The Oxford book of the sea
Jonathan Raban (Editor)
It is no surprise that one of the earliest works in English literature should be a poem about the sea: the sea has been a source of fascination from the earliest times, and the Anglo-Saxon poem 'The Seafarer' is only the first in a long series of writings which ponder its mystery. A powerful and restless presence in real life, the sea is one of the most ubiquitous and protean symbols in literature, changing in response to shifts in sensibility, and holding a mirror to all who confront it--Renaissance explorers and Augustan gentlemen, Romantic outcasts and Victorian travellers, packet tourists and small-boat sailors, naturalists and novelists, poets and oceanographers: men and women in a state of wonder before the sea
Print Book, English, 1992
Oxford University Press, Oxford [England], 1992
poetry
xviii, 524 pages ; 23 cm
9780192141972, 019214197X
24142302
Anon. from 'The Seafarer'
Edmund Spenser (c.1552-1599). from The Faerie Queene
Richard Hakluyt (1552-1616). Edward Hay's account of Sir Humphrey Gilbert's voyage to. Newfoundland from Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation
The English Bible (1611). from Psalm 107
George Chapman (1559-1634). from Homer's Odysseys
Samuel Purchas (c.1575-1626). from Hakluytus Posthumus, or Purchas His Pilgrimes
John Donne (1572-1631). 'The Storme'. 'The Calme'
John Milton (1608-1674). from 'Lycidas'. from The Book of Common Prayer
John Dryden (1631-1700). from Annus Mirabilis
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (c.1624-1674). 'The Sea-goddess'
Charles Cotton (1630-1687). 'The Tempest'
Joseph Addison (1672-1719). from The Spectator
Daniel Defoe (c. 1660- 1731). from Robinson Crusoe. from A Tour through the Whole Island of Great Britain
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790). from Journal of a Voyage
James Thomson (1700-1748)