From Beowulf to Blake

Front Cover
Paul Robert Lieder
Houghton Mifflin, 1950
Readings representative of major British authors. For contents and other editions, see Author Catalog.

Contents

INTRODUCTION
3
BEOWULF
15
THE VENERABLE Bede
45
CYNEWULF
51
MIDDLE ENGLISH PERIOD
71
EARLY ENGLISH LYRICS
82
PIERS THE PLOWMAN
87
GEOFFREY CHAUCER
95
HENRY VAUGHAN
493
ANDREW MARVELL
500
SIR THOMAS BROWNE
509
THOMAS FULLER
524
ABRAHAM COWLEY
537
Areopagitica
580
JOHN BUNYAN
607
SAMUEL PEPYS
621

Ballades and Other Lyrics
145
SIR GAWAIN And the Green Knight
154
THE POPULAR BALLADS
206
The Gay GossHawk
212
Robin Hoods Death and Burial
222
ELIZABETHAN PERIOD
225
The Lover Compareth His State to a Ship
235
EDMUND SPENSER
245
SIR WALTER RALEIGH
300
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY
307
JOHN LYLY
315
ELIZABETHAN LYRICS
342
ANONYMOUS
348
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
354
THOMAS CAMPION
355
JOHN WEBSTER
361
tears
368
INTRODUCTION
435
FRANCIS BACON
447
SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT
476
From Devotions Upon
488
JOHN DRYDEN
627
SIR JOHN SUCKLING 478
634
ALL FOR LOVE OR THE WORLD WELL LOST
646
INTRODUCTION
687
DANIEL DEFOE
699
A True Relation of the Apparition
706
JONATHAN SWIFT
724
JOSEPH ADDISON AND RICHARD Steele
770
ALEXANDER POPE
794
JOHN GAY
826
THOMAS GRAY
844
WILLIAM COLLINS
855
JAMES BOSWELL
881
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
908
Beau Tibbs at Home
922
WILLIAM COWPER
939
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN
954
ROBERT BURNS
1000
WILLIAM BLAke
1026
APPENDIX
1033
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