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- Kategorie: Sachliteratur, Reportagen, Biografien
- Sprache: Englisch
- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2023
The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900 is a comprehensive anthology that spans the evolution of English poetry over a period of 650 years. This collection showcases the rich diversity of poetic styles, themes, and voices that have contributed to the development of English literature. From classic sonnets to lyric poems, the anthology offers a glimpse into the changing landscape of English verse. The juxtaposition of different poems allows readers to appreciate the growth and experimentation within the genre throughout the centuries. This anthology is a valuable resource for scholars, students, and poetry enthusiasts alike, providing a curated selection of some of the most iconic and influential works in English poetry. Not only does it offer a historical overview of the evolution of English verse, but it also highlights the enduring power and beauty of language in poetry.
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The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900
Table of Contents
PREFACE
For this Anthology I have tried to range over the whole field of English Verse from the beginning, or from the Thirteenth Century to this closing year of the Nineteenth, and to choose the best. Nor have I sought in these Islands only, but wheresoever the Muse has followed the tongue which among living tongues she most delights to honour. To bring home and render so great a spoil compendiously has been my capital difficulty. It is for the reader to judge if I have so managed it as to serve those who already love poetry and to implant that love in some young minds not yet initiated.
My scheme is simple. I have arranged the poets as nearly as possible in order of birth, with such groupings of anonymous pieces as seemed convenient. For convenience, too, as well as to avoid a dispute-royal, I have gathered the most of the Ballads into the middle of the Seventeenth Century; where they fill a languid interval between two winds of inspiration—the Italian dying down with Milton and the French following at the heels of the restored Royalists. For convenience, again, I have set myself certain rules of spelling. In the very earliest poems inflection and spelling are structural, and to modernize is to destroy. But as old inflections fade into modern the old spelling becomes less and less vital, and has been brought (not, I hope, too abruptly) into line with that sanctioned by use and familiar. To do this seemed wiser than to discourage many readers for the sake of diverting others by a scent of antiquity which—to be essential—should breathe of something rarer than an odd arrangement of type. But there are scholars whom I cannot expect to agree with me; and to conciliate them I have excepted Spenser and Milton from the rule.
Glosses of archaic and otherwise difficult words are given at the foot of the page: but the text has not been disfigured with reference-marks. And rather than make the book unwieldy I have eschewed notes—reluctantly when some obscure passage or allusion seemed to ask for a timely word; with more equanimity when the temptation was to criticize or ‘appreciate.’ For the function of the anthologist includes criticizing in silence.
Care has been taken with the texts. But I have sometimes thought it consistent with the aim of the book to prefer the more beautiful to the better attested reading. I have often excised weak or superfluous stanzas when sure that excision would improve; and have not hesitated to extract a few stanzas from a long poem when persuaded that they could stand alone as a lyric. The apology for such experiments can only lie in their success: but the risk is one which, in my judgement, the anthologist ought to take. A few small corrections have been made, but only when they were quite obvious.
The numbers chosen are either lyrical or epigrammatic. Indeed I am mistaken if a single epigram included fails to preserve at least some faint thrill of the emotion through which it had to pass before the Muse’s lips let it fall, with however exquisite deliberation. But the lyrical spirit is volatile and notoriously hard to bind with definitions; and seems to grow wilder with the years. With the anthologist—as with the fisherman who knows the fish at the end of his sea-line—the gift, if he have it, comes by sense, improved by practice. The definition, if he be clever enough to frame one, comes by after-thought. I don’t know that it helps, and am sure that it may easily mislead.
Having set my heart on choosing the best, I resolved not to be dissuaded by common objections against anthologies—that they repeat one another until the proverb δὶς ἢ τρὶς τὰ καλά loses all application—or perturbed if my judgement should often agree with that of good critics. The best is the best, though a hundred judges have declared it so; nor had it been any feat to search out and insert the second-rate merely because it happened to be recondite. To be sure, a man must come to such a task as mine haunted by his youth and the favourites he loved in days when he had much enthusiasm but little reading.
