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| Genre/Form: | Anthologies |
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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Kronenberger, Louis, 1904-1980. Reader's companion. New York, The Viking press, 1945 (OCoLC)573415625 |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Louis Kronenberger |
| OCLC Number: | 593192 |
| Description: | xxxiv pages, 1 leaf, 731, [1] pages 17 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction / Louis Kronenberger -- The death of Socrates / Plato -- A modest proposal / Jonathan Swift -- On the conversation of authors / William Hazlitt -- Selections from The life of Johnson / James Boswell -- The emperor's new clothes / Hans Christian Andersen -- The death of Ivan Ilych / Leo Tolstoy -- From the Prologue to the Canterbury tales / Geoffrey Chaucer -- I sing of a maiden / Anonymous -- Lully, Lully / Anonymous -- Sir Patrick Spens / Anonymous -- Fair Helen / Anonymous -- Lord Randal / Anonymous -- The maidens came / Anonymous -- Western wind, when wilt thou blow? / Anonymous -- With Margerain gentle / John Skelton -- O mortal folk, you may behold / Stephen Hawes -- Written the night before he was beheaded, 1586 / Chidiock Tichbourne -- The lowest trees have tops / Sir Edward Dyer / Tom o' Bedlam's song / Anonymous -- Once did I love ... / Anonymous -- Full fathom five ... / William Shakespeare -- Poor naked wretches ... / William Shakespeare -- Cleopatra's death / William Shakespeare -- Farewell, thou art too dear for my possessing / William Shakespeare -- Poor soul, the center of my sinful Earth / William Shakespeare -- Hear, ye ladies that despise / John Fletcher -- Tell, o tell / Thomas Campion -- Now winter nights enlarge / Thomas Campion -- Follow your saint ... / Thomas Campion -- Kind are her answers / Thomas Campion -- Still to be neat, still to be drest / Ben Johnson -- Go, soul, the body's guest / Sir Walter Raleigh -- What is our life? / Sir Walter Raleigh -- Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part / Michael Drayton -- And now methinks I could e'en chide myself / Cyril Tourneur -- Whenas the nightingale chaunted her vespers / John Cleveland -- From The fairies' farewell / Richard Corbet -- Air and angels / John Donne -- The legacy / John Donne -- A hymn to God the Father / John Donne -- The good-morrow / John Donne -- At the round Earth's imagined corners, blow / John Donne -- Death, be not proud ... / John Donne -- Epitaph on the Countesse Dowager of Pembroke / William Browne -- Epitaph in obitum M. S. x° Maij, 1614 / William Browne -- Beauty is but a flower / Thomas Nashe -- The quip / George Herbert -- The temper / George Herbert -- Virtué / George Herbert -- The pulley / George Herbert -- The collar / George Herbert -- Easter / George Herbert -- And now in age I bud again / George Herbert -- To the meadows / Robert Herrick -- To keep a true Lent / Robert Herrick -- "I dare not ask a kiss" / Robert Herrick -- An ode for Ben Jonson / Robert Herrick -- "Hey nonny no!" / Anonymous -- "My love in her attire ..." / Anonymous -- The garden / Andrew Marvell -- Bermudas / Andrew Marvell -- The definition of love / Andrew Marvell -- To his coy mistress / Andrew Marvell -- The mower to the glow-worms / Andrew Marvell -- From A Horatian ode upon Cromwell / Andrew Marvell -- From Paradise lost / John Milton -- On a fly drinking from his cup / William Oldys -- "My soul, there is a country" / Henry Vaughan -- "Alice is tall and upright as a pine" / Charles Cotton -- "Margaret of humbler stature by my head" / Charles Cotton -- Zimri / John Dryden -- Achitophel / John Dryden -- "All, all of a piece throughout" / John Dryden -- "When I consider life ..." / John Dryden -- From The epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot / Alexander Pope -- Conclusion from The Dunciad / Alexander Pope -- From St. Philip and St. James / Christopher Smart -- A short song of congratulation / Samuel Johnson -- From The vanity of human wishes / Samuel Johnson -- From Retaliation / Oliver Goldsmith -- To spring / William Blake -- "Never seek to tell thy love" / William Blake -- The garden of love / William Blake -- "How sweet I roam'd from field to field" / William Blake -- A poison tree / William Blake -- The clod and the pebble / William Blake -- The defiled sanctuary / William Blake -- From Milton / William Blake -- Ah! sun-flower / William Blake -- The tiger / William Blake -- "Of a' the airts ..." / Robert Burnes -- "Ye flowery banks" / Robert Burns -- Kubla Khan / Samuel Tyler Coleridge -- "Dear child of nature, let them rail" / William Wordsworth -- From The prelude / William Wordsworth -- From Mutability / William Wordsworth -- The solitary reaper / Will aim Wordsworth -- "Why do our joys depart?" / Walter Savage Landor -- "All is not over ..." / Walter Savage Landor -- "Past ruin'd Ilion Helen lives" / Walter Savage Landor -- "I held her hand, the pledge of bliss" / Walter Savage Landor -- "The grateful heart ..." / Walter Savage Landor -- Heart's ease / Walter Savage Landor -- "Do you remember me? or are you proud" / Walter Savage Landor -- "Years, many parti-colored years / Walter Savage Landor -- Dirce / Walter Savage Landor -- On his own Agamemnon and Iphigeneia / Walter Savage Landor -- "Alas, how soon the hours are over" / Walter Savage Landor -- "Various the roads of life ..." / Walter Savage Landor -- On Catullus / Walter Savage Landor -- To ---- / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- The Indian serenade / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- "So, we'll go no more a'roving" / Lord Byron -- "Bright star, would I were steadfast" / John Keats -- Fragment of an Ode to Maia / John Keats -- To a fish / Leigh Hunt -- Days / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- To Helen / Edgar Allan Poe -- To one in Paradise / Edgar Allan Poe -- From The princess / Alfred Tennyson -- The eagle / Alfred Tennyson -- Isolation: to Marguerite / Matthew Arnold -- The last word / Matthew Arnold -- Two doves upon the selfsame branch / Christina Rossetti -- A blue-eyed phantom far before / Christina Rossetti -- An idle poet, here and there / Coventry Patmore -- I found the phrase to every thought / Emily Dickinson -- Because I could not stop for death / Emily Dickinson -- My life closed twice before its close / Emily Dickinson -- The bustle in a house / Emily Dickinson -- The heart asks pleasure first / Emily Dickinson -- From Ogier the Dane / William Morris -- Chorus from Atalanta in Calydon / Algernon Charles Swinburne -- God's grandeur / Gerald Manley Hopkins -- The habit of perfection / Gerald Manley Hopkins -- Eight o'clock / A.E. Housman -- Fancy's knell / A.E. Housman -- Leda and the swan / William Butler Yeats -- In memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markiewicz / William Butler Yeats -- Conclusion from Urn burial / Sir Thomas Browne -- Odds and ends / Lord Chesterfield ; Marjorie Fleming ; Heinrich Heine ; The Rev. Sydney Smith ; Queen Elizabeth ; Jane Austen ; La Bruyère ; William Lloyd Garrison -- From Life on the Mississippi / Mark Twain -- From Of friendship / Michel de Montaigne -- Three groups of letters / Lady Mary Montagu ; Horace Walpole ; Lord Byron -- A simple heart / Gustave Flaubert -- The suicide of Petronius / Tacitus -- Hosts and guests / Max Beerbohm -- From The way of the world / William Congreve -- Notes from Underground: part I / Fëdor Dostoevski -- Aphorisms / Blaise Pascal ; La Rochefoucauld ; George Savile ; Marquis of Halifax ; William Blake ; William Hazlitt ; Ralph Waldo Emerson -- My own centenary / E.M. Forster -- The death of Ridley and Latimer / John Foxe -- Madame du Deffand / Lytton Strachey -- Venus with young Adonis / Bartholomew Griffin -- The ploughman's song / Nicholas Breton -- Song of Apelles / John Lyly -- Song from The old wife's tale / George Peele -- Aeliana's ditty / Henry Chettle -- On treason / Sir John Harington -- When others sing Venite exultemus / John Dowland -- Sigh no more, ladies ... / William Shakespeare -- Hold back thy hours, dark night / John Fletcher -- The good night or blessing / Robert Herrick -- Chop-cherry / Robert Herrick -- Love not me for comely Grace / John Wilbye -- Go, lovely Rose---- / Edward Waller -- Of thee, kind boy ... / Sir John Suckling -- The siege / Sir John Suckling -- Ha, ha! Ha, ha! This world doth pass / Anonymous -- O stay, sweet love ... / Anonymous -- While Adam slept ... / Anonymous -- I have lost my mistress, horse and wife / Anonymous -- The world / Anonymous -- Three young rats / Anonymous -- Green broom / Anonymous -- When the devil was sick ... / Anonymous -- There was a young poet of Thusis / Anonymous -- On Charles II / Lord Rochester -- Song / John Crowne -- The departing lover / William Walsh -- An ode / Matthew Prior -- Pious Celinda ... / William Congreve -- When Orpheus went down ... / Samuel Lisle -- Engraved on the collar of a dog, which I gave to His Royal Highness / Alexander Pope -- A toast / John Byron -- The king to Oxford sent a troop of horse / Sir William Browne -- On the phrase, To kill time / Voltaire -- Lord Galloway / Robert Burns -- Green grow the rashes, o! / Robert Burns -- The jolly beggars / Robert Burns -- With women and apples ... / Thomas Moore -- Rondeau / Leigh Hunt -- The war-song of Dinas Vawr / Thomas Love Peacock -- Eheu fugaces / R.H. Barham -- Good night to the season / Winthrop Mackworth Praed -- From Spectator ab extra / Arthur Hugh Clough -- Ode to tobacco / Charles Stuart Calverley -- From Alice's adventures in Wonderland -- Lewis Carroll -- The susceptible chancellor / Sir William Schwenck Gilbert -- Good and bad luck / John Hay -- Elegy in a country churchyard / Gilbert Keith Chesterton -- Ballade d'une grande dame / Gilbert Keith Chesterton -- Tender-heartedness / Col. D. Streamer (Harry Graham) -- Aunt Eliza / Col. D. Streamer (Harry Graham) -- One perfect rose / Dorothy Parker -- Table talk / John Selden -- The pupil / Henry James. |
| Series Title: | Viking portable library. |
| Responsibility: | by Louis Kronenberger. |
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