British Literature 1640-1789 E-Book

Robert DeMaria

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Serie: Blackwell Anthologies
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 3169

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016

Beschreibung

Spanning the period from the British Civil War to the French Revolution, the fourth edition of this successful anthology increases its coverage of canonical writings, plays, and of the development of British Literature in the American colonies.

• A thoroughly updated new edition of this popular anthology which focuses firmly on the eighteenth century without neglecting the seventeenth century
• Contains new texts including the play Rover by Aphra Behn, and Beggars' Opera by John Gay; increased canonical works, including works by Dryden, Pope, and Johnson; and historical contextual materials, with particualr attention to the Americas
• Features updated introductions throughout, taking into acccount recent critical works and editions
• Includes useful resources such as an alternative list of contents by theme, and a chronolgy of literary and political events, providing valuable historical and cultural context
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

Leseprobe

Table of Contents

Cover

Title Page

List of Authors

Chronology

Thematic Table of Contents

Introduction

Editorial Principles

Preface to the Fourth Edition

Acknowledgments

Ballads and Newsbooks from the Civil War (1640–1649)

The World is Turned Upside Down (1646)

The King’s Last farewell to the World, or The Dead King’s Living Meditations, at the approach of Death denouncedagainst Him (1649)

The Royal Health to the Rising Sun (1649)

Number 288: 29 January–5 February 1649

Number 43: 30 January–6 February 1649

Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679)

Chapter XIII: Of the NATURAL CONDITION of Mankind, as concerning their Felicity, and Misery

Robert Herrick (1591–1674)

The Argument of His Book

To Daffodils

The Night-piece, to Julia

The Hock-Cart, or Harvest Home

Upon Julia’s Clothes

When he would have his verses read

Delight in Disorder

To the Virgins, to make much of Time

His Return to London

The Bad Season Makes the Poet Sad

The Pillar of Fame

John Milton (1608–1674)

Matthew. 13.52.

Book I: The Preface

from Chapter I

from Chapter VI

Sonnet 18 (1655): On the Late Massacre in Piemont

Sonnet 19 (1652?): ‘When I Consider how my Light is Spent’

Sonnet 16: [To the Lord General Cromwell, 1652]

The Verse

Book I: The Argument

Book II: The Argument

Book III: The Argument

Book IV: The Argument

Book V: The Argument

Book VI: The Argument

Book VII: The Argument

Book VIII: The Argument

Book IX: The Argument

Book X: The Argument

Book XI: The Argument

Book XII: The Argument

Abraham Cowley (1618–1667)

Anacreontiques: Or, Some Copies of Verses Translated Paraphrastically out of Anacreon

To the

Royal Society

Andrew Marvell (1621–1678)

The Coronet

The Picture of Little

T.C.

in a Prospect of Flowers

Bermudas (1653?)

The Mower to the Glo-Worms (1651–2?)

An

Horatian

Ode upon

Cromwell’s

Return from

Ireland

(1650)

The Garden (1651–2?)

On a Drop of Dew (1651–2?)

To

his

Coy Mistress (c.1645)

Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623–1673)

Poets have most Pleasure in this Life

John Bunyan (1628–1688)

John Dryden (1631–1700)

To My Honoured Friend, Dr Charleton, on his learned anduseful Works; and more particularly this of STONE-HENGE, by him Restored to the true Founders (1663)

Mac Flecknoe (1676?)

Absalom and Achitophel: A Poem (1681)

To the Memory of Mr.

Oldham

(1684)

To the Pious Memory of the Accomplished Young LADY Mrs. Anne Killigrew, Excellent in the Two Sister-Arts of Poesy, and Painting. An Ode (1686)

Song for St. Cecilia’s Day (1687)

Alexander’s Feast; or The Power of Music. An Ode, In Honour of St.

Cecilia’s

Day.

Pygmalion and the Statue

Secular Masque

Katherine Philips (1632–1664)

Friendship

Friendship’s Mystery, To my dearest Lucasia

Epitaph On her Son

H. P.

at St. Syth’s Church whereher body also lies Interred

The Virgin

Upon the graving of her Name upon aTree in Barnelmes Walks

To the truly competent Judge of Honour, Lucasia, upon a scandalous Libel made by J. J.

To Mrs. Wogan, my Honoured Friend, on the Death of her Husband

Orinda to Lucasia

Parting with Lucasia, A Song

To Antenor, on a Paper of mine which J. J. threatens to publish to prejudice him

John Locke (1632–1704)

from Chapter 1

Samuel Pepys (1633–1703)

July 1665

August 1665

Aphra Behn (1640?–1689)

The Golden AgeA Paraphrase on a Translation out of French

The Disappointment

To the Fair Clarinda, Who Made Love to Me, Imagined More than Woman

The Rover: Or, The Banished Cavaliers (1677)

ACT the First

ACT II.

ACT III.

ACT IV.

ACT V.

Oroonoko: or, the Royal Slave. A True History (1688)

John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester (1647–1680)

The Imperfect Enjoyment

A Ramble in Saint James’s Park

A Satyr against Reason and Mankind

The Disabled Debauchee

Lampoon

[Signior Dildo]

A Satire on Charles II

A Letter from Artemiza in the Town to Chloe in the Country

Daniel Defoe (1660–1731)

An Academy for Women

Part I

The Shortest-Way with the Dissenters: Or Proposals for the Establishment of the Church (1702)

A True Relation of the Apparition of one Mrs. Veal, The next Day after Her Death: To One Mrs. Bargrave at Canterbury. The 8th of September, 1705 (1706)

Monday, 11 January to Thursday, 14 January 1702

Anne Kingsmill Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661–1720)

The Introduction

Life’s Progress

Adam Posed

The Petition for an Absolute Retreat

To the Nightingale

A Poem for the Birth-day of the Right Honourable the Lady Catharine Tufton

The Atheist and the Acorn

The Unequal Fetters

The Answer

(to Pope’s Impromptu)

The Spleen: A Pindaric Poem (1701; revised 1713)

Mary Astell (1666–1731)

Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)

A Tale of a Tub Written for the Universal Improvement of Mankind (1704)

The Bookseller to the Reader

The Preface

A Tale of a Tub, & C.

