The Oxford Anthologyof English Literature

/•AVOLUME I /^y

The Middle Ages v :through the Eighteenth Century

Medieval English LiteratureJ. B. TRAPPWarburg Institute

The Literature of Renaissance EnglandJOHN HOLLANDER AND FRANK KERMODEHunter College University College London

The Restoration and the Eighteenth CenturyMARTIN PRICEYale University

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Contents

MEDIEVAL ENGLISH LITERATURE, 3v

OLD ENGLISH POETRY, 19

Caedmon's Hymn, 19Beowulf, 20Deor's Lament, 98The Wanderer, 100The Battle of Maldon, 104The Dream of the Rood, 114

GEOFFREY CHAUCER, 119The Canterbury Tales, 123

General Prologue, 130The Miller's Prologue and Tale, 156

The Nun's Priest's Prologue and Tale, 176The Bestiary: Of the Fox, 196; Of the Cock, 196

v * William Caxton: The History of Reynard the Fox, 196

The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale, 198* Gesta Romanorum: Of Hanging, 232; Application, 233

The Franklin's Prologue and Tale, 233The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale, 257Retraction, 276

Shorter Poems, 277Gentilesse, 278Truth, 278

Roundel from The Parliament of Fowls, 279Cantus Troili from Troilus and Criseyde, 280Balade from The Legend of Good Women, 281To Rosemounde, 282

* An asterisk indicates that a work does not appear in its entirety.

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The Complaint of Chaucer to His Purse, 282To Adam, His Scribe, 283

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, 284

• The Vision of Piers Plowman, 348The Prologue, 351; Passus I, 357

DRAMA, 363The Wakefield Second Shepherds' Play, 368Everyman, 388

MIDDLE ENGLISH LYRICS, 411

Spring, (.^Lenten is come . . . ), 413Now Springs the Spray, 414Summer Is Ycumen In, 415Alison, 416Separated Lovers, 417Western Wind, 417He Is Far, 417I Have a Young Sister, 418The Maid of the Moor, 419The Agincourt Carol, 420Bring Us In Good Ale, 421I Have Set My Heart So High, 421All Too Late, 422Divine Love, 422I Sing of a Maiden, 423Adam Lay Ybounden, 424Corpus Christi Carol, 425

POPULAR BALLADS, 425The Cherry-tree Carol, 429The Wee Wee Man, 430The Two Magicians, 431The Carpenter's Wife [The Demon Lover], 434The Wife of Usher's Well, 435The Unquiet Grave, 437Lord Randal, 438The Three Ravens, 439The Birth of Robin Hood, 440Sir Patrick Spence, 443

SIR THOMAS MALORY, 444" Morte Darthur, 447

[The Birth of Arthur and the Sword in the Stone], 448[The Death of Arthur], 453

CONTENTS xi

WILLIAM CAXTON, 458The Proem to the Canterbury Tales, 459

0 The Preface to the Aeneid, 461

WILLIAM DUNBAR, 463Lament for the Makers, 464

JOHN SKELTON, 466a Colin Clout, 468* Philip Sparrow, 4690 The Tunning of Elinor Rumming, 473

* The Garland of Laurel, 474To Mistress Margery Wentworth, 474To Mistress Margaret Hussey, 475

THE OTHER WORLD: PARADISE, 476

° Genesis 2:8-22 (Authorized Version), 4780 The Phoenix, 4790 Guillaume de Lorris: The Romance of the Rose, 481

The Land of Cokaygne, 487Thomas the Rhymer, 492

* Mandeville's Travels, 4949 Geoffrey Chaucer: Troilus and Criseyde: Book 5: The Finale, 496* Dante: The Divine Comedy: Paradise, 498

THE RENAISSANCE, 503

THE RENAISSANCE OVID, 519

0 Arthur Golding's Ovid's Metamorphoses, 521

* William Caxton's Ovid, His Book of Metamorphose 5220 Carel van Mander's Painter's Manual, 523* George Sandys's Ovid's Metamorphosis, 5230 Tottel's Miscellany [The Tale of Pygmalion with Conclusion upon the Beauty of His

Love], 525° John Marston's The Metamorphosis of Pygmalion's Image, 526° Henry Reynolds's Mythomystes, 527

THE ENGLISH BIBLE (I CORINTHIANS 13), 5280 The Second Wycliffite Version, 531* Tyndale's Translation, 531" The Great Bible, 5320 The Geneva Bible, 5324 The Bishops' Bible, 533* The Douay-Rheims Version, 5330 The King James Authorized Version, 534

