Part One Old and Middle English Period
1. Beowulf ……………………………………………………………… 1
Beowulf ……………………………………………………………………………2
2. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight ………………………………… 7
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight …………………………………………………8
3. Geoff rey Chaucer ……………………………………………………13
The Canterbury Tales …………………………………………………………… 15
4. Popular Ballads ………………………………………………………22
Get up and Bar the Door ……………………………………………………… 23
The Three Ravens ……………………………………………………………… 26
Sir Patrick Spens ……………………………………………………………… 27
Part Two The English Renaissance
5. Edmund Spenser ……………………………………………………32
Sonnet 75 ……………………………………………………………………… 33
6. Christopher Marlowe ………………………………………………36
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love ………………………………………… 37
7. William Shakespeare ………………………………………………40
Sonnet 18 ……………………………………………………………………… 40
Hamlet ………………………………………………………………………… 42
8. Francis Bacon ………………………………………………………46
Of Studies ……………………………………………………………………… 47
Part Three The Seventeenth Century
9. John Donne …………………………………………………………52
Death, Be Not Proud …………………………………………………………… 53
10. John Milton …………………………………………………………56
To Mr. Cyriack Skinner Upon His Blindness ………………………………… 57
Areopagitica …………………………………………………………………… 59
11. John Bunyan ………………………………………………………62
The Pilgrim’s Progress ………………………………………………………… 63
Part Four The Eighteenth Century
12. Daniel Defoe …………………………………………………………68
Robinson Crusoe ……………………………………………………………… 69
13. Jonathan Swift ………………………………………………………76
A Modest Proposal …………………………………………………………… 78
14. Samuel Johnson ……………………………………………………89
Samuel Johnson’s Letter to Lord Chesterfi eld ………………………………… 91
15. Thomas Gray ………………………………………………………95
The Epitaph …………………………………………………………………… 96
16. William Blake ………………………………………………………99
Laughing Song …………………………………………………………………100
The Chimney Sweeper …………………………………………………………101
The Chimney Sweeper …………………………………………………………102
17. Robert Burns …………………………………………………… 105
A Man’s a Man for A’ That ……………………………………………………106
Scots Wha Hae …………………………………………………………………109
A Red, Red Rose ………………………………………………………………111
Part Five The Romantic Period
18. William Wordsworth …………………………………………… 114
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud …………………………………………………115
Michael: A Pastoral Poem ……………………………………………………117
19. George Gordon Byron ………………………………………… 125
Sonnet on Chillon ……………………………………………………………127
She Walks in Beauty …………………………………………………………128
20. Percy Bysshe Shelley …………………………………………… 130
Ode to the West Wind …………………………………………………………131
21. John Keats ……………………………………………………… 135
On the Grasshopper and Cricket ………………………………………………136
To Autumn ……………………………………………………………………138
22. Jane Austen ……………………………………………………… 142
Pride and Prejudice ……………………………………………………………143
Part Six The Victorian Literature
23. Charles Dickens ………………………………………………… 148
David Copperfi eld ……………………………………………………………149
24. William Makepeace Thackeray ………………………………… 158
Vanity Fair ……………………………………………………………………159
25. Matthew Arnold ………………………………………………… 170
Dover Beach……………………………………………………………………171
26. Charlotte Bront? ………………………………………………… 176
Jane Eyre ………………………………………………………………………177
27. Emily Bront? …………………………………………………… 184
Wuthering Heights ……………………………………………………………185
28. Alfred Tennyson ………………………………………………… 195
Break, Break, Break ……………………………………………………………196
Crossing the Bar ………………………………………………………………197
29. Robert Browning ………………………………………………… 200
My Last Duchess ………………………………………………………………201
30. Oscar Wilde ……………………………………………………… 204
The Happy Prince ……………………………………………………………205
31.Thomas Hardy …………………………………………………… 216
Afterwards ……………………………………………………………………217
Jude the Obscure ………………………………………………………………219
Part Seven The Twentieth Century
32. William Butler Yeats …………………………………………… 229
The Lake Isle of Innisfree ……………………………………………………230
When You are Old ……………………………………………………………232
The Second Coming ……………………………………………………………233
33. John Galsworthy ………………………………………………… 236
Told by the Schoolmaster ………………………………………………………237
34. D. H. Lawrence ………………………………………………… 246
The Rocking Horse Winner …………………………………………………248
35. James Joyce ……………………………………………………… 265
Ulysses …………………………………………………………………………267
36. William S. Maugham …………………………………………… 270
Home …………………………………………………………………………271