Anthology (for purchase):
Norton Anthology of English Literature, 10th edn, vol. B (The Sixteenth Century/The Early Seventeenth Century). All texts are in this anthology.
Philip Sidney (1554—1586)
Astrophil and Stella, sonnets 1, 2, 15, 31, 74
William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
Sonnets 12, 18, 23, 29, 35, 55, 65, 73, 129, 130, 138, and 147
Aemilia Lanyer (1569—1645)
‘The Description of Cookham’
John Donne (1572—1631)
‘The Flea’
‘The Good Morrow’
‘The Sun Rising’
‘Elegy 19: To his Mistress, Going to Bed’
‘A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning’
‘I am a little world made cunningly’
‘If poisonous minerals, and if that tree’
‘Death, be not proud, though some have called thee’
‘Batter my heart, three-personed God’
Ben Jonson (1572—1637)
‘To Penshurst’
‘To the Memory of my Beloved the Author, Mr William Shakespeare’
George Herbert (1593—1633)
‘Redemption’
‘Prayer 1’
‘Jordan 1’
‘Denial’
‘Virtue’
‘Jordan 3’
‘The Collar’
‘Discipline’
‘Death’
‘Love 3’
John Milton (1608—74)
Paradise Lost, Books 1, 4, and 9
‘When I consider how my light is spent’
‘Methought I saw my late espousèd saint’
Andrew Marvell (1621—78)
‘To His Coy Mistress’
‘The Definition of Love’
‘The Mower to the Glowworms’
‘The Garden’