Preface to the Fables [Chaucer and Ovid] HERBERT, GEORGE The Pulley Love. HERRICK, ROBERT Delight in Disorder. To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time . To Keep a True Lent LOVELACE, RICHARD To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars To Althea from Prison . BROWNE, SIR THOMAS. Religio Medici, Part II, Section III WALTON, ISAAC. The Complete Angler, Chapter V [Extract] . EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE POPE, ALEXANDER Essay on Man [Extract, "Lo, the poor Indian!"] SWIFT, JONATHAN. Gulliver's Travels: A Voyage to Lilliput 100 ΙΟΙ 102 105 105 [Extract from Chapter II] . 112 ADDISON, JOSEPH. Sir Roger de Coverley Papers: A Village 114 STEELE, RICHARD. Sir Roger de Coverley Papers: To London by Stage-Coach 118 BOSWELL, JAMES. The Life of Samuel Johnson [Extracts from COLLINS, WILLIAM. Ode Written in the Year 1746, "How sleep the brave" 125 GRAY, THOMAS. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard . Bannockburn Contented wi' Little DEFOE, DANIEL. A Journal of the Plague Year [Extracts] THE EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM. Lines Written in Early Spring . I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud Intimations of Immortality, V The Solitary Reaper She was a Phantom of Delight 152 153 154 Nuns Fret not at their Convent's Narrow Room Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 Hymn before Sun-Rise, in the Vale of Chamouni BYRON, LORD. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage [Extracts] Sonnet on Chillon SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE The Cloud To a Skylark Indian Serenade . KEATS, JOHN Ode on a Grecian Urn. To Autumn . . 155 155 156 156 159 161 167 167 170 173 174 176 Redgauntlet: Wandering Willie's Tale AUSTEN, JANE. The Watsons, Chapter VI Essays of Elia: A Dissertation upon Roast Pig DE QUINCEY, THOMAS. Joan of Arc [Extracts] 181 "How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix" Hervé Riel Up at a Villa-Down in the City My Last Duchess Home-Thoughts, from Abroad Rabbi Ben Ezra. BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT A Musical Instrument . 240 240 241 249 250 252 Sonnets from the Portuguese : I, "I thought once how Theocritus had sung" 273 XLIII, "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways" 273 281 Culture and Anarchy: Sweetness and Light [Extracts] . MORRIS, WILLIAM. The Life and Death of Jason: To the Sea 287 SWINBURNE, ALGERNON CHARLES. By the North Sea [Ex tracts]. 289 DICKENS, CHARLES. Our Mutual Friend, Chapter V, Boffin's 290 THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE. The Virginians, Volume II, Chapter I, Friends in Need . 304 ELIOT, GEORGE. The Mill on the Floss, Book III, The Downfall [Extracts] . 311 RE HARDY, THOMAS PAGE The Roman Road . STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS. Virginibus Puerisque: El Dorado The Stones of Venice, Volume II, Chapter IV, St. Mark's The Queen of the Air: The Hercules of Camarina [Extract] 356 PATER, WALTER. The Child in the House [Extract] . . Song from Drake, "Ye that follow the vision" The Lake Isle of Innisfree . When You are Old . On the Track of the Minister . CHESTERTON, GILBERT KEITH. A Defence of Ugly Things The Widow in the Bye Street [Introduction to Part I] BEGINNINGS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE THE TALE OF BEOWULF1 [Beowulf and the Dragon] Greeted he then each one of men, The brave helmet-bearers, for the last time, His own dear comrades: "I would not the sword bear, Upon this monster I might otherwise My boast maintain, as once upon Grendel. Breath and poison: therefore I have on me 5 10 So that 'gainst the war-flier2 from boast I refrain. Heroes in armor, which one may better, 15 After the contest, from wounds escape Of both of us. That is not your work, 1 Nor the might of a man but of me alone, That he 'gainst the monster his strength should try, The gold obtain, or war shall take off, 1 Reprinted from Garnett: Beowulf, Ginn and Company, publishers. 2 dragon. 3 coat of mail. 4 Fate. I 5 evil, calamity. 20 |