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Tables of Contents for The Longman Anthology of British Literature
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Illustrations
xix
Preface
xxi
Acknowledgments
xxvi
Bibliography
xxix
The Early Modern Period
640
116
John Skelton
663
6
Womanhod, Wanton
663
1
Lullay
664
1
Knolege, Aquayntance
665
1
Manerly Margery Mylk and Ale
666
1
Garland of Laurel
667
2
To Maystres Jane Blennerhasset
667
1
To Maystres Isabell Pennell
667
1
To Maystres Margaret Hussey
668
1
Sir Thomas Wyatt
669
10
The Long Love, That in My Thought Doth Harbor
670
1
Companion Reading
Petrarch, Sonnet 140
670
1
Whoso List to Hunt
671
1
Companion Reading
Petrarch, Sonnet 190
671
1
My Galley
672
1
They Flee from Me
672
1
Some Time I Fled the Fire
673
1
My Lute, Awake!
673
1
Tagus, Farewell
674
1
Forget Not Yet
674
1
Blame Not My Lute
675
1
Lucks, My Fair Falcon, and Your Fellows All
676
1
Stand Whoso List
676
1
Mine Own John Poyns
676
3
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
679
7
Love That Doth Reign and Live within My Thought
679
1
Th'Assyrians' King, in Peace with Foul Desire
680
1
Set Me Whereas the Sun Doth Parch the Green
680
1
The Soote Season
680
1
Alas, So All Things Now Do Hold Their Peace
681
1
Companion Reading
Petrarch, Sonnet 164
681
1
So Cruel Prison
682
1
London, Hast Thou Accused Me
683
2
Wyatt Resteth Here
685
1
My Radcliffe, When Thy Reckless Youth Offends
686
1
Sir Thomas More
686
70
Utopia
687
69
PERSPECTIVES Government and Self Government
756
245
William Tyndale
757
1
from The Obedience of a Christian Man
757
1
Juan Luis Vives
758
1
from Instruction of a Christian Woman
758
1
Sir Thomas Elyot
759
3
from The Book Named the Governor
760
1
from The Defence of Good Women
761
1
John Ponet
762
2
from A Short Treatise of Political Power
762
2
John Foxe
764
3
from The Book of Martyrs
765
2
Richard Hooker
767
2
from The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity
767
2
James I (James VI of Scotland)
769
2
from The True Law of Free Monarchies
770
1
Baldassare Castiglione
771
2
from The Book of the Courtier
772
1
Roger Ascham
773
2
from The Schoolmaster
773
2
Richard Mulcaster
775
2
from The First Part of the Elementary
775
2
George Gascoigne
777
7
Seven Sonnets to Alexander Neville
777
3
Woodmanship
780
4
Edmund Spenser
784
183
The Shepheardes Calender
785
4
October
785
4
The Faerie Queene
789
1
A Letter of the Authors
790
3
The First Booke of the Faerie Queene
793
141
The Second Booke of the Faerie Queene
934
20
Canto 12
934
20
Amoretti
954
3
1 (``Happy ye leaves when as those lilly hands'')
954
1
4 (``New yeare forth looking out of Janus gate'')
954
1
13 (``In that proud port, which her so goodly graceth'')
954
1
22 (``This holy season fit to fast and pray'')
955
1
62 (``The weary yeare his race now having run'')
955
1
65 (``The doubt which ye misdeeme, fayre love, is vaine'')
956
1
66 (``To all those happy blessings which ye have'')
956
1
68 (``Most glorious Lord of lyfe that on this day'')
956
1
75 (``One day I wrote her name upon the strand'')
957
1
Epithalamion
957
10
Sir Philip Sidney
967
34
The Apology for Poetry
969
32
``The Apology'' and Its Time The Art of Poetry
1001
211
from The School of Abuse
1002
1
Stephen Gosson
The Art of English Poesie
1003
3
George Puttenham
Certain Notes of Instruction
1006
2
George Gascoigne
A Defense of Rhyme
1008
1
Samuel Daniel
The Arcadia
1009
34
Book 1
1009
34
Astrophil and Stella
1043
8
1 (``Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show'')
1043
1
7 (``When Nature made her chiefe worke, Stellas eyes'')
1043
1
9 (``Queene Vertues court, which some call Stellas face'')
1044
1
31 (``With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies'')
1044
1
39 (``Come sleep, O sleep, the certain knot of peace'')
1044
1
45 (``Stella oft sees the very face of woe'')
1045
1
60 (``When my good Angel guides me to the place'')
1045
1
71 (``Who will in fairest book of Nature know'')
1045
1
Fourth song (``Only joy, now here you are'')
1046
1
Eighth song (``In a grove most rich of shade'')
1047
3
106 (``O absent presence, Stella is not here'')
1050
1
108 (``When sorrow (using mine own fire's might)'')
1050
1
Isabella Whitney
1051
16
I.W. To Her Unconstant Lover
1051
4
The Admonition by the Author
1055
3
A Careful Complaint by the Unfortunate Author
1058
1
The Manner of Her Will
1059
8
Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke
1067
11
Even Now That Care
1067
3
To Thee Pure Sprite
1070
2
Psalm 71: In Te Domini Speravi (``On thee my trust is grounded'')
1072
3
Companion Reading
Miles Coverdale: Psalm 71
1075
1
Psalm 121: Levavi Oculos (``Unto the hills, I now will bend'')
1075
1
The Doleful Lay of Clorinda
1076
2
Elizabeth I
1078
15
Written with a Diamond on Her Window at Woodstock
1080
1
Written on a Wall at Woodstock
1080
1
The Doubt of Future Foes
1081
1
On Monsieur's Departure
1081
1
Psalm 13 (``Fools that true faith yet never had'')
1082
1
The Metres of Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy
1082
2
Book 1, No. 2 (``O in how headlong depth the drowned mind is dim'')
1082
1
Book 1, No. 7 (``Dim clouds'')
1083
1
Book 2, No. 3 (``In pool when Phoebus with reddy wain'')
1084
1
Speeches
1084
1
On Marriage
1084
1
On Mary, Queen of Scots
1085
3
On Mary's Execution
1088
2
To the English Troops at Tilbury, Facing the Spanish Armada
1090
1
The Golden Speech
1091
2
Aemilia Lanyer
1093
10
The Description of Cookham
1093
5
Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum
1098
5
To the Doubtful Reader
1098
1
To the Virtuous Reader
1098
1
[Invocation]
1099
1
[Against Beauty Without Virtue]
1100
1
[Pilate's Wife Apologizes for Eve]
1101
2
Richard Barnfield
1103
20
The Affectionate Shepherd
1104
16
Sonnets from Cynthia
1120
3
1 (``Sporting at fancy, setting light by love'')
1120
1
5 (``It is reported of fair Thetis' son'')
1120
1
9 (``Diana (on a time) walking the wood'')
1121
1
11 (``Sighing, and sadly sitting by my love'')
1121
1
13 (``Speak, Echo, tell; how may I call my love?'')
1121
1
19 (``Ah no; nor I myself: though my pure love'')
1122
1
Christopher Marlowe
1123
68
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
1124
1
Companion Reading
The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd
1124
1
Sir Walter Raleigh
Hero and Leander
1125
18
The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
1143
48
Sir Walter Raleigh
1191
21
Nature That Washed Her Hands in Milk
1192
1
To the Queen
1193
1
On the Life of Man
1194
1
The Author's Epitaph, Made by Himself
1194
1
As You Came from the Holy Land
1195
1
from The 21st and Last Book of the Ocean to Cynthia
1196
5
The Discovery of the Large, Rich and Beautiful Empire of Guiana
1201
11
from Epistle Dedicatory
1201
2
To the Reader
1203
3
[The Amazons]
1206
1
[The Orinoco]
1206
2
[The King of Aromaia]
1208
1
[The New World of Guiana]
1209
3
``The Discovery'' and Its Time Voyage Literature
1212
142
The First Voyage Made to the Coasts of America
1212
5
Arthur Barlow
A Brief and True Report of the Newfound Land of Virginia
1217
3
Thomas Hariot
A Notable History Containing Four Voyages Made to Florida
1220
2
Rene Laudonniere
William Shakespeare
1222
132
Sonnets
1225
1
1 (``From fairest creatures we desire increase'')
1225
1
12 (``When I do count the clock that tells the time'')
1226
1
15 (``When I consider every thing that grows'')
1226
1
18 (``Shall I compare thee to a summer's day'')
1226
1
20 (``A woman's face with Nature's own hand painted'')
1227
1
29 (``When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes'')
1227
1
30 (``When to the sessions of sweet silent thought'')
1228
1
31 (``Thy bosom is endeared with all hearts'')
1228
1
33 (``Full many a glorious morning have I seen'')
1228
1
35 (``No more be grieved at that which thou hast done'')
1229
1
55 (``Not marble nor the gilded monuments'')
1229
1
60 (``Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore'')
1229
1
71 (``No longer mourn for me when I am dead'')
1230
1
73 (``That time of year thou mayst in me behold'')
1230
1
80 (``O, how I faint when I of you do write'')
1230
1
86 (``Was it the proud full sail of his great verse'')
1231
1
87 (``Farewell! Thou art too dear for my possessing'')
1231
1
93 (``So shall I live, supposing thou art true'')
1232
1
94 (``They that have pow'r to hurt, and will do none'')
1232
1
104 (``To me, fair friend, you never can be old'')
1232
1
10C (``When in the chronicle of wasted time'')
1233
1
107 (``Not mine own fears nor the prophetic soul'')
1233
1
116 (``Let me not to the marriage of true minds'')
1233
1
123 (``No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change'')
1234
1
124 (``If my dear love were but the child of state'')
1234
1
126 (``O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power'')
