Twelve centuries of English poetry and prose
Alphonso G. Newcomer (Compiler), Alice E. Andrews (Compiler)
xi, 756 pages ; 23 cm
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Anglo-Saxon period. Beowulf
Deor's lament
Paraphrase of the scriptures: From Genesis: The Garden of Eden; the fall of Satan / Cædmon
From Exodus: The cloud by day; the drowning of pharaoh / Cædmon
From The ecclesiastical history: The Britons seek succor from the Romans. The Roman wall / Bede
A parable of man's life / Bede
The story of Cædmon / Bede
Riddles II, VI, XV / Cynewulf
From the Christ / Cynewulf
From the Elene / Cynewulf
Anglo Saxon chronicle: extracts
The battle of Brunanburh
Ohthere's narrrative / Alfred the Great. Anglo-Norman period. From the Historia Britonum Regum: The story of King Lear / Geoffrey of Monmouth
Arthur makes the Saxons his tributaries / Geoffrey of Monmouth
Ancren Riwle, From the
Proverbs of King Alfred, From the
Cuckoo song. Fourteenth century, Age of Chaucer. Pearl, From the
From The vision of Piers the plowman: the prologue / William Langland
From Passus I / William Langland
The Wyclif Bible. The King James Bible
From The Canterbury Tales: the prologue / Geoffrey Chaucer
The nonne preestes tale / Geoffrey Chaucer
From The legend of good women: The story of Thisbe of Babylon, martyr / Geoffrey Chaucer
The compleynt of Chaucer to his purse / Geoffrey Chaucer
Travels of Sir John Mandeville, From the. The fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Ballads: Robin Hood and the monk
The hunting of the cheviot
Sir Patrick Spens
Johnie Cock
Bonnie George Campbell
The wife of Usher's well
Katharine Jaffray
The nutbrown mayde
Everyman
The recuyell of the histories of Troy: prologue, and epilogue to book III / William Caxton
From Le morte Darthur / Sir Thomas Mallory
From Utopia / Sir Thomas More
Toxophilius: From the foreword / Roger Ascham
The ways of the wind / Roger Ascham
The schoolmaster: From A preface to the reader / Roger Ascham
A gentle teacher and pupil / Roger Ascham. The Elizabethan age: poetry. The lover having dreamed, etc. / Sir Thomas Wyatt
Of his love that pricked her finger with a needle / Sir Thomas Wyatt
The lover complaineth the unkindness of his love / Sir Thomas Wyatt
Description of spring, etc. / Henry Howard, Earl of Surry
A praise of his love, etc / Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
Departure of Æneas from Dido / Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
The faerie queen. Dedication and parts of book I / Edmund Spenser
Prothalamion / Edmund Spenser
Amoretti XV, XXXVII, LXI / Edmund Spenser
Astrophel and Stella I, XXXI / Sir Philip Sidney
To Della LI / Samuel Daniel
Idea LXI / Michael Drayton
Sonnets XXIX, XXX, LXIV, LXV, LXXIII, LXXIV / William Shakespeare
Astrophel and Stella, first song / Sir Philip Sidney. Fair and fair / George Peele
Rosalind's madrigal / Thomas Lodge
The burning babe / Robert Southwell
The passionate shepherd to his love / Christopher Marlowe
The nymph's reply to the shepherd / Sir Walter Raleigh
Under the greenwood tree / William Shakespeare
Blow, blow, thou winter wind / William Shakespeare
Take, O, take those lips away / William Shakespeare
Come away, come away, Death / William Shakespeare
How should I your true love know / William Shakespeare
Hark, Hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings / William Shakespeare
Art thou poor / Thomas Dekker
Cherry-ripe / Thomas Campion
Agincourt / Michael Drayton
To Celia / Ben Jonson
The triumph of charis / Ben Jonson. The Elizabethan age: drama. From The tragical history of Doctor Faustus / Christopher Marlowe
The tempest / William Shakespeare
To the memory of Shakespeare / Ben Jonson
From Volpone; or, The fox / Ben Jonson
From The knight of the burning pestle / Beaumont and Fletcher. The Elizabethan age: prose. From The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia / Sir Philip Sidney
The last fight of the revenge / Sir Walter Raleigh
Essays: of studies / Francis Bacon
Of discourse / Francis Bacon
Of friendship / Francis Bacon
Of riches / Francis Bacon
Of revenge / Francis Bacon
Of gardens / Francis Bacon. The seventeenth century. Virtue / George Herbert
Ask me no more where Jove bestows / Thomas Carew
Why so pale and wan, fond lover / Sir John Suckling
To Lucasta, going to the wars / Richard Lovelace
To Althea, from prison / Richard Lovelace
Corinna's going a-maying / Robert Herrick
To the virgins, to make much of time / Robert Herrick
To Electra / Robert Herrick
