The New Penguin Book of English VersePaul Keegan This is the first Penguin book of English poetry since John Heywood's edition in the 1950s. A revelatory new anthology of English verse, poems are ordered by date of composition rather than in monolithic slabs devoted to individual poets. Original spelling is used. There is a high proportion of anonymous poetry and also verse written on surfaces other than paper (inscriptions etc.). It gives a more comprehensive view of English verse in showing poems talking to each other. What is more, it is the first anthology of its scope to treat the 20th century in similar depth to earlier centuries. |
Contents
ANONYMOUS Ich am of Irlande | 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 |
WILLIAM DUNBAR Done is a battell on the dragon blak | 63 |
ANONYMOUS Westron wynde when wyll thow blow | 74 |
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 |
THOMAS CAREW Song Celia singing | 270 |
1649 | 273 |
JAMES GRAHAM MARQUIS OF MONTROSE On Himself upon | 301 |
JOHN CLEVELAND The Antiplatonick | 307 |
AURELIAN TOWNSHEND A Dialogue betwixt Time and a 1653 | 313 |
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 |
1621 | 180 |
love | 183 |
BEN JONSONCATULLUS from Volpone | 190 |
ANONYMOUS Inscription in Osmington Church Dorset | 201 |
ANONYMOUS A Belmans Song | 207 |
1624 | 215 |
At the round earths imagind corners | 231 |
MICHAEL DRAYTON from Nimphidia The Court of Fayrie | 240 |
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 PHILLIPS TO My Lord Birons Tune of Adieu | 341 |
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 |
JOHN DRYDEN from The Secular Masque | 405 |
ISAAC WATTS Crucifixion to the World by the Cross of Christ | 411 |
ANNE FINCH COUNTESS OF WINCHILSEA A Nocturnal | 417 |
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 |
JOHN GAY from Fables 1727 | 442 |
JONATHAN SWIFT The Day of Judgement | 448 |
An Epistle to 1735 | 454 |
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