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CUNLIFFE, JOHN W.; THORNDIKE, ASHLEY H.; AYRES, HARRY MORGAN; BAKER, FRANKLIN T.; ERSKINE, JOHN; FOX, DIXON RYAN; HAYES, CARLTON J.H.; NOAD, A. SMILLIE Century Readings in English Literature
Appleton Century Crofts, 1940. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 1940 FIFTH EDITION HARDCOVER. Moderate shelf wear, tear on spine, pages and covers toned, handwriting on first page. Early English Literature; Historical Introduction Bewulf (In Modern Verse); The Later Middle Ages - Historical Introduction and Table of Dates; Sir gawain and the Green Knight (c. 1375) (In Modern Prose); Pearl (c. 1375) (In Modern Verse); Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340-1400) The Canterbury Tales: The Prologue, The Nun's Priest's Tale, The Pardoner's Tale; Chaucers Wordes unto Adam, his Owne Scriveyn, Lak of Stedfastnesse, The Compleint of Chaucer to his Empty Purse Truth; Sir Thomas Malory (c. 1395-1471) Le More D'Arthur; The Chester Plays The Banns, Noah's Flood (In Modern Verse); Anonymous The Nutbrowne Maide (c. 1500); English and Scottish Popular Ballads - Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne, The Battle of Otterburn, Captain Car or Edom O Gordon, The Wife of Usher's Well, Kemp Owyne, The Daemon Lover, Lrod Randal, Sir Patrick Spens, Thomas Rymer, Bonny Barbara Allan, The Twa Sisters, The Cruel Brother, Edward; The Elizabethan Age Historical Introduction and Table of Dates; Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?-1542) Sonnets, 'Forget not yet', An Earnest Suit to his Unkind Mistress, The Lover Complaineth the Unkindness of his Love, The Lover Sendeth his Complaints, Of the Mean and Sure Estate; Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517?-1547) - Sonnets, Complaint of the Absence of Her Lover, A Praise of his Love, Of the Death of Sir T(homas) W(yatt), Virgil's Aeneid, Book II; Roger Ascham (1515-1568) The Schoolmaster, Book I; John Lyly (1554-1606) - Euphues and his England, Songs from the Plays; Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586) - An Apology for Poetry, Astrophel and Stella, Song: The Nightingale, Love is Dead, Dorus to Pamela (from Arcadia), My True-love Hath My Heart; Hakluyt's Voyages - Dedicatory Epistle, The Last Fight of the Revenge, Linschoten's Testimony, The Loss of Sir Humphrey Gilbert, A Report of Virigina, Drake in California; Edmund Spenser (1552-1599) - The Shepheardes Calendar: Februarie, October; The Faerie Queene: Canto I, Canto II; Amoretti, Epithalamion, Prothalamion; William Shakespeare (1564-1616) - Venus and Adonis, Sonnets, Songs from the Plays; Elizabethan Lyrics - George Gasciogne (1525?-1577) A Strange Passion of a Lover; Sir Edward Dyer (1550?-1607) My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is; Sir Walter Raleigh (1552?-1618) - The Silent Lover, His Pilgrimage, The Conclusion; George Peele (c. 1557-1596) - Song (from the Arraignment of Paris); Harvestman A-Singing (from The Old Wives' Tale); Robert Greene (1560-1592) Songs; Robert Southwell (1561?-1595) The Burning Babe; Samuel Daniel (1562-1619) Sonnets (from Delia); Michael Drayton (1563-1631) - Sonnets (from Idea), To the Virginian Voyage, To the Cambro-Britons and their Harp; Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) Hero and Leander: The First Sestiad; Thomas Dekker (c. 1572-c.1632) O Sweet Content (from Patient Grissell); England's Helicon (1600) - Phyllida and Corydon, To Colin Clout, A Nymph's Disdain of Love, The Herdman's Happy Life; Thomas Lodge (1558?-1625) Rosalind's Madrigal; The Seventeeth Century - Historical Introduction and Table of Dates; Ben Jonson (1573?