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Preface: Representing the Renaissance in the Twenty-First Century
Acknowledgments
Timeline: The Tudor and Stuart Monarchs, 1509–1642
Introduction: Renaissance English History and Literature
John Skelton (1460?–1529)
Philip Sparrow [Part I]
Sir Thomas More (1477/8–1535)
[From] The History of King Richard the Third (ca. 1513–18)
[From] A Dialogue Concerning Heresies (1529)
Letter from Margaret Roper to Alice Alington, August 1534
Sir Thomas Elyot (ca. 1490–1546)
[From] The Book Named the Governor
[From] The First Book of The Castell of Health
William Tyndale (1494–1536)
[From] The Obedience of a Christian Man (1528)
[From] Tyndale’s Translation of the Pentateuch (1530)
[From] Tyndale’s Translation of the New Testament (1534)
Mark 4:1–34 [the Parable of the Sower and the Seed]
The Gospel of Saint John, Chapter 1
[Tyndale’s Translation of Luther’s] A Prologue to the Epistle of Paul to the Romans
Sir Thomas Wyatt (ca. 1503–1542)
[From] Certain Psalms (published 1549)
[Prologue]
Psalm 51. Miserere mei domine
Poems Attributed to Wyattin the Egerton Manuscript and in Tottel’s Miscellany
[The Long Love]
[Whoso List to Hunt]
[The Pillar Perished]
[Farewell, Love]
[Sometime I Fled the Fire]
[
[Sighs Are My Food]
[Lucks, My Fair Falcon]
[In Court to Serve]
[They Flee from Me]
[Madam, Withouten Many Words]
[And Wilt Thou Leave Me Thus?]
[My Lute, Awake!]
[Mine Own John Poyntz]
Broadside Ballads (ca. 1535 onwards)
A Ballad of Luther, the Pope, a Cardinal, and a Husbandman (ca. 1535)
London’s Lottery (1612)
The Silver Age; or, the World Turn’d Backward (1621)
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517–1547) (os)
[Translations from the Aeneid]
[From] Book II [The Death of Creusa]
[From] Book IV [The Suicide of Dido]
Psalm 55
[When Ragyng Love]
[The Soote Season]
[Set Me Wheras the Sonne]
[Love That Doth Raine]
[The Sonne Hath Twyse Brought Forthe]
[London, Hast Thow Accused Me]
[W. Resteth Here]
John Foxe (1517–1587)
[From] Acts and Monuments of These Latter and Perilous Days
Story and Martyrdom of Anne Askew
Richard Mulcaster (1530?–1611)
[From] Positions (1581)
[From] The First Part of the Elementarie (1582)
Queen Elizabeth I (1533–1603)
[Written on a Window Frame at Woodstock]
[’Twas Christ the Word]
[The Doubt of Future Foes]
On Monsieur’s Departure
[When I Was Fair and Young]
Verse Exchange Between Queen Elizabeth and Sir Walter Raleigh
[Raleigh to Elizabeth]
[Elizabeth to Raleigh]
[Song on the Armada Victory, December 1588]
Letter from Princess Elizabeth to Queen Mary, August 2, 1556
Queen Elizabeth’s Speech at the Closing of Parliament, March 29, 1585
George Gascoigne (ca. 1534–1577)
[From] A Hundreth Sundrie Flowres (1573)
Gascoigne’s Woodmanship
Gascoigne’s Goodnight
Certain Sermons or Homilies (1547, 1563)
A Fruitful Exhortation to the Reading and Knowledge of Holy Scripture (1547)
An Homily of the Misery of All Mankind, and of His Condemnation to Death Everlasting, by His Own Sin (1547)
An Homily of the State of Matrimony (1563)
The Book of Common Prayer (1549, 1552, and 1559) (os)
The Preface (1559)
Of Ceremonies, Why Some be Abolished, and Some retayned (1559)
[From] The Litany (1552)
[From] The order of the ministracion of the lordes supper or holy Communion (1552)
Edmund Spenser (1552–1599) (os)
[From] The Shepheardes Calender
Aprill
[From] Amoretti
Epithalamion
[From] The Faerie Queene
A Letter of the Authors expounding his whole intention … to Raleigh
Book II, cantos 1, 7, 9–10, 12
Two Cantos of Mutabilitie
[From] A View of the State of Ireland
Anonymous Carols
[Sing We With Mirth]
[By Reason of Two]
[Of All Creatures Women Be Best]
Richard Hakluyt (ca. 1552–1616) (os)
