The Twentieth Century

The Twentieth Century http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/20century/welcome.htm

Prose
George Orwell
Shooting an Elephant http://www.readprint.com/work-1252/George-Orwell http://www.k-1.com/Orwell/index.cgi/work/essays/elephant.html

D. H. Lawrence
The Rocking-Horse Winner http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/rockwinr.html http://readytogoebooks.com/DHL-rock1.htm

James Joyce
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man [excerpt] http://www.readprint.com/chapter-6357/James-Joyce { http://www.bibliomania.com/0/0/29/62/frameset.html & http://www.bibliomania.com/0/0/29/62/frameset.html}

Virginia Woolf
A Room of One’s Own [excerpt] http://www.haverford.edu/psych/ddavis/psych214/woolf.room.html

Saki
The Open Window http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/openwin.html http://www.hermes-press.com/saki1.htm

Poetry

William Butler Yeats
An Irish Airman Foresees His Death http://www.poemtree.com/poems/IrishAirmanForsees.htm http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/32.html
Easter 1916 http://www.readprint.com/work-1581/William-Butler-Yeats http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/1011.html

Rupert Brooke
The Soldier http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/230.html http://www.bartleby.com/232/405.html

T. S. Eliot
The Hollow Men http://www.columbia.edu/itc/tc/scfu4016/hollow.html

Wilfred Owen
Dulce et Decorum Est http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/1543.html http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/132.html

W. H. Auden
Spain 1937
Musée des Beaux Arts http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/68.html

Henry Reed
Naming of Parts http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/395.html

Dylan Thomas
The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower
Fern Hill
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night

Phillip Larking
The Whitsun Weddings

Thom Gunn
On the Move

Ted Hughes
Hawk Roosting
Owl’s Song

Drama

Harold Pinter
Last to Go

The Victorian Age

The Victorian Age http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/victorian/welcome.htm

Victorian Poetry
Lord Tennyson
The Lady of Shalott http://www.readprint.com/work-1418/Lord-Alfred-Tennyson http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/2158.html
Break, Break, Break http://www.readprint.com/work-1400/Lord-Alfred-Tennyson http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/2115.html
Crossing the Bar http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/2118.html http://www.readprint.com/work-1403/Lord-Alfred-Tennyson

Thomas Hardy
The Darkling Thrush http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/917.html http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/977.html
Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave? http://www.readprint.com/work-727/Thomas-Hardy http://net.lib.byu.edu/english/WWI/influences/digging.html

A. E. Housman
To an Athlete Dying Young http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/1064.html http://www.bartleby.com/123/19.html
When I Was One-and-Twenty http://www.bartleby.com/123/13.html
With Rue My Heart Is Laden http://www.bartleby.com/123/54.html http://www.pinkmonkey.com/dl/library1/laden.pdf

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sonnet 43 http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/261.html http://www.amherst.edu/~rjyanco94/literature/elizabethbarrettbrowning/poems/sonnetsfromtheportuguese/howdoilovetheeletmecounttheways.html

Victorian Drama

Oscar Wilde
The Importance of Being Earnest http://www.readprint.com/work-1510/Oscar-Wilde http://www.hoboes.com/html/FireBlade/Wilde/earnest/

The Romantics

The Romantics http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/romantic/welcome.htm
William Wordsworth
Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/2343.html http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww138.html
The Lucy Poems
She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways http://www.bartleby.com/101/516.html http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/2365.html
Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known http://www.bartleby.com/101/515.html http://www.readprint.com/work-1541/William-Wordsworth
A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal http://www.bartleby.com/101/519.html http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/2369.html
My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold http://www.readprint.com/work-1543/William-Wordsworth http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww194.html
Sonnets
Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww206.html http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/2330.html
It Is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/2340.html http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww211.html
London, 1802 http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/2344.html http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww219.html
The World I Too Much with Us http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/2380.html http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww317.html

Samuel Coleridge
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner http://www.bartleby.com/101/549.html http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/530.html
Kubla Khan http://www.bartleby.com/101/550.html http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/524.html

