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]ch[Contents ]conts[Acknowledgments Introduction A Note on the Texts BRITISH, IRISH, AND CARIBBEAN WRITERS Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343-1400) from The Wife of Bath¿s Prologue lines 627-822 Edmund Spenser (1552-1599) from The Faerie Queene Book 2, Canto 12 Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586) Astrophel and Stella 1-3, 47, 83 Sir Walter Ralegh (1554-1618) The Nymph¿s Reply to the Shepherd Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) The Passionate Shepherd to His Love William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Sonnets 55, 60, 74, 77 Thomas Campion (1567-1620) My Sweetest Lesbia John Donne (1572-1631) The Sun Rising Elegy 19: To His Mistress Going to Bed Ben Jonson (1572-1637) To Penshurst Inviting a Friend to Supper Robert Herrick (1591-1674) To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time To His Muse John Milton (1608-1674) Lycidas from Paradise Lost Book 1, lines 1-74 Book 4, lines 411-91 Richard Lovelace (1618-1658) Love Made in the First Age: To Chloris Andrew Marvell (1621-1678) An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland To His Coy Mistress John Dryden (1631-1700) To the Memory of Mr. Oldham Aphra Behn (1640?-1689) The Disappointment The Golden Age John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester (1647-1680) The Imperfect Enjoyment Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) A Description of a City Shower Alexander Pope (1688-1744) from The Rape of the Lock Canto 1 Canto 4 James Thomson (1700-1748) Winter: A Poem (1726) Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) The Vanity of Human Wishes Thomas Gray (1716-1771) Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat An Elegy Wrote in a Country Church Yard Mary Leapor (1722-1746) An Essay on Woman William Cowper (1731-1800) Epitaph on a Hare William Wordsworth (1770-1850) Laodamia Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) Kubla Khan Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) Adonais John Keats (1795-1821) Ode on a Grecian Urn Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) The Lotos-Eaters Robert Browning (1812-1889) Pan and Luna Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) Dover Beach Alfred Edward Housman (1859-1936) A Shropshire Lad 15 William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) A Thought from Propertius Two Songs from a Play Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) Dulce et Decorum Est Wystan Hugh Auden (1907-1973) The Shield of Achilles Derek Walcott (1930-) from Omeros Book 1, Chapter 1 Seamus Heaney (1939-) Bann Valley Eclogue CLASSICAL WRITERS Homer (eighth century BCE?) from the Iliad Book 1, lines 1-305 Book 18, lines 478-617 from the Odyssey Book 1, lines 1-10 Book 5, lines 145-281 Book 8, lines 266-369 Book 9, lines 16-105 Book 10, lines 198-347 Book 12, lines 142-259 Hesiod (fl. c. 700 BCE) from Theogony lines 1-80 from Works and Days lines 53-201 lines 504-35 Sophocles (c. 496-406 BCE) from Antigone lines 582-603 from Trachiniae lines 112-40 Thucydides (c. 455-400 BCE) from The Peloponnesian War Book 7, section 44 Plato (c. 429-347 BCE) from Symposium sections 209e¿212a from Ion sections 533c¿535a Asclepiades (fl. early third century BCE) from the Greek Anthology Book 5, number 85 Theocritus (fl. early third century BCE) Idyll 1 Idyll 11 Bion (fl. late second century BCE?) Lament for Adonis Meleager (fl. 100 BCE) from the Greek Anthology Book 7, number 207 Moschus, so-called (first century BCE?) Lament for Bion Lucretius (c. 94-55 BCE) from De Rerum Natura Book 2, lines 646-60 Book 3, lines 1-30 Book 3, lines 894-911 Catullus (c. 84-54 BCE) Carmen 2 Carmen 3 Carmen 5 Carmen 8 Carmen 13 Carmen 101 Virgil (70-19 BCE) Eclogue 2 Eclogue 4 Eclogue 5 Eclogue 10 from the Georgics Book 1, lines 299-423 Book 2, lines 458-542 Book 3, lines 384-93 from the Aeneid Book 1, lines 1-215 Book 2, lines 1-56 Book 4, lines 1-30 Book 5, lines 315-39 Book 6, lines 268-316 Book 6, lines 679-751 Book 6, lines 854-92 Book 11, lines 759-831 Horace (65-8 BCE) from the Satires Book 2, number 6 Epode 2 from the Odes Book 1, number 11 Book 1, number 37 Book 2, number 18 Book 3, number 2 Book 3, number 30 Book 4, number 10 from the Epistles Book 1, number 5 Tibullus (c. 50-19 BCE) from the Elegies Book 2, number 3 Propertius (c. 50-16 BCE) from the Elegies Book 2, number 2 Book 2, number 15 Ovid (43 BCE-17 CE) from the Amores Book 1, number 1 Book 1, number 2 Book 1, number 3 Book 1, number 5 Book 1, number 13 Book 2, number 6 Book 3, number 7 Heroides 13 from the Ars Amatoria Book 1, lines 269-344 from the Metamorphoses Book 1, lines 89-112 Book 1, lines 253-312 Book 1, lines 452-567 Book 2, lines 760-832 Book 3, lines 316-510 Book 15, lines 143-260 Book 15, lines 871-9 Pliny the Elder (c. 23-79 CE) from the Natural History Book 16, section 238 Lucan (39-65 CE) from the Civil War Book 1, lines 119-57 Book 1, lines 223-43 Martial (c. 40-104 CE) from the Epigrams Book 1, number 3 Book 3, number 58 Book 5, number 78 Book 10, number 48 Book 11, number 52 Juvenal (fl. early second century CE) from Satire 6 lines 1-54 lines 434-511 Satire 10 Cross-Reference Tables I English¿Classical II Classical¿English List of Authors I British, Irish, and Caribbean II Classical III Translators List of Titles I English II Classical Index to the Notes
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
English poetry.
English poetry -- Appreciation.
English poetry -- Classical influences.
Classical literature -- Translations into English.
Classical literature -- Appreciation -- Great Britain.