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ISBN: 9780393928303 | 0393928306
Edition: 8th
Format: Textbook Paperback
Publisher: W W NORTON
Pub. Date: 4/17/2006

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SummaryTable of Contents
The classic survey of English literature in a vibrant new edition, with Stephen Greenblatt as general editor. A legendary bestseller for more than forty years, The Norton Anthology of English Literature is the classic survey to the field from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century. With more than ninety authors, the Major Authors Edition deepens its representation of essential works in all genres, ranging from Seamus Heaney's award-winning translation of Beowulf and Shakespeare's Twelfth Night to the greats of the nineteenth century--Blake... MORE
PREFACE TO THE EIGHTH EDITIONxvii
ACKNOWLEDGMENTSxxvii
The Middle Ages (to ca. 1485)1(23)
Introduction
1(21)
... MORE
Anglo-Saxon Literature
3(4)
Anglo-Norman Literature
7(3)
Middle English Literature in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries
10(5)
Medieval English
15(4)
Old and Middle English Prosody
19(3)
Timeline
22(2)
ANGLO-SAXON LITERATURE24(74)
THE DREAM OF THE ROOD
24(2)
BEOWULF
translated by Seamus Heaney
26(72)
ANGLO-NORMAN LITERATURE98(14)
MARIE DE FRANCE
98(14)
Lanval
99(13)
MIDDLE ENGLISH LITERATURE IN THE FOURTEENTH AND FIFTEENTH CENTURIES112(155)
SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT (ca. 1375-1400)
112(53)
GEOFFREY CHAUCER (ca. 1343-1400)
165(102)
THE CANTERBURY TALES
168(100)
The General Prologue
170(20)
Summary: The Knight's Tale
190(1)
The Miller's Prologue and Tale
191(16)
The Prologue
191(2)
The Tale
193(14)
The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale
207(28)
The Prologue
207(19)
The Tale
226(9)
The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale
235(15)
The Introduction
235(1)
The Prologue
236(3)
The Tale
239(9)
The Epilogue
248(2)
The Nun's Priest's Tale
250(14)
[Close of Canterbury Tales]
263(1)
The Parson's Tale
264(2)
The Introduction
264(2)
Chaucer's Retraction
266(1)
CHRIST'S HUMANITY267(32)
WILLIAM LANGLAND (ca. 1330-1387)
268(14)
The Vision of Piers Plowman
271(11)
Passus 18
271(12)
[The Crucifixion and Harrowing of Hell]
271(11)
JULIAN OF NORWICH (1342—ca. 1416)
282(3)
A Book of Showings to the Anchoress Julian of Norwich
283(2)
Chapter 5 [All Creation as a Hazelnut]
283(1)
Chapter 7 [Christ as Homely and Courteous]
284(1)
MARGERY KEMPE (ca. 1373-1438)
285(5)
The Book of Margery Kempe
286(15)
Book 1.35-36 [Margery's Marriage to and Intimacy with Christ]
286(4)
THE YORK PLAY OF THE CRUCIFIXION (ca. 1425)
290(9)
SIR THOMAS MALORY (ca. 1405-1471)299(20)
Morte Darthur
301(18)
[The Conspiracy against Lancelot and Guinevere]
301(5)
[War Breaks Out between Arthur and Lancelot]
306(3)
[The Death of Arthur]
309(5)
[The Deaths of Lancelot and Guinevere]
314(5)
The Sixteenth Century (1485-1603)319(256)
Introduction
319(27)
Timeline
346(2)
SIR THOMAS WYATT THE ELDER (1503-1542)
348(5)
The long love that in my thought doth harbor
349(1)
Petrarch, Rima 140
350(1)
Whoso list to hunt
350(1)
Petrarch, Rima 190
350(1)
They flee from me
351(1)
My lute, awake!
