Responding to the broadening of the canon in recent years, this accessible anthology makes available the most important poetry and prose from the period between the accession of Henry VIII in 1509 and the English Revolution of 1640. Arranged chronologically, generous selections of familiar Renaissance figures, such as More, Wyatt, Tyndale, Spenser, Sidney, Shakespeare, Bacon, and Donne, are complemented by a strong emphasis on women writers, including Queen Elizabeth, Aemilia Lanyer, Rachel Speght, Mary Sidney, Martha Moulsworth, Lady Mary Wroth, and Elizabeth Cary. A range of prose works, including biblical translations, illustrates the development of English prose style over the period. The volume also offers a copious selection of carols, ballads, songs, and hymns.
Helpful introductions and annotations to the newly-edited texts reflect recent developments in cultural and critical theory as well as the current state of Renaissance scholarship. The anthology also contains cross-references to material available on the Internet.
Reviews:
Arranged chronologically, these selections of prose pieces, carols, ballads, songs, and hymns contain introductory notes, suggested readings, and footnotes. Also included are bibliographical references, indexes, and cross references to the Internet resources. Strongly recommended for all libraries.' 'Library Journal'
Table of contents:
Alphabetical List Of Authors.
Preface.
Introduction: The Renaissance In Cultural And Critical Theory.
John Skelton (1460?1529):
Woefully Arrayed.
Philip Sparrow' Part I.
A Laud And Praise Made For Our Sovereign Lord The King.
Sir Thomas More (1477/81535):
A Lamentation Of Queen Elizabeth.
From 'Utopia'.
The Translator To The Gentle Reader.
The Epistle.
The Confutation Of Tyndales Answer'.
From The Preface To The Christian Reader.
The Princes Murder From 'The History Of King Richard III.'
From 'A Dialogue Of Comfort Against Tribulation'.
Letter To Margaret Roper, 5 July 1535.
Sir Thomas Elyot (14901546):
From 'The Book Named The Governor'.
King Henry VIII (14911547):
With Owt Dyscorde.
- My Hart.
William Tyndale (14941536):
From The 'Obedience Of A Christian Man'.
The Interpretation Of Scripture.
From Tyndales Translation Of The New Testament.
W. T. Unto The Reader.
The Gospel Of Saint Matthew.
The Gospel Of Saint Mark.
The Gospel Of Saint Luke.
The Gospel Of Saint John.
Tyndales Translation Of Luthers A Prologue To The Epistle Of Paul To The Romans.
The Epistle Of The Apostle St Paul To The Romans.
Sir Thomas Wyatt (C.15031542):
From 'Certain Psalms'.
Prologue.
Psalm 51. 'Miserere Mei Domine'.
Psalm 102. 'Domine Exaudi Orationem Meam'.
Psalm 130. 'De Profundis Clamavi'.
Poems Attributed To Wyatt In The Egerton Manuscript And In 'Tottels Miscellany'.
The Long Love.
Whoso List To Hunt.
My Galley.
Unstable Dream.
If Waker Care.
The Pillar Perished.
Farewell, Love.
Sometime I Fled The Fire.
Tagus, Farewell.
Sighs Are My Food.
Lucks, My Fair Falcon.
Throughout The World.
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.
John Knox (15051572):
From 'The First Blast Of The Trumpet Against The Monstrous Regiment Of Women'.
Henry Howard, Earl Of Surrey (15171547).
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.
- Never Saw Youe.
Alas, So All Thinges Nowe Doe Holde Their Peace.
From Tuscan Cam.
The Sonne Hath Twyse Brought For the.
Geve Place, Ye Lovers.
Such Waiwarde Waies.
Wrapt In My Carelesse Cloke.
London, Hast Thow Accused Me.
W. Resteth Here.
John Foxe (15171587):
From 'Acts And Monuments Of These Latter And Perilous Days'.
Story And Martyrdom Of Anne Askew.
Life And Martyrdom Of William Tyndale.
John Stow (1525?1605):
From 'The Survey Of London'.
Sports And Pastimes Of Old Time Used In This City.
