Contents



Contents

The Middle Ages (To 1485) 1

Medieval English 17

Old and Middle English Prosody 21

old english poetry 24

CÆDMON’S HYMN 24

THE DREAM OF THE ROOD 24

BEOWULF 28

THE BATTLE OF MALDON 66

AN OLD ENGLISH RIDDLE 72

The Bow 73

GEOFFREY CHAUCER (ca. 1343–1400) 74

the canterbury tales 79

The General Prologue 81

The Wife of Bath’s Prologue 103

The Pardoner’s Prologue and Tale 124

The Introduction 124

The Prologue 126

The Tale 129

The Epilogue 139

The Nun’s Priest’s Tale 140

The Miller’s Tale 155

The Introduction 155

The Tale 157

The Parson’s Tale 172

The Introduction 172

[The Remedy Against Lechery] 174

Chaucer’s Retraction 177

lyrics and occasional verse 178

To Rosamond 178

To His Scribe Adam 179

Complaint to His Purse 179

Merciless Beauty 180

Gentilesse 181

Truth 182

SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT (ca. 1375–1400) 183

PIERS PLOWMAN (B Text, ca. 1377) 239

The Prologue 241

Passus I 243

MIDDLE ENGLISH LYRICS 249

Fowls in the Frith 250

Alison 250

My Lief Is Faren in Londe 251

Western Wind 251

I Have a Young Sister 252

Spring Has Come with Love 252

The Cuckoo Song 253

Tell Me, Wight in the Broom 254

The Henpecked Husband 254

In Praise of Brunettes 255

The Appreciative Drinker 255

A Charm Against the Night Goblin 256

The Blacksmiths 256

I Am of Ireland 257

Sunset on Calvary 257

I Sing of a Maiden 257

Adam Lay Bound 258

The Corpus Christi Carol 258

Earth Took of Earth 258

THE SECOND SHEPHERDS’ PLAY (ca. 1385) 259

EVERYMAN (ca. 1485) 281

POPULAR BALLADS 303

Lord Randall 306

Edward 306

Barbara Allan 308

The Wife of Usher’s Well 309

The Three Ravens 310

Bonny George Campbell 311

Sir Patrick Spens 311

The Bonny Earl of Murray 313

Hind Horn 313

Thomas Rhymer 315

Robin Hood and the Three Squires 317

Judas 320

St. Steven and King Herod 321

SIR THOMAS MALORY (ca. 1405–1471) 322

Morte Darthur 324

[The Death of Arthur] 324

The Sixteenth Century (1485–1603) 331

views of man and society 349

SIR THOMAS MORE (1478–1535) 350

Utopia 352

Book I 352

Book II: 1. Their Country and Agriculture 357

Book II: 7. Their Gold and Silver, and How They Keep It 359

Book II: 12. Their Marriage Customs 361

Book II: 16. The Religion of the Utopians 362

SIR THOMAS HOBY (1530–1566) 369

The Courtier 370

Book I: [Grace] 370

Book IV: [Love] 372

RICHARD HOOKER (1554–1600) 384

The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity 385

The Preface: [On Moderation in Controversy] 385

Book I, Chapter 3: [The Law of Nature] 389

Book I, Chapter 8: [On Common Sense] 390

Book I, Chapter 9: [Nature, Righteousness, and Sin] 391

Book I, Chapter 10: [The Foundations of Society] 392

Book I, Chapter 12: [The Need for Law] 394

SIR JOHN DAVIES (1569–1626) 394

Orchestra 395

SIR THOMAS WYATT THE ELDER (1503–1542) 404

The Long Love That in My Thought Doth Harbor 405

Farewell, Love 406

I Find No Peace 406

My Galley Charged with Forgetfulness 407

Like to These Unmeasurable Mountains 407

My Lute, Awake! 408

They Flee from Me 409

Tangled I Was in Love’s Snare 409

Mine Own John Poins 410

HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF SURREY (1517–1547) 413

Love, That Doth Reign and Live Within My Thought 414

The Soote Season 414

Alas! So All Things Now Do Hold Their Peace 415