351(1)
Stand whoso list
352(1)
HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF SURREY (1517-1547)
353(1)
Love, that doth reign and live within my thought
354(1)
THE ENGLISH BIBLE
354(3)
1 Corinthians 13
355(2)
From Tyndale's Translation
355(1)
From The Geneva Bible
356(1)
From The Douay-Rheims Version
356(1)
From The Authorized (King James) Version
357(1)
ELIZABETH I (1533-1603)
357(8)
The doubt of future foes
359(1)
On Monsieur's Departure
359(1)
A Letter to Sir Amyas Paulet, August 1586
360(1)
Verse Exchange between Elizabeth and Sir Walter Ralegh
361(1)
Speech to the Troops at Tilbury
362(1)
The "Golden Speech"
363(2)
EDMUND SPENSER (1552-1599)
365(82)
The Faerie Queene
368(2)
Book 1
370(54)
Canto 1
371(12)
From Canto 2
383(6)
[Redcrosse Wins "Fidessa"]
383(6)
Canto 3 Summary
389(1)
From Canto 4
389(8)
[The House of Pride]
389(8)
Canto 5 Summary
397(1)
Canto 6 Summary
398(1)
Cantos 7 and 8 Summary
398(1)
From Canto 9
398(8)
From Canto 10
406(5)
Canto 11
411(12)
Canto 12 Summary
423(1)
Book 2
424(10)
Summary
424(1)
From Canto 12
424(10)
Amoretti and Epithalamion
434(1)
AMORETTI
Sonnet 1 ("Happy ye leaves when as those lilly hands")
435(1)
Sonnet 34 ("Lyke as a ship that through the Ocean wyde")
435(1)
Sonnet 54 ("Of this worlds Theatre in which we stay")
436(1)
Sonnet 64 ("Comming to kisse her lyps [such grace I found]")
436(1)
Sonnet 67 ("Lyke as a huntsman after weary chace")
436(1)
Sonnet 75 ("One day I wrote her name upon the strand")
437(1)
Sonnet 79 ("Men call you fayre, and you doe credit it")
437(1)
Epithalamion
438(9)
SIR WALTER RALEGH (1552-1618)
447(2)
The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd
448(1)
The History of the World
449(1)
[Conclusion: On Death]
449(1)
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY (1554-1586)
449(7)
Astrophil and Stella
451(5)
1 ("Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show")
452(1)
2 ("Not at first sight, nor with a dribbed shot")
452(1)
6 ("Some lovers speak, when they their muses entertain")
452(1)
20 ("Fly, fly, my friends, I have my death-wound, fly")
453(1)
28 ("You that with allegory's curious frame")
453(1)
31 ("With how sad steps, 0 Moon, thou climb'st the skies")
453(1)
52 ("A strife is grown between Virtue and Love")
454(1)
71 ("Who will in fairest book of Nature know")
454(1)
72 ("Desire, though thou my old companion art")
454(1)
74 ("I never drank of Aganippe well")
455(1)
108 ("When Sorrow [using mine own fire's might]")
455(1)
MARY (SIDNEY) HERBERT, COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE (1562-1621)
456(2)
Psalm 52
457(1)
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE (1564-1593)
458(35)
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
459(1)
Doctor Faustus
460(33)
The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
461(32)
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616)
493(79)
SONNETS
497(13)
3 ("Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest")
498(1)
12 ("When I do count the clock that tells the time")
498(1)
15 ("When I consider every thing that grows")
498(1)
18 ("Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?")
