Redaktion: Elke Hiltner und Heiko Jakubzik

RENAISSANCE

Thomas More (?1477-1535)

Utopia (1516)

Edmund Spenser (?1552-1599)

The Shepheardes Calender (1579); The Faerie Queene, Bk. 1 (1590); "One day I wrote her name upon the strand" (c. 1594; 1595)

Philip Sidney (1554-1586)

The Arcadia, Bk. 1 or 4 (1580-1584); An Apology for Poetry (1595); "Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show" (1582; 1591); "With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb’st the skies" (1582; 1591); "Leave me, O Love, which reachest but to dust" (1598); "A Litany" (1598)

Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)

The Jew of Malta (1589); Edward II (c. 1592); Doctor Faustus (1593)

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Richard III (1592-1593); Richard II (1595); A Mid­summer Night's Dream (1595-1596); Julius Caesar (1599) or Troilus and Cressida (1601-1602); As You Like It (1599) or Twelfth Night (1601-1602); Hamlet (1600-1601); Othello (1604); King Lear (1605); Macbeth (1606); The Winter’s Tale (1610-1611); "All the world’s a stage" (from As You Like It, II,vii,139-166; 1599); "Blow, blow, thou winter wind" (from As You Like It, II,vii,174-193; 1599); "Under the greenwood tree" (from As You Like It, II,v,1-8,35-42; 1599); "Take, o take those lips away" (from Measure for Measure, IV,i,1-6; 1604); "Fear no more the heart o’the sun" (from Cymbeline, IV,ii,258-281; 1609);

The Sonnets (1609)

15 ("When I consider everything that grows")

18 ("Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?")

29 ("When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes")

30 ("When to the sessions of sweet silent thought")

33 ("Full many a glorious morning have I seen")

36 ("Let me confess that we two must be twain")

55 ("Not marble, nor the gilded monuments")

66 ("Tired with all these, for restful death I cry")

71 ("No longer mourn for me when I am dead")

73 ("That time of year thou mayst in me behold")

77 ("Thy glass will show thee how thy beauties wear")

94 ("They that have the power to hurt and will do none")

116 ("Let me not to the marriage of true minds")

129 ("The expense of spirit in a waste of shame")

130 ("My mistress‘ eyes are nothing like the sun")

138 ("When my love swears that she is made of truth")

144 ("Two loves I have of comfort and despair")

146 ("Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth")

John Donne (1572-1631)

"Go and catch a falling star" (1598; 1633); "The Canonization" (1603; 1633); "Death, be not proud" (1609; 1633); "At the round earth’s imagined corners" 1609; 1633); "The First Anniversary. An Anatomy of the World" (1611); "Hymn to God My God in My Sickness" (1631; 1635); "Phryne" (1633)

Thomas Dekker (?1570-1632)

The Shoemaker‘s Holiday (1600)

Michael Drayton (1563-1631)

"To the Cambro-Britons and Their Harp, His Ballad of Agincourt" (1606); "Since there’s no help, come let us kiss and part" (1619)

John Webster (?1578-?1632)

The White Devil (1612); The Duchess of Malfi (1614)

Francis Beaumont (1584-1616)

The Knight of the Burning Pestle (1613)

Ben Jonson (1572-1637)

Bartholomew Fair (1614); Volpone (1616)

Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

The Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall (1625), Auswahl: "Of Love", "Of the true Greatnesse of Kingdomes and Estates", "Of Plantations", "Of Studies"

George Herbert (1593-1633)

"The Collar" (1633); "Employment (‘He that is weary‘)" (1633); "The Pulley" (1633); "Virtue" (1633)

John Milton (1608-1674)

Lycidas (1638); Paradise Lost, Bks. 1, 2, 9 (1667); "Il Penseroso" (1645); "L’Allegro" (1645); "On His Blindness" (1652; 1673); "On the Late Massacre in Piedmont" (1655; 1673)

Henry Vaughan (1622-1695)

"The Retreat" (1650); "The Waterfall" (1650)

John Bunyan (1628-1688)

The Pilgrim's Progress, Bk. 1 (1678)

Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)

"A Dialogue between the Resolved Soul and Created Pleasure" (1681); "The Garden" (1681); "The Nymph Complaining for the Death of Her Fawn" (1681); "To His Coy Mistress" (1681)

RESTORATION UND 18. JAHRHUNDERT

John Dryden (1631-1700)

An Essay of Dramatick Poesie (1668); All for Love (1678); Mac Flecknoe (1678; 1682); "Against the Fear of Death" (1685); "A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day" (1687); "Obscure they went through dreary shades" (from Virgil’s Aeneis; 1697)

John Wilmot Earl of Rochester (1647-1680)

A Satire Against Mankind (1675; 1679); "The King’s Epitaph" (1709)

William Wycherley (1641-1716)

The Country Wife (1675)

Aphra Behn (1640-1689)

The Rover, pt. 1 (1677)

Thomas Otway (1652-1685)

Venice Preserv’d (1682)

William Congreve (1670-1729)

Love for Love (1695)

Alexander Pope (1688-1744)

An Essay on Criticism (1713); The Rape of the Lock (1714); An Essay on Man, Epistle II (c. 1731; 1733); Moral Essays, "Epistle 4: To Richard Boyle, Earl of Burlington" (1731); "Ode on Solitude" (c. 1700; 1717); "Epigram Engraved on the Collar of a Dog" (c. 1737; 1738); The Iliad of Homer, Bk. 12, l. 365-396 (c. 1707; 1709); "‘You beat your Pate‘" (1732); "Cloe: A Character" (1738)

Daniel Defoe (1660-1731)

Robinson Crusoe (1719)

Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)

Gulliver's Travels (1726); A Modest Proposal (1729); "A Description of a City Shower" (1710); "A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General" (1722; 1764); "On the Collar of Mrs. Dingley’s Lap-Dog" (c. 1726; 1762)

John Gay (1685-1732)

The Beggar‘s Opera (1728)

George Lillo (1693-1739)

The London Merchant (1731)

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

"London, a poem" (1738; rev. ed. 1748); Preface to The Plays of Shakespeare (1765)

Samuel Richardson (1689-1761)

Pamela (Letters 1-31) (1740)

Henry Fielding (1707-1754)

Joseph Andrews (1742); Tom Jones (1749)

Thomas Gray (1716-1771)

"Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" (c. 1742-50; 1751); "Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat" (1747; 1748)

William Collins (1721-1759)

"Ode to Evening" (1746)

Laurence Sterne (1713-1768)

Tristram Shandy, Bks. 1 and 2 (1760-1767); A Sentimental Journey (1768)

Oliver Goldsmith (?1730-1774)

The Vicar of Wakefield (1766); The Deserted Village (1770); She Stoops to Conquer (1773)

Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816)

The School for Scandal (1777)

William Cowper (1731-1800)

The Task (1783; 1785); "Light Shining Out of Darkness" (1773; 1779); "The Poplar-Field" (1784;1785)