hope and joy, the sorrow and despair, the fixed resolve and the unquenchable aspiration of those who have striven and labored and held on high the torch of clear thinking, of high ideals, and of worthy living Here we behold the dawn of a new literature, the gradual mastery of word and phrase through which artistic perfection of many kinds is attained. Among this distinguished company are the poets, essayists, and novelists who have expressed in lasting form the meaning which they found in the interesting world about them. The most satisfactory method for any person who wishes to gain the greatest profit and pleasure from literature is to read it, unencumbered with so-called “helps” and annotations. Its highest function is not to inform but to delight. We have tried to supply a thread of simple, critical comment, as introductory to the respective sections, to which the reader may turn for assistance in acquiring a connected story of the development of English literature. But we believe this is secondary in importance to the literature itself which is its own best advocate. For the intimate association that attaches to the representation of the writers themselves, we have here reproduced the portraits of some of the best known of English poets, prose writers, and novelists. We cherish the hope that this book, brought together after many years of pleasurable reading and choosing, may point the way to some of the greatest delights and happiest experiences that can come to those who will to live fully and nobly. THE ELIZABETHANS AND JACOBEANS Sir Francis Drake on the Pacific Coast 81 Fashionable Ladies THOMAS DEKKER (c. 1570-c. 1641) 86 How a Gallant Should Behave Himself 88 Sir Walter RALEIGH (1552 ?-1618) 88 The Last Fight of the Revenge CAPTAIN JOHN Smith (1580-1631) 112 Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind 115 It Was a Lover and His Lass I21 Take, O Take Those Lips Away 127 When to the sessions of sweet silent thought Like as the waves make toward the pebbled shore That time of year thou may'st in me behold Let me not to the marriage of true minds Age, Wrinkles, Ruin, and Death On the Late Massacre in Piedmont The Lady Puritan and the Preachers 142 On Feathers, Muffs, and Swords EDWARD, LORD HERBERT OF CHERBURY Oxford Dedicates the Theatre . Christian's Fight with Apollyon . . . The Constant Lover. Cherry-Ripe 190 The Bracelet: To Julia Why so Pale and Wan?. 190 ( viii] 190 191 (Student's Book) To a Child of Quality Five Years Old . 290 Introduction from Songs of Innocence On the Receipt of My Mother's Picture 291 On the Loss of the Royal George . 293 Of A' the Airts the Wind Can Blaw Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton Col- 297 My Heart's in the Highlands Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard 298 John Anderson My Jo. SOME EIGHTEENTH CENTURY LETTERS FRANCES BURNEY (MADAME D'ARBLAY) To the Countess of Pomfret To the Countess of Bute 322 William COWPER (1731-1800) 358 . 389 366 SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE (1772–1834) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner . 357 Here's a Health to King Charles GEORGE GORDON BYRON (1788–1824) From Childe Harold's Pilgrimage WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (1770-1850) Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Oh! Snatch'd Away in Beauty's Bloom 403 Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the The Destruction of Sennacherib Banks of the Wye During a Tour On This Day I Complete My Thirty- She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways 367 Sixth Year . My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold 374 Percy Bysshe SHELLEY (1792–1822) Lines Written Among the Euganean On the Extinction of the Venetian Re- Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Lines: “When the Lamp Is Shattered" The World Is Too Much With Us 383 On First Looking into Chapman's |
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