Part One Early and Medieval English Literature (449—1485)
Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales
Part Two The Sixteenth Century (1485—1603)
William Shakespeare
Hamlet
The Merchant of Venice
Sonnet 18
Sonnet 29
Francis Bacon
Of Studies
Part Three The Seventeenth Century (1603—1700)
John Donne
Song
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
George Herbert
Virtue
Andrew Marvell
To His Coy Mistress
John Milton
Paradise Lost
Sonnet: On His Blindness
Sonnet: On His Deceased Wife
John Dryden
An Excerpt from An Essay of Dramatic Poesy
Part Four The Eighteenth Century (1700—1798)
Alexander Pope
An Essay on Criticism
Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe
Jonathan Swift
Gulliver's Travels
Thomas Gray
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
William Blake
London
The Tyger
The Chimney Sweeper
The Chimney Sweeper
Robert Burns
My Heart's in the Highlands
A Red, Red Rose
Part Five The English Romanticism (1798—1832)
William Wordsworth
She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
The Solitary Reaper
George Gordon Byron
Sonnet on Chillon
When We Two Are Parted
She Walks in Beauty
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Song to the Men of England
Ode to the West Wind
John Keats
Ode to a Nightingale
Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
Charles Lamb
Old China
William Hazlitt
Macbeth Characters Analysis
Part Six The Victorian Age (1832—1900)
Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist
William Makepeace Thackeray
Vanity Fair
Charlotte Bronte
Jane Eyre
Emily Brontie
Wuthering Heights
Robert Browning
My Last Duchess
Thomas Carlyle
Heroes and Hero-Worship
Part Seven The Twentieth Century (1901—1990s)
Thomas Hardy
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
George Bernard Shaw
Pygmalion
Edward Morgan Forster
A Passage to India
David Herbert Lawrence
Sons and Lovers
Virginia Woolf
Mrs. Dalloway
William Butler Yeats
Down by the Salley Garden
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
Sailing to Byzantium
Wilfred Owen
Strange Meeting
Thomas Stearns Eliot
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Ted Hughes
Hawk Roosting
William Goiding
Lord of the Flies
Doris Lessing
A Sunrise on the Veld
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