Richard Mulcaster (1530?1611):
From 'Positions Concerning The Training Up Of Children'.
How Much A Woman Ought To Learn.
Queen Elizabeth I (15331603):
Written On A Window Frame At Woodstock.
Written With A Diamond.
Twas Christ The Word.
No Crooked Leg.
The Doubt Of Future Foes.
On Monsieurs Departure.
When I Was Fair And Young.
Now Leave And Let Me Rest.
Verse Exchange Between Queen Elizabeth And Sir Walter Raleigh.
Elizabeth To Raleigh.
Song On The Armada Victory, December 1588.
Letter From Princess Elizabeth To Queen Mary, August 2, 1556.
Queen Elizabeths First Speech, Hatfield, November 20, 1558.
A Copy Of 'The Golden Speech' From The Papers Of Sir Thomas Egerton
Privy Councillor.
Prayer On The Defeat Of The Spanish Armada, September 1588.
George Gascoigne (C.15341577):
From A Hundreth Surdrie Flowres.
Gascoignes Woodmanship.
Gascoignes Goodnight.
Certain Sermons of Homilies' (1547, 1563):
A Fruitful Exhortation To The Reading And Knowledge Of Holy Scripture.
An Exhortation Concerning Good Order, And Obedience To Rulers And Magistrates.
An Information For Them Which Take Offence At Certain Places Of The Holy Scripture.
An Homily Of The State Of Matrimony.
The Book of Common Prayer' (1548):
An Ordre For Mattyns Dayly Through The Yere.
The Order Of The Purificacion Of Woemen.
Anonymous Carols:
All This Time.
Tydynges, Tydynges.
Now Let Vs Syng.
Syng We With Myrth.
Synge We All.
By Reason Of Two.
Shall I, Moder, Shall I?
Gawde, For Thy Joyes Five.
Of All Creatures Women Be Best.
Grene Growith The Holy.
Edmund Spenser (15521599):
From 'The Shepheardes Calender'.
Aprill.
Amoretti'.
Epithalamion.
From 'The Faerie Oueene'.
A Letter Of The Authors Expounding His Whole Intention...To Raleigh.
Book II.
Two Cantos Of Mutabilitie.
From 'A View Of The State Of Ireland'.
Richard Hakluyt (1553?1616):
From 'The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, And Discoveries Of The English Nation'.
John Lyly (1553?1606):
From 'Euphues: The Anatomy Of Wit'.
John Florio (1553?1625):
From 'The Essayes Of Michael Lord Of Montaigne'.
Of The Cannibals.
Sir Walter Raleigh (C.15521618):
Praised Be Dianas Fair And Harmless Light.
Like To A Hermit Poor.
Conceit Begotten By The Eyes.
As You Came From The Holy Land.
The Nymphs Reply To The Shepherd.
The Lie.
A Farewell To False Love.
Verses Made The Night Before He Died.
The 21st And Last Book Of The Ocean To Cynthia.
Sir Philip Sidney (15541586):
The Defense Of Poesy'.
Astrophil And Stella'.
Miscellaneous Poetry.
Poems From 'The Countess Of Pembrokes Arcadia'.
From 'The Psalms Of David'.
Thomas Harriot (15601621) And John White (1540?1590):
From 'A Briefe And True Report Of The New Found Land Of Virginia.
The Arriual Of The Englishemen In Virginia.
A Weroan Or Great Lorde Of Virginia.
On Of The Chieff Ladyes Of Secota.
On Of The Religeous Men In The Towne Of Secota.
A Younge Gentill Woeman Daughter Of Secota.
Sir Francis Bacon (15611626):
From 'The New Organon.' .
From 'Essays Or Counsels, Civil And Moral'.
Of Truth.
Of Death.
Of Unity In Religion.
Of Simulation And Dissimulation.
Of Marriage And The Single Life.
Of Love.
Of Nobility.
Of Travel.
Of Counsel.
Of Cunning.
Of Innovations.
Of Discourse.
Of Plantations.
Of Masques And Triumphs.
Of Nature In Men.
Of Custom And Education.
Of Usury.