Few of my contemporaries can erase—or would wish to erase—the dye their minds took from the late Mr. Palgrave’s Golden Treasury: and he who has returned to it again and again with an affection born of companionship on many journeys must remember not only what the Golden Treasury includes, but the moment when this or that poem appealed to him, and even how it lies on the page. To Mr. Bullen’s Lyrics from the Elizabethan Song Books and his other treasuries I own a more advised debt. Nor am I free of obligation to anthologies even more recent—to Archbishop Trench’s Household Book of Poetry, Mr. Locker-Lampson’s Lyra Elegantiarum, Mr. Miles’ Poets and Poetry of the Century, Mr. Beeching’s Paradise of English Poetry, Mr. Henley’s English Lyrics, Mrs. Sharp’s Lyra Celtica, Mr. Yeats’ Book of Irish Verse, and Mr. Churton Collins’ Treasury of Minor British Poetry: though my rule has been to consult these after making my own choice. Yet I can claim that the help derived from them—though gratefully owned—bears but a trifling proportion to the labour, special and desultory, which has gone to the making of my book.
For the anthologist’s is not quite the dilettante business for which it is too often and ignorantly derided. I say this, and immediately repent; since my wish is that the reader should in his own pleasure quite forget the editor’s labour, which too has been pleasant: that, standing aside, I may believe this book has made the Muses’ access easier when, in the right hour, they come to him to uplift or to console—
My thanks are here tendered to those who have helped me with permission to include recent poems: to Mr. A. C. Benson, Mr. Laurence Binyon, Mr. Wilfrid Blunt, Mr. Robert Bridges, Mr. John Davidson, Mr. Austin Dobson, Mr. Aubrey de Vere, Mr. Edmund Gosse, Mr. Bret Harte, Mr. W. E. Henley, Mrs. Katharine Tynan Hinkson, Mr. W. D. Howells, Dr. Douglas Hyde, Mr. Rudyard Kipling, Mr. Andrew Lang, Mr. Richard Le Gallienne, Mr. George Meredith, Mrs. Meynell, Mr. T. Sturge Moore, Mr. Henry Newbolt, Mr. Gilbert Parker, Mr. T. W. Rolleston, Mr. George Russell (‘A. E.’), Mrs. Clement Shorter (Dora Sigerson), Mr. Swinburne, Mr. Francis Thompson, Dr. Todhunter, Mr. William Watson, Mr. Watts-Dunton, Mrs. Woods, and Mr. W. B. Yeats; to the Earl of Crewe for a poem by the late Lord Houghton; to Lady Ferguson, Mrs. Allingham, Mrs. A. H. Clough, Mrs. Locker-Lampson, Mrs. Coventry Patmore; to the Lady Betty Balfour and the Lady Victoria Buxton for poems by the late Earl of Lytton and the Hon. Roden Noel; to the executors of Messrs. Frederic Tennyson (Captain Tennyson and Mr. W. C. A. Ker), Charles Tennyson Turner (Sir Franklin Lushington), Edward FitzGerald (Mr. Aldis Wright), William Bell Scott (Mrs. Sydney Morse and Miss Boyd of Penkill Castle, who has added to her kindness by allowing me to include an unpublished ‘Sonet’ by her sixteenth-century ancestor, Mark Alexander Boyd), William Philpot (Mr. Hamlet S. Philpot), William Morris (Mr. S. C. Cockerell), William Barnes, and R. L. Stevenson; to the Rev. H. C. Beeching for two poems from his own works, and leave to use his redaction of Quia Amore Langueo; to Messrs. Macmillan for confirming permission for the extracts from FitzGerald, Christina Rossetti, and T. E. Brown, and particularly for allowing me to insert the latest emendations in Lord Tennyson’s non-copyright poems; to the proprietors of Mr. and Mrs. Browning’s copyrights and to Messrs. Smith, Elder & Co. for a similar favour, also for a copyright poem by Mrs. Browning; to Mr. George Allen for extracts from Ruskin and the author of Ionica; to Messrs. G. Bell & Sons for poems by Thomas Ashe; to Messrs. Chatto & Windus for poems by Arthur O’Shaughnessy and Dr. George MacDonald, and for confirming Mr. Bret Harte’s permission; to Mr. Elkin Mathews for a poem by Mr. Bliss Carman; to Mr. John Lane for two poems by William Brighty Rands; to the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge for two extracts from Christina Rossetti’s Verses; and to Mr. Bertram Dobell, who allows me not only to select from James Thomson but to use a poem of Traherne’s, a seventeenth-century singer rediscovered by him. To mention all who in other ways have furthered me is not possible in this short Preface; which, however, must not conclude without a word of special thanks to Dr. W. Robertson Nicoll for many suggestions and some pains kindly bestowed, and to Professor F. York Powell, whose help and wise counsel have been as generously given as they were eagerly sought, adding me to the number of those many who have found his learning to be his friends’ good fortune.
