On the whole, it's a broad and (IMHO) not terribly surprising list, composed of the big, widely anthologized names. And I've got not problem with that: I'm all about readily accessible texts. It's a deceptively long list: the naming of specific short verse selections gives it a false impression of excessive bulk. In simple page length, it's much short than the Middle English list, though it has many, many more individual items. Which is better? Not sure now, but I'll bet I'll have an opinion come the end of March!
I. PRIMARY WORKS
Marvell, Andrew:
* Miscellaneous verse selections
"The Coronet"Ascham, Roger:
"Bermudas"
"A Dialogue Between the Soul and Body"
"The Nymph Complaining for the Death of her Fawn"
"To His Coy Mistress"
"The Definition of Love"
"The Picture of LIttle T.C. in a Prospect of Flowers"
"The Mower Against Gardens"
"Damon the Mower"
"The Mower to the Glowworms"
"The Mower's Song"
"The Garden"
"An Horatian Ode"
* The Schoolmaster (excerpts from Norton and Longman)
Jonson, Ben:
* Epigrams
“On Something, That Walks Somewhere”* The Forest
“On My First Daughter”
“To John Donne”
“On My First Son”
“Inviting a Friend to Supper”
“To Penshurst”* Underwood
“Song to Celia”
“To Heaven”
“A Sonnet to the Noble Lady, the Lady Mary Wroth”* Timber, or Discoveries (excerpts on poesy)
“Queen and Huntress”
“Still to Be Neat”
“To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare, and What He Hath Left Us”
“Ode to Himself”
Marlowe, Christopher:
* Hero and Leander
* "The Passionate Shepherd to his Love"
Spenser, Edmund:
* The Faerie Queene
* Amoretti
* Epithalamion
* The Shepheardes Calender
* Prothalamion
* View of the Present State of Ireland
Elizabeth I, Queen:
* Miscellaneous verse selections:
"The Doubt of Future Foes"* "Speech to the Troops at Tilbury"
"On Monsieur's Departure"
* Translation of Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy
Elyot, Sir Thomas:
* The Book Named the Governor
Foxe, John:
* Acts and Monuments (Book Three)
Bacon, Francis:
* Essays
“Of Truth”* The Advancement of Learning
“Of Marriage and Single Life”
“Of Great Place”
“Of Superstition”
“Of Plantations”
“Of Negotiating”
“Of Masques and Triumphs”
“Of Studies”
“The Abuses of Language”* The Great Instauration
“Divisions of Learning: History, Philosophy, and Poesy”
“Division of Poesy”
* Novum Organum (Preface and Book One)
* The New Atlantis
* The Wisdom of the Ancients
“Orpheus, or Philosophy”Herbert, George:
“Daedalus, or Mechanic”
“Sphynx, or Science”
* A Priest to the Temple
* The Temple
“The Altar”Vaughan, Henry:
“Redemption”
“Easter”
“Easter Wings”
“Affliction 1”
“Prayer 1”
“Jordan 1”
“Church Monuments”
“The Windows”
“Denial”
“Virtue”
“Man”
“Jordan 2”
“Time”
“The Bunch of Grapes”
“The Pilgrimage”
“The Holdfast”
“The Collar”
“The Pulley”
“The Flower”
“The Forerunners”
“Discipline”
“Death”
“Love 3”
* Silex Scintillans
“Regeneration”Hoby, Sir Thomas:
“The Retreat”
“Silence, and Stealth of Days”
“Corruption”
“Unprofitableness”
“The World”
“They Are All Gone into the World of Light!”
