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From Medieval to Modern Period

The Dream Of The Rood

Beowulf (Signet Classics)

by Anonymous

Chaucer

by The General Prologue, The Miller's Tale, The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale, The Nun's Priest Tale

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Penguin Classics)

by Anonymous

The Second Shepherd’s Play

Piers Plowman (Norton Critical Editions)

by William Langland

Malory, Morte D’Arthur

Sir Thomas More’s “Utopia”

Spenser’s Faerie Queene, Book I, cantos i-v

10.

Faerie Queene, Book I, cantos vi-xii

11.

Faerie Queene,Book II, canto 12, stanzas 42-87, Book III, cantos i-xii

12.

Marlowe, The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus

13.

Shakespeare’s sonnets: 18, 19, 20, 29, 30, 55, 73, 87, 116, 127, 129, 130, 144, and 147 and Twelfth Night, Acts I-III.

14.

Twelfth Night, Acts IV and V.

15.

17th Century Introduction, Donne

by 17th Century Introduction, Donne, “The Flea”, "The Good Morrow," “Song”(both by that title), “The Undertaking”, "The Sun Rising""The Indifferent", "A Valediction: Of Weeping", “The Canonization”, "The Relic", “The Bait”, “The Apparition”, “A Valediction

16.

Ben Jonson

by "To My Book", "On Something, That Walks Somewhere", "To William Camden", "On My First Daughter", "To John Donne", On My First Son”, “Inviting a Friend to Supper”, “To Penshurst”, “To Celia”, “To Heaven”, “Still To Be Neat”, "Slow, Slow, Fresh Fount", “To

17.

Herbert, Herrick and Marvelle

by Herbert: "The Altar", "Redemption", "Easter Wings", "Affliction (1)", "Prayer (1)", "Church Monuments", "Denial", "Virtue", "The Collar", "Discipline", "Love (3)", Herrick , "Delight in Disorder", "Corinna's Going A-Maying", "To the Virgins, to Make Much

18.

Milton

by Milton, “On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity”("The Hymn" is part of this poem-- read the first four stanzas PLUS the 27 following), "On Shakespeare", "Lycidas", “Areopagitica”, All the Sonnets

19.

Francis Bacon

by Of Truth, Of Marriage and Single Life, Novum Oragnum

20.

Alexander Pope

by An Essay on Criticism, The Rape of the Lock, Epistle to Miss Blount, And Essay On Man

21.

Samual Johnson, the History of Rasselas

22.

Gulliver's Travels (Norton Critical Editions)

by Jonathan Swift

23.

William Blake

by Romantic Period Background, William Blake: "To Spring", "To Autumn", "To the Evening Star", "All Religions Are One", "There Is No Natural Religion (a and b)", From Songs of Innocence: Introduction, "The Ecchoing(sic) Green", "The Lamb", "The Little Black

24.

Robert Burns

by William Blake, "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell", Robert Burns: all poems in 7th edition

25.

Paine, Wollstonecraft

by Thomas Paine, "Rights of Man", Burke, "Reflections on the Revolution in France" and Wollstonecraft, "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman"

26.

Wordsworth

by Wordsworth, "Preface to Lyrical Ballads" (please read this before the poetry), "We Are Seven", "Lines Written in Early Spring", "Expostulation and Reply", "The Tables Turned", "Lines: Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey", "Strange Fits of Passion", "

27.

Coleridge

by Coleridge, " The Eolian Harp", "Rime of the Ancient Mariner", "Kubla Khan", "The Satanic Hero" (p. 491) Byron, "Written after Swimming from Sestos to Abydos", "She Walks in Beauty", "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage"

28.

Shelley

by Shelley, "Mutability", "To Wordsworth", "Ozymandias", "England in 1819", "Ode to the West Wind", "To a Skylark", "The Flower that Smiles Today", "Defence of Poetry", Keats, ", "From Sleep and Poetry", "The Eve of St. Agnes" , "When I Have Fears", "La Bell

29.

Victorian Age

by The Victorian Age Background, Carlyle, "Sartor Resartus"

30.

E.B. Browning

by E.B. Browning, "Sonnets from the Portugese": 21, 22, 32, 43, "Aurora Leigh", "Mother and Poet", J.S. Mill: "What is Poetry", from "The Subjection of Women" and from "Autobiography"

31.

Tennyson

by Tennyson, "Lady of Shalott", "The Coming of Arthur", "The Passing of Arthur", "In Memoriam"

32.

Robert Browning

by Robert Browning, "Porphyria's Lover", "Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister", "My Last Duchess", "The Laboratory", "The Bishop Orders His Tomb", "Childe Roland", "Fra Lippo Lippi", "Love Among the Ruins"

33.

Hopkins

by Gerard Manley Hopkins, "God's Grandeur", "The Starlight Night", "As Kingfishers Catch Fire", "Spring", "The Windhover", "Pied Beauty", "Hurrahing in Harvest", "Binsey Poplars", "Duns Scotus's Oxford", "Felix Randal", "Spring and Fall", "[Carrion Comfort]"

34.

Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, Acts I-II

35.

Earnest, Act III, plus 20th century introduction

36.

World War I Poetry

by World War I Poetry: Brooke, "The Soldier", Thomas, "Adlestrop", "Tears", "The Owl", "Rain", "The Cherry Trees", and "As the Team's Head Brass". Sassoon, "They", "The Rear-Guard", "Glory of Women", "Everyone Sang", "On Passing the New Menin Gate", "Memoirs

37.

Yeats

by Yeats, "The Madness of King Goll", "The Stolen Child", "The Rose of the World", "The Lake Isle of Innisfree", "The Sorrow of Love", "When You are Old", "The Folly of Being Comforted", "Adam's Curse", "No Second Troy", "The Fascination of What's Difficult"

38.

T.S. Eliot

by Eliot, "The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock", "The Waste Land", "The Hollow Men", "Journey of the Magi", "Tradition and Individual Talent", "The Metaphysical Poets"

39.

Thomas, Heaney, Boland, Hughes

by Thomas, "The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower", "After the Funeral", "Fern Hill","Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night". Heaney, "Digging", "Casualty". Boland, "That the Science of Cartography is Limited", "The Dolls Museum in Dublin

40.

The Sun Also Rises

by Ernest Hemingway

41.

Garden of Eden

by Ernest Hemingway

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