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The Oxford Anthologyof English Literature
/•AVOLUME I /^y
The Middle Ages v :through the Eighteenth Century
Medieval English LiteratureJ. B. TRAPPWarburg Institute
The Literature of Renaissance EnglandJOHN HOLLANDER AND FRANK KERMODEHunter College University College London
The Restoration and the Eighteenth CenturyMARTIN PRICEYale University
NNEW YORK
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Contents
MEDIEVAL ENGLISH LITERATURE, 3v
OLD ENGLISH POETRY, 19
Caedmon's Hymn, 19Beowulf, 20Deor's Lament, 98The Wanderer, 100The Battle of Maldon, 104The Dream of the Rood, 114
GEOFFREY CHAUCER, 119The Canterbury Tales, 123
General Prologue, 130The Miller's Prologue and Tale, 156
The Nun's Priest's Prologue and Tale, 176The Bestiary: Of the Fox, 196; Of the Cock, 196
v * William Caxton: The History of Reynard the Fox, 196
The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale, 198* Gesta Romanorum: Of Hanging, 232; Application, 233
The Franklin's Prologue and Tale, 233The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale, 257Retraction, 276
Shorter Poems, 277Gentilesse, 278Truth, 278
Roundel from The Parliament of Fowls, 279Cantus Troili from Troilus and Criseyde, 280Balade from The Legend of Good Women, 281To Rosemounde, 282
* An asterisk indicates that a work does not appear in its entirety.
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The Complaint of Chaucer to His Purse, 282To Adam, His Scribe, 283
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, 284
• The Vision of Piers Plowman, 348The Prologue, 351; Passus I, 357
DRAMA, 363The Wakefield Second Shepherds' Play, 368Everyman, 388
MIDDLE ENGLISH LYRICS, 411
Spring, (.^Lenten is come . . . ), 413Now Springs the Spray, 414Summer Is Ycumen In, 415Alison, 416Separated Lovers, 417Western Wind, 417He Is Far, 417I Have a Young Sister, 418The Maid of the Moor, 419The Agincourt Carol, 420Bring Us In Good Ale, 421I Have Set My Heart So High, 421All Too Late, 422Divine Love, 422I Sing of a Maiden, 423Adam Lay Ybounden, 424Corpus Christi Carol, 425
POPULAR BALLADS, 425The Cherry-tree Carol, 429The Wee Wee Man, 430The Two Magicians, 431The Carpenter's Wife [The Demon Lover], 434The Wife of Usher's Well, 435The Unquiet Grave, 437Lord Randal, 438The Three Ravens, 439The Birth of Robin Hood, 440Sir Patrick Spence, 443
SIR THOMAS MALORY, 444" Morte Darthur, 447
[The Birth of Arthur and the Sword in the Stone], 448[The Death of Arthur], 453
CONTENTS xi
WILLIAM CAXTON, 458The Proem to the Canterbury Tales, 459
0 The Preface to the Aeneid, 461
WILLIAM DUNBAR, 463Lament for the Makers, 464
JOHN SKELTON, 466a Colin Clout, 468* Philip Sparrow, 4690 The Tunning of Elinor Rumming, 473
* The Garland of Laurel, 474To Mistress Margery Wentworth, 474To Mistress Margaret Hussey, 475
THE OTHER WORLD: PARADISE, 476
° Genesis 2:8-22 (Authorized Version), 4780 The Phoenix, 4790 Guillaume de Lorris: The Romance of the Rose, 481
The Land of Cokaygne, 487Thomas the Rhymer, 492
* Mandeville's Travels, 4949 Geoffrey Chaucer: Troilus and Criseyde: Book 5: The Finale, 496* Dante: The Divine Comedy: Paradise, 498
THE RENAISSANCE, 503
THE RENAISSANCE OVID, 519
0 Arthur Golding's Ovid's Metamorphoses, 521
* William Caxton's Ovid, His Book of Metamorphose 5220 Carel van Mander's Painter's Manual, 523* George Sandys's Ovid's Metamorphosis, 5230 Tottel's Miscellany [The Tale of Pygmalion with Conclusion upon the Beauty of His
Love], 525° John Marston's The Metamorphosis of Pygmalion's Image, 526° Henry Reynolds's Mythomystes, 527