499(1)
19 ("Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws")
499(1)
20 ("A woman's face with Nature's own hand painted")
499(1)
23 ("As an unperfect actor on the stage")
500(1)
29 ("When, in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes")
500(1)
30 ("When to the sessions of sweet silent thought")
501(1)
33 ("Full many a glorious morning have I seen")
501(1)
55 ("Not marble, nor the gilded monuments")
501(1)
60 ("Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore")
502(1)
62 ("Sin of self-love possesseth all mine eye")
502(1)
65 ("Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea")
502(1)
71 ("No longer mourn for me when I am dead")
503(1)
73 ("That time of year thou mayst in me behold")
503(1)
80 ("O, how I faint when I of you do write")
503(1)
85 ("My tongue-tied muse in manners holds her still")
504(1)
87 ("Farewell: thou art too dear for my possessing")
504(1)
93 ("So shall I live supposing thou art true")
504(1)
94 ("They that have power to hurt and will do none")
505(1)
97 ("How like a winter bath my absence been")
505(1)
105 ("Let not my love be called idolatry")
506(1)
106 ("When in the chronicle of wasted time")
506(1)
116 ("Let me not to the marriage of true minds")
506(1)
129 ("Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame")
507(1)
130 ("My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun")
507(1)
135 ("Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy Will")
507(1)
138 ("When my love swears that she is made of truth")
508(1)
144 ("Two loves I have of comfort and despair")
508(1)
146 ("Poor soul, the center of my sinful earth")
509(1)
147 ("My love is as a fever, longing still")
509(1)
152 ("In loving thee thou know'st I am forsworn")
509(1)
Twelfth Night
510(62)
THOMAS NASHE (1567-1601)
572(3)
A Litany in Time of Plague
572(3)
The Early Seventeenth Century (1603-1660)575(278)
Introduction
575(23)
Timeline
598(2)
JOHN DONNE (1572-1631)
600(30)
SONGS AND SONNETS
603(13)
The Flea
603(1)
The Good-Morrow
603(1)
Song ("Go and catch a falling star")
604(1)
The Undertaking
605(1)
The Sun Rising
606(1)
The Indifferent
607(1)
The Canonization
607(2)
Air and Angels
609(1)
Break of Day
609(1)
A Valediction: Of Weeping
610(1)
Love's Alchemy
611(1)
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
611(1)
The Ecstasy
612(3)
The Funeral
615(1)
The Relic
615(1)
Elegy 16. On His Mistress
616(2)
Elegy 19. To His Mistress Going to Bed
618(1)
Satire 3
619(3)
Holy Sonnets
622(3)
1 ("Thou hast made me, and shall thy work decay?")
622(1)
5 ("I am a little world made cunningly")
622(1)
7 ("At the round earth's imagined corners, blow")
623(1)
9 ("If poisonous minerals, and if that tree")
623(1)
10 ("Death, be not proud, though some have called thee")
623(1)
13 ("What if this present were the world's last night?")
624(1)
14 ("Batter my heart, three-personed God; for you")
624(1)
18 ("Show me, dear Christ, thy spouse so bright and clear")
625(1)
19 ("Oh, to vex me, contraries meet in one")
625(1)
Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward
625(2)
Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness
627(1)
A Hymn to God the Father
628(1)
Devotions upon Emergent Occasions
628(2)
Meditation 17
628(2)
AEMILIA LANYER (1569-1645)
630(8)
Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum
630(3)
To the Doubtful Reader
630(1)
Eve's Apology in Defense of Women
631(2)
The Description of Cookham
633(5)
BEN JONSON (1572-1637)
638(12)
EPIGRAMS
640(4)
To My Book
640(1)
On My First Daughter
640(1)
To John Donne
641(1)
On My First Son
641(1)
On Lucy, Countess of Bedford
642(1)
Inviting a Friend to Supper
642(1)
Epitaph on S. P., a Child of Queen Elizabeth's Chapel
643(1)
THE FOREST
644(2)
To Penshurst
644(2)
UNDERWOOD
646(4)
My Picture Left in Scotland
646(1)
Queen and Huntress
647(1)
Though I am Young
647(1)
Still to Be Neat
648(1)
To the Memory of My Beloved, The Author, Mr. William Shakespeare
648(2)
MARY WROTH (1587?-1651?)
