Adventures In English Literature
Volume I
CONTENTS
THE LAND AND ITS PEOPLE
An introduction by JACQUETTA HAWKES and J. B. PRIESTLEY
The Anglo-Saxon Period
HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION
The Seafarer translated by J. Duncan Spaeth
Beowulf (excerpts) translated by J. Duncan Spaeth
THE GROWTH OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
The Medieval Period
HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION
Early English and Scottish Ballads
Get Up and Bar the Door
Bonny Barbara Allan
Sir Patrick Spens
Robin Hood Rescuing Three Squires
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Prologue to The Canterbury Tales
Parts of the Prologue in the Original Middle English
The Nun’s Priest’s Tale: Chanticleer and Pertelote
SIR THOMAS MALORY Morte d’Arthur (excerpt)
THE GROWTH OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
The Elizabethan Age
HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION
EDMUND SPENSER Amoretti
Sonnet 26
Sonnet 37
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
SIR WALTER RALEIGH The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
BEN JONSON To the Memory of My Beloved Master, William Shakespeare
To Celia
The Noble Nature
FRANCIS BACON Of Studies
THE KING JAMES BIBLE The Prodigal Son: Luke 15
But the Greatest of These
Is Charity: I Corinthians 13
The Ideal Wife: Proverbs 31
Psalm 24
Psalm 121
THE GROWTH OP
THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
The Seventeenth Century
HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION
JOHN DONNE Death Be Not Proud
The Tolling of the Bells: Meditation 17
FOUR CAVALIER POETS
GEORGE w mm Shall!, Wasting in Despair
RICHARD LOVELACE To Althea, from Prison
To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars
SIR JOHN SUCKLING The Constant Lover
Song from Aglaura
ROBERT HERRICK Counsel to Girls
JOHN MILTON L’Allegro
II Penseroso
On Shakespeare
On His Having Arrived at the Age of Twenty-Three
On His Blindness
Paradise Lost (from Book I)
JOHN BUNYAN Vanity Fair (from The Pilgrim’s Progress)
SAMUEL PEPYS The Diary of Samuel Pepys (excerpts)
JOHN DRYDEN Alexander’s Feast, or the Power of Music
An Essay on Dramatic Poesy (in part)
THE GROWTH OP
THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Glossary
Special Indexes
General Index