The Broadview Anthology of British Literature: Concise Volume A 3rd Edition by Joseph Black, ISBN-13: 978-1554813124

The Broadview Anthology of British Literature: Concise Volume A 3rd Edition by Joseph Black, ISBN-13: 978-1554813124

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• Publisher: ‎ Broadview Press; 3rd edition (December 13, 2016)
• Language: ‎ English
• 1888 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 9781554813124
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-1554813124

In all six of its volumes The Broadview Anthology of British Literature presents British literature in a truly distinctive light. Fully grounded in sound literary and historical scholarship, the anthology takes a fresh approach to many canonical authors, and includes a wide selection of work by lesser-known writers. The anthology also provides wide-ranging coverage of the worldwide connections of British literature, and it pays attention throughout to issues of race, gender, class, and sexual orientation. It includes comprehensive introductions to each period, providing in each case an overview of the historical and cultural as well as the literary background. It features accessible and engaging headnotes for all authors, extensive explanatory annotations, and an unparalleled number of illustrations and contextual materials. Innovative, authoritative and comprehensive, The Broadview Anthology of British Literature has established itself as a leader in the field.

Table of Contents:

Preface
Acknowledgments
The Medieval Period
Introduction to the Medieval Period
HISTORY, NARRATIVE, CULTURE
BEFORE THE NORMAN CONQUEST
Celts in Medieval Britain and Ireland
Roman Britain
Early Anglo-Saxon Britain
Celtic Culture
Celtic Christianity
Later Anglo-Saxon Britain
Invasion and Unification
AFTER THE NORMAN CONQUEST
The Normans and Feudalism
Henry II and an International Culture
Wales, Scotland, Ireland: Norman Invasions and Their Aftermath
The Thirteenth Century
The English Monarchy
Cultural Expression in the Fourteenth Century
Fifteenth-Century Transitions
Language and Prosody
History of the Language and of Print and Manuscript Culture
Bede
from Ecclesiastical History of the English People
A Description of the Island of Britain and Its Inhabitants
The Coming of the English to Britain
The Life and Conversion of Edwin, King of Northumbria; the Faith of the East Angles
Abbess Hild of Whitby; the Miraculous Poet Cædmon
Cædmon’s Hymn in Old and Modern English
Early Irish Lyrics
The First Satire
[A Bé Find, in rega lim]
[Messe ocus Pangur Bán]
[Is acher in gáith innocht]
[Techt do Róim]
The Lament of the Old Woman of Beare
Exeter Book Elegies
The Wanderer
The Seafarer
The Wife’s Lament
The Ruin
The Dream of the Rood
Exeter Book Riddles
Riddle 1
Riddle 2
Riddle 3
Riddle 7
Riddle 14
Riddle 26
Riddle 43
Riddle 44
Riddle 45
Riddle 47
Riddle 85
Riddle 86
Riddle 95
Beowulf
In Context: Background Material
Glossary of Proper Names
Genealogies
The Geatish-Swedish Wars
Geoffrey of Monmouth
from A History of the Kings of Britain
The Four Branches of the Mabinogi
The First Branch
The Second Branch
Marie de France
Bisclavret (The Werewolf)
Lanval
Middle English Lyrics
Sumer is icumen in
Foweles in the frith
etwene Mersh and Averil
Stond well, moder, under Rode
I lovede a child of this cuntree
I have a gentil cock
I sing of a maiden
Adam lay ibounden
Farewell this world, I take my leve forever
Bring us in good ale
Of all creatures women be best
My lefe is faren in a lond
Contexts: The Crises of the Fourteenth Century
The Great Famine
from Anonymous (the “Monk of Malmesbury”), Life of Edward the Second (four
The Hundred Years’ War
from Jean Froissart, Chronicles (late fourteenth century)
from Prince Edward, Letter to the People of London
The Black Death
from Ralph of Shrewsbury, Letter (17 August 1348)
from Henry Knighton, Chronicle (1378–96)
The Uprising of 1381
from Regulations, London (1350)
from Statute of Laborers (1351)
from Statute (1363)
from Jean Froissart, Chronicles (late fourteenth cen-tury), Account of a Sermon by John Ball
John Ball, Letter to the Common People of Essex(1381)
from Henry Knighton, Chronicle (1378–96)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
