Unit 4: Pre-1900 Poetry
Metaphysical Poetry, editor Colin Burrow (Penguin, 2006) ISBN 9780140424447
Poem title Poet Page number
The Flea John Donne 4
The Good Morrow 5
Song (‘Go and catch a falling star’) 6
Woman’s Constancy 7
The Sun Rising 8
A Valediction of Weeping 19
A Nocturnal Upon St Lucy’s Day, Being the
21
Shortest Day
The Apparition 22
Elegy: To his Mistress Going to Bed 29
‘At the Round Earth’s Imagined Corners’ 31
‘Death be not Proud’ 32
‘Batter My Heart’ 33
A Hymn to God the Father 36
Redemption George Herbert 67
The Collar 78
The Pulley 79
Love III 87
To My Mistress Sitting by a River’s Side: An Eddy Thomas Carew 89
To a Lady that Desired I Would Love Her 95
A Song (‘Ask me no more where Jove bestows’) 98
A Letter to her Husband, Absent upon Public Anne
135
Engagement Bradstreet
Richard
Song: To Lucasta, Going to the Wars 182
Lovelace
The Nymph Complaining for the Death of her Fawn Andrew Marvell 195
To His Coy Mistress 198
The Definition of Love 201
Unprofitableness Henry Vaughan 219
The World 220
To My Excellent Lucasia, on Our Friendship Katherine 240
Phillips
A Dialogue of Friendship Multiplied 241
Orinda to Lucasia 242
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Metaphysical Poetry, editor Colin Burrow (Penguin, 2006) ISBN 9780140424447
Poem title Poet Page number
The Flea John Donne 4
The Good Morrow 5
Song (‘Go and catch a falling star’) 6
Woman’s Constancy 7
The Sun Rising 8
A Valediction of Weeping 19
A Nocturnal Upon St Lucy’s Day, Being the
21
Shortest Day
The Apparition 22
Elegy: To his Mistress Going to Bed 29
‘At the Round Earth’s Imagined Corners’ 31
‘Death be not Proud’ 32
‘Batter My Heart’ 33
A Hymn to God the Father 36
Redemption George Herbert 67
The Collar 78
The Pulley 79
Love III 87
To My Mistress Sitting by a River’s Side: An Eddy Thomas Carew 89
To a Lady that Desired I Would Love Her 95
A Song (‘Ask me no more where Jove bestows’) 98
A Letter to her Husband, Absent upon Public Anne
135
Engagement Bradstreet
Richard
Song: To Lucasta, Going to the Wars 182
Lovelace
The Nymph Complaining for the Death of her Fawn Andrew Marvell 195
To His Coy Mistress 198
The Definition of Love 201
Unprofitableness Henry Vaughan 219
The World 220
To My Excellent Lucasia, on Our Friendship Katherine 240
Phillips
A Dialogue of Friendship Multiplied 241
Orinda to Lucasia 242
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