AMERICAN PROSE AND POETRY, ILLUSTRATING THE CHOSEN AND EDITED BY EDWIN GREENLAW KENAN PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AND JAMES HOLLY HANFORD ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA Shakespeare was of us, Milton was for us, SCOTT, FORESMAN AND COMPANY NEW YORK TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. THE EXPANSION OF THE INDIVIDUAL- Doctor FAUSTUS (Abridged), Christopher Marlowe.. TAMBURLAINE (Selection), Christopher Marlowe... “ALL KNOWLEDGE TO BE MY PROVINCE,” Francis Bacon. A MORE DIVINE PERFECTION, Richard Hooker..... THE CHARACTER OF ELIZABETH, John Richard Green.... THE MENACE OF SPAIN, John Richard Green.... THE SPIRIT OF ENGLAND, William Shakespeare.. Unity Against the Foe (King John). England at War (Henry V)........ BALLAD OF AGINCOURT, Michael Drayton.. THE DEEDS OF ELIZABETHAN SEAMEN, Richard Hakluyt. THE EDUCATION OF MEN WHO ARE TO RULE, Sir Thomas Elyot... “THE RANK IS BUT THE GUINEA'S STAMP," Sir Thomas Elyot... OF VIRTUOUS AND GENTLE DISCIPLINE, Edmund Spenser. “THE BRAVE COURTIER," Edmund Spenser..., Of Dispatch... THE SERVICE OF LEARNING TO THE STATE, Francis Bacon... In Praise of Learning.. Some Defects in Learning... Of the Architecture of Fortune.. This Third Period of Time... 55 56 56 59 60 62 IV. IDEAS OF THE STATE- THE IMAGINARY COMMONWEALTH OF UTOPIA, Sir Thomas More... Thomas More to Peter Giles, of Antwerp... England Through Utopian Eyes... 63 63 66 Dov182 PAGE A Discourse upon International Relations, Happiness, and Reformers...... “And the Pursuit of Happiness” The Welfare of all the People.. "ONE SOVEREIGN GOVERNOR," Sir Thomas Elyot. THE GARDEN OF THE COMMONWEALTH, Sir Thomas Elyot..... SOME ELIZABETHAN POLITICAL IDEAS IN SHAKESPEARE'S DRAMAS. Our Sea-Walled Garden (Richard II). Of Divine Right (Richard II)...... The Commonwealth of the Bees (Henry V) Of "Degree” (Troilus and Cressida).. OF GOVERNMENT, Richard Hooker...... Maintaining Things That Are Established. “Her Voice the Harmony of the World”. SonNets, William Shakespeare.. MY MIND TO ME A KINGDOM Is, Sir Edward Dyer . THE CHARACTER OF A HAPPY LIFE, Sir Henry Wotton. His PILGRIMAGE, Sir Waller Raleigh. THE LAST PAGES OF "THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD," Sir Walter Raleigh....... 108 The Puritan Spirit, John Richard Green.. Behind the Veil, Henry Vaughan. The Fight with Apollyon, John Bunyan. To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time.. 117 118 118 118 119 IL FAITH AND FREEDOM: JOHN MILTON- 1. THE MAKER OF AN HEROIC POEM Himself a True Poem (An Apology, and A Letter).. Sonnets: On Having Arrived at the Age of Twenty-Three.. Of Darkness Visible (The Second Defense). Of Celestial Light (Paradise Lost).. The Poet's Service to the State (Reason of Church Government) Fallen on Evil Days (Paradise Lost, Samson Agonistes).. "Servant of God, Well Done!" (Paradise Lost).. The Virtue of Books.... Of Restraints. .. Liberty of Thought.... A Heretic in the Truth.. Liberty the Nurse of All Great Wits . Of Discipline (Reason of Church Government), Britain the Home of True Liberty (Second Defense). 4. THE STATE The Masterpiece of a Politician (Reformation in England) The Source of Power (Tenure of Kings and Magistrates). Of Justice (Eikonoklastes)......... A Free Commonwealth (A Ready and Easy Way). 5. FOES OF THE STATE On the Detraction upon Certain Treatises.. On the Same.... On the New Forcers of Conscience. On the Lord General Fairfax... To the Lord General Cromwell. 6. THE INTERNATIONAL MIND On the Late Massacre in Piedmont... The Nation's Protest (Piedmont).. England and America (Of Reformation in England). The Brotherhood of Man (Tenure of Kings). 146 147 148 150 150 153 154 154 155 156 157 159 159 159 159 160 160 160 161 162 AL. THE BEGINNINGS OF FREE GOVERNMENT IN AMERICA- THE PILGRIMS AND THEIR COMPACT, William Bradford... THE FIRST PROMOTION OF LEARNING, Edward Johnson... THE MAY-POLE OF MERRY MOUNT, Nathaniel Hawthorne... 162 164 165 IV. COMMONWEALTH AND RESTORATION- THE TRIUMPHS OF THE COMMONWEALTH, Oliver Cromwell.. PEACE HATH ITS VICTORIES, Oliver Cromwell.... AN APPEAL FOR UNITY, Oliver Cromwell... THE RESTORATION, Samuel Pepys.... THE PURITAN, Samuel Butler.... OF COMMONWEALTH (Leviathan), Thomas Hobbes. 171 173 174 175 177 178 |