Six Centuries of English Poetry

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Author

Baldwin, James, 1841-1925

Title

Six Centuries of English Poetry: Tennyson to Chaucer

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Produced by Charles Aldarondo, Lisa Reigel, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

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English

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PR: Language and Literatures: English literature

Subject

English poetry

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eBook-No.

30235

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Release Date

October 11, 2009

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Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.SIX CENTURIES OF ENGLISH POETRY
2. 2.TENNYSON TO CHAUCER — TYPICAL SELECTIONS FROM THE GREAT POETS — BY
3. 3.JAMES BALDWIN, Ph.D. — SILVER, BURDETT & COMPANY — New York . . . BOSTON . . . Chicago — Copyright 1892, — By SILVER, BURDETT & COMPANY.
4. 4.PUBLISHERS' NOTE.
5. 5.TO TEACHERS AND STUDENTS. — FOOTNOTES:
6. 6.CONTENTS. — SIX CENTURIES OF ENGLISH POETRY.
7. 7.The Nineteenth Century. — Poets of the Nineteenth Century.
8. 8.Alfred Tennyson.
9. 9.THE LADY OF SHALOTT. — PART I. — PART II. — PART III. — PART IV. — NOTES. — FOOTNOTES:
10. 10.THE BROOK. — NOTES.
11. 11.THE LOTOS-EATERS.
12. 12.CHORIC SONG. — I. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — VI. — VII. — VIII. — NOTE. — BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
13. 13.William Wordsworth.
14. 14.ODE. — Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood. — I. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — VI. — VII. — VIII. — IX. — X. — XI. — NOTES. — FOOTNOTES:
15. 15.THE TWO APRIL MORNINGS. — NOTES.
16. 16.THE SOLITARY REAPER. — BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
17. 17.Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
18. 18.CHRISTABEL. — Part I. — NOTES — BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
19. 19.Percy Bysshe Shelley.
20. 20.TO A SKYLARK — NOTES.
21. 21.HYMN OF PAN. — NOTES.
22. 22.FROM "EPIPSYCHIDION." — NOTES.
23. 23.A LAMENT. — BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
24. 24.John Keats.
25. 25.ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE. — I — II. — III. — IV. — V. — VI. — VII. — VIII. — NOTES.
26. 26.FROM "THE EVE OF ST. AGNES." — NOTES. — BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
27. 27.The Eighteenth Century. — Poets of the Eighteenth Century.
28. 28.Robert Burns.
29. 29.THE COTTER'S 1 SATURDAY NIGHT. — Inscribed To R. Aiken, Esq. 2 — NOTES.
30. 30.TO A MOUNTAIN DAISY. — On turning one down with the Plough, in April, 1786.
31. 31.FOR A' THAT, AND A' THAT. — NOTES. — BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
32. 32.William Cowper.
33. 33.BOADICEA. — NOTES.
34. 34.ON THE RECEIPT OF MY MOTHER'S PICTURE. — NOTES.
35. 35.EPITAPH ON A HARE. — BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
36. 36.Oliver Goldsmith.
37. 37.THREE PICTURES FROM "THE DESERTED VILLAGE." — NOTES. — BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
38. 38.Thomas Gray.
39. 39.THE BARD. — I. 1. — I. 2. — I. 3. — II. 1. — II. 2. — II. 3. — III. 1. — III. 2. — III. 3. — NOTES. — BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
40. 40.Alexander Pope.
41. 41.FROM THE "ESSAY ON CRITICISM." — NOTES.
42. 42.ODE ON ST. CECILIA'S DAY. — MDCCVIII. — I. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — VI. — VII. — NOTES. — BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