A.T.Q.C.
October 1900
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King James I of Scotland. b. 1394, d. 1437
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William Dunbar. b. 1465, d. ? 1520
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Stephen Hawes. d. 1523
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Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey b. 1516, d. 1547
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Alexander Scott. b. ? 1520, d. 158-
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Richard Edwardes. b. 1523, d. 1566
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George Gascoigne. b. 1523, d. 1566
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Alexander Mongtomerie. b. ? 1540, d. ? 1610
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William Stevenson. b. 1530, d. 1575
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John Lyly. b. 1533, d. 1606
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Anthony Munday. b. 1553, d. 1633
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Sir Philip Sidney. b. 1554, d. 1586
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Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke. b. 1554, d. 1628
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Thomas Lodge. b. ? 1556, d. 1625
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George Peele. b. ? 1558, d. 1597
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Robert Greene. b. ? 1560, d. 1592
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Robert Southwell. b. 1561, d. 1595
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Mark Alexander Boyd. b. 1563, d. 1601
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Michael Drayton. b. 1563, d. 1631
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Christopher Marlowe. b. 1564, d. 1593
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Sir Walter Raleigh. b. 1552, d. 1618
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William Shakespeare. b. 1564, d. 1616
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Richard Rowlands. b. 1565, d. ? 1630
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Thomas Nashe. b. 1567, d. 1601
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Thomas Campion. b. ? 1567, d. 1619
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John Reynolds. XVI Century
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Sir Henry Wotton. b. 1568, d. 1639
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Sir John Davies. b. 1569, d. 1626
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Sir Robert Ayton. b. 1570, d. 1638
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Ben Jonson. b. 1573, d. 1637
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John Donne. b. 1573, d. 1631
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Richard Barnefield. b. 1574, d. 1627
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Thomas Dekker. b. 1575, d. 1641
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Thomas Heywood. b. ? 157-, d. 1650
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John Fletcher. b. 1579, d. 1625
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John Webster. d. ? 1630
242-243
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William Alexander, Earl of Stirling. b. ? 1580, d. 1640
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Phineas Fletcher. b. 1580, d. 1650
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Sir John Beaumont. b. 1583, d. 1627
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William Drummond, of Hawthornden. b. 1585, d. 1649
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Giles Fletcher. b. 158-, d. 1623
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Francis Beaumont. b. 1586, d. 1616
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John Ford. b. 1586, d. 1639
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George Wither. b. 1588, d. 1667
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William Browne, of Tavistock. b. 1588, d. 1643
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Robert Herrick. b. 1591, d. 1674
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Francis Quarles. b. 1592, d. 1644
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Henry King, Bishop of Chichester. b. 1592, d. 1669
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George Herbert. b. 1593, d. 1632
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James Shirley. b. 1596, d. 1666
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Thomas Carew. b ? 1595, d. ? 1639
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Jasper Mayne. b. 1604, d. 1672
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William Habington. b. 1605, d. 1654
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Thomas Randolph. b. 1605, d. 1635
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Sir William Davenant. b. 1606, d. 1668
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Edmund Waller. b. 1606, d. 1687
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John Milton. b. 1608, d. 1674
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Sir John Suckling. b. 1609, d. 1642
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Sir Richard Fanshawe. b. 1608, d. 1666
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William Cartwright. b. 1611, d. 1643
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James Graham, Marquis of Montrose. b. 1612, d. 1650
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Thomas Jordan. b. ? 1612, d. 1685
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Richard Crashaw. b. ? 1613, d. 1649
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Richard Lovelace. b. 1618, d. 1658
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Abraham Cowley. b. 1618, d. 1667
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Alexander Brome. b. 1620, d. 1666
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Andrew Marvell. b. 1621, d. 1678
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Henry Vaughan. b. 1621, d. 1695
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John Bunyan. b. 1628, d. 1688
399
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Anonymous: Ballads
400-459
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William Strode. b. 1602, d. 1645
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Thomas Stanley. b. 1625, d. 1678
460
395.