Set Me Whereas the Sun Doth Parch the Green 415

My Friend, the Things That Do Attain 416

The Fourth Book of Virgil 416

[The Hunt] 416

SIR PHILIP SIDNEY (1554–1586) 418

Astrophel and Stella 420

1 (“Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show”) 420

5 (“It is most true that eyes are formed to serve”) 420

6 (“Some lovers speak, when they their Muses entertain”) 421

31 (“With how sad steps, Oh Moon, thou climb’st the skies!”) 421

39 (“Come sleep! Oh sleep, the certain knot of peace”) 422

41 (“Having this day my horse, my hand, my lance”) 422

74 (“I never drank of Aganippe well”) 422

Thou Blind Man’s Mark 423

Leave Me, O Love 423

Ye Goatherd Gods 424

An Apology for Poetry 426

EDMUND SPENSER (1552–1599) 442

The Shepheardes Calender 444

October 444

The Faerie Queene 449

A Letter of the Authors 450

Book I, Canto I 454

Book I, Canto II 466

Book I, Canto XI 475

Book I, Canto XII 487

Book II, Canto XII [The Bower of Bliss] 496

Book III, Canto VI [The Garden of Adonis] 506

Book VII, Canto VI 510

Book VII, Canto VII 512

Book VII, Canto VIII 525

Amoretti 525

Sonnet 1 (“Happy ye leaves when as those lilly hands”) 525

Sonnet 37 (“What guyle is this, that those her golden tresses”) 526

Sonnet 68 (“Most glorious Lord of lyfe, that on this day”) 526

Sonnet 70 (“Fresh spring the herald of loves mighty king”) 526

Sonnet 75 (“One day I wrote her name upon the strand”) 527

Sonnet 79 (“Men call you fayre, and you doe credit it”) 527

Epithalamion 527

An Hymne in Honour of Beautie 537

sixteenth-century lyrics 542

JOHN SKELTON (ca. 1460–1529) 544

Mannerly Margery Milk and Ale 544

RICHARD EDWARDS (ca. 1523–1566) 545

Amantium Irae Amoris Redintegratio Est 545

GEORGE GASCOIGNE (1539–1578) 546

Gascoigne’s Lullaby 546

SIR EDWARD DYER (1543–1607) 548

My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is 548

SIR WALTER RALEGH (1552–1618) 549

The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd 550

The Lie 550

Farewell, False Love 552

JOHN LYLY (1554–1606) 553

Cupid and My Campaspe 553

GEORGE PEELE (1556–1596) 554

Fair and Fair 554

CHIDIOCK TICHBORNE (ca. 1558–1586) 555

Tichborne’s Elegy 555

ROBERT SOUTHWELL (1561–1595) 556

The Burning Babe 556

SAMUEL DANIEL (1562–1619) 557

Delia 557

33 (“When men shall find thy flower, thy glory pass”) 557

45 (“Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night”) 557

46 (“Let others sing of knights and paladins”) 558

Ulysses and the Siren 558

MICHAEL DRAYTON (1563–1631) 560

Since There’s No Help 560

THOMAS NASHE (1567–1601) 560

Spring, the Sweet Spring 561

A Litany in Time of Plague 561

THOMAS CAMPION (1567–1620) 562

My Sweetest Lesbia 563

When to Her Lute Corinna Sings 563

When Thou Must Home to Shades of Underground 564

Rose-cheeked Laura 564

What If a Day 565

Never Love Unless You Can 565

There Is a Garden in Her Face 566

ANONYMOUS LYRICS 566

Back and Side Go Bare, Go Bare 566

Though Amaryllis Dance in Green 568

Come Away, Come, Sweet Love! 568

Thule, the Period of Cosmography 569

Madrigal (“My Love in her attire doth show her wit”) 570

Weep You No More, Sad Fountains 570

The Silver Swan 570

CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE (1564–1593) 572

Hero and Leander 573

The First Sestiad 573

The Passionate Shepherd to His Love 578