43. 43.The Seventeenth Century. — Poets of the Seventeenth Century.
44. 44.John Dryden.
45. 45.ALEXANDER'S FEAST; OR, THE POWER OF MUSIC: — An Ode in Honor of St. Cecilia's Day. — NOTES.
46. 46.THE FIRE OF LONDON. — [FROM "ANNUS MIRABILIS."] — NOTES.
47. 47.REASON AND RELIGION. — [FROM "RELIGIO LAICI."] — BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
48. 48.John Milton.
49. 49.ON THE MORNING OF CHRIST'S NATIVITY. — I. — II. — III. — IV. — THE HYMN. — I. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — VI. — VII. — VIII. — IX. — X. — XI. — XII. — XIII. — XIV. — XV. — XVI. — XVII. — XVIII. — XIX. — XX. — XXI. — XXII. — XXIII. — XXIV. — XXV. — XXVI. — XXVII. — NOTES. — BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE. — WORDSWORTH'S SONNET TO MILTON.
50. 50.Robert Herrick.
51. 51.TO PHILLIS.
52. 52.THE MAD MAID'S SONG.
53. 53.A THANKSGIVING TO GOD. — BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
54. 54.Edmund Waller.
55. 55.SONG.
56. 56.OF ENGLISH VERSE.
57. 57.ON A GIRDLE. — BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
58. 58.Ben Jonson.
59. 59.AN ODE TO HIMSELF. — NOTES.
60. 60.TO CYNTHIA.
61. 61.TO THE MEMORY OF MY BELOVED MASTER WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, AND WHAT HE HATH LEFT US. — NOTES. — BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
62. 62.The Sixteenth Century. — Poets of the Sixteenth Century.
63. 63.William Shakespeare.
64. 64.VENUS'S ADVICE TO ADONIS ON HUNTING. — [FROM "VENUS AND ADONIS."]
65. 65.A MORNING SONG FOR IMOGEN. — [FROM "CYMBELINE."]
66. 66.SIGH NO MORE, LADIES. — [FROM "MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING."]
67. 67.SUNSHINE AND CLOUD. — [SONNET XXXIII.]
68. 68.THE WORLD'S WAY. — [SONNET LXVI.] — BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
69. 69.Edmund Spenser.
70. 70.THE CAVE OF MAMMON. — NOTES. — FOOTNOTES:
71. 71.PROTHALAMION; or , A SPOUSALL VERSE. — NOTES. — BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
72. 72.Thomas Wyatt.
73. 73.A LOVE SONG. — The Lover complaineth of the Unkindness of his Love.
74. 74.THE COURTIER'S LIFE.
75. 75.The Earl of Surrey.
76. 76.FROM THE FOURTH BOOK OF VIRGIL'S "ÆNEID." — NOTE.
77. 77.A SONNET. — Description and Praise of his Love Geraldine.
78. 78.ON THE DEATH OF SIR THOMAS WYATT. — BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES.
79. 79.Ballads.
80. 80.WALY, WALY. — NOTES.
81. 81.SIR PATRICK SPENS. — A Scottish Ballad. — NOTES AND GLOSSARY.
82. 82.THE BAILIFF'S DAUGHTER OF ISLINGTON.
83. 83.ROBIN HOOD AND THE WIDOW'S THREE SONS. — NOTES.
84. 84.The Fifteenth Century. — Poets of the Fifteenth Century.
85. 85.John Skelton.
86. 86.TO MAYSTRESS MARGARET HUSSEY.
87. 87.CARDINAL WOLSEY. — [FROM "WHY COME YE NOT TO COURT?"] — NOTES. — BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
88. 88.Selections from Four Minor Poets.
89. 89.A VISIT TO LONDON. — By JOHN LYDGATE.
90. 90.THE GOLDEN AGE. — NOTE.
91. 91.THE GARMOND OF FAIR LADIES. — By ROBERT HENRYSON.
92. 92.A MAY MORNING. — By WILLIAM DUNBAR. — NOTE.
93. 93.IN PRAISE OF HONOUR. — By GAWAIN DOUGLAS.
94. 94.FOUR POETS OF THIS CENTURY.
95. 95.The Fourteenth Century. — Poets of the Fourteenth Century.
96. 96.Geoffrey Chaucer.
97. 97.FROM THE "PROLOGUE TO THE CANTERBURY TALES." — NOTES. — ON READING CHAUCER. — BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
98. 98.INDEX TO NOTES.
99. 99.TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES

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