The New Penguin Book of English VersePaul Keegan This revolutionary collection abandons the traditional poet-by-poet approach of most anthologies, presenting seven centuries of English verse as an uninterrupted sequence of poems ordered according to their first individual appearance in the language. The result is a more continuous view of English verse that reveals a fascinating new chronology. Furthermore, this volume chronicles the evolution of English verse in linguistic and historical-rather than only biographical-terms, presenting the texts with original spelling and punctuation. Through the words of the well known and the anonymous, in epitaphs, ballads, folk poetry, and nonsense verse, this definitive anthology gives readers the true voice of English poetry as it has developed from the fourteenth to the late twentieth century. |
Contents
Preface | xxxix |
Rawlinson Lyrics | 3 |
GEOFFREY CHAUCER from The Parliament of Fowls | 9 |
ANONYMOUS When Adam dalf and Eve span | 15 |
ANONYMOUS from Patience | 31 |
vi ANONYMOUS from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight | 33 |
THOMAS HOCCLEVE from The Complaint of Hoccleve | 41 |
ROBERT HENRYSON from The Testament of Cresseid | 54 |
JOHN GAY from Fables 1727 | 442 |
JONATHAN SWIFT The Day of Judgement | 448 |
An Epistle to 1735 | 454 |
CHRISTOPHER SMART from A Song to David 1763 | 491 |
ANONYMOUS Edward Edward | 497 |
OLIVER GOLDSMITH from The Vicar of Wakefield 1766 | 503 |
ROBERT FERGUSSON The DaftDays | 509 |
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN On Lady Anne Hamilton 515 1777 | 515 |
WILLIAM DUNBAR Done is a battell on the dragon blak | 63 |
ANONYMOUS Westron wynde when wyll thow blow | 74 |
SIR THOMAS WYATT Petrarch The longe love that in my 1540 | 79 |
HENRY HOWARD EARL OF SURREY An Excellent Epitaffe of Syr 1542 | 85 |
18 To all things there is an 1560 | 92 |
ARTHUR GOLDING OVID from The Fifteen Books of Ovid 1567 | 98 |
CHIDIOCK TICHBORNE My prime of youth is but a froste of 1586 | 106 |
ANONYMOUS Constant Penelope sends to thee carelesse | 107 |
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY from Astrophil and Stella | 119 |
JOHN LYLY from Midas | 125 |
BARNABE BARNES from Parthenophil and Parthenophe Sestina | 132 |
ROBERT SOUTHWELL S J New Heaven New Warre 141 | 141 |
SIR JOHN DAVIES In Cosmum | 148 |
MARY HERBERT countess of PEMBROKE Psalm 58 And call | 154 |
JOHN DONNE On His Mistris | 161 |
GEORGE PEELE from David and Fair Bethsabe | 167 |
x Sonnet XCIX Downe in the depth of mine iniquity | 171 |
1866 | 178 |
1621 | 180 |
love | 183 |
BEN JONSONCATULLUS from Volpone | 190 |
ANONYMOUS Inscription in Osmington Church Dorset | 201 |
ANONYMOUS A Belmans Song | 207 |
1624 | 215 |
1869 | 221 |
At the round earths imagind corners | 231 |
MICHAEL DRAYTON from Nimphidia The Court of Fayrie | 240 |
FRANCIS QUARLES Embleme IV Canticles 7 10 I am | 250 |
THOMAS RANDOLPH A Gratulatory to Mr Ben Johnson | 257 |
BEN JONSON from A Celebration of Charis in Ten Lyrick Peeces | 264 |
1906 | 267 |
THOMAS CAREW Song Celia singing | 270 |
1649 | 273 |
RICHARD CRASHAW from Divine Epigrams | 285 |
ANONYMOUS from The Second Scottish Psalter xv | 301 |
JOHN CLEVELAND The Antiplatonick | 307 |
AURELIAN TOWNSHEND A Dialogue betwixt Time and a 1653 | 313 |