The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Dr. Faustus 578

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564–1616) 629

songs from the plays 631

When Daisies Pied 631

The Woosel Cock So Black of Hue 632

Tell Me Where Is Fancy Bred 632

Sigh No More, Ladies 633

Under the Greenwood Tree 633

Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind 634

It Was a Lover and His Lass 634

Oh Mistress Mine 635

Take, Oh, Take Those Lips Away 635

Hark, Hark! the Lark 635

Fear No More the Heat o’ the Sun 636

When Daffodils Begin to Peer 636

Full Fathom Five 637

Where the Bee Sucks, There Suck I 637

sonnets 638

18 (“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”) 638

29 (“When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes”) 638

30 (“When to the sessions of sweet silent thought”) 639

55 (“Not marble, nor the gilded monuments”) 639

56 (“Sweet love, renew thy force; be it not said”) 640

60 (“Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore”) 640

71 (“No longer mourn for me when I am dead”) 641

73 (“That time of year thou mayst in me behold”) 641

97 (“How like a winter hath my absence been”) 641

98 (“From you have I been absent in the spring”) 642

106 (“When in the chronicle of wasted time”) 642

107 (“Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul”) 643

116 (“Let me not to the marriage of true minds”) 643

118 (“Like as, to make our appetites more keen”) 644

129 (“Th’ expense of spirit in a waste of shame”) 644

130 (“My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun”) 645

138 (“When my love swears that she is made of truth”) 645

144 (“Two loves I have of comfort and despair”) 646

146 (“Poor soul, the center of my sinful earth”) 646

The Phoenix and the Turtle 647

The First Part of King Henry the Fourth 649

topics in sixteenth-century literature 720

ORDER AND DEGREE 720

The Book of Homilies 721

An Exhortation Concerning Good Order and Obedience to Rulers and Magistrates 721

William Shakespeare: [Ulysses’ Speech on Degree] 723

THE DEVELOPMENT OF PROSE STYLE 724

Sir John Cheke: [Our Own Tongue Clean and Pure] 727

The Bible: Translations of the Twenty-third Psalm 728

The Great Bible 728

A Latin-English Psalter 728

Thomas Sternhold and John Hopkins’ Psalm-Book 729

The Geneva Bible 729

The Bishops’ Bible 729

The Douai Bible 730

The Authorized or King James Bible 730

John Lyly: Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit 730

Sir Philip Sidney: Arcadia 732

Philip Stubbes: The Anatomy of Abuses 732

William Bullein: A Dialogue Against the Pestilence 733

The Seventeenth Century (1603–1660) 737

JOHN DONNE (1572–1631) 755

The Good-Morrow 759

Song (“Go and catch a falling star”) 759

The Undertaking 760

The Indifferent 761

The Canonization 762

Twicknam Garden 763

The Apparition 764

Love’s Alchemy 764

The Flea 765

The Bait 766

A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning 767

The Ecstasy 768

Lovers’ Infiniteness 770

The Sun Rising 771

Air and Angels 772

Break of Day 772

A Valediction: Of Weeping 773

The Funeral 774

The Relic 774

To the Countess of Bedford 775

Elegy IV. The Perfume 777

Satire III, Religion 779

Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward 782

Holy Sonnets 783

1 (“Thou hast made me, and shall Thy work decay?”) 783

5 (“I am a little world made cunningly”) 784