Thomas D’Urfey. b. 1653, d. 1723
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Charles Cotton. b. 1630, d. 1687
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Katherine Philips (‘Orinda’). b. 1631, d. 1664
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John Dryden. b. 1631, d. 1700
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Charles Webbe. c. 1678
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Sir George Etherege. b. 1635, d. 1691
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Thomas Traherne. b. ? 1637, d. 1674
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Thomas Flatman. b. 1637, d. 1688
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Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset. b. 1638, d. 1706
476-478
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Sir Charles Sedley. b. 1639, d. 1701
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Aphra Behn. b. 1640, d. 1689
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John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester. b. 1647, d. 1680
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John Sheffield, Duke of Buckinghamshire. b. 1649, d. 1720
485-486
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Thomas Otway. b. 1652, d. 1685
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John Oldham. b. 1653, d. 1683
487
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John Cutts, Lord Cutts. b. 1661, d. 1707
487
422.
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Matthew Prior. b. 1664, d. 1721
488-493
429.
William Walsh. b. 1663, d. 1708
493
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Lady Grisel Baillie. b. 1665, d. 1746
494-495
431.
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William Congreve. b. 1670, d. 1729
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Joseph Addison. b. 1672, d. 1719
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Isaac Watts. b. 1674, d. 1748
497-500
436.
Thomas Parnell. b. 1679, d. 1718
501
437.
Allan Ramsay. b. 1686, d. 1758
501-502
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William Oldys. b. 1687, d. 1761
503
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John Gay. b. 1688, d. 1732
503
440.
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Alexander Pope. b. 1688, d. 1744
504-507
443.
George Bubb Dodington, Lord Melcombe. b. 1691, d. 1762
508
444.
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Henry Carey. b. ? 1693, d. 1743
509-511
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William Broome. d. 1745
511-512
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James Thomson. b. 1700, d. 1748
512
449.
George Lyttelton, Lord Lyttelton. b. 1709, d. 1773
512-513
450.
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Samuel Johnson. b. 1709, d. 1784
513-516
452.
Richard Jago. b. 1715, d. 1781
516
453.
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Thomas Gray. b. 1716, d. 1771
516-528
457.
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William Collins. b. 1721, d. 1759
528-533
461.
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Mark Akenside. b. 1721, d. 1770
534-537
464.
Tobias George Smollett. b. 1721, d. 1771
538
465.
Christopher Smart. b. 1722, d. 1770
538-542
466.
Jane Elliot. b. 1727, d. 1805
542-543
467.
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468.
Oliver Goldsmith. b. 1728, d. 1774
543-544
469.
Robert Cunninghame-Graham of Gartmore. b. 1735, d. 1797
544-545
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William Cowper. b. 1731, d. 1800
545-547
472.
James Beattie. b. 1735, d. 1803
548
473.
Isobel Pagan. b. 1740, d. 1821
548-549
474.
Anna Lætitia Barbauld. b. 1743, d. 1825
549-550
475.
Fanny Greville. XVIII Century
550-551
476.
John Logan. b. 1748, d. 1788
551-552
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Lady Anne Lindsay. b. 1750, d. 1825
552-553
478.
Sir William Jones. b. 1746, d. 1794
554
479.
Thomas Chatterton. b. 1752, d. 1770
554-556
480.
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George Crabbe. b. 1754, d. 1832
556-557
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William Blake. b. 1757, d. 1827
558-566
493.
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Robert Burns. b. 1759, d. 1796
566-577
507.
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Henry Rowe. b. 1750, d. 1819
578-579
509.
William Lisle Bowles. b. 1762, d. 1850
579
510.
Joanna Baillie. b. 1762, d. 1851
580
511.
Mary Lamb. b. 1765, d. 1847
581
512.
Carolina, Lady Nairne. b. 1766, d. 1845
581-582
513.
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James Hogg. b. 1770, d. 1835
582-594
515.
