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Longman Anthology of British Literature, The, Volume 1 / Edition 4
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ISBN-13: | 9780205655243 |
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Publisher: | Pearson Education |
Publication date: | 07/23/2009 |
Series: | Damrosch British Series , #1 |
Edition description: | New Edition |
Pages: | 2928 |
Product dimensions: | 6.40(w) x 9.00(h) x 2.40(d) |
About the Author
Kevin J. H. Dettmar is W. M. Keck Professor and Chair, Department of English, at Pomona College, and Past President of the Modernist Studies Association. He is the author of The Illicit Joyce of Postmodernism and Is Rock Dead?, and the editor of Rereading the New: A Backward Glance at Modernism; Marketing Modernisms: Self-Promotion, Canonization, and Rereading; Reading Rock & Roll: Authenticity, Appropriation, Aesthetics; the Barnes & Noble Classics edition of James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Dubliners; and The Blackwell Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture, and co-general editor of The Longman Anthology of British Literature.
Christopher Baswell is A. W. Olin Chair of English at Barnard College, and Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. His interests include classical literature and culture, medieval literature and culture, and contemporary poetry. He is author of Virgil in Medieval England: Figuring the "Aeneid" from the Twelfth Century to Chaucer, which won the 1998 Beatrice White Prize of the English Association. He has held fellowships from the NEH, the National Humanities Center, and the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.
Clare Carroll is Director of Renaissance Studies at The Graduate Center, City University of New York and Professor of Comparative Literature at Queens College and at The Graduate Center, CUNY. Her research is in Renaissance Studies, with particular interests in early modern colonialism, epic poetry, historiography, and translation. She is the author of The Orlando Furioso: A Stoic Comedy, and editor of Richard Beacon's humanist dialogue on the colonization of Ireland, Solon His Follie. Her most recent book is Circe's Cup: Cultural Transformations in Early Modern Ireland. She has received Fulbright Fellowships for her research and the Queens College President's Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Andrew Hadfield is Professor of English at The University of Sussex. He is the author of a number of books, including Shakespeare and Republicanism (2005), which was awarded the 2006 Sixteenth-Century Society Conference Roland H. Bainton Prize for Literature; Literature, Travel and Colonialism in the English Renaissance, 1540-1625 (1998); and Spenser's Irish Experience: Wilde Fruyt and Salvage Soyl (1997). He has also edited a number, most recently, with Matthew Dimmock, Religions of the Book: Co-existence and Conflict, 1400-1660 (2008), and with Raymond Gillespie, The Oxford History of the Irish Book, Vol. III: The Irish Book in English, 1550-1800 (2006). He is a regular reviewer for the TLS.
Heather Henderson is a freelance writer and former Associate Professor of English Literature at Mount Holyoke College. A specialist in Victorian literature, she is the recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities. She is the author of The Victorian Self: Autobiography and Biblical Narrative. Her current interests include home-schooling, travel literature, and autobiography.
Peter J. Manning is Professor at Stony Brook University. He is the author of Byron and His Fictions and Reading Romantics, and of numerous essays on the British Romantic poets and prose writers. With Susan J. Wolfson, he has co-edited Selected Poems of Byron, and Selected Poems of Beddoes, Hood, and Praed. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the Distinguished Scholar Award of the Keats-Shelley Association.
Anne Howland Schotter is Professor and Chair of English and Associate Dean of the Faculty at Wagner College. She is the co-editor of Ineffability: Naming the Unnamable from Dante to Beckett and author of articles on Middle English poetry, Dante, and Medieval Latin poetry. Her current interests include the medieval reception of classical literature, particularly the work of Ovid. She has held fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson and Andrew W. Mellon foundations.
William Sharpe is Professor of English Literature at Barnard College. A specialist in Victorian poetry and the literature of the city, he is the author of Unreal Cities: Urban Figuration in Wordsworth, Baudelaire, Whitman, Eliot, and Williams. He is also co-editor of The Passing of Arthur and Visions of the Modern City. He is the recipient of Guggenheim, National Endowment of the Humanities, Fulbright, and Mellon fellowships, and recently published New York Nocturne: The City After Dark in Literature, Painting, and Photography.
Stuart Sherman is Associate Professor of English at Fordham University. He received the Gottschalk Prize from the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies for his book Telling Time: Clocks, Diaries, and English Diurnal Form, 1660-1775, and is currently at work on a study called “News and Plays: Evanescences of Page and Stage, 1620-1779.” He has received the Quantrell Award for Undergraduate Teaching, as well as fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Chicago Humanities Institute, and Princeton University.
Susan J. Wolfson is Professor of English at Princeton University and is general editor of Longman Cultural Editions. A specialist in Romanticism, her critical studies include The Questioning Presence: Wordsworth, Keats, and the Interrogative Mode in Romantic Poetry, Formal Charges: The Shaping of Poetry in British Romanticism, and Borderlines: The Shiftings of Gender in British Romanticism. She has also produced editions of Felicia Hemans, Lord Byron, Thomas L. Beddoes, William M. Praed, Thomas Hood, as well as the Longman Cultural Edition of Shelley’s Frankenstein. She received Distinguished Scholar Award from Keats-Shelley Association, and grants and fellowships from American Council of Learned Societies, National Endowment for the Humanities, J. S. Guggenheim Foundation, and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. She is President (2009-2010) of the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers.
Table of Contents
*** denotes selection is new to this edition.THE MIDDLE AGES
Before the Norman Conquest
BEOWULF***
Response
John Gardner: from Grendel
THE TÁIN***
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 Saint 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 sent to the Papal Court of Rome
Response
A Report to Edward I
Arthurian Romance
MARIE DE FRANCE
Lais
Prologue
Lanval
Chevrefoil (The Honeysuckle)
SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT***
SIR THOMAS MALORY
Morte Darthur
from Caxton's Prologue
The Miracle of Galahad
The Poisoned Apple
The Day of Destiny
Responses
Marion Zimmer Bradley: from The Mists of Avalon
Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin: scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail
GEOFFREY CHAUCER
The Canterbury Tales
The General Prologue (Middle English and modern translation)
The Miller's Tale
The Introduction
The Tale
The Wife of Bath's Prologue
The Wife of Bath'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 6
Passus 8
Passus 20
“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
Response
Rebecca Jackson: The Dream of Washing Quilts
Medieval Biblical Drama
THE SECOND PLAY OF THE SHEPHERDS
THE YORK PLAY OF THE CRUCIFIXION
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
Fowls 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 YoI 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?”)
DAFYDD AP GWILYM
Aubade
One Saving Place
Tale of a Wayside Inn
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
Robene and Makyne
Late Medieval Allegory
CHARLES D'ORLEANS
Ballade 26
Ballade 61
Roundel 94
MANKIND
(acting edition by Peter Meredith)
CHRISTINE DE PIZAN
from Book of the City of Ladies
(trans. by Earl Jeffrey Richards)
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
Lov