Of Beauty.
Of Deformity.
Of Studies.
Of Vicissitude Of Things.
New Atlantis'.
Robert Southwell (15611595):
The Burning Babe.
Decease Release.
Mans Civil War.
Look Home.
Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess Of Pembroke (15611621):
To The Angell Spirit Of The Most Excellent Sir Phillip 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'.
Psalm 149 'Cantate Domino'.
Psalm 150 'Laudate Dominum'.
Robert Sidney (15631626):
Sonnet 15.
Pastoral 7.
Sonnet 16.
Sonnet 17.
Pastoral 5.
Sonnet 18.
Sonnet 19.
Sonnet 20.
The Mirror for Magistrates' (15631587):
The Induction.
Cardinal Wolsey.
Christopher Marlowe (15641593):
Hero And Leander'.
From 'All Ovids Elegies'.
The Passionate Shepherd To His Love.
William Shakespeare (15641616):
The Rape Of Lucrece'.
Sonnets.
Thomas Campion (15671620):
From 'A Booke Of Ayres.'
To The Reader.
IXXI.
Female Persona Lyrics.
2:IX
2:XV
3:IV
3:XVI
3:XXVII
4:IX
4:XIII
4:XVIII
4:XXIV
From 'The Third Booke Of Ayres'.
3:XII
Thomas Nashe (15671601):
The Choice Of Valentines.
Ǽmilia Lanyer (15691645):
From 'Salve Deus Rex Judaorum'.
The Description Of Cooke-Ham.
Ben Jonson (15721637):
From 'Epigrams.'
11. On Something That Walks Somewhere.
14. To William Camden.
22. On My First Daughter.
23. To John Donne.
45. On My First Son.
52. To Censorious Courtling.
62. To Fine Lady Would-Be.
76. On Lucy, Countess Of Bedford.
83. To A Friend.
89. To Edward Alleyn.
101. Inviting A Friend To Supper.
02. To William, Earl Of Pembroke.
105. To Mary, Lady Wroth.
110. To Clement Edmondes, On His 'Caesars Commentaries Observed And Translated'.
118. On Gut.
134. On The Famous Voyage.
From 'The Forest.
1. Why I Write Not Of Love.
2. To Penshurst.
4. To The World.
5. Song: To Celia.
9. Song: To Celia.
15. To Heaven.
From 'Underwoods'.
2. A Celebration Of Charis In Ten Lyric Pieces.
His Excuse For Loving.
Her Triumph.
His Discourse With Cupid.
9. My Picture Left In Scotland.
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.
To A Friend. An Epigram Of Him .
Ode.
John Donne (15721631):
From 'Songs And Sonnets'.
Air And Angels.
The Anniversary.
The Apparition.
The Bait.
The Blossom.
Break Of Day.
The Broken Heart.
The Canonization.
Community.
The Computation.
The Curse.
The Damp.
The Dissolution.
The Dream.
The Ecstasy.
The Expiration.
A Fever.
The Flea.
The Funeral.
The Good-Morrow.
The Indifferent.
A Lecture Upon The Shadow.
The Legacy.
Lovers Infiniteness.
Loves Alchemy.
Loves Deity.
Loves Diet.
Loves Exchange.
Loves Growth.
Loves Usury.
The Message.
Negative Love.
A Nocturnal Upon St Lucys Day, Being The Shortest Day.
The Paradox.
The Primrose.
The Prohibition.
The Relic.
Song.
Song.
The Sun Rising.
Twickenham Garden.
The Undertaking.
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning.
A Valediction: Of Weeping.
The Will.
Womans Constancy.
Elegy 1 Jealousy.
Elegy 2 The Anagram.
Elegy 3 Change.
Elegy 9 The Autumnal.
Elegy 16 On His Mistress.
Elegy 18 Loves Progress.
Elegy 19 To His Mistress Going To Bed.
The First Anniversary: An Anatomy Of The World'.
From 'Holy Sonnets': 17, 911, 13.
Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward.
Hymn To God My God, In My Sickness.
From 'Devotions.
