An Elizabethan Miscellany
Selected and edited by Thomas W. Parrott
Read by Denis Daly
Shakespeare’s dominance during the Elizabethan era has overshadowed the works of many of his truly gifted contemporaries. This collection features poems covering a wide range of subjects, including love songs, wedding songs, and meditations on death, presented in a variety of forms.
1—Introduction by Thomas W. Parrott
2—My True Love hath my Heart by Sir Philip Sidney
3—Rosalind’s Madrigal by Thomas Lodge
4—In Time of Pestilence by Thomas Nash
5—The Passionate Shepherd to His Love by Christopher Marlowe
6—O Sweet Content by Thomas Dekker
7—Two poems by Ben Jonson
8—Good Morrow by Thomas Heywood
9—Lines on the Tombs in Westminster by Francis Beaumont
10—Roses, Their Sharp Spines Being Gone, by John Fletcher
11—Two poems by Michael Drayton
