The Longman Anthology of British Literature, Volume I: Middle Ages to The Restoration and the 18th Century Book

* denotes selection is new to this edition. Complete contents for Volume I are below. Volume 1A contains only the section entitled "Middle Ages." Volume 1B contains only the section entitled "The Early Modern Period." Volume 1C contains only the section entitled "The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century."

THE MIDDLE AGES.

Before the Norman Conquest.
Beowulf.The Táin Bó Cuailnge.

The Pillow Talk.

The Táin Begins.

The Last Battle.

Early Irish Verse.

*To Crinog.

*Pangur the Cat.

*Writing in the Wood.

*The Viking Terror.

*The Old Woman of Beare.

*Findabair Remembers Fróech.

*A Grave Marked with Ogam.

*From The Voyage of Máel Dúin.

Judith.The Dream of the Rood.

Perspectives: Ethnic and Religious Encounters.

Bede. From An Ecclesiastical History of the English People.

Bishop Asser. From The Life of King Alfred.

King Alfred. Preface to St. Gregory's Pastoral Care.

Ohthere's Journeys.

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Stamford Bridge and Hastings.

Taliesin.

Urien Yrechwydd.

The Battle of Argoed Llwyfain.

The War-Band's Return.

Lament for Owain Son of Urien.

The Wanderer.Wulf and Eadwacer and the Wife's Lament.Riddles.

Three Anglo-Latin Riddles by Aldhelm.

Five Old English Riddles.

After the Norman Conquest.

Perspectives: Arthurian Myth in the History of Britain.

Geoffrey of Monmouth. From History of the Kings of Britain.

Gerald of Wales. From The Instruction of Princes.

Edward I. Letter to the Papal Court of Rome.

Companion Reading. A Report to Edward I.

Arthurian Romance.
Marie de France.

LAIS.

Prologue.

Lanval.

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

Sir Thomas Malory.

Morte Darthur.

From Caxton's Prologue.

The Miracle of Galahad.

The Poisoned Apple.

The Days of Destiny.

Geoffrey Chaucer.

The Parliament of Fowls.

The CANTERBURY TALES.

The General Prologue.

The Miller's Tale.

The Introduction.

The Tale.

The Wife of Bath's Prologue.

The Wife of Bath's Tale.

*The Franklin's Tale.

*The Prologue.

*The Tale.

The Pardoner's Prologue.

The Pardoner's Tale.

The Nun's Priest's Tale.

The Parson's Tale.

The Introduction.

(The Remedy for the Sin of Lechery.)

Chaucer's Retraction.

To His Scribe Adam.

Complaint to His Purse.

William Langland.

Piers Plowman.

Prologue.

Passus 2.

from Passus 5.

Passus 6.

Passus 18.

“Piers Plowman” and Its Time: The Rising of 1381.

From The Anonimalle Chronicle [Wat Tyler's Demands to Richard II and his death].

Three Poems on the Rising of 1381.

John Ball's First Letter.

John Ball's Second Letter.

The Course of Revolt.

John Gower. From The Voice of One Crying.

Mystical Writings
Julian of Norwich.

A Book of Showings.

(Three Graces. Illness. The First Revelation.)

*(Laughing at the Devil.)

(Christ Draws Julian in Through His Wound.])

(The Necessity of Sin, and of Hating Sin.)

(God as Father, Mother, Husband.)

*(The Soul as Christ's Citadel.)

(The Meaning of the Visions Is Love.)

Companion Readings.

Richard Rolle. From The Fire of Love

From The Cloud of Unknowing.

Medieval Cycle Dramas.
The Second Play of the Shepherds.*The York Play of the Crucifixion.*Vernacular Religion and Repression.

*The Wycliffite Bible.

*John 10:11-18.

*From A Wycliffite Sermon on John 10:11-18.

*John Mirk.

*From Festial.

*From The Statute “On Burning the Heretics,”1401.

*Preaching and Teaching in the Vernacular.

*The Holy Prophet David Saith.

[Six Points on Lay Reading of Scripture]

Nicholas Love.

From The Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus.

From The Confession of Hawisia Moone of Loddon.

Margery Kempe.

The Book of Margery Kempe.

The Preface.

(Early Life and Temptations, Revelation, Desire for Foreign Pilgrimage.)