[From] The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation
The third troublesome voyage made … by M. John Hawkins
[From] A true discourse of the three Voyages of discoverie …
The woorthy enterprise of John Foxe …
The answere of her Maiestie to the aforesaid Letters of the Great Turke …
John Lyly (ca. 1553–1606)
[From] Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit
John Florio (1553?–1625)
[From] The Essayes of Michael Lord of Montaigne
To the courteous Reader
Of the Cannibals
Sir Walter Raleigh (ca. 1553–1618)
Like to a Hermit Poor
The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
The Lie
A Farewell to False Love
[Even Such is Time]
The 21st (and last) Book of the Ocean to Cynthia
Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586)
The Defense of Poesy
[From] Astrophil and Stella
Miscellaneous Poetry
Poems from The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia
[As I my little flock on Ister bank]
[Ye goat-herd gods]
Sonnets
[Thou blind man’s mark]
[Leave me, O love]
[From] The Psalms of David
Psalm 22
Psalm 23
Psalm 30
Thomas Hariot (1560–1621) and John White (1540?–1590)
[From] A briefe and true report of the new found Land of Virginia of the commodities and of the nature and manners of the natural inhabitants (1590)
To the Adventurers, Favourers, and Well-Willers of the Enterprise for the Inhabiting and Planting in Virginia
The third and last part … with a description of the nature and manners of the people of the country
Sir Francis Bacon (1561–1626)
[From] The Advancement of Learning (1605)
[From] Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral (1625)
Of Truth
Of Simulation and Dissimulation
Of Innovations
Of Plantations
Of Nature in Men
Of Studies
Of Vicissitude of Things
New Atlantis (published 1627)
Robert Southwell (1561–1595)
The Burning Babe
Decease Release
Man’s Civil War
Look Home
Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke (1561–1621) (os)
To the Angell Spirit of the Most Excellent Sir Philip Sidney
[From] The Psalms of Sir Philip Sidney and the Countess of Pembroke
Psalm 44 Deus, auribus
Psalm 59 Eripe me de inimicis
Psalm 138 Confitebor tibi
Psalm 139 Domine, probasti
A Mirror for Magistrates (1563, 1587 editions) (os)
[From] A Mirror for Magistrates
The Induction
Cardinal Wolsey
Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593) (os)
Hero and Leander
[From] All Ovid’s Elegies
Book One, Elegia 1
Book One, Elegia 5
Book Three, Elegia 7
Book Three, Elegia 11
The Passionate Shepherd to his Love
William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
The Rape of Lucrece
[From] Sonnets
Thomas Campion (1567–1620) (os)
[From] A Booke of Ayres (1601)
To the Reader
I–II
VI
X
XII
XV
XXI
[Female Persona Lyrics]
2: IX
2: XV
4: XVIII
Thomas Nashe (1567–1601)
The Choice of Valentines
[From] Pierce Penniless His Supplication to the Devil (1592)
Æmilia Lanyer (1569–1645) (os)
Salve Deus Rex Judæorum
Ben Jonson (1572–1637)
[From] Epigrams (1616)
xi. On Something that Walks Somewhere
xiv. To William Camden
xxii. On My First Daughter
xxiii. To John Donne
xlv. On My First Son
lii. To Censorious Courtling
lxii. To Fine Lady Would-Be
lxxvi. On Lucy, Countess of Bedford
lxxxiii. To a Friend
lxxxix. To Edward Alleyn
ci. Inviting a Friend to Supper
cii. To William, Earl of Pembroke
cv. To Mary, Lady Wroth
cx. To Clement Edmonds, On His Caesar’s Commentaries Observed and Translated
cxviii. On Gut
cxxxiv. On the Famous Voyage
[From] The
i. Why I Write Not of Love
ii. To Penshurst
v. Song: To Celia
ix. Song: To Celia
xv. To Heaven
[From] Underwoods (1640)
2. A Celebration of Charis in Ten Lyric Pieces
His Excuse for loving
Her Triumph
His discourse with Cupid
