Part I The Middle Ages to ca 1485
Unit I Beowulf
Background Knowledge: The Anglo-Saxon Period 450-1066
Beowulf
Beowulf'' s Fight with Grendel
Beowulf'' s Funeral
Unit 2 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Background Knowledge: The Norman Period 1066-1350
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Part I
Unit 3 Ballads
Background Knowledge: The 15th Century 1400-1485
Sir Patrick Spens
Robin Hood Rescuing Three Squires
Unit 4 Geoffrey Chaucer ca 1343-1400
The Canterbury Tales
The General Prologue
Part II The Sixteenth Century
1485-1603
Unit 5 Edmund Spenser 1552-1599
The Faerie Queene
Book I Canto IV
Unit 6 Christopher Marlowe 1564-1593
The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
Prologue...
Act I Scene I
Scene II
Scene III
Unit 7 William Shakespeare 1564-1616
Sonnet 18
Sonnet 29
Sonnet 66
Romeo and Juliet
Act II Scene II Capulet''s Orchard
Julius Caesar
Act III Scene II The Forum
Hamlet
Act I Scene II A Room of State in the Castle
Act III Scene I
Part III The Seventeenth Century
1603-1688
Unit 8 Francis Bacon 1561-1626
Of Marriage and Single Life
Of Great Place
Of Studies
Unit 9 Metaphysical Poets
John Donne 1572-1631
The Flea
The Sun Rising
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
Sonnet 10 From Holy Sonnets
Andrew Marvell 1621-1678
To His Coy Mistress
George Herbert 1593-1633
Virtue
Unit 10 John Milton 1608-1674
Paradise Lost
Book I The Argument
When I Consider How My Light Is Spent
Unit 11 John Bunyan 1628-1688
The Pilgrim''s Progress
Christian Sets out for the Celestial City
The River of Death and the Celestial City
The Conclusion
Part IV The Eighteenth Century
1688-1798
Unit 12 Daniel Defoe 1660-1731
Robinson Crusoe
Chapter IV First Weeks on the Island
Unit 13 Jonathan Swift 1667-1745
A Modest Proposal
Gulliver''s Travels
Part I A Voyage to Lilliput
Unit 14 Joseph Addison 1672-1719 and
Richard Steele 1672-1729
The Royal Exchange
The Cries of London
Unit 15 Alexander Pope 1688-1744
An Essay on Man
Epistle 1. Of the Nature and State of Man with Respect to
the Universe
Unit 16 Samuel Johnson 1709-1784
To the Right Honourable the Earl of Chesterfield
The Preface to Shakespeare
Shakespeare''s Excellence. General Nature
Unit 17 Henry Fielding 1707-1754
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
Book I Chapter II]
Book I Chapter IV
Unit 18 Thomas Gray 1716-1771
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Unit 19 William Blake 1757-1827
From Songs of innocence, 1789
The Lamb
The Chimney Sweeper
Holy Thursday
From Songs of Experience, 1794
Holy Thursday
The Chimney Sweeper
The Tyger
London
Unit 20 Robert Burns 1759-1796
Scots, Wha Hae
For A'' That and A'' That
My Heart''s in the Highlands
A Red, Red Rose
Auld Lang Syne
Bibliography