-1637) - To William Camden, On My First Son, Song to Celia, Song: To Celia, Hymn to Diana, Still To Be Neat, Epitaph on Elizabeth L.H. An Epitaph on Salathiel Pavy, To the Memory of My Beloved, Master William Shakespeare, Inviting a Friend to Supper, The Triumph of Charis; John Donne (1573-1631) - Song ('Go and catch a falling star'), The Good-Morrow, Song ('Sweetest love, I do not go'), A Lecture upon the Shadow, The Indifferent, The Canonization, The Dream, Love's Deity, The Funeral, The Relic, Death, A Hymn to God the Father; Robert Herrick (1591-1674) - The Argument of His Book, Corinna's Going A-Maying, To the Virgins, Upon Julia's Clothes, Delight in Disorder, To Anthea, Who May Command Him to Anything, The Mad Maid's Song, To Daffodils, To Meadows, To Live Merrily,a nd to Trust to Good Verses, To Music, The Night-Piece, to Julia, An Ode for Ben Jonson, A Thanksgiving t o God for His House, Grace for a Child, His Prayer for Absolution; Seventeenth Century Lyrics - Thomas Campion (1567-1620) - When Thou Must Home, When to her Lute Corinna SIngs, My Sweetest Lesbia, There is a Garden, Follow your Saint, Rose-cheeked Laura; John Fletcher (1579-1625) - Aspatia's Song, Melancholy, Love's Emblems; George Wither (1588-1667) The Lover's Resolution; William Browne (1591-1643) On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke; George Herbert (1593-1633) - Virtue, Jordan, Love, The Collar, The World, The Pulley, The Odor, The Flower; James Shirley (1596-1666) The Glories of Our Blood and State; Thomas Carew (1598?-1639?) - Song ('Ask me no more'), The Spring, To my Inconstant Mistress, Disdained Returned; Sir William Davenant (1606-1668) - Song ('The lark now leaves his watery nest,'); Edmund Waller (1606-1687) - On a Girdle, Go, Lovely Rose!, The Seas are Quiet; Richard Crashaw (1613?-1649) The Flaming Heart; Sir John Suckling (1609-1642) - Why so Pale and Wan?, The Constant Lover; Richard Lovelace (1618-1568) - To Lucasta, Going to the Wars, To Althea, from Prison; Sir John Denham (1615-1669) Cooper's Hill; Abraham Cowley (1618-1667) The Wish; Andrew Marvell (1621-1678) - The Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland, The Garden, To his Coy Mistress, The Mower to the Glow-Worms, Bermudas; Henry Vaughan (1622-1695) - The Retreat, Peace, The World, Departed Friends; Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset (1638-1706) Song ('To all you ladies now at land'); John WIlmot, Earl of Rochester (1647-1680) On Charles II; Francis Bacon (1561-1626) Essays; Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) - Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, Urn-burial; Izaak Walton (1593-1683) The Complete Angler: Chapter IV; Seventeenth-Century Characters - Sir Thomas Overbury (1581-1613) - What a Character Is, An Affectate Traveller, A Puritan, A Fair and Happy Milkmaid; John Earle (1601-1665) - An Antiquary, A Contemplative Man, A Plodding Student, A Blunt Man; Samuel Butler (1612-1680) - A Bumpkin or Country Squire, A Curious man, A Medicine-Taker; John Bunyan (1628-1688) The Pilgrim's Progress; John Milton (1608-1674) - On Being Arrived at Twenty-three Years of Age, Song (from Arcades), Song (from Comus), L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, Lycidas, Sonnets, Paradise Lost: Books I thru XII, Areopagitica; John Dryden (1631-1700) - Song (from the Maiden Queen), Song (from Marriage a-la-Mode), Song (from The Spanish Friar), To the Memory of Mr. Oldham, Epilogue to the University of Oxford, Prologue to Aureng-zebe, Prologue to the University of Oxford, Absalom and Achitophel, A Song for Saint Cecilia's Day, Alexander's Feast, or The Power of Music, An Essay of Dramatic Poesy, Preface to Fables Ancient and