Geoffrey Chaucer ca. 1343-1400
The Canterbury Tales
Francis Bacon 1561-1626
Of Marriage and Single Life
William Shakespeare 1564-1616
Julius Caesar
Sonnet 18
John Donne 1572-1631
Holy Sonnet 10
John Milton 1608-1674
On His Blindness
Daniel Defoe 1660-1731
Moll Flanders
Jonathan Swift 1667-1745
Gulliver’s Travels
Alexander Pope 1688-1744
The Rape of the Lock
Samuel Richardson 1689-1761
Clarissa Harlowe
Samuel Johnson 1709-1784
To the Right Honorable the Earl of Chesterfield
William Blake 1757-1827
London
William Wordsworth 1770-1850
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
Jane Austen 1775-1817
Pride and Prejudice
George Gordon Byron 1788-1824
She Walks in Beauty
John Keats 1795-1821
Ode on a Grecian Urn
William Makepeace Thackeray 1811-1863
Vanity Fair
Charles Dickens 1812-1870
David Copperfield
Robert Browning 1812-1889
My Last Duchess
Charlotte Bronte 1816-1855
Jane Eyre
Thomas Hardy 1840-1928
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Oscar Wilde 1854-1900
The Importance of Being Earnest
William Butler Yeats 1865-1939
An Irish Airman Foresees His Death
The Second Coming
Virginia Woolf 1882-1941
A Room of One’s Own
D.H. Lawrence 1885-1930
Lady Chatterley’s Lover
Samuel Beckett 1906-1989
Waiting for Godot
W. H. Auden 1907-1973
As I Walked Out One Evening
Doris Lessing 1919-2013
To Room Nineteen
Philip Larkin 1922-1985
High Windows
This Be The Verse
V. S. Naipaul 1932-
One Out of Many