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British Literature I - Middle Ages to the Eighteenth Century and Neoclassicism

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British Literature I - Middle Ages to the Eighteenth Century and Neoclassicism

This anthology follows the shift of monarchic to parliamentarian rule in Britain, and the heroic epic to the more egalitarian novel as genre. This text features: Original introductions to The Middle Ages; The Sixteenth Century: The Tudor Age; The Seventeenth Century: The Age of Revolution; and Neoclassicism and the Eighteenth Century.

Literature and LiteracyHumanities
Author
Bonnie J. Robinson & Laura Getty
Publisher
University of North Georgia
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LibreTexts
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CC BY-SA
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EN
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English
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Contents· 137 sections
  1. 01: The Middle Ages
  2. 1.01: Introduction
  3. 1.02: Recommended Reading
  4. 1.03: (Anglo-Saxon Litterature) The Dream of the Rood
  5. 1.04: Beowulf
  6. 1.4.1: Beowulf (Parts I - XV)
  7. 1.4.2: Beowulf (Parts XVI - XXX)
  8. New Page
  9. 1.05: Judith
  10. 1.06: The Wanderer
  11. 1.07: The Wife's Lament
  12. 1.08: The Venerable Bede
  13. 1.09: Book I
  14. 1.10: Book II
  15. 1.11: Book III
  16. 1.12: Book IV
  17. 1.13: Book V
  18. 1.14: Anglo-Saxon Riddles
  19. 1.15: Marie De France
  20. 1.16: Middle English Lyrics
  21. 1.17.1: Geoffrey Chaucer
  22. 1.17.2: Geoffrey Chaucer - The Canterbury Tales - General Prologue
  23. 1.17.3: Geoffrey Chaucer - The Canterbury Tales - The Miller's Tale
  24. 1.17.4: Geoffrey Chaucer - The Canterbury Tales - The Wife of Bath's Tale
  25. 1.17.5: Geoffrey Chaucer - The Canterbury Tales - The Franklin's Tale
  26. 1.18: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
  27. 1.19: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
  28. 1.20: Fytte the Third
  29. 1.21: Fytte the Fourth
  30. 1.22: Julian of Norwich
  31. 1.23: Revelations of Divine Love
  32. 1.24: The Second Shepards' Play
  33. 1.25: Sir Thomas Malory
  34. 1.26: Everyman
  35. 02: The Tudor Age (1485-1603)
  36. 2.01: Introduction
  37. 2.02: Recommended Reading
  38. 2.03: Thomas More
  39. 2.04: Utopia
  40. 2.05: Reading and Review Questions
  41. 2.06: Thomas Wyatt
  42. 2.07: The Long Love That in My Thought Doth Harbor
  43. 2.08: My Gallery
  44. 2.09: Whoso List to Hunt
  45. 2.10: My Lute Awake
  46. 2.11: They Flee From Me
  47. 2.12: And Wilt Thou Leave Me Thus
  48. 2.13: Reading and Review Questions
  49. 2.14: Henry Howard Earl of Surrey
  50. 2.15: The soote season
  51. 2.16: Love that doth reign and live within my thought
  52. 2.17: Alas so all things now do hold thier peace
  53. 2.18: So cruel prison how could betide
  54. 2.19: O happy dames that may embrace
  55. 2.20: Reading and Review Questions
  56. 2.21: Queen Elizabeth
  57. 2.22: The Doubt of Future Foes
  58. 2.23: On Monsieur's Departure
  59. 2.24: The Golden Speech
  60. 2.25: Reading and Review Questions
  61. 2.26: Edmund Spenser
  62. 2.27: from The Faerie Queene (Book I)
  63. 2.28: from The Faerie Queene (Book II)
  64. 2.29: from The Faerie Queene (Book III)
  65. 2.30: Reading and Review Questions
  66. 2.31: Sir Walter Raleigh (1552-1618)
  67. 2.32: Farewell False Love
  68. 2.33: If Cynthia Be a Queen a Princess and Supreme
  69. 2.34: The Nymph's Reply to the Shepard
  70. 2.35: The Lie
  71. 2.36: Nature That Washed Her Hands in Milk
  72. 2.37: From The Discorvery of the Large Rich and Beautiful Empire of Guiana
  73. 2.38: Reading and Review Questions
  74. 2.39: Sir Philip Sidney
  75. 2.40: The Defence of Poesy
  76. 2.41: Reading and Review Questions
  77. 2.42: Mary (Sidney) Herbert Countess of Pembroke
  78. 2.43: The Doleful Lay of Clorida
  79. 2.44: To the Angel Spirit of the Most Excellent Sir Philip Sidney
  80. 2.45: Psalm 51
  81. 2.46: Psalm 55
  82. 2.47: Psalm 57
  83. 2.48: Psalm 84
  84. 2.49: Psalm 102
  85. 2.50: Psalm 150
  86. 2.51: Reading and Review Questions
  87. 2.52: Christopher Marlowe
  88. 2.53: The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
  89. 2.54: Reading and Review Questions
  90. 2.55: 2.13.0 William Shakespeare
  91. 2.56: Selected Sonnets
  92. 2.57: Much Ado About Nothing
  93. 2.58: 2.13.3
  94. 2.59: King Lear
  95. 03: The Seventeenth Century - The Age of Revolution (1603-1688)
  96. 3.01: Introduction
  97. 3.02: Recommended Reading
  98. 3.03: John Donne (1572-1631)
  99. 3.3.01: The Good Morrow
  100. 3.3.02: The Sun Rising
  101. 3.3.03: The Indifferent
  102. 3.3.04: Break of Day
  103. 3.3.05: Loves Alchemy
  104. 3.3.06: The Flea
  105. 3.3.07: A Valediction- Forbidding Mourning
  106. 3.3.08: Holy Sonnet 3
  107. 3.3.09: Holy Sonnet 4
  108. 3.3.10: Holy Sonnet 5
  109. 3.3.11: Holy Sonnet 10
  110. 3.3.12: Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions- Meditation 17
  111. 3.3.13: Reading and Review Questions
  112. 3.04: Aemilia Lanyer (1569-1645)
  113. 3.4.01: Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum
  114. 3.4.02: Reading and Review Questions
  115. 3.05: Ben Jonson (1572-1637)
  116. 3.06: Robert Herrick (1591-1674)
  117. 3.07: Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)
  118. 3.08: Margaret Cavendish the Duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673)
  119. 3.09: John Milton (1608-1674)
  120. 3.10: John Dryden (1631-1700)
  121. 3.11: Samuel Pepys (1633-1703)
  122. 3.12: Key Terms
  123. 04: Neoclassicism and the Eighteenth Century (1660-1797)
  124. 4.01: Introduction
  125. 4.02: Recommended Reading
  126. 4.03: Aphra Behn (1640-1689)
  127. 4.04: William Congreve (1760-1729)
  128. 4.05: Daniel Defoe (1660-1731)
  129. 4.06: Anne Finch Countess of Winchilsea (1661-1720)
  130. 4.07: Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
  131. 4.08: Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
  132. 4.09: Henry Fielding (1707-1754)
  133. 4.10: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1698-1762)
  134. 4.11: Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
  135. 4.12: James Bosnell (1740-1795)
  136. 4.13: Olaudah Equiano (c. 1745-1797)
  137. 4.14: Key Terms