The golden age of English poetry, with poems by Shakespeare, Spenser, Sidney, and others; drama by Marlowe and other early rivals to Shakespeare; prose by Sir Thomas More and the great Elizabethan translators.


Thomas More, Utopia (Penguin)
Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince (Oxford)
Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. 1b, The Sixteenth and
Early Seventeenth Century