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SIX CENTURIES OF ENGLISH POETRY
TENNYSON TO CHAUCER
TYPICAL SELECTIONS FROM THE GREAT POETS
BY
JAMES BALDWIN, Ph.D.
SILVER, BURDETT & COMPANY
New York . . . BOSTON . . . Chicago
Copyright 1892,
PUBLISHERS' NOTE.
TO TEACHERS AND STUDENTS.
FOOTNOTES:
CONTENTS.
SIX CENTURIES OF ENGLISH POETRY.
The Nineteenth Century.
Poets of the Nineteenth Century.
Alfred Tennyson.
THE LADY OF SHALOTT.
PART I.
PART II.
PART III.
PART IV.
NOTES.
FOOTNOTES:
THE BROOK.
NOTES.
THE LOTOS-EATERS.
CHORIC SONG.
I.
II.
III.
IV.
V.
VI.
VII.
VIII.
NOTE.
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
William Wordsworth.
ODE.
Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood.
I.
II.
III.
IV.
V.
VI.
VII.
VIII.
IX.
X.
XI.
NOTES.
FOOTNOTES:
THE TWO APRIL MORNINGS.
NOTES.
THE SOLITARY REAPER.
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
CHRISTABEL.
Part I.
NOTES
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
Percy Bysshe Shelley.
TO A SKYLARK
NOTES.
HYMN OF PAN.
NOTES.
FROM "EPIPSYCHIDION."
NOTES.
A LAMENT.
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
John Keats.
ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE.
I
II.
III.
IV.
V.
VI.
VII.
VIII.
NOTES.
FROM "THE EVE OF ST. AGNES."
NOTES.
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
The Eighteenth Century.
Poets of the Eighteenth Century.
Robert Burns.
THE COTTER'S1 SATURDAY NIGHT.
Inscribed To R. Aiken, Esq.2
NOTES.
TO A MOUNTAIN DAISY.
On turning one down with the Plough, in April, 1786.
FOR A' THAT, AND A' THAT.
NOTES.
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
William Cowper.
BOADICEA.
NOTES.
ON THE RECEIPT OF MY MOTHER'S PICTURE.
NOTES.
EPITAPH ON A HARE.
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
Oliver Goldsmith.
THREE PICTURES FROM "THE DESERTED VILLAGE."
NOTES.
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
Thomas Gray.
THE BARD.
I. 1.
I. 2.
I. 3.
II. 1.
II. 2.
II. 3.
III. 1.
III. 2.
III. 3.
NOTES.
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
Alexander Pope.
FROM THE "ESSAY ON CRITICISM."
NOTES.
ODE ON ST. CECILIA'S DAY.
MDCCVIII.
I.
II.
III.
IV.
V.
VI.
VII.
NOTES.
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
The Seventeenth Century.
Poets of the Seventeenth Century.
John Dryden.
ALEXANDER'S FEAST; OR, THE POWER OF MUSIC:
An Ode in Honor of St. Cecilia's Day.
NOTES.
THE FIRE OF LONDON.
[FROM "ANNUS MIRABILIS."]
NOTES.
REASON AND RELIGION.
[FROM "RELIGIO LAICI."]
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
John Milton.
ON THE MORNING OF CHRIST'S NATIVITY.
I.
II.
III.
IV.
THE HYMN.
I.
II.
III.
IV.
V.
VI.
VII.
VIII.
IX.
X.
XI.
XII.
XIII.
XIV.
XV.
XVI.
XVII.
XVIII.
XIX.
XX.
XXI.
XXII.
XXIII.
XXIV.
XXV.
XXVI.
XXVII.
NOTES.
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
WORDSWORTH'S SONNET TO MILTON.
Robert Herrick.
TO PHILLIS.
THE MAD MAID'S SONG.
A THANKSGIVING TO GOD.
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
Edmund Waller.
SONG.
OF ENGLISH VERSE.
ON A GIRDLE.
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
Ben Jonson.
AN ODE TO HIMSELF.
NOTES.
TO CYNTHIA.
TO THE MEMORY OF MY BELOVED MASTER WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, AND WHAT HE HATH LEFT US.
NOTES.
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
The Sixteenth Century.
Poets of the Sixteenth Century.
William Shakespeare.
VENUS'S ADVICE TO ADONIS ON HUNTING.
[FROM "VENUS AND ADONIS."]
A MORNING SONG FOR IMOGEN.
[FROM "CYMBELINE."]
SIGH NO MORE, LADIES.
[FROM "MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING."]
SUNSHINE AND CLOUD.
[SONNET XXXIII.]
THE WORLD'S WAY.
[SONNET LXVI.]
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
Edmund Spenser.
THE CAVE OF MAMMON.
NOTES.
FOOTNOTES:
PROTHALAMION; or, A SPOUSALL VERSE.
NOTES.
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
Thomas Wyatt.
A LOVE SONG.
The Lover complaineth of the Unkindness of his Love.
THE COURTIER'S LIFE.
The Earl of Surrey.
FROM THE FOURTH BOOK OF VIRGIL'S "ÆNEID."
NOTE.
A SONNET.
Description and Praise of his Love Geraldine.
ON THE DEATH OF SIR THOMAS WYATT.
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES.
Ballads.
WALY, WALY.
NOTES.
SIR PATRICK SPENS.
A Scottish Ballad.
NOTES AND GLOSSARY.
THE BAILIFF'S DAUGHTER OF ISLINGTON.
ROBIN HOOD AND THE WIDOW'S THREE SONS.
NOTES.
The Fifteenth Century.
Poets of the Fifteenth Century.
John Skelton.
TO MAYSTRESS MARGARET HUSSEY.
CARDINAL WOLSEY.
[FROM "WHY COME YE NOT TO COURT?"]
NOTES.
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
Selections from Four Minor Poets.
A VISIT TO LONDON.
THE GOLDEN AGE.
NOTE.
THE GARMOND OF FAIR LADIES.
A MAY MORNING.
NOTE.
IN PRAISE OF HONOUR.
FOUR POETS OF THIS CENTURY.
The Fourteenth Century.
Poets of the Fourteenth Century.
Geoffrey Chaucer.
FROM THE "PROLOGUE TO THE CANTERBURY TALES."
NOTES.
ON READING CHAUCER.
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
INDEX TO NOTES.
TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES
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