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Introduction
About the Cover
1. Index of Authors
2. Index of Genres
3. Texts in Chronological Order
4. Additional Context for Understanding the Texts and Time Periods
5. Timeline of Historical and Literary Movements
6. An Introduction to Middle English Lyric Poetry (from British Literature: Middle Ages to the Eighteenth Century and Neoclassicism)
Bonnie J. Robinson, Ph.D. and Laura J. Getty, Ph.D.
7. "Cuckoo Song"
Unknown Author
8. "Earth" (1325-1537)
9. "Spring Song" (1250-1350)
10. "When the Nightingale Sings" (1250-1350)
11. "Winter Song" (1325-1537)
12. An Introduction to Andrew Marvell (from British Literature: Middle Ages to the Eighteenth Century and Neoclassicism)
13. "The Garden" (1681)
Andrew Marvell
14. "The Eclipse" (1640-1660)
Hester Pulter
15. "Aurora" (1640-1660)
16. "Heliotropians" (1640-1660)
17. An Introduction to Margaret Cavendish (from British Literature: Middle Ages to the Eighteenth Century and Neoclassicism)
18. "The Hunting of the Hare" (1653)
Margaret Cavendish
19. "The Hunting of the Stag" (1653)
20. "Of an Island" (1653)
21. "The Ruin of this Island" (1653)
22. "A Posset for Nature's Breakfast" (1653)
23. "Bisclavret"
Marie de France
24. "The Description of Cooke-ham" (1611)
Aemilia Lanyer
25. "The Wanderer" (~900)
26. "The Wife's Lament" (late 10th Century)
27. "Sonnet 18" (1609)
William Shakespeare
28. An Introduction to John Donne (from British Literature: Middle Ages to the Eighteenth Century and Neoclassicism)
29. "The Sun Rising" (1633)
John Donne
30. "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" (1633)
31. "To His Mistress Going to Bed" or "Elegy 19" (1633)
32. "The Good-Morrow" (1633)
33. "A World in an Earring"
34. "Of Many Worlds in this World"
35. "Untitled [Give me a free and noble style]" (1653)
36. "The Invitation into the Country, 1647" (1647)
37. An Introduction to Robert Herrick (from British Literature: Middle Ages to the Eighteenth Century and Neoclassicism)
38. "The Argument of his Book" (1648)
Robert Herrick
39. "Corinna's going a Maying" (1648)
40. "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" (1648)
41. "To his Coy Mistress" (1681)
42. "Mighty Nimrod (Emblem 1)" (1640-1660)
43. "Come, My Dear Children (Emblem 2)" (1640-1660)
44. "Virtue's Duel (Emblem 4)" (1640-1660)
45. "The Desire" (1640-1660)
46. "The Author to Her Book"(1650)
Anne Bradstreet
47. "The Flesh and The Spirit" (1650)
48. "On Being Brought from Africa to America" (1773)
Phillis Wheatley
49. An Introduction to Marie de France (from British Literature: Middle Ages to the Eighteenth Century and Neoclassicism)
50. "The Lay of Sir Launfal" (1160-1215)
51. "The Lay of the Honeysuckle"
52. An Introduction to Thomas More (from British Literature: Middle Ages to the Eighteenth Century and Neoclassicism)
53. Preface to Utopia (1516)
Thomas More
54. "The Author's Epistle to Peter Giles"
55. Utopia (1516)
56. "The Blazing World" (1666)
57. An Introduction to John Milton (from British Literature: Middle Ages to the Eighteenth Century and Neoclassicism)
58. from Paradise Lost (1667)
John Milton
59. An Introduction to Sir Walter Raleigh (from British Literature: Middle Ages to the Eighteenth Century and Neoclassicism)
60. from "The Discovery of the Large, Rich and Beautiful Empire of Guiana" (1599)
Sir Walter Raleigh
61. An Introduction to Olaudah Equiano (from British Literature: Middle Ages to the Eighteenth Century and Neoclassicism)
62. from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Or, Gustavus Vassa, the African (1789)
Olaudah Equiano
63. An Introduction to Aphra Behn (from British Literature: Middle Ages to the Eighteenth Century and Neoclassicism)
64. "Oroonko" (1688)
Aphra Behn
65. "Peyote Cult (Plains)" (1925)
Paul Radin
66. John Rave's Account of the Peyote Cult and of his Conversion (1890s)
John Rave
67. Journal of the First Voyage to America, (Excerpt) (1492-1493)
Christopher Columbus
68. "Of Plymouth Plantation" (1630-1651)
William Bradford
69. How the Spaniards Came to Shung-Opovi, How They Built a Mission, and How the Hopi Destroyed the Mission (1540)
Edmund Nequatewa
70. A Letter on the Pueblo Revolt
Don Antonio de Otermin
71. A Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings, and Surprizing Deliverance of Briton Hammon, A Negro Man
Briton Hammon
72. Personal Narrative (Excerpt) (1740)
Jonathan Edwards
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