Longman Anthology of British Literature, The, Volumes 1a, 1b, and 1c (4TH ed.)

Longman Anthology of British Literature, The, Volumes 1a, 1b, and 1c (4TH ed.)

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Jacket Description/Back: The Fourth Edition of The Longman Anthology of British Literature continues its tradition of presenting works in the historical context in which they were written. This fresh approach includes writers from the British...

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Jacket Description/Back:
The Fourth Edition of The Longman Anthology of British Literature continues its tradition of presenting works in the historical context in which they were written. This fresh approach includes writers from the British Isles, underrepresented female authors, "Perspectives" sectionsthatshed light on the period as a whole and link with immediately surrounding works to help illuminate a theme, "And Its Time" clusters that illuminate a specific cultural moment or a debate to which an author is responding, and "Responses" in which later authors respond to one or more texts from earlier works.

Marc Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Biographical Note:
David Damrosch is Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University. He is a past president of the American Comparative Literature Association, and has written widely on world literature from antiquity to the present. His books include What Is World Literature? (2003), The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh (2007), and How to Read World Literature (2009). He is the founding general editor of the six-volume Longman Anthology of World Literature, 2/e (2009) and the editor of Teaching World Literature (2009).

Kevin J. H. Dettmar is W. M. Keck Professor and Chair, Department of English, at Pomona College, and Past President of the Modernist Studies Association. He is the author of The Illicit Joyce of Postmodernism and Is Rock Dead?, and the editor of Rereading the New: A Backward Glance at Modernism; Marketing Modernisms: Self-Promotion, Canonization, and Rereading; Reading Rock & Roll: Authenticity, Appropriation, Aesthetics; the Barnes & Noble Classics edition of James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Dubliners; and The Blackwell Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture, and co-general editor of The Longman Anthology of British Literature.

Christopher Baswell is A. W. Olin Chair of English at Barnard College, and Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. His interests include classical literature and culture, medieval literature and culture, and contemporary poetry. He is author of Virgil in Medieval England: Figuring the "Aeneid" from the Twelfth Century to Chaucer, which won the 1998 Beatrice White Prize of the English Association. He has held fellowships from the NEH, the National Humanities Center, and the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.

Clare Carroll is Director of Renaissance Studies at The Graduate Center, City University of New York and Professor of Comparative Literature at Queens College and at The Graduate Center, CUNY. Her research is in Renaissance Studies, with particular interests in early modern colonialism, epic poetry, historiography, and translation. She is the author of The Orlando Furioso: A Stoic Comedy, and editor of Richard Beacon's humanist dialogue on the colonization of Ireland, Solon His Follie. Her most recent book is Circe's Cup: Cultural Transformations in Early Modern Ireland. She has received Fulbright Fellowships for her research and the Queens College President's Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Andrew Hadfield is Professor of English at The University of Sussex. He is the author of a number of books, including Shakespeare and Republicanism (2005), which was awarded the 2006 Sixteenth-Century Society Conference Roland H. Bainton Prize for Literature; Literature, Travel and Colonialism in the English Renaissance, 1540-1625 (1998); and Spenser's Irish Experience: Wilde Fruyt and Salvage Soyl (1997). He has also edited a number, most recently, with Matthew Dimmock, Religions of the Book: Co-existence and Conflict, 1400-1660 (2008), and with Raymond Gillespie, The Oxford History of the Irish Book, Vol. III: The Irish Book in English, 1550-1800 (2006). He is a regular reviewer for the TLS.

Heather Henderson is a freelance writer and former Associate Professor of English Literature at Mount Holyoke College. A specialist in Victorian literature, she is the recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities. She is the author of The Victorian Self: Autobiography and Biblical Narrative. Her current interests include home-schooling, travel literature, and autobiography.

Peter J. Manning is Professor at Stony Brook University. He is the author of Byron and His Fictions and Reading Romantics, and of numerous essays on the British Romantic poets and prose writers. With Susan J. Wolfson, he has co-edited Selected Poems of Byron, and Selected Poems of Beddoes, Hood, and Praed. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the Distinguished Scholar Award of the Keats-Shelley Association.

Anne Howland Schotter is Professor and Chair of English and Associate Dean of the Faculty at Wagner College. She is the co-editor of Ineffability: Naming the Unnamable from Dante to Beckett and author of articles on Middle English poetry, Dante, and Medieval Latin poetry. Her current interests include the medieval reception of classical literature, particularly the work of Ovid. She has held fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson and Andrew W. Mellon foundations.

William Sharpe is Professor of English Literature at Barnard College. A specialist in Victorian poetry and the literature of the city, he is the author of Unreal Cities: Urban Figuration in Wordsworth, Baudelaire, Whitman, Eliot, and Williams. He is also co-editor of The Passing of Arthur and Visions of the Modern City. He is the recipient of Guggenheim, National Endowment of the Humanities, Fulbright, and Mellon fellowships, and recently published New York Nocturne: The City After Dark in Literature, Painting, and Photography.

