]
[Beowulf Fights Grendel’s Mother]
[Another Celebration at Heorot]
[Beowulf Returns Home]
[The Dragon Wakes]
[Beowulf Attacks the Dragon]
[Beowulf’s Funeral]
JUDITH
Text of Judith
ALFRED (849–899)
Preface to the Pastoral Care
THE WANDERER
Text of The Wanderer
WULF AND EADWACER
Text of Wulf and Eadwacer
THE WIFE’S LAMENT
Text of The Wife’s Lament
THE RUIN
Text of The Ruin
RIDDLES
The Riddles
WULFSTAN OF YORK (d. 1023)
Wolf’s Sermon to the English
EARLY IRISH LYRICS
The Scholar and His Cat
The Scribe in the Woods
The Lord of Creation
My Hand Is Weary with Writing
LITERATURE OF THE TWELFTH AND THIRTEENTH CENTURIES
THE MYTH OF ARTHUR’S RETURN
GEOFFREY OF MONMOUTH: From The History of the Kings of Britain
WACE: From Roman de Brut
LAYAMON: From Brut
ROMANCE
THE LADY OF THE FOUNTAIN
Text of The Lady of the Fountain
MARIE DE FRANCE (fl. ca. 1180)
Milun
Lanval
Laüstic
Chevrefoil
TRISTAN AND YSOLT
THOMAS OF ENGLAND (fl. ca. 1155)
From Le Roman de Tristan [The Deaths of Tristan and Ysolt]
THE MADNESS OF TRISTAN
Text From The Madness of Tristan
ANCRENE WISSE (GUIDE FOR ANCHORESSES) (early thirteenth century)
From Ancrene Wisse (Guide for Anchoresses) [The Sweetness and Pains of Enclosure]
CLEMENCE OF BARKING (fl. ca. 1180)
From The Life of Saint Catherine [Catherine Debates with the Emperor and His Philosophers]
GOD’S BODY
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 (ca. 1342–ca. 1416)
From A Book of Showings to the Anchoress Julian of Norwich
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. 1373–ca. 1438)
From 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 1.35–36 [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]
MYSTERY PLAYS
The York Play of the Crucifixion
Text of The York Play of the Crucifixion
The Wakefield Second Shepherds’ Play
Text of The Second Shepherds’ Play
RELIGIOUS EXCLUSIONS AND IDENTITIES
MAPPA MUNDI (ca. after 1262)
MEIR OF NORWICH (MEIR BEN ELIJAH) (fl. late thirteenth century)
Put a Curse on My Enemy
THE KING OF TARS (early fourteenth century)
Text of The King of Tars
THE BOOK OF JOHN MANDEVILLE (ca. 1356)
Text From The Book of John Mandeville
THE CROXTON PLAY OF THE SACRAMENT (after 1461)
Text of The Croxton Play of the Sacrament
LITERATURE OF THE FOURTEENTH AND FIFTEENTH CENTURIES
SIR ORFEO (ca. 1300)
Text of Sir Orfeo
WILLIAM LANGLAND (ca. 1330–1388)
From The Vision of Piers Plowman
From The Prologue [The Field of Folk]
From Passus 1 [The Treasure of Truth]
From Passus 5 [Piers Plowman Shows the Way to Saint Truth]
Passus 6 [The Plowing of Piers’s Half-Acre]
From Passus 7 [Piers Tears Truth’s Pardon]
From Passus 18 [The Crucifixion and Harrowing of Hell]
From The C-Text [The Dreamer Meets Conscience and Reason]
SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT (ca. 1375–1400)
FITT i
FITT ii
FITT iii
FITT iv
GEOFFREY CHAUCER (ca. 1340–1400)
The Canterbury Tales
The General Prologue
Text of The General Prologue
Summary: The Knight’s Tale
The Miller’s Prologue and Tale
The Miller’s Prologue
The Miller’s Tale
The Man of Law’s Epilogue
Text of The Man of Law’s Epilogue
The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale
The Wife of Bath’s Prologue
The Wife of Bath’s Tale
The Pardoner’s Prologue and Tale
The Introduction
The Prologue
The Pardoner’s Tale
The Nun’s Priest’s Tale
Text of The Nun’s Priest’s Tale
Close of The Canterbury Tales
From The Parson’s Prologue and Tale: The Prologue
Chaucer’s Retraction
Lyrics and Occasional Verse
Troilus’s Song
Balade de bon conseyl
Chaucer’s Words to Adam Scriveyn
The Complaint of Chaucer to His Purse
JOHN GOWER (ca. 1330–1408)
From The Lover’s Confession: The Tale of Philomene and Tereus
THOMAS HOCCLEVE (ca. 1367–1426)
My Complaint
MIDDLE ENGLISH LYRICS
The Cuckoo Song
Foweles in the Frith
Alison
My Lief Is Faren in Londe
Western Wind
I Am of Ireland
SIR THOMAS MALORY (ca. 1415–1471)
From 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]
EVERYMAN (after 1485)
Text of Everyman
WHAT THE ANIMALS SAY
MARIE DE FRANCE
Bisclavret
THE OWL AND THE NIGHTINGALE
From The Owl and the Nightingale
GEOFFREY CHAUCER
The Parliament of Birds
ROBERT HENRYSON
The Cock and the Jasper
VOLUME B: The Sixteenth Century and the Early Seventeenth Century
THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY (1485–1603)
PERIOD INTRODUCTION: The Sixteenth Century (1485–1603)
Period Introduction: Opener
Period Introduction: The Court and the City
Period Introduction: Renaissance Humanism
Period Introduction: The Reformation
Period Introduction: Queen Elizabeth I
Period Introduction: The Kingdom in Danger
Period Introduction: England and the World
Period Introduction: Writers, Printers, and Patrons
Period Introduction: Tudor Style: Ornament, Plainness, and Wonder
Period Introduction: The Elizabethan Theater
Period Introduction: Surprised by Time
Period Introduction: Timeline of the Sixteenth Century
JOHN SKELTON (ca. 1460-1529)
Mannerly Margery Milk and Ale
With Lullay, Lullay, Like a Child
From The Tunning of Elinour Rumming
SIR THOMAS MORE (1478–1535)
Utopia
Book I
Book II
Thomas More to His Friend Peter Giles, Warmest Greetings
SIR THOMAS WYATT THE ELDER (1503–1542)
The Long Love That in My Thought Doth Harbor
Petrarch, Rima 140
Whoso List to Hunt
Petrarch, Rima 190
I Find No Peace
Petrarch, Rima 134
My Galley
Petrarch, Rima 189
What Vaileth Truth?
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
Stand Whoso List
Who List His Wealth and Ease Retain
Mine Own John Poins
HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF SURREY (1517–1547)
The Soote Season
Petrarch, Rima 310
Love, That Doth Reign and Live Within My Thought
Alas! So All Things Now Do Hold Their Peace
Petrarch, Rima 164
So Cruel Prison How Could Betide
Wyatt Resteth Here, That Quick Could Never Rest
O Happy Dames, That May Embrace
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
From The Obedience of a Christian Man
[The Forgiveness of Sins]
[Scriptural Interpretation]
THOMAS MORE
From A Dialogue Concerning Heresies: From Book 1, Chapter 28
JOHN CALVIN
From The Institution of Christian Religion: From Book 3, Chapter 21
ANNE ASKEW
From The First Examination of Anne Askew
JOHN FOXE
From Acts and Monuments [The Death of Anne Askew]
ANNE COOKE BACON
From John Jewel’s Apology
BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER
From The Form of Solemnization of Matrimony
BOOK OF HOMILIES
From An Homily Against Disobedience and Willful Rebellion
ANNE VAUGHAN LOCKE
From A Meditation of a Penitent Sinner: 4 (“Have mercy, Lord, have mercy”)
RICHARD HOOKER
From Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity: From Book 1, Chapter 3
ROBERT SOUTHWELL
The Burning Babe
ROGER ASCHAM (1515–1568)
From The Schoolmaster: From The First Book for the Youth
[Teaching Latin]
[The Italianate Englishman]
SIR THOMAS HOBY (1530–1566)
From Castiglione’s The Courtier
From Book 1, Sections 25–26 [Grace]
From Book 4, Sections 49–73 [The Ladder of Love]
ISABELLA WHITNEY (fl. 1566–1573)
Will and Testament
WOMEN AND 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
From 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
From 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”
Text of the “Golden Speech”
ANNE COOKE BACON
To the Right Worshipful and Worthily Beloved Mother
MARGARET TYLER
To the Reader
ANNE DOWRICHE
To the Right Worshipful Her Loving Brother
JANE ANGER
To All Women in General, and Gentle Reader[s] Whatsoever
Eiusdem ad Lectorem, de Authore
EDMUND SPENSER (1552?–1599)
From The Shepheardes Calender
To His Booke
October
From The Faerie Queene
A Letter of the Authors
The First Booke of The Faerie Queene
Canto 1
Canto 2
Canto 3
Canto 4
Canto 5
Canto 6
Canto 7
Canto 8
Canto 9
Canto 10
Canto 11
Canto 12
Mutabilitie Cantos
Two Cantos of Mutabilitie
From Amoretti
1 (“Happy ye leaves when as those lilly hands”)
34 (“Lyke as a ship that through the Ocean wyde”)
37 (“What guyle is this, that those her golden tresses”)
54 (“Of this worlds Theatre in which we stay”)
64 (“Coming to kisse her lyps [such grace I found]”)
67 (“Lyke as a huntsman after weary chace”)
75 (“One day I wrote her name upon the strand”)
79 (“Men call you fayre, and you doe credit it”)
Epithalamion
COMMONPLACE BOOK
Aging
George Gascoigne
The Lullaby of a Lover
Michael Drayton
There’s Nothing Grieves Me, But That Age Should Haste
Samuel Daniel
When Men Shall Find Thy Flower, Thy Glory, Pass
Anonymous
The Queen’s Champion Retires
Bawdy
Anonymous: Will Ye Buy a Fine Dog?