In Context: Illustrations from the Original Manuscript
In Context: The Thorn and the Yogh
Geoffrey Chaucer
To Rosemounde
from The Canterbury Tales
THE GENERAL PROLOGUE
The Miller’s Prologue and Tale
The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale
The Pardoner’s Prologue and Tale
The Prioress’s Prologue and Tale
The Nun’s Priest’s Prologue and Tale
Chaucer’s Retraction
Complaint of Chaucer to His Purse
Julian of Norwich
from A Vision Showed to a Devout Woman
from A Revelation of Love
The Fifty-Eighth Chapter
The Sixtieth Chapter
The Eighty-Sixth Chapter
Margery Kempe
from The Book of Margery Kempe
The Proem
The Preface
from BOOK 1
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
from Chapter 4
from Chapter 11
Chapter 50
Chapter 52
Chapter 53
from Chapter 54
Chapter 55
Contexts: Religious and Spiritual Life
Celtic Christianity
Church and Cathedral
Religion for All: The Apostles’ Creed, the PaterNoster, and the Hail Mary
from Robert Manning of Brunne, Handlyng Synne(early fourteenth century)
from William of Pagula, Priest’s Eye (c. 1320)
rom The Canons of the Fourth Lateran Council
Sin, Corruption, and Indulgence
from William Langland, Piers Plowman (B-text, c.1377–81)
from Passus 1
from Passus 5
from Passus 7
from Thomas Wimbleton, Sermon
Lollardy
from Account of the Heresy Trial of Margery Baxter
The Persecution of the Jews
from Thomas of Monmouth, The Life and Miraclesof St. William of Norwich
from Roger Howden, Chronicle (1190)
rom The Ordinances of the Jews (1194)
from The Charter of King John to the Jews (1201)
from The Ordinances of Henry III (1253)
Edward I’s Order (1290)
MEDIEVAL DRAMA
The York Crucifixion
The Wakefield Master
The Second Shepherds’ Play
In Context: Biblical Source Material
from the Douay-Rheims Bible, Luke 2.8–21
Everyman
Sir Thomas Malory
from Morte Darthur
from Book 1: From the Marriage of King Uther unto King Arthur
Book 8: The Death of King Arthur
In Context: Early Editions of Morte Darthur
Caxton’s Preface
Illustrating Morte Darthur
The Renaissance and the Early Seventeenth Century
Introduction to the Renaissance and the Early Seventeenth Century
Humanism
Scientific Inquiry
The Reformation in England
Wales, Scotland, Ireland
Edward VI, Mary I, and Elizabeth I
Elizabeth I and Gender
Homoeroticism and Cross-Dressing
Economy and Society in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
“The Round Earth’s Imagined Corners”
The Stuarts and the Civil Wars
Literary Genres
Literature in Prose and the Development of Print Culture
Poetry
The Drama
The English Language in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
History of the Language and of Print Culture
William Tyndale
Tyndale’s English Bible
Genesis: Chapter 1
Matthew: Chapter 5
Sir Thomas Wyatt
Sonnets
Epigrams
Ballads
Songs
Epistolary Satires
In Context: Epistolary Advice
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
Love, that Doth Reign and Live within My Thought
Set Me Whereas the Sun Doth Parch the Green
Alas! So All Things Now Do Hold Their Peace
So Cruel Prison How Could Betide
Wyatt Resteth Here
from Certain Books of Virgil’s Aeneis: Book 2
The Elizabethan Sonnet and Lyric
The Continental Background
Francesco Petrarch
from Rime Sparse
Gaspara Stampa
Joachim Du Bellay
from L’Olive augmentée
from Les Regrets
Pierre de Ronsard
Je vouldroy bien richement jaunissant
I would in rich and golden coloured rain
Quand vous serez bien vielle, au soir à la chandelle
When you are very old, by candle’s flame
Anne Lock
from A Meditation of a Penitent Sinner
Samuel Daniel
from Delia
Michael Drayton
from Idea
William Shakespeare
from Romeo and Juliet (Act 1, Scene 5)
Sir John Davies
from Gulling Sonnets
3
John Davies of Hereford
from The Scourge of Villany
Richard Barnfield
from Cynthia
George Gascoigne
Gascoigne’s Lullaby
Anonymous
Ode
Literature in Ireland, Scotland,and Wales
IRELAND AND SCOTLAND
Gofraidh Fionn Ó Dálaigh (d. 1387)
from To Domhnall
Isabel, Countess of Argyll
There’s a Young Man in Pursuit of Me1
Woe to the One Whose Sickness Is Love
Woe to the One Whose Sickness Is Love
Anonymous
Lament for MacGregor of Glenstrae, who was beheaded in 15702
Tadhg Dall Ó hUiginn
from The Battle of Drumleene
Enniskillen
A Satire
Geoffrey Keating