1235
1
128 (``How oft, when thou my music play'st'')
1235
1
129 (``The expense of spirit in a waste of shame'')
1235
1
130 (``My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun'')
1236
1
138 (``When my love swears that she is made of truth'')
1236
1
144 (``Two loves I have, of comfort and despair'')
1237
1
152 (``In loving thee thou know'st I am forsworn'')
1237
1
Twelfth Night; or, What You Will
1237
55
The Tempest
1292
62
Companion Readings
from A True Reportory of the Wrack and Redemption of Sir Thomas Gates, Knight, upon and from the Islands of the Bermudas
1345
8
William Strachey
from Of Cannibals
1353
1
Michel de Montaigne
PERSPECTIVES England in the New World
1354
123
Michael Drayton
1355
2
To the Virginian Voyage
1355
2
John Smith
1357
6
from General History of Virginia and the Summer Isles
1357
6
Richard Ffrethorne
1363
4
Letter to His Father and Mother (March 20, April 2 and 3, 1623)
1363
4
John Donne
1367
4
from A Sermon Preached to the Honorable Company of the Virginia Plantation
1307
64
William Bradford
1371
10
from Of plymouth Plantation
1372
9
Mary Rowlandson
1381
16
from A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
1381
16
The Bay Psalm Book
1397
3
Psalm 71
1398
2
Psalm 121
1400
1
James Revel
1400
6
from The Poor Unhappy Transported Felon's Sorrowful Account of His Fourteen Years Transportation at Virginia in America
1401
5
Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton
1406
71
The Roaring Girl; or, Moll Cut-Purse
1409
68
``The Roaring Girl'' and Its Time City Life
1477
19
My Lady's Looking Glass
1480
1
Barnabe Riche
A Notable Discovery of Cosenage
1481
1
Robert Greene
Lantern and Candlelight
1482
3
Thomas Dekker
Thomas of Reading
1485
6
Thomas Deloney
Pierce Penniless
1491
3
Thomas Nashe
A Counterblast to Tobacco
1494
2
King James I
PERSPECTIVES Tracts on Women and Gender
1496
203
Desiderius Erasmus
1497
2
from In Laude and Praise of Matrimony
1498
1
Barnabe Riche
1499
1
from My Lady's Looking Glass
1499
1
Margaret Tyler
1500
2
from Preface to The First Part of the Mirror of Princely Deeds
1501
1
Joseph Swetnam
1502
3
from The Arraignment of Lewd, Idle, Froward, and Unconstant Women
1503
2
Rachel Speght
1505
6
from A Muzzle for Melastomus
1506
5
Ester Sowernam
1511
3
from Ester Hath Hanged Haman
1511
3
Hic Mulier and Haec-Vir
1514
8
from Hic Mulier; or, The Man-Woman
1515
2
from Haec-Vir; or, The Womanish-Man
1517
5
Thomas Campion
1522
3
My sweetest Lesbia, let us live and love
1523
1
There is a garden in her face
1524
1
Rose-cheeked Laura, come
1524
1
When thou must home to shades of underground
1524
1
Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore
1525
1
Michael Drayton
1525
3
To the Reader
1526
1
Sonnet 12 (``To nothing fitter can I thee compare'')
1527
1
Sonnet 61 (``Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part'')
1527
1
To His Coy Love, a Canzonet
1527
1
Ben Jonson
1528
119
The Alchemist
1530
98
On Something, That Walks Somewhere
1628
1
On My First Daughter
1628
1
To John Donne
1629
1
On My First Son
1629
1
Inviting a Friend to Supper
1629
1
To Penshurst
1630
2
Song to Celia
1632
1
Queen and Huntress
1633
1
To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare, and What He Hath Left Us
1633
2
To the Immortal Memory, and Friendship of that Noble Pair, Sir Lucius Cary and Sir H. Morison
1635
3
Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue
1638
9
John Donne
1647
21
The Good Morrow
1648
1
Song (``Go, and catch a falling star'')
1649
1
The Undertaking
1650
1
The Sun Rising
1650
1
The Indifferent
1651
1
The Canonization
1652
1
Air and Angels
1653
1
Break of Day
1653
1
A Valediction: of Weeping
1654
1
Love's Alchemy
1655
1
The Flea
1655
1
The Bait
1656
1
The Apparition
1656
1
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
1657
1
The Ecstasy
1658
2
The Funeral
1660
1
The Relic
1660
1
Elegy 19: To His Mistress Going to Bed
1661
1
Holy Sonnets
1662
1
1 (``As due by many titles I resign'')
1662
1
2 (``Oh my black soul! Now thou art summoned'')
1663
1
3 (``This is my play's last scene, here heavens appoint'')
1663
1
4 (``At the round earth's imagined corners, blow'')
1663
1
5 (``If poisonous minerals, and if that tree'')
1664
1
6 (``Death be not proud, though some have called thee'')
1664
1
7 (``Spit in my face ye Jews, and pierce my side'')
1664
1
8 (``Why are we by all creatures waited on?'')