Modern; Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) The Diary of samuel Pepys; The Eighteenth Century - Historical Introduction and Table of Dates - Daniel Defoe (1661-1731) - The True-Born Englishman, The Shortest Way witht he Dissenters, Preface to the Review, The Education of Women; Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) - A Description of a City Shower, A Meditation upon a Broomstick, Hints toward an Essay on Conversation, A Modest Proposal; Sir Richard Steele (1672-1729) - Essays from The Tatler, Essays from The Spectator; Joseph Addison (1672-1719) Essays from The Spectator); Alexander Pope (1688-1744) - Ode on Solitude, An Essay on Criticism, The Rape of the Lock, An Essay on Man, Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot; Songs and Hymns of the Early Eighteenth Century - Matthew Prior (`1664-1721) - To a Child of Quality, A Better Answer, An Ode; John Gay (1685-1732) - A Ballad, Sweet William's Farewell, My Own Epitaph; Allan Ramsay (1685?-1758) Peggy; Henry Carey (1687-1743) Sally in our Alley; Isaac Watts (1674-1748) - The Sluggard, Against Idleness and Mischief, There is a Land, Christ Crucified, Psalm XC; Charles Wesley (1707-1788) - Love Divine, Christmas Carol; james Thomson (1700-1748) - Summer, Autumn, Winter, A Hymn, The Castle of Indolence: Book I; Thomas Gray (1716-1771) - Sonnet on the Death of Mr.Richard West, An Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, Hymn to Adversity, The Progress of Poesy, The Bard, Letters; William Collins (1721-1759) - Dirge in Cymbeline, Ode ('How sleep the brave'), Ode to Evening, Ode to Simplicity, The Passions; Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) - Song ('When lovely woman'), The Deserted Village, The Retaliation; Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) - The Vanity of Human Wishes, Letters, Life of John Gay, The Metaphysical Poets; James Boswell (1740-1795) The Life of Johnson; Edmund Burke (1729-1797) The Speech for Concilation with the Colonies; Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Chapter LXVIII; William Cowper (1731-1800) - Walking with God, Table Talk, The Task, On the Receipt of my Mother's Picture, Sonnet to mrs. Unwin, On the Loss of the Royal George, The Castaway, Letters; George Crabbe (1754-1832) The Village: Book I; William Blake (1757-1827) - To Spring, To the Muses, Mad Song, Songs of Innocence: The Piper - The Shepherd, The Little Black Boy, The Lamb, Holy Thurdsay, Nurse's Song, Cradle Song, A Dream.The Divine Image; Songs of Experience: Cradle Song, Holy Thursday, The Sick Rose, The Garden of Love, London, A Poison Tree, The Chimney Sweeper, The Clod and the Pebble, The Tiger, Ah Sunflower, Nurse's Song; Eternity, From Milton ('And did those feet in ancient time'); Robert Burns (1759-1796) - Song: Mary Morison, Song: My Nanie, O, Song: Green Grow the Rashes, Address to the Dell, Lines to John Lapraik, To a Mouse, The Cotter's Saturday Night, A Winter Night, A Bard's Epitaph, Auld Lang Syne, Of A' the Airts the Wind Can Blaw, Go Fetch to Me a Pint o'Wine, To Mary in Heaven, Highland Mary, Flow Gently, Sweet Afton, A Red, Red Rose, John Anderson My Jo, Tam Glen, Willie Brewed a Peck o'Maut, Tam O'Shanter, Bonie Doon, Duncan Gray, Scots Wha Hae, A Man's a Man for A' That; The Romantic Revival - Historical Introduction and Table of Dates - William Wordsworth (1770-1850) - Preface to Lyrical Ballads, The Prelude: Book I, Expostulationa nd Reply, The Tables Turned, Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known, She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways, I Traveled among Unknown Men, Three Years She Grew in Sun and