THE ENGLISH BIBLE (I CORINTHIANS 13), 5280 The Second Wycliffite Version, 531* Tyndale's Translation, 531" The Great Bible, 5320 The Geneva Bible, 5324 The Bishops' Bible, 533* The Douay-Rheims Version, 5330 The King James Authorized Version, 534
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THE PSALMS IN ENGLISH VERSE (PSALM 137), 534
• The King James Authorized Version, 535• The Second Wycliffite Version, 536• The Geneva Bible, 536° The Douay-Rheims Version, 536
Thomas Sternhold and John Hopkins, 537The Countess of Pembroke, 537Thomas Campion, 538Francis Bacon, 539Richard Crashaw, 53gThomas Carew, 540Sir John Denham, 541
and Nicholas Brady, 541
THE NEW WORLD, 542
0 The Decades of the New World or West India, 544° A Brief and True Report, 545* Drake's Account, 547
THE ENGLISH HUMANISTS, 550
SIR THOMAS MORE, 5 5 20 Utopia, 554
0 Book I [Utopian Communism], 556* Book II [Utopian Contempt for Gold], 560;
[Utopian Marriage Customs], 563
Life of Pico, 569* The Life of, John Picus, Earl of Mirandola, 569
0 The History of King Richard III, 571The Young King and His Brother Murdered, 571
The Life of Sir Thomas More, 5750 William Roper's The Life of Sir Thomas More, 575
SIB THOMAS ELYOT, 5 7 8
* The Book Named the Governor, 580
BALDASSARE CASTIGLIONE-SIR THOMAS HOBY, 5 8 49 The Book of the Courtier, 585
CONTENTS
ROGER ASCHAM, 5 9 80 The Schoolmaster, 599
ELIZABETHAN SONG AND LYRIC, 606
THOMAS, LORD VAUX
The Aged Lover Renounceth Love, 608
NICHOLAS GRIMALD
The Garden, 610
CHIDIOCK TICHBORNE
Tichborne's Elegy, 611
ANONYMOUS
A Song from Ovid, 611
ANONYMOUS
Shadow and Substance, 612
ROBERT SOUTHWELL
The Burning Babe, 612
ANONYMOUS
'Hark, All Ye Lovely Saints,' 613
THOMAS NASHE
Litany in Time of Plague, 614Autumn, 615
ANONYMOUS
A Peddler's Song, 615
SIR THOMAS WYATT, 616I Find No Peace, 617My Galley Charged with Forgetfulness, 617Farewell, Love, 617The Long Love That in My Thought Doth Harbour, 618Blame Not My Lute, 618My Lute, Awake!, 619Whoso List To Hunt, 621They Flee from Me, 621
HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF SURREY, 622Alas, So All Things Now Do Hold Their Peace, 622
* Virgil's Aeneid, 623Love That Doth Reign and Live Within My Thought, 624
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SIR PHILIP SIDNEY, 625
-'Y>e Goatherd Gods, 627 •
* Old Arcadia, 62g0 Astrophel and Stella, 6300 Defence of Poesie, 636
FULKE GREVILLE, LORD BROOKE, 650° Caelica, 650
Chorus Sacerdotum, 651
EDMUND SPENSER, 6520 The Shepheardes Calender, 6540 Colin Clouts Come Home Againe, 660
0 The Faerie Queene, 662A Lettgr of the Authors, 664 *
Book I, 669 •Canto i, 672; ° Canto iv, 684; Canto viii, 689; ° Canto ix, 700; * Canto x, 705;0 Canto xi, 710; " Canto xii, 713
Book II, 718
Canto vii, 721; • Canto viii, 737; • Canto xii, 738 •
Book III, 746
Canto vi, 747; " Canto ix, 760; Canto xii, 767Book IV, 777 . .
0 Canto v, 780; * Canto x, 783Book V, 791
0 Canto vii, 796 • • •'Book VI, 801 • ...
0 Canto x, 803Two Cantos of Mutability, 809
° Canto vii, 811; Canto viii, 819
v a Amoretti, 820I (Happy ye leaves when as those filly hands), 820
XV (Ye tradefull Merchants, that with weary toyle), 821 . >yXVI (One day as I unwarily did gaze), 821LIV (Of this worlds Theatre in which we stay), 821
LXIII (After long stormes and tempests sad assay), 822LXIV (Comming to kisse her lyps, (such grace I found)), 822 , •.••,LXXV (One day I wrote her name upon the strand), 823
Epithalamion, 823
SIR WALTER RALEGH, 8340 The History of the World, 834 : ' . - . •
A Description of Love, 837Answer to Marlowe, 838 ' . ' ' • • : / .
