16th and 17th Century Verse

Magdi Wahba

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The sixteenth century has long been acknowledged the Golden Age of English verse - with such names as Shakespeare, Donne, and Spenser to its credit it could hardly be otherwise. Hailed as a veritable treasure house (London Review of Books) and magnificent, heartening (The Observer), this brilliant anthology includes both undisputed masterpieces and brilliant but hitherto neglected gems. It is the first to reveal the full range and diversity of the centurys poetic riches. Readers will find poems from a who's who of English verse, including work by Shakespeare, Sir Philip Sydney, Christopher Marlowe, John Lyly, Sir Walter Ralegh, Ben Jonson, Thomas Campion, John Skelton, Sir Thomas More, Edmund Spencer, Thomas Dekker, Thomas Lodge, Fulke Greville, and John Donne, to name a few. There are excerpts from Arthur Goldings famed translation of Ovids Metamorphoses and Spencers Faerie Queene. Now reissued with a clear, clean design, here is the most complete picture available of the poetic vitality of the sixteenth century.

Sujets

• ENGLISH LITERATURE

Informations

• Publié par: The Anglo-Egyptian Bookshop
• Date de parution: 01 janvier 1990
• Nombre de lectures: 3
• EAN13: 9796500118390
• Langue: English

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16 th and 17 th CENTURY VERSE

Chosen By: MAGDI WAHBA

THE ANGLO-EGYPTIAN BOOKSHOP

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Wahba , Magdi . th th 16 and 17 Century Verse Edited By / Magdi Wahba Cairo : The Anglo – Egyptian Bookshop , 296 P. – 14×20 cm . I – Title Deposit Number : 9670/ 1990 Press: MOHAMED ABD AL KAREM PRESS Publisher: The Anglo Egyptian Bookshop Address : 165 Mohamed Farid St. Cairo – Egypt Tel : (+2) [phone] Fax : (+2) [phone] E-mail : [e-mail] Website : www.anglo-egyptian.com

PREFACE The aim of this anthology is to provide a text of sixteenth and seventeenth century English poetry for students in the various Universities and Institutes of Higher Studies of the United Arab Republic. I have allowed myself, however, to supplement the cur- rent requirements with a body of verse of my own choice. This, it is hoped, would give wider representation to an extremely rich and varied period of English poetry. In order to save space, certain sacrifices have had to be made: Although I have tried to represent most of the major poets as well as the more important dramatists and writers of fiction in this period, I have not included any examples of the poetry written by the historians, philosophers and antiquarians, whose poetical output has often been of some distinction. Reluctantly, I have also omitted the poetry of gifted Scotsmen such as William Dunbar, Gavin Douglas and Sir David Lindsay, whose place in most anthologies of English poetry is rightly assured. One consideration which gov- erned my decision was the linguistic difficulty which these texts would present to the average reader of this anthology. Furthermore, as it has not been possible to include all the well-known poets of the period, the choice was deliberately limited to those poets for whom I was able to establish a preference. This has meant that I have had, perhaps unjustly in some cases, to discard examples of the poetry of Alexander Barclay, George Gascoigne, Nicholas Bre- ton, Richard Barnfield, George Sandys, Francis Quarles, William Habington and Sir William Davenant. Again, on the assumption that most readers are already familiar with Dr. Rashad Rushdy'sA Little Treasury of English PoetryLotus Books; 19J7), I (Cairo, have not included any poems which appear in his anthology. The poems have been arranged chronologically, according to the dates of their composition, whenever these could be ascer- tained, or according to the dates of their first appearance in print. Spelling, capitalisation and punctuation have been modernised, un- less confusion in the poetic intention were thereby produced. The titles of the poems and poetical extracts are in brackets whenever they have been composed by me or by previous anthologists.

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finally, I should like to record a debt of gratitude to Mr. S. A. Diamantis, whose invaluable help and sound advice have attended every stage of the compilation of this anthology.

M.W.