1665
1
9 (``What if this present were the world's last night?'')
1665
1
10 (``Batter my heart, three-personed God; for, you'')
1666
1
11 (``Wilt thou love God, as he thee? Then digest'')
1666
1
12 (``Father, part of his double interest'')
1666
1
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions
1667
1
[``For whom the bell tolls'']
1667
1
Lady Mary Wroth
1668
6
Pamphilia to Amphilanthus
1669
5
1 (``When night's black mantle could most darkness prove'')
1669
1
16 (``Am I thus conquered? Have I lost the powers'')
1669
1
17 (``Truly poor Night thou welcome art to me'')
1670
1
26 (``When everyone to pleasing pastime hies'')
1670
1
28. Song (``Sweetest love, return again'')
1670
1
39 (``Take heed mine eyes, how you your looks do cast'')
1671
1
40 (``False hope which feeds but to destroy, and spill'')
1671
1
48 (``If ever Love had force in human breast?'')
1672
1
68 (``My pain, still smothered in my grieved breast'')
1672
1
74. Song (``Love a child is ever crying'')
1672
1
A Crown of Sonnets Dedicated to Love
1673
1
77 (``In this strange labyrinth how shall I turn?'')
1673
1
83 (``How blessed be they then, who his favors prove'')
1673
1
103 (``My muse now happy, lay thyself to rest'')
1674
1
Robert Herrick
1674
11
Hesperides
1675
1
The Argument of His Book
1675
1
To His Book
1675
1
Another (``To read my book the virgin shy'')
1675
1
Another (``Who with thy leaves shall wipe at need'')
1676
1
To the Sour Reader
1676
1
When He Would Have His Verses Read
1676
1
Delight in Disorder
1676
1
Corinna's Going A-Maying
1677
1
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
1678
1
The Hock-Cart, or Harvest Home
1679
1
His Prayer to Ben Jonson
1680
1
Upon Julia's Clothes
1680
1
Upon His Spaniel Tracie
1680
1
The Dream (``Me thought (last night) Love in an anger came'')
1681
1
The Dream (``By dream I saw one of the three'')
1681
1
The Vine
1681
1
The Vision
1682
1
Discontents in Devon
1682
1
To Dean-Bourne, a Rude River in Devon
1682
1
Upon Scobble: Epigram
1683
1
The Christian Militant
1683
1
To His Tomb-Maker
1683
1
Upon Himself Being Buried
1683
1
His Last Request to Julia
1683
1
The Pillar of Fame
1684
1
His Noble Numbers
1684
1
His Prayer for Absolution
1684
1
To His Sweet Saviour
1684
1
To God, on His Sickness
1685
1
George Herbert
1685
14
The Altar
1686
1
Redemption
1686
1
Easter
1687
1
Easter Wings
1688
1
Affliction (1)
1688
2
Prayer (1)
1690
1
Jordan (1)
1690
1
Church Monuments
1691
1
The Windows
1691
1
Denial
1692
1
Virtue
1692
1
Man
1693
1
Jordan (2)
1694
1
Time
1694
1
The Collar
1695
1
The Pulley
1696
1
The Forerunners
1696
1
Love (3)
1697
2
PERSPECTIVES Emblem, Style, and Metaphor
1699
48
Geoffrey Whitney
1701
1
The Phoenix
1701
1
Ben Jonson
1702
4
from Timber, or Discoveries
1702
4
Giordano Bruno
1706
1
from On the Composition of Images, Signs, and Ideas
1706
1
Conte Emmanuele Tesauro
1707
2
from Through the Lens of Aristotle
1708
1
Richard Crashaw
1709
2
To the Noblest and Best of Ladies, the Countess of Denbigh
1710
1
Richard Lovelace
1711
5
To Lucasta, Going to the Wars
1712
1
The Grasshopper
1712
2
To Althea, from Prison
1714
1
Love Made in the First Age: To Chloris
1714
2
Henry Vaughan
1716
8
Regeneration
1717
2
The Retreat
1719
1
Silence, and Stealth of Days
1720
1
The World
1720
2
They Are All Gone into the World of Light!
