| Description |
xxiii, 486 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) -- Speech on the eve of facing the Spanish Armada -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616) -- Sonnets -- 18 : Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? -- 29 : When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes -- 30 : When to the sessions of sweet silent thought -- 65 : Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea -- 73 : That time of year thou mayst in me behold -- 94 : They that have power to hurt and will do none -- 97 : How like a winter hath my absence been -- 116 : Let me not to the marriage of true minds -- 129 : The expense of spirit in a waste of shame -- Plays -- Hamlet : To be, or not to be -- Julius Caesar : Friends, Romans, countrymen -- As You Like It : All the world's a stage -- Henry V : We few, we happy few, we band of brothers -- Macbeth : Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow -- Richard II : This royal throne or kings, this sceptred isle -- Cymbeline : Fear no more the heat o' the sun -- The Tempest : Full fathom five they father lies -- Scarborough Fair -- |
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Edmund Spenser (1552-1599) -- From The Faerie Queene -- Easter -- Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) -- The passionate shepherd to his love -- Sir Walter Raleigh (1552-1618) -- The nymph's reply to the shepherd -- Nature, that hath washed her hands in milk -- Greensleeves -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- From Novum Organum -- Of studies -- John Donne (1572-1631) -- Song : Go and catch a falling star -- The sun rising -- The anniversary -- A valediction : forbidding mourning -- A lecture upon the shadow -- Holy sonnet X -- From meditation 17 : No man is an island -- |
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Ben Jonson (1573-1637) -- Oak and lily -- Oh, that joy so soon should waste! -- Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) -- From Leviathan -- King James Bible (1611) -- Job 41 -- Psalm 23 -- Ecclesiastes 3 -- Song of Solomon 2 -- Isaiah 40 -- Matthew 5 -- Corinthians 13 -- Robert Herrick (1591-1674) -- To daffodils -- To the virgins, to make much of time -- George Herbert (1593-1633) -- Redemption -- Prayer (1) -- The collar -- Love (3) -- Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) -- From Hydriotaphia : Urne-Burial -- Barbara Allen -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- ON his blindness -- From Paradise Lost -- From Areopagitica : a speech for the liberty of unlicensed printing -- Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667) -- Of charity, or the love of God -- The two brothers -- Richard Lovelace (1618-1657) -- To Althea, from prison -- To Lucasta, on going to the wars -- Andrew Marvell (1621-1678) -- To his coy mistress -- The mower to the glow-worms -- The definition of love -- |
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John Bunyan (1628-1688) -- The heavenly footman -- Lord Randal -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- Fairest isle -- From Mac Flecknoe -- John Locke (1632-1704) -- From Second treatise on government -- The girl I left behind me -- Isaac Newton (1642-1727) -- From Principia -- O God, our help in ages past -- Joy to the world -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- A modest proposal -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- From An essay on criticism -- From An essay on man -- Rule, Britannia! -- John Wesley (1703-1791) -- From The Wilderness State -- Jesus, lover of my soul -- William Pitt (1708-1778) -- Speech to the House of Commons, January 14, 1766 -- Heart of Oak -- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) -- Fame -- Thomas Gray (1716-1771) -- Elegy written in a country churchyard -- Adam Smith (1723-1790) -- From The Wealth of Nations -- God save the king -- Edmund Burke (1729?-1797) -- From Reflections on the Revolution in France -- Oliver Goldsmith (1730?-1774) -- The deserted village -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The solitude of Alexander Selkirk -- The castaway -- |
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William Blake (1757-1827) -- The lamb -- The tyger -- The human abstract -- A poison tree -- How to know love from deceit -- From The Four Zoas -- From Milton -- Auguries of innocence -- From The Marriage of heaven and Hell -- Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) -- From A Vindication of the Rights of Women -- Robert Burns (1759-1796) -- O, my luve's like a red, red rose -- To a mouse -- My heart's in the Highlands -- Auld lang syne -- William Wilberforce (1759-1833) -- Speech to the House of Commons, May 12, 1789 -- Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834) -- From An Essay on the Principle of Population -- Amazing Grace -- William Wordsworth (1770-1850) -- I wandered lonely as a cloud -- My heart leaps up -- Composed upon Westminster Bridge 1802 -- Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey -- A slumber did my spirit seal -- It is a beauteous evening -- The world is too much with us -- Ode : on intimations of immortality from recollections of childhood -- From The Prelude -- |