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THE PSALMS IN ENGLISH VERSE (PSALM 137), 534

• The King James Authorized Version, 535• The Second Wycliffite Version, 536• The Geneva Bible, 536° The Douay-Rheims Version, 536

Thomas Sternhold and John Hopkins, 537The Countess of Pembroke, 537Thomas Campion, 538Francis Bacon, 539Richard Crashaw, 53gThomas Carew, 540Sir John Denham, 541

and Nicholas Brady, 541

THE NEW WORLD, 542

0 The Decades of the New World or West India, 544° A Brief and True Report, 545* Drake's Account, 547

THE ENGLISH HUMANISTS, 550

SIR THOMAS MORE, 5 5 20 Utopia, 554

0 Book I [Utopian Communism], 556* Book II [Utopian Contempt for Gold], 560;

[Utopian Marriage Customs], 563

Life of Pico, 569* The Life of, John Picus, Earl of Mirandola, 569

0 The History of King Richard III, 571The Young King and His Brother Murdered, 571

The Life of Sir Thomas More, 5750 William Roper's The Life of Sir Thomas More, 575

SIB THOMAS ELYOT, 5 7 8

* The Book Named the Governor, 580

BALDASSARE CASTIGLIONE-SIR THOMAS HOBY, 5 8 49 The Book of the Courtier, 585

CONTENTS

ROGER ASCHAM, 5 9 80 The Schoolmaster, 599

ELIZABETHAN SONG AND LYRIC, 606

THOMAS, LORD VAUX

The Aged Lover Renounceth Love, 608

NICHOLAS GRIMALD

The Garden, 610

CHIDIOCK TICHBORNE

Tichborne's Elegy, 611

ANONYMOUS

A Song from Ovid, 611

ANONYMOUS

Shadow and Substance, 612

ROBERT SOUTHWELL

The Burning Babe, 612

ANONYMOUS

'Hark, All Ye Lovely Saints,' 613

THOMAS NASHE

Litany in Time of Plague, 614Autumn, 615

ANONYMOUS

A Peddler's Song, 615

SIR THOMAS WYATT, 616I Find No Peace, 617My Galley Charged with Forgetfulness, 617Farewell, Love, 617The Long Love That in My Thought Doth Harbour, 618Blame Not My Lute, 618My Lute, Awake!, 619Whoso List To Hunt, 621They Flee from Me, 621

HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF SURREY, 622Alas, So All Things Now Do Hold Their Peace, 622

* Virgil's Aeneid, 623Love That Doth Reign and Live Within My Thought, 624

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SIR PHILIP SIDNEY, 625

-'Y>e Goatherd Gods, 627 •

* Old Arcadia, 62g0 Astrophel and Stella, 6300 Defence of Poesie, 636

FULKE GREVILLE, LORD BROOKE, 650° Caelica, 650

Chorus Sacerdotum, 651

EDMUND SPENSER, 6520 The Shepheardes Calender, 6540 Colin Clouts Come Home Againe, 660

0 The Faerie Queene, 662A Lettgr of the Authors, 664 *

Book I, 669 •Canto i, 672; ° Canto iv, 684; Canto viii, 689; ° Canto ix, 700; * Canto x, 705;0 Canto xi, 710; " Canto xii, 713

Book II, 718

Canto vii, 721; • Canto viii, 737; • Canto xii, 738 •

Book III, 746

Canto vi, 747; " Canto ix, 760; Canto xii, 767Book IV, 777 . .

0 Canto v, 780; * Canto x, 783Book V, 791

0 Canto vii, 796 • • •'Book VI, 801 • ...

0 Canto x, 803Two Cantos of Mutability, 809

° Canto vii, 811; Canto viii, 819

v a Amoretti, 820I (Happy ye leaves when as those filly hands), 820

XV (Ye tradefull Merchants, that with weary toyle), 821 . >yXVI (One day as I unwarily did gaze), 821LIV (Of this worlds Theatre in which we stay), 821

LXIII (After long stormes and tempests sad assay), 822LXIV (Comming to kisse her lyps, (such grace I found)), 822 , •.••,LXXV (One day I wrote her name upon the strand), 823

Epithalamion, 823

SIR WALTER RALEGH, 8340 The History of the World, 834 : ' . - . •

A Description of Love, 837Answer to Marlowe, 838 ' . ' ' • • : / .

