1 Index of Authors

Anonymous  

• “Cuckoo Song” 
• “Earth”
• “Spring Song”
• “When the Nightingale Sings”
• “Winter Song”
• “The Wanderer”
• “The Wife’s Lament”

Aemilia Lanyer

• “The Description of Cooke-ham”

Aphra Behn 

• Oroonoko

William Bradford 

• Of Plymouth Plantation

Anne Bradstreet

• “The Author to Her Book” 
• “The Flesh and the Spirit”  

Margaret Cavendish 

• “CLASP – II – III” 
  • The Hunting of the Hare 
  • The Hunting of the Stag 
  • Of an Island 
  • The Ruin of this Island 
  • Untitled (Give me a free and noble style) 
• “A World in an Earring” 
• “Of Many Worlds in this World” 
• “A Posset for Nature’s Breakfast”
• Blazing World

Christopher Columbus 

• Journal of the First Voyage to America (Excerpt)

John Donne

• “The Sun Rising”
• “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”
• “To His Mistress Going to Bed/Elegy 19”
• “The Good-Morrow”

Jonathan Edwards

• Personal Narrative (Excerpt)

Olaudah Equiano 

• The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Or, Gustavus Vassa, the African

Marie de France 

• “The Lay of Sir Launfal”
• “The Lay of the Honeysuckle” 
• “Bisclavret”

Briton Hammon 

• Narrative of Uncommon sufferings, and Surprizing Deliverance of Briton Hammon, A Negro Man 

Robert Herrick 

• “The Argument of his Book”
• “Corinna’s Going a Maying” 
• “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time”

Aemilia Lanyer

• “The Description of Cooke-ham”

Andrew Marvell 

• “The Garden”
• “To his Coy Mistress”

John Milton 

• Paradise Lost

Thomas More 

• Preface to Utopia
• The Author’s Epistle to Peter Giles 
• Utopia

John Rave

• John Rave’s Account of the Peyote Cult and of his Conversion

Edmund Nequatewa 

• How the Spaniards Came to Shung-Opovi, How They Built a Mission, and How the Hopi Destroyed the Mission

Don Antonio de Otermin

• A Letter on the Pueblo Revolt

Hester Pulter

• “The Eclipse”
• “Aurora [1]”
• “The Invitation into the Country, 1647”
• Emblems 1-4
  • “Mighty Nimrod (Emblem 1)”
  • “Come, My Dear Children (Emblem 2)”
  • “Heliotropians (Emblem 3)”
  • “Virtue’s Duel (Emblem 4)”
• “The Desire”

William Shakespeare

• “Sonnet 18”

Paul Radin

• The Peyote Cult (Plains)

Sir Walter Raleigh

• The Discovery of the Large, Rich and Beautiful Empire of Guiana

Phillis Wheatley

• “On Being Brought from Africa to America”