Will Ye Buy a Fine Dog?
Anonymous: On a Maidenhead
On a Maidenhead
Carpe Diem
Thomas Lodge
Pluck the Fruit and Taste the Pleasure
Death
Fulke Greville
You That Seek What Life Is in Death
Emma Foxe
To You That Life Possess
Sir Walter Ralegh
From The History of the World [Conclusion: On Death]
Drink
William Stevenson/John Still
Jolly Good Ale and Old
Thomas Dekker
Troll the Bowl, the Jolly Nut-Brown Bowl
Execution
Chidiock Tichborne
Tichborne’s Elegy
Sir Walter Ralegh: Sir Walter Ralegh to His Son
Sir Walter Ralegh to His Son
Sir Walter Ralegh: The Author’s Epitaph, Made by Himself
The Author’s Epitaph, Made by Himself
Foreigners
Anonymous
The Dutch Libel
William Shakespeare
From Sir Thomas More
Imagination
Fulke Greville
In Night When Colors All to Black Are Cast
Michael Drayton
How Many Paltry, Foolish, Painted Things
Lying
Sir Walter Ralegh
The Lie
Love: Happy
John Davies of Hereford
If There Were (Oh!) an Hellespont of Cream
Thomas Campion: My Sweetest Lesbia
My Sweetest Lesbia
Thomas Campion: I Care Not for These Ladies
I Care Not for These Ladies
Thomas Campion: Now Winter Nights Enlarge
Now Winter Nights Enlarge
Richard Barnfield
From Cynthia, Sonnets 9 and 11
Love: Unhappy
Michael Drayton: Nothing but “No” and “I” and “I” and “No”?
Nothing but “No” and “I” and “I” and “No”?
George Gascoigne
And If I Did, What Then?
Michael Drayton: As in Some Countries Far Remote from Hence
As in Some Countries Far Remote from Hence
Sir Walter Ralegh
Farewell, False Love
Pastoral Love
Christopher Marlowe
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
Sir Walter Ralegh
The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
Plague
Thomas Nashe
A Litany in Time of Plague
John Davies of Hereford
From The Triumph of Death
Simple Life
Thomas Campion
Jack and Joan, They Think No Ill
Time
Robert Greene
Doralicia’s Ditty
John Dowland
It Was a Time When Silly Bees Could Speak
Sir Walter Ralegh
Nature, That Washed Her Hands in Milk
William Shakespeare
From The Rape of Lucrece
Tobacco
Robert Wisdome
A Religious Use of Taking Tobacco
Tobias Hume
Tobacco
Trade
Robert Wilson: New Brooms
New Brooms
Robert Wilson: Hunting for Hire
Hunting for Hire
Anonymous
Cries of London
Soldiers’ Song
Mariners’ Song
Women
Sir John Harington, Lady Mary Cheke
Sir John Harington: A Certain Man
Lady Mary Cheke: The Reply
Lady Anne Southwell
All Married Men Desire to Have Good Wives
JOHN LYLY (1554–1606)
From Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit [Euphues Introduced]
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY (1554–1586)
From The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia
From The First Book
From Book Two
The Defense of Poesy
From The Defense of Poesy
From 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”)
15 (“You that do search for every purling spring”)
18 (“With what sharp checks I in myself am shent”)
20 (“Fly, fly, my friends, I have my death-wound, fly”)
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”)
34 (“Come, let me write. ‘And to what end?’”)