7 (“At the round earth’s imagined corners, blow”) 784

10 (“Death, be not proud, though some have calléd thee”) 785

14 (“Batter my heart, three-personed God; for You”) 785

18 (“Show me, dear Christ, Thy spouse so bright and clear”) 786

A Hymn to Christ, at the Author’s Last Going into Germany 786

Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness 787

A Hymn to God the Father 788

Paradoxes and Problems 789

Paradox VI. That It Is Possible to Find Some Virtue in Women 789

Problem II. Why Puritans Make Long Sermons? 790

Problem VI. Why Hath the Common Opinion Afforded Women Souls? 790

Devotions upon Emergent Occasions 791

Meditation XI 791

Meditation XIV 793

Meditation XVII 794

Sermon LXXVI 796

[On Falling out of God’s Hand] 796

BEN JONSON (1572–1637) 797

To Penshurst 799

To the Memory of My Beloved Master William Shakespeare 802

To William Camden 804

On My First Daughter 804

On My First Son 805

To John Donne 805

It Was a Beauty That I Saw 805

Epitaph on Elizabeth, L. H. 806

An Elegy 806

Slow, Slow, Fresh Fount 807

Queen and Huntress 808

Gypsy Songs 808

Though I Am Young and Cannot Tell 809

Song: To Celia 809

Come, My Celia 810

The Triumph of Charis 810

Still to Be Neat 811

Ode to Himself 812

The Vision of Delight 813

ROBERT HERRICK (1591–1674) 819

The Argument of his Book 821

Discontents in Devon 821

Delight in Disorder 822

Upon Julia’s Clothes 822

To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time 822

Upon a Child That Died 823

Another Grace for a Child 823

Corinna’s Going A-Maying 823

Oberon’s Feast 825

His Return to London 827

To the Water Nymphs Drinking at the Fountain 827

His Prayer to Ben Jonson 828

An Ode for Him 828

Upon Prue, His Maid 829

Upon His Spaniel Tracy 829

The Pillar of Fame 829

GEORGE HERBERT (1593–1633) 830

Easter Wings 831

Virtue 831

Jordan (I) 832

Jordan (II) 833

Denial 833

The Altar 834

The Flower 835

The Collar 836

The Pulley 837

Discipline 837

Prayer (I) 838

Anagram 839

Temptation 839

Sin’s Round 840

Aaron 841

Love (III) 841

RICHARD CRASHAW (ca. 1613–1649) 842

In the Holy Nativity of Our Lord God 843

The Flaming Heart 846

On Our Crucified Lord, Naked and Bloody 847

To the Infant Martyrs 847

I Am the Door 847

Luke 11 848

Upon the Infant Martyrs 848

Luke 7 848

On the Wounds of Our Crucified Lord 848

HENRY VAUGHAN (1621–1695) 849

The Retreat 850

Cock-Crowing 851

Regeneration 852

The Book 854

Peace 855

Corruption 855

The World 856

They Are All Gone into the World of Light! 858

Man 859

ANDREW MARVELL (1621–1678) 860

The Garden 861

The Mower, Against Gardens 863

The Mower’s Song 864

Bermudas 865

A Dialogue Between the Soul and Body 866

Mourning 867

To His Coy Mistress 868

The Definition of Love 869

JOHN MILTON (1608–1674) 870

L’Allegro 872

Il Penseroso 876

At a Solemn Music 881

Comus 882

Sweet Echo 882

Sabrina Fair 882

By the Rushy-fringed Bank 882

Lycidas 883

How Soon Hath Time 889

On the New Forcers of Conscience Under the Long Parliament 890

On the Late Massacre in Piedmont 891

When I Consider How My Light Is Spent 891

Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint 892

Final Chorus from Samson Agonistes 892

Of Education 893

Areopagitica 901

Paradise Lost 911

Book I 913

Book II 934

Book III [The Consult in Heaven] 959

