The Longman Anthology of British Literature, Volume 1B: The Early Modern Period Book

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THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD

JOHN SKELTON***

The Bowge of Courte***

PERSPECTIVES: THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY SONNET***

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

Some Time I Fled the Fire

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

George Gascoigne

Seven Sonnets to Alexander Neville

Edmund Spenser

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”)

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

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

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

66 (“To all those happy blessings which ye have”)

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

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

Sir Philip Sidney

Astrophil and Stella

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

3 (“Let dainty wits cry on the sisters nine”)

7 (“When Nature made her chief work, Stella’s eyes”)

9 (“Queen Virtue’s court, which some call Stella’s face”)

10 (“Reason, in faith thou art well served, that still”)

14 (“Alas, have I not pain enough, my friend”)

15 (“You that do search for every purling spring”)

23 (“The curious wits, seeing dull pensiveness”)

24 (“Rich fool there be whose base and filthy heart”)

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

37 (“My mouth doth water and my breast doth swell”)

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

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

47 (“What, have I thus betrayed my liberty?”)

52 (“A strife is grown between Virtue and Love”)

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

63 (“O grammar-rules, O now your virtues show”)

64 (“No more, my dear, no more these counsels try”)

68 (“Stella, the only planet of my light”)

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

Second song (“Have I caught my heavenly jewel”)

74 (“I never drank of Aganippe well”)

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

86 (“Alas, whence came this change of looks? If I...”)

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

Ninth song (“Go, my flock, go get you hence”)

89 (“Now that, of absence, the most irksome night”)

90 (“Stella, think not that I by verse seek fame”)

91 (“Stella, while now by honor’s cruel might”)

97 (“Dian, that fain would cheer her friend the Night”)

104 (“Envious wits, what hath been mine offense”)

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

107 (“Stella, since thou so right a princess art”)

108 (“When sorrow (using mine own fire’s might)”)

Richard Barnfield

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”)

Michael Drayton

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

Sonnet 61 (“Since there’s no help, come let us kiss and part”)

SIR THOMAS WYATT

They Flee from Me

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

So Cruel Prison

London, Hast Thou Accused Me

Wyatt Resteth Here

My Radcliffe, When Thy Reckless Youth Offends

SIR THOMAS MORE

Utopia

Response***

Sir Francis Bacon: from New Atlantis***

WILLIAM BALDWIN***

Beware the Cat ***

EDMUND SPENSER***

The Faerie Queene ***

The Sixthe Booke of the Faerie Queene ***

The Two Cantos of Mutabilitie***

SIR PHILIP SIDNEY

The Apology for Poetry

ISABELLA WHITNEY

The Admonition by the Author

A Careful Complaint by the Unfortunate Author

The Manner of Her Will

MARY HERBERT, COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE

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

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

The Doleful Lay of Clorinda

PERSPECTIVES: EARLY MODERN BOOKS***

Ranulf Higden

from Polychronicon

John Foxe***

from Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perilous Days***

The Geneva Bible

Thomas Hariot***

from The True Pictures and Fashions of the People in That Part of America Now Called Virginia**

John Gerard

from The Herball or Generall historie of plantes

Geoffrey Whitney

The Phoenix

Robert Fludd

from Utriusque cosmic, maioris scilicet et minoris, metaphysica atque technica historia

Francis Bacon

from Advancement of Learning

English Handwriting Samples**

Frontispiece to A Certain Relation of the Hog-faced Gentlewoman

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

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

CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE

Hero and Leander

The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus

Response

C.S. Lewis: from The Screwtape Letters

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

PERSPECTIVES: ENGLAND, BRITAIN, AND THE WORLD***

Fynes Moryson***

from An Itenerary, Obseravations on the Ottomon Empire***

Fynes Moryson***

from An Itenerary, Obeservations of Italy and Ireland***

Edmund Spenser***

from A View of the State of Ireland***

Thomas Hariot

from A Brief and True Report of the Newfound Land of Virginia

John Smith

from General History of Virginia and the Summer Isles

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 (“They that 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 in 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

Othello***

King Lear***

PERSPECTIVES: TRACTS ON WOMEN AND GENDER

Joseph Swetnam

from The Arraignment of Lewd, Idle, Froward, and Unconstant Women

Rachel Speght

from A Muzzle for Melastomus

Ester 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

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”)

5 (“Can pleasing sight misfortune ever bring?”)

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

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

25 (“Like to the Indians, scorched with the sun”)

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?”)

55 (“How like a fire does love increase in me”)

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

82 (“He may our profit and our tutor prove”)

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

84 (“ He that shuns love does love himself the less”)

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-Bourn, 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)

RICHARD LOVELACE

To Lucasta, Going to the Wars

The Grasshopper

To Althea, from Prison

Love Made in the First Age: To Chloris

HENRY VAUGHAN

Regeneration

The Retreat

Silence, and Stealth of Days

The World

They Are All Gone into the World of Light!

The Night

ANDREW MARVELL

The Coronet

Bermudas

The Nymph Complaining for the Death of Her Fawn

To His Coy Mistress

The Definition of Love

The Mower Against Gardens

The Mower’s Song

The Garden

An Horatian Ode Upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland

KATHERINE PHILIPS

Friendship in Emblem, or the Seal

Upon the Double Murder of King Charles

On the Third of September, 1651

To the Truly Noble, and Obliging Mrs. Anne Owen

To Mrs. Mary Awbrey at Parting

To My Excellent Lucasia, on Our Friendship

The World

PERSPECTIVES: THE CIVIL WAR, OR THE WARS OF THREE KINGDOMS

John Gauden

from Eikon Basilike

John Milton

from Eikonoklastes

Oliver Cromwell

from Letters from Ireland

John O’Dwyer of the Glenn

The Story of Alexander Agnew; or, Jock of Broad Scotland

JOHN MILTON

L’Allegro

Il Penseroso

Lycidas

How Soon Hath Time

On the New Forcers of Conscience Under the Long Parliament

To the Lord General Cromwell

On the Late Massacre in Piedmont

When I Consider How My Light Is Spent

Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint

from Areopagitica

Paradise Lost

Book 1

Book 2

Book 3

Book 4

Book 5

Book 6

Book 7

Book 8

Book 9

Book 10

Book 11

Book 12

Responses

Mary Wollstonecraft: from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

William Blake: A Poison Tree