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”)
54 (“Because I breathe not love to every one”)
56 (“Fie, school of Patience, fie, your lesson is”)
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”)
106 (“O absent presence, Stella is not here”)
108 (“When Sorrow [using mine own fire’s might]”)
MARY (SIDNEY) HERBERT, COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE (1562–1621)
To the Thrice-Sacred Queen Elizabeth
Text of To the Thrice-Sacred Queen Elizabeth
Psalm 52
Psalm 119: O
Psalm 139
Robert Garnier’s Marc Antoine (Mary Sidney’s Tragedie of Antonie)
From Robert Garnier’s Marc Antoine
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE (1564–1593)
Hero and Leander
Text of Hero and Leander
Doctor Faustus
The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
Prologue
Scene 1
Scene 2
Scene 3
Scene 4
Scene 5
Scene 6
Scene 7
Scene 8
Scene 9
Scene 10
Scene 11
Scene 12
Scene 13
Epilogue
The Two Texts of Doctor Faustus
Doctor Faustus, A Text
Doctor Faustus, B Text
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564–1616)
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 may’st in me behold”)
74 (“But be contented; when that fell arrest”)
80 (“O, how I faint when I of you do write”)
87 (“Farewell: thou art too dear for my possessing”)
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”)
The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice
The Names of the Actors
1.1
1.2
1.3
2.1
2.2
2.3
3.1
3.2
3.3
3.4
4.1
4.2
4.3
5.1
5.2
The Tempest
The Persons of the Play
1.1
1.2
2.1
2.2
3.1
3.2
3.3
4.1
5.1
Epilogue
ENGLAND AND THE WORLD
SIR WALTER RALEGH
From The Discovery of the . . . Empire of Guiana
THOMAS HARIOT
From A Brief and True Report of the New-Found Land of Virginia
WILLIAM STRACHEY
From A True Reportory of the Wreck . . . upon . . . the Islands of the Bermudas
JOHN SMITH
From The General History of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles
RICHARD LIGON
From A True and Exact History of the Island of Barbados
THE EARLY SEVENTEENTH CENTURY (1603–1660)
PERIOD INTRODUCTION: The Early Seventeenth Century (1603–1660)
Period Introduction: Opener
Period Introduction: State and Church, 1603–1640
Period Introduction: Literature and Culture, 1603–1640
Period Introduction: The Caroline Era, 1625–1640
Period Introduction: The Revolutionary Era, 1640–1660
Period Introduction: Literature and Culture, 1640–1660
Period Introduction: Timeline of the Early Seventeenth Century
JOHN DONNE (1572–1631)
From Songs and Sonnets
The Flea
The Good-Morrow
Song (“Go and catch a falling star”)
The Sun Rising
The Indifferent
The Canonization
Song (“Sweetest love, I do not go”)
Air and Angels
Break of Day
A Valediction: Of Weeping
A Nocturnal upon Saint Lucy’s Day, Being the Shortest Day
The Bait
The Apparition
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
The Ecstasy
The Funeral
The Relic
A Lecture upon the Shadow
Elegy 16. On His Mistress
Elegy 19. To His Mistress Going to Bed
Satire 3
Text of Satire 3
To Sir Henry Wotton (“Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls”)
From 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 ye Jews, and pierce my side”)
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, 1613. Riding Westward
Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness
A Hymn to God the Father
From Devotions upon Emergent Occasions
Meditation 4
Meditation 17
From Expostulation 19
From Death’s Duel
AEMILIA LANYER (1569–1645)
From Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum
From To the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty
From To the Lady Anne, Countess of Dorset
From Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum
The Description of Cookham
BEN JONSON (1572–1637)
Volpone
Volpone or The Fox
The Argument
Prologue
Act 1
Scene 1
Scene 2
Scene 3
Scene 4
Scene 5
Act 2
Scene 1
Scene 2
Scene 3
Scene 4
Scene 5
Scene 6
Scene 7
Act 3
Scene 1
Scene 2
Scene 3
Scene 4
Scene 5
Scene 6
Scene 7
Scene 8
Scene 9
Act 4
Scene 1
Scene 2
Scene 3
Scene 4
Scene 5
Scene 6
Act 5
Scene 1
Scene 2
Scene 3
Scene 4
Scene 5
Scene 6
Scene 7
Scene 8
Scene 9
Scene 10
Scene 11
Scene 12
The Masque of Blackness
Text of the Masque of Blackness
From Epigrams
To My Book
On Something, That Walks Somewhere
To Fine Lady Would-Be
On My First Daughter
On My First Son
To Lucy, Countess of Bedford, with Mr. Donne’s Satires
To Sir Thomas Roe
Inviting a Friend to Supper
On Gut
From The Forest
To Penshurst
Song: To Celia
To Heaven
From Underwood
A Sonnet, to the Noble Lady, the Lady Mary Wroth
My Picture Left in Scotland
The Ode on Cary and Morison
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, and What He Hath Left Us
Ode to Himself
MARY WROTH (1587–1651?)
From The Countess of Montgomery’s Urania: From The First Book
From 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”)
26 (“When everyone to pleasing pastime hies”)
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
Dramatis Personae
1.1
1.2
1.3
2.1
2.2
2.3
2.4
2.5
3.1
3.2
3.3
3.4
3.5
4.1
4.2
5.1
5.2
5.3
5.4
5.5
FRANCIS BACON (1561–1626)
From 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]
From The Advancement of Learning [The Abuses of Language]
From Novum Organum
From The New Atlantis [Solomon’s House]
GEORGE HERBERT (1593–1633)
From The Temple
The Altar
Redemption
Easter
Easter Wings
Affliction (1)
Prayer (1)
Jordan (1)
Church Monuments
The Windows
Denial
Virtue
Man
Jordan (2)
Affliction (4)
The Bunch of Grapes
The Holdfast
The Collar
The Pulley
The Flower
The Forerunners
Discipline
Death
Love (3)
HENRY VAUGHAN (1621–1695)
From Silex Scintillans
Regeneration
The Retreat
Silence, and Stealth of Days!