Shower, A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal, Michael, My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold, The Sparrow's Nest, To the Cuckoo, Resolutiona nd Independence, To a Young lady, She Was a Phantom of Delight, yarrow Unvisited, The Solitary Reaper, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, To a Skylark, Elegiac Stanzas, Ode to Duty, Character of the Happy Warrior, Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood, Sonnets; Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) - Biographia Literaria: Chapters X and XIV, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Christabel, Kubla Khan, Frost at Midnight; Charles Lamb (1775-1834) - The Old Familiar Faces, Mackery End in Hertfordshire, Dream-Children: A Reverie, A Chapter on Ears, A Dissertation upon Roast Pig; Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) - Marmion: Canto VI, Soldier, Rest!; George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824) - She Walks in Beauty, So, We'll Go No More a Roving, Sonnet on Chillon, Childe Harold: Canto III, Canto IV, The Vision of Judgment, Don Juan: Canto III, Canto IV; Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) - Hymn to Intellectual Beauty, Ozymandias, Stanzas Written in Dejection, Near Naples, Prometheus Unbound: Act IV, Ode to the West Wind, The Cloud, To a Skylark, Adonais, Th Indian Serenade, A Lament, To-('Music, when soft voices die'), To Night, To-('One word is too often profaned'), Lines: When the Lamp is Shattered, A Dirge; John Keats (1795-1821) - Keen, Fitful Gusts Are Whispering Here and There, On First looking into Chapman's Homer, Endymion: Book I, The Eve of St. Agnes, Ode ('Barods of Passion and of Mirth'), Robin Hood, Lines on the Mermaid Tavern, Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on Melancholy, To Autumn, Hyperion: Book I, In a Drear-Nighted December, la Belle Dame Sans Merci, On Seeing the Elgin Marbles, On the Sea, To One who Has Been Long in City Pent, To Chatterton, When I Have Fears that I May Cease to Be, Bright Star! Would I Were Steadfast as Thou Art; Other Poets of the Romantic Revival - Robert Southey (1774-1843) - The Battle of Blenheim; Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864) - Rose Aylmer, Mild it he Parting Year, Past Ruined Ilion, The Death of Artemidora, Dirce, On Lucretia Borgia's Hair, Memory and Pride, The Love of Other Years, To Robert Browning, On Timely Death, To Age, On his Seventy-Fifth Birthday; Thomas Campbell (1777-1844) Ye mariners of England; Thomas Moore (1779-1852) - Oft in the Stilly Night, The Harp that Once Through Tara's Halls; Leigh Hunt (1784-1850) Rondeau; Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866) - The Men of Gotham, The War-Song of Dinas Vawr, The Friar's Song; Charles Wolfe (1791-1823) The Burial of Sir John Moore; Thomas Hood (1799-1845) - Fair Ines, I Remember, I Remember, The Song of the Shirt; Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1802-1839) - The Belle of the Ball-Room, A Letter of Advice; William Barnes (1801-1886) - Blackmwore,The Surprise; Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-1840) - Soong ('Old Adam, the carrion crow'), To Sea, To Sea!, Dream-Pedlary; William Hazlitt (1778-1830) On Going a Journey; Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859) Confessions of an English Opium Eater; Thomas Babington macaulay (1800-1859) - The Romance of History, The History of England: Volume I, Chapter III; The Victorian Era - Historical Introduction and Table of Dates - Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) The Hero as Man of Letters; John Henry, Cardinal Newman (1801-1890) The Idea of a University: Discourse VI; John Ruskin (1819-1900) Traffic; Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895) Emancipation-Black and White; Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) - mariana, The Lady of Shalott, A Dream of Fair Women, You Ask Me, Why, Though Ill at Ease, Of Old Sat Freedom on the Heights, Sir Galahad, Morte D'Arthur, Ulysses, Locksley Hall, Break, Break, Break, Songs (from The Princess), In Memoriam A.H.H. Maud: A Monodrama, Song (from Guinevere), Milton, The Revenge, To Virgil, Crossing the Bar; Robert Browning (1812-1889) - Songs (from Pippa Passes), My Last Duchess, Count Gismond, Incident of the French Camp, The Italian in England, The Lost Leader, Home-Thoughts from Abroad, Saul, Love Among the Ruins, A Woman's Last Word, A Toccata of Galuppi s, My Star, The Last Ride Together, Memorabilia, 'De Gustibus', Andrea Del Sarto, A Grammarian's Funeral, One Word More, The Two Poets of Croisic: Prologue, Abt Vogler, Rabbi Ben Ezra, Prospice, Herve Riel, Pheidippides, Asolando: Epilogue; Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) - The Study of Poetry, Shakespeare, The Forsaken Merman, Self-Dependence, The Scholar Gipsy, Requiescat, Rugby Chapel, Dover Beach; Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) - The Blessed Damozel, My Sister's Sleep, Love's Nocturn, The Cloud Confines, Three Shadows, Sonnets (from The House of Life); William Morris (1834-1896) - The Earthly Paradise, Atalanta's Race; Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) - Chorsues (frm Atalanta in Calydon), The Garden of Proserpine, A Match, Hertha, Cor Cordium, 'Non Dolet', A Forsaken Garden, Ont he Deaths of Thomas Carlyle and George Eliot, Christopher Marlowe, Etude Realiste, On a Country Road, The Armada; George Meredith (1828-1909) - Love in the Valley, The Old Chartist, Modern Love, The Lark Ascending, Lucifer in Starlight; Other Victorian Poets - Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) Sonnets from the Portuguese; Edward Fitzgerald (1809-1883) Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam; Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861) - Qua Cursum Ventus, Whither Depart the Brave, Where Lies the Land, Ah! Yet Consider it Again!, The Latest Decalogue, Say not the Struggle Nought Availeth, Life is Struggle; Frederick Locker-Lampson (1821-1895) - To My Grandmother, My Mistress's Boots; Coventry Patmore (1823-1896) - The Spirit's Epochs, The Married Lover, If I Were Dead; Sidney Dobell (1824-1874) America; Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) - Remember, Song ('When I am dead, my dearest'), Abnegation, Trust, Up-Hill; James Thomson (1834-1882) - Melencola (from The City of Dreadful Night); Charles Stuart Calverley (1831-1884) Companions; Austin Dobson (1840-1921) A Dead Letter; Arthur O'Shaughnessy (1844-1881) Ode ('We are the music makers'); Robert Bridges (1844-1930) - The Growth of Love, Moonlight; Alice Meynell (1848-1922) - Parted, The Lady Poverty, The Shepherdess; William Ernest Henley (1849-1903) Out of the Night that Covers Me; John Davidson (1857-1909) Thirty Bob a Week; Francis Thompson (1859-1907) The Hound of Heaven; Alfred Edward Housman (1859-1936) - A Shropshire Lad: Iv. Reveille, V, XXXI The New Mistress, XLI, XLIX; Sir Henry Newbolt (1862-) Drake's Drum; Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) - The Ballad of East and West, Danny Deever, Recessional; Walter Horatio Pater (1839-1894) Style; Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) - The Foreigner at Home, A Child's Garden of Verses: Whole Duty of Children, Bed in Summer, System, Happy Thought, To Auntie, In the States, Heather Ale; Samuel Butler (1835-1902) - The Note-books, Young People, Science and Religion, The