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List of Illustrations | |
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Additional Audio and Online Resources | |
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Preface | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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Bibliography | |
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The Early Modern Period | |
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Womanhod, Wanton | |
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Lullay | |
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Knolege, Aquayntance | |
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Manerly Margery Mylk and Ale | |
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Garland of Laurel | |
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To Maystres Jane Blennerhasset | |
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To Maystres Isabell Pennell | |
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To Maystres Margaret Hussey | |
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The Long Love, That in My Thought Doth Harbor | |
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Companion Reading: Petrarch: Sonnet 140 | |
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Whoso List to Hunt | |
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Companion Reading: Petrarch: Sonnet 190 | |
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My Galley | |
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They Flee from Me | |
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Some Time I Fled the Fire | |
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My Lute, Awake! | |
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Tagus, Farewell | |
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Forget Not Yet | |
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Blame Not My Lute | |
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Lucks, My Fair Falcon, and Your Fellows All | |
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Stand Whoso List | |
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Mine Own John Poyns | |
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Love That Doth Reign and Live within My Thought | |
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Th'Assyrians' King, in Peace with Foul Desire | |
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Set Me Whereas the Sun Doth Parch the Green | |
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The Soote Season | |
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Alas, So All Things Now Do Hold Their Peace | |
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Companion Reading: Petrarch: Sonnet 164 | |
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So Cruel Prison | |
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London, Hast Thou Accused Me | |
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Wyatt Resteth Here | |
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My Radcliffe, When Thy Reckless Youth Offends | |
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Utopia | |
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Response: George Orwell: from 1984 | |
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Perspectives: Government and Self-Government | |
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from The Obedience of a Christian Man | |
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from Instruction of a Christian Woman | |
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from The Book Named the Governor | |
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from The Defence of Good Women | |
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from A Short Treatise of Political Power | |
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from The Book of the Courtier | |
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from The Book of Martyrs | |
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from The Schoolmaster | |
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from The First Part of the Elementary | |
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from De Republica Anglorum | |
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from The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity | |
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from The True Law of Free Monarchies | |
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from Leviathan | |
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Seven Sonnets to Alexander Neville | |
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Woodmanship | |
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The Shepheardes Calender | |
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October | |
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The Faerie Queene | |
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A Letter of the Authors | |
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The First Booke of the Faerie Queene | |
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Amoretti | |
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1 ("Happy ye leaves when as those lilly hands") | |
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4 ("New yeare forth looking out of Janus gate") | |
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13 ("In that proud port, which her so goodly graceth") | |
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22 ("This holy season fit to fast and pray") | |
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62 ("The weary yeare his race now having run") | |
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65 ("The doubt which ye misdeeme, fayre love, is vaine") | |
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66 ("To all those happy blessings which ye have") | |
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68 ("Most glorious Lord of lyfe that on this day") | |
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75 ("One day I wrote her name upon the strand") | |
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Epithalamion | |
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The Apology for Poetry | |
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"The Apology" and Its Time: The Art of Poetry | |
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from The School of Abuse | |
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from The Art of English Poesie | |
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from Certain Notes of Instruction | |
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from A Defense of Rhyme | |
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Astrophil and Stella | |
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1 ("Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show") | |
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3 ("Let dainty wits cry on the sisters nine") | |
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7 ("When Nature made her chief work, Stella's eyes") | |
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9 ("Queen Virtue's court, which some call Stella's face") | |
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10 ("Reason, in faith thou art well served, that still") | |
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14 ("Alas, have I not pain enough, my friend") | |
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15 ("You that do search for every purling spring") | |
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23 ("The curious wits, seeing dull pensiveness") | |
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24 ("Rich fool there be whose base and filthy heart") | |
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31 ("With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies") | |
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37 ("My mouth doth water and my breast doth swell") | |
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39 ("Come sleep, O sleep, the certain knot of peace") | |
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45 ("Stella oft sees the very face of woe") | |
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47 ("What, have I thus betrayed my liberty?") | |
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52 ("A strife is grown between Virtue and Love") | |
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60 ("When my good Angel guides me to the place") | |
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63 ("O grammar-rules, O now your virtues show") | |
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64 ("No more, my dear, no more these counsels try") | |
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68 ("Stella, the only planet of my light") | |
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71 ("Who will in fairest book of Nature know") | |
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Second song ("Have I caught my heavenly jewel") | |
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74 ("I never drank of Aganippe well") | |
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Fourth song ("Only joy, now here you are") | |
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86 ("Alas, whence came this change of looks? If I...") | |
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Eighth song ("In a grove most rich of shade") | |
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Ninth song ("Go, my flock, go get you hence") | |