XVII. Nunc Lento Sonitu Dicunt, Morieris.
Richard Barnfield (15741627):
The Affectionate Shepheard'.
Sonnets.
John Marston (15761634):
Satire II.
To Everlasting Oblivion.
Martha Moulsworth (1577?):
Nouember The 10th 1632, The Memorandum Of Martha Moulsworth Widdowe.
Elizabeth (Tanfield) Cary, Lady Falkland (15851639):
From 'The Tragedy Of Mariam, The Fair Queen Of Jewry'.
To Dianas Earthly Deputess, And My Worthy Sister, Mistress Elizabeth Cary.
The Argument.
Actus Primus. Scena Prima.
Lady Mary (Sidney) Wroth (1586?1651?):
Pamphilia To Amphilanthus'.
Part I
From 'The Countess Of Montgoerys Urania'.
George Wither (15881667):
From 'A Collection Of Emblemes Ancient And Moderne'.
As Soone, As Wee To Bee, Begunne; We Did Beginne, To Be Vndone.
- Passage Can Divert The Course, Of Pegasus, The Muses Horse.
Live, Ever Mindfull Of Thy Dying; For, Time Is Alwayes From Thee Flying.
For Whatsoever, Man Doth Strive, The Conquest, God Alone, Doth Give.
How Ever Thou The Viper Take, A Dangrous Hazzard Thou Dost Make.
In All Thine Actions, Have A Care, That No Unseemlinesse Appeare.
Anonymous Ballads (C.1590):
My Lady Greensleeves.
In Praise Of Ale.
Robin Goodfellow.
The Spanish Armado.
George Herbert (15931633):
From 'The Temple'.
The Altar.
The Sacrifice.
The Thanksgiving.
The Reprisal.
The Agony.
Good Friday.
Redemption.
Sepulchre.
Easter Wings.
Easter.
H. Baptism (I).
H. Baptism (II).
Sin (I).
Affliction (I).
Prayer (I).
Prayer (II).
The H. Communion.
Church Lock-And-Key.
Love I.
Love II.
The Temper (I).
The Temper (II).
Jordan (I).
Employment (I).
The H. Scriptures I.
The H. Scriptures II.
Whitsunday.
Grace.
Church Monuments.
Church Music.
The Windows.
The Quiddity.
Sunday.
Employment (II).
Denial.
Christmas.
The World.
Vanity (I).
Virtue.
The Pearl. Matth. 13.
Affliction (IV).
Man.
Life.
Mortification.
Jordan (II).
Obedience.
The British Church.
The Quip.
Iesu.
Dialogue.
Dullness.
Sins Round.
Peace.
The Bunch Of Grapes.
The Storm.
Paradise.
The Size.
Artillery.
The Pilgrimage.
The Bag.
The Collar.
Josephs Coat.
The Pulley.
The Search.
The Flower.
The Son.
A True Hymn.
Bitter-Sweet
Aaron.
The Forerunners.
Discipline.
The Banquet.
The Elixir.
A Wreath.
Death.
Doomsday.
Judgement.
Heaven.
Love (III)
Izaak Walton (15931683):
From 'The Compleat Angler'.
Part II: Chapter VII.
Rachel Speght (1597?):
A Movzell For Melastomus'.
Englands Helicon (1600):
The Unknowne Sheepheards Complaint.
Another Of The Same Sheepheards.
Phillidaes Love-Call To Her Coridon, And His Replying.
The Sheepheards Description Of Love.
The Sheepheardes Sorrow For His Phabes Disdaine.
Olde Melibeus Song, Courting His Nimph.
A Nimphs Disdaine Of Love.
The Sheepheard To The Flowers.
The Sheepheards Slumber.
Another Of The Same Nature, Made Since.
Thirsis The Sheepheard, To His Pipe.
Dispraise Of Love, And Lovers Follies.
An Heroicall Poeme.
The Lovers Absence Kils Me, Her Presence Kils Me.
Love The Only Price Of Love.
A Defiance To Disdainefull Love.
Philistus Farewell To False Clorinda.
Lycoris The Nimph, Her Sad Song.