Lord Byron
She Walks in Beauty http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/365.html http://www.bartleby.com/106/173.html
Stanzas Written on the Road Between Florence and Pisa http://www.readprint.com/work-171/Lord-George-Gordon-Byron

Percy Shelley
Ozymandias http://www.bartleby.com/106/246.html http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/1904.html
Sonnet: England in 1819 http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/1885.html http://www.online-literature.com/shelley_percy/658/
To A Skylark http://www.bartleby.com/106/241.html http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/1915.html
To --- http://www.bartleby.com/101/615.html http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/1914.html
A Dirge http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/500.html http://www2.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/noa/pdf/shelley_A_Dirge.pdf

John Keats
On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer http://www.bartleby.com/101/634.html http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/1133.html
Bright Star! Would I Were Steadfast As Thou Art http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/1119.html http://www.bartleby.com/106/198.html
Ode to a Nightingale http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/1131.html http://www.bartleby.com/101/624.html
Ode on a Grecian Urn http://www.bartleby.com/101/625.html http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/1129.html

The Restoration and Eighteenth Century

The Restoration and Eighteenth Century http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/18century/welcome.htm

The Restoration
John Dryden http://www.luminarium.org/eightlit/dryden/drydenbio.htm
An Essay of Dramatic Poesy http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/display/displayprose.cfm?prosenum=14 [lines 1280-1359] http://home.comcast.net/~spmsh/EighteenthCenturyUnit/DrydenAnEssayofDramaticPoesyHandout.rtf

Samuel Pepsy http://www.luminarium.org/eightlit/pepys/pepysbio.htm
The Diary of Samuel Pepys [August 19, 1660; November 21, 1660; January 3, 1661; March 27, 1661; May 31, 1661; December 31, 1661; June 8, 1662; October 13, 1660; April 23, 1661; Seotember 2, 1666] http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=4200 http://www.pepysdiary.com/archive/

The Age of Pope
Jonathan Swift http://www.luminarium.org/eightlit/swift/swiftbio.htm
Gulliver’s Travels http://books.google.com/books?vid=01Ua6k53jka1p-Co&id=xcQBAAAAQAAJ&printsec=titlepage http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/s/swift/jonathan/s97g/
A Modest Proposal http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/modest.html http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/s/swift/jonathan/s97m/

Alexander Pope http://www.luminarium.org/eightlit/pope/popebio.php
The Rape of the Lock http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC03147633&id=xXciKdpaH0oC&pg=PA11&lpg=PA1#PPA10,M1 http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~sconstan/poemlink.html
Epigrams

The Age of Johnson
Samuel Johnson http://www.luminarium.org/eightlit/johnson/johnsonbio.htm
Letter to Lord Chesterfield http://www.luminarium.org/eightlit/johnson/chesterfield.htm
Definitions from Johnson’s Dictionary http://books.google.com/books?id=bXsCAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA7-PA1&as_brr=1#PPP197,M1
Preface to Shakespeare http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/display/displayprose.cfm?prosenum=9 [lines 105-216]

Thomas Gray http://www.luminarium.org/eightlit/gray/graybio.php
Elegy Written in a Country Courtyard http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dsucha/elegy.html http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=elcc

Robert Burns
Ae Fond Kiss http://www.robertburns.org/works/358.shtml http://www.bartleby.com/101/499.html
O, Wert Thou in the Cauld Blast http://www.robertburns.org/works/557.shtml http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/4076/
To a Mouse http://www.robertburns.org/works/75.shtml http://quotations.about.com/cs/poemlyrics/a/To_A_Mouse.htm

William Blake
Songs of Innocence
The Lamb http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/2404/ http://www.allspirit.co.uk/lamb.html
Songs of Experience
The Tyger http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/2376/ http://www.allspirit.co.uk/tyger.html

The Renaissance

The Elizabethan Age http://www2.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/16century/welcome.htm



Sir Thomas Wyatt http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/wyattbio.htm
Whoso List to Hunt http://www.nellgavin.com/ThomasWyatt/ http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/whosolist.htm
Divers Doth Use http://www.handprint.com/SC/SHK/sonnets.html http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/divers.htm


