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THE GREAT TRADITION
A BOOK OF SELECTIONS FROM ENGLISH AND AMERICAN PROSE AND POETRY, ILLUSTRATING THE NATIONAL IDEALS OF FREEDOM, FAITH, AND CONDUCT
COPYRIGHT, 1919
BY SCOTT, FORESMAN AND COMPANY
TABLE OF CONTENTS
THE RENAISSANCE
L THE EXPANSION OF THE INDIVIDUAL—
DOCTOR FAUSTUS (Abridged), Christopher Marlowe..
TAMBURLAINE (Selection), Christopher Marlowe...
"ALL KNOWLEDGE TO BE MY PROVINCE," Francis Bacon.
A MORE DIVINE PERFECTION, Richard Hooker....
SELF DISCIPLINE: THE STORY OF GUYON, Edmund Spenser
THE GOSPEL OF BEAUTY, Edmund Spenser..
II. A GREATER BRITAIN--
THE CHARACTER OF ELIZABETH, John Richard Green..
THE MENACE OF SPAIN, John Richard Green...
THE SPIRIT OF ENGLAND, William Shakespeare..
"This England" (Richard II).
Unity Against the Foe (King John).
England at War (Henry V)................
BALLAD OF AGINCOURT, Michael Drayton.
THE DEEDS OF ELIZABETHAN SEAMEN, Richard Hakluyt.
TO THE VIRGINian Voyage, Michael Drayton.
THE VICTORY OF ENGLAND, Sir Walter Raleigh.
III. TRAINING FOR EMPIRE-
THE EDUCATION OF MEN WHO ARE TO RULE, Sir Thomas Elyot..
"THE RANK IS BUT THE GUINEA'S STAMP," Sir Thomas Elyot..
OF VIRTUOUS and Gentle DISCIPLINE, Edmund Spenser.
"THE BRAVE COURTIER," Edmund Spenser...
COUNSELS OF EXPERIENCE, Francis Bacon..
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THE IMAGINARY COMMONWEALTH OF UTOPIA, Sir Thomas More..
Thomas More to Peter Giles, of Antwerp..
England Through Utopian Eyes...
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A Discourse upon International Relations, Happiness, and Reformers.....
Labor in Utopia......
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V. THE POET'S COMMENT-
SONNETS, William Shakespeare...
MY MIND TO ME A KINGDOM Is, Sir Edward Dyer.
THE CHARACTER OF A HAPPY LIFE, Sir Henry Wotton.
DEATH, John Donne..
A PINDARIC ODE, Ben Jonson..
HIS PILGRIMAGE, Sir Walter Raleigh.
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THE LAST PAGES OF "THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD," Sir Walter Raleigh....... 108
IL FAITH AND FREEDOM: JOHN MILTON—
1. THE MAKER OF AN HEROIC POEM
Himself a True Poem (An Apology, and A Letter)..
L'Allegro.....
Il Penseroso.
Lycidas..
Sonnets: On Having Arrived at the Age of Twenty-Three..
On His Blindness..
To Cyriack Skinner.
Of Darkness Visible (The Second Defense).
Of Celestial Light (Paradise Lost).....
The Poet's Service to the State (Reason of Church Government)
Fallen on Evil Days (Paradise Lost, Samson Agonistes).
"Servant of God, Well Done!" (Paradise Lost)..
2. THE POEM
Paradise Lost, Book I, and Book II, 1-527).
3. LIBERTY AND DISCIPLINE (Areopagitica)
The Virtue of Books..
Of Restraints.
Liberty of Thought..
A Heretic in the Truth....
Liberty the Nurse of All Great Wits....
Of Discipline (Reason of Church Government)..
Britain the Home of True Liberty (Second Defense).
4. THE STATE
The Masterpiece of a Politician (Reformation in England)
The Source of Power (Tenure of Kings and Magistrates).
Of Justice (Eikonoklastes)......
A Free Commonwealth (A Ready and Easy Way).
5. FOES OF THE STATE
On the Detraction upon Certain Treatises..
On the Same....
On the New Forcers of Conscience..
On the Lord General Fairfax..
To the Lord General Cromwell.
6. THE INTERNATIONAL MIND
On the Late Massacre in Piedmont...
The Nation's Protest (Piedmont)..
England and America (Of Reformation in England).
The Brotherhood of Man (Tenure of Kings).......
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III. THE BEGINNINGS OF FREE GOVERNMENT IN AMERICA—
THE PILGRIMS AND THEIR COMPACT, William Bradford....