9. My Picture Left in
23. An Ode. To Himself
29. A Fit of Rhyme Against Rhyme
47. An Epistle Answering to One that Asked to be Sealed of the Tribe of Ben
70. To the Immortal Memory and Friendship of that Noble Pair,
Sir Lucius Cary and Sir H. Morison
Miscellaneous Poems
To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author Mr. William Shakespeare: And What He Hath Left Us
John Donne (1572–1631)
[From] Songs and Sonnets
The Anniversary
The Apparition
The Bait
The Canonization
The Ecstasy
A Fever
The Flea
The Funeral
The Indifferent
A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy’s Day, Being the Shortest Day
The Relic
Song
The Sun Rising
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
Elegies
Elegy 8. To His Mistress Going to Bed
Elegy 9. Change
The First Anniversary: An Anatomy of the World
Religious Poems
Holy Sonnets: 6–7, 10
Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward
[From] Paradoxes, Problems, Essays, Characters (published 1652)
A Defence of Women’s Inconstancy
That Nature is our Worst Guide
Why Puritans make long Sermons?
[From] Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624)
XVII. Nunc Lento Sonitu Dicunt, Morieris
John Marston (1576–1634)
[From] Metamorphosis of Pygmalion’s Image, and Certaine Satyres (1598)
Satire II
Martha Moulsworth (1577–?) (os)
November the 10th 1632, The Memorandum of Martha Moulsworth Widdowe
Elizabeth (Tanfield) Cary, Lady Falkland (1585–1639)
[From] The Tragedy of Mariam, the Fair Queen of Jewry
The Argument
Actus Primus. Scena Prima
Myles Smith (d. 1624)
The Translators to the Reader – the Preface to the Authorized Version (King James Bible) (1611)
Lady Mary (
[From] Pamphilia to Amphilanthus
[From] The Countess of Montgomery’s Urania
George Wither (1588–1667)
[From] A Collection of Emblemes Ancient and Moderne
George Herbert (1593–1633)
[From] The Temple
The Altar
The Agonie
Sepulchre
Easter
Easter Wings
Sinne
Prayer (I)
Love I
Jordan (I)
Employment (I)
The H. Scriptures I
Church Monuments
The Windows
The Quiddity
Denial
Vertue
The Pearl. Matth. 13. 45
Life
Jordan (II)
The British Church
The Quip
The Collar
The Pulley
The Sonne
Discipline
Death
Rachel Speght (1597–?) (os)
A Mouzell for Melastomus
Gazetteer of Classical and Early Modern Names and Places
Bibliography
Index of Titles
Introductions, and Notes
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Nathan Scheuerlein
reviewed Renaissance Literature: An Anthology of Poetry and Prose on December 08, 2014
Renaissance Literature: An Anthology of Poetry and Prose
It is funny how sometimes books come at you (and when I say you, I mean me), sometimes almost in clusters. It is almost like there really is a God and He has infinite knowledge of the universe and knows just what it is that you need to be thinking about right about now, except He is curiously shy and so He doesn't like to come right out with it and tell you directly what's on His mind. So, instead, He leaves books lying around in places where you are fairly likely to trip over them and then pick them up and think about them - you know, it's been a while since I read a book about someone rotting away in prison, I ought to read this…
Except, it hasn't been a while since I did anything of the sort. Only the other week I was reading another perfectly good book written by a man who was rotting away in a perfectly good prison and that book also had him thinking about the consolation given to him by philosophy. This book isn't too different from that one (The Consolation of Philosophy Revised Edition). The big difference is that this should probably be called the consolation of art - but other than that I guess the message of both is much the same.