The Sheepheards Consort.
The Heard-Mans Happie Life.
To Amarillis.
Of Phillida.
Philon The Sheepheard, His Song.
Myles Smith (D. 1624):
The Translators To The Reader The Preface To The Authorized Verion (King James Bible).
Gazetteer.
Bibliography.
Index Of Introductions And Notes.
Index Of Titles And First Lines.
Helpful introductions and annotations to the newly-edited texts reflect recent developments in cultural and critical theory as well as the current state of Renaissance scholarship. The anthology also contains cross-references to material available on the Internet.
Reviews:
Arranged chronologically, these selections of prose pieces, carols, ballads, songs, and hymns contain introductory notes, suggested readings, and footnotes. Also included are bibliographical references, indexes, and cross references to the Internet resources. Strongly recommended for all libraries.' 'Library Journal'
Table of contents:
Alphabetical List Of Authors.
Preface.
Introduction: The Renaissance In Cultural And Critical Theory.
John Skelton (1460?1529):
Woefully Arrayed.
Philip Sparrow' Part I.
A Laud And Praise Made For Our Sovereign Lord The King.
Sir Thomas More (1477/81535):
A Lamentation Of Queen Elizabeth.
From 'Utopia'.
The Translator To The Gentle Reader.
The Epistle.
The Confutation Of Tyndales Answer'.
From The Preface To The Christian Reader.
The Princes Murder From 'The History Of King Richard III.'
From 'A Dialogue Of Comfort Against Tribulation'.
Letter To Margaret Roper, 5 July 1535.
Sir Thomas Elyot (14901546):
From 'The Book Named The Governor'.
King Henry VIII (14911547):
With Owt Dyscorde.
- My Hart.
William Tyndale (14941536):
From The 'Obedience Of A Christian Man'.
The Interpretation Of Scripture.
From Tyndales Translation Of The New Testament.
W. T. Unto The Reader.
The Gospel Of Saint Matthew.
The Gospel Of Saint Mark.
The Gospel Of Saint Luke.
The Gospel Of Saint John.
Tyndales Translation Of Luthers A Prologue To The Epistle Of Paul To The Romans.
The Epistle Of The Apostle St Paul To The Romans.
Sir Thomas Wyatt (C.15031542):
From 'Certain Psalms'.
Prologue.
Psalm 51. 'Miserere Mei Domine'.
Psalm 102. 'Domine Exaudi Orationem Meam'.
Psalm 130. 'De Profundis Clamavi'.
Poems Attributed To Wyatt In The Egerton Manuscript And In 'Tottels Miscellany'.
The Long Love.
Whoso List To Hunt.
My Galley.
Unstable Dream.
If Waker Care.
The Pillar Perished.
Farewell, Love.
Sometime I Fled The Fire.
Tagus, Farewell.
Sighs Are My Food.
Lucks, My Fair Falcon.
Throughout The World.
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.
John Knox (15051572):
From 'The First Blast Of The Trumpet Against The Monstrous Regiment Of Women'.
Henry Howard, Earl Of Surrey (15171547).
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.
- Never Saw Youe.
Alas, So All Thinges Nowe Doe Holde Their Peace.
From Tuscan Cam.
The Sonne Hath Twyse Brought For the.
Geve Place, Ye Lovers.
Such Waiwarde Waies.
Wrapt In My Carelesse Cloke.
London, Hast Thow Accused Me.
W. Resteth Here.
John Foxe (15171587):
From 'Acts And Monuments Of These Latter And Perilous Days'.
Story And Martyrdom Of Anne Askew.
Life And Martyrdom Of William Tyndale.
John Stow (1525?1605):
From 'The Survey Of London'.
Sports And Pastimes Of Old Time Used In This City.
Richard Mulcaster (1530?1611):
From 'Positions Concerning The Training Up Of Children'.
How Much A Woman Ought To Learn.
Queen Elizabeth I (15331603):
Written On A Window Frame At Woodstock.
Written With A Diamond.
Twas Christ The Word.
No Crooked Leg.
The Doubt Of Future Foes.
On Monsieurs Departure.