Sect. II

Sect. III: A Digression concerning Critics

Sect. IV: A Tale of a Tub

Sect. V: A Digression in the Modern Kind

Sect. VI: A Tale of a Tub

Sect. VII: A Digression in Praise of Digressions

Sect. VIII: A Tale of a Tub

Sect. IX: A Digression concerning the Original, the Use, and Improvement of Madness in a Commonwealth

Sect. X: A Tale of a Tub

Sect. XI: A Tale of a Tub

The Conclusion

A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burden to Their Parents or the Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Public (1729)

A Description of the Morning (1709)

The Lady’s Dressing Room (1732)

A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed Written for the Honour of the Fair Sex (1734)

A Description of a City Shower (1710)

Stella’s Birth-Day (13 March 1719)

Delarivier Manley (c.1670–1724)

William Congreve (1670–1729)

The Way of the World (1700)

Dramatis Personae

Scene

London

The Way of the World

A Chocolate-House

Scene II

Scene III

Scene IV

Scene V

Scene VI

Scene VII

Scene VIII

Scene IX

ACT II. SCENE I

Scene II

Scene III

Scene IV

Scene V

Scene VI

Scene VII

Scene VIII

Scene IX

A

CT

III. S

CENE

I

Scene II

Scene III

Scene IV

Scene V

Scene VI

Scene VII

Scene VIII

Scene IX

Scene X

Scene XI

Scene XII

Scene XIII

Scene XIV

Scene XV

Scene XVI

Scene XVII

Scene XVIII

A

CT

IV. S

CENE

I

Scene II

Scene III

Scene IV

Scene V

Scene VI

Scene VII

Scene VIII

Scene IX

Scene X

Scene XI

Scene XII

Scene XIII

Scene XIV

Scene XV

A

CT

V. S

CENE

I

Scene II

Scene III

Scene IV

Scene V

Scene VI

Scene VII

Scene VIII

Scene IX

Scene X

Scene XI

Scene XII

Scene XIII

Scene the Last

Epilogue

Joseph Addison (1672–1719) and Richard Steele (1672–1729)

Number 11,

Tuesday

, March 13, 1711 [Inkle and Yarico]

Number 159, Saturday, September 1, 1711 [The Visions of Mirzah]

Isaac Watts (1674–1748)

Against Quarrelling and Fighting

The Sluggard

Allan Ramsay (1684–1758)

Polwart on the Green (1721)

Give Me a Lass with a Lump of Land (1721)

John Gay (1685–1732)

The Beggar’s Opera (1728) As it is Acted at the THEATRE-ROYAL IN

LINCOLNS-INN-FIELDS.

INTRODUCTION.

ACT I. SCENE I.

SCENE II.

SCENE III.

SCENE IV.

SCENE V.

SCENE VI.

SCENE VII.

SCENE VIII.

SCENE IX.

SCENE X.

SCENE XI.

SCENE XII.

SCENE XIII.

ACT II. SCENE I.

SCENE II.

SCENE III.

SCENE IV.

SCENE V.

SCENE VI.

SCENE VII.

Newgate.

SCENE VIII.

SCENE IX.

SCENE X.

SCENE XI.

SCENE XII.

SCENE XIII.

SCENE XIV.

SCENE XV.

ACT III. SCENE. I.

SCENE

Newgate.

SCENE II.

SCENE III.

SCENE IV.

A Gaming-House

.

SCENE V. Peachum’s

Lock

.

SCENE VI.

SCENE VII.

Newgate

.

SCENE VIII.

SCENE IX.

SCENE X.

SCENE XI.

SCENE XII.

SCENE XIII.

SCENE XIV.

SCENE XV.

SCENE XVI.

SCENE XVII.

Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

An Essay on Criticism (1711)

The RAPE of the LOCK. An Heroi-Comical Poem (1714) In Five Canto’s

TO MRS

. ARABELLA FERMOR

The Rape

of the Lock

Canto I

Canto II

Canto III

Canto IV

Canto V

Eloisa to Abelard (1717)The Argument

Eloisa to Abelard

Martinus Scriblerus, of the Poem

Dunciados Periocha: or, Arguments to the Books

THE DUNCIAD

*

To Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1 September 1718)

Mary Collier (1688?–1762)

The Woman’s Labour: An Epistle to Mr. Stephen Duck; In Answer to his late Poem, called The Thresher’s Labour … (1739)

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762)

To the Lady X——

To the Lady ——

[To Lady Mar]

To Mr. [Alexander] Pope

To Mr. [Alexander] P[ope]

The Lover (1721–5)

The Reasons that Induced Dr. S[wift] to Write a Poem Calledthe Lady’s Dressing Room (1732–4)

To the Memory of Mr Congreve (1729?)

[A Summary of Lord Lyttelton’s advice to a Lady] (1731–3)

Trials at the Old Bailey (1722–1727)

H —— J ——,

for a

Rape, 1722

Gabriel Lawrence,

for

Sodomy, April, 1726

Mary Picart, alias Gandon, for Bigamy, June, 1725

Richard Savage, James Gregory, and William Merchant, for Murder, Thursday, Dec. 7, 1727

Eliza Fowler Haywood (1693–1756)

Fantomina

: OR, Love in a Maze (1724)

James Thomson (1700–1748)