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89 ("Now that, of absence, the most irksome night") | |
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90 ("Stella, think not that I by verse seek fame") | |
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91 ("Stella, while now by honor's cruel might") | |
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97 ("Dian, that fain would cheer her friend the Night") | |
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104 ("Envious wits, what hath been mine offense") | |
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106 ("O absent presence, Stella is not here") | |
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107 ("Stella, since thou so right a princess art") | |
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108 ("When sorrow (using mine own fire's might)") | |
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The Admonition by the Author | |
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A Careful Complaint by the Unfortunate Author | |
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The Manner of Her Will | |
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Even Now That Care | |
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To Thee Pure Sprite | |
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Psalm 71: In Te Domini Speravi ("On thee my trust is grounded") | |
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Companion Reading: Miles Coverdale: Psalm 71 | |
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Psalm 121: Levavi Oculos ("Unto the hills, I now will bend") | |
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The Doleful Lay of Clorinda | |
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Perspectives: The Rise of Print Culture | |
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from Polychronicon | |
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from Hay any worke for Cooper | |
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from Pierce Penniless his Supplication to the Devil | |
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from "Of books," in Essays, translated by John Florio | |
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The Phoenix | |
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Of Truth | |
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Of Superstition | |
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Of Studies [version of 1597] | |
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Of Studies [version of 1625] | |
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from The Advancement of Learning, The Second Book | |
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from The Advancement of Learning, The Ninth Book | |
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from Genesis | |
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from The Anatomy of Melancholy | |
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from The Pilgrim's Progress | |
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Written with a Diamond on Her Window at Woodstock | |
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Written on a Wall at Woodstock | |
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The Doubt of Future Foes | |
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On Monsieur's Departure | |
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Speeches | |
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On Marriage | |
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On Mary, Queen of Scots | |
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On Mary's Execution | |
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To the English Troops at Tilbury, Facing the Spanish Armada | |
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The Golden Speech | |
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The Description of Cookham | |
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Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum | |
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To the Doubtful Reader | |
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To the Virtuous Reader | |
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[Invocation] | |
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[Against Beauty Without Virtue] | |
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[Pilate's Wife Apologizes for Eve] | |
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The Affectionate Shepherd | |
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Sonnets from Cynthia | |
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1 ("Sporting at fancy, setting light by love") | |
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5 ("It is reported of fair Thetis' son") | |
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9 ("Diana (on a time) walking the wood") | |
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11 ("Sighing, and sadly sitting by my love") | |
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13 ("Speak, Echo, tell; how may I call my love?") | |
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19 ("Ah no; nor I myself: though my pure love") | |
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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love | |
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Response: Sir Walter Raleigh: The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd | |
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Hero and Leander | |
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The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus | |
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Response: C.S. Lewis: from The Screwtape Letters | |
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Nature That Washed Her Hands in Milk | |
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To the Queen | |
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On the Life of Man | |
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The Author's Epitaph, Made by Himself | |
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As You Came from the Holy Land | |
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from The 21st and Last Book of the Ocean to Cynthia | |
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The Discovery of the Large, Rich and Beautiful Empire of Guiana | |
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from Epistle Dedicatory | |
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To the Reader | |
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[The Amazons] | |
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[The Orinoco] | |
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[The King of Aromaia] | |
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[The New World of Guiana] | |
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Perspectives: England in the New World | |
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from The First Voyage Made to the Coasts of America | |
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from A Brief and True Report of the Newfound Land of Virginia | |
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To the Virginian Voyage | |
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from General History of Virginia and the Summer Isles | |
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from A Sermon Preached to the Honorable Company of the Virginia Plantation | |
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Sonnets | |
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1 ("From fairest creatures we desire increase") | |
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12 ("When I do count the clock that tells the time") | |
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15 ("When I consider every thing that grows") | |
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18 ("Shall I compare thee to a summer's day") | |
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20 ("A woman's face with Nature's own hand painted") | |
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29 ("When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes") | |
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30 ("When to the sessions of sweet silent thought") | |
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31 ("Thy bosom is endeared with all hearts") | |
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33 ("Full many a glorious morning have I seen") | |
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35 ("No more be grieved at that which thou hast done") | |
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55 ("Not marble nor the gilded monuments") | |
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60 ("Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore") | |
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71 ("No longer mourn for me when I am dead") | |
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73 ("That time of year thou mayst in me behold") | |
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80 ("O, how I faint when I of you do write") | |
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86 ("Was it the proud full sail of his great verse") | |
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87 ("Farewell! Thou art too dear for my possessing") | |
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93 ("So shall I live, supposing thou art true") | |
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94 ("They that have pow'r to hurt, and will do none") | |
