About the Book
Responding to the broadening of the canon in recent years, this accessible anthology makes available the most important poetry and prose from the period between the accession of Henry VIII in 1509 and the English Revolution of 1640. Arranged chronologically, generous selections of familiar Renaissance figures, such as More, Wyatt, Tyndale, Spenser, Sidney, Shakespeare, Bacon, and Donne, are complemented by a strong emphasis on women writers, including Queen Elizabeth, Aemilia Lanyer, Rachel Speght, Mary Sidney, Martha Moulsworth, Lady Mary Wroth, and Elizabeth Cary. A range of prose works, including biblical translations, illustrates the development of English prose style over the period. The volume also offers a copious selection of carols, ballads, songs, and hymns. Helpful introductions and annotations to the newly-edited texts reflect recent developments in cultural and critical theory as well as the current state of Renaissance scholarship. The anthology also contains cross-references to material available on the Internet.
Table of Contents:
Alphabetical List Of Authors.Preface.Introduction: The Renaissance In Cultural And Critical Theory.John Skelton (1460? - 1529):Woefully Arrayed.Philip Sparrow Part I.A Laud And Praise Made For Our Sovereign Lord The King.Sir Thomas More (1477/8 - 1535):A Lamentation Of Queen Elizabeth.From Utopia.The Translator To The Gentle Reader.The Epistle.The Confutation Of Tyndale's Answer.From The Preface To The Christian Reader.The Princes' Murder From The History Of King Richard III.From A Dialogue Of Comfort Against Tribulation.Letter To Margaret Roper, 5 July 1535.Sir Thomas Elyot (1490 - 1546):From The Book Named The Governor.King Henry VIII (1491 - 1547):With Owt Dyscorde.O My Hart.William Tyndale (1494 - 1536):From The Obedience Of A Christian Man.The Interpretation Of Scripture.From Tyndale's Translation Of The New Testament.W. T. Unto The Reader.The Gospel Of Saint Matthew.The Gospel Of Saint Mark.The Gospel Of Saint Luke.The Gospel Of Saint John.Tyndale's Translation Of Luther's A Prologue To The Epistle Of Paul To The Romans.The Epistle Of The Apostle St Paul To The Romans.Sir Thomas Wyatt (C.1503 - 1542):From Certain Psalms.Prologue.Psalm 51. Miserere Mei Domine.Psalm 102. Domine Exaudi Orationem Meam.Psalm 130. De Profundis Clamavi.Poems Attributed To Wyatt In The Egerton Manuscript And In Tottel's Miscellany.The Long Love.Whoso List To Hunt.My Galley.Unstable Dream.If Waker Care.The Pillar Perished.Farewell, Love.Sometime I Fled The Fire.Tagus, Farewell.Sighs Are My Food.Lucks, My Fair Falcon.Throughout The World.In Court To Serve.They Flee From Me.Madam, Withouten Many Words.And Wilt Thou Leave Me Thus?My Lute, Awake!Mine Own John Poyntz.John Knox (1505 - 1572):From The First Blast Of The Trumpet Against The Monstrous Regiment Of Women.Henry Howard, Earl Of Surrey (1517 - 1547).Translations From The Aeneid.From Book II [The Death Of Creusa.From Book IV The Suicide Of Dido.Psalm 55.When Ragyng Love.The Soote Season.Set Me Wheras The Sonne.Love That Doth Raine.I Never Saw Youe.Alas, So All Thinges Nowe Doe Holde Their Peace.From Tuscan Cam.The Sonne Hath Twyse Brought For the.Geve Place, Ye Lovers.Such Waiwarde Waies.Wrapt In My Carelesse Cloke.London, Hast Thow Accused Me.W. Resteth Here.John Foxe (1517 - 1587):From Acts And Monuments Of These Latter And Perilous Days.Story And Martyrdom Of Anne Askew.Life And Martyrdom Of William Tyndale.John Stow (1525? - 1605):From The Survey Of London.Sports And Pastimes Of Old Time Used In This City.Richard