*(Meeting with Bishop of Lincoln and Archbishop of Canterbury.)

(Visit with Julian of Norwich.)

(Pilgrimage to Jerusalem.)

*(Arrest by Duke of Bedford's Men; Meeting with Archbishop of York.)

Middle English Lyrics.

The Cuckoo Song (“Sumer is icumen in”).

Spring (“Lenten is come with love to toune”).

Alisoun (“Bitwene Mersh and Averil”).

I Have a Noble Cock.

My Lefe Is Faren in a Lond.

Fowles in the Frith.

Abuse of Women (“In every place ye may well see”).

The Irish Dancer (“Gode sire, pray ich thee”).

A Forsaken Maiden's Lament (“I lovede a child of this cuntree”).

The Wily Clerk (“This enther day I mete a clerke”).

Jolly Jankin (“As I went on Yol Day in our procession”).

Adam Lay Ibounden.

I Sing of a Maiden.

In Praise of Mary (“Edi be thu, Hevene Quene”).

Mary Is With Child (“Under a tree”).

Sweet Jesus, King of Bliss.

Now Goeth Sun under Wood.

Jesus, My Sweet Lover (“Jesu Christ, my lemmon swete”).

Contempt of the World (“Where beth they biforen us weren?”).

The Tale of Taliesin.Dafydd Ap Gwilym.

Aubade.

One Saving Place.

The Girls of Llanbadarn.

Tale of a Wayside Inn.

The Hateful Husband.

The Winter.

The Ruin.

Middle Scots Poets.
William Dunbar.

Lament for the Makars.

Done is a Battell.

In Secreit Place This Hyndir Nycht.

Robert Henryson.

Robyne and Makyne.

*Late Medieval Allegory.
*John Lydgate.

*From Pilgrimage of the Life of Man.

*Mankind.

*Christine de Pisan.

*From Book of the City of Ladies.

THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD.

*John Skelton.

*Womanhood, Wanton.

*Lullay.

*Knolege, Aquayntance.

*Manerly Margery Mylk and Ale.

*Garland of Laurel.

*To Maystres Jane Blennerhasset.

*To Maystres Isabell Pennell.

*To Maystres Margaret Hussey.

Sir Thomas Wyatt.

The Long Love, That in My Thought Doth Harbor.

Companion Reading.

Petrarch; Sonnet 140.

Whoso List to Hunt.

Companion Reading.

Petrarch; Sonnet 190.

My Galley.

They Flee from Me.

Some Time I Fled the Fire.

My Lute, Awake!

Tagus, Farewell.

Forget Not Yet.

Blame Not My Lute.

Lucks, My Fair Falcon, and Your Fellows All.

Stand Whoso List.

Mine Own John Poyns.

Henry Howard, Earl Of Surrey.

Love That Doth Reign and Live within My Thought.

Th'Assyrians' King, in Peace with Foul Desire.

Set Me Whereas the Sun Doth Parch the Green.

The Soote Season.

Alas, So All Things Now Do Hold Their Peace.

Companion Reading.

Petrarch; Sonnet 164.

So Cruel Prison.

London, Hast Thou Accused Me.

Wyatt Resteth Here.

My Radcliffe, When Thy Reckless Youth Offends.

Sir Thomas More.

Utopia.

Perspectives: Government and Self-Government.

William Tyndale. From The Obedience of a Christian Man.

Juan Luis Vives. From Instruction of a Christian Woman.

Sir Thomas Elyot. From The Book Named the Governor.

Sir Thomas Elyot. From The Defence of Good Women.

John Ponet. From A Short Treatise of Political Power.

John Foxe. From The Book of Martyrs.

Richard Hooker. From The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity.

James I (James VI of Scotland). From The True Law of Free Monarchies.

Baldassare Castiglione. From The Book of the Courtier.

Roger Ascham. From The Schoolmaster.

Richard Mulcaster. From The First Part of the Elementary

George Gascoigne.

Seven Sonnets to Alexander Neville.

Woodsmanship.

Edmund Spenser.

The Shepheardes Calender.

October.

The Faerie Queene.

A Letter of the Authors.

The First Booke of the Fairie Queene.

The Second Booke of the Fairie Queene.