On the Life of Man, 839
CONTENTS xv
GEOPGE CHAPMAN, 839 •0 Hero and Leander, 840 •••...* Homer's Odyssey [The Gardens of Alcinoiis], 844
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE, 845Doctor Faustus, 846
* Hero and Leander, 899The Passionate Shepherd to His Love, 908
SAMUEL DANIEL, 909Care-charmer Sleep, 909A Pastoral, 909
*
MICHAEL DRAYTON, 9110 The Muses' Elizium, 9128 Idea, 915
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, 9160 Venus and Adonis, 917* The Rape of Lucrece, 921
The Phoenix and Turtle, 924
* The Sonnets, 927XII (When I do count the clock that tells the time), 927XVIII (Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?), 928 h
XIX (Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws), 928XX (A woman's face with nature's own hand painted), 929XXIX (When, in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes), 929XXX (When to the sessions of sweet silent thought), 929XXXIII (Full many a glorious morning have I seen), 930LIII (What is your substance, whereof are you made), 930LV (Not marble, nor the gilded monuments), 931LXIV (When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced), 931LXVI (Tired with all these for restful death I cry), 931LXXIII (That time of year thou mayst in me behold), 932LXXXVI (Was it the proud full sail of his great verse), 932LXXXVII (Farewell—thou are too dear for my possessing), 933XCIV (They that have power to hurt and will do none), 933XCVII (How like a winter hath my absence been), 933CVI (When in the chronicle of wasted time), 934CVII (Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul), 934CXVI (Let me not to the marriage of true minds), 935CXXI ('Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed), 935CXXIX (The expense of spirit in a waste of shame), 935CXXX (My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun), 936CXXXV (Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy Will), 936CXXXVIII (When my love swears that she is made of truth), 937
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CXLIV ("Two loves I have, of comfort and despair"), 937
•'(SXLVI ("Poor soul, the centre of my sinful ear th") , 937
Songs From the Plays, 938
Tell Me Where Is Fancy Bred, 938
Dirge, 939
Dialogue in Praise of the Owl and Cuckoo, 939
Who Is Silvia?, 940
Take, O Take Those Lips Aways, 941
O Mistress Mine, 941
When That I Was and a Little Tiny Boy, 941
Under the Greenwood Tree, 942
Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind, 943
Autolycus' Song, 943
Autolycus as Peddler, 944• "*•
The Tempest, 944
THOMAS CAMPION, 1009My Sweetest Lesbia, IOXO
Follow Your Saint, 1010Rose-cheeked Laura, 1011Mistress, Since You So Much Desire, 1011Beauty, Since You So Much Desire, 1012There Is a Garden in Her Face, 1012Thrice Toss These Oaken Ashes in the Air, 1014When to Her Lute Corinna Sings, 1015Never Weather-beaten Sail, 1015 «
JOHN DONNE, 1015• Juvenilia: Or Paradoxes and Problems, 1019
Elegies, 1020Elegy XVIII Love's Progress, 1020Elegy XIX To His Mistress Going to Bed, 1023
Songs and Sonnets, 1024The Good Morrow, 1024The Sun Rising, 1025The Canonization, 1026Lovers' Infiniteness, 1027Song, 1028A Fever, 1029Air and Angels, 1030The Anniversary, 1031The Dream, 1032A Valediction: Of Weeping, 1033Love's Alchemy, 1034The Flea, 1034A Nocturnal upon S. Lucy's Day, Being the Shortest Day, 1035
CONTENTS xvii
The Bait, 1037The Apparition, 1038A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, 1038The Ecstasy, 1039The Funeral, 1042Farewell to Love, 1042The Relic, 1044 • ;
Satire III, 10450 The Second Anniversary, 1048
The Holy Sonnets, 1050II (Oh my black soul! now thou art summoned), 1050IV (At the round earth's imagined corners, blow), 1051V (If poisonous minerals, and if that tree), 1051VI (Death be not proud, though some have called thee), 1052X (Batter my heart, three-personed God; for, you), 1052XVIV (Oh, to vex me, contraries meet in one), 1052
Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward, 1053Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness, 1054A Hymn to God the Father, 1055
Devotions upon Emergent Occasions•Meditation X, 1056Meditation XVII, 1056
Sermons, 1058• A Sermon Preached at St. Paul's for Easter-Day 1628, 1058
BEN JONSON, 1064To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author Mr. William Shakespeare, 1065To the Immortal Memory and Friendship of That Noble Pair Sir Lucius Cary and SirH. Morison, 1067Ode to Himself, 1071A Fit of Rime Against Rime, 1072The Hourglass, 1074Epigram from Petronius, 1074To Penshurst, 1075Song: To Celia, 1077To the Same, 1081Song: To Celia, 1081On My First Son, 1082Epitaph on S.P. a Child of Queen Elizabeth's Chapel, 1082To William Roe, 1083Inviting a Friend to Supper, 1083
Songs From PlaysSlow, Slow Fresh Fount, 1084Queen and Huntress, 1085Clerimont's Song, 1085 , ,
Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue, 1086
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W.ILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN, 1095Madrigal, 1095Madrigal, 1096On Mary Magdalen, 1096
WILLIAM BROWNE OF TAVISTOCK, 1096On the Death of Marie, Countess of Pembroke, 1097To Pyrrha, 1097
0 Britannia's Pastorals, 1098
SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY LYRIC MODES, 1099
ANONYMOUS
Tom o' Bedlam, 1100
FRANCIS QUARLES
Emblem IV, 1102
THOMAS RANDOLPH
Upon Love Fondly Refused for Conscience's Sake, 1104
JOHN CLEVELAND
On the Memory of Mr. Edward King, Drowned in the Irish Seas, 1106Mark Anthony, 1107
WILLIAM STRODE
On Chloris Walking in the Snow, 1108
SIR RICHARD FANSHAWE
v The Golden Age, 1109
WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT
No Platonic Love, m o
AURELIAN TOWNSHEND
A Dialogue Betwixt Time and a Pilgrim, 1111
JAMES SHIRLEY
Dirge, m i
SIR JOHN DENHAM
" Cooper's Hill, 1112
ROBERT HERRICK, 11130 Hesperides, 1114
To the Virgins, To Make Much of Time, 1114Corinna's Going A-Maying, 1115
CONTENTS
Upon Julia's Clothes, 1117 vDelight in Disorder, 1117The Night-Piece, To Julia, 1117The Mad Maid's Song, 1118To Anthea, Who May Command Him Anything, 1119
" Noble Numbers, 1119
THOMAS CAREW, 1120A Rapture, 1120An Elegy upon the Death of Doctor Donne, Dean of Paul's, 1124Upon a Ribband, 1127
RICHARD LOVELACE, 1127The Grasshopper, 1128La Bella Bona Roba, 1129Song (To Lucasta, Going to the Wars), 1130The Snail, 1130Love Made in the First Age: To Chloris, 1132
EDMUND WALLER, 1133Song, 1134Ai Penshurst, 1134Of English Verse, 1135
ABRAHAM COWLEY, 1136Ode of Wit, 1136The Grasshopper, 1138The Praise of Pindar in Imitation of Horace His Second Ode, Book 4, 1139
ANDREW MARVELL, 1141A Dialogue Between the Resolved Soul and Created Pleasure, 1141A Dialogue Between the Soul and Body, 1143The Nymph Complaining for the Death of Her Fawn, 1145To His Coy Mistress, 1148The Definition of Love, 1149The Picture of Little T.C. In a Prospect of Flowers, 1150The Mower Against Gardens, 1151Damon the Mower, 1152The Mower to the Glowworms, 1154The Garden, 1155
" Upon Appleton House, 1157An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland, 1162
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GEORGE HERBERT, 1165°^Phe Temple, 1166
The Altar, 1167Denial, 1167Easter-Wings, 1168Our Life Is Hid with Christ in God, 1169
The Pearl, 1169The Church-Floor, 1170Aaron, 1171Sonnet, 1172The Pulley, 1172The Collar, 1173A Wreath, 1174
f Mary 1Ana- •)#i. y eram, 1174
[Army f 5
Jordan (I) , 1174Jordan (II), 1175Paradise, 1175Church Monuments, 1176Prayer (I) , 1177Virtue, 1177Love (III), 1178
RICHARD CRASHAW, 1178Music's Duel, 1179