The Message is pretty much that we are alone in the world. If you are to live a life that isn't a cliché you have to learn that most people don't live their own lives, they live lives that should be bound by quotation marks. "Most people are other people." Wilde says himself. They think other people's thoughts, they mouth whatever are the most popular opinions of the day, they watch the same stuff on television that everyone else does and they can even put together sentences grouped into endless paragraphs on subjects of infinite fascination as the merits of the computer generated graphics they saw in Avatar.
If you are going to live a worthwhile life (and isn't that the only question of any interest in the whole of philosophy - which is probably why it is the one question modern philosophy seems to avoid) then Wilde's advice is to at least try to be yourself. He acknowledges that doing that is a hard thing - Christ, they might even put you in gaol if you try that sort of thing - but the alternative is a much worse prison cell and one where you are both prisoner and warder, where you turn the key that locks you in yourself.
Eliot, of course, was wrong - but being a poet he gets to be wrong as long as he is beautifully wrong. We don't think of the key, each sitting in our prison thinking of the key as if that confirmed the prison - the most frightening thing is that we don't think of the key at all - we don't think of the key because to think of the key is to acknowledge the prison. And for most of us that is too much to acknowledge. Prison? What prison?
But there is an escape plan. We are individuals and life is not the ordered, rational, scientifically verifiable and graphed out hypothesis in fifteen variables that someone of the Enlightenment might have decided you ought to think it is. Wilde sees the great conflict of the human soul as being that between Classicism and Romanticism and in that conflict we need to take sides and the side Wilde takes is Romanticism. As he says, "I am one of those who is made for exceptions, not for laws".
And let's face it, we do like our victims to find forgiveness for us after we have meted out our punishments of them. Wilde even discovers Christ, in a sense - though, I think the Christ Wilde discovers isn't quite the same Christ that many Christians would be familiar with. This is not Christ the punisher, Christ the faith-healer or Christ the disappointed friend - but rather a Christ who is wise enough to use children as his example to us of who we should strive to be like. Such a Christ is someone worthy of being followed.
His was a Christ who was the lover of ignorant people, the protector of the exceptions, the defender of those who might just prove to have a great idea.
I thought this was a remarkable book - and a terribly sad book too. Although in the end of this Wilde, like Boethius, is not as bitter with his fate as he could so easily be, although he envisions a future life that is not dedicated to the pursuit solely of pleasure, but rather to a life that also acknowledges darker shades and minor keys; art is seen as the means to free ourselves from the horrors this world presents us with dreadful, if not predictable, regularity.
This was a remarkable book - I found it incredibly moving and often painfully sad. I think, though, that it is often good to be reminded of both the infinite harm we can cause to other people and also the near perfect gift we give that is contained in our simplest act of kindness. This really is a lovely piece of writing.
The stuff on Hamlet is worth reading on its own - nothing is invariably good, and art must also be included in that - Hamlet creating the play within the play in which to watch the effect this causes is Hamlet the artist. Hamlet's madness is Hamlet the actor. And this plays a great part in what is the tragedy of Hamlet.
This is, like so many of Wilde's works, full of quotable quotes and so here are a quick selection of some of my favourites -
"There were Christians before Christ. For that we should be grateful. The unfortunate thing is that there have been none since" -
"A man whose desire is to be something separate from himself, to be a member of parliament, or a successful grocer, or a prominent solicitor, or a judge, or something equally tedious, invariably succeeds in being what he want to be. That is his punishment." -
"I must accept the fact that one is punished for the good as well as the evil that one does".
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