Corruption
Unprofitableness
The World
Cock-Crowing
The Waterfall
Quickness
RICHARD CRASHAW (ca. 1613–1649)
From Steps to the Temple
Acts 8. On the Baptized Aethiopian
To the Infant Martyrs
I Am the Door
Luke 11.[27] Blessed be the paps which Thou hast sucked
On the Wounds of Our Crucified Lord
On Our Crucified Lord Naked and Bloody
Carmen Deo Nostro: The Flaming Heart
Text of The Flaming Heart
ROBERT HERRICK (1591–1674)
From Hesperides
The Argument of His Book
Upon the Loss of His Mistresses
The Vine
Dreams
Delight in Disorder
Corinna’s Going A-Maying
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
The Hock Cart, or Harvest Home
Upon the Nipples of Julia’s Breast
Upon His Verses
Upon Julia’s Clothes
Upon Prue, His Maid
To His Book’s End
From Noble Numbers
To His Conscience
Another Grace for a Child
HESTER PULTER (1605–1678)
Upon the Death of My Dear and Lovely Daughter, Jane Pulter
View But This Tulip
Dear God, from Thy High Throne Look Down
RICHARD LOVELACE (1617–1657)
From Lucasta
To Lucasta, Going to the Wars
The Grasshopper
To Althea, from Prison
La Bella Bona Roba
A Black Patch on Lucasta’s Face
Love Made in the First Age. To Chloris
LUCY HUTCHINSON (1620–1681)
From Translation of Lucretius’s De rerum natura
To the Garden at Owthorpe
From Order and Disorder: Canto 5
KATHERINE PHILIPS (1632–1664)
A Married State
An Answer to Another Persuading a Lady to Marriage
Upon the Double Murder of King Charles
Friendship’s Mystery, To My Dearest Lucasia
To Mrs. M. A. at Parting
Epitaph: On Her Son H. P. at St. Syth’s Church, Where Her Body Was Interred
ANDREW MARVELL (1621–1678)
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
PETITIONING
A True Copy of the Petition of Gentlewomen and Tradesmen’s Wives
REPORTING THE NEWS
From The Moderate, No. 28 [The Trial of King Charles I, the First Day]
From 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
THOMAS HOBBES
From Leviathan
From The Introduction [The Artificial Man]
From Chapter 15. Of Other Laws of Nature
Chapter 17. Of the Causes, Generation, and Definition of a Commonwealth
HISTORY AND LIFE-WRITING
EDWARD HYDE, EARL OF CLARENDON
From The History of the Rebellion [The Character of Oliver Cromwell]
DOROTHY WAUGH
A Relation Concerning Dorothy Waugh’s Cruel Usage by the Mayor of Carlisle
MARGARET CAVENDISH (1623–1673)
From Poems and Fancies
The Poetess’s Hasty Resolution
A World Made by Atoms
Of Many Worlds in This World
The Hunting of the Hare
Of Sense and Reason Exercised in Their Different Shapes
From The Description of a New World, Called The Blazing World
JOHN MILTON (1608–1674)
From Poems
On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity
On Shakespeare
L’Allegro
Il Penseroso
Lycidas
Text of Lycidas
From The Reason of Church Government Urged Against Prelaty [Plans and Projects]
From Areopagitica
Sonnets
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 Verse
Book 1
Book 2
Book 3
Book 4
Book 5
Book 6
Book 7
Book 8
Book 9
Book 10
Book 11
Book 12
VOLUME C: The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century
PERIOD INTRODUCTION: The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century (1660–1785)
Period Introduction: Opener
Period Introduction: Religion, Politics, and Britain in the World
Period Introduction: The Context of Ideas
Period Introduction: Conditions of Literary Production
Period Introduction: Poetic Principles
Period Introduction: Restoration Literature, 1660-1700
Period Introduction: Early Eighteenth-Century Literature, 1700-1745
Period Introduction: The Emergence of New Literary Themes and Modes, 1740-85
Period Introduction: Timeline of the Restoration and the Eighteenth Century
JOHN DRYDEN (1631-1700)
From Annus Mirabilis [London Reborn]
Absalom and Achitophel
Absalom and Achitophel: A Poem
Mac Flecknoe
Text of Mac Flecknoe
A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day
Epigram on Milton
Criticism
From An Essay of Dramatic Poesy
From The Author’s Apology for Heroic Poetry and Heroic License
From A Discourse Concerning the Original and Progress of Satire
SAMUEL PEPYS (1633-1703)
From The Diary
[The Great Fire]
[The Deb Willet Affair]
JOHN BUNYAN (1628–1688)
From 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]
SCIENCE, SOCIETY, AND GOD
THOMAS SPRAT
From The History of the Royal Society
ROBERT HOOKE
From Micrographia
MARGARET CAVENDISH
From Observations upon Experimental Philosophy
SIR ISAAC NEWTON
From A Letter . . . Containing His New Theory about Light and Colors
JOHN LOCKE
