Palamon and Arcite. Christopher Marlowe............ 11 15 Do. 26 29 Ben Jonson 36 Beaumont and Fletcher..... 40 45 committing Joseph Addison.......... 81 Pride of Sir Giles Overreach in his Philip Massinger. Daughter....... Cato's Soliloquy before Suicide........ To the Memory of Mrs Anne Killigrew......John Dryden........ John Donne. 35 John Milton.... 57 68 The Passionate Shepherd to his Love........Christopher Marlowe............ 13 On the late Massacre in Piedmont. From You have I been absent in the Spring. William Shakspeare. Spring..... To a Nightingale. London at Sunrise.. Love...................... 65 ENGLISH POETS FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO 1558 A.D. CEDMON, died 680 A.D.; LAYAMON, 1155-1200; ROBERT OF GLOUCESTER, close of 13th century; ROBERT LONGLANDE, about 1360; GEOFFREY CHAUCER, 1328-1400; JOHN GOWER, 1325-1408; JOHN BARBOUR, died 1395; KING JAMES I. OF SCOTLAND, 1394-1437; JOHN LYDGATE, about 1430; WILLIAM DUNBAR, 1465-1520; GAVIN DOUGLAS, 1474-1522; HENRY HOWARD, 1517-1547; Specimens from the above will be found in the Introduction to READINGS IN ENGLISH PROSE. |