650(4)
Pamphilia to Amphilanthus
652(2)
1 ("When night's black mantle could most darkness prove")
652(1)
16 ("Am I thus conquered? Have I lost the powers")
652(1)
40 ("False hope which feeds but to destroy, and spill")
652(1)
68 ("My pain, still smothered in my grieved breast")
653(1)
74 Song ("Love a child is ever crying")
653(1)
From A Crown of Sonnets Dedicated to Love
654(1)
77 ("In this strange labyrinth how shall I turn?")
654(1)
THOMAS HOBBES (1588-1679)
654(5)
Leviathan
656(3)
Part 1. Of Man
656(4)
Chapter 13. Of the Natural Condition of Mankind as Concerning Their Felicity and Misery
656(3)
GEORGE HERBERT (1593-1633)
659(6)
THE TEMPLE
660(5)
The Altar
660(1)
Redemption
661(1)
Easter Wings
661(1)
Jordan (1)
662(1)
The Collar
662(1)
The Pulley
663(1)
The Flower
664(1)
Love (3)
665(1)
ROBERT HERRICK (1591-1674)
665(5)
HESPERIDES
666(4)
The Vine
666(1)
Delight in Disorder
667(1)
Corinna's Going A-Maying
667(2)
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
669(1)
Upon Julia's Clothes
669(1)
RICHARD LOVELACE (1618-1657)
670(2)
LUCASTA
670(2)
To Lucasta, Going to the Wars
670(1)
To Althea, from Prison
671(1)
KATHERINE PHILIPS (1632-1664)
672(3)
A Married State
672(1)
Upon the Double Murder of King Charles
673(1)
Friendship's Mystery, To My Dearest Lucasia
674(1)
On the Death of My First and Dearest Child, Hector Philips
675(1)
ANDREW MARVELL (1621-1678)
675(11)
POEMS
677(9)
To His Coy Mistress
677(1)
The Definition of Love
678(1)
The Mower to the Glowworms
679(1)
The Mower's Song
680(1)
The Garden
681(1)
An Horatian Ode
682(4)
MARGARET CAVENDISH (1623-1673)
686(7)
From The Description of a New World, Called The Blazing World
687(6)
JOHN MILTON (1608-1674)
693(160)
POEMS
697(14)
L'Allegro
697(4)
Il Penseroso
701(4)
Lycidas
705(6)
From Areopagitica
711(10)
SONNETS
721(2)
How Soon Hath Time
721(1)
When I Consider How My Light Is Spent
722(1)
On the Late Massacre in Piedmont
722(1)
Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint
723(1)
Paradise Lost
723(130)
The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century (1660-1785)853
Introduction
853(24)
Timeline
877(2)
JOHN DRYDEN (1631-1700)
879(38)
Absalom and Achitophel: A Poem
880(24)
Mac Flecknoe
904(6)
To the Memory of Mr. Oldham
910(1)
A Song for St. Cecilia's Day
911(2)
CRITICISM
913(4)
An Essay of Dramatic Poesy
914(2)
[Shakespeare and Ben Jonson Compared]
914(2)
A Discourse Concerning the Original and Progress of Satire
916(58)
[The Art of Satire]
916(1)
JOHN WILMOT, SECOND EARL OF ROCHESTER (1647-1680)
917(5)
The Disabled Debauchee
918(1)
The Imperfect Enjoyment
919(1)
Upon Nothing
920(2)
APHRA BERN (1640?-1689)
922(49)
The Disappointment
924(3)
Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave
927(44)
JONATHAN SWIFT (1667-1745)
971(149)
A Description of a City Shower
973(1)
Gulliver's Travels
974(140)
A Letter from Captain Gulliver to His Cousin Sympson
976(2)
The Publisher to the Reader
978(1)
Part 1. A Voyage to Lilliput
979(37)
Part 2. A Voyage to Brobdingnag
1016(40)
Part 3. A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdrib, Luggnagg, and Japan
1056(1)
Chapter 2 [The Flying Island of Laputa]
1056(6)
Chapter 5 [The Academy of Lagado]
1062(2)
Chapter 10 [The Struldbruggs]
1064(5)
Part 4. A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms
1069(45)
A Modest Proposal