On the Life of Man, 839

CONTENTS xv

GEOPGE CHAPMAN, 839 •0 Hero and Leander, 840 •••...* Homer's Odyssey [The Gardens of Alcinoiis], 844

CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE, 845Doctor Faustus, 846

* Hero and Leander, 899The Passionate Shepherd to His Love, 908

SAMUEL DANIEL, 909Care-charmer Sleep, 909A Pastoral, 909

*

MICHAEL DRAYTON, 9110 The Muses' Elizium, 9128 Idea, 915

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, 9160 Venus and Adonis, 917* The Rape of Lucrece, 921

The Phoenix and Turtle, 924

* The Sonnets, 927XII (When I do count the clock that tells the time), 927XVIII (Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?), 928 h

XIX (Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws), 928XX (A woman's face with nature's own hand painted), 929XXIX (When, in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes), 929XXX (When to the sessions of sweet silent thought), 929XXXIII (Full many a glorious morning have I seen), 930LIII (What is your substance, whereof are you made), 930LV (Not marble, nor the gilded monuments), 931LXIV (When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced), 931LXVI (Tired with all these for restful death I cry), 931LXXIII (That time of year thou mayst in me behold), 932LXXXVI (Was it the proud full sail of his great verse), 932LXXXVII (Farewell—thou are too dear for my possessing), 933XCIV (They that have power to hurt and will do none), 933XCVII (How like a winter hath my absence been), 933CVI (When in the chronicle of wasted time), 934CVII (Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul), 934CXVI (Let me not to the marriage of true minds), 935CXXI ('Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed), 935CXXIX (The expense of spirit in a waste of shame), 935CXXX (My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun), 936CXXXV (Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy Will), 936CXXXVIII (When my love swears that she is made of truth), 937

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CXLIV ("Two loves I have, of comfort and despair"), 937

•'(SXLVI ("Poor soul, the centre of my sinful ear th") , 937

Songs From the Plays, 938

Tell Me Where Is Fancy Bred, 938

Dirge, 939

Dialogue in Praise of the Owl and Cuckoo, 939

Who Is Silvia?, 940

Take, O Take Those Lips Aways, 941

O Mistress Mine, 941

When That I Was and a Little Tiny Boy, 941

Under the Greenwood Tree, 942

Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind, 943

Autolycus' Song, 943

Autolycus as Peddler, 944• "*•

The Tempest, 944

THOMAS CAMPION, 1009My Sweetest Lesbia, IOXO

Follow Your Saint, 1010Rose-cheeked Laura, 1011Mistress, Since You So Much Desire, 1011Beauty, Since You So Much Desire, 1012There Is a Garden in Her Face, 1012Thrice Toss These Oaken Ashes in the Air, 1014When to Her Lute Corinna Sings, 1015Never Weather-beaten Sail, 1015 «

JOHN DONNE, 1015• Juvenilia: Or Paradoxes and Problems, 1019

Elegies, 1020Elegy XVIII Love's Progress, 1020Elegy XIX To His Mistress Going to Bed, 1023

Songs and Sonnets, 1024The Good Morrow, 1024The Sun Rising, 1025The Canonization, 1026Lovers' Infiniteness, 1027Song, 1028A Fever, 1029Air and Angels, 1030The Anniversary, 1031The Dream, 1032A Valediction: Of Weeping, 1033Love's Alchemy, 1034The Flea, 1034A Nocturnal upon S. Lucy's Day, Being the Shortest Day, 1035

CONTENTS xvii

The Bait, 1037The Apparition, 1038A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, 1038The Ecstasy, 1039The Funeral, 1042Farewell to Love, 1042The Relic, 1044 • ;

Satire III, 10450 The Second Anniversary, 1048

The Holy Sonnets, 1050II (Oh my black soul! now thou art summoned), 1050IV (At the round earth's imagined corners, blow), 1051V (If poisonous minerals, and if that tree), 1051VI (Death be not proud, though some have called thee), 1052X (Batter my heart, three-personed God; for, you), 1052XVIV (Oh, to vex me, contraries meet in one), 1052

Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward, 1053Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness, 1054A Hymn to God the Father, 1055

