Major British Writers: Shorter Edition

Preface...xi GEOFFREY CHAUCER, edited by Charles W. Dunn Introduction...1 Note on Chaucer's Language...6 The Canterbury Tales...7 -->The General Prologue...7 -->The Pardoner's Tale...19 -->The Clerk's Tale...24 -->The Nun's Priest's Tale...38 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, edited by G. B. Harrison Introduction...47 Additional Note...57 King Henry IV, Part I...59 Hamlet...96 Sonnets...148 -->2. When Forty Winters Shall Besiege Thy Brow…148 -->18. Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer’s Day?...149 -->33. Full Many A Glorious Morning I Have Seen…149 -->55. Not Marble, Nor The Gilded Monuments…149 -->66. Tired For All These, For Restful Death I Cry…149 -->73. That Time Of Year Thou Mayst In Me Behold…149 -->86. Was It The Proud Sail Of His Great Verse…150 -->106. When In The Chronicle Of Wasted Time…150 -->107. Not Mine Own Fears, Nor The Prophetic Soul…150 -->116. Let Me Not To The Marriage Of True Minds…150 -->129. The Expense Of Spirit In A Waste Of Shame…151 -->130. My Mistress’ Eyes Are Nothing Like The Sun…151 -->143. Lo, As A Careful Housewife Runs To Catch…151 FRANCIS BACON, edited by Basil Willey Introduction Essays or Counsels -->I. Of Truth…159 -->II. Of Death…160 -->V. Of Adversity…161 -->XI. Of Great Place…161 -->XVIII. Of Travel…163 -->XXII. Of Cunning…164 -->XXIII. Of Wisdom for a Man's Self…165 -->XXXI. Of Suspicion…166 -->XXXII. Of Discourse…166 -->XXXIII. Of Plantations…167 -->L. Of Studies…168 -->Of Studies (1597)…169 The Advancement of Learning…170 -->from Book I…170 -->from Book II…173 JOHN DONNE, edited by Basil Willey JOHN MILTON, edited by Douglas Bush JONATHAN SWIFT, edited by Herbert Davis Introduction...293 Gulliver's Travels...300 -->A Letter from Captain Gulliver to His Cousin Sympson...300 -->The Publisher to the Reader...302 -->Part I: A Voyage to Lilliput...303 -->Part II: A Voyage to Brobdingnag...330 -->Part IV: A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms...360 ALEXANDER POPE, edited by Geoffrey Tillotson Introduction...393 Essay on Criticism...399 The Rape of the Lock...408 Essay on Man...418 An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot...432 SAMUEL JOHNSON & JAMES BOSWELL, edited by Bertrand H. Johnson WILLIAM WORDSWORTH & SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, edited by George W. Meyer GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON, edited by Northrop Frye PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, edited by I. A. Richards JOHN KEATS, edited by Walter J. Bate ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON, edited by Douglas Bush ROBERT BROWNING, edited by William C. DeVane GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, edited by Alvin B. Kernan Introduction...883 Saint Joan...889 JOSEPH CONRAD, edited by Albert J. Guerard Introduction...931 Heart of Darkness...939 WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, edited by Reuben A. Brower T. S. ELIOT, edited by Elizabeth Drew Introduction...1007 Introduction to Murder in the Cathedral by Alvin B. Kernan...1012 The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock...1015 Sweeney Among the Nightingales...1017 The Hollow Men...1018 Marina...1020 Triumphal March...1020 The Dry Salvages...1021 Murder in the Cathedral...1025 Hamlet...1045 The Metaphysical Poets...1047 The Music of Poetry...1051 A Note on Versification...1060 Author-Title Index...1072 Index of First Lines...1075