How roses came red / Robert Herrick
Go, lovely rose / Edmund Waller
The retreat / Henry Vaughan
On the morning of Christ's nativity / John MIlton
On Shakespeare / John Milton
L'allegro / John Milton
Il penseroso / John Milton
Lycidas / John Milton
When the assault was intended to the city / John Milton
On the late massacre in Piedmont / John Milton
On his blindness / John Milton
To Cyriack Skinner / John Milton
On Education / John Milton
From Aeropagitica / John Milton. From The complete angler / Izaak Walton
From The pilgrim's progress / John Bunyan
From his diary / Samuel Pepys
From his diary / John Evelyn
From Absalom and Achitophel / John Dryden
Mac Flecknoe / John Dryden
A song for St. Cecilia's Day / John Dryden
Alexander's feast; or, The power of music / John Dryden
Lines printed under the engraved portrait of Milton / John Dryden
Song from The Indian emperor / John Dryden
Song of Thamesis / John Dryden
Song from Cleomenes / John Dryden
The secular masque / John Dryden
On Chaucer. Early eighteenth century. Prospectus. The tatler, no. 1 / Sir Richard Steele
Memories. The tatler, no. 181 / Sir Richard Steele
The club. The spectator, no. 2 / Sir Richard Steele
Sir Roger at church. The spectator, no. 112 / Joseph Addison
Ned softly, The tatler, no. 163 / Joseph Addison
Frozen words, The tatler, no. 254 / Joseph Addison
A coquette's heart, The spectator, no. 281 / Joseph Addison
The vision of Mirza, The spectator, no. 159 / Joseph Addison
To a child of quality five years old / Matthew Prior
A simile / Matthew Prior
An ode / Matthew Prior
A better answer / Matthew Prior
The hound and the hunstman, fable XLIV / John Gay
The poet and the rose, fable XLV / John Gay. Ode on St. Cecilia's Day / Alexander Pope
From An essay on criticism / Alexander Pope
The rape of the lock / Alexander Pope
An essay on man, epistles I and II / Alexander Pope
The universal prayer / Alexander Pope
From Robinson Crusoe / Daniel Defoe
From Gulliver's travels: a voyage to Lilliput, chapters I, II, and III / Jonathan Swift
The seasons. From spring / James Thomson
From the castle of indolence / James Thomson
Rule, Britannia / James Thomson. Later eighteenth century. A song from Shakespeare's Cymbeline / William Collins
Ode. How sleep the brave / William Collins
Ode to evening / William Collins
Elegy written in a country churchyard / Thomas Gray
The progress of poesy / Thomas Gray
Oina-Morul / James MacPherson
From Carthon: Ossian's address to the sun / James McPherson
Epitaph on Robert Canynge / Thomas Chatterton
An excelente balade of charitie / Thomas Chatterton
From The battle of Hastings / From The plan of an English dictionary / Samuel Johnson
Letter to Lord Chesterfield / Samuel Johnson
From the preface to the English dictionary / Samuel Johnson
From the preface to an edition of Shakespeare's plays / Samuel Johnson
From the lives of the English poets: the character of Addison / Samuel Johnson. From The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. / James Boswell
The citizen of the world, letters I, II, III, and IV / Oliver Goldsmith
The deserted village / Oliver Goldsmith
The haunch of venison / Oliver Goldsmith
From Retaliation / Oliver Goldsmith
The fall of Constantinople / Edward Gibbon
From The natural history of Selborne / Gilbert White
From the speech at Bristol / Edmund Burke
From Reflections on the revolution in France / Edmund Burke
Light shining out of darkness, Olney hymns, XXXV / William Cowper
On the loss of the royal George / William Cowper
The jackdaw / William Cowper
On the receipt of my mother's picture / William Cowper
To Mrs. Unwin / William Cowper
The castaway / William Cowper
The borough, from Letter I / George Crabbe
Song: how sweet I roamed / William Blake
To the muses / William Blake
Introduction to Songs of innocence / William Blake
The tiger / William Blake
Ah, sunflower / William Blake. Elegy on the death of Scots music / Robert Fergusson
Auld Robin Gray / Lady Anne Lindsay
Ca' the yowes / Isobel Pagan
The land o' the Leal / Lady Nairne
The cotter's Saturday night / Robert Burns
Address to the Diel / Robert Burns
Address to the unco guid / Robert Burns
To a mouse / Robert Burns
To a louse / Robert Burns
To a mountain daisy / Robert Burns
Tam o'shanter / Robert Burns
Green grow the rashes / Robert Burns
Auld lang syne / Robert Burns
John Anderson my Jo / Robert Burns
Whistle o'er the lave o't / Robert Burns
To Mary in heaven / Robert Burns
My heart's in the Highlands / Robert Burns