CONTENTS ANONYMOUS : (Earthly Companions) ANONYMOUS : The Nutbrown Maid JOHN SKELTON : (A Curse upon a Cat)

JOHN HEYWOOD : On the Princess Mary

SIR THOMAS WYATT :

Whoso list to hunt

(Remembrance)

HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF SURREY :

(A Lady Complains of her Lover's Absence)

MR. S. MR. OF ART ? : A Song

NICHOLAS UDALL. : (A Woman's Prayer)

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THOMAS SACKVILLE, EARL OF DORSET : (Sleep) EDMUND SPENSER : (Elisa) (The Bower of Bliss) Like as a ship Epithalamion Prothalamion (The Mask of Mutability) SIR PHILIP SIDNEY : Loving in truth A Litany THOMAS KYD : (To Horatio) CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE :

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26 28 30 31

32 37 41 42 59 67

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(Beauty Inexpressible) (Helen) Hero and Leander ROBERT GREENE : Sephestia's Song GEORGE PEELE : (A Farewell to Arms)

THOMAS LODGE : (Rosalind's Description)

SIR JOHN HARINGTON : (Rogero and Angelica)

JOHN LYLY ? : (A Song of Daphne to the Lute).

ROBERT SOURHWELL : The Burning Babe

SIR JOHN DAVIES : (Dancings of the Air)

SAMUEL DANIEL :

Pages 79  79  80  85 87  88  91 93  94  95

(English Poetry) 97 Ulysses and the Siren 99 THOMAS NASHE : In Plague Time 102 EDWARD FAIRFAX : (Pluto) 104

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE :

(The Courser and the Jennet)

Sonnets xxix, lv, cvi, cvii

The lunatic, the lover and the poet (Sad Stories of the Death of Kings) If Music be the food of love (On Degree) (The Way to Dusty Death) Ariel's Song (Such Stuff as Dreams are made on)

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Pages SIR WALTER RALEIGH : The Passionate Man's Pilgrimage. 116 THOMAS CAMPION : My Sweetest Lesbia 120 (Winter Nights) 121 JOHN DONNE: The Dream 122 The Ecstasy 123 (The Soul's Ignorance) 126 From The Progresse of the Soule 127 (Holy Sonnet) 131 Hymn to God, My God, in my Sickness 132 BEN JONSON : Epitaph on Salathiel Pavy, A Child of Queen Elizabeth's Chapel 134 To the Memory of my Beloved the Author Master William Shakespeare And What he hath Left Us. 135 The Triumph of Charis 138 (The Noble Nature) 139 An Ode to Himself 140 (The Noble Balm) 141 JOHN MARSTON : Prologue 143 THOMAS DEKKER : Song 145 THOMAS HEYWOOD : Matin Song 146 FRANCIS BEAUMONT : From Mr. Francis Beaumont's Letter to Ben Jonson 147

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CYRIL TOURNEUR : (Memento Mori)

FULKE GREVILLE, FIRST BARON BROOKE :

Oh Wearisome Condition GILES FLETCHER : (Christ's Triumph after Death) JOHN WEBSTER : (The Dirge for Marcello) (The Call of Death) (Remorse) (Wake Song) GEORGE CHAPMAN : (The Death of Hector) (The Sirens' Song) SIR HENRY WOTTON : On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia GEORGE WITHER : (The Lover's Resolution) WILLIAM DRUMMOND or HAWTHORNDEN : Madrigal MICHAEL DRAVTON : To the Virginian Voyage (Song) PHILI P MASSINGER : (A Father's Power) WILLIAM BROWNE : On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke THOMAS MIDDLETON ; (A Deed's Creature) JOHN FLETCHER :

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Pages Beauty Clear and Fair 175 (Melancholy) 176 HENRY KING, BISHOP OF CHICHESTER : The Exequy 177 EDWARD, BARON HERBERT OF CHERBURY : An Ode upon A Question Moved, Whether Love Should Continue For Ever 182 GEORGE HERBERT: Virtue 189 Affliction 190 The Collar 191 JOHN FORD : Song 193 THOMAS CAREW ; A Deposition From Love 194 To A Lady That Desired I Would Love Her 195 A Song 196 SIR JOHN SUCKLING : A Ballad Upon A Wedding. 198 HENRY MORE : From An Hymn in Honour of those two Despised Virtues, Charity and Humility 204 EDMUND WALLER : On a Girdle 205 ROBERT HERRICK : Corinna's going a Maying 206 To Violets 209 His Poetry His Pillar 209 Lyric for Legacies 210 To Music to becalm his Fever 211