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CONTENTS Part I The 5th Century till the First Half of the 14th Century: The Age of Anglo-Saxon Poetry and the Anglo-Norman Poetry Chapter 1 The Anglo-Saxon Period (449-1066)......................................3 Beowulf......................................................................... 4 Chapter 2 The Anglo-Norman Period (1066–1350).............................. 15 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight............................................... 16 Part II The 14th Century: The Age of Geoffrey Chaucer Chapter 3 Geoffrey Chaucer.............................................. 27 The Canterbury Tales........................................................ 29 Part III The 15th Century: The Age of Popular Ballads Chapter 4 Popular Ballads................................................... 37 Robin Hood and Allin-a-Dale................................................. 38 Get Up and Bar the Door.................................................... 42 Sir Patrick Spens......................................................... 45 Part IV The 16th Century: The Age of Drama and Poetry Introduction.............................................................. 51 Chapter 5 Thomas Wyatt.................................................. 54 I Find No Peace........................................................... 55 Chapter 6 Henry Howard.................................................... 57 The Soote Season.......................................................... 59 Chapter 7 Edmund Spenser.................................................. 61 Sonnet 34................................................................. 63 Sonnet 75................................................................. 64 Chapter 8 Walter Raleigh.................................................. 66 The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd...................................... 67 Chapter 9 Philip Sidney................................................... 69 Leave Me, O Love.......................................................... 70 Chapter 10 Francis Bacon................................................. 72 Of Studies............................................................... 73 Chapter 11 Christopher Marlowe......................................... 76 The Passionate Shepherd to His Love..................................... 77 Chapter 12 William Shakespeare....................................... 79 Hamlet.............................................................. 82 Sonnet 1.............................................................. 94 Sonnet 18............................................................. 95 Sonnet 29............................................................ 96 Chapter 13 Ben Jonson.............................................. 98 Song: To Celia.................................................... 99 Part V The 17th Century: Revolution, Restoration and New Poetic Expression Introduction..............................................103 Chapter 14 John Donne........................................106 A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning..................................108 The Flea............................................................110 Song (Go and catch a falling star)................................112 Death, Be Not Proud.................................................114 Chapter 15 Robert Herrick.......................................115 To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time.............................116 Chapter 16 George Herbert...........................................118 Virtue..............................................................119 Chapter 17 John Milton.........................................121 Paradise Lost.....................................................123 On His Blindness................................................128 On His Deceased Wife..........................................129 Chapter 18 John Suckling and Richard Lovelace...........................130 Out upon It! Song (Why so pale and wan, fond lover)......................131 To Lucasta, Going to the Wars........................................132 Chapter 19 Andrew Marvell...............................................134 To His Coy Mistress..................................................135 Chapter 20 John Bunyan.......................................138 The Pilgrim’s Progress............................................139 Part VI The 18th Century: Enlightenment, Neo-classicism and Pre-romanticism Introduction.....................................................147 Chapter 21 John Dryden.................................................152 A Song for St Cecilia’s Day............................................153 Chapter 22 Daniel Defoe..................................................157 Robinson Crusoe....................................................158 Chapter 23 Jonathan Swift.......................................165 Gulliver’s Travels.............................................166 A Modest Proposal...............................................174 Chapter 24 Joseph Addison and Richard Steele.........................182 Sir Roger at Church............................................185 Chapter 25 Alexander Pope......................................188 An Essay on Criticism.......................................190 Chapter 26 Henry Fielding.................................193 The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling......................................195 Chapter 27 Thomas Gray..........................................................201 Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.....................................202 Chapter 28 Oliver Goldsmith................................................208 The Vicar of Wakefield.................................................209 Chapter 29 Richard Brinsley Sheridan..................................214 The School for Scandal.............................................215 Chapter 30 William Blake.................................................227 London.............................................................229 The Tyger......................................................230 The Chimney Sweeper..............................................231 The Sick Rose......................................................232 Chapter 31 Robert Burns............................................233 My Heart’s in the Highlands...................................235 John Anderson, My Jo.............................................236 A Red, Red Rose..................................................237 Auld Lang Syne..................................................238 Mary Morison....................................................240 Scots, Wha Hae...............................................242