The banks o' Doon / Robert Burns
Afton water / Robert Burns
Highland Mary / Robert Burns
Bannockburn / Robert Burns
Contented wi' little and cantie wi' mair / Robert Burns
A man's a man for a' that / Robert Burns
O, wert thou in the cauld blast / Robert Burns. The romantic age. Dear native regions / William Wordsworth
We are seven / William Wordsworth
Lines written in early spring / William Wordsworth
Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey / William Wordsworth
Strange fits of passion have I known / William Wordsworth
She dwelt among the untrodden ways / William Wordsworth
I travelled among unknown men / William Wordsworth
Three years she grew in sun and shower / William Wordsworth
A slumber did my spirit seal / William Wordsworth
Lucy Gray / William Wordsworth
The prelude; or, Growth of a poet's mind, from Book I, Childhood / William Wordsworth
My heart leaps up when I behold / William Wordsworth
The solitary reaper / William Wordsworth
To the cuckoo / William Wordsworth
She was a phantom of delight / William Wordsworth
I wondered lonely as a cloud / William Wordsworth
Ode to duty / William Wordsworth
To a skylark (1805) / William Wordsworth
To a skylark (1825) / William Wordsworth
Ode: intimations of immortality / William Wordsworth
Composed upon Westminster Bridge / William Wordsworth
It is a beauteous evening, calm and free / William Wordsworth
On the extinction of the Venetian Republic / William Wordsworth
London, 1802 / William Wordsworth
The world is too much with us / William Wordsworth
After-thought / William Wordsworth. Kubla Khan / Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The rime of the ancient mariner / Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Christabel: Part the first / Samuel Taylor Coleridge
France: an ode / Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Hymn before sunrise in the vale of Chamouni / Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The knight's tomb / Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Song from Zapolya / Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Youth and age / Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Work without hope / Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Lochinvar, from Marmion / Sir Walter Scott
Soldier, Rest! From The lady of the lake / Sir Walter Scott
Coronach, from The lady of the lake / Sir Walter Scott
The battle of Beal an' Duine, from The lady of the lake / Sir Walter Scott
Jock of Hazeldean / Sir Walter Scott
Proud Maisie, from The heart of Midlothian / Sir Walter Scott
County guy, from Quentin Durward / Sir Walter Scott
Bonny Dundee / Sir Walter Scott
Here's a health to King Charles, from Woodstock / Sir Walter Scott. From English bards and Scotch reviewers / Lord Byron
Maid of Athens, ere we part / Lord Byron
She walks in beauty / Lord Byron
The destruction of Sennacherib / Lord Byron
So we'll go no more a-rowing / Lord Byron
Stanzas written on the road between Florence and Pisa / Lord Byron
To Thomas Moore / Lord Byron
Sonnet on Chillon / Lord Byron
The prisoner of Chillon / Lord Byron
From Childe Harold, Canto III: Waterloo / Lord Byron
Night on Lake Leman / Lord Byron
From Childe Harold, Canto IV: Venice / Lord Byron
Rome / Lord Byron
The Coliseum / Lord Byron
The ocean / Lord Byron
From Don Juan, Canto II: The shipwreck / Lord Byron
From Don Juan, Canto III: The isles of Greece / Lord Byron. Alastor, or The spirit of solitude / Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ozymandias / Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ode to the west wind / Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Indian serenade / Percy Bysshe Shelley
From Prometheus unbound: song / Percy Bysshe Shelley
Asia's response / Percy Bysshe Shelley
The cloud / Percy Bysshe Shelley
To a skylark / Percy Bysshe Shelley
From Adonais: The grave of Keats / Percy Bysshe Shelley
Chorus from Hellas / Percy Bysshe Shelley
To
. Music, when soft voices die / Percy Bysshe Shelley
To
. One word is too often profaned / Percy Bysshe Shelley
A lament / Percy Bysshe Shelley
When the lamp is shattered / Percy Bysshe Shelley
A dirge / Percy Bysshe Shelley
From Endymion, book I: Proem / John Keats
The eve of St. Agnes / John Keats
Ode to a nightingale / John Keats
Ode on a Grecian urn / John Keats. Ode on melancholy / John Keats
To autumn / John Keats
Lines on the mermaid tavern / John Keats
In a drear-nighted December / John Keats
La belle dame sans merci / John Keats
On first looking into Chapman's Homer / John Keats