"The Weeper, 1183On Our Crucified Lord, Naked and Bloody, 1186Upon Our Saviour's Tomb Wherein Never Man Was Laid, 1187Upon the Infant Martyrs, 1187
0 The Flaming Heart, 1187
HENRY VAUGHAN, 1189Religion, 1190The Retreat, 1192Corruption, 1193The World, 1194[They Are All Gone into the World of Light], 1196The Night, 1197Cock-Crowing, 1199
THOMAS TRAHERNE, 1200Shadows in the Water, 1201
* Centuries of Meditations, 1203
JOHN MILTON, 1205L'Allegro and II Penseroso, 1209
L'Allegro, 1209II Penseroso, 1214
CONTENTS xxi
• Sonnets, 1218I (O nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray), 1219VII (How soon hath time, the subtle thief of youth), 1219VIII When the Assault Was Intended to the City, 1220XVII (When I consider how my light is spent), 1220XVIII On the Late Massacre in Piedmont, 1221XIX (Methought I saw my late espoused saint), 1221
Comus, 1222Lycidas, 1251
8 Paradise Lost, 12580 Book I, 1260; Book II, 1273; 8 Book III, 1289; Book IV, 1292; • Book V, 1319;• Book VII, 1320; Book IX, 1322; * Book X, 1350; • Book XII, 1357
0 Paradise Regained, 13620 Book IV, 1362
Samson Agonistes, 1367e Areopagitiea, 1412
The Development of Prose
JOHN LYLY, 14210 Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit, 1422
RICHARD HOOKER, 1424* Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, 1425
• Book I, Chapter 3,1425; * Book I, Chapter 14,1426; "• Book IV, Chapter 1;[Ceremony], 1427
LANCELOT ANDREWES, 1430* A Sermon Preached Before the King's Majesty, 1430
FRANCIS BACON, 1434• Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral
Of Truth, 1436 : 'Of Death, 1437Of Love, 1438Of Innovations, 1440Of Prophecies, 1441Of Studies, 1443
Aphorisms, 14440 The Wisdom of the Ancients, 14530 The New Atlantis, 1456
xxii CONTENTS
ROBERT BURTON, 1463° The Anatomy of Melancholy
Democritus Junior to the Reader, 1464Division of the Body, Humours, Spirits, 1471Of the Inward Senses, 1472
SIR THOMAS BROWNE, 14731 Religio Medici, 1474
" Part 1,1474 * Part II, 14811 Hydriotaphia, 1485' The Garden of Cyrus, 1492' Miscellanies [On the Blindness of Cupid], 14971 The Notebooks [On Dreams], 1497
THOMAS HOBBES, 14990 Leviathan
0 Chapter II: Of Imagination, 1500• Chapter IV: Of Speech, 1504* Chapter XI: Of the Difference of Manners, 1505° Chapter XIII: Of the Natural Condition of Mankind as Concerning Their Felicity and
Misery, 1505The Answer to Davenant's Preface Before Gondibert, 1507
IZAAK WALTON, 1511• The Life of Dr. John Donne, 1512" The Life of Mr. George Herbert, 1519
CHARACTERS, 1521
SIR THOMAS OVERBURY0 His Wife: New News and Divers More Characters, 1522
JOHN EARLE0 Microcosmography, 1524
JOSEPH HALL0 Characters of Virtues and Vices, 1525
NICHOLAS BRETON
° The Good and the Bad, 1526
CONTENTS
OWEN IELLTHAM
* Resolves, Divine, Moral, and Political, 1527
THOMAS FULLER, 15290 The History of the Worthies of England
Warwickshire: William Shakespeare, 1529Westminster: Benjamin Jonson, 1530Cornwall: King Arthur, 1531London: Edmund Spenser, 1532
JOHN AUBREY, 1533
• Brief LivesAndrew Marvell, 1534Sir Walter Ralegh, 1534
EDWARD H\SE, EARL OF CLARENDON, 15380 The History of the Rebellion
[The Character of Charles I], 1538[The Character of Cromwell], 1540
JEREMY TAYLOR, 15420 Holy Dying
* Consideration of the Vanity and Shortness of Man's Life, 1543Consideration of the Miseries of Man's Life, 1545
* Sermons[Children], 1546
THE RESTORATIONAND THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, 1549
SAMUEL BUTLER, 1561' Hudibras
0 Part I, Canto 1,1562
JOHN BUNYAN, 15730 The Pilgrim's Progress
From This World to That Which Is To Come, 1574
GEORGE SAVILE, MARQUESS OF HALIFAX, 1581° The Character of a Trimmer
[The Laws], 1582[Liberty and the Constitution], 1588[Conclusion], 1591
JOHN WILMOT, EARL OF ROCHESTER, 1594A Satire Against Mankind, 1595