1722
1
The Night
1723
1
Andrew Marvell
1724
14
The Coronet
1726
1
Bermudas
1726
1
The Nymph Complaining for the Death of Her Fawn
1727
3
To His Coy Mistress
1730
1
The Definition of Love
1731
1
The Mower Against Gardens
1732
1
The Mower's Song
1733
1
The Garden
1733
2
An Horatian Ode Upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland
1735
3
Katherine Philips
1738
9
Friendship in Emblem, or the Seal
1739
2
Upon the Double Murder of King Charles
1741
1
On the Third of September, 1651
1742
1
To the Truly Noble, and Obliging Mrs. Anne Owen
1743
1
To Mrs. Mary Awbrey at Parting
1743
2
To My Excellent Lucasia, on Our Friendship
1745
1
The World
1745
2
The Development of English Prose
1747
32
Francis Bacon
1748
7
Of Truth
1749
1
Of Marriage and Single Life
1750
1
Of Superstition
1751
1
Of Plantations
1752
2
Of Studies [version of 1597]
1754
1
Of Studies [version of 1625]
1754
1
The King James Bible
1755
3
Genesis 2-3
1756
2
Lady Mary Wroth
1758
4
from The Countess of Montgomery's Urania
1759
3
Thomas Hobbes
1762
4
Leviathan
1763
3
Chapter 13. Of the Natural Condition of Mankind as Concerning their Felicity, and Misery
1763
3
Sir Thomas Browne
1766
4
Religio Medici
1767
3
from Part 1
1767
3
Robert Burton
1770
9
The Anatomy of Melancholy
1771
8
[The Utopia of Democritus]
1771
6
Division of the Body, Humors, Spirits
1777
2
PERSPECTIVES The Civil War, or The Wars of Three Kingdoms
1779
250
John Gauden
1781
3
from Eikon Basilike
1782
2
John Milton
1784
7
from Eikonoklastes
1785
6
The Petition of Gentlewomen and Tradesmen's Wives
1791
4
John Lilburne
1795
3
from England's New Chains Discovered
1796
2
Oliver Cromwell
1798
5
from Letters from Ireland
1799
4
John O'dwyer of the Glenn
1803
1
The Story of Alexander Agnew; or, Jock of Broad Scotland
1804
2
Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon
1806
4
from True Historical Narrative of the Rebellion
1807
3
John Milton
1810
219
L'Allegro
1812
3
II Penseroso
1815
4
Lycidas
1819
5
How Soon Hath Time
1824
1
On the New Forcers of Conscience Under the Long Parliament
1824
1
To the Lord General Cromwell
1825
1
On the Late Massacre in Piedmont
1825
1
When I Consider How My Light Is Spent
1826
1
Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint
1826
1
from Areopagitica
1827
9
Paradise Lost
1836
1
Book 1
1837
19
Book 2
1856
24
from Book 3
1880
13
from Book 4
1893
19
from Book 5
1912
10
from Book 6
1922
1
from Book 7
1922
2
from Book 8
1924
10
Book 9
1934
25
from Book 10
1959
19
from Book 11
1978
1
from Book 12
1979
6
Samson Agonistes
1985
44
PERSPECTIVES Spiritual Self-Reckonings
2029
32
The Lady Falkland: Her Life
2029
8
from The Lady Falkland: Her Life, by one of Her Daughters
2030
7
Anna Trapnel
2037
7
from Anna Trapnel's Report and Plea
2037
7
Alice Thornton
2044
4
from Book of Remembrances
2044
4
Ralph Josselin
2048
1
from Diary
2048
1
Daniel Defoe
2049
2
from The Life and Strange and Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner
2050
1
John Bunyan
2051
10
from The Pilgrim's Progress
2051
10
Political and Religious Orders
2061
6
Money, Weights, and Measures
2067
2
Literary and Cultural Terms
2069
24
Credits
2093
2
Index
2095