Devotions upon Emergent Occasions•Meditation X, 1056Meditation XVII, 1056

Sermons, 1058• A Sermon Preached at St. Paul's for Easter-Day 1628, 1058

BEN JONSON, 1064To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author Mr. William Shakespeare, 1065To the Immortal Memory and Friendship of That Noble Pair Sir Lucius Cary and SirH. Morison, 1067Ode to Himself, 1071A Fit of Rime Against Rime, 1072The Hourglass, 1074Epigram from Petronius, 1074To Penshurst, 1075Song: To Celia, 1077To the Same, 1081Song: To Celia, 1081On My First Son, 1082Epitaph on S.P. a Child of Queen Elizabeth's Chapel, 1082To William Roe, 1083Inviting a Friend to Supper, 1083

Songs From PlaysSlow, Slow Fresh Fount, 1084Queen and Huntress, 1085Clerimont's Song, 1085 , ,

Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue, 1086

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W.ILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN, 1095Madrigal, 1095Madrigal, 1096On Mary Magdalen, 1096

WILLIAM BROWNE OF TAVISTOCK, 1096On the Death of Marie, Countess of Pembroke, 1097To Pyrrha, 1097

0 Britannia's Pastorals, 1098

SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY LYRIC MODES, 1099

ANONYMOUS

Tom o' Bedlam, 1100

FRANCIS QUARLES

Emblem IV, 1102

THOMAS RANDOLPH

Upon Love Fondly Refused for Conscience's Sake, 1104

JOHN CLEVELAND

On the Memory of Mr. Edward King, Drowned in the Irish Seas, 1106Mark Anthony, 1107

WILLIAM STRODE

On Chloris Walking in the Snow, 1108

SIR RICHARD FANSHAWE

v The Golden Age, 1109

WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT

No Platonic Love, m o

AURELIAN TOWNSHEND

A Dialogue Betwixt Time and a Pilgrim, 1111

JAMES SHIRLEY

Dirge, m i

SIR JOHN DENHAM

" Cooper's Hill, 1112

ROBERT HERRICK, 11130 Hesperides, 1114

To the Virgins, To Make Much of Time, 1114Corinna's Going A-Maying, 1115

CONTENTS

Upon Julia's Clothes, 1117 vDelight in Disorder, 1117The Night-Piece, To Julia, 1117The Mad Maid's Song, 1118To Anthea, Who May Command Him Anything, 1119

" Noble Numbers, 1119

THOMAS CAREW, 1120A Rapture, 1120An Elegy upon the Death of Doctor Donne, Dean of Paul's, 1124Upon a Ribband, 1127

RICHARD LOVELACE, 1127The Grasshopper, 1128La Bella Bona Roba, 1129Song (To Lucasta, Going to the Wars), 1130The Snail, 1130Love Made in the First Age: To Chloris, 1132

EDMUND WALLER, 1133Song, 1134Ai Penshurst, 1134Of English Verse, 1135

ABRAHAM COWLEY, 1136Ode of Wit, 1136The Grasshopper, 1138The Praise of Pindar in Imitation of Horace His Second Ode, Book 4, 1139

ANDREW MARVELL, 1141A Dialogue Between the Resolved Soul and Created Pleasure, 1141A Dialogue Between the Soul and Body, 1143The Nymph Complaining for the Death of Her Fawn, 1145To His Coy Mistress, 1148The Definition of Love, 1149The Picture of Little T.C. In a Prospect of Flowers, 1150The Mower Against Gardens, 1151Damon the Mower, 1152The Mower to the Glowworms, 1154The Garden, 1155

" Upon Appleton House, 1157An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland, 1162

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GEORGE HERBERT, 1165°^Phe Temple, 1166

The Altar, 1167Denial, 1167Easter-Wings, 1168Our Life Is Hid with Christ in God, 1169

The Pearl, 1169The Church-Floor, 1170Aaron, 1171Sonnet, 1172The Pulley, 1172The Collar, 1173A Wreath, 1174

f Mary 1Ana- •)#i. y eram, 1174

[Army f 5

Jordan (I) , 1174Jordan (II), 1175Paradise, 1175Church Monuments, 1176Prayer (I) , 1177Virtue, 1177Love (III), 1178

RICHARD CRASHAW, 1178Music's Duel, 1179

"The Weeper, 1183On Our Crucified Lord, Naked and Bloody, 1186Upon Our Saviour's Tomb Wherein Never Man Was Laid, 1187Upon the Infant Martyrs, 1187