Stuart Sherman is Associate Professor of English at Fordham University. He received the Gottschalk Prize from the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies for his book Telling Time: Clocks, Diaries, and English Diurnal Form, 1660-1775, and is currently at work on a study called "News and Plays: Evanescences of Page and Stage, 1620-1779." He has received the Quantrell Award for Undergraduate Teaching, as well as fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Chicago Humanities Institute, and Princeton University.

Susan J. Wolfson is Professor of English at Princeton University and is general editor of Longman Cultural Editions. A specialist in Romanticism, her critical studies include The Questioning Presence: Wordsworth, Keats, and the Interrogative Mode in Romantic Poetry, Formal Charges: The Shaping of Poetry in British Romanticism, and Borderlines: The Shiftings of Gender in British Romanticism. She has also produced editions of Felicia Hemans, Lord Byron, Thomas L. Beddoes, William M. Praed, Thomas Hood, as well as the Longman Cultural Edition of Shelley's Frankenstein. She received Distinguished Scholar Award from Keats-Shelley Association, and grants and fellowships from American Council of Learned Societies, National Endowment for the Humanities, J. S. Guggenheim Foundation, and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. She is President (2009-2010) of the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers.



Brief Description:
The Longman Anthology of British Literature is the most comprehensive and thoughtfully arranged text in the field, offering a rich selection of compelling British authors through the ages.

With its first edition, The Longman Anthology of British Literature created a new paradigm for anthologies. Responding to major shifts in literary studies over the past thirty years, it was the first collection to pay sustained attention to the contexts within which literature is produced, even as it broadened the scope of that literature to embrace the full cultural diversity of the British Isles. Within its pages, canonical authors mingle with newly visible writers; English accents are heard next to Anglo-Norman, Welsh, Gaelic, and Scottish ones; female and male voices are set in dialogue; literature from the British Isles is integrated with post-colonial writing; and major works are illuminated by clusters of shorter texts that bring literary, social, and historical issues vividly to life.

Fresh and up-to-date introductions and notes are written by an editorial team whose members are all actively engaged in teaching and in current scholarship, and 150 illustrations show both artistic and cultural developments from the medieval period to the present.

The Fourth Edition builds on the pioneering features of the previous three editions, expanding the strong core of frequently taught works while continuing to lead the way in responding to the shifting interests of the discipline.



Table of Contents:
*** denotes selection is new to this edition.

THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD

JOHN SKELTON***

The Bowge of Courte***

PERSPECTIVES: THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY SONNET***

Sir Thomas Wyatt

The Long Love, That in My Thought Doth Harbor

Companion Reading

Petrarch: Sonnet 140

Whoso List to Hunt

Companion Reading

Petrarch: Sonnet 190

My Galley

Some Time I Fled the Fire

Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

Love That Doth Reign and Live within My Thought

Th'Assyrians' King, in Peace with Foul Desire

Set Me Whereas the Sun Doth Parch the Green

The Soote Season

Alas, So All Things Now Do Hold Their Peace

Companion Reading

Petrarch: Sonnet 164

George Gascoigne

Seven Sonnets to Alexander Neville

Edmund Spenser

Amoretti

1 ("Happy ye leaves when as those lilly hands")

4 ("New yeare forth looking out of Janus gate")

13 ("In that proud port, which her so goodly graceth")

22 ("This holy season fit to fast and pray")

62 ("The weary yeare his race now having run")

65 ("The doubt which ye misdeeme, fayre love, is vaine")

66 ("To all those happy blessings which ye have")

68 ("Most glorious Lord of lyfe that on this day")

75 ("One day I wrote her name upon the strand")

Sir Philip Sidney

Astrophil and Stella

1 ("Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show")

3 ("Let dainty wits cry on the sisters nine")

7 ("When Nature made her chief work, Stella's eyes")

9 ("Queen Virtue's court, which some call Stella's face")

10 ("Reason, in faith thou art well served, that still")

14 ("Alas, have I not pain enough, my friend")

15 ("You that do search for every purling spring")

23 ("The curious wits, seeing dull pensiveness")

24 ("Rich fool there be whose base and filthy heart")

31 ("With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies")

37 ("My mouth doth water and my breast doth swell")

39 ("Come sleep, O sleep, the certain knot of peace")

45 ("Stella oft sees the very face of woe")

47 ("What, have I thus betrayed my liberty?")

52 ("A strife is grown between Virtue and Love")

60 ("When my good Angel guides me to the place")

63 ("O grammar-rules, O now your virtues show")

64 ("No more, my dear, no more these counsels try")

68 ("Stella, the only planet of my light")

71 ("Who will in fairest book of Nature know")

Second song ("Have I caught my heavenly jewel")

74 ("I never drank of Aganippe well")

Fourth song ("Only joy, now here you are")

86 ("Alas, whence came this change of looks? If I...")