xxiv CONTENTS
JOJH& DRYDEN, 1600Absalom and Achitophel, 1602Mac Flecknoe, 1629
0 Religio Laici, 1635To the Memory of Mr. Oldham, 1640Lines on Milton, 1641To the Pious Memory of the Accomplished Young Lady, Mrs. Anne Killigrew, 1641A Song for St. Cecilia's Day, 1687, 1647Alexander's Feast, 1649
Translations, 16540 Preface to Sylvae [Lucretius], 1655
Lucretius: De Rerum Natura, 1655Juvenal, 1659
Critical Prose, 1660The Poetic Process [Wit and Fancy], 1660Critical Issues [Subplots and Complex Structure], 1664; [Comedy and Farce], 1664;[Horace and Juvenal], 1665Critical Judgments [Shakespeare and Jonson],i667; [Chaucer], 1668
WILLIAM CONGREVE, 1669JOHN DRYDEN: To My Dear Friend Mr. Congreve, 1671The Way of the World, 1673
Eighteenth Century
JONATHAN SWIFT, 1733
The Battle of the Books, 1735* A Full and True Account of the Battle Fought Last Friday, Between the Ancient and
Modern Books in St. James's Library, 1735
• A Tale of a Tub, 1739
An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity in England, 1757A Modest Proposal, 1767
Poems, 1773Phyllis, Or, The Progress of Love, 1774On Stella's Birthday, 1776Stella's Birthday, 1776The Day of Judgment, 1779Cassinus and Peter, 1779
* Gulliver's Travels, 178a8 Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World: A Voyage to the Country of the
Houyhnhnms, 1785A Letter from Capt. Gulliver to His Cousin Sympson, 1833
JOHN GAY AND ALEXANDER POPE: Mary Gulliver to Captain Lemuel Gulliver, 1836
CONTENTS xxv
THE MOCK FORM, 1837
JOHN PHILIPS .
" The Splendid Shilling, 1839
JOHN GAY ' .
" The Shepherd's Week, 1842
JOHN DRYDEN ' :
* Baucis and Philemon, 1845 • '
JONATHAN SWIFT
Baucis and Philemon, 1849
MATTHEW PRIOR
An Epita-jlh, 1853
ALEXANDER POPE, 1855"An Essay on Criticism, 1857
The Rape of the Lock, 1867
Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady, 1888 .
* An Essay on Man, 1891• Epistle II, 1891" Epistle III, 1892
To Richard Boyle, Earl of Burlington, 1896To a Lady, 1903
Imitations of Horace, 1910, Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, 1911The First Satire of the Second Book of Horace, 1923Epilogue to the Satires: Dialogue I, 381; Dialogue II, 193a
* The Dunciad, 1939Book the Fourth, 1940
JOHN GAY, 1959The Beggar's Opera, 1963
DANIEL DEFOE0 The True and Genuine Account of the Life and Actions of the Late Jonathan Wild,
2011 •. ' •
HENRY FIELDING , •,• •
* The History of the Life of the Late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great, 2014
xxvi CONTENTS
THE URBAN SCENE, 2017
JOHN DRYDEN0 The Third Satire of Juvenal, 2018
SAMUEL JOHNSON
* London: A Poem, 2020
JONATHAN SWIFT
A Description of the Morning, 2021A Description of a City Shower, 2021
JOHN GAY0 Trivia, or the Art of Walking the Streets of London, 2023
JOSEPH ADDISON
[The Royal Exchange], 2027
RICHARD STEELE
[The Hours of London], 2029
BERNARD MANDEVILLE0 The Fable of the Bees, 2032
DANIEL DEFOE
* The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, 2042
HENRY FIELDING0 A Modern Glossary, 2043
Later Eighteenth Century
JAMES BOSWELL, 2044* The Journals
[1762-63: Farewell to Louisa], 2045[1764: The Visit to Rousseau], 2048[1776: Reflections on Man], 2051
" The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.[1729: "Morbid Melancholy"], 2053[1754: The Dictionary and Lord Chesterfield], 2057[1763: The Meeting with Boswell], 2059[1776: The Meeting with Wilkes], 2064[1777: The Fear of Death], 2068[The Character of Samuel Johnson], 2070
1 The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D., 2072
CONTENTS xxvii
SAMUEL JOHNSON, 2077
The Vanity of Human Wishes, 2078
On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet, 20880 The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, 2089
Chapter VIII: The History of Imlac, 2090