O Woman Full of Wiles
Bear with Thee, O Letter, My Blessing
On the Miseries of Ireland
from History of Ireland
Dáibhí Ó Bruadair
Gone Are All the Noble Poets
After the Death of the Poets
Geoffrey O’Donoghue of the Glens
This caps all their tricks, this statute
Aodhagán Ó Rathaille
The Ruin that Befell the Great Families of Ireland
Lady Anne Lindsay
Auld Robin Gray
WALES
Dafydd ap Gwilym
The Skylark
The Gull
Trouble at an Inn
Morfudd Like the Sun
The Mirror
The Ruin
The Poet and the Grey Friar
Tudur Penyllyn
Conversation between a Welshman and an Englishwoman
Gwerful Mechain
To the Vagina
To Her Husband, for Beating Her1
White Flour, Earthflesh, Cold Fleece
Elis Gruffydd
from Chronicle
Llywelyn and the Fool
Siôn Cent
from The Illusion of the World
Edmund Spenser
from The Faerie Queene
from Book 1
Canto 1
Canto 2
Canto 3
Canto 4
Canto 5: Summary
Canto 6: Summary
Canto 7: Summary
Canto 8: Summary
Canto 9: Summary
Canto 10: Summary
Canto 11
from Book 2
from Canto 11
Letter to Sir Walter Raleghon The Faerie Queene
In Context: The Redcrosse Knight
In Context: Christian Armor
from Paul’s Epistle to the Ephesians, 6.11–17 (Geneva Bible, modernized spelling)
from Desiderius Erasmus, Enchiridion militis Christiani
In Context: Spirituality and The Faerie Queene
Heading to the Song of Solomon
from Amoretti
Sir Philip Sidney
from Astrophil and Stella
from The Defence of Poesy
In Context: The Abuse of Poesy
from Plato, The Republic (c. 375 BCE)
from Stephen Gosson, The School of Abuse (1579)
Elizabeth I, Queen of England
Written on a Wall at Woodstock
Written in Her French Psalter
The Doubt of Future Foes
On Monsieur’s Departure5
Poems Exchanged between Sir Walter Ralegh and Elizabeth I
[Ralegh to Elizabeth]
[Elizabeth to Ralegh]
When I Was Fair and Young
To Our Most Noble and Virtuous Queen Katherine
Speech to the House of Commons, 28 January 1563
from Speech to a Parliamentary Delegation, 5 November 1566
from Speech to Parliament, 29 March 1586
Elizabeth and Mary, Queen of Scots
from Letter from Elizabeth I to Mary, Queen of Scots, 24 February 1567
Letter from Elizabeth I to Mary, Queen of Scots, 12 October 1586
Letter from Mary, Queen of Scots to Henry III, 8 February 1587
Letter from Elizabeth I to James VI, 14 February 1587
To the Troops at Tilbury
Two Letters from Elizabeth to Catherine de Bourbon, Sister of Henri IV of France
Letter from Elizabeth I to Essex in Ireland
The Golden Speech
In Context: The Defeat of the Spanish Armada
Contexts: Culture: A Portfolio
Music
from Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler, or, The Contemplative Man’s Recreation (1653)
Painting
from Nicholas Hilliard, A Treatise Concerning the Art of Limning
from A Letter to F.P. Verney from the Countess of Sussex
Oliver Cromwell, Instructions to His Painter, as Reported by George Vertue, Notebooks
Games and Pastimes
Food and Drink
from An Anonymous Venetian Official Traveling in England, A Relation, or Rather a True Account, of t
from Fynes Moryson, Itinerary (1617)
from Sarah Longe, Mrs. Sarah Longe Her Receipt Book (manuscript c. 1610)
from William Harrison, Chronologie (1573)
Children and Education
The Supernatural and the Miraculous
from Reginald Scot, The Discovery of Witchcraft (1584)
from George Gifford, A Discourse of the Subtle Practices of Devils by Witches and Sorcerers (1587)
from Joseph Hall, Characters of Virtues and Vices(1608)
from Sir John Harington, “Account of an Audience with King James I” (1604), as recorded in Nugae
Anonymous Broadsheet, “The Form and Shape of a Monstrous Child Born at Maidstone in Kent, the 24th
Crime
from “A True Report of the Late Horrible Murder Committed by William Sherwood”
Print and Manuscript Culture
Emblems
from Geffrey Whitney, A Choice of Emblems (1586)
Aemilia Lanyer
To the Virtuous Reader
from Salve Deus Rex Judæorum
“Invocation”
“Eve’s Apology in Defense of Women”
The Description of Cooke-ham
To the Doubtful Reader
Sir Walter Ralegh
A Vision upon this Conceit of the Fairy Queen
Sir Walter Ralegh to His Son
The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
The Lie
Nature that Washed Her Hands in Milk
[The Author’s Epitaph, Made by Himself]
from The Discovery of the Large, Rich, and Beautiful Empire of Guiana
Part 1, Preface
