Poets of the English Language

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Wystan Hugh Auden, Norman Holmes Pearson
Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1952

Contents

Introduction
xv
Note on the Middle English Selections
xxxi
A Calendar of British and American Poetry
xxxix
WILLIAM LANGLAND 1330?1390?
1
Now sprinkes the spray
21
Adam lay yboundin
27
RICHARD ROLLE c 13001349
35
From MORTE ARTHUR 14th Century
41
WILLIAM DUNBAR 1460?1520?
302
GAVIN DOUGLAS 1474?1522
322
STEPHEN HAWES 14741523
326
EVERYMAN 1510
336
JOHN SKELTON 1460?1529
368
ANONYMOUS LYRICS AND SONGS
426
ANONYMOUS BALLADS
432
SIR THOMAS WYATT 1503?1542
443

From THE ROMANCE OF THE ROSE
47
JOHN GOWER 1830P1408
60
GEOFFREY CHAUCER 1340?1400
74
JOHN LYDGATE 1370?1451?
225
THOMAS HOCCLEVE 1370?1450?
238
KING JAMES I OF SCOTLAND 13941437
276
ROBERT HENRYSON c 1425c 1506
287
What no perdy
448
THOMAS LORD VAUX 15101556
456
GEORGE GASCOIGNE 1542?1577
486
SIR EDWARD DYER c 15401607
494
Who hath his fancie pleased
508
EDMUND SPENSER 1552?1599
523
Index of Titles and First Lines
615

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