“Cock-Crowing”
“The Night”
“The Waterfall”
* Castiglione's Book of the Courtier (Book One)
Howard, Henry, Earl of Surrey:
* Miscellaneous verse selections:
"Love that Doth Reign and Live Within My Thought"Bunyan, John:
"The Soote Season"
"Alas! So All Things Now Do Hold Their Peace"
"Epitaph on Sir Thomas Wyatt"
* Pilgrim's Progress
* Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
John Donne:
* Miscellaneous verse selections:
“The Good Morrow”* Holy Sonnets
“Song”
“The Undertaking”
“The Sun Rising”
“The Indifferent”
“Air and Angels”
“Break of Day”
“A Valediction: Of Weeping”
“Love's Alchemy”
“The Flea”
“The Bait”
“The Apparition”
“A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”
“The Ecstasy”
“The Funeral”
“The Relic”
“Elegy 19: To His Mistress Going to Bed”
“Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward”
“A Hymn to God the Father”
* Devotions on Emergent Occasions
“Meditation 4”* “Death's Duel” (sermon)
“Meditation 17”
Lyly, John:
* Euphues
“Eupheus Introduced” (excerpt in Norton)Milton, John:
* Paradise Lost
* Paradise Regained
* Samson Agonistes
* Areopagitica
* De Doctrina Christiana (selections)
* Of Education
* Miscellaneous verse selections
“L'Allegro”Wroth, Lady Mary:
“Il Pensoroso”
“Lycidas”
“How Soon Hath Time”
“On the Late Massacre in Piedmont”
“When I Consider How My Light is Spent”
“Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint”
* Urania (excerpts from Norton)
Drayton, Michael:
* Harmony of the Church
* Idea
* Nimphidia
* Ballad of Agincourt
More, Sir Thomas:
* Utopia
* Miscellaneous verse selections
"Pageant Verses"Cranshaw, Richard:
"A Rueful Lamentation"
* Miscellaneous verse selections
"Shepherd's Hymn"Lovelace, Richard:
"On the Wounds of Our Crucified Lord"
"Saint Mary Magdalene or the Weeper"
“The Flaming Heart”
“To the Infant Martyrs”
“I Am the Door”
* Miscellaneous verse selections
“To Lucasta, Going to Wars”Herrick, Robert:
“The Grasshopper”
“To Althea, from Prison”
“Love Made in the First Age: To Chloris”
* Hesperides
“The Argument of His Book”* Noble Numbers
“Upon the Loss of His Mistresses”
“The Vine”
“Dreams”
“Delight in Disorder”
“His Farewell to Sack”
“Corinna's Going A-Maying”
“To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time”
“The Hock-Cart”
“How Roses Came Red”
“Upon the Nipples of Julia's Breast”
“Upon Jack and Jill. Epigram”
“To Marygolds”
“His Prayer to Ben Jonson”
“The Bad Season Makes the Poet Sad”
“The Night-Piece, to Julia”
“Upon His Verses”
“His Return to London”
“Upon Julia's Clothes”
“Upon Prue, His Maid”
“To His Book's End”
“Upon His Spaniel Tracie”
“To the Sour Reader”
“When He Would Have His Verses Read”
“The Vision”
“The Vine”
“To His Tomb-Maker”
“Upon Himself Being Buried”
“The Pillar of Fame”
“To His Conscience”Southwell, Robert:
“Another Grace for a Child”
“His Prayer for Absolution”
“To His Sweet Savior”
“To God, on His Sickness”
* Miscellaneous verse selections
“The Burning Babe”Sackville, Thomas, Earl of Dorset:
“Upon the Image of Death”
“Look Home”
* A Mirror for Magistrates
“Induction”Suckling, Sir John:
* Miscellaneous verse selections
“Loving and Beloved”* An Account of Religion by Reason
“Sonnet 1”
“Sonnet 2”
“Sonnet 3”
“Against Fruition 1”
“A Ballad upon a Wedding”
Sidney, Sir Philip:
*Astrophil and Stella
*Arcadia
* An Apology for Poetry
Raleigh, Sir Walter:
* Miscellaneous verse selections
"The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd"* The History of the World
"Sir Walter Raleigh to the Queen"
"A Poem of Sir Walter Raleighs"
"The Lie"
"Even Such is the Time Which Takes in Trust"
"Nature, That Washed Her Hands in Milk"
Book 1, Chapter 9 “Of the Beginning and Establishing of Government”Skelton, John:
* Miscellaneous verse selections
"Uppon a deedmans hed"* Colyn Cloute
"Manerly Margery Mylk and Ale"
* The Tunning of Elinour Rumming
Campion, Thomas:
* Observations in the Art of English Poesie
* Miscellaneous verse selections
“My Sweet Lesbia”Wyatt, Sir Thomas:
“I care not for these ladies”
“When to her lute Corinna sings”
“Rose-cheeked Laura”
“Now winter nights enlarge”
“There is a garden in her face”
“Fain would I wed”
* Miscellaneous verse selections
"The Longe Love, that in My Thought Doth Harbor"Burton, Robert:
"Whoso List to Hunt"
"Farewell, Love"
"My Galley"
"They Flee from Me"
"The Lover Showeth How He is Forsake"
"My Lute Awake"
* The Anatomy of Melancholy (excerpts from Norton)
William Shakespeare
* Sonnets
* Venus and Adonis
* The Rape of Lucrece
II. SECONDARY WORKS
* Stephen Greenblatt, Renaissance Self-Fashioning (Chicago, 2005)
* Jeffery Knapp, Shakespeare's Tribe (Chicago, 2002)
* Victoria Silver, Imperfect Sense (Princeton, 2001)
* Willy Maley, Nation, State, and Empire in Renaissance English Literature (New York, 2003)
* Andrew Hadfield, Edmund Spenser’s Irish experience (Oxford, 1997)
* Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities (London, 2006)
* Richard Helgerson, Forms of Nationhood (Chicago, 1992)
* Lori Humphrey Newcomb, Reading popular romance in early modern England (New York, 2002)
* Eamon Duffy, The Stripping of the Altars (New Haven, 2005)
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