Volume 1 — Introductory material
Reading edition
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FIRST PERIOD.
JOHN GOWER The Chariot of the Sun The Tale of the Coffers or Caskets, &c. Of the Gratification which the Lover's Passion receives from the Sense of Hearing
JOHN BARBOUR Apostrophe to Freedom Death of Sir Henry de Bohun
ANDREW WYNTOUN
BLIND HARRY Battle of Black-Earnside The Death of Wallace
JAMES I. OF SCOTLAND Description of the King's Mistress
JOHN THE CHAPLAIN—THOMAS OCCLEVE
JOHN LYDGATE Canace, condemned to Death by her Father Aeolus, sends to her guilty Brother Macareus the last Testimony of her unhappy Passion The London Lyckpenny
HARDING, KAY, &c.
ROBERT HENRYSON Dinner given by the Town Mouse to the Country Mouse The Garment of Good Ladies
WILLIAM DUNBAR The Dance of the Seven Deadly Sins through Hell The Merle and Nightingale
GAVIN DOUGLAS Morning in May
HAWES, BARCLAY, &c.
SKELTON To Miss Margaret Hussey
SIR DAVID LYNDSAY Meldrum's Duel with the English Champion Talbart Supplication in Contemption of Side Tails
THOMAS TUSSER Directions for Cultivating a Hop-garden Housewifely Physic Moral Reflections on the Wind
VAUX, EDWARDS, &c.
GEORGE GASCOIGNE Good-morrow Good-night
THOMAS SACKVILLE, LORD BUCKHURST AND EARL OF DORSET Allegorical Characters from 'The Mirror of Magistrates' Henry Duke of Buckingham in the Infernal Regions
JOHN HARRINGTON Sonnet on Isabella Markham Verses on a most stony-hearted Maiden
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY To Sleep Sonnets
ROBERT SOUTHWELL Look Home The Image of Death Love's Servile Lot Times go by Turns
THOMAS WATSON The Nymphs to their May-Queen Sonnet
THOMAS TURBERVILLE In praise of the renowned Lady Aime, Countess of Warwick
UNKNOWN Harpalus' Complaint of Phillida's Love bestowed on Corin, who loved her not, and denied him that loved her A Praise of his Lady That all things sometime find Ease of their Pain, save only the Lover From 'The Phoenix' Nest' From the same The Soul's Errand
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SECOND PERIOD.
FROM SPENSER TO DRYDEN.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT To Ben Jonson On the Tombs in Westminster An Epitaph
SIR WALTER RALEIGH The Country's Recreations The Silent Lover A Vision upon 'The Fairy Queen' Love admits no Rival
JOSHUA SYLVESTER To Religion On Man's Resemblance to God The Chariot of the Sun
RICHARD BARNFIELD Address to the Nightingale
ALEXANDER HUME Thanks for a Summer's Day
OTHER SCOTTISH POETS
SAMUEL DANIEL Richard II., the morning before his Murder in Pomfret Castle Early Love Selections from Sonnets
SIR JOHN DAVIES Introduction to the Poem on the Soul of Man The Self-subsistence of the Soul Spirituality of the Soul
GILES FLETCHER The Nativity Song of Sorceress seeking to tempt Christ Close of 'Christ's Victory and Triumph'
JOHN DONNE Holy Sonnets The Progress of the Soul
MICHAEL DRAYTON Description of Morning
EDWARD FAIRFAX Rinaldo at Mount Olivet
SIR HENRY WOTTON Farewell to the Vanities of the World A Meditation
RICHARD CORBET Dr Corbet's Journey into France
BEN JONSON Epitaph on the Countess of Pembroke The Picture of the Body To Penshurst To the Memory of my beloved Master, William Shakspeare, and what he hath left us On the Portrait of Shakspeare
VERE, STORBER, &c
THOMAS RANDOLPH The Praise of Woman To my Picture To a Lady admiring herself in a Looking-glass
ROBERT BURTON On Melancholy
THOMAS CAREW Persuasions to Love Song To my Mistress sitting by a River's Side Song A Pastoral Dialogue Song
SIR JOHN SUCKLING Song A Ballad upon a Wedding Song
WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT Love's Darts On the Death of Sir Bevil Grenville A Valediction
WILLIAM BROWNE Song Song Power of Genius over Envy Evening From 'Britannia's Pastorals' A Descriptive Sketch
WILLIAM ALEXANDER, EARL OF STIRLING Sonnet
WILLIAM DRUMMOND The River of Forth Feasting Sonnets Spiritual Poems
PHINEAS FLETCHER Description of Parthenia Instability of Human Greatness Happiness of the Shepherd's Life Marriage of Christ and the Church
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