When I Was Fair And Young.
Now Leave And Let Me Rest.
Verse Exchange Between Queen Elizabeth And Sir Walter Raleigh.
Elizabeth To Raleigh.
Song On The Armada Victory, December 1588.
Letter From Princess Elizabeth To Queen Mary, August 2, 1556.
Queen Elizabeths First Speech, Hatfield, November 20, 1558.
A Copy Of 'The Golden Speech' From The Papers Of Sir Thomas Egerton
Privy Councillor.
Prayer On The Defeat Of The Spanish Armada, September 1588.
George Gascoigne (C.15341577):
From A Hundreth Surdrie Flowres.
Gascoignes Woodmanship.
Gascoignes Goodnight.
Certain Sermons of Homilies' (1547, 1563):
A Fruitful Exhortation To The Reading And Knowledge Of Holy Scripture.
An Exhortation Concerning Good Order, And Obedience To Rulers And Magistrates.
An Information For Them Which Take Offence At Certain Places Of The Holy Scripture.
An Homily Of The State Of Matrimony.
The Book of Common Prayer' (1548):
An Ordre For Mattyns Dayly Through The Yere.
The Order Of The Purificacion Of Woemen.
Anonymous Carols:
All This Time.
Tydynges, Tydynges.
Now Let Vs Syng.
Syng We With Myrth.
Synge We All.
By Reason Of Two.
Shall I, Moder, Shall I?
Gawde, For Thy Joyes Five.
Of All Creatures Women Be Best.
Grene Growith The Holy.
Edmund Spenser (15521599):
From 'The Shepheardes Calender'.
Aprill.
Amoretti'.
Epithalamion.
From 'The Faerie Oueene'.
A Letter Of The Authors Expounding His Whole Intention...To Raleigh.
Book II.
Two Cantos Of Mutabilitie.
From 'A View Of The State Of Ireland'.
Richard Hakluyt (1553?1616):
From 'The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, And Discoveries Of The English Nation'.
John Lyly (1553?1606):
From 'Euphues: The Anatomy Of Wit'.
John Florio (1553?1625):
From 'The Essayes Of Michael Lord Of Montaigne'.
Of The Cannibals.
Sir Walter Raleigh (C.15521618):
Praised Be Dianas Fair And Harmless Light.
Like To A Hermit Poor.
Conceit Begotten By The Eyes.
As You Came From The Holy Land.
The Nymphs Reply To The Shepherd.
The Lie.
A Farewell To False Love.
Verses Made The Night Before He Died.
The 21st And Last Book Of The Ocean To Cynthia.
Sir Philip Sidney (15541586):
The Defense Of Poesy'.
Astrophil And Stella'.
Miscellaneous Poetry.
Poems From 'The Countess Of Pembrokes Arcadia'.
From 'The Psalms Of David'.
Thomas Harriot (15601621) And John White (1540?1590):
From 'A Briefe And True Report Of The New Found Land Of Virginia.
The Arriual Of The Englishemen In Virginia.
A Weroan Or Great Lorde Of Virginia.
On Of The Chieff Ladyes Of Secota.
On Of The Religeous Men In The Towne Of Secota.
A Younge Gentill Woeman Daughter Of Secota.
Sir Francis Bacon (15611626):
From 'The New Organon.' .
From 'Essays Or Counsels, Civil And Moral'.
Of Truth.
Of Death.
Of Unity In Religion.
Of Simulation And Dissimulation.
Of Marriage And The Single Life.
Of Love.
Of Nobility.
Of Travel.
Of Counsel.
Of Cunning.
Of Innovations.
Of Discourse.
Of Plantations.
Of Masques And Triumphs.
Of Nature In Men.
Of Custom And Education.
Of Usury.
Of Beauty.
Of Deformity.
Of Studies.
Of Vicissitude Of Things.
New Atlantis'.
Robert Southwell (15611595):
The Burning Babe.
Decease Release.
Mans Civil War.
Look Home.
Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess Of Pembroke (15611621):
To The Angell Spirit Of The Most Excellent Sir Phillip 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'.
