A huge anthology, with commentary and a large introductory essay by the editor An anthology of poems which attempts to give readers the possession of six centuries of great British and American poetry. Introduction
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THE ART OF READING POETRY
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GEOFFREY CHAUCER
30
FROM THE CANTERBURY TALES
32
from The General Prologue
from The Wife of Bath's Prologue
from The Pardoner's Prologue
WILLIAM DUNBAR
50
Lament for the Makers
50
PETRARCHAN POETRY
53
SIR THOMAS WYATT
55
Whoso List to Hunt
55
They Flee from Me
55
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY
56
from Astrophel and Stella
56
EDMUND SPENSER
57
THE CAVE OF MAMMON
65
THE BOWER OF BLISS
67
THE MUTABILITIE CANTOS
69
AMORETTI
72
from The Faerie Queene: The Gardens of Adonis
73
EPITHALAMION
79
Epithalamion
80
PHOTHALAMION
91
Prothalamion
92
SIR WALTER RALEGH
97
from The Ocean to Cynthia
99
Answer to Marlowe
102
CHIDIOCK TICHBORNE
103
Tichborne's Elegy
103
ROBERT SOUTHWELL
104
The Burning Babe
104
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
105
from Tamburlaine
106
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
109
MICHAEL DRAYTON
110
from Idea
110
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
111
The Phoenix and Turtle
113
from Hamlet
115
front Troilus and Cressida
120
from Measure for Measure
122
from King Lear
124
from The Tempest
126
Sonnets
127
XIX: "Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws,"
127
XXX: "When to the sessions of sweet silent thought"
127
LIII "What is your substance, whereof are you
128
LV: "Not marble, nor the gilded monumelits"
128
LXXIII: "That time of year thou mayst in me behold"
128
LXXXVI: "Was it the proud full sail of this great verse,"
129
LXXXVII: "Farewell thou art too dear fin- my possessing,"
129
XCIV: "They that have power to hurt and will do none,"
130
CVII: "Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul"
130
CXVI: "Let me not to the marriage of true minds"
130
CXXI: " 'Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed,"
131
CXXIX: "The expense of spirit in a waste of shame,"
131
CXXX: "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;"
131
CXLIV: "Two loves I have, of comfort and despair,"
132
Songs
132
Dirge
132
When That I Was and a Little Tiny Boy
133
Autolycus' Song
134
Autolycus As Peddler
134
THOMAS NASHE
135
Litany in Time of Plague
135
THOMAS CAMPION
136
There Is a Garden in Her Face
137
When to Her Lute Corinna Sings
137
When Thou Must Home to Shades of Under Ground
138
JOHN DONNE
138
Song
139
A Nocturnal upon S. Lucy's Day Being the Shortest Day.
140
The Ecstasy
141
Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness
144
A Hymn to God the Father
145
BEN JONSON
145
To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author Mr. William Shakespeare
147
Song: To Celia [1606]
149
Song: To Celia [1616]
149
Clerimont's Song
150
TOM O' BEDLAM'S SONG
150
Min o' Bedlam's Song
151
JOHN CLEVELAND
154
Mark Antony
154
JAMES SHIRLEY
155
Dirge
156
ROBERT HERRICK
157
To the Virgins, To Make Much of Time
157
Upon Julia's Clothes
158
Delight in Disorder
158
THOMAS CAREW
159
A Rapture
159
Song
163
RICHARD LOVELACE
164
La Bella Bona Roba
165
Song
166
To Althea, from Prison
166
SIR JOHN SUCKLING
167
Song
168
"Out upon it! I have loved"
168
EDMUND WALLER
169
Song
169
ANDREW MARVELL
170
To His Coy Mistress
172
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