On the grasshopper and cricket / John Keats
On seeing the Elgin marbles / John Keats
On the sea / John Keats
When I have fears that I may cease to be / John Keats
Bright star! Would I were stedfast as thou art / John Keats
The battle of Blenheim / Robert Southey
Ye mariners of England / Thomas Campbell
The burial of Sir John Moore / Charles Wolfe
The harp that once through Tara's halls / Thomas Moore
The minstrel boy / Thomas Moore
Oft, in the stilly night / Thomas Moore. The old familiar faces / Charles Lamb
Rose Aylmer / Walter Savage Landor
To the grasshopper and the cricket / Leigh Hunt
Rondeau / Leigh Hunt
Abou Ben Adhem / Leigh Hunt
Letters from Teignmouth, I: Our ball / Winthrop Mackworth Praed
Dream-pedlary / Thomas Lovell Beddoes
The death-bed / Thomas Hood
The song of the shirt / Thomas Hood
The song of the western men / Robert Stephen Hawker
The silent tower of Bottreau / Robert Stephen Hawker
From Old mortality, chapter I: Preliminary / Sir Walter Scott
From Elia: Dream-children; A reverie / Charles Lamb
A dissertation upon roast pig / Charles Lamb
From The last essays of Elia: Old China / Charles Lamb. From Imaginary conversations: Metellus and Marius / Walter Savage Landor
Leofric and Godiva / Walter Savage Landor
From Confessions of an English opium-eater / Thomas de Quincey
From Suspiria de profundis: Levana and our ladies of sorrow / Thomas de Quincey
Savannah-La-Mar / Thomas de Quincey
From Joan of Arc / Thomas De Quincey. The Victorian Age. From Sartor Resartus: The everlasting yea / Thomas Carlyle
Natural supernaturalism / Thomas Carlyle
From The French Revolution: Storming of the Bastile / Thomas Carlyle
From The history of England: London in 1685 / Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay
The London coffee houses / Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay
The battle of Killiecrankie / Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay
Site of a university / John Henry, Cardinal Newman
A Christmas tree / Charles Dickens
From The English humourists of the eighteenth century: Goldsmith / William Makepeace Thackeray
From Roundabout papers: De juventute / William Makepeace Thackeray. The lady of Shalott / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Œnone / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The lotos-eaters / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Saint Agnes' eve / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Sir Galahad / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The beggar maid / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
You ask me why, tho' ill at ease / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Of old sat freedom on the heights / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Morte d'Arthur / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Ulysses / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Locksley Hall / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
A farewell / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Break, break, break / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Songs from the princess: Sweet and low / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The splendour falls / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Tears, idle tears / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
From In memoriam / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In the valley of Cauteretz / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In the garden at Swainston / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Song from Maud / Alfred, Lord Tennyson. The charge of the light brigade / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The captain
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The revenge
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Northern farmer, old style / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Rizpah / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Milton / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
To Dante / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
To Virgil / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Frater ave atque vale / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Flower in the crannied wall / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Wages / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