Book IV [Satan’s Entry into Paradise] 969

Book VII [The Invocation] 977

Book IX [The Fall] 979

Book X [Consequences of the Fall] 997

Book XII [The Departure from Eden] 1004

seventeenth-century lyrics 1010

SIR HENRY WOTTON (1568–1639) 1011

On His Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia 1011

EDWARD, LORD HERBERT OF CHERBURY (1583–1648) 1012

Sonnet of Black Beauty 1012

RICHARD CORBET (1582–1635) 1013

A Proper New Ballad 1013

WILLIAM BROWNE (1591–1643) 1015

On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke 1015

HENRY KING (1592–1669) 1016

The Exequy 1016

ABRAHAM COWLEY (1618–1667) 1019

The Wish 1020

THOMAS CAREW (ca. 1594–1640) 1021

An Elegy upon the Death of the Dean of Paul’s, Dr. John Donne 1021

Disdain Returned 1023

A Song (“Ask me no more where Jove bestows”) 1024

Song (“Give me more love, or more disdain”) 1025

EDMUND WALLER (1606–1687) 1025

Song (“Go, lovely rose!”) 1025

On a Girdle 1026

Of the Last Verses in the Book 1026

SIR JOHN SUCKLING (1609–1642) 1027

Song (“Why so pale and wan, fond lover?”) 1027

A Ballad upon a Wedding 1028

A Song to a Lute 1031

Out upon It! 1031

RICHARD LOVELACE (1618–1657) 1032

To Althea, from Prison 1032

To Lucasta, Going to the Wars 1033

JAMES SHIRLEY (1596–1666) 1033

Dirge (“The glories of our blood and state”) 1034

SIR CHARLES SEDLEY (1639–1701) 1034

Song (“Love still has something of the sea”) 1035

CHARLES SACKVILLE, EARL OF DORSET (1643–1706) 1035

Song (“Methinks the poor town has been troubled too long”) 1036

FRANCIS BACON (1561–1626) 1037

essays 1038

Of Truth 1038

Of Marriage and Single Life 1040

Of Great Place 1042

Of Studies 1044

Novum Organum 1045

[The Idols] 1045

The New Atlantis 1052

[Solomon’s House] 1052

prose ornate and unadorned 1061

SIR THOMAS BROWNE (1605–1682) 1061

Hydriotaphia, Urn-Burial 1062

Chapter V 1062

JEREMY TAYLOR (1613–1667) 1069

[Gems of Pulpit Rhetoric] 1069

[The Flames of Human Desire] 1069

[The Flight of the Lark] 1070

[Aspirations of a Worm] 1070

[A Fair Structure Half-Completed] 1071

[The Fluctuating Compass of Conscience] 1071

[The Strong River of Devotion] 1072

[Moses and the Glowing Coal] 1072

ROBERT BURTON (1577–1640) 1073

The Anatomy of Melancholy 1074

Democritus Junior to the Reader 1074

THOMAS HOBBES (1588–1679) 1079

Leviathan 1081

Part I, Chapter 5. Of Reason and Science 1081

Part I, Chapter 13. Of the Natural Condition of Mankind as Concerning

Their Felicity and Misery 1085

character-writers, historians, biographers 1089

JOSEPH HALL (1574–1656) 1091

The Malcontent 1091

SIR THOMAS OVERBURY (1581–1613) 1093

A Puritan 1093

What a Character Is 1094

JOHN EARLE (ca. 1601–1665) 1095

A Pretender to Learning 1095

ANTHONY ASHLEY COOPER, FIRST EARL OF SHAFTESBURY (1621–1683) 1096

[A Character of Henry Hastings] 1097

EDWARD HYDE, EARL OF CLARENDON (1609–1674) 1099

The History of the Rebellion 1099

[The Character of John Hampden] 1099

[The Character of Oliver Cromwell] 1101

IZAAK WALTON (1593–1683) 1103

The Life of Dr. John Donne 1103

[Donne Takes Holy Orders] 1103

[Donne on His Deathbed] 1107

topics in seventeenth-century literature 1112

THE VARIETIES OF WIT 1112

M. Francis Beaumonts Letter to Ben Jonson 1113

Sir William Davenant: The Author’s Preface to His Much Honored Friend

Mr. Hobbes 1113