from Part 5
Letter to His Wife
Francis Bacon
from Essays
Of Truth
Of Marriage and Single Life
Of Studies
Of Studies
Of Love
Christopher Marlowe
Hero and Leander
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
IN CONTEXT: Dr. Faustus
from Anonymous, The History of the Damnable Life, and Deserved Death of Dr. John Faustus (1592)
from Henricus Cornelius Agrippa, De Occulta Philosophia (Of Occult Philosophy), 1533
William Shakespeare
The Sonnets
Ben Jonson
To the Reader
To My Book
On Something that Walks Somewhere
To William Camden
On My First Daughter
To John Donne
On My First Son
On Lucy, Countess of Bedford
Inviting a Friend to Supper
To Penshurst
Song: To Celia
To the Memory of My Beloved,The Author, Mr. William Shakespeare, And What He Hath Left Us
Ode to Himself
My Picture Left in Scotland
To the Immortal Memory and Friendship of That Noble Pair, Sir Lucius Cary and Sir H. Morison
Karolin’s Song
Hymn to Cynthia
Clerimont’s Song
John Donne
from Songs and Sonnets
The Good-Morrow
Song (“Go, and catch a falling star”)
Woman’s Constancy
The Sun Rising
The Canonization
Song (“Sweetest love, I do not go”)
Air and Angels
Break of Day
The Anniversary
Twicknam Garden
A Valediction: of Weeping
The Flea
A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy’s Day, Being the Shortest Day
The Bait
The Apparition
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
The Ecstasy
The Relic
from Elegies
Elegy 1. Jealousy
Elegy 8. The Comparison5
Elegy 19. To His Mistress Going to Bed
from Satires
Satire 3
from Verse Letters
To Sir Henry Wotton
An Anatomy of the World
from Holy Sonnets
Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward
A Hymn to God the Father
Hymn to God, My God, in My Sickness
from Devotions
Meditation 17
Lady Mary Wroth
from Pamphilia to Amphilanthus
Song [Love, a child, is ever crying]
A Crown of Sonnets Dedicated to Love
Railing Rhymes Returned upon the Authorby Mistress Mary Wroth
In Context: The Occasion of “Railing Rhymes”
Edward Denny, Baron of Waltham, To Pamphilia from the Father-in-Law of Seralius (c.1621)
Thomas Hobbes
from Leviathan; Or the Matter, Form, & Power of a Commonwealth, Ecclesiastical and Civil
The Introduction
Chapter 13: Of the Natural Condition of Mankind as Concerning Their Felicity and Misery
Robert Herrick
The Argument of His Book
Delight in Disorder
His Farewell to Sack
Corinna’s Going A-Maying
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
The Hock-Cart, or Harvest Home
Upon Julia’s Clothes
George Herbert
The Altar
Redemption
Easter Wings
Affliction (1)
Prayer (1)
The Temper (1)
Jordan (1)
Church-Monuments
The Windows
Denial
Vanity (1)
Virtue
The Pearl
Man
Jordan (2)
Time
The Bunch of Grapes
The Collar
The Pulley
The Flower
Discipline
Death
Love (3)
Andrew Marvell
The Coronet
Bermudas
A Dialogue between the Soul and Body
The Nymph Complaining for the Death of Her Fawn
To His Coy Mistress
The Picture of Little T.C. in a Prospect of Flowers
The Mower against Gardens
Damon the Mower
The Garden
An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland
Katherine Philips
A Married State
Upon the Double Murder of King Charles
On the Third of September, 1651
To My Excellent Lucasia, on OurFriendship
Friendship’s Mystery, To My Dearest Lucasia
On the Death of My First and Dearest Child, Hector Philips
Friendship in Emblem, or the Seal, To My Dearest Lucasia
John Milton
L’Allegro
Il Penseroso
Lycidas
Sonnets
from Areopagitica: A Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing, to the Parlia
from Paradise Lost
The Verse
Argument to Book 1
Book 1
Argument to Book 2
Book 2
Argument to Book 3
from Book 3
Argument to Book 4
Book 4
Argument to Book 5
from BOOK 5
Argument to Book 6
Argument to Book 7
from Book 7
Argument to Book 8
from BOOK 8
Argument to Book 9
Book 9
Argument to Book 10
Book 10
Argument to Book 11
Argument to Book 12
from Book 12
In Context: Illustrating Paradise Lost
The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century
Introduction to the Restoration and the Eighteenth Century
Religion, Government, and Party Politics
Empiricism, Skepticism, and Religious Dissent
Industry, Commerce, and the Middle Class
Ethical Dilemmas in a Changing Nation
Print Culture
Poetry
Theater
The Novel