Mulcaster (1530? - 1611):From Positions Concerning The Training Up Of Children.How Much A Woman Ought To Learn.Queen Elizabeth I (1533 - 1603):Written On A Window Frame At Woodstock.Written With A Diamond.Twas Christ The Word.No Crooked Leg.The Doubt Of Future Foes.On Monsieur's Departure.When I Was Fair And Young.Now Leave And Let Me Rest.Verse Exchange Between Queen Elizabeth And Sir Walter Raleigh.Elizabeth To Raleigh.Song On The Armada Victory, December 1588.Letter From Princess Elizabeth To Queen Mary, August 2, 1556.Queen Elizabeth's First Speech, Hatfield, November 20, 1558.A Copy Of "The Golden Speech" From The Papers Of Sir Thomas Egerton, Privy Councillor.Prayer On The Defeat Of The Spanish Armada, September 1588.George Gascoigne (C.1534 - 1577):From A Hundreth Surdrie Flowres.Gascoigne's Woodmanship.Gascoigne's Goodnight.Certain Sermons of Homilies (1547, 1563):A Fruitful Exhortation To The Reading And Knowledge Of Holy Scripture.An Exhortation Concerning Good Order, And Obedience To Rulers And Magistrates.An Information For Them Which Take Offence At Certain Places Of The Holy Scripture.An Homily Of The State Of Matrimony.The Book of Common Prayer (1548):An Ordre For Mattyns Dayly Through The Yere.The Order Of The Purificacion Of Woemen.Anonymous Carols:All This Time.Tydynges, Tydynges.Now Let Vs Syng.Syng We With Myrth.Synge We All.By Reason Of Two.Shall I, Moder, Shall I?Gawde, For Thy Joyes Five.Of All Creatures Women Be Best.Grene Growith The Holy.Edmund Spenser (1552 - 1599):From The Shepheardes Calender.Aprill.Amoretti.Epithalamion.From The Faerie Oueene.A Letter Of The Authors Expounding His Whole Intention...To Raleigh.Book II.Two Cantos Of Mutabilitie.From A View Of The State Of Ireland.Richard Hakluyt (1553? - 1616):From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, And Discoveries Of The English Nation.John Lyly (1553? - 1606):From Euphues: The Anatomy Of Wit.John Florio (1553? - 1625):From The Essayes Of Michael Lord Of Montaigne.Of The Cannibals.Sir Walter Raleigh (C.1552 - 1618):Praised Be Diana's Fair And Harmless Light.Like To A Hermit Poor.Conceit Begotten By The Eyes.As You Came From The Holy Land.The Nymph's Reply To The Shepherd.The Lie.A Farewell To False Love.Verses Made The Night Before He Died.The 21st And Last Book Of The Ocean To Cynthia.Sir Philip Sidney (1554 - 1586):The Defense Of Poesy.Astrophil And Stella.Miscellaneous Poetry.Poems From The Countess Of Pembroke's Arcadia.From The Psalms Of David.Thomas Harriot (1560 - 1621) And John White (1540? - 1590):From A Briefe And True Report Of The New Found Land Of Virginia.The Arriual Of The Englishemen In Virginia.A Weroan Or Great Lorde Of Virginia.On Of The Chieff Ladyes Of Secota.On Of The Religeous Men In The Towne Of Secota.A Younge Gentill Woeman Daughter Of Secota.Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626):From The New Organon. .From Essays Or Counsels, Civil And Moral.Of Truth.Of Death.Of Unity In Religion.Of Simulation And Dissimulation.Of Marriage And The Single Life.Of Love.Of Nobility.Of Travel.Of Counsel.Of Cunning.Of Innovations.Of Discourse.Of Plantations.Of Masques And Triumphs.Of Nature In Men.Of Custom And Education.Of Usury.Of Beauty.Of Deformity.Of Studies.Of Vicissitude Of Things.New Atlantis.Robert Southwell (1561 - 1595):The Burning Babe.Decease Release.Man's Civil War.Look Home.Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess Of Pembroke (1561 - 1621):To The Angell Spirit Of The Most Excellent Sir Phillip Sidney.From The Psalms Of Sir Philip Sidney And The Countess Of Pembroke.Psalm 44 Deus, Auribus.Psalm 59 Eripe Me De Inimicis.Psalm 138 Confitebor Tibi.Psalm 139 Domine, Probasti.Psalm 149 Cantate Domino.Psalm 150 Laudate Dominum.Robert Sidney (1563 - 1626):Sonnet 15.Pastoral 7.Sonnet 16.Sonnet 17.Pastoral 5.Sonnet 18.Sonnet 19.Sonnet 20.The Mirror for Magistrates (1563 - 1587):The Induction.Cardinal Wolsey.Christopher Marlowe (1564 - 1593):Hero And Leander.From All Ovid's Elegies.The Passionate Shepherd To His Love.William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616):The Rape Of Lucrece.Sonnets.Thomas Campion (1567 - 1620):From A Booke Of Ayres.To The Reader.I - XXI.Female Persona Lyrics.2:IX2:XV3:IV3:XVI3:XXVII4:IX4:XIII4:XVIII4:XXIVFrom The Third Booke Of Ayres.3:XIIThomas Nashe (1567 - 1601):The Choice Of Valentines. milia Lanyer (1569 - 1645):From Salve Deus Rex Judaorum.The Description Of Cooke-Ham.Ben Jonson (1572 - 1637):From Epigrams.11. On Something That Walks Somewhere.14. To William Camden.22. On My First Daughter.23. To John Donne.45. On My First Son.52. To Censorious Courtling.62. To Fine Lady Would-Be.76. On Lucy, Countess Of Bedford.83. To A Friend.89. To Edward Alleyn.101. Inviting A Friend To Supper.02. To William, Earl Of Pembroke.105. To Mary, Lady Wroth.110. To Clement Edmondes, On His Caesar's Commentaries Observed And Translated.118. On Gut.134. On The Famous Voyage.From The Forest.1. Why I Write Not Of Love.2. To Penshurst.4. To The World.5. Song: To Celia.9. Song: To Celia.15. To Heaven.From Underwoods.2. A Celebration Of Charis In Ten Lyric Pieces.His Excuse For Loving.Her Triumph.His Discourse With Cupid.9. My Picture Left In Scotland.23. An Ode. To Himself.29. A Fit Of Rhyme Against Rhyme.47. An Epistle Answering To One That Asked To Be Sealed Of The Tribe Of Ben.70. To The Immortal Memory And Friendship Of That Noble Pair, Sir Lucius Cary And Sir H. Morison.Miscellaneous Poems.To The Memory Of My Beloved, The Author, Mr. William Shakespeare, And What He Hath Left Us.To A Friend. An Epigram Of Him .Ode.John Donne (1572 - 1631):From Songs And Sonnets.Air And Angels.The Anniversary.The Apparition.The Bait.The Blossom.Break Of Day.The Broken Heart.The Canonization.Community.The Computation.The Curse.The Damp.The Dissolution.The Dream.The Ecstasy.The Expiration.A Fever.The Flea.The Funeral.The Good-Morrow.The Indifferent.A Lecture Upon The Shadow.The Legacy.Lovers' Infiniteness.Love's Alchemy.Love's Deity.Love's Diet.Love's Exchange.Love's Growth.Love's Usury.The Message.Negative Love.A Nocturnal Upon St Lucy's Day, Being The Shortest Day.The Paradox.The Primrose.The Prohibition.The Relic.Song.Song.The Sun Rising.Twickenham Garden.The Undertaking.A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning.A Valediction: Of Weeping.The Will.Woman's Constancy.Elegy 1 Jealousy.Elegy 2 The Anagram.Elegy 3 Change.Elegy 9 The Autumnal.Elegy 16 On His Mistress.Elegy 18 Love's Progress.Elegy 19 To His Mistress Going To Bed.The First Anniversary: An Anatomy Of The World.From Holy Sonnets: 1 - 7, 9 - 11, 13.Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward.Hymn To God My God, In My Sickness.From Devotions.XVII. Nunc Lento Sonitu Dicunt, Morieris.Richard Barnfield (1574 - 1627):The Affectionate Shepheard.Sonnets.John Marston (1576 - 1634):Satire II.To Everlasting Oblivion.Martha Moulsworth (1577 - ?):Nouember The 10th 1632, The Memorandum Of Martha Moulsworth Widdowe.Elizabeth (Tanfield) Cary, Lady Falkland (1585 - 1639):From The Tragedy Of Mariam, The Fair Queen Of Jewry.To Diana's Earthly Deputess, And My Worthy Sister, Mistress