British literature, 1640-1789 : an anthology /
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| Imprint: | Cambridge, Mass. : Blackwell, 1996. |
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| Description: | 1211 p.; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Blackwell anthologies |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2576474 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Authors
- Introduction
- Editorial Principles
- Acknowledgments
- 1. 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 Denounced Against Him (1649) The Royal Health to The Rising Sun (1649) From A Perfect Diurnal of Some Passages in Parliament (1949) Number 288 29 January - 5 February 1649 From Mercurius Pragmaticus (1649) Number 43 30 January - 6 February 1649
- 2. Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679): From Leviathan (1651) Chapter XIII of The Natural Condition of Mankind, As Concerning Their Felicity and Misery
- 3. Robert Filmer (D.1653): From Patriarcha, Or The Natural Power of Kings Asserted (1680) V Kings Are Either Fathers of Their People, Or Heirs of Such Fathers, Or The Usurpes of The Rights of Such Fathers VI of The Escheating of Kingdoms VII of The Agreement of Paternal and Regal Power
- 4. Robert Herrick (1591-1674): From Hersperides (1648) The Argument of His Book To Daffodils The Night-Piece, to Julia The Hock-Cart, Or Harvest Home Upon Julia's Cloths 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
- 5. Charles I (1600-1649) and John Gauden (1605-1662): From Eikon Basilike (1649) Upon The Calling in of The Scots, and Their Coming
- 6. John Milton (1608-1674): From The Dontrine 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) Book I The Preface From Chapter I From Chapter VI From Areopagitica; A Speech of Mr John Milton For The Liberty of Unlicensed Printing, to The Parliament of England (1644) From Eikonoklastes (1649) Chapter 13 Upon The Calling in of The Scots and Their Coming From Poems (1673) 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) From Parradise Lost (1667) The Verse Book I Book II Book IV Book IX
- 7. Margaret Fell Fox (1614-1702): From Women's Speaking Justified, Proved and Allowed By The Scriptures (1666)
- 8. Richard Lovelace (1618-1658): From Lucasta (1649) Song to Lucasta, Going to The Wars Song to Amarantha, That She Would Dishevel Her Hair To Althea, From Prison Song
- 9. Abraham Cowley (1618-1667): From Poems (1656) ODE of Wit To Mr Hobbes
- 10. Lucy Apsley Hutchinson (1620-1681): From Memoirs of The Life of Colonel Hutchinson (1664)
- 11. Andrew Marvell (1621-1678): From Miscellaneous Poems (1681) Bermudas (1653?) The Mower to The Glo-Worms (1651-2?) An Horatian Ode Upon Cromwells' Return From Ireland (1650) The Garden (1651-2) On A Drop of Dew (1651-2?) To His Coy Mistress (C.1645)
- 12. Henry Vaughan (1622-1695): From Silex Scintillans (1655) 'They Are All Gone Into The World of Light!' The Night
- 13. Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673): From Poems and Fancies (1653) Poets Have Most Pleasure in This Life From The Description of A New World, Called The Blazing World (1666)
- 14. Dorothy Osborne Temple (1627-1695): From Letters to William Temple Letter 3 8 January 1653 Letter 28 2 July 1653 Letter 58 11 February 1654
- 15. John Bunyan (1628-1688): From Grace Abounding to The Chief of Sinners (1666)
- 16. Katherine Philips (1631-1664): From Poems By The Most Deservedly Admired Mrs