This collection presents the finest English literature from the Middle Ages through the twentieth century, with introductory matter and authoritative annotation. Almost three hundred illustrations show the relationship between images in language and in pictures.
CONTENTS:
DRAMA
MIDDLE ENGLISH LYRICS
THE RENAISSANCE
THE RENAISSANCE OVID
THE PSALMS IN ENGLISH VERSE PSALM 137
THE NEW WORLD
THE ENGLISH HUMANISTS
BALDASSARE CASTIGLIONESIR THOMAS HOBY
THOMAS LORD VAUX
THOMAS NASHE
FULKE GREVILLE LORD BROOKE
SIR WALTER RALEGH
SAMUEL DANIEL
THOMAS CAMPION
BEN JONSON
WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN
FRANCIS QUARLES
WILLIAM STRODE
ABRAHAM COWLEY
GEORGE HERBERT
HENRY VAUGHAN
OWEN FELLTHAM
LANCELOT ANDREWES
SIR THOMAS BROWNE
IZAAK WALTON
JOHN AUBREY
LAURENCE STERNE
SAMUEL BUTLER
JOHN BUNYAN
GEORGE SAVILE MARQUESS OF HALIFAX
JOHN WILMOT EARL OF ROCHESTER
JONATHAN SWIFT
MATTHEW PRIOR
JOHN GAY
DANIEL DEFOE
SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS
SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE
JOSEPH ADDISON
THOMAS GRAY
CHRISTOPHER SMART
WILLIAM COWPER
GEORGE CRABBE
ROBERT BURNS
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU
