Bible: Genesis, Exodus 1-2, Samuel, Isaiah, Four Gospels
Homer: The Iliad, The Odyssey
Virgil: The Aeneid
Dante: The Divine Comedy
Anon: Beowulf
Anon: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales ("General Prologue," "Knight's Tale," "Miller's Tale," "Wife of Bath's Tale," "Merchant's
Tale," "Franklin's Tale," "Pardoner's Tale")
More: Utopia
Spenser: The Faerie Queene, Book I
Milton: Paradise Lost
Pope: The Rape of the Lock
Swift: Gulliver's Travels
Wordsworth: The Prelude
Coleridge: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Eliot: The Waste Land
Narrative (Novel)
Sterne: Tristram Shandy
Austen: Mansfield Park, Emma
Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment
Flaubert: Madame Bovary
Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter
Melville: Moby Dick
Twain: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Eliot: Middlemarch
Dickens: Great Expectations
Thackery: Vanity Fair
James: The Ambassadors
Conrad: Heart of Darkness
Hardy: The Return of the Native
Joyce: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Woolf: To the Lighthouse
Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury
Dramatic
Aeschylus: Oresteia
Sophocles: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
Euripides: The Bacchae
Aristophanes: The Frogs
Anon: Everyman, Second Shepherd's Play
Marlowe: Dr. Faustus
Shakespeare: Othello, Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, Richard II, Henry IV & V, A Midsummer Night's
Dream, The Tempest
Milton: Samson Agonistes
Lyric
Bible: Selected Psalms: Psalm 22,23,42,130; The Song of Songs, 2,5,6:1-10, 8:6-7
Anglo-Saxon: "The Wanderer," "The Seafarer," "Caedmon's Hymn"
Middle-English: "I Sing of a Maiden," "Sir Patrick Spens," "The Corpus Christi Carol,"
"Western Wind"
Wyatt: "Whoso List to Hunt," "They Flee from Me"
Raleigh: "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd"
Sidney: Astrophel and Stella, 1
Shakespeare: Sonnets 18, 29, 30, 55, 65, 73, 94, 116,129, 146; "Fear No More The Heat
of the Sun," "Full Fathom Five"
Donne: "The Canonization," "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning," "The Ecstasy," "The
Good-Morrow," "Air and Angels," "A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy's Day," "Holy Sonnets 10
and 14.
Jonson: "To Penshurst," "On My First Son," " Song: To Celia" "Slow, Slow Fresh Fount"
Herrick: " To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time," "Corinna's Going A-Maying"
Herbert: " The Altar" "Virtue," "The Pulley," "The Collar," "Easter Wings," "Love
(III)"
Vaughn: "The Retreat," "The World"
Milton: "Lycidas," "On Morning of Christ's Nativity," "How Soon Hath Time," "When
I Consider How My Light is Spent"
Marvell: "To His Coy Mistress," "The Garden"
Gray: "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"
Blake: "The Lamb," "The Tyger," "The Sick Rose," "London", "Mock on, Mock on, Voltaire,
Rousseau"
Wordsworth: "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey," "A Slumber Did My Spirit
Seal," " I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud," "Ode: On Intimations of Immortality from Recollections
of Early Childhood," "The Solitary Reaper," "Surprised by Joy"
Coleridge: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner; "Kubla Khan," "Dejection: An Ode"
Shelley: "Ozymandias," "Ode to the West Wind," "Mont Blanc"
Keats: "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer," "Ode to a Nightingale," "Ode on a
Grecian Urn," "To Autumn," "Bright Star"
Tennyson: "Ulysses," "The Lady of Shalott," In Memoriam 1, 2, 7, 48, 55, 56
Browning: "My Last Duchess," "Fra Lippo Lippi," "Two in the Campagna," "Childe Roland
to the Dark Tower Came"
Arnold: "The Buried Life," "Dover Beach"
Whitman: "Song of Myself" (1, 24), "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry," "Out of the Cradle Endlessly
Rocking," "Virgil Strange Kept I on the Field One Night"
Dickinson: "Success is Counted Sweetest," "There's a Certain Slant of Light," "After
Great Pain a Formal Feeling Comes," "I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died," "Because I Could
not Stop for Death," "Further in Summer than the Birds," "Tell all the Truth but Tell
it Slant"
Hopkins: "God's Grandeur," "The Windhover," "Pied Beauty," "Spring and Fall"
Hardy: "Hap," "The Darkling Thrush," "Convergence of the Twain"
Housman: "Loveliest of Trees," "To an Athlete Dying Young," "Epitaph on an Army of
Mercenaries"
Yeats: "Easter 1916," "The Second Coming," "Leda and the Swan," "Sailing to Byzantium,"
"Among School Children," "Adam's Curse"
Eliot: " The Waste Land," "Preludes," "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," "The
Journey of the Magi," "Ash Wednesday"
Frost: "Birches," After Apple-Picking," "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," "For
Once, Then Something," "Desert Places," "Design," "Nothing Gold Can Stay"
Stevens: "Sunday Morning," "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird," "Anecdote of
a Jar," "The Idea of Order at Key West," "The Snow Man"
Auden: "Muse des Beaux Arts," "The Shield of Achilles"
Thomas: "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night"
Bishop: "One Art"
Heaney: "Digging"
Wilbur: "Love Calls Us to the Things of this World"
Williams: "This is Just to Say"
Literary Criticism
Plato, Book 10 of The Republic
Aristotle, The Poetics
Sidney, "An Apology for Poetry"
Wordsworth, "Preface to Lyrical Ballads"
Coleridge, Biographia Literaria (selections)
Keats, Selected Letters
Eliot, "Tradition and the Individual Talent"
Tate, "The Man of Letters in the Modern World"
Stevens, "The Noble Rider and the Sound of Words"
Derrida, "Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences"