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Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) -- Lucy Ashton's song -- From The Lay of the last minstrel ("Breathes there the man with soul so dead") -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) -- Kubla Khan -- The rime of the ancient mariner -- Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864) -- Rose Aylmer -- Finis -- William Hazlitt (1778-1830) -- Man is a toad-eating animal -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- She walks in beauty -- We'll go no more a-roving -- On this day I complete my thirty-sixth year -- From Don Juan -- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) -- Ode to the west wind -- Ozymandias -- Stanzas written in dejection near Naples -- Music when soft voices die -- When the lamp is shattered -- John Clare (1793-1864) -- Lines written in Northampton asylum -- Felicia Hemans (1793-1835) -- Casabianca -- John Keats (1795-1821) -- From Endymion -- When I have fears -- Ode on a Grecian urn -- Ode to a nightingale -- To autumn -- Bright star! Would I were stedfast as thou art -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) -- Labour -- Thomas Hood (1799-1845) -- The song of the shirt -- I remember, I remember -- |
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John Henry Newman (1801-1890) -- From The Idea of a University -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) -- How do I love thee? -- John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) -- From On liberty -- Edward Fitzgerald (1809-1883) -- From The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) -- The Lady of Shalott -- Ulysses -- Break, break, break -- From In Memoriam -- The charge of the Light Brigade -- Crossing the bar -- Charles Darwin (1809-1882) -- From The Origin of Species -- Edward Lear (1812-1888) -- From The Book of Nonsense -- The owl and the pussycat -- Robert Browning (1812-1889) -- Home-thoughts, from abroad -- Love among the ruins -- Rabbi Ben Ezra -- Emily Brontë (1818-1848) -- Last lines -- Fall, leaves, fall -- The night is darkening round me -- John Ruskin (1819-1900) -- From Modern Painters -- Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) -- Dover Beach -- Growing old -- From Culture and anarchy -- |
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Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895) -- From A liberal education and where to find it -- I know where I'm going -- Walter Bagehot (1826-1877) -- From Physics and Politics -- Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) -- A birthday -- Song ("When I am dead, my dearest") -- Goblin market -- Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) -- Jabberwocky -- The walrus and the carpenter -- The white knight's song -- Father William -- William Morris (1834-1896) -- From How we live and how we might live -- Walter Pater (1839-1894) -- From The Renaissance : Studies in Art and Poetry -- Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) -- The darkling thrush -- I look into my glass -- Shut out that moon -- Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) -- The garden of Proserpine -- A match -- Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) -- God's grandeur -- The windhover : to Christ our Lord -- Pied beauty -- No worst, there is none -- I wake and feel the fell of dark -- W. E. Henley (1849-1903) -- Invictus -- England, my England -- The Major General's song -- |
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Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) -- Aes triplex -- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) -- The ballad of Reading Gaol -- From The Decay of Lying -- Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928) -- Speech in New York, October 21, 1913 -- A. E. Houseman (1859-1936) -- Loveliest of threes, the cherry now -- To an athlete dying young -- With rue my heart is laden -- Stars, I have seen them fall -- The laws of God, the laws of man -- David Lloyd George (1863-1945) -- Speech at Queen's Hall, London, September 21, 1914 -- There'll always be an England -- Roger Casement (1864-1916) -- Speech at the Old Baily, 1916 -- Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) -- If -- Cities and thrones and powers -- Gunga Din -- Recessional -- William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) -- Among school children -- An Irish airman foresees his death -- To a friend whose work has come to nothing -- Sailing to Byzantium -- The second coming -- G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) -- On the institution of the family -- Edward Thomas (1878-1917) -- No one so much as you -- Aspens -- |
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E. M. Forster (1879-1970) -- From Two cheers for democracy -- Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) -- From A Room of One's Own -- D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) -- From Why the novel matters -- Rupert Brooke (1887-1915) -- The soldier -- Keep the home fires burning -- T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) -- The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock -- Gerontion -- Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) -- Futility -- Anthem for doomed youth -- Dulce et decorum est -- George Orwell (1903-1950) -- From England your England -- W.H. Auden (1907-1973) -- Stop all the clocks -- In memory of W.B. Yeats -- September 1, 1939 -- Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) -- In my craft or sullen art -- Do not go gentle into that good night -- Phillip Larkin (1922-1985) -- Going, going -- First sight -- Winston Churchill (1874-1965) -- Speech to the House of Commons, June 4, 1940 -- Speech to the House of Commons, June 18, 1940 -- Copyright -- Illustration credits -- Index. |
| Subject |
English literature.
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| Added Author |
Ravitch, Diane.
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Ravitch, Michael.
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| ISBN |
0195077296 (cloth : acid-free paper) |
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9780195077292 (cloth : acid-free paper) |
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