Thomas Hobbes: The Answer to Sir Will. D’Avenant’s Preface Before Gondibert 1114

Abraham Cowley: Ode of Wit 1115

John Dryden: [Wit a Nimble Spaniel] 1117

John Dryden: An Essay on the Dramatic Poetry of the Last Age 1118

Sir Richard Blackmore: An Essay upon Wit 1119

THE UNICORN: END OF A LEGEND 1120

The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century (1660–1798) 1126

modes of restoration satire 1154

SAMUEL BUTLER (1612–1680) 1154

Hudibras 1155

Part I, Canto I 1155

JOHN WILMOT, EARL OF ROCHESTER (1647–1680) 1161

A Satire Against Mankind 1162

JOHN BUNYAN (1628–1688) 1167

The Pilgrim’s Progress 1168

[Christian Sets out for the Celestial City] 1168

[The Slough of Despond] 1172

[Vanity Fair] 1173

[The River of Death and the Celestial City] 1175

JOHN DRYDEN (1631–1700) 1179

Prologue to The Tempest 1182

Epilogue to Tyrannic Love 1183

Epilogue to The Conquest of Granada, II 1184

Song from The Indian Emperor 1185

Song from An Evening’s Love 1186

Song from Marriage à la Mode 1186

Absalom and Achitophel: A Poem 1187

Mac Flecknoe 1205

To the Memory of Mr. Oldham 1211

To the Pious Memory of the Accomplished Young Lady Mrs. Anne Killigrew 1212

A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day 1218

Epigram on Milton 1221

Alexander’s Feast 1221

The Secular Masque 1226

An Essay of Dramatic Poesy 1230

The Author’s Apology for Heroic Poetry and Heroic License 1235

A Discourse Concerning the Original and Progress of Satire 1237

The Preface to Fables Ancient and Modern 1238

WILLIAM CONGREVE (1670–1729) 1239

The Way of the World 1241

DANIEL DEFOE (ca. 1660–1731) 1307

The History and Remarkable Life of the Truly Honorable Col. Jacque 1309

JONATHAN SWIFT (1667–1745) 1326

A Description of a City Shower 1330

Mary the Cook-Maid’s Letter to Dr. Sheridan 1331

The Progress of Poetry 1333

A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General 1334

Stella’s Birthday (1727) 1335

The Day of Judgment 1337

Gulliver’s Travels 1338

Part II. A Voyage to Brobdingnag 1338

A Modest Proposal 1389

JOSEPH ADDISON (1672–1719) and SIR RICHARD STEELE (1672–1729) 1397

the periodical essay: manners 1400

Steele: [The Gentleman; The Pretty Fellow] (Tatler 21) 1400

Steele: [Dueling] (Tatler 25) 1401

Steele: [The Spectator’s Club] (Spectator 2) 1403

Addison: [Party Patches] (Spectator 81) 1408

Addison: [Sir Roger at Church] (Spectator 112) 1411

Addison: [Sir Roger at the Assizes] (Spectator 122) 1413

the periodical essay: ideas 1416

Addison: [The Aims of the Spectator] (Spectator 10) 1416

Addison: [Paradise Lost: General Critical Remarks] (Spectator 267) 1419

Addison: [On the Scale of Being] (Spectator 519) 1423

ALEXANDER POPE (1688–1744) 1426

An Essay on Criticism 1432

Part I 1432

Part II 1437

The Rape of the Lock 1445

Ode on Solitude 1463

Epistle to Miss Blount 1464

Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady 1465

Epistle to Robert, Earl of Oxford and Mortimer 1467

An Essay on Man 1468

Epistle I. Of the Nature and State of Man, with Respect to the Universe 1469

Epistle II. Of the Nature and State of Man with Respect to Himself, as

an Individual 1476

The Universal Prayer 1476

The First Satire of the Second Book of Horace Imitated 1478

Epistle II. To a Lady 1482

Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot 1490