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William Wordsworth. b. 1770, d. 1850
594-618
542.
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548.
Sir Walter Scott. b. 1771, d. 1832
619-628
549.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge. b. 1772, d. 1834
628-658
556.
Robert Southey. b. 1774, d. 1843
658-659
557.
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576.
Walter Savage Landor. b. 1775, d. 1864
659-667
577.
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Charles Lamb. b. 1775, d. 1834
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580.
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581.
Thomas Campbell. b. 1777, d. 1844
672-675
582.
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Thomas Moore. b. 1779, d. 1852
675-678
586.
Edward Thurlow, Lord Thurlow. b. 1781, d. 1829
678-679
587.
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588.
Ebenezer Elliott. b. 1781, d. 1849
679-681
589.
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Allan Cunningham. b. 1784, d. 1842
681-683
592.
Leigh Hunt. b. 1784, d. 1859
683
593.
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595.
Thomas Love Peacock. b. 1785, d. 1866
684-687
596.
Caroline Southey. b. 1787, d. 1854
687-688
597.
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George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron. b. 1788, d. 1824
688-694
602.
Sir Aubrey de Vere. b. 1788, d. 1846
694-695
603.
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604.
Charles Wolfe. b. 1791, d. 1823
695-697
605.
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618.
Percy Bysshe Shelley. b. 1792, d. 1822
697-717
619.
Hew Ainslie. b. 1792, d. 1878
717
620.
John Keble. b. 1792, d. 1866
718-720
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John Clare. b. 1793, d. 1864
720
622.
Felicia Dorothea Hemans. b. 1793, d. 1835
721
623.
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637.
John Keats. b. 1795, d. 1821
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638.
Jeremiah Joseph Callanan. b. 1795, d. 1839
745
639.
William Sidney Walker. b. 1795, d. 1846
746
640.
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642.
George Darley. b. 1795, d. 1846
746-749
643.
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Hartley Coleridge. b. 1796, d. 1849
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647.
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Thomas Hood. b. 1798, d. 1845
752-762
655.
William Thom. b. 1798, d. 1848
762-764
656.
Sir Henry Taylor. b. 1800, d. 1886
764
657.
Thomas Babington Macaulay, Lord Macaulay. b. 1800, d. 1859
765
658.
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659.
William Barnes. b. 1801, d. 1886
765-767
660.
Winthrop Mackworth Praed. b. 1802, d. 1839
767-768
661.
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Sara Coleridge. b. 1802, d. 1850
768-770
663.
Gerald Griffin. b. 1803, d. 1840
770-772
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665.
James Clarence Mangan. b. 1803. d. 1849
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666.
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668.
Thomas Lovell Beddoes. b. 1803, d. 1849
777-778
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672.
Ralph Waldo Emerson. b. 1803, d. 1882
779-785
673.
Richard Henry Horne. b. 1803, d. 1884
785-786
674.
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675.
Robert Stephen Hawker. b. 1804, d. 1875
786-787
676.
Thomas Wade. b. 1805, d. 1875
787
677.
Francis Mahony. b. 1805, d. 1866
788-790
678.
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687.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning. b. 1806, d. 1861
790-800
688.
Frederick Tennyson. b. 1807, d. 1898
800
689.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. b. 1807, d. 1882
801-803
690.
John Greenleaf Whittier. b. 1807, d. 1892
804
691.
Helen Selina, Lady Dufferin. b. 1807, d. 1867
805-807
692.
Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton. b. 1808, d. 1876
807-808
693.
Charles Tennyson Turner. b. 1808, d. 1879
808
694.
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696.
Edgar Allan Poe. b. 1809, d. 1849
809-814
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698.
Edward Fitzgerald. b. 1809, d. 1883
814-818
699.
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709.
Alfred Tennyson, Lord Tennyson. b. 1809, d. 1892
819-847
710.
Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton. b. 1809, d. 1885
848
711.
Henry Alford. b. 1810, d. 1871
849
712.
-
714.
Sir Samuel Ferguson. b. 1810, d. 1886
849-851
715.
-
730.
Robert Browning. b. 1812, d. 1889
852-867
731.
William Bell Scott. b. 1812, d. 1890
867-872
732.
-
733.