From An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
ROBERT BOYLE
General Heads for a Natural History of a Country, Great or Small
JOSEPH ADDISON
[On Useless Science] Tatler 216
[On the Scale of Being] Spectator 519
JOHN WILMOT, SECOND EARL OF ROCHESTER (1647–1680)
The Disabled Debauchee
The Imperfect Enjoyment
Upon Nothing
A Satire against Reason and Mankind
Love and Life
To a Lady, in a Letter
Song [Love a woman! You're an ass]
APHRA BEHN (1640?–1689)
The Disappointment
To the Fair Clarinda
Oroonoko; or, The Royal Slave
ANNE FINCH, COUNTESS OF WINCHILSEA (1661–1720)
The Introduction
Mercury and the Elephant: A Prefatory Fable
From The Spleen
Upon the Hurricane
A Nocturnal Reverie
MARY ASTELL (1666–1731)
From Some Reflections upon Marriage
From A Preface, in Answer to Some Objections to Reflections upon Marriage
WILLIAM CONGREVE (1670–1729)
The Way of the World
Prologue
Act 1
Act 2
Act 3
Act 4
Act 5
Epilogue
JOSEPH ADDISON (1672–1719) AND SIR RICHARD STEELE (1672–1729)
Steele: [The Spectator's Club] (Spectator 2)
Addison: [The Aims of the Spectator] (Spectator 10)
Steele: [Inkle and Yarico] (Spectator 11)
Addison: [The Hoop Petticoat] (Spectator 127)
Addison: [The Pleasures of the Imagination] (Spectator 411)
FROM THE ARABIAN NIGHTS ENTERTAINMENTS (1706–21)
[The Story of Schahriar and Scheherazade]
[The Story of Ali Baba, and the Forty Thieves Destroyed by a Slave]
[The Conclusion to the Story of Schahriar and Scheherazade]
GLOBAL COMMERCE AND EMPIRE
JOSEPH ADDISON
[The Royal Exchange] Spectator 69
ALEXANDER POPE
From Windsor-Forest
JAMES THOMSON
Ode: Rule, Britannia
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
From The Citizen of the World
THOMAS JEFFERSON
The Declaration of Independence
GERALD FITZGERALD
From The Injured Islanders
ANNA SEWARD
From An Elegy on Captain Cook
EDMUND BURKE
From Mr. Burke’s Speech . . . on Mr. Fox’s East India Bill
SAMSON OCCOM
Montaukett Petition
DEAN MAHOMET
From The Travels of Dean Mahomet
JONATHAN SWIFT (1667–1745)
A Description of a City Shower
Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift
From Gulliver’s Travels
A Letter from Captain Gulliver to His Cousin Sympson
The Publisher to the Reader
Part 1. A Voyage to Lilliput
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Part 2. A Voyage to Brobdingnag
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Part 4. A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
A Modest Proposal
ALEXANDER POPE (1688–1744)
An Essay on Criticism
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
The Rape of the Lock
To Mrs. Arabella Fermor
Canto 1
Canto 2
Canto 3
Canto 4
Canto 5
Eloisa to Abelard
Text of 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
Text of Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
JOHN GAY (1685-1732)
The Beggar’s Opera
Introduction
Act 1
Scene 1
Scene 2
Scene 3
Scene 4
Scene 5
Scene 6
Scene 7
Scene 8
Scene 9
Scene 10
Scene 11
Scene 12
Scene 13
Act 2
Scene 1
Scene 2
Scene 3
Scene 4
Scene 5
Scene 6
Scene 7
Scene 8
Scene 9
Scene 10
Scene 11
Scene 12
Scene 13
Scene 14
Scene 15
Act 3
Scene 1
Scene 2
Scene 3
Scene 4
Scene 5
Scene 6
Scene 7
Scene 8
Scene 9
Scene 10
Scene 11
Scene 12
Scene 13
Scene 14
Scene 15
Scene 16
Scene 17
LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU (1689–1762)
Saturday. The Small Pox
The Lover: A Ballad
Epistle from Mrs. Yonge to Her Husband
From Letters . . . Written during Her Travels [The Turkish Embassy Letters]
[Letter 26. “The Women’s Coffee House”; or, The Turkish Baths]
[Letter 30. Reading Poetry in Turkey]
[Letter 31. The Turkish Method of Inoculation for the Small Pox]
ELIZA HAYWOOD (1693?–1756)
Fantomina; or, Love in a Maze
THE RISE OF THE NOVEL
WILLIAM CONGREVE
From The Preface to Incognita
DANIEL DEFOE
From The Life and Strange Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
From The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
MARY DAVYS
From Preface to The Works
ELIZA HAYWOOD
From Preface to The Fortunate Foundlings
HENRY FIELDING
From Preface to Joseph Andrews
SAMUEL RICHARDSON
From Preface to Clarissa
SAMUEL JOHNSON
[On Fiction] Rambler 4
CHARLOTTE LENNOX
From The Female Quixote
From Chapter 1
From Chapter 7
JAMES FORDYCE
From Sermon IV: On Female Virtue
CLARA REEVE
From The Progress of Romance
From Evening VII
From Evening VIII
From Evening XII
WILLIAM HOGARTH (1697–1764)
Marriage A-la-Mode
JAMES THOMSON (1700–1748)
The Seasons: From Autumn
STEPHEN DUCK (1705–1756)
The Thresher’s Labor
MARY COLLIER (ca. 1699–1762)
The Woman’s Labor
WOMEN, GENDER, POWER