The Development of the English Language
History of the Language and of Print Culture
Margaret Cavendish
The Poetess’s Hasty Resolution
An Excuse for so Much Writ Upon My Verses
A World Made by Atoms
The Four Principal Figured Atoms Make the Four Elements, as Square, Round, Long, and Sharp
What Atoms Make a Palsy, or Apoplexy
All Things Are Governed by Atoms
The Motion of the Blood
Of Many Worlds in this World
A World in an Earring
A Dialogue betwixt the Body and the Mind
A Dialogue between an Oak, and a Man Cutting Him Down
A Dialogue betwixt Peace, and War
Earth’s Complaint1
The Hunting of the Hare
Nature’s Cook
A Woman Drest by Age
Of the Theme of Love
from The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing World
from Sociable Letters
Letter 55
Letter 143
Letter 163
John Dryden
Absalom and Achitophel
Mac Flecknoe
To the Memory of Mr. Oldham
A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day
from An Essay of Dramatic Poesy
Samuel Pepys
from The Diary
In Context: Other Accounts of the Great Fire
from The London Gazette (3–10 September 1666)
Aphra Behn
The Disappointment
Oroonoko: or, The Royal Slave. A True History
William Wycherley
The Country Wife
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
A Satire on Charles II
A Satire against Reason and Mankind
Love and Life: A Song
The Disabled Debauchee
A Letter from Artemisia in the Town to Chloe in the Country
The Imperfect Enjoyment
Impromptu on Charles II
In Context: The Lessons of Rochester’s Life
Daniel Defoe
A True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal
from Robinson Crusoe
from Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
In Context: Illustrating Robinson Crusoe
from A Journal of the Plague Year
Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea
from The Spleen
The Introduction
A Letter to Daphnis, April 2, 1685
To Mr. F., Now Earl of W.
The Unequal Fetters
By neer resemblance that Bird betray’d
A Nocturnal Reverie
Jonathan Swift
The Progress of Beauty
A Description of a City Shower
Stella’s Birthday
Stella’s Birthday (1727)
The Lady’s Dressing Room
Verses on the Death of Dr Swift
from Gulliver’s Travels
Part 1 – A Voyage to Lilliput
Part 2 – A Voyage to Brobdingnag
Part 4 – A Voyage to the Country of The Houyhnhnms
A Modest Proposal
In Context: Sermons and Tracts: Backgrounds to A Modest Proposal
from Jonathan Swift, “Causes of the Wretched Condition of Ireland” (1726)
from Jonathan Swift, A Short View of the State of Ireland (1727)
Alexander Pope
from An Essay on Criticism
The Rape of the Lock: An Heroi-Comical Poem in Five Cantos
Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady
Eloisa to Abelard
from An Essay on Man
The Design
Epistle 1
Epistle 2
An Epistle from Mr. Pope to Dr. Arbuthnot
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Saturday; The Small Pox
The Reasons that Induced Dr. S. to Write a Poem Called The Lady’s Dressing Room
The Lover: A Ballad
Epistle from Mrs. Y[onge] to Her Husband
Eliza Haywood
Fantomina: or, Love in a Maze
In Context: The Eighteenth-Century Sexual Imagination
from A Present for a Servant-Maid (1743)
from Venus in the Cloister; or, The Nun in Her Smock (1725)
Contexts: Print Culture, Stage Culture
from Nahum Tate, The History of King Lear
from Act 5
from Colley Cibber, An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber (1740)
from Jeremy Collier, A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage
Introduction
from Chapter 1: The Immodesty of the Stage
from Chapter 4: The Stage-Poets Make Their Principal Persons Vicious and Reward Them at the End of t
from Joseph Addison, The Spectator No. 18 (21 March 1711)
from The Licensing Act of 1737
from The Statute of Anne (1710)
from James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791)
Joseph Addison, The Tatler No. 224 (14 September 1710)
from Samuel Johnson, The Idler No. 30 (11 November 1758)
from Clara Reeve, The Progress of Romance
from James Lackington, Memoirs of the Forty-Five First Years of the Life of James Lackington, Book-s
rom Thomas Erskine, Speech as Prosecution in the Seditious-Libel Trial of Thomas Williams for Publis
Contexts: Early Eighteenth-Century Periodicals
from Joseph Addison, The Tatler No. 155 [The Political Upholsterer] (6 April 1710)