types of eighteenth-century poetry 1501

MATTHEW PRIOR (1664–1721) 1501

To a Child of Quality Five Years Old 1502

Written in the Beginning of Mézeray’s History of France 1503

A Better Answer 1503

JAMES THOMSON (1700–1748) 1504

The Seasons 1505

Summer: [Dawn] 1505

Summer: [Swimming] 1506

Summer: [Evening] 1506

Winter: [A Snowstorm] 1507

THOMAS GRAY (1716–1771) 1508

Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College 1510

Hymn to Adversity 1512

On Lord Holland’s Seat Near M——e, Kent 1513

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard 1514

WILLIAM COLLINS (1721–1759) 1517

Ode Written in the Beginning of the Year 1746 1518

Ode to Fear 1519

Ode to Evening 1521

WILLIAM COWPER (1731–1800) 1522

The Task 1523

Book I: [A Landscape Described. Rural Sounds] 1523

Book I: [Crazy Kate. Gypsies] 1525

Book III: [The Stricken Deer] 1526

Book IV: [The Winter Evening] 1526

Lines Written on a Window Shutter at Weston 1528

The Castaway 1529

GEORGE CRABBE (1754–1832) 1530

The Village 1531

Book I 1531

JAMES BOSWELL (1740–1795) 1539

Boswell on the Grand Tour 1542

[Boswell Interviews Voltaire] 1542

The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. 1544

[Plan of the Life] 1544

[Johnson’s Early Years. Marriage and London] [1709–52] 1546

[The Letter to Chesterfield] [1754–62] 1552

[A Memorable Year: Boswell Meets Johnson] [1763] 1556

[Goldsmith. Sundry Opinions. Johnson Meets His King] [1763–67] 1559

[Fear of Death] [1769] 1564

[Ossian. “Talking for Victory”] [1775–76] 1565

[Dinner with Wilkes] [1776] 1567

[Dread of Solitude] [1777] 1573

[“A Bottom of Good Sense.” Bet Flint. “Clear Your Mind of Cant”] [1781–83] 1574

[Johnson Prepares for Death] [1783–84] 1575

[Johnson Faces Death] [1784] 1577

SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709–1784) 1580

The Vanity of Human Wishes 1584

To Miss —— 1592

Prologue Spoken by Mr. Garrick 1593

On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet 1595

A Short Song of Congratulation 1596

The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia 1597

Rambler No. 4 [On Fiction] 1623

The Preface to Shakespeare 1627

lives of the poets 1637

Cowley 1637

Milton 1639

Pope 1641

OLIVER GOLDSMITH (ca. 1730–1774) 1645

Letters from a Citizen of the World 1646

Letter XXVI. The Character of the Man in Black; with Some Instances of His Inconsistent Conduct 1646

Letter LXXI. The Shabby Beau, the Man in Black, the Chinese Philosopher,

etc., at Vauxhall 1649

The Deserted Village 1652

RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN (1751–1816) 1661

The School for Scandal 1664

topic in restoration and eighteenth-century literature 1728

“A GRACE BEYOND THE REACH OF ART” 1728

Longinus: [Genius and the Rules] 1729

Quintilian: [When to Break the Rules] 1729

René Rapin: [Grace Beyond the Rules] 1730

John Dryden: [Genius Is Above Correctness] 1731

Sir William Temple: [The Inadequacy of the Rules] 1732

John Hughes: [“Curiosa Felicitas”] 1732

Roger de Piles: [Grace Gains the Heart] 1733

Joseph Addison: [The Beauties of Great Geniuses Independent of Rules] 1733

Leonard Welsted: [No Precepts Can Teach Grace] 1734

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHIES 1735

A NOTE ON LITERARY FORMS AND USAGE 1750

INDEX 1760

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