I. The Middle Ages to the Eighteenth Century
1: INTRODUCTION
The History of the English Language
“Caedmon’s Hymn”
2: ANGLO-SAXON LITERATURE
Beowulf
3: ANGLO-NORMAN LITERATURE
Arthurian Legends
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
4: MEDIEVAL LITERATURE
The Vision of Piers Plowman
5: MEDIEVAL LITERATURE
The Mystery Plays
Everyman
6: MEDIEVAL LITERATURE
The Canterbury Tales
7: THE AGE OF DISCOVERY
Utopia – Sir Thomas More
8: THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION
King James Bible
9: THE ELIZABETHAN ERA
The Faerie Queen - Edmund Spenser
10: RENAISSANCE POETRY
The Defense of Poesy – Sir Philip Sidney
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
11: RENAISSANCE DRAMA
Dr. Faustus – Christopher Marlowe
12: THE METAPHYSICAL POETS
John Donne
George Herbert
Henry Vaughn
Richard Crashaw
Robert Herrick
Andrew Marvell
13: THE ENGLISH CIVIL WAR
Paradise Lost - John Milton
14: THE RESTORATION
Criticism - John Dryden
The Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan
The Spectator – Addison and Steele
15: THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION
Sir Francis Bacon
“Human Understanding” – John Locke
“An Essay on Man” – Alexander Pope
16: THE AGE OF WIT
A Modest Proposal – Jonathan Swift
Vanity of Human Wishes – Samuel Johnson
II. The Romantics to the Modern Era
17: INTRODUCTION
Revelation and Revolution
18: WILLIAM BLAKE
Songs of Innocence
Songs of Experience
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
19: WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
Lyrical Ballads
The Prelude
20: SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Kubla Khan
Biographia Literaria
21: LORD BYRON
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
Manfred
Don Juan
22: PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
Ozymandias
Prometheus Unbound
Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
23: JOHN KEATS
Ode to a Nightingale
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Ode on Melancholy
24: THE VICTORIAN AGE
Empire, Industrialism, Evolution
Hard Times – Charles Dickens
25: LORD TENNYSON
The Lotus-Eaters
Ulysses
26: THE BROWNINGS
Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came
Love Among the Ruins
The Cry of the Children
27: MATTHEW ARNOLD
The Scholar Gypsy
Culture and Anarchy
The Study of Poetry
28: THE ROSETTIS
The House of Life
Goblin Market
29: THE LATE VICTORIANS
Robert Louis Stevenson
Oscar Wilde
Rudyard Kipling
30: W.E.B. YEATS
The Golden Dawn
The Man Who Dreamed of Faeryland
31: MODERNISM
Virginia Woolf
James Joyce
D.H. Lawrence
32: T.S. ELIOT
The Waste Land
Four Quartets