0 The Flaming Heart, 1187

HENRY VAUGHAN, 1189Religion, 1190The Retreat, 1192Corruption, 1193The World, 1194[They Are All Gone into the World of Light], 1196The Night, 1197Cock-Crowing, 1199

THOMAS TRAHERNE, 1200Shadows in the Water, 1201

* Centuries of Meditations, 1203

JOHN MILTON, 1205L'Allegro and II Penseroso, 1209

L'Allegro, 1209II Penseroso, 1214

CONTENTS xxi

• Sonnets, 1218I (O nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray), 1219VII (How soon hath time, the subtle thief of youth), 1219VIII When the Assault Was Intended to the City, 1220XVII (When I consider how my light is spent), 1220XVIII On the Late Massacre in Piedmont, 1221XIX (Methought I saw my late espoused saint), 1221

Comus, 1222Lycidas, 1251

8 Paradise Lost, 12580 Book I, 1260; Book II, 1273; 8 Book III, 1289; Book IV, 1292; • Book V, 1319;• Book VII, 1320; Book IX, 1322; * Book X, 1350; • Book XII, 1357

0 Paradise Regained, 13620 Book IV, 1362

Samson Agonistes, 1367e Areopagitiea, 1412

The Development of Prose

JOHN LYLY, 14210 Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit, 1422

RICHARD HOOKER, 1424* Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, 1425

• Book I, Chapter 3,1425; * Book I, Chapter 14,1426; "• Book IV, Chapter 1;[Ceremony], 1427

LANCELOT ANDREWES, 1430* A Sermon Preached Before the King's Majesty, 1430

FRANCIS BACON, 1434• Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral

Of Truth, 1436 : 'Of Death, 1437Of Love, 1438Of Innovations, 1440Of Prophecies, 1441Of Studies, 1443

Aphorisms, 14440 The Wisdom of the Ancients, 14530 The New Atlantis, 1456

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ROBERT BURTON, 1463° The Anatomy of Melancholy

Democritus Junior to the Reader, 1464Division of the Body, Humours, Spirits, 1471Of the Inward Senses, 1472

SIR THOMAS BROWNE, 14731 Religio Medici, 1474

" Part 1,1474 * Part II, 14811 Hydriotaphia, 1485' The Garden of Cyrus, 1492' Miscellanies [On the Blindness of Cupid], 14971 The Notebooks [On Dreams], 1497

THOMAS HOBBES, 14990 Leviathan

0 Chapter II: Of Imagination, 1500• Chapter IV: Of Speech, 1504* Chapter XI: Of the Difference of Manners, 1505° Chapter XIII: Of the Natural Condition of Mankind as Concerning Their Felicity and

Misery, 1505The Answer to Davenant's Preface Before Gondibert, 1507

IZAAK WALTON, 1511• The Life of Dr. John Donne, 1512" The Life of Mr. George Herbert, 1519

CHARACTERS, 1521

SIR THOMAS OVERBURY0 His Wife: New News and Divers More Characters, 1522

JOHN EARLE0 Microcosmography, 1524

JOSEPH HALL0 Characters of Virtues and Vices, 1525

NICHOLAS BRETON

° The Good and the Bad, 1526

CONTENTS

OWEN IELLTHAM

* Resolves, Divine, Moral, and Political, 1527

THOMAS FULLER, 15290 The History of the Worthies of England

Warwickshire: William Shakespeare, 1529Westminster: Benjamin Jonson, 1530Cornwall: King Arthur, 1531London: Edmund Spenser, 1532

JOHN AUBREY, 1533

• Brief LivesAndrew Marvell, 1534Sir Walter Ralegh, 1534

EDWARD H\SE, EARL OF CLARENDON, 15380 The History of the Rebellion

[The Character of Charles I], 1538[The Character of Cromwell], 1540

JEREMY TAYLOR, 15420 Holy Dying

* Consideration of the Vanity and Shortness of Man's Life, 1543Consideration of the Miseries of Man's Life, 1545

* Sermons[Children], 1546

THE RESTORATIONAND THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, 1549

SAMUEL BUTLER, 1561' Hudibras

0 Part I, Canto 1,1562

JOHN BUNYAN, 15730 The Pilgrim's Progress

From This World to That Which Is To Come, 1574

GEORGE SAVILE, MARQUESS OF HALIFAX, 1581° The Character of a Trimmer

[The Laws], 1582[Liberty and the Constitution], 1588[Conclusion], 1591

JOHN WILMOT, EARL OF ROCHESTER, 1594A Satire Against Mankind, 1595

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JOJH& DRYDEN, 1600Absalom and Achitophel, 1602Mac Flecknoe, 1629

