About the Book
This work talks about form and meaning in the sonnet, a form of poetry, reasoning in philosophy, and the Colosseum among the Classics. This material is for use with Blocks 1-2 from the course.
Table of Contents:
CONTENTS: SECTION A, Form and meaning in poetry: the sonnet; A1 Petrarch, 'Blest be the day, and blest the month, the year'; A2 'Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'Farewell, Love'; A3 Sir Thomas Wyatt, 'Whoso list to hunt'; A4 Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, 'Set me whereas the sun doth parch the green'; A5 Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, 'The golden gift that Nature did thee give'; A6 Sir Walter Raleigh, 'To his Son'; A7 Edmund Spenser, 'One day I wrote her name upon the strand'; A8 Edmund Spenser, 'This holy season, fit to fast and pray'; A9 Sir Philip Sidney, 'With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies'; A10 Sir Philip Sidney, 'The Bargain'; A11 William Shakespeare, 'Weary with toil I haste me to my bed'; A12 William Shakespeare, 'When, in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes'; A13 William Shakespeare, 'What is your substance, whereof are you made?'; A14 William Shakespeare, 'Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore'; A15 William Shakespeare, 'Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea'; A16 William Shakespeare, 'No longer mourn for me when I am dead'; A17 William Shakespeare, 'That time of year thou mayst in me behold'; A18 William Shakespeare, 'Let me not to the marriage of true minds'; A19 William Shakespeare, 'My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun'; A20 John Donne, 'Death, be not proud'; A21 John Donne, 'At the round earth's imagin'd corners, blow'; A22 George Herbert, 'Redemption'; A23 George Herbert, 'The Answer'; A24 John Milton, 'To the Lord General Cromwell, May 1652'; A25 John Milton, 'How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth' 27 A26 John Milton, 'Methought I saw my late espouse'd saint'; A27 Anna Seward, 'Sonnet. December Morning'; A28 Anna Seward, 'Sonnet. To the Poppy'; A29 Charlotte Smith, 'Sonnet Written at the Close of Spring'; A30 Charlotte Smith, 'Sonnet Written in the Church Yard at Middleton in Sussex'; A31 William Wordsworth, 'Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room'; A32 William Wordsworth, 'London, 1802'; A33 William Wordsworth, 'Composed upon Westminster Bridge'; A34 William Wordsworth, 'Scorn not the Sonnet'; A35 Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 'To the River Otter'; A36 Percy Bysshe Shelley, 'England in 1819'; A37 Percy Bysshe Shelley, 'Ozymandias'; A38 John Keats, 'To Sleep'; A39 John Keats, 'When I have fears that I may cease to be'; A40 John Keats, 'On First Looking into Chapman's Homer'; A41 John Keats, 'Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art'; A42 John Clare, 'Winter Fields'; A43 John Clare, 'The Vixen'; A44 John Clare, 'England, 1830'; A45 John Clare, 'Sonnet: I Am'; A46 Charles Tennyson Turner, 'Letty's Globe'; A47 Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 'If thou must love me, let it be for nought'; A48 Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 'Beloved, thou has brought me many flowers'; A49 George Meredith, 'By this he knew she wept with waking eyes'; A50 George Meredith, 'We saw the swallows gathering in the sky'; A51 George Meredith, 'Thus piteously Love closed what he begat' 47 A52 Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 'Introductory Sonnet to The House of Life'; A53 Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 'Nuptial Sleep'; A54 Christina Rossetti, 'Come back to me, who wait and watch for you'; A55 Christina Rossetti, 'Youth gone, and beauty gone'; A56 Christina Rossetti, 'Remember'; A57 Thomas Hardy, 'A Church Romance'; A58 Thomas Hardy, 'Hap'; A59 Gerard Manley Hopkins, 'The Windhover'; A60 Gerard Manley Hopkins, 'God's Grandeur'; A61 Gerard Manley Hopkins, 'No worst, there is none'; A62 Gerard Manley Hopkins, 'I wake and feel the fell of dark'; A63 William Butler Yeats, 'Leda and the Swan'; A64 Rupert Brooke, 'The Soldier'; A65 Claude McKay, 'The White House'; A66 Claude McKay, 'If we must die'; A67 Edna St Vincent Millay, 'What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why'; A68 Wilfred Owen, 'Anthem for Doomed Youth'; A69 Wilfred Owen, 'Hospital Barge at Ce'risy'; A70 Charles Hamilton Sorley, 'When you see millions of the mouthless dead'; A71 Edmund Blunden, 'Vlamertinghe: Passing the Cha^teau, July, 1917'; A72 Dylan Thomas, 'Altarwise by owl-light in the half-way house'; A73 Dylan Thomas, 'Let the tale's sailor from a Christian voyage'; A74 Gwendolyn Brooks, 'First fight. Then fiddle'; A75 Gwendolyn Brooks, 'What shall I give my children?'; A76 John Gillespie Magee, 'High Flight'; A77 Derek Walcott, Chapters III, VI and X of 'Tales of the Islands'; A78 R.S. Thomas, Composition'; A79 Edwin Morgan, 'A mean wind wanders through the backcourt trash'; A80 Edwin Morgan, 'See a tenement due for demolition'; A81 Douglas Dunn, 'A Silver Air Force'; A82 Douglas Dunn, 'The Kaleidoscope'; A83 Douglas Dunn, 'Sandra's Mobile'; A84 Tony Harrison, 'On Not Being Milton'; A85 Tony Harrison, 'Them & [uz]'; A86 Tony Harrison, 'Book Ends'; A87 Tony Harrison, 'Continuous'; A88 Seamus Heaney, 'Fear of affectation made her affect'; A89 Seamus Heaney, 'The cool that came off sheets just off the line'; A90 Seamus Heaney, 'I thought of walking round and round a space'; A91 Wendy Cope, 'Faint Praise'; A92 Wendy Cope, 'Strugnell's Bargain'; A93 Wendy Cope, 'The Sitter'; A94 Dana Gioia, 'Sunday Night in Santa Rosa'; SECTION B Philosophy: reasoning, B1 Bryan Magee, What makes a thinker a philosopher?; B2 What can philosophy contribute to public debate?; B3 Mary Warnock, What is the value of studying philosophy?; B4 Nigel Warburton, What is philosophy?; B5 James Rachels, Active and passive euthanasia; SECTION C Classics: the Colosseum Paula James, Introduction to Section C; C1 Martial, On the spectacles; C2 Apuleius, The ass in the arena; C3 Apuleius, The robbers' tale; C4 Pliny the Younger, Letter to Valerius Maximus; C5 Suetonius, The Emperor Titus; C6 Cicero, Pompey's shows; C7 Statius, The tame lion; C8 Cicero, Letter; C9 Seneca, Letter 7; C10 St Augustine, The story of Alypius; C11 Thomas Wiedemann, Emperors, gladiators and Christians; C12 John Pearson, On the Colosseum; C13 (a) and (b) Thomas Wiedemann, Emperors and gladiators; C14 Keith Hopkins, Murderous games; C15 G. Jennison, Animals for show and pleasure in Ancient Rome; C16 K.M. Coleman, Fatal charades
