British Literature 1640-1789

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

Autorentext
Robert DeMaria, Jr is the Henry Noble MacCracken Professor of English Literature at Vassar College, USA. He is the General Editor of the Yale edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson, and editor of the Johnsonian News Letter. He is the author of numerous books including The Life of Samuel Johnson (Wiley Blackwell, 1993), and Samuel Johnson and the Life of Reading (1997); and is the editor of British Literature 1640-1789: A Critical Reader (1998), Classical Literature and Its Reception: An Anthology (with Robert D. Brown, 2007), and A Companion to British Literature in four volumes (with Heesok Chang and Samantha Zacher, 2014), all published by Wiley Blackwell.

Inhalt
List of Authors xvii Chronology xix

Thematic Table of Contents xxvi

Introduction xxxvi

Editorial Principles xlv

Preface to the Fourth Edition xlvii

Acknowledgments xlix

Ballads and Newsbooks from the Civil War (16401649) 1

The World is Turned Upside Down (1646) 1

The King's Last farewell to the World, or The Dead King's Living Meditations, at the approach of Death denounced against Him (1649) 3

The Royal Health to the Rising Sun (1649) 6

from A Perfect Diurnal of Some Passages in Parliament (1649) 7

Number 288, 29 January5 February 1649 7

from Mercurius Pragmaticus (1649) 8

Number 43, 30 January6 February 1649 8

Thomas Hobbes (15881679) 10

from Leviathan (1651) 10

Chapter XIII: Of the NATURAL CONDITION of Mankind, as concerning their Felicity, and Misery 10

Robert Herrick (15911674) 14

from Hesperides (1648) 14

The Argument of His Book 14

To Daffodils 15

The Night-piece, to Julia 15

The Hock-Cart, or Harvest Home 16

Upon Julia's Clothes 17

When he would have his verses read 18

Delight in Disorder 18

To the Virgins, to make much of Time 18

His Return to London 19

The Bad Season Makes the Poet Sad 19

The Pillar of Fame 20

John Milton (16081674) 21

from The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce; Restored to the Good of Both Sexes, From the bondage of Canon Law, and other mistakes, to Christian freedom, guided by the Rule of Charity. Wherein also many places of Scripture, have recovered their long-lost meaning. Seasonable to be now thought on in the Reformation intended. (1643) 23

Book I: The Preface 23

from Chapter I 26

from Chapter VI 26

from Areopagitica; A Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing, to the Parliament of England (1644) 27

from Poems (1673) 44

Sonnet 18 (1655) On the Late Massacre in Piemont 44

Sonnet 19 (1652?) When I Consider how my Light is Spent 44

Sonnet 16 [To the Lord General Cromwell, 1652] 45

from Paradise Lost (1667) 45

The Verse 47

Book I 47

Book II 66

Book IV 91

Book IX 116

Abraham Cowley (16181667) 145

Anacreontiques: Or, Some Copies of Verses Translated Paraphrastically out of Anacreon 145

To the Royal Society 152

Andrew Marvell (16211678) 157

from Miscellaneous Poems (1681) 158

The Coronet 158

The Picture of Little T.C. in a Prospect of Flowers 158

Bermudas (1653?) 159

The Mower to the Glo-Worms (16512?) 161

An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland (1650) 161

The Garden (16512?) 164

On a Drop of Dew (16512?) 167

To his Coy Mistress (c.1645) 168

Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (16231673) 170

from Poems and Fancies (1653) 170

Poets have most Pleasure in this Life 170

from The Description of a New World, called the Blazing World (1666) 171

John Bunyan (16281688) 179

from Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners (1666) 179

John Dryden (16311700) 183

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

Founders (1663) 184

Mac Flecknoe (1676?) 186

Absalom and Achitophel: A Poem (1681) 192

To the Memory of Mr. Oldham (1684) 217

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) 218

Song for St. Cecilia's Day (1687) 223

Alexander's Feast 225

from Fables Ancient and Modern (1700) 230

Pygmalion and the Statue 230

Secular Masque 232

Katherine Philips (16321664) 237

from Poems by the most deservedly Admired Mrs. Katherine Philips, the matchless Orinda (1667) 237 Friendship 23...