By an evolutionist / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Vastness / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Crossing the bar / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
From Pippa passes: New year's hymn; song / Robert Browning
Cavalier tunes / Robert Browning
Incident of the French camp / Robert Browning
My last duchess / Robert Browning
In a gondola / Robert Browning
The pied piper of Hamelin / Robert Browning. How they brought the good news from Ghent to Aix / Robert Browning
The lost leader / Robert Browning
Home-thoughts, from abroad / Robert Browning
Home-thoughts, from the sea / Robert Browning
The boy and the angel / Robert Browning
Saul / Robert Browning
Evelyn Hope / Robert Browning
Fra Lippo Lippi / Robert Browning
Up at a villa, down in the city / Robert Browning
Memorabilia / Robert Browning
Popularity / Robert Browning
The patriot / Robert Browning
"Childe Roland to the dark tower came" / Robert Browning
Rabbi Ben Ezra / Robert Browning
Prospice / Robert Browning
Hervé Riel / Robert Browning
Wanting is
what? / Robert Browning
Why I am a liberal / Robert Browning
Epilogue / Robert Browning
Sonnets from the Portuguese: I, III, IV, XIV, XXII, XLIII / Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám / Edward Fitzgerald
In a lecture-room / Arthur Hugh Clough
Qua cursum ventus / Arthur Hugh Clough
Say not the struggle nought availeth / Arthur Hugh Clough
Ite domum saturae, venit hesperus / Arthur Hugh Clough
All is well / Arthur Hugh Clough
The forsaken mermaid / Matthew Arnold
To a friend / Matthew Arnold
Shakespeare / Matthew Arnold
Austerity of poetry / Matthew Arnold
Memorial verses / Matthew Arnold
Self-dependence / Matthew Arnold
Lines written in Kensington Gardens / Matthew Arnold
Requiescat / Matthew Arnold
Sohrab and Rustum / Matthew Arnold
Philomela / Matthew Arnold
Kaiser dead / Matthew Arnold
Dover Beach / Matthew Arnold
The last word / Matthew Arnold. Culture and human perfection / Matthew Arnold
Natural magic in Celtic literature / Matthew Arnold
Wordsworth / Matthew Arnold
The sailing of the Spanish Armada, From History of England / James Anthony Froude
Defeat of the Armada / James Anthony Froude
On a piece of chalk / Thomas Henry Huxley
From The seven lamps of architecture: The lamp of memory / John Ruskin
From The stones of Venice: The throne, vol. II, chapter I / John Ruskin
The mediæval and the modern workman, from vol. II, chapter VI / John Ruskin
From Modern painters, part IV, chapter VI: Of the true ideal / John Ruskin
The blessed damozel / Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Sister Helen / Dante Gabriel Rossetti
La bella Donna / Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The woodspurge / Dante Gabriel Rossetti
From The house of life: The sonnet / Dante Gabriel Rossetti
IV. Lovesight / Dante Gabriel Rossetti
XIX. Silent noon / Dante Gabriel Rossetti
XLIX-LII. Willowwood / Dante Gabriel Rossetti
LXV. Known in vain / Dante Gabriel Rossetti
LXVI. The heart of the night / Dante Gabriel Rossetti
LXVII. The landmark / Dante Gabriel Rossetti
LXX. The hill summit / Dante Gabriel Rossetti
LXXIX. The monochord. Goblin market / Christina Rossetti
The three enemies / Christina Rossetti
An apple gathering / Christina Rossetti
Monna innominata: sonnets I, II, and XI / Christina Rossetti
Up-hill / Christina Rossetti
The gillflower of gold / William Morris
The sailing of the sword / William Morris
The blue closet / William Morris
From The earthly paradise: an apology / William Morris
From Love is enough: song for music / William Morris
From Sigurd the Volsung: of the passing away of Brynhild / William Morris
The voice of toil / William Morris
Chorus from Atalanta in Calydon / Algernon Charles Swinburne
A leave-taking / Algernon Charles Swinburne
Hymn to Prosperine / Algernon Charles Swinburne
Prelude to songs before sunrise / Algernone Charles Swinburne
Lines on the monument of Giuseppe Mazzini / Algernon Charles Swinburne. The pilgrims / Algernon Charles Swinburne
A forsaken garden / Algernon Charles Swinburne
A ballad of dreamland / Algernon Charles Swinburne
Upon a child / Algernon Charles Swinburne
A child's laughter / Algernon Charles Swinburne
A baby's death / Algernon Charles Swinburne
From Tristam of Lyonesse: Prelude / Algernon Charles Swinburne
The child in the house / Walter Pater
El Dorado / Robert Louis Stevenson
The maroon / Robert Louis Stevenson
The vagabond / Robert Louis Stevenson
The morning drum-call on my eager ear / Robert Louis Stevenson
Evensong / Robert Louis Stevenson
Requiem / Robert Louis Stevenson