ANNE FINCH, COUNTESS OF WINCHILSEA
The Unequal Fetters
A Letter to Dafnis April 2d 1685
MARY, LADY CHUDLEIGH
To the Ladies
ANONYMOUS
Cloe to Artimesa
MARY MASTERS
To the Same, Enquiring Why I Wept
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
HENRY FIELDING
The Female Husband
MARY LEAPOR
An Essay on Woman
An Epistle to a Lady
HANNAH SNELL AND ROBERT WALKER
From The Female Soldier
[Soldiering as a Child; Her Marriage]
[Wounded in India]
[Managing Manhood]
[Revealing Womanhood]
[A Public Figure]
ELIZABETH CARTER
A Dialogue
HESTER CHAPONE
From Letters on the Improvement of the Mind, Addressed to a Young Lady
SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709–1784)
The Vanity of Human Wishes
Text of The Vanity of Human Wishes
[Biography] Rambler 60
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia
Chapter 1. Description of a Palace in a Valley
Chapter 2. The Discontent of Rasselas in the Happy Valley
Chapter 3. The Wants of Him That Wants Nothing
Chapter 4. The Prince Continues to Grieve and Muse
Chapter 5. The Prince Meditates His Escape
Chapter 6. A Dissertation on the Art of Flying
Chapter 7. The Prince Finds a Man of Learning
Chapter 8. The History of Imlac
Chapter 9. The History of Imlac Continued
Chapter 10. Imlac’s History Continued. A Dissertation upon Poetry
Chapter 11. Imlac's Narrative Continued. A Hint on Pilgrimage
Chapter 12. The Story of Imlac Continued
Chapter 13. Rasselas Discovers the Means of Escape
Chapter 14. Rasselas and Imlac Receive an Unexpected Visit
Chapter 15. The Prince and Princess Leave the Valley, and See Many Wonders
Chapter 16. They Enter Cairo, and Find Every Man Happy
Chapter 17. The Prince Associates with Young Men of Spirit and Gaiety
Chapter 18. The Prince Finds a Wise and Happy Man
Chapter 19. A Glimpse of Pastoral Life
Chapter 20. The Danger of Prosperity
Chapter 21. The Happiness of Solitude. The Hermit’s History
Chapter 22. The Happiness of a Life Led according to Nature
Chapter 23. The Prince and His Sister Divide between Them the Work of Observation
Chapter 24. The Prince Examines the Happiness of High Stations
Chapter 25. The Princess Pursues Her Inquiry with More Diligence Than Success
Chapter 26. The Princess Continues Her Remarks upon Private Life
Chapter 27. Disquisition upon Greatness
Chapter 28. Rasselas and Nekayah Continue Their Conversation
Chapter 29. The Debate on Marriage Continued
Chapter 30. Imlac Enters, and Changes the Conversation
Chapter 31. They Visit the Pyramids
Chapter 32. They Enter the Pyramid
Chapter 33. The Princess Meets with an Unexpected Misfortune
Chapter 34. They Return to Cairo without Pekuah
Chapter 35. The Princess Languishes for Want of Pekuah
Chapter 36. Pekuah Is Still Remembered. The Progress of Sorrow
Chapter 37. The Princess Hears News of Pekuah
Chapter 38. The Adventures of the Lady Pekuah
Chapter 39. The Adventures of Pekuah Continued
Chapter 40. The History of a Man of Learning
Chapter 41. The Astronomer Discovers the Cause of His Uneasiness
Chapter 42. The Opinion of the Astronomer Is Explained and Justified
Chapter 43. The Astronomer Leaves Imlac His Directions
Chapter 44. The Dangerous Prevalence of Imagination
Chapter 45. They Discourse with an Old Man
Chapter 46. The Princess and Pekuah Visit the Astronomer
Chapter 47. The Prince Enters, and Brings a New Topic
Chapter 48. Imlac Discourses on the Nature of the Soul
Chapter 49. The Conclusion, in Which Nothing Is Concluded
From A Dictionary of the English Language
From Preface
[Some Definitions: A Small Anthology]
From The Preface to Shakespeare
[Shakespeare’s Excellence, General Nature]
[Shakespeare’s Faults]
JAMES BOSWELL (1740–1795)
From The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
[Plan of the Life]
[The Letter to Chesterfield]
[A Memorable Year: Boswell Meets Johnson]
[Ossian]
[Johnson Faces Death]
THOMAS GRAY (1716–1771)
Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Sonnet on the Death of Mr. Richard West
The Bard
WILLIAM COLLINS (1721–1759)
Ode to Evening
CHRISTOPHER SMART (1722–1771)
From Jubilate Agno [My Cat Jeoffry]
OLIVER GOLDSMITH (ca. 1730–1774)
The Deserted Village
JAMES MACPHERSON (OSSIAN) (1736–1796)
From Fragments of Ancient Poetry, Collected in the Highlands of Scotland
Fragment 7
Fragment 12
BRITAIN AND TRANSATLANTIC SLAVERY
JOHN LOCKE
From Two Treatises of Government
WILLIAM SNELGRAVE
From A New Account of Some Parts of Guinea, and the Slave Trade
ANTHONY BENEZET
From Some Historical Account of Guinea
Introduction