0 Religio Laici, 1635To the Memory of Mr. Oldham, 1640Lines on Milton, 1641To the Pious Memory of the Accomplished Young Lady, Mrs. Anne Killigrew, 1641A Song for St. Cecilia's Day, 1687, 1647Alexander's Feast, 1649

Translations, 16540 Preface to Sylvae [Lucretius], 1655

Lucretius: De Rerum Natura, 1655Juvenal, 1659

Critical Prose, 1660The Poetic Process [Wit and Fancy], 1660Critical Issues [Subplots and Complex Structure], 1664; [Comedy and Farce], 1664;[Horace and Juvenal], 1665Critical Judgments [Shakespeare and Jonson],i667; [Chaucer], 1668

WILLIAM CONGREVE, 1669JOHN DRYDEN: To My Dear Friend Mr. Congreve, 1671The Way of the World, 1673

Eighteenth Century

JONATHAN SWIFT, 1733

The Battle of the Books, 1735* A Full and True Account of the Battle Fought Last Friday, Between the Ancient and

Modern Books in St. James's Library, 1735

• A Tale of a Tub, 1739

An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity in England, 1757A Modest Proposal, 1767

Poems, 1773Phyllis, Or, The Progress of Love, 1774On Stella's Birthday, 1776Stella's Birthday, 1776The Day of Judgment, 1779Cassinus and Peter, 1779

* Gulliver's Travels, 178a8 Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World: A Voyage to the Country of the

Houyhnhnms, 1785A Letter from Capt. Gulliver to His Cousin Sympson, 1833

JOHN GAY AND ALEXANDER POPE: Mary Gulliver to Captain Lemuel Gulliver, 1836

CONTENTS xxv

THE MOCK FORM, 1837

JOHN PHILIPS .

" The Splendid Shilling, 1839

JOHN GAY ' .

" The Shepherd's Week, 1842

JOHN DRYDEN ' :

* Baucis and Philemon, 1845 • '

JONATHAN SWIFT

Baucis and Philemon, 1849

MATTHEW PRIOR

An Epita-jlh, 1853

ALEXANDER POPE, 1855"An Essay on Criticism, 1857

The Rape of the Lock, 1867

Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady, 1888 .

* An Essay on Man, 1891• Epistle II, 1891" Epistle III, 1892

To Richard Boyle, Earl of Burlington, 1896To a Lady, 1903

Imitations of Horace, 1910, Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, 1911The First Satire of the Second Book of Horace, 1923Epilogue to the Satires: Dialogue I, 381; Dialogue II, 193a

* The Dunciad, 1939Book the Fourth, 1940

JOHN GAY, 1959The Beggar's Opera, 1963

DANIEL DEFOE0 The True and Genuine Account of the Life and Actions of the Late Jonathan Wild,

2011 •. ' •

HENRY FIELDING , •,• •

* The History of the Life of the Late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great, 2014

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THE URBAN SCENE, 2017

JOHN DRYDEN0 The Third Satire of Juvenal, 2018

SAMUEL JOHNSON

* London: A Poem, 2020

JONATHAN SWIFT

A Description of the Morning, 2021A Description of a City Shower, 2021

JOHN GAY0 Trivia, or the Art of Walking the Streets of London, 2023

JOSEPH ADDISON

[The Royal Exchange], 2027

RICHARD STEELE

[The Hours of London], 2029

BERNARD MANDEVILLE0 The Fable of the Bees, 2032

DANIEL DEFOE

* The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, 2042

HENRY FIELDING0 A Modern Glossary, 2043

Later Eighteenth Century

JAMES BOSWELL, 2044* The Journals

[1762-63: Farewell to Louisa], 2045[1764: The Visit to Rousseau], 2048[1776: Reflections on Man], 2051

" The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.[1729: "Morbid Melancholy"], 2053[1754: The Dictionary and Lord Chesterfield], 2057[1763: The Meeting with Boswell], 2059[1776: The Meeting with Wilkes], 2064[1777: The Fear of Death], 2068[The Character of Samuel Johnson], 2070

1 The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D., 2072

CONTENTS xxvii

SAMUEL JOHNSON, 2077

The Vanity of Human Wishes, 2078

On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet, 20880 The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, 2089