Canto 12.

Amoretti.

1(“Happy ye leaves when as those lilly hands.”)

4(“New yeare forth looking out of Janus gate.”)

13(“In that proud port, which her so goodly graceth.”)

(“This holy season fit to fast and pray.”)

(“The weary yeare his race now having run.”)

(“The doubt which ye misdeeme, fayre love, is vaine.”)

(“To all those happy belssings which ye have.”)

(“Most glorious Lord of lyfe that on this day.”)

(“One day I wrote her name upon the strand.”)

Epithalamion.

Sir Philip Sidney.

The Apology for Poetry.

“The Apology” and Its Time: The Art of Poetry.

Stephen Gosson. From The School of Abuse.

George Puttenham. From The Art of English Poesie.

George Gascoigne.From Certain Notes of Instruction.

Samuel Daniel. From A Defense of Rhyme.

The Arcadia.

Book I.

Astrophil and Stella.

1 (“Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show.”)

*7 (“When Nature made her chiefs worke, Stellas eyes.”)

*9 (“Queene Vertues couyrt, which some call Stellas face.”)

31 (“With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies.”)

39 (“Come sleep, O sleep, the certain knot of peace.”)

45 (“Stella oft sees the very face of woe.”)

60 (“When my good Angel guides me to the place.”)

71 (“Who will in fairest book of Nature know.”)

Fourth song (“Only joy, now here you are.”)

Eighth song (“In a grove most rich of shade.”)

106 (“O absent presence, Stella is not here.”)

108 (“When sorrow (using mine own fire's might.) (“

Isabella Whitney.

I.W. To Her Unconstant Lover.

The Admonition by the Author.

A Careful Complaint by the Unfortunate Author.

The Manner of Her Will.

Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke.

Even Now That Care.

To Thee Pure Sprite.

Psalm 71: In Te Domini Speravi (“On thee my trust is grounded”).

Companion Reading.

Miles Coverdale: Psalm 71.

Psalm 121: Levavi Oculos (“Unto the hills, I now will bend”).

The Doleful Lay of Clorinda.

Elizabeth I.

Written with a Diamond on Her Window at Woodstock.

Written on a Wall at Woodstock.

The Doubt of Future Foes.

On Monsieur's Departure.

Psalm 13 (“Fools that true faith yet never had”).

The Metres of Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy.

Book 1, No. 2 (“O in how headlong depth the drowned mind is dim.”)

Book 1, No. 7 (“Dim clouds.”)

Book 2, No. 3 (“In pool when Phoebus with reddy wain.”)

Speeches.

On Marriage.

On Mary, Queen of Scots.

On Mary's Execution.

To the English Troops at Tilbury, Facing the Spanish Armada.

The Golden Speech.

Aemilia Lanyer.

The Description of Cookham.

Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum.

To the Doubtful Reader.

To the Virtuous Reader.

(Invocation.)

(Against Beauty Without Virtue.)

(Pilate's Wife Apologizes for Eve.)

Richard Barnfield.

The Affectionate Shepherd.

Sonnets from Cynthia.

1 (“Sporting at fancy, setting light by love.”)

5 (“It is reported of fair Thetis' son.”)

9 (“Diana (on a time) walking the wood.”)

11 (“Sighing, and sadly sitting by my love.”)

13(“Speak, Echo, tell; how may I call my love?”)

19 (“Ah no; nor I myself: though my pure love.”)

Christopher Marlowe.

The Passionate Shepherd to His Love.

Companion Reading. Sir Walter Raleigh. The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd.

Hero and Leander.

The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus.

Sir Walter Raleigh.

Nature That Washed Her Hands in Milk.

To the Queen.

On the Life of Man.

The Author's Epitaph, Made by Himself.

As You Came from the Holy Land.

From The 21st and Last Book of the Ocean to Cynthia.

The Discovery of the Large, Rich and Beautiful Empire of Guiana.

From Epistle Dedicatory.

To the Reader.

(The Amazons.)

(The Orinoco.)

(The King of Aromaia.)

(The New World of Guiana.)

“The Discovery” and Its Time: Voyage Literature.

Arthur Barlow. From The First Vogage Made to the Coasts of America.

Thomas Hariot. From A Brief and True Report of the Newfound Land of Virginia.

