Briitsh Literature

Briitsh Literature

Thank goodness for me mum's penchant for olde books..

 Source: Inglis, Rewey Belle,
         Stauffer, Donald A.,
         Larsen, Cecil Evva  (1952). Adventures in English Literature;
         Harcourt, Brace and ompany,
         New York - Chicago.

(found in a thrift shoppe for $1$

(from the contents)...

Contents
Two Way Passage
(apparently a few American authors to
 get us used to Brit'er writers)

Travleing America by Jan Struther 
My America by John Buchanan
English SOUrces of American Irritation by Mary Ellen Chase
American Notes by Charles Dickens
English Traits by Rlph Waldo Emerson

The Anglo-Saxon Period
THe searFarer
Beowowulf (xlation by J. Duncan Spaeth)

The Medieval Period

Early English and Scotish Ballads [sic]
  Bonnie George Campbell
  Bonny Barara Allan
  Sir Patric Cpens
  Get up and Bar the Door
  The Farmer's Curst Wife
  
Geofrey Chauser - Prologue to the Canterbury Tlaes
                  Parts of the Prologue in the original Midddle English
                  The Nun's Priest's Tale of Canticler and Pertelote

Sir THoma Malory - Le Morte Arthuer

The Elizabethan Age

Edmund Spenser - The Faerie Queen

Christopher Marlowe - The Passionate Shepard to His Love

Sir Walter Raleigh - The Nymph's Reply to The Shepard

William Shakespeare 
               Songs - Three Songs from The Tempest
                       Hark, Hark the Lark
                       O Mistress[, ] Mine
                       Who Is Silvia?
                       Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind

             Sonnets - Sonnet  18
                       Sonnet  29
                       Sonnet  55
                       Sonnet  73
                       Sonnet 116
                    
                Play - Macbeth

(Reading Drama)
(Elisabethian Age, continued)

Ben Jonson - To Celia 
             Hymn to Diana
             The Nobel Nature
             To the Memory of My Beloved Master William Shakespeare

Francis Bacon - Texts - Of Studies 
                        Of Marriage and Single Life
    The English Bible - The Prodigal Son 
                           (Luke 15)
                        But the Greatest of These is Clarity 
                           (I-Corinthians 13)
                        The Ideal Wife 
                           (Proverbs 31)
                        Psalm 121
                        Psalm  24

The Seventeenth Century
(ie, ce1600c)

George Wither - Shall I, Wasting in Dispair

Robert Hedrick - Counsel to Girls

Sir John Suckling - The Constant Lover
                    Song from Aglaura

Richard Lovelace - To Althea, from Prison
                   To Lucasta, Going to the Wars

John Donne - Death

John Milton - L'Allegro
              Il Penseroso
              On his Having Arrived at the Age of 23
              On his Blindness
              On Shakespeer
              Pradise Lost (from Book 1)

Samuel Pepys - The Diary of Samuel Pepys

John Dryden - Alexander's Feast, or 
                 the Power of Music
              An Essay on Dramatic Poetry

The Eighteenth Century
(ie, ce-1700c)

Alexander Pope - The Rape of the Lock
                 Famous Quotations from Pope

Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels: 
                    The Voyage to Lilliput

Daniel Defoe - The Journal of The Plague Year

Richard Steele - The Tatler: Prospectus

Joseph Addison - The Spectator:
                    Sir Roger at Church
                    Party Feeling
                    The Coquette's Heart
                 Hymn


(Reading the Essay)
The Eighteenth Century (ie, ce-1700c)

Samuel Johnson - Definitions from 'Johnson's Dictionary'
                 Letter to Lord Chesterfield

James Boswell - The Life of Johnson
                Boswell's London Journal, 1762-1763

Oliver Goldsmith - The Deserted Village 
                   Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog


(Fore-Runners of Romantic Poetry)
The Eighteenth Century (ie, ce-1700c)

Thomas Gray - Elegy Written in a Church CourtYard

William Blake - The Tiger
                The Little Black Boy


Robert Burns - Sweet Afton
               The Banks o'Doom
               ...

(in progress...