I. The Middle Ages (to ca. 1485)
Beowulf
The Fight with Grendel
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400)
From Canterbury Tales
The General Prologue
A Portrait of the Wife of Bath
The Wife of Bath's Prologue
The Wife of Bath's Tale
II. The Sixteenth Century (1485-1603)
Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586)
From Astrophel and Stella
Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)
From The Faerie Queene
A Letter of the Author's
Book I, Canto 10
Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)
From The Tragical History of Doctor Fautus
Act I, Prologue
Act I, Scene 1 Faustus' Study
Act I, Scene 3 A Grove
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Sonnets
From Hamlet
Act I, Scene 2
Act I, Scene 4
Act I, Scene 5
Act III, Scene 1
Act III, Scene 2
Act III, Scene 3
III. The Early Seventeenth Century (1603-1660)
Ben (jamin) Jonson (1572-1637)
Song: To Celia
From Volpone, OR The Fox
The Argument
Prologue
Act I, Scene 1
Act I, Scene 3
Act I, Scene 4
Act I, Scene 5
John Donne (1573-1631)
Song
The Flea
The Good-Morrow
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
A Valediction: Of Weeping
From Holy Sonnets
Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)
To His Coy Mistress
The Garden
The Definition of Love
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
Of Marriage and Single Life
Of Great Place
Of Studies [1597 version]
Of Studies [1625 version]
John Milton (1608-1674)
From Paradise Lost
Book I The Argument
Book IX The Argument
IV. The restoration and the Eighteenth Century (1660-1798)
John Dryden (1631-1700)
Mac Flecknoe
John Bunyan (1628-1688)
From The Pilgrim's Progress
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
From Gulliver's Travels
Part IV. A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 10
Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
From An Essay on Man
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
The Vanity of Human Wishes
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816)
From The School for Scandal
Act IV, Scene 3
Thomas Gray (1716-1771)
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
The Epitaph
Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774)
The Deserted Village
V. The Romantic Period (1798-1832)
William Blake (1757-1827)
The Lamb
The Chimney Sweeper
The Tyger
The Chimney Sweeper
The Book of Thel
Robert Burns (1759-1796)
Scots, Wha Hae
For A' That and A' That
A Red, Red Rose
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
We Are Seven
Lines Written in Early Spring
Lines
She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways
A Slumber did My Spirit Seal
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
Ode
It Is a Beauteous Evening
The World Is Too Much with Us
From The Prelude, OR Growth of a Poet's Mind
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6
Part 7
Kubla Khan
George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824)
From Don Juan
From Canto I
Percy Bysshe Shelley(1792-1822)
England in 1819
Ode to the West Wind
From Prometheus Unbound
From Act I
From Act II
From Act III
To a Sky-Lark
To - [Music, When Soft Voices Die]
When the Lamp Is Shattered
John Keats (1795-1821)
Ode to Psyche
Ode to a Nightingale
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Ode on Melancholy
VI. The Victorian Age (1832-1901)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)
Ulysses
Break, Break, Breadk
Tears, Idle Tears
From In Memoriam A. H. H.
Robert Browning (1812-1889)
Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister
My Last Duchess
Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)
The Scholar Gypsy
Dover Beach
Emily Bronte (1818-1848)
From Wuthering Heights
Chapter VII
Chapter XIV
Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
From David Copperfield
Chaptr IV
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)
The Starlight Night
The Windhover
The Lantern out of Doors
Spring and Fall
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
From The Importance of Being Earnest
VII. The Twentieth Century (1901-2000)
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
Hap
The Impercipient
Neutral Tones
The Darkling Thrush
She Hears the Storm
Channel Firing
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)
From Heart of Darkness
A. E. Housman (1859-1936)
Loveliest of Trees
When I Was One-and-Twenty
Terence, This Is Stupid Stuff
The Chestnut Casts His Flambeaux
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
When You Are Old
Easter 1916
The Second Coming
Sailing to Byzantium
Byzantium
E. M . Forster (1879-1970)
From A Passage to India
Chapter XXIV
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
The Mark on the Wall
D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
The Rocking-Horse Winner
James Joyce (1882-1941)
The Dead
T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
W. H. Auden (1907-1973)
Petition
On This Island
Musee des Beaux Arts
In Memory of W. B. Yeats
Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)
The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower
This Bread I Break
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
Doris Lessing (1919-)
To Room Nineteen
Harold Pinter (1930-)
The Dumb Waiter
Philip Larkin (1922-1985)
Church Going
MCMXIV
Toads Revisited
Kingsley Amis (1922-1995)
From Lucky Jim
Ted Hughes (1930-1998)
The Thought-Fox
Wind
Relic
Seamus Heaney (1939-)
Digging
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