René Laudonnière. From A Notable History Containing Four Voygages Made to Florida.

William Shakespeare.

Sonnets.

1 (“From fairest creatures we desire increase”).

12 (“When I do count the clock that tells the time”).

15 (“When I consider every thing that grows”).

18 (“Shall I compare thee to a summer's day”).

20 (“A woman's face with Nature's own hand painted”).

29 (“When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes”).

*30 (“When to the sessions of sweet, silent thought”).

31 (“Thy bosom is endearèd with all hearts”).

33 (“Full many a glorious morning have I seen”).

35 (“No more be grieved at that which thou hast done”).

55 (“Not marble nor the gilded monuments”).

60 (“Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore”).

*71 (“No longer mourn for me when I am dead”).

73 (“That time of year thou mayst in me behold”).

80 (“O, how I faint when I of you do write”).

86 (“Was it the proud full sail of his great verse”).

87 (“Farewell! Thou art too dear for my possessing”).

93 (“So shall I live, supposing thou art true”).

*94 (“That they have pow'r to hurt, and will do none”).

104 (“To me, fair friend, you never can be old”).

106 (“When in the chronicle of wasted time”).

107 (“Not mine own fears nor the prophetic soul”).

116 (“Let me not to the marriage of true minds”).

123 (“No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change”).

124 (“If my dear love were but the child of state”).

126 (“O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power”).

*128 (“How oft, when thou my music play'st”).

*129 (“The expense of spirit is a waste of shame.”)

130 (“My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun”).

138 (“When my love swears that she is made of truth”).

144 (“Two loves I have, of comfort and despair”).

152 (“In loving thee thou know'st I am forsworn”).

*Twelfth Night; or, What You Will.

*The Tempest.

Companion Readings.

William Strachey: From A True Reportory of the Wrack and Redemption of Sir Thomas Gates, Knight, upon and from the Islands of the Bermudas.

From Of Cannibals, Michel de Montaigne.

Perspectives: England in the New World.

*Michael Drayton. To the Virginian Voyage.

*John Smith. From General History of Virginia and the Summer Isles.

*Richard Ffrethorne. Letter to His Father and Mother, March 20, April 2-3, 16, 23.

*John Donne. From A Sermon Preached to the Honorable Company of the Virginia Plantation.

*William Bradford. From Of the Plymouth Plantation.

*Mary Rowlandson. From A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson.

*The Bay Psalm Book.

*Psalm 71.

*Psalm 121.

*James Revel. The Poor Unhappy Transported Felon's Sorrowful Account of His Fourteen Years Transportation at Virginia in America.

Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton.

The Roaring Girl; or, Moll Cut-Purse.

“The Roaring Girl” and Its Time: City Life.

Barnabe Riche. From My Lady's Looking Glass.

Robert Greene. From A Notable Discovery of Cosenage.

Thomas Dekker. From Lantern and Candlelight.

Thomas Deloney. From Thomas of Reading.

Thomas Nashe. From Pierce Penniless.

King James I. From A Counterblast to Tobacco.

Perspectives: Tracts on Women and Gender.

*Desiderius Erasmus. From In Laude and Praise of Matrimony.

*Barnabe Riche. From My Lady's Looking Glass.

*Margaret Tyler. From Preface to The First Part of the Mirror of Princely Deeds.

*Joseph Swetnam. From The Arraignment of Lewd, Idle, Froward, and Unconstant Women.

*Rachel Speght. From A Muzzle for Melastomus.

*Esther Sowernam. From Ester Hath Hanged Haman.

*Hic Mulier and Haec-Vir. From Hic-Mulier; or, The Man-Woman.

*From Haec-Vir; or, The Womanish Man.

*Thomas Campion.

*My sweetest Lesbia, let us live and love.

*There is a garden in her face.

*Rose-cheeked Laura come.

*When thou must home to shades of underground.

*Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore.

*Michael Drayton.

*To the Reader.

*Sonnet 12. (“To nothing fitter can I thee compare.”)

*Sonnet 16. (“Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part.”)

*To His Coy Love, A Canzonet.

Ben Jonson.

*The Alchemist.

On Something, That Walks Somewhere.

On My First Daughter.

To John Donne.

On My First Son.