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104 ("To me, fair friend, you never can be old") | |
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106 ("When in the chronicle of wasted time") | |
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107 ("Not mine own fears nor the prophetic soul") | |
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116 ("Let me not to the marriage of true minds") | |
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123 ("No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change") | |
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124 ("If my dear love were but the child of state") | |
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126 ("O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power") | |
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128 ("How oft, when thou my music play'st") | |
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129 ("The expense of spirit in a waste of shame") | |
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130 ("My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun") | |
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138 ("When my love swears that she is made of truth") | |
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144 ("Two loves I have, of comfort and despair") | |
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152 ("In loving thee thou know'st I am forsworn") | |
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Twelfth Night; or, What You Will | |
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The Tempest | |
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Companion Readings | |
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William Strachey: from A True Reportory of the Wreck and Redemption of Sir Thomas Gates, Knight, upon and from the Islands of the Bermudas | |
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Michel de Montaigne: from Of Cannibals | |
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Response: Aime Cesaire: from A Tempest | |
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The Roaring Girl; or, Moll Cut-Purse | |
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"The Roaring Girl" and Its Time: City Life | |
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from My Lady's Looking Glass | |
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from A Notable Discovery of Cosenage | |
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from Lantern and Candlelight | |
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from Thomas of Reading | |
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from Pierce Penniless | |
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from A Counterblast to Tobacco | |
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Perspectives: Tracts on Women and Gender | |
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from In Laude and Praise of Matrimony | |
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from My Lady's Looking Glass | |
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from Preface to The First Part of the Mirror of Princely Deeds | |
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from The Arraignment of Lewd, Idle, Froward, and Unconstant Women | |
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from A Muzzle for Melastomus | |
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from Ester Hath Hanged Haman | |
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from Hic Mulier; or, The Man-Woman | |
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from Haec-Vir; or, The Womanish-Man | |
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My sweetest Lesbia, let us live and love | |
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There is a garden in her face | |
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Rose-cheeked Laura, come | |
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When thou must home to shades of underground | |
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Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore | |
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To the Reader | |
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Sonnet 12 ("To nothing fitter can I thee compare") | |
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Sonnet 61 ("Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part") | |
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To His Coy Love, a Canzonet | |
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The Alchemist | |
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On Something, That Walks Somewhere | |
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On My First Daughter | |
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To John Donne | |
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On My First Son | |
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Inviting a Friend to Supper | |
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To Penshurst | |
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Song to Celia | |
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Queen and Huntress | |
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To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare, and What He Hath Left Us | |
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To the Immortal Memory, and Friendship of that Noble Pair, Sir Lucius Cary and Sir H. Morison | |
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Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue | |
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Response: Thom Gunn: from The Occasions of Poetry | |
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The Good Morrow | |
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Song ("Go, and catch a falling star") | |
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The Undertaking | |
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The Sun Rising | |
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The Indifferent | |
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The Canonization | |
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Air and Angels | |
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Break of Day | |
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A Valediction: of Weeping | |
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Love's Alchemy | |
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The Flea | |
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The Bait | |
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The Apparition | |
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A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning | |
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The Ecstasy | |
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The Funeral | |
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The Relic | |
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Elegy 19: To His Mistress Going to Bed | |
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Holy Sonnets | |
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1 ("As due by many titles I resign") | |
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2 ("Oh my black soul! Now thou art summoned") | |
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3 ("This is my play's last scene, here heavens appoint") | |
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4 ("At the round earth's imagined corners, blow") | |
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5 ("If poisonous minerals, and if that tree") | |
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6 ("Death be not proud, though some have called thee") | |
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7 ("Spit in my face ye Jews, and pierce my side") | |
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8 ("Why are we by all creatures waited on?") | |
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9 ("What if this present were the world's last night?") | |
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10 ("Batter my heart, three-personed God; for, you") | |
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11 ("Wilt thou love God, as he thee? Then digest") | |
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12 ("Father, part of his double interest") | |
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Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions | |
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["For whom the bell tolls"] | |
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Pamphilia to Amphilanthus | |
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1 ("When night's black mantle could most darkness prove") | |
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5 ("Can pleasing sight misfortune ever bring?") | |
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16 ("Am I thus conquered? Have I lost the powers") | |
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17 ("Truly poor Night thou welcome art to me") | |
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25 ("Like to the Indians, scorched with the sun") | |
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26 ("When everyone to pleasing pastime hies") | |
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28 Song ("Sweetest love, return again") | |
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39 ("Take heed mine eyes, how you your looks do cast") | |
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40 ("False hope which feeds but to destroy, and spill") | |