from The Female Tatler No. 1 [Introduction, Advertisement] (8 July 1709)
Richard Steele, The Spectator No. 11 [Inkle and Yarico] (13 March 1711)
Joseph Addison, The Spectator No. 112 [Sir Roger at Church] (9 July 1711)
from Joseph Addison, The Spectator No. 127 [On the Hoop Petticoat] (26 July 1711)
from Eliza Haywood, The Female Spectator Book 1 [Erminia] (April 1744)
Samuel Johnson, The Rambler No. 114 [On Capital Punishment] (20 April 1751)
James Thomson
Winter
Rule, Britannia
Samuel Johnson
The Vanity of Human Wishes
On the Death of Dr. Robert Levett
from The Rambler
No. 4
No. 60
No. 155
from The Idler
No. 31
No. 49
No. 81
from A Dictionary of the English Language
from The Preface
[Selected Entries]
from The Preface to The Works of William Shakespeare
from Lives of the English Poets
from John Milton
from Alexander Pope
Letters
To Mrs. Thrale
To Mrs. Thrale, 19 June 1783
To Mrs. Thrale, 2 July 1784
To Mrs. Thrale, 8 July 1784
Thomas Gray
Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College
Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes
Sonnet on the Death of Mr. Richard West
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Christopher Smart
from Jubilate Agno
[MY CAT JEOFFRY]
Contexts: Transatlantic Currents
Slavery
from Richard Ligon, A True & Exact History of the Island of Barbados (1657)
from John Woolman, “Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes”
Hannah More, “Slavery: A Poem” (1788)
Ann Yearsley, “A Poem on the Inhumanity of the Slave-Trade” (1788)
Immigration to America
from William Moraley, The Infortunate: The Voyage and Adventures of William Moraley, an Indentured S
from Lady Lucan, “On the Present State of Ireland”
from Commissioners of the Customs in Scotland
from Benjamin Franklin, Information to Those Who Would Remove to America (1782)
Colonists and Native People
from Susannah Johnson, The Captive American, or A Narrative of the Suffering of Mrs. Johnson During
from the INTRODUCTION
from CHAPTER 1
from CHAPTER 3
from CHAPTER 4
from CHAPTER 5
American Independence
from Edmund Burke, “Speech on Conciliation withthe Colonies” (22 March 1775)
from Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (1793)
Thomas Jefferson, “A Declaration by the Represen-tatives of the United States of America, in Gener
from Thomas Paine, The American Crisis (1777)
from Richard Price, Observations on the Importanceof the American Revolution
William Cowper
Light Shining Out of Darkness
The Castaway
Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa
from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African. Writt
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
In Context: Reactions to Olaudah Equiano’s Work
from The Analytic Review, May 1789
from The Gentleman’s Magazine, June 1789
from The Monthly Review, June 1789
from The General Magazine and Impartial Review, July 1789
Phillis Wheatley
To Maecenas
To the University of Cambridge, in New-England
To the King’s Most Excellent Majesty
On Being Brought from Africa to America
On the Death of a Young Lady of Five Years of Age
On the Death of a Young Gentleman
An Hymn to the Morning
On Recollection
On Imagination
To the Right Honourable William Earl of Dartmouth, His Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for
To S.M., a Young African Painter, On Seeing His Works
A Farewell to America. To Mrs. S.W.
To His Excellency General Washington
On the Death of General Wooster
On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield
Selected Letters
To Obour Tanner, in New-Port [Rhode Island]
To Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon1
To Colonel David Wooster
To Obour Tanner, in New-Port
To Samson Occom
In Context: Preface to Phillis Wheatley’s Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral
In Context: Reactions to Phillis Wheatley’s Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773)
Letter from Ignatius Sancho to Jabez Fisher, in Philadelphia
from Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia (1784)
Appendices
Reading Poetry
Maps
Monarchs and Prime Ministers
Glossary of Terms
Permissions Acknowledgments
Index of First Lines
Index of Authors and Titles

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