ABRAHAM COWLEY from Anacreontiques Translated 1656 | 319 |
SAMUEL BUTLER from Hudibras 1662 | 326 |
EDWARD LORD HERBERT OF CHERBURY Sonnet Made upon the 1665 | 333 |
KATHERINE PHILIPS TO My Lord Birons Tune of Adieu | 341 |
1908 | 345 |
SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT Song Endimion Porter and Olivia | 350 |
NATHANIEL WANLEY The Resurrection | 362 |
ANDREW MARVELL An Horatian Ode upon Cromwels Return from | 364 |
ANDREW MARVELL The Mower against Gardens | 370 |
JOHN DRYDEN from Absalom and Achitophel | 376 |
JOHN DRYDEN LUCRETIUS from Latter Part of the Third Book | 384 |
CHARLES COTTON An Epitaph on M H | 390 |
SIR CHARLES SEDLEY On a Cock at Rochester | 396 |
xviii JOHN DRYDEN OVID from The First Book of Ovids | 397 |
SIR CHARLES SEDLEY Song Phillis lets shun the common | 407 |
JONATHAN SWIFT A Description of a City Shower | 415 |
Or The Art of Walking the Streets | 423 |
ISAAC WATTS Man Frail and God Eternal 427 1719 | 427 |
EDWARD YOUNG from Love of Fame Satire V 1725 | 434 |
WILLIAM COWPER from The Task | 521 |
WILLIAM BLAKE from Songs of Innocence | 527 |
Robert Burns Song Ae fond kiss and then we sever | 534 |
GEORGE CANNING and JOHN HOOKHAM FRERE Sapphics | 545 |
Abbey 5549 | 554 |
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH from The TwoPart Prelude of 1799 | 560 |
JOHN KEATS from Endymion | 609 |
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY from Adonais | 645 |
ANONYMOUS A Metrical Adage | 662 |
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Duty Surviving SelfLove | 668 |
LAETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Revenge | 674 |
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Past ruind Ilion Helen lives | 680 |
JOHN CLARE Mist in the Meadows | 686 |
ROBERT BROWNING My Last Duchess | 692 |
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Grief | 698 |
EDWARD LEAR from A Book of Nonsense | 704 |
JOHN CLARE I am | 710 |
THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES from The Last | 719 |
ROBERT BROWNING How It Strikes a Contemporary | 722 |
ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH from Amours de Voyage Canto | 728 |
WILLIAM BARNES My Orchad in Linden Lea | 734 |
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI Song When I am dead my dearest | 740 |
GEORGE MEREDITH from Modern Love | 746 |
1915 | 748 |
ROBERT BROWNING Youth and Art | 752 |
1878 | 758 |
1916 | 841 |
EDWARD THOMAS CockCrow | 843 |
T S ELIOT Aunt Helen | 851 |
xxxii | 852 |
WILFRED OWEN Futility | 857 |
LAURENCE BINYON For the Fallen September 1914 | 863 |
T S ELIOT Gerontion | 871 |
1929 | 874 |
1969 | 956 |
PHILIP LARKIN At Grass | 973 |
TED HUGHES Pike | 979 |
THOM GUNN In Santa Maria del Popolo | 985 |
LOUIS MACNEICE The Taxis | 991 |
PHILIP LARKIN Here | 997 |
BASIL BUNTING from Briggflatts | 1003 |
TED HUGHES Full Moon and Little Frieda | 1009 |
1971 | 1010 |
1973 | 1034 |
DEREK MAHON The Snow Party | 1044 |
DONALD DAVIE from In the Stopping Train | 1051 |
JAMES FENTON In a Notebook | 1060 |
TED HUGHES February 17th | 1066 |
PAUL DURCAN The Death by Heroin of Sid Vicious | 1072 |
PAUL MULDOON Quoof | 1078 |
1985 | 1083 |
Acknowledgements | 1104 |
Index of First lines | 1114 |
Index of Titles | 1130 |
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