Six Centuries of English Poetry: Tennyson to Chaucer
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- SIX CENTURIES OF ENGLISH POETRY
- TENNYSON TO CHAUCER
- TYPICAL SELECTIONS FROM THE GREAT POETS
- JAMES BALDWIN, Ph.D.
- SILVER, BURDETT & COMPANY
- New York . . . BOSTON . . . Chicago
- PUBLISHERS' NOTE.
- TO TEACHERS AND STUDENTS.
- FOOTNOTES:
- CONTENTS.
- SIX CENTURIES OF ENGLISH POETRY.
- The Nineteenth Century.
- Poets of the Nineteenth Century.
- Alfred Tennyson.
- THE LADY OF SHALOTT.
- PART I.
- PART II.
- PART III.
- PART IV.
- NOTES.
- FOOTNOTES:
- THE BROOK.
- NOTES.
- THE LOTOS-EATERS.
- CHORIC SONG.
- I.
- II.
- III.
- IV.
- V.
- VI.
- VII.
- VIII.
- NOTE.
- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
- William Wordsworth.
- ODE.
- Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood.
- I.
- II.
- III.
- IV.
- V.
- VI.
- VII.
- VIII.
- IX.
- X.
- XI.
- NOTES.
- FOOTNOTES:
- THE TWO APRIL MORNINGS.
- NOTES.
- THE SOLITARY REAPER.
- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
- CHRISTABEL.
- Part I.
- NOTES
- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley.
- TO A SKYLARK
- NOTES.
- HYMN OF PAN.
- NOTES.
- FROM "EPIPSYCHIDION."
- NOTES.
- A LAMENT.
- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
- John Keats.
- ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE.
- I
- II.
- III.
- IV.
- V.
- VI.
- VII.
- VIII.
- NOTES.
- FROM "THE EVE OF ST. AGNES."
- NOTES.
- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
- The Eighteenth Century.
- Poets of the Eighteenth Century.
- Robert Burns.
- THE COTTER'S1 SATURDAY NIGHT.
- Inscribed To R. Aiken, Esq.2
- NOTES.
- TO A MOUNTAIN DAISY.
- On turning one down with the Plough, in April, 1786.
- FOR A' THAT, AND A' THAT.
- NOTES.
- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
- William Cowper.
- BOADICEA.
- NOTES.
- ON THE RECEIPT OF MY MOTHER'S PICTURE.
- NOTES.
- EPITAPH ON A HARE.
- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
- Oliver Goldsmith.
- THREE PICTURES FROM "THE DESERTED VILLAGE."
- NOTES.
- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
- Thomas Gray.
- THE BARD.
- I. 1.
- I. 2.
- I. 3.
- II. 1.
- II. 2.
- II. 3.
- III. 1.
- III. 2.
- III. 3.
- NOTES.
- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
- Alexander Pope.
- FROM THE "ESSAY ON CRITICISM."
- NOTES.
- ODE ON ST. CECILIA'S DAY.
- MDCCVIII. I.
- II.
- III.
- IV.
- V.
- VI.
- VII.
- NOTES.
- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
- The Seventeenth Century.
- Poets of the Seventeenth Century.
- John Dryden.
- ALEXANDER'S FEAST; OR, THE POWER OF MUSIC:
- An Ode in Honor of St. Cecilia's Day.
- NOTES.
- THE FIRE OF LONDON.
- [FROM "ANNUS MIRABILIS."]
- NOTES.
- REASON AND RELIGION.
- [FROM "RELIGIO LAICI."]
- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
- John Milton.
- ON THE MORNING OF CHRIST'S NATIVITY.
- I.
- II.
- III.
- IV.
- THE HYMN. I.
- II.
- III.
- IV.
- V.
- VI.
- VII.
- VIII.
- IX.
- X.
- XI.
- XII.
- XIII.
- XIV.
- XV.
- XVI.
- XVII.
- XVIII.
- XIX.
- XX.
- XXI.
- XXII.
- XXIII.
- XXIV.
- XXV.
- XXVI.
- XXVII.
- NOTES.
- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
- WORDSWORTH'S SONNET TO MILTON.
- Robert Herrick.
- TO PHILLIS.
- THE MAD MAID'S SONG.
- A THANKSGIVING TO GOD.
- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
- Edmund Waller.
- SONG.
- OF ENGLISH VERSE.
- ON A GIRDLE.
- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
- Ben Jonson.
- AN ODE TO HIMSELF.
- NOTES.
- TO CYNTHIA.
- TO THE MEMORY OF MY BELOVED MASTER WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, AND WHAT HE HATH LEFT US.
- NOTES.
- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
- The Sixteenth Century.
- Poets of the Sixteenth Century.
- William Shakespeare.
- VENUS'S ADVICE TO ADONIS ON HUNTING.
- [FROM "VENUS AND ADONIS."]
- A MORNING SONG FOR IMOGEN.
- [FROM "CYMBELINE."]
- SIGH NO MORE, LADIES.
- [FROM "MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING."]
- SUNSHINE AND CLOUD.
- [SONNET XXXIII.]
- THE WORLD'S WAY.
- [SONNET LXVI.]
- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
- Edmund Spenser.
- THE CAVE OF MAMMON.
- NOTES.
- FOOTNOTES:
- PROTHALAMION; or, A SPOUSALL VERSE.
- NOTES.
- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
- Thomas Wyatt.
- A LOVE SONG.
- The Lover complaineth of the Unkindness of his Love.
- THE COURTIER'S LIFE.
- The Earl of Surrey.
- FROM THE FOURTH BOOK OF VIRGIL'S "ÆNEID."
- NOTE.
- A SONNET.
- Description and Praise of his Love Geraldine.
- ON THE DEATH OF SIR THOMAS WYATT.
- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES.
- Ballads.
- WALY, WALY.
- NOTES.
- SIR PATRICK SPENS.
- A Scottish Ballad.
- NOTES AND GLOSSARY.
- THE BAILIFF'S DAUGHTER OF ISLINGTON.
- ROBIN HOOD AND THE WIDOW'S THREE SONS.
- NOTES.
- The Fifteenth Century.
- Poets of the Fifteenth Century.
- John Skelton.
- TO MAYSTRESS MARGARET HUSSEY.
- CARDINAL WOLSEY.
- [FROM "WHY COME YE NOT TO COURT?"]
- NOTES.
- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
- Selections from Four Minor Poets.
- A VISIT TO LONDON.
- THE GOLDEN AGE.
- NOTE.
- THE GARMOND OF FAIR LADIES.
- A MAY MORNING.
- NOTE.
- IN PRAISE OF HONOUR.
- FOUR POETS OF THIS CENTURY.
- The Fourteenth Century.
- Poets of the Fourteenth Century.
- Geoffrey Chaucer.
- FROM THE "PROLOGUE TO THE CANTERBURY TALES."
- NOTES.
- ON READING CHAUCER.
- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
- INDEX TO NOTES.
- TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES
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