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
CONFRONTING THE LAW
Fugitive Advertisements from the Jamaica Mercury
William Murray, Lord Mansfield: The Somerset Ruling
Felix’s Petition to Thomas Hutchinson, Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony
Prince Hall: [A Petition to the State of Massachusetts]
Samuel Johnson: [A Brief in Support of Joseph Knight]
OTTOBAH CUGOANO
From Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil and Wicked Traffic of the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species
SLAVERY IN POETRY
JAMES GRAINGER
From The Sugar-Cane
WILLIAM SHENSTONE
Elegy XX [An Elegy, on the Miserable State of an African Slave]
JUPITER HAMMON
An Essay on Slavery
HANNAH MORE
From Slavery, a Poem
JAMES BOSWELL
From No Abolition of Slavery; or, The Universal Empire of Love
PHILLIS WHEATLEY (ca. 1753–1784)
To Maecenas
To the University of Cambridge, in New-England
On Being Brought from Africa to America
Thoughts on the Works of Providence
On Imagination
To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth
To S. M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works
Letter to Samson Occom
SENTIMENT
DAVID HUME
From A Treatise of Human Nature
ADAM SMITH
From The Theory of Moral Sentiments
FRANCES GREVILLE
A Prayer for Indifference
IGNATIUS SANCHO
From Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African
Volume I, Letter XLVII
Volume 1, Letter LVII
Volume II, Letter I
ANTISLAVERY SENTIMENT: THE SANCHO–STERNE EXCHANGE
Ignatius Sancho to Laurence Sterne, July 1766
Laurence Sterne to Ignatius Sancho, July 1766
Laurence Sterne: Tristram Shandy [Uncle Toby and Corporal Trim on Slavery and Race]
Laurence Sterne: A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy [The Starling]
HENRY MACKENZIE
From The Man of Feeling
Chapter XXXIV
Chapter XXXV
Chapter XXXVI
A Fragment
ELIZABETH RYVES
Ode to Sensibility
ANN YEARSLEY
Addressed to Sensibility
FRANCES BURNEY (1752–1840)
From Evelina
Preface
Vol. I, Letter VIII (Evelina to the Rev. Mr. Villars)
Vol. I, Letter IX (Mr. Villars to Evelina)
Vol. I, Letter X (Evelina to the Rev. Mr. Villars)
Vol. I, Letter XI (Evelina in Continuation)
Vol. I, Letter XII (Evelina in Continuation)
Vol. I, Letter XIII (Evelina in Continuation)
From The Journal and Letters
[First Journal Entry]
[A Young and Agreeable Infidel]
[A Mastectomy]
[M. d’Arblay’s Postscript]
WILLIAM COWPER (1731–1800)
From The Task
From Book 1
[A Landscape Described. Rural Sounds]
[Crazy Kate]
From Book 3
[The Stricken Deer]
From Book 4
[The Winter Evening: A Brown Study]
The Castaway
OLAUDAH EQUIANO (ca. 1745–1797)
From The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself
[The Dedication to Parliament]
From Chapter I [Life in Africa]
From Chapter II [Abduction and Captivity]
From Chapter VII [A Free Man]
From Chapter XII [Letter to the Queen]
Appendices
Volume A: The Middle Ages
General Bibliography
Literary Terminology
Geographic Nomenclature
British Money
The British Baronage
The Royal Lines of England and Great Britain
Religions in Great Britain
Volume B: The Sixteenth Century and the Early Seventeenth Century
General Bibliography
Literary Terminology
Geographic Nomenclature
British Money
The British Baronage
Religions in Great Britain
Illustration: The Universe According to Ptolemy
Illustration: A London Playhouse of Shakespeare’s Time
Volume C: The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century
General Bibliography
Histories of England and of English Literature
Reference Works
Literary Criticism and Theory
Literary Terminology
A. Terms of Style, Structure, Form, and Kind
B: Publishing History, Censorship
Geographic Nomenclature
British Money
The British Baronage
The Royal Lines of England and Great Britain
Religions in Great Britain
The Universe According to Ptolemy
Permissions Acknowledgments
Volume A: The Middle Ages (to ca. 1485)
Volume B: The Sixteenth Century and the Early Seventeenth Century (1485–1603)
Volume C: The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century (1660–1785)
Index
Volume A: The Middle Ages (to ca. 1485)
Volume B: The Sixteenth Century and the Early Seventeenth Century (1485–1603)
Volume C: The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century (1660–1785)
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Volume A: The Middle Ages (to ca. 1485)
Volume B: The Sixteenth Century and the Early Seventeenth Century (1485–1603)
Volume C: The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century (1660–1785)