1114(6)
ALEXANDER POPE (1688-1744)
1120(58)
An Essay on Criticism
1123(13)
The Rape of the Lock
1136(19)
An Essay on Man
1155(7)
Epistle 1. Of the Nature and State of Man, with Respect to the Universe
1156(6)
From Epistle 2. Of the Nature and State of Man with Respect to Himself, as an Individual
1162(1)
Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
1162(12)
The Dunciad: Book the Fourth
1174(4)
[The Educator]
1176(1)
[The Triumph of Dulness]
1176(2)
ELIZA HAYWOOD (1693?-1756)
1178(19)
Fantomina; or, Love in a Maze
1179(18)
LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU (1689-1762)
1197(5)
The Lover: A Ballad
1198(2)
Epistle from Mrs. Yonge to Her Husband
1200(2)
WILLIAM HOGARTH (1697-1764)
1202(8)
Marriage A-la-Mode
1204(6)
SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-1784)
1210(103)
The Vanity of Human Wishes
1212(8)
On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet
1220(1)
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia
1221(64)
Rambler No. 4 [On Fiction]
1285(3)
Rambler No. 60 [Biography]
1288(3)
A Dictionary of the English Language
1291(6)
From Preface
1291(15)
[Some Definitions: A Small Anthology]
1295(2)
The Preface to Shakespeare
1297(9)
[Shakespeare's Excellence. General Nature]
1298(3)
[Shakespeare's Faults. The Three Dramatic Unities]
1301(5)
[Twelfth Night]
1306(1)
LIVES OF THE POETS
1306(7)
Milton
1306(8)
["Lycidas"]
1306(1)
[Paradise Lost]
1307(6)
JAMES BOSWELL (1740-1795)
1313(17)
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
1314(16)
[Plan of the Life]
1314(2)
[Johnson's Early Years. Marriage and London]
1316(5)
[The Letter to Chesterfield]
1321(3)
[A Memorable Year: Boswell Meets Johnson]
1324(3)
[Fear of Death]
1327(1)
[Johnson Faces Death]
1327(3)
THOMAS GRAY (1716-1771)
1330(5)
Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat
1331(1)
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
1332(3)
WILLIAM COLLINS (1721-1759)
1335(2)
Ode Written in the Beginning of the Year 1746
1336(1)
Ode to Evening
1336(1)
WILLIAM COWPER (1731-1800)
1337(3)
The Castaway
1338(2)
OLAUDAH EQUIANO (ca. 1745-1797)
1340(9)
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself
1340(9)
[The Middle Passage]
1340(4)
[A Free Man]
1344(5)
FRANCES BURNEY (1752-1840)
1349
The Journal and Letters
1350
[First Journal Entry]
1350(1)
["Down with her, Burney!"]
1351(2)
[Encountering the King]
1353(2)
[A Mastectomy]
1355(5)
[M. D'Arblay's Postscript]
1360
POEMS IN PROCESSA1
John Milton
A3
From Lycidas
A3
Alexander Pope
A5
From The Rape of the Lock
A5
From An Essay on Man
A6
Samuel Johnson
A7
From The Vanity of Human Wishes
A8
Thomas Gray
A9
From Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
A9
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHIESA13
Suggested General Readings
A13
The Middle Ages
A16
The Sixteenth Century
A21
The Early Seventeenth Century
A30
The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century
A38
APPENDICES
Literary Terminology
A45
Geographic Nomenclature
A67
British Money
A69
The British Baronage
A74
The Royal Lines of England and Great Britain
A76
Religions in England
A79
Illustration: The Universe According to Ptolemy
A83
Illustration: A London Playhouse of Shakespeare's Time
A84
Permissions AcknowledgmentsA85
IndexA87


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