Chapter IX: The History of Imlac Continued, 2092Chapter X: Imlac's History Continued. A Dissertation upon Poetry, 2093Chapter XI: Imlac's Narrative Continued. A Hint on Pilgrimage, 2095Chapter XII: The Story of Imlac Continued, 2096
" The Rambler, 2099° The Idler, 2104* The Preface to Shakespeare, 2107
8 The Notes to Shakespeare
[Falstaff]; 2115
[Polonius],2ii5
[Lady Macbeth], 2115
" The Lives of the Poets, 2116[Cowley and the Metaphysical Poets], 2116[Milton], 2118[Richard Savage], 2119[Dryden and Pope], 2121
Pope on Homer and Virgil0 Preface to the translation of the Iliad, 2122
EDWARD GIBBON, 21230 The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Chapter III: Of the Constitution of the Roman Empire, in the Age of the Antonines,2124
>0 Chapter XVI: The Conduct of the Roman Government Towards the Christians, fromthe Reign of Nero to That of Constantine, 2141
EDMUND BURKE, 2144* A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
[* Part II], 2145; [* Part III: The Sublime and Beautiful Compared], 2150;[• Part V], 2151
SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, 21530 Discourses
[The Grand Style], 2154[Poetic and Literal Truth], 2155[The Pleasures of the Mind], 2156[Minute Particulars], 2157[Art and Illusion], 2158
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../THE GARDEN AND THE WILD, 2165
SIB WILLIAM TEMPLE
* Upon the Gardens of Epicurus, 2166
ALEXANDEB. POPE
The Gardens of Alcinous, 21670 Windsor Forest, 2168
ANTHONY ASHLEY COOPER, THIRD EARL OF SHAFTESBURY8 The Moralists, 2169
JOSEPH ADDISON, 2 1 7 8
[The Pleasures of the Imagination], 2178
HORACE WALPOLE AND THOMAS GRAY
[Crossing the Alps, 1739], 2181
JAMES THOMSON4 The Seasons
* Summer, 2183* Winter, 2185
EDWARD YOUNG0 The Complaint; or, Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality
"Night I, 2187* Night VI, 2188
SAMUEL JOHNSON8 A Journey to the Western Islands, 2189
WILLIAM COLLINS, 2189Ode on the Poetical Character, 2192Ode to Evening, 2195Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the Highlands of Scotland, 2197
THOMAS GRAY, 2202Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College, 2203Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes, 2206Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, 2207The Bard, 2211On Lord Holland's Seat near Margate, Kent, 2216
CHRISTOPHER SMART, 22170 Jubilate Agno
" Fragment Bl, 22180 Fragment B2, 2218
A Song to David, 2221
CONTENTS
OLIVER GOLDSMITH, 2235The Diverted Village, 2235
WILLIAM COWPER, 2245Lines Written During a Period of Insanity, 2246On the Ice Islands Seen Floating in the German Ocean, 2247The Castaway, 2248
8 The Task, 2250
GEORGE CRABBE, 22560 The Village, 22568 The Parish Register, 2260
ROBERT BURNS, 2267To a Mous -, 2267Address to the Deil, 2269
Holy Willie's Prayer, 2273Tarn O'Shanter, 2276Green Grow the Rashes, 2282Ae Fond Kiss, 2282A Red, Red Rose, 2283Scots Wha Hae, 2284For A' That and A' That, 2284Sense and Sensibility, 2286
SENSE AND SENSIBILITY, 2286
EDWARD GIBBON8 Memoirs of My Own Life
[Aunt Hester and William Law], 2287[His Conversion to Roman Catholicism], 2290[Gibbon in Love], 2292[His Italian Tour], 2293[The Ideal Traveler], 2294[A Retrospective View], 2295
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU, 2298
8 The Confessions[His Aunt Suzon], 2299[Life with Mine de Warens], 2300[The Roman Past], 2303[The Island of Saint-Pierre], 2304
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LAURENCE STERNE
. "* Tristram Shandy and A Sentimental Journal, 23068 A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy by Mr. Yorick
Moulines, 2309The Bourbonnois, 2311
Glossary, 2313
Suggestions for Further Reading:Medieval, 2337Renaissance, 2342Eighteenth Century, 2355
Indexes:.Authors and Titles, 2363'First Lines of Poems, 2371