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48 ("If ever Love had force in human breast?") | |
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55 ("How like a fire does love increase in me") | |
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68 ("My pain, still smothered in my grieved breast") | |
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74 Song ("Love a child is ever crying") | |
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A Crown of Sonnets Dedicated to Love | |
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77 ("In this strange labyrinth how shall I turn?") | |
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82 ("He may our profit and our tutor prove") | |
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83 ("How blessed be they then, who his favors prove") | |
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84 ("He that shuns love does love himself the less") | |
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103 ("My muse now happy, lay thyself to rest") | |
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from The Countess of Montgomery's Urania | |
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Hesperides | |
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The Argument of His Book | |
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To His Book | |
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Another ("To read my book the virgin shy") | |
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Another ("Who with thy leaves shall wipe at need") | |
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To the Sour Reader | |
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When He Would Have His Verses Read | |
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Delight in Disorder | |
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Corinna's Going A-Maying | |
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To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time | |
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The Hock-Cart, or Harvest Home | |
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His Prayer to Ben Jonson | |
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Upon Julia's Clothes | |
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Upon His Spaniel Tracie | |
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The Dream ("Me thought (last night) Love in an anger came") | |
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The Dream ("By dream I saw one of the three") | |
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The Vine | |
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The Vision | |
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Discontents in Devon | |
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To Dean-Bourn, a Rude River in Devon | |
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Upon Scobble: Epigram | |
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The Christian Militant | |
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To His Tomb-Maker | |
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Upon Himself Being Buried | |
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His Last Request to Julia | |
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The Pillar of Fame | |
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His Noble Numbers | |
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His Prayer for Absolution | |
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To His Sweet Saviour | |
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To God, on His Sickness | |
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The Altar | |
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Redemption | |
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Easter | |
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Easter Wings | |
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Affliction (1) | |
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Prayer (1) | |
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Jordan (1) | |
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Church Monuments | |
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The Windows | |
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Denial | |
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Virtue | |
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Man | |
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Jordan (2) | |
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Time | |
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The Collar | |
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The Pulley | |
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The Forerunners | |
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Love (3) | |
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To Lucasta, Going to the Wars | |
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The Grasshopper | |
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To Althea, from Prison | |
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Love Made in the First Age: To Chloris | |
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Regeneration | |
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The Retreat | |
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Silence, and Stealth of Days | |
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The World | |
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They Are All Gone into the World of Light! | |
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The Night | |
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The Coronet | |
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Bermudas | |
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The Nymph Complaining for the Death of Her Fawn | |
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To His Coy Mistress | |
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The Definition of Love | |
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The Mower Against Gardens | |
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The Mower's Song | |
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The Garden | |
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An Horatian Ode Upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland | |
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Friendship in Emblem, or the Seal | |
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Upon the Double Murder of King Charles | |
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On the Third of September, 1651 | |
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To the Truly Noble, and Obliging Mrs. Anne Owen | |
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To Mrs. Mary Awbrey at Parting | |
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To My Excellent Lucasia, on Our Friendship | |
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The World | |
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Perspectives: The Civil War, or the Wars of Three Kingdoms | |
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From Eikon Basilike | |
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From Eikonoklastes | |
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The Petition of Gentlewomen and Tradesmen's Wives | |
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From Letters from Ireland | |
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John O'Dwyer of the Glenn | |
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The Story of Alexander Agnew; or, Jock of Broad Scotland | |
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Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon | |
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From True Historical Narrative of the Rebellion | |
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L'Allegro | |
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Il Penseroso | |
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Lycidas | |
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How Soon Hath Time | |
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On the New Forcers of Conscience Under the Long Parliament | |
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To the Lord General Cromwell | |
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On the Late Massacre in Piedmont | |
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When I Consider How My Light Is Spent | |
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Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint | |
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From Areopagitica | |
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Paradise Lost | |
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Responses | |
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Mary Wollstonecraft: from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman | |
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William Blake: A Poison Tree | |
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Samson Agonistes | |
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Political and Religious Orders | |
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Money, Weights, and Measures | |
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Literary and Cultural Terms | |
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Credits | |
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Index | |