Edmund Spencer http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/spensbio.htm
The Faerie Queene http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/6930 http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/fqintro.htm


Sir Philip Sidney http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/sidbio.htm


Christopher Marlowe http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/marlowebio.htm
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love http://www2.latech.edu/~bmagee/201/marlowe/shepherd_&_notes.htm http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/passionateshepherd.htm


Sir Walter Raleigh http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/raleghbio.htm
The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd http://www2.latech.edu/~bmagee/201/marlowe/shepherd_&_notes.htm http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/nymphsreply.htm

William Shakespeare http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/
Sonnets http://www.shakespeare-online.com/sonnets/ http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus:text:1999.03.0064
Songs
Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind <http://quotations.about.com/cs/poemlyrics/a/Blow_Blow_Thou.htm>
It Was a Lover and His Lass <http://members.tripod.com/CelticLore/ItWasALoverAndHisLass.w.htm>
Fear No More the Heat o’ the Sun <http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/477.html>
Macbeth < http://shakespeare.mit.edu/macbeth/ >



The Jacobean Age [17th Century] http://www2.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/17century/welcome.htm
Metaphysical Poets http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/metaintro.htm

John Donne http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/donne/donnebio.htm
Song http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=173384 http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/donne/sweetest.php
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=173387 http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/donne/mourning.php
Holy Sonnets http://cs1.mcm.edu/~rayb/holy_sonnets.htm http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/donne/donnebib.htm

George Herbert http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/herbert/herbbio.htm
Virtue http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/herbert/virtue.htm http://www.web-books.com/Classics/Poetry/Anthology/Herbert/Virtue
Easter Wings http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/herbert/easterwings.htm http://www.web-books.com/Classics/Poetry/anthology/Herbert/Easter.htm

Andrew Marvell http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/marvell/marvbio.htm
To His Coy Mistress http://www.bartleby.com/101/357.html http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/marvell/coy.htm

Henry Vaughan http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/vaughan/vaughbio.htm
The Retreat http://www.daypoems.net/plainpoems/354.html http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/vaughan/retreat.htm

Cavalier Poets http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/cavintro.htm

Ben Johnson http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/jonson/benbio.htm
On My First Son http://www.angelfire.com/ga/jewliet/firstson.html http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/jonson/son.htm
Song: To Celia http://www.benjonson.org.uk/stc.htm http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/jonson/celia2.htm
To the Memory of My Beloved Master, William Shakespeare http://www.themediadrome.com/content/poetry/jonson_to_shakespeare.htm http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/jonson/benshake.htm
It Is Not Growing Like a Tree http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/301.html http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/5269

Robert Herrick http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/herrick/herribio.htm
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time http://www.englishverse.com/poems/to_the_virgins_to_make_much_of_time http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/herrick/tovirgins.htm
To Daffodils http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/to-daffodils/ http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/herrick/daffodils.htm

Sir John Suckling <http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/suckling/sjsbio.htm>
The Constant Lover http://www.englishverse.com/poems/the_constant_lover http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/suckling/outuponit.htm
Why So Pale and Wan http://www.patchword.com/patchword/anthology/classic_detail.asp?Id=70&author=Sir+John+Suckling http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/suckling/whysopale.htm

Richard Lovelace http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/lovelace/lovebio.htm
To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/1353.html
http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/lovelace/lucastawars.htm
To Althea, from Prison http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/1352.html
http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/lovelace/altheaprison.htm

The Puritan Age

John Milton http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/milton/miltonbio.htm
Paradise Lost http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/milton/plost.htm

John Bunyan http://www.luminarium.org/eightlit/bunyan/bunyanbio.htm
The Pilgrim’s Progress http://www.luminarium.org/eightlit/bunyan/bunyanbib.htm http://www.mountzion.org/johnbunyan/index.html

The Middle Ages

The Anglo-Saxon Period
Beowulf translated by Burton Raffel,
Study guide: <http://www.glencoe.com/sec/literature/litlibrary/beowulf.html>

The Medieval Period
The Prologue of The Canterbury Tales translated by Nevill Coghill,