Psalm 149 'Cantate Domino'.
Psalm 150 'Laudate Dominum'.
Robert Sidney (15631626):
Sonnet 15.
Pastoral 7.
Sonnet 16.
Sonnet 17.
Pastoral 5.
Sonnet 18.
Sonnet 19.
Sonnet 20.
The Mirror for Magistrates' (15631587):
The Induction.
Cardinal Wolsey.
Christopher Marlowe (15641593):
Hero And Leander'.
From 'All Ovids Elegies'.
The Passionate Shepherd To His Love.
William Shakespeare (15641616):
The Rape Of Lucrece'.
Sonnets.
Thomas Campion (15671620):
From 'A Booke Of Ayres.'
To The Reader.
IXXI.
Female Persona Lyrics.
2:IX
2:XV
3:IV
3:XVI
3:XXVII
4:IX
4:XIII
4:XVIII
4:XXIV
From 'The Third Booke Of Ayres'.
3:XII
Thomas Nashe (15671601):
The Choice Of Valentines.
Ǽmilia Lanyer (15691645):
From 'Salve Deus Rex Judaorum'.
The Description Of Cooke-Ham.
Ben Jonson (15721637):
From 'Epigrams.'
11. On Something That Walks Somewhere.
14. To William Camden.
22. On My First Daughter.
23. To John Donne.
45. On My First Son.
52. To Censorious Courtling.
62. To Fine Lady Would-Be.
76. On Lucy, Countess Of Bedford.
83. To A Friend.
89. To Edward Alleyn.
101. Inviting A Friend To Supper.
02. To William, Earl Of Pembroke.
105. To Mary, Lady Wroth.
110. To Clement Edmondes, On His 'Caesars Commentaries Observed And Translated'.
118. On Gut.
134. On The Famous Voyage.
From 'The Forest.
1. Why I Write Not Of Love.
2. To Penshurst.
4. To The World.
5. Song: To Celia.
9. Song: To Celia.
15. To Heaven.
From 'Underwoods'.
2. A Celebration Of Charis In Ten Lyric Pieces.
His Excuse For Loving.
Her Triumph.
His Discourse With Cupid.
9. My Picture Left In Scotland.
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.
To A Friend. An Epigram Of Him .
Ode.
John Donne (15721631):
From 'Songs And Sonnets'.
Air And Angels.
The Anniversary.
The Apparition.
The Bait.
The Blossom.
Break Of Day.
The Broken Heart.
The Canonization.
Community.
The Computation.
The Curse.
The Damp.
The Dissolution.
The Dream.
The Ecstasy.
The Expiration.
A Fever.
The Flea.
The Funeral.
The Good-Morrow.
The Indifferent.
A Lecture Upon The Shadow.
The Legacy.
Lovers Infiniteness.
Loves Alchemy.
Loves Deity.
Loves Diet.
Loves Exchange.
Loves Growth.
Loves Usury.
The Message.
Negative Love.
A Nocturnal Upon St Lucys Day, Being The Shortest Day.
The Paradox.
The Primrose.
The Prohibition.
The Relic.
Song.
Song.
The Sun Rising.
Twickenham Garden.
The Undertaking.
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning.
A Valediction: Of Weeping.
The Will.
Womans Constancy.
Elegy 1 Jealousy.
Elegy 2 The Anagram.
Elegy 3 Change.
Elegy 9 The Autumnal.
Elegy 16 On His Mistress.
Elegy 18 Loves Progress.
Elegy 19 To His Mistress Going To Bed.
The First Anniversary: An Anatomy Of The World'.
From 'Holy Sonnets': 17, 911, 13.
Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward.
Hymn To God My God, In My Sickness.
From 'Devotions.
XVII. Nunc Lento Sonitu Dicunt, Morieris.
Richard Barnfield (15741627):
The Affectionate Shepheard'.
Sonnets.
John Marston (15761634):
Satire II.
To Everlasting Oblivion.
Martha Moulsworth (1577?):
Nouember The 10th 1632, The Memorandum Of Martha Moulsworth Widdowe.
