From Beowulf to BlakePaul Robert Lieder Houghton Mifflin, 1950 Readings representative of major British authors. For contents and other editions, see Author Catalog. |
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 3 |
BEOWULF | 15 |
THE VENERABLE Bede | 45 |
CYNEWULF | 51 |
MIDDLE ENGLISH PERIOD | 71 |
EARLY ENGLISH LYRICS | 82 |
PIERS THE PLOWMAN | 87 |
GEOFFREY CHAUCER | 95 |
HENRY VAUGHAN | 493 |
ANDREW MARVELL | 500 |
SIR THOMAS BROWNE | 509 |
THOMAS FULLER | 524 |
ABRAHAM COWLEY | 537 |
Areopagitica | 580 |
JOHN BUNYAN | 607 |
SAMUEL PEPYS | 621 |
Ballades and Other Lyrics | 145 |
SIR GAWAIN And the Green Knight | 154 |
THE POPULAR BALLADS | 206 |
The Gay GossHawk | 212 |
Robin Hoods Death and Burial | 222 |
ELIZABETHAN PERIOD | 225 |
The Lover Compareth His State to a Ship | 235 |
EDMUND SPENSER | 245 |
SIR WALTER RALEIGH | 300 |
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY | 307 |
JOHN LYLY | 315 |
ELIZABETHAN LYRICS | 342 |
ANONYMOUS | 348 |
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE | 354 |
THOMAS CAMPION | 355 |
JOHN WEBSTER | 361 |
tears | 368 |
INTRODUCTION | 435 |
FRANCIS BACON | 447 |
SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT | 476 |
From Devotions Upon | 488 |
JOHN DRYDEN | 627 |
SIR JOHN SUCKLING 478 | 634 |
ALL FOR LOVE OR THE WORLD WELL LOST | 646 |
INTRODUCTION | 687 |
DANIEL DEFOE | 699 |
A True Relation of the Apparition | 706 |
JONATHAN SWIFT | 724 |
JOSEPH ADDISON AND RICHARD Steele | 770 |
ALEXANDER POPE | 794 |
JOHN GAY | 826 |
THOMAS GRAY | 844 |
WILLIAM COLLINS | 855 |
JAMES BOSWELL | 881 |
OLIVER GOLDSMITH | 908 |
Beau Tibbs at Home | 922 |
WILLIAM COWPER | 939 |
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN | 954 |
ROBERT BURNS | 1000 |
WILLIAM BLAke | 1026 |
APPENDIX | 1033 |
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