Eighth song ("In a grove most rich of shade")

Ninth song ("Go, my flock, go get you hence")

89 ("Now that, of absence, the most irksome night")

90 ("Stella, think not that I by verse seek fame")

91 ("Stella, while now by honor's cruel might")

97 ("Dian, that fain would cheer her friend the Night")

104 ("Envious wits, what hath been mine offense")

106 ("O absent presence, Stella is not here")

107 ("Stella, since thou so right a princess art")

108 ("When sorrow (using mine own fire's might)")

Richard Barnfield

Sonnets from Cynthia

1 ("Sporting at fancy, setting light by love")

5 ("It is reported of fair Thetis' son")

9 ("Diana (on a time) walking the wood")

11 ("Sighing, and sadly sitting by my love")

13 ("Speak, Echo, tell; how may I call my love?")

19 ("Ah no; nor I myself: though my pure love")

Michael Drayton

Sonnet 12 ("To nothing fitter can I thee compare")

Sonnet 61 ("Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part")

SIR THOMAS WYATT

They Flee from Me

My Lute, Awake!

Tagus, Farewell

Forget Not Yet

Blame Not My Lute

Lucks, My Fair Falcon, and Your Fellows All

Stand Whoso List

Mine Own John Poyns

HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF SURREY

So Cruel Prison

London, Hast Thou Accused Me

Wyatt Resteth Here

My Radcliffe, When Thy Reckless Youth Offends

SIR THOMAS MORE

Utopia

Response***

Sir Francis Bacon: from New Atlantis***

WILLIAM BALDWIN***

Beware the Cat ***

EDMUND SPENSER***

The Faerie Queene ***

The Sixthe Booke of the Faerie Queene ***

The Two Cantos of Mutabilitie***

SIR PHILIP SIDNEY

The Apology for Poetry

ISABELLA WHITNEY

The Admonition by the Author

A Careful Complaint by the Unfortunate Author

The Manner of Her Will

MARY HERBERT, COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE

Psalm 71: In Te Domini Speravi ("On thee my trust is grounded")

Psalm 121: Levavi Oculos ("Unto the hills, I now will bend")

The Doleful Lay of Clorinda

PERSPECTIVES: EARLY MODERN BOOKS***

Ranulf Higden

from Polychronicon

John Foxe***

from Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perilous Days***

The Geneva Bible

Thomas Hariot***

from The True Pictures and Fashions of the People in That Part of America Now Called Virginia**

John Gerard

from The Herball or Generall historie of plantes

Geoffrey Whitney

The Phoenix

Robert Fludd

from Utriusque cosmic, maioris scilicet et minoris, metaphysica atque technica historia

Francis Bacon

from Advancement of Learning

English Handwriting Samples**

Frontispiece to A Certain Relation of the Hog-faced Gentlewoman

ELIZABETH I

Written with a Diamond on Her Window at Woodstock

Written on a Wall at Woodstock

The Doubt of Future Foes

On Monsieur's Departure

Speeches

On Marriage

On Mary, Queen of Scots

On Mary's Execution

To the English Troops at Tilbury, Facing the Spanish Armada

The Golden Speech

AEMILIA LANYER

The Description of Cookham

CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE

Hero and Leander

The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus

Response

C.S. Lewis: from The Screwtape Letters

SIR WALTER RALEIGH

Nature That Washed Her Hands in Milk

To the Queen

On the Life of Man

The Author's Epitaph, Made by Himself

As You Came from the Holy Land

from The 21st and Last Book of the Ocean to Cynthia

PERSPECTIVES: ENGLAND, BRITAIN, AND THE WORLD***

Fynes Moryson***

from An Itenerary, Obseravations on the Ottomon Empire***

Fynes Moryson***

from An Itenerary, Obeservations of Italy and Ireland***

Edmund Spenser***

from A View of the State of Ireland***

Thomas Hariot

from A Brief and True Report of the Newfound Land of Virginia

John Smith

from General History of Virginia and the Summer Isles

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Sonnets

1 ("From fairest creatures we desire increase")

12 ("When I do count the clock that tells the time")

15 ("When I consider every thing that grows")

18 ("Shall I compare thee to a summer's day")

20 ("A woman's face with Nature's own hand painted")

29 ("When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes")

30 ("When to the sessions of sweet silent thought")

31 ("Thy bosom is endearèd with all hearts")

33 ("Full many a glorious morning have I seen")

35 ("No more be grieved at that which thou hast done")

55 ("Not marble nor the gilded monuments")

60 ("Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore")

71 ("No longer mourn for me when I am dead")

73 ("That time of year thou mayst in me behold")

80 ("O, how I faint when I of you do write")

86 ("Was it the proud full sail of his great verse")

87 ("Farewell! Thou art too dear for my possessing")

93 ("So shall I live, supposing thou art true")

94 ("They that have pow'r to hurt, and will do none")

104 ("To me, fair friend, you never can be old")

106 ("When in the chronicle of wasted time")

107 ("Not mine own fears nor the prophetic soul")

116 ("Let me not to the marriage of true minds")

123 ("No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change")

124 ("If my dear love were but the child of state")

126 ("O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power")

128 ("H