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List Of Authors | |
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Chronology | |
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Thematic Table of Contents | |
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Introduction | |
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Editorial Principles | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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Ballads And Newsbooks From The Civil War (1640-1649) | |
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The World Is Turned Upside Down (1646) | |
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The King''s Last Farewell To The World, Or The Dead King''s Living Meditations | |
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At The Approach Of Death Denounced Against Him (1649) | |
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The Royal Health To The Rising Sun (1649) | |
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From A Perfect Diurnal Of Some Passages In Parliament (1949) | |
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Number 288 29 January - 5 February 1649 From Mercurius Pragmaticus (1649) | |
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Number 43 30 January - 6 February 1649 | |
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Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679):From Leviathan (1651) | |
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Chapter XIII Of The Natural Condition Of Mankind, As Concerning Their Felicity And Misery | |
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Robert Filmer (1588?-1653) | |
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From Patriarcha, Or The Natural Power Of Kings Asserted (1680) | |
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V Kings Are Either Fathers Of Their People, Or Heirs Of Such Fathers, Or The Usurpes Of The Rights Of Such Fathers | |
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VI Of The Escheating Of Kingdoms | |
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VII Of The Agreement Of Paternal And Regal Power | |
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Robert Herrick (1591-1674) | |
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From Hersperides (1648) | |
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The Argument Of His Book | |
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To Daffodils | |
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The Night-Piece, To Julia | |
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The Hock-Cart, Or Harvest Home | |
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Upon Julia''s Cloths | |
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When He Would Have His Verses Read | |
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Delight In Disorder | |
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To The Virgins, To Make Much Of Time | |
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His Return To London | |
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The Bad Season Makes The Poet Sad | |
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The Pillar Of Fame | |
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John Reeve (1608-1658) and Lodowicke Muggleton (1609-1698) | |
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From Joyful News from Heaven or the Last Intelligence from Our Glorified Jesus above | |
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John Milton (1608-1674) | |
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From The Dontrine And Discipline Of Divorce | |
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Restored To The Good Of Both Sexes, From The Bondage Of Canon Law, And Other Mistakes, To Christian Freedom, Guided By The Rule Of Charity | |
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Wherein Also Many Places Of Scripture, Have Recovered Their Long-Lost Meaning | |
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Seasonable To Be Now Thought On In The Reformation Intended (1643) | |
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Book I The Preface | |
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From Chapter I | |
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From Chapter VI | |
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From Areopagitica; A Speech | |
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For The Liberty Of Unlicensed Printing, To The Parliament Of England (1644) | |
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From Poems (1673) | |
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Sonnet 18 (1655) On The Late Massacre In Piemont | |
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Sonnet 19 (1652?) ''When I Consider How My Light Is Spent''Sonnet 16 (To The Lord General Cromwell, 1652) | |
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From Paradise Lost (1667) | |
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The Verse | |
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Book I | |
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Book II | |
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Book IV | |
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Book IX | |
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Margaret Fell Fox (1614-1702) | |
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From Women''s Speaking Justified, Proved And Allowed By The Scriptures (1666) | |
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Richard Lovelace (1618-1657):From Lucasta (1649) | |
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Song To Lucasta, Going To The Wars | |
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Song To Amarantha, That She Would Dishevel Her Hair | |
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To Althea, From Prison Song | |
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Abraham Cowley (1618-1667): From Poems (1656) | |
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ODE Of Wit | |
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To Mr Hobbes | |
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Abiezer Coppe (1619-1672) | |
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From A Fiery Flying Roll (1649) | |
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From A Second Fiery Flying Roll (1649) | |
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Lucy Apsley Hutchinson (1620-1681):From Order and Disorder (1679) | |
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Andrew Marvell (1621-1678):From Miscellaneous Poems (1681) | |
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Bermudas (1653?) | |
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The Mower To The Glo-Worms (1651-2?) | |
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An Horatian Ode Upon Cromwells'' Return From Ireland (1650) | |
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The Garden (1651-2) | |
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On A Drop Of Dew (1651-2?) | |
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To His Coy Mistress (C.1645) | |
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Henry Vaughan (1621-1695):From Silex Scintillans (1655)''They Are All Gone Into The World Of Light!''The Night | |
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Margaret Cavendish, Duchess Of Newcastle (1623-1673):From Poems And Fancies (1653) | |
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Poets Have Most Pleasure In This Life | |
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From The Description Of A New World, Called The Blazing World (1666) | |
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Dorothy Osborne Temple (1627-1695):From Letters To William Temple | |
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Letter 3 8 January 1653Letter 28 2 July 1653 | |
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Letter 58 11 February 1654 | |
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From Grace Abounding To The Chief Of Sinners (1666) | |
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John Dryden (1631-1700):To My Honoured Friend | |
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On His Learned And Useful Works; And More Particularly This Of Stone-Henge, By Him Restored To The True Founders (1663) | |
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Mac Flecknoe (1676?) | |
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Absalom And Achitophel: A Poem (1681) | |
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To The Memory Of Mr. Oldham (1684) | |
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To The Pious Memory Of The Accomplished Young Lady Mrs. Anne Killigrew (1686) An ODEA Song For St. Cecilia''s Day (1687) | |
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From Fables Ancient And Modern (1700) | |
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Pygmalion And The Statue | |
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Katherine Philips (1631-1664):From Poems By The Most Deservedly Admired Mrs. Katherine Philips, the matchless Orinda (1667).Friendship | |
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Friendship'' | |