Chapter VIII: The History of Imlac, 2090

Chapter IX: The History of Imlac Continued, 2092Chapter X: Imlac's History Continued. A Dissertation upon Poetry, 2093Chapter XI: Imlac's Narrative Continued. A Hint on Pilgrimage, 2095Chapter XII: The Story of Imlac Continued, 2096

" The Rambler, 2099° The Idler, 2104* The Preface to Shakespeare, 2107

8 The Notes to Shakespeare

[Falstaff]; 2115

[Polonius],2ii5

[Lady Macbeth], 2115

" The Lives of the Poets, 2116[Cowley and the Metaphysical Poets], 2116[Milton], 2118[Richard Savage], 2119[Dryden and Pope], 2121

Pope on Homer and Virgil0 Preface to the translation of the Iliad, 2122

EDWARD GIBBON, 21230 The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Chapter III: Of the Constitution of the Roman Empire, in the Age of the Antonines,2124

>0 Chapter XVI: The Conduct of the Roman Government Towards the Christians, fromthe Reign of Nero to That of Constantine, 2141

EDMUND BURKE, 2144* A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

[* Part II], 2145; [* Part III: The Sublime and Beautiful Compared], 2150;[• Part V], 2151

SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, 21530 Discourses

[The Grand Style], 2154[Poetic and Literal Truth], 2155[The Pleasures of the Mind], 2156[Minute Particulars], 2157[Art and Illusion], 2158

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../THE GARDEN AND THE WILD, 2165

SIB WILLIAM TEMPLE

* Upon the Gardens of Epicurus, 2166

ALEXANDEB. POPE

The Gardens of Alcinous, 21670 Windsor Forest, 2168

ANTHONY ASHLEY COOPER, THIRD EARL OF SHAFTESBURY8 The Moralists, 2169

JOSEPH ADDISON, 2 1 7 8

[The Pleasures of the Imagination], 2178

HORACE WALPOLE AND THOMAS GRAY

[Crossing the Alps, 1739], 2181

JAMES THOMSON4 The Seasons

* Summer, 2183* Winter, 2185

EDWARD YOUNG0 The Complaint; or, Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality

"Night I, 2187* Night VI, 2188

SAMUEL JOHNSON8 A Journey to the Western Islands, 2189

WILLIAM COLLINS, 2189Ode on the Poetical Character, 2192Ode to Evening, 2195Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the Highlands of Scotland, 2197

THOMAS GRAY, 2202Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College, 2203Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes, 2206Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, 2207The Bard, 2211On Lord Holland's Seat near Margate, Kent, 2216

CHRISTOPHER SMART, 22170 Jubilate Agno

" Fragment Bl, 22180 Fragment B2, 2218

A Song to David, 2221

CONTENTS

OLIVER GOLDSMITH, 2235The Diverted Village, 2235

WILLIAM COWPER, 2245Lines Written During a Period of Insanity, 2246On the Ice Islands Seen Floating in the German Ocean, 2247The Castaway, 2248

8 The Task, 2250

GEORGE CRABBE, 22560 The Village, 22568 The Parish Register, 2260

ROBERT BURNS, 2267To a Mous -, 2267Address to the Deil, 2269

Holy Willie's Prayer, 2273Tarn O'Shanter, 2276Green Grow the Rashes, 2282Ae Fond Kiss, 2282A Red, Red Rose, 2283Scots Wha Hae, 2284For A' That and A' That, 2284Sense and Sensibility, 2286

SENSE AND SENSIBILITY, 2286

EDWARD GIBBON8 Memoirs of My Own Life

[Aunt Hester and William Law], 2287[His Conversion to Roman Catholicism], 2290[Gibbon in Love], 2292[His Italian Tour], 2293[The Ideal Traveler], 2294[A Retrospective View], 2295

JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU, 2298

8 The Confessions[His Aunt Suzon], 2299[Life with Mine de Warens], 2300[The Roman Past], 2303[The Island of Saint-Pierre], 2304

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LAURENCE STERNE

. "* Tristram Shandy and A Sentimental Journal, 23068 A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy by Mr. Yorick

Moulines, 2309The Bourbonnois, 2311

Glossary, 2313

Suggestions for Further Reading:Medieval, 2337Renaissance, 2342Eighteenth Century, 2355

Indexes:.Authors and Titles, 2363'First Lines of Poems, 2371