Aubrey De Vere. b. 1814, d. 1902
872-873
734.
George Fox. b. 1815
874
735.
-
738.
Emily Brontë. b. 1818, d. 1848
875-879
739.
-
740.
Charles Kingsley. b. 1819, d. 1875
879-880
741.
Arthur Hugh Clough. b. 1819, d. 1861
880-881
742.
-
743.
Walt Whitman. b. 1819, d. 1892
881-882
744.
John Ruskin. b. 1819, d. 1900
882
745.
Ebenezer Jones. b. 1820, d. 1860
883
746.
Frederick Locker-Lampson. b. 1821, d. 1895
884
747.
-
754.
Matthew Arnold. b. 1822, d. 1888
885-903
755.
-
756.
William Brighty Rands. b. 1823, d. 1880
904-905
757.
William Philpot. b. 1823, d. 1880
906-907
758.
-
759.
William (Johnson) Cory. b. 1823, d. 1892
907-908
760.
-
764.
Coventry Patmore. b. 1823, d. 1896
908-913
765.
-
768.
Sydney Dobell. b. 1824, d. 1874
913-921
769.
William Allingham. b. 1824, d. 1889
921-923
770.
George MacDonald. b. 1824, d. 1905
923
771.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti. b. 1828, d. 1882
923-928
772.
-
776.
George Meredith. b. 1828, d. 1909
929-942
777.
-
778.
Alexander Smith. b. 1829, d. 1867
942-945
779.
-
789.
Christina Georgina Rossetti. b. 1830, d. 1894
946-954
790.
-
793.
Thomas Edward Brown. b. 1830, d. 1897
955-956
794.
-
795.
Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, Earl of Lytton. b. 1831, d. 1892
957-962
796.
-
799.
James Thomson. b. 1834, d. 1882
963-964
800.
-
802.
William Morris. b. 1834, d. 1896
965-967
803.
-
804.
Roden Berkeley Wriothesley Noel. b. 1834, d. 1894
967-969
805.
-
806.
Thomas Ashe. b. 1836, d. 1889
969-970
807.
Theodore Watts-Dunton. b. 1836, d. 1914
970-972
808.
-
811.
Algernon Charles Swinburne. b. 1837, d. 1909
972-991
812.
William Dean Howells. b. 1837
991
813.
Bret Harte. b. 1839, d. 1902
992
814.
-
815.
John Todhunter. b. 1839, d. 1916
993-995
816.
-
823.
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt. b. 1840
995-1002
824.
-
826.
Henry Austin Dobson. b. 1840
1002-1004
827.
Henry Clarence Kendall. b. 1841, d. 1882
1004-1006
828.
-
830.
Arthur William Edgar O’Shaughnessy. b. 1844, d. 1881
1006-1010
831.
John Boyle O’Reilly. b. 1844, d. 1890
1010
832.
-
840.
Robert Bridges. b. 1844
1011-1018
841.
Andrew Lang. b. 1844, d. 1912
1018
842.
-
844.
William Ernest Henley. b. 1849, d. 1903
1019-1022
845.
Edmund Gosse. b. 1849
1022-1023
846.
-
848.
Robert Louis Stevenson. b. 1850, d. 1894
1023-1025
849.
T. W. Rolleston. b. 1857
1025-1026
850.
-
851.
John Davidson. b. 1857, d. 1909
1026-1028
852.
-
854.
William Watson. b. 1858
1028-1031
855.
-
856.
Henry Charles Beeching. b. 1859
1031-1033
857.
Bliss Carman. b. 1861
1033-1034
858.
Douglas Hyde. b. 1861
1034-1035
859.
Arthur Christopher Benson. b. 1862
1035-1036
860.
Henry Newbolt. b. 1862
1036-1037
861.
Gilbert Parker. b. 1862
1038
862.
-
864.
William Butler Yeats. b. 1865
1038-1039
865.
-
867.
Rudyard Kipling. b. 1865
1040-1045
868.
-
869.
Richard Le Gallienne. b. 1866
1045-1047
870.
-
871.
Laurence Binyon. b. 1869
1047
872.
-
873.
‘A. E.’ (George William Russell)
1048-1049
874.
T. Sturge Moore. b. 1870
1049
875.