Elizabeth (Tanfield) Cary, Lady Falkland (15851639):
From 'The Tragedy Of Mariam, The Fair Queen Of Jewry'.
To Dianas Earthly Deputess, And My Worthy Sister, Mistress Elizabeth Cary.
The Argument.
Actus Primus. Scena Prima.
Lady Mary (Sidney) Wroth (1586?1651?):
Pamphilia To Amphilanthus'.
Part I
From 'The Countess Of Montgoerys Urania'.
George Wither (15881667):
From 'A Collection Of Emblemes Ancient And Moderne'.
As Soone, As Wee To Bee, Begunne; We Did Beginne, To Be Vndone.
- Passage Can Divert The Course, Of Pegasus, The Muses Horse.
Live, Ever Mindfull Of Thy Dying; For, Time Is Alwayes From Thee Flying.
For Whatsoever, Man Doth Strive, The Conquest, God Alone, Doth Give.
How Ever Thou The Viper Take, A Dangrous Hazzard Thou Dost Make.
In All Thine Actions, Have A Care, That No Unseemlinesse Appeare.
Anonymous Ballads (C.1590):
My Lady Greensleeves.
In Praise Of Ale.
Robin Goodfellow.
The Spanish Armado.
George Herbert (15931633):
From 'The Temple'.
The Altar.
The Sacrifice.
The Thanksgiving.
The Reprisal.
The Agony.
Good Friday.
Redemption.
Sepulchre.
Easter Wings.
Easter.
H. Baptism (I).
H. Baptism (II).
Sin (I).
Affliction (I).
Prayer (I).
Prayer (II).
The H. Communion.
Church Lock-And-Key.
Love I.
Love II.
The Temper (I).
The Temper (II).
Jordan (I).
Employment (I).
The H. Scriptures I.
The H. Scriptures II.
Whitsunday.
Grace.
Church Monuments.
Church Music.
The Windows.
The Quiddity.
Sunday.
Employment (II).
Denial.
Christmas.
The World.
Vanity (I).
Virtue.
The Pearl. Matth. 13.
Affliction (IV).
Man.
Life.
Mortification.
Jordan (II).
Obedience.
The British Church.
The Quip.
Iesu.
Dialogue.
Dullness.
Sins Round.
Peace.
The Bunch Of Grapes.
The Storm.
Paradise.
The Size.
Artillery.
The Pilgrimage.
The Bag.
The Collar.
Josephs Coat.
The Pulley.
The Search.
The Flower.
The Son.
A True Hymn.
Bitter-Sweet
Aaron.
The Forerunners.
Discipline.
The Banquet.
The Elixir.
A Wreath.
Death.
Doomsday.
Judgement.
Heaven.
Love (III)
Izaak Walton (15931683):
From 'The Compleat Angler'.
Part II: Chapter VII.
Rachel Speght (1597?):
A Movzell For Melastomus'.
Englands Helicon (1600):
The Unknowne Sheepheards Complaint.
Another Of The Same Sheepheards.
Phillidaes Love-Call To Her Coridon, And His Replying.
The Sheepheards Description Of Love.
The Sheepheardes Sorrow For His Phabes Disdaine.
Olde Melibeus Song, Courting His Nimph.
A Nimphs Disdaine Of Love.
The Sheepheard To The Flowers.
The Sheepheards Slumber.
Another Of The Same Nature, Made Since.
Thirsis The Sheepheard, To His Pipe.
Dispraise Of Love, And Lovers Follies.
An Heroicall Poeme.
The Lovers Absence Kils Me, Her Presence Kils Me.
Love The Only Price Of Love.
A Defiance To Disdainefull Love.
Philistus Farewell To False Clorinda.
Lycoris The Nimph, Her Sad Song.
The Sheepheards Consort.
The Heard-Mans Happie Life.
To Amarillis.
Of Phillida.
Philon The Sheepheard, His Song.
Myles Smith (D. 1624):
The Translators To The Reader The Preface To The Authorized Verion (King James Bible).
Gazetteer.
Bibliography.
Index Of Introductions And Notes.
Index Of Titles And First Lines.