| THE MIDDLE AGES. (c750-1485) Beowulf | |
| (Note on the Old English Language) | |
| The Pearl Poet, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight | |
| Geoffrey Chaucer (1340-1400) | |
| (Note on the Middle English Language) | |
| (On Reading Middle English) | |
| From The Canterbury Tales: The General Prologue | |
| The Miller's Tale | |
| The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale | |
| The Clerk's Tale | |
| The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale | |
| The Nun's Priest's Tale | |
| The Parson's Prologue | |
| Retraction | |
| Gentilesse | |
| Truth | |
| Envoy to Bukton | |
| Middle English Lyrics | |
| The Second Shepherds' Play | |
| Sir Thomas Malory (1394?-1471) | |
| From Morte Darthur, Caxton's Preface: Book 2 | |
| THE RENAISSANCE (1485-1660) | |
| Sir Thomas More (1478-1535) | |
| From Utopia: Book One, On Communal Property | |
| Book Two, Their Gold and Silver, and How They Keep It | |
| Their Marriage Customs | |
| Their Punishments, Their Legal Procedures, and Other Matters | |
| Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542) | |
| The Lover Compareth His State to a Ship in Perilous Storm Tossed on the Sea | |
| The Long Love That in My Thought Doth Harbor, Whoso List to Hunt, They Flee from Me | |
| Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517-1547) | |
| Love That Doth Reign and Live Within My Thought | |
| Description of Spring Wherein Each Thing Renews, Save Only the Lover, Alas! So All Things Now Do Hold Their Peace, The Means To Attain Happy Life | |
| Sir Phillip Sidney (1554-1586) | |
| From An Apology for Poetry | |
| From Astrophel and Stella: 1) Loving in Truth, 5) It is Most True, 31) With How Sad Steps, 39) Come, Sleep! 41) Having This Day My Horse, 50) Stella, The Fullness of My Thoughts | |
| Robert Greene (1560?-1592) | |
| From A Notable Discovery of Cosenage: The Art of Cony- Catching | |
| Edmund Spenser (1552-1599) | |
| From The Faerie Queene: A Letter of the Authors | |
| Book One (Canto 1), Book Two (Canto 12), Book Three (Canto 6) | |
| From Amoretti: 1) Happy ye leaves, 16) One day as I unwarily did gaze, 34) Lyke as a ship, 54) Of this worlds Theatre, 75) One day I wrote her name, 79) Men call you fayre | |
| Epithalamion | |
| Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) | |
| The Passionate Shepherd to His Love | |
| The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd (Sir Walter Raleigh) | |
| The Tragical History of Dr | |
| Faustus | |
| Thomas Campion (1567-1620) | |
| My Sweetest Lesbia | |
| When to Her Lute Corinna Sings | |
| Rose-Cheeked Laura | |
| There Is a Garden in Her Face | |
| Fain Would I Wed | |
| The English Bible | |
| The Twenty-Third Psalm in Six Translations: Coverdale Bible, Great Bible, Genevan Bible, Bishops' Bible, Rheims-Douai Bible, King James Bible | |
| William Shakespeare (1564-1616) | |
| Sonnets: 18) Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day? 29) When, in Disgrace with Fortune and Men's Eyes | |
| 30) When to the Sessions of Sweet Silent Thought | |
| 55) Not Marble, nor the Gilded Monuments | |
| 71) No Longer Mourn for Me When I am Dead | |
| 73) That Time of Year Thou Mayst in Me Behold | |
| 97) How Like a Winter hath My Absence Been | |
| 98) From You Have I Been Absent in the Spring | |
| 106) When in the Chronicle of Wasted Time | |
| 116) Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds | |
| 129) Th' 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 | |
| 146) Poor Soul, the Centre of My Sinful Earth | |
| The Tempest | |
| Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) | |
| From Essays or Counsels— Civil and Moral | |
| 1) Of Truth | |
| 5) Of Adversity | |
| 7) Of Parents and Children | |
| 8) Of Marriage and Single Life | |
| 42) Of Youth and Age | |
| 50) Of Studies | |
| Sir Thomas Overbury (1581-1613) | |
| The Characters | |
| A Melancholy Man | |
| A Puritan | |
| What a Character Is | |
| Ben Jonson (1573-1637) | |
| Song: To Celia | |
| Song to Celia | |
| Slow, Slow, Fresh Fount | |
| To Penshurst | |
| Queen and Huntress | |
| On My First Daughter | |
| On My First Son | |
| Still to Be Neat | |
| To John Donne | |
| To the Memory of My Beloved Master, William Shakespeare | |
| John Donne (1572-1631) | |
| Song (Go and Catch a Falling Star) | |
| The Flea | |
| The Bait | |
| The Indifferent | |
| The Ecstasy | |
| Lovers' Infiniteness | |
| Song (Sweetest Love, I Do Not Go) | |
| On His Mistress | |
| The Canonization | |
| A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning | |
| Air and Angels | |
| A Hymn to God the Father | |
| Good Friday, 1613 | |
| Riding Westward | |
| The Third Satire | |
| From Holy Sonnets: 3) O Might Those Sighs and Tears Return Again | |
| 5) If Poisonous Minerals | |
| 7) At the Round Earth's Imagined Corners | |
| 10) Death be not Proud | |
| 14) Batter My Heart | |
| From Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions: Meditation XVII, Meditation XVIII | |
| George Herbert (1593-1633) | |
| The Pearl | |
| The Collar | |
| Virtue | |
| Easter Wings | |
| Jordan I, Jordan II, Love III | |
| The Pulley | |
| Richard Crashaw (1613?-1649) | |
| On the Wounds of Our Crucified Lord | |
| Upon the Infant Martyrs | |
| The Flaming Heart | |
| Henry Vaughan (1622-1695) | |
| The Retreat | |
| The World | |
| They Are All Gone into the World of Light | |
| Regeneration | |
| Robert Burton (1577-1640) | |
| From The Anatomy of Melancholy | |
| Izaak Walton (1593-1683) | |
| From The Complete Angler: From The First Day | |
| From The Life of Dr | |
| John Donne: Donne in His Shroud | |
| Robert Herrick (1591-1674) | |
| An Ode for Ben Jonson | |
| The Night Piece | |
| To Julia | |
| Cherry-Ripe | |
| Delight in Disorder | |
| Upon Julia's Clothes | |
| To the Virgins to Make Much of Time | |
| Corinna's Going A-Maying | |
| His Prayer for Absolution | |
| Sir John Suckling (1609-1642) | |
| Why so Pale and Wan, Fond Lover? Constancy | |
| Thomas Carew (1598?-1639?) | |
| Disdain Returned | |
| Song (Ask Me No More) | |
| Edmund Waller (1606-1687) | |
| Go, Lovely Rose! Of the Last Verses in the Book | |
| Richard Lovelace (1618-1658) | |
| To Lucasta | |
| Going to the War | |
| To Althea | |
| From Prison | |
| Andrew Marvell (1621-1678) | |
| To His Coy Mistress | |
| The Garden | |
| The Mower Against Gardens | |
| Bermudas | |
| The Definition of Love | |
| John Milton (1608-1674) | |
| L'Allegro | |
| Il Penseroso | |
| Lycidas | |
| How Soon Hath Time | |
| On the Late Massacre in Piedmont | |
| When I Consider How My Light Is Spent | |
| Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint | |
| From Paradise Lost: Book One, Book Two, from Book Three (56-134; 236-271) | |
| From Book Four (1-113) | |
| Book Nine | |
| From Book Twelve (637-649) | |
| Of Education | |
| John Bunyan (1628-1688) | |
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