A Book of Poetry from Spenser to Bridges de A. Watson Bain

A Book of Poetry from Spenser to Bridges

A. Watson Bain

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 feb 2012

Originally published in 1928, this anthology was created to provide readers aged fourteen upwards with a representation of English poetry from Spenser onwards. Selections were made with a view towards stimulating the interest of the young reader and encouraging an emotional and intellectual involvement in poetry. The material is ordered chronologically with the exception of two sections at the end of the text, which are devoted to sonnets and poems about death. This book will remain of value to anyone with an interest in English poetry and poetry anthologies.

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Prothalamion Edmund Spenser; God's ministering angles Edmund Spenser; The bower of bliss Edmund Spenser; Helen Christopher Marlowe; The passionate shepherd to his love Christopher Marlowe; The nymph's reply Sir Walter Raleigh; His pilgrimage Sir Walter Raleigh; Lines before death Sir Walter Raleigh; The inconstant nymph William Shakespeare; Men's inconstancy William Shakespeare; A lover's song William Shakespeare; A lover's lament William Shakespeare; England William Shakespeare; Mercy William Shakespeare; The end of the play William Shakespeare; Age and youth Anon; Tears Anon; Sister, awake! Anon; Preparations Anon; The man of life upright Thomas Campion; The happy life Sir Henry Wotton; To the memory of Shakespeare Ben Jonson; The noble nature Richard Barnfield; To blossoms Robert Herrick; To the virgins to make much of time Robert Herrick; To Anthea, who may command him anything Robert Herrick; The best beloved Francis Quarles; Virtue George Herbert; Song Thomas Carew; Death of the leveller James Shirley; The rose messenger Edmund Waller; Hymn on the morning of Christ's nativity John Milton; Lycidas John Milton; On Shakespeare John Milton; Eve to Adam John Milton; A ballad upon a wedding Sir John Suckling; The shepherd's song Richard Crashaw; To Lucasta on going to the wars Richard Lovelace; To Althea from Prison Richard Lovelace; A wish Abraham Cowley; Thoughts in a garden Andrew Marvell; Peace Henry Vaughan; The ways of wisdom Thomas Traherne; A song for Saint Cecilia's day John Dryden; Milton John Dryden; The music of the spheres Joseph Addison; Ode on solitude Alexander Pope; A little learning Alexander Pope; Newton Alexander Pope; Shakespeare Samuel Johnson; Elegy written in a country churchyard Thomas Gray; Dirge for Fidele William Collins; To Mary William Cowper; To spring William Blake; To a mountain daisy Robert Burns; Ae fond kiss Robert Burns; My Jean Robert Burns; O, wert thou in the cauld blast Robert Burns; To Mary in heaven Robert Burns; For a' that and a' that Robert Burns; Auld Lang Syne Robert Burns; Nature's child William Wordsworth; The solitary reaper William Wordsworth; Ode on intimations of immortality from recollections of early childhood William Wordsworth; Character of the happy warrior William Wordsworth; Ode to duty William Wordsworth; Coronach Sir Walter Scott; Jock o' Hazeldean Sir Walter Scott; Kubla Khan Samuel Taylor Coleridge; The old familiar faces Charles Lamb; Rose Aylmer Walter Savage Landor; Canadian boat song Anon; Hame, hame, hame Allan Cunningham; The isles of Greece George Gordon, Lord Byron; Time Percy Bysshe Shelley; To night Percy Bysshe Shelley; An Ionian isle Percy Bysshe Shelley; Ode to the west wind Percy Bysshe Shelley; Life and victory Percy Bysshe Shelley; The new Hellas Percy Bysshe Shelley; Memory Percy Bysshe Shelley; Love's insecurity Percy Bysshe Shelley; Ode to a nightingale John Keats; Ode on a Grecian urn John Keats; The forest maid William Cullen Bryant; The death-bed Thomas Hood; A Jacobite's epitaph Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay; Dark Rosaleen James Clarence Mangan; A musical instrument Elizabeth Barrett Browning; My lost youth Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; To Helen Edgar Allan Poe; Old Ironsides Oliver Wendell Holmes; Stanzas from Omar Khayyám Edward Fitzgerald; Ulysses Alfred, Lord Tennyson; Sir Galahad Alfred, Lord Tennyson; A prayer Alfred, Lord Tennyson; O swallow, swallow Alfred, Lord Tennyson; A small sweet idyl Alfred, Lord Tennyson; Come into the garden, Maud Alfred, Lord Tennyson; Calm Alfred, Lord Tennyson; To Virgil Alfred, Lord Tennyson; Evelyn Hope Robert Browning; My star Robert Browning; God's whisper Robert Browning; Parting at morning Robert Browning; Epilogue to Asolando Robert Browning; To the dandelion James Russell Lowell; To the man-of-war bird Walt Whitman; Star of France Walt Whitman; Prayer of Columbus Walt Whitman; Say not the