Elizabeth Cary.The Argument.Actus Primus. Scena Prima.Lady Mary (Sidney) Wroth (1586? - 1651?):Pamphilia To Amphilanthus.Part IFrom The Countess Of Montgoery's Urania.George Wither (1588 - 1667):From A Collection Of Emblemes Ancient And Moderne.As Soone, As Wee To Bee, Begunne; We Did Beginne, To Be Vndone.o Passage Can Divert The Course, Of Pegasus, The Muses Horse.Live, Ever Mindfull Of Thy Dying; For, Time Is Alwayes From Thee Flying.For Whatsoever, Man Doth Strive, The Conquest, God Alone, Doth Give.How Ever Thou The Viper Take, A Dang'rous Hazzard Thou Dost Make.In All Thine Actions, Have A Care, That No Unseemlinesse Appeare.Anonymous Ballads (C.1590):My Lady Greensleeves.In Praise Of Ale.Robin Goodfellow.The Spanish Armado.George Herbert (1593 - 1633):From The Temple.The Altar.The Sacrifice.The Thanksgiving.The Reprisal.The Agony.Good Friday.Redemption.Sepulchre.Easter Wings.Easter.H. Baptism (I).H. Baptism (II).Sin (I).Affliction (I).Prayer (I).Prayer (II).The H. Communion.Church Lock-And-Key.Love I.Love II.The Temper (I).The Temper (II).Jordan (I).Employment (I).The H. Scriptures I.The H. Scriptures II.Whitsunday.Grace.Church Monuments.Church Music.The Windows.The Quiddity.Sunday.Employment (II).Denial.Christmas.The World.Vanity (I).Virtue.The Pearl. Matth. 13. Affliction (IV).Man.Life.Mortification.Jordan (II).Obedience.The British Church.The Quip.Iesu.Dialogue.Dullness.Sin's Round.Peace.The Bunch Of Grapes.The Storm.Paradise.The Size.Artillery.The Pilgrimage.The Bag.The Collar.Joseph's Coat.The Pulley.The Search.The Flower.The Son.A True Hymn.Bitter-SweetAaron.The Forerunners.Discipline.The Banquet.The Elixir.A Wreath.Death.Doomsday.Judgement.Heaven.Love (III)Izaak Walton (1593 - 1683):From The Compleat Angler.Part II: Chapter VII.Rachel Speght (1597 - ?):A Movzell For Melastomus.England's Helicon (1600):The Unknowne Sheepheards Complaint.Another Of The Same Sheepheards.Phillidaes Love-Call To Her Coridon, And His Replying.The Sheepheards Description Of Love.The Sheepheardes Sorrow For His Phabes Disdaine.Olde Melibeus Song, Courting His Nimph.A Nimphs Disdaine Of Love.The Sheepheard To The Flowers.The Sheepheards Slumber.Another Of The Same Nature, Made Since.Thirsis The Sheepheard, To His Pipe.Dispraise Of Love, And Lovers Follies.An Heroicall Poeme.The Lovers Absence Kils Me, Her Presence Kils Me.Love The Only Price Of Love.A Defiance To Disdainefull Love.Philistus Farewell To False Clorinda.Lycoris The Nimph, Her Sad Song.The Sheepheards Consort.The Heard-Mans Happie Life.To Amarillis.Of Phillida.Philon The Sheepheard, His Song.Myles Smith (D. 1624):The Translators To The Reader - The Preface To The Authorized Verion (King James Bible).Gazetteer.Bibliography.Index Of Introductions And Notes.Index Of Titles And First Lines.
About the Author :
Michael Payne is John P. Crozer Professor of English at Bucknell University. He is the editor of 'A Dictionary of Cultural and Critical Theory' (Blackwell Publishers, 1996) and the author of 'Reading Theory' (Blackwell Publishers, 1993) and 'Reading Knowledge' (Blackwell Publishers, 1997). John Hunter is Assistant Professor of English at Bucknell University. Previous publications include essays on Francis Bacon and on early modern drama.
Review :
Arranged chronologically, these selections of prose pieces, carols, ballads, songs, and hymns contain introductory notes, suggested readings, and footnotes. Also included are bibliographical references, indexes, and cross references to the Internet resources. Strongly recommended for all libraries." Library Journal
