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INDEX TO EXTRACTS
A
- Absalom and Achitophel, [196], [227–228], [274]
- Addison, Joseph, [243], [246], [277]
- Address to the Deil, [359]
- Address to Edinburgh, [311]
- Address to the King (Burke), [353]
- Adonais, [392], [449]
- Ælfric, [13–14]
- Æneid (Surrey), [97], [150]
- Alfred, King, [9], [51]
- All for Love, [200]
- Althea, To, [185]
- Alysoun, [30]
- Amoretti, [152]
- Anatomy of Melancholy, The, [154]
- Ancient Mariner, The Rime of the, [378], [445]
- Ancren Riwle, [23]
- Androcles and the Lion, [543–544]
- Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, The, [10]
- Antiquary, The, [447]
- Antony and Cleopatra, [121], [122–123]
- Areopagitica, [163]
- Arnold, Matthew, [156], [229], [516]
- Ascham, Roger, [155]
- Ask Me no More, [172]
- Asolando, [463–464]
- Astræa Redux, [195]
- Austen, Jane, [420–421]
- Autobiography, Gibbon’s, [359]
- Autumn, Ode to (Keats), [443]
- Autumn (Shelley), [443]
B
- Back to Methuselah, [545–546]
- Bacon, Francis, [136–137]
- Bale, John, [85]
- Ballad of East and West, The, [574]
- Ballad upon a Wedding, A, [186]
- Barbour, John, [44]
- Beaux’ Stratagem, The, [225–226]
- Bee, The, [296], [347]
- Behn, Aphra, [221–222]
- Beowulf, [4–5]
- Bible, the, [83–84], [132], [133]
- Biographia Literaria, [368], [381], [443–444]
- Black-eyed Susan, [275]
- Blake, William, [314], [352–353], [566–567]
- Blessed Damozel, The, [515]
- Blue Tit, The, [565–566]
- Boswell, James, [329], [358–359]
- Break, break, break, [460]
- Brooke, Rupert, [555]
- Browne, Sir Thomas, [176]
- Browne, William, [125], [223]
- Browning, Robert, [462], [463], [464], [465], [466], [512], [514], [516], [563], [571]
- Brus, The, [44]
- Brut, [18], [29]
- Bunyan, John, [210–211], [225], [574]
- Burke, Edmund, [332], [353]
- Burney, Frances, [354]
- Burns, Robert, [309], [310], [311], [312], [359], [570]
- Burton, Robert, [154]
- Butler, Samuel (1612–80), [208–209]
- Byron, Lord, [383], [384], [385], [386], [387], [388], [446–447], [449]
C
- Cædmon, [12–13]
- Caliban upon Setebos, [465]
- Caller Water, [346]
- Campaign, The, [243]
- Campion, Thomas, [101]
- Carew, Thomas, [172]
- Carlyle, Thomas, [495–496], [513], [575]
- Castaway, The, [301]
- Castle of Indolence, The, [292–293]
- Cato, [277]
- Caxton, William, [67]
- Cenci, The, [392]
- Chamberlayne, William, [216]
- Channel Firing, [525–526]
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, [35], [37], [38], [39], [40]
- Cherry Ripe (Campion), [101]
- Chesterfield, Lord, [342]
- Chevy Chace, [54–55]
- Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, [385], [448]
- Christabel, [377]
- Clare, John, [565–566]
- Cleannesse, [31]
- Cleveland, John, [182], [185–186]
- Clive, Essay on, [498–499]
- Clough, Arthur Hugh, [515–516]
- Cobbett, William, [440]
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, [377], [378], [379], [380], [381], [443–444], [445–446]
- Colin Clout (Skelton), [81–82]
- Collins, William, [352]
- Complaint, The, or Night Thoughts, [271], [278]
- Compleat Angler, The, [184]
- Comus, [186]
- Confessio Amantis, [53]
- Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, The, [430], [444]
- Congreve, William, [204], [567]
- Conrad, Joseph, [529], [530]
- Coverdale, Miles, [84]
- Cowper, William, [301], [343–344], [352]
- Coy Mistress, To his, [185]
- Crabbe, George, [356]
- Crawford, Robert, [276]
- Cymon and Iphigenia, [197–198]
D
- Daffodils, To (Herrick), [222]
- Dance of the Sevin Deidlie Sins, The, [61]
- Davies, William H., [553]
- De Quincey, Thomas, [430], [444]
- Dead Drummer, The, [521]
- Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, The, [327], [564]
- Defoe, Daniel, [250–251], [272], [277]
- Dekker, Thomas, [150]
- Deluge, The, [84–85]
- Deserted Village, The, [295], [356]
- Diary, Pepys’, [213]
- Dickens, Charles, [477]
- Dictionary, Johnson’s, [349]
- Doctor Faustus, [153–154]
- Don Juan, [386–387], [449]
- Donne, John, [103], [184]
- Dramatic Poesie, The Essay of, [202]
- Dreams of the Sea, [553]
- Drummond, William, [224]
- Dryden, John, [185], [194], [195], [196], [198], [199], [200], [202], [214], [217], [222–223], [227–228], [274]
- Dunbar, William, [61]
- Dunciad, The, [258]