Francis Thompson, b. 1859, d. 1907
1050-1052
876.
Henry Cust. b. 1861, d. 1917
1053
877.
Katharine Tynan Hinkson. b. 1861
1053-1054
878.
Frances Bannerman
1054-1055
879.
-
880.
Alice Meynell. b. 1850
1055-1056
881.
Dora Sigerson. d. 1918
1056-1057
882.
Margaret L. Woods. b. 1856
1057
883.
Anonymous
1058
1.
Cuckoo Song
c. 1250
lhude] loud. awe] ewe. lhouth] loweth. sterteth] leaps. swike] cease.
ANONYMOUS
2.
Alison
c. 1300
on hyre lud] in her language. ich libbe] I live. semlokest] seemliest. he] she. bandoun] thraldom. hendy] gracious. y hent] seized, enjoyed. ichot] I wot. lyht] alighted. hire her] her hair. lossum] lovesome. loh] laughed. bote he] unless she. buen] be. make] mate. feye] like to die. nihtes] at night. wende] turn. for-thi] on that account. wonges waxeth won] cheeks grow wan.
2. levedi] lady. y-lent me on] arrived to me. so wyter mon] so wise a man. swyre] neck. may] maid. for-wake] worn out with vigils. so water in wore] as water in a weir. reve] rob. y-yerned yore] long been distressed. tholien] to endure. geynest under gore] comeliest under woman’s apparel. roun] tale, lay.
3.
Spring-tide
c. 1300
3. to toune] in its turn.
him threteth oo] is aye chiding them. huere] their. woderove] woodruff. ferly fele] marvellous many. wlyteth] whistle, or look. rayleth hire rode] clothes herself in red. mandeth hire bleo] sends forth her light. lossom to seo] lovesome to see. fille] thyme. wowes] woo. miles] males. murgeth] make merry. makes] mates. striketh] flows, trickles. mody meneth] the moody man makes moan. so doth mo] so do many. on of tho] one of them. breme] lustily. deowes] dews. donketh] make dank. deores] dears, lovers. huere derne rounes] their secret tales. domes forte deme] for to give (decide) their decisions.
3. cloude] clod. wunne weole] wealth of joy. y wole forgon] I will forgo. wyht] wight. fleme] banished.
4.
Blow, Northern Wind
c. 1300
4. Ichot] I know. burde] maiden. menskful] worshipful. feir] fair. fonde] take, prove. wurhliche] noble. won] multitude. y nuste] I knew not. lussomore in londe] lovelier on earth. suetyng] sweetheart. lefliche] lovely. fonge] take between hands. murthes] mirths, joys. mote heo monge] may she mingle. brid] bird. breme] full of life.
Rode] the Cross. lure] face. lumes] beams. bleo] colour. suetly swyre] darling neck. forte] for to. hue, heo] she. clannesse] cleanness, purity. parvenke] periwinkle. solsecle] sunflower. won] wan.
5.
This World’s Joy
c. 1300
5. this leves] these leaves. sike] sigh. nys] is not. also hit ner nere] as though it had never been. soth] sooth. bote] but, except. thah] though. faleweth] fadeth. albydene] altogether. y not whider] I know not whither. her duelle] here dwell.
6.
A Hymn to the Virgin
c. 1300
on] one. levedy] lady. thuster] dark. pris] prize.
7.
c. 1350
lestenyt] listen. word] world. xuld] should. schen] beautiful. hevene qwyn] heaven’s queen. bote] salvation.
ROBERT MANNYNG OF BRUNNE
1260-1340
8.
Praise of Women
8. nevene] name. glew] gladden. hurde] flock.
JOHN BARBOUR
d. 1395
9.
Freedom
9. liking] liberty. na ellys nocht] nor aught else.
9. yarnyt] yearned for. perquer] thoroughly, by heart.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER
1340?-1400
10.
The Love Unfeigned
10. repeyreth] repair ye. starf] died.
11.
Balade
11. disteyne] bedim. y-fere] together.
12.
Merciles BeauteA Triple Roundel
1. CAPTIVITY
2. REJECTION
3. ESCAPE
halt] holdeth.
12. sclat] slate
THOMAS HOCCLEVE
1368-9?-1450?
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