British Literature <show description>
By placing core British literature selections found in basal textbooks opposite a modern paraphrase, our exclusive design helps students comprehend the authors’ intent and appreciate the original language. The revised student texts make the selections more appealing and accessible to all students. 408 pages.
FEATURES
• recall and literary analysis questions for each selection
• the two-color design is more accessible and appealing
• units organized by time period
• numbered paragraphs and stanzas for easy reference
• succinct and compelling unit and selection introductions set the historical and cultural context
• original writings in a variety of genres—sonnets, novels, essays, diaries, and ballads
TEACHER GUIDE
• suggestions for using the anthology as an entire unit, with a literature anthology, and with a novel
• reproducible recall and literary analysis questions for each selection with suggested responses
TABLE OF CONTENTS
UNIT ONE–The Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Periods (449–1485)
from Beowulf, Raffel, translator
from The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer, Coghill, translator
English Ballads, Anonymous
from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Gawain Poet, Gardner, translator
from Le Morte d'Arthur, Malory
UNIT TWO–The English Renaissance (1485–1660)
Whoso List to Hunt, Wyatt
Sonnet 30 "My love is like to ice," Spenser
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love, Marlowe
The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd, Raleigh
Sonnet 29 "When in disgrace," Shakespeare
Sonnet 116 "Let me not to the marriage," Shakespeare
Sonnet 130 "My mistress' eyes," Shakespeare
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, Donne
Meditation 17, Donne
Holy Sonnet 10 "Death, be not proud," Donne
On My First Son, Jonson
Song: To Celia, Jonson
To the Virgins to Make Much of Time, Herrick
To His Coy Mistress, Marvell
To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars, Lovelace
Sonnet VII "How soon hath time," Milton
Sonnet XIX "When I consider," Milton
from Paradise Lost, Milton
UNIT THREE–The Restoration and the Enlightenment (1660–1798)
from The Diary, Pepys
from An Essay on Man, Pope
from The Rape of the Lock, Pope
from Gulliver's Travels, Swift
A Modest Proposal, Swift
from The Life of Samuel Johnson, Boswell
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, Gray
Parallel Text <show description>
These best selling editions contain the original text on the left page and contemporary line-by-line translations (or modern literacy paraphrase) on facing pages. Parallel Texts are accessible and meaningful to even the most reluctant reader.
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