Family, Unconscious Humor, Homer's Odyssey, Melchisedec, Bacon for Breakfast, God and Man, The Homeric Deity and the Pall Mall Gazette, Good Breeding the Summum Bonum, Advice to the Young, Religion, Heaven and Hell, Priggishness, Lohengrin, Swells, Gentleman, The Finest Men, On Being a Swell All Round, Money, Money, Health and Reputation, A Luxurious Death, Solicitors, Doctors, Priests; George Moore (1852-1933) The Organization of Art), George Bernard Shaw (1856-) The Case for the Critic Dramatist; The Irish Literary Revival - William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) - The Lake Isle of Innisfree, Into the Twilight, Song (from The Land of Heart's Desire), Red Hanrahan's Song about Ireland, A Coat, September 1913, The Wild Swans at Coole, Sialing to Byzantium; 'A.E.' [George Russell] (1862-1935) The Earth Breath; Padraic Colum (1881-) The Plougher, What the Shuiler Said as She Lay by the Fire in the Farmer's House; Joseph Campbell (1881-) I Am the Mountainy Singer; James Stephens (1882-) What Thomas An Buile Said in a Pub; Francis Ledwidge (1891-1917) The Death of Ailill; The Twentieth Century - Historical Introduction and Table of Dates - Twentieth-Century Prose; Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) With the Marseilles Pilots; H.G. Wells (1866-) The Contemporary Novel, John Galsworthy (1867-1933) The Lost Dog; Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) Salary Earning Girls; Gilbert K. Chesterton (1873-1936) The Return of the Barbarian; Max Beerbohm (1872-) William and Mary; W.H. Hudson (1841-1922) My First Visit to Buenos Ayres; Lytton Strachey (1880-1932) The Last Years of Queen Victoria; Hugh Walpole (184-) Romance and Realism; Aldous Huxley (1894-) At Sea; T.S. Eliot (1888-) The Criticism of Poetry; Virginia Woolf The Patron and the Crocus; John Buchan, Lord Tweedsmuir (1875-1940) England After the War; Twentieth-Century Poetry - Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) - Heaven-haven, Pied Beauty, Hurrahing in Harvest, The Caged Skylark, Peace, Felix Randal, The Leaden Echo (Maiden's Song); Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) - For Life I Had Never Cared Greatly, Afterwards, The Coming of the End; John Masefield (1874-) - Sea-Fever, Biography, The Island of Skyros, To Neville Chamberlain; Hilaire Belloc (1870-) The South Country; William H. Davies (1870-) - Leisure, Sheep, Money, The Muse; Walter de la Mare (1873-) - All That's Past, Miss Loo, 'How Sleep the Brave'; W.W. Gibson(1878-) - Raining, The Question. His Father; Ralph Hodgson (1879-) -Eve, The Bull; Harold Monro (1879-1932) - Change of Mind, Suburb, Milk for the Cat; Alfred Noyes (1880-) The Barrel-Organ; james Elroy Flecker (1884-1915) The Ballad of Iskander; D.H. Lawrence (1885-1931) - The Bride, Study; Rupert Brooke (1887-1915) - The Old Vicarage, Grantchester, The Soldier; Charles Hamilton Sorley (1895-1915) 'All the Hills and Vales Along'; Julian Grenfell (1888-1915) Into Battle; Wilfred Owen (1893-1925) To My Friend; Edward Thomas (1878-1917) - The Gallows, Sowing, Bright Clouds; Laurence Binyon (1869-) For the Fallen, Robert Graves (1895-) Not Dead, Over the Brazier; T.S. Eliot (1888-) - The Boston Evening Transcript, Aunt Helen, Cousin Nancy; John Jayne Westroppe (1874-) The Hob o' Heaven; Siegfried Sassoon (1886-) The Old Huntsman; Wystan Hugh Auden (1907-) Prologue (to On This Island); W.H. Auden with Louis MacNeice (1907-) Their Last Will and Testament; Stephen Spender (1909-) The Express, I Think Continually of Those Who Were Truly Great; Index of Authors; Index of Titles; Index of Illustrations; Index of First Lines; Map.
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