Leave me, O love! which reachest but to dust! / And thou, my mind! aspire to higher things! / Grow rich in that, which never taketh rust! / Whatever fades, but fading pleasure brings. —Sonnet XXXIV , ll 1–4. Sir Philip
Elizabethan Sonnets Newly Arranged with an Introduction by Sir Sidney Lee These sonnet-sequences from this historical anthology comprise 1,121 selections, most of which with spellings modernized.
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FROM AN ENGLISH GARNER
Introduction I. The Elizabethan Sonnet-Literature II. The Supremacy of Petrarch III. The Sonnet in Sixteenth-Century Italy IV. The Sonnet in Sixteenth-Century France V. The First Coming of the Sonnet in Sixteenth-Century England VI. The Earliest Elizabethan Sonneteers—Sidney and Watson VII. The Zenith of the Sonneteering Vogue in Elizabethan England—Daniel and Constable VIII. Lodge, Barnes, and Fletcher IX. Drayton and Spenser X. Poetæ Minimi XI. Conclusion Syr P[hilip] S[idney]—His Astrophel and Stella . Wherein the excellence of sweet Poesy is concluded Sundry other rare Sonnets of divers Noble men and Gentlemen , 1591 Sir Philip Sidney—Sonnets and Poetical Translations , 1598 Thomas Watson—The Tears of Fancie, or, Loue Disdained , 1593 Barnabe Barnes—Parthenophil and Parthenophe . Sonnets, Madrigals, Elegies, and Odes, 1593 Thomas Lodge—Phillis Honoured with Pastorall Sonnets, Elegies, and amorous delights , 1593 Giles Fletcher, LL.D.—Licia, or, Poems of Love in Honour of the admirable and singular virtues of his Lady . To the imitation of the best Latin Poets, and others, 1593 Henry Constable and others—Diana, or, The excellent conceitful Sonnets of H. C. Augmented with divers Quatorzains of honourable and learned personages . Divided into viii. Decades, 1584 [vere 1594] Samuel Daniel—Delia (1594) William Percy—Sonnets to the Fairest Cœlia , 1594 Anonymous—Zepheria , 1594 Michael Drayton—Idea. In sixty-three Sonnets , 1594–1619 Edmund Spenser—Amoretti and Epithalamion , 1595 Bartholomew Griffin—Fidessa, more chaste than kind , 1596 R[ichard] L[inche]—Diella. Certain Sonnets, adjoined to the amorous poem of Dom Diego and Gyneura , 1596 William Smith—Chloris, or The Complaint of the passionate despised Shepherd , 1596 R[obert] T[ofte]—Laura, The Toys of a Traveller: or The Feast of Fancy . Divided into Three Parts, 1597
