Classical Literature and its Reception An Anthology [Hardcover]

• Gives readers the classical background they need in order to really appreciate British poetry.
  
• Divided into two halves – the first half presenting a selection of the best British poems, and the second presenting relevant classical works in translation.
  
• Notes and introductions highlight the connections between British works and their classical forebears.

Introduction.

A Note on the Texts.

English Writers.

Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343-1400).

from The Wife of Bath’s Prologue lines 627-822.

Edmund Spenser (1552-99).

from The Faerie Queene.

Book 2, Canto 12.

Sir Walter Ralegh (1554-1618).

The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd.

Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586).

Astrophil and Stella 1-3, 47, 83.

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.

Ben Jonson (1572-1637).

To Penshurst.

Inviting a Friend to Supper.

John Donne (1572-1631).

The Sun Rising.

Elegy 19: To His Mistress Going to Bed.

Robert Herrick (1591-1674).

To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time.

To His Muse.

John Milton (1608-1674).

Lycidas.