Inviting a Friend to Supper.

To Penshurst.

Song to Celia.

Queen and Huntress.

To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare, and What He Hath Left Us.

To the Immortal Memory, and Friendship of that Noble Pair, Sir Lucius Cary and Sir H. Morison.

Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue.

John Donne.

The Good Morrow.

Song (“Go, and catch a falling star”).

The Undertaking.

The Sun Rising.

The Indifferent.

The Canonization.

Air and Angels.

Break of Day.

A Valediction: of Weeping.

Love's Alchemy.

The Flea.

The Bait.

The Apparition.

A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning.

The Ecstasy.

The Funeral.

The Relic.

Elegy 19. To His Mistress Going to Bed.

HOLY SONNETS.

1 (“As due by many titles I resign.”)

2 (“Oh my black soul! Now thou art summoned.”)

3 (“This is my play's last scene, here heavens appoint.”)

4 (“at the round earth's imagined corners, blow.”)

5 (“If poisonous minerals, and if that tree.”)

6 (“Death be not proud, though some have called thee.”)

7 (“Spit in my face ye Jews, and pierce my side.”)

8 (“Why are we by all creatures waited on?”)

9 (“What if this present were the world's last night?”)

10 (“Batter my heart, three-personed God; for, you.”)

11 (“Wilt thou love God, as he thee? Then digest.”)

12 (“Father, part of his double interest.”)

(Devotions upon Emergent Occasions.)

[For Whom the Bell Tolls.]

Lady Mary Wroth.

Pamphilia to Amphilanthus.

1 (“When night's black mantle could most darkness prove.”)

16 (“Am I thus conquered? Have I lost the powers.”)

17 (“Truly poor Night thou welcome art to me.”)

26 (“When everyone to pleasing pastime hies.”)

28 Song (“Sweetest love, return again.”)

39 (“Take heed mine eyes, how you your looks do cast.”)

40 (“False hope which feeds but to destroy, and spill.”)

48 (“If ever Love had force in human breast.”)

68 (“My pain, still smothered in my grieved breast?”)

74 Song (“Love a child is ever crying.”)

A Crown of Sonnets Dedicated to Love.

77 (“In this strange labyrinth how shall I turn?”)

83 (“How blessed be they then, who his favors prove.”)

103 (“My muse now happy, lay thyself to rest.”)

Robert Herrick.

Hesperides.

The Argument of His Book.

*To His Book.

*Another (“To read my book the virgin shy”).

*Another (“Who with thy leaves shall wipe at need”).

*To the Sour Reader.

*When He Would Have His Verses Read.

Delight in Disorder.

Corinna's Going A-Maying.

To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time.

The Hock-Cart, or Harvest Home.

His Prayer to Ben Jonson.

Upon Julia's Clothes.

Upon His Spaniel Tracie.

*The Dream. (“Me thought (last night) love in an anger came.”)

*The Dream. (“By dream I saw one of the three.”)

*The Vine.

*The Vision.

*Discontents in Devon.

*To Dean-Bourne, a Rude River in Devon.

*Upon Scobble: Epigram.

*The Christian Militant.

*To His Tomb-Maker.

*Upon Himself Being Buried.

*His Last Request to Julia.

*The Pillar of Fame.

*His Noble Numbers.

*His Prayer for Absolution.

*To His Sweet Saviour.

*To God, on His Sickness.

George Herbert.

The Altar.

Redemption.

Easter.

Easter Wings.

Affliction (1).

Prayer (1).

*Jordan (1).

Church Monuments.

The Windows.

Denial.

Virtue.

Man.

Jordan (2).

Time.

The Collar.

The Pulley.

The Forerunners.

Love (3).

Perspectives: Emblem, Style, and Metaphor.

Geoffrey Whitney. The Phoenix.

Ben Jonson. From Timber, or Discoveries.

Giordano Bruno. From On the Composition of Images, Signs, and Ideas.

Conte Emmanuele Tesauro. From Through the Lens of Aristotle.

Richard Crashaw. To the Noblest and Best of Ladies, the Countess of Denbigh.

Richard Lovelace.

To Lucasta, Going to the Wars.

The Grasshopper.

To Althea, from Prison.

Love Made in the First Age: To Chloris.