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From the Book - Rev. ed.
v. 1. From the Old English period through the Age of Reason.
v. 2. From the forerunners of romanticism to the present.
From the Book - Rev. ed.
v. 1. From the Old English period through the Age of Reason. The Old English period. Beowulf --
from The ecclesiastical history of the English people ; Account of the poet Cædmon / The venerable Bede --
Deor's Lament --
The wanderer --
The seafarer --
The dream of the rood --
from The Christ / Cynewulf --
from The preface to Gregory's Pastoral care / King Alfred the Great --
The battle of Brunanburh --
Riddles. A storm ; A bookworm ; A bible.
v. 1. From the Old English period through the Age of Reason. The Middle English period. Anonymous lyrics. Cuckoo song ; Spring song ; Alysoun ; Ubi sunt qui ante nos fuerunt? --
from The brut ; The round table / Layamon --
Sir Gawain and the green knight --
from Piers the plowman. Prologue
the field full of folk ;
Passus V
The confessions of the seven deadly sins /
William Langland --
from The Canterbury tales. The prologue ; The wife of Bath's prologue ; The pardoner's tale ; The nun's priest's tale ; The friar's tale / Geoffrey Chaucer --
from Troilus and Criseyde. Book two / Geoffrey Chaucer --
L'envoy de Chaucer à Scogan ; The compleint of Chaucer to his empty purse ; Merciles beauté / Geoffrey Chaucer --
from A treatise on the astrolabe. Prologus ; Part I
description of the astrolabe /
Geoffrey Chaucer --
from Le morte Darthur. Caxton's preface ; Book XXI
the departure of Arthur /
Sir Thomas Malory --
Popular ballads. Edward ; Babylon ; The twa corbies ; Kemp Owyne ; Thomas Rymer ; Sir Patrick Spens ; The wife of Usher's well ; Bonny Barbara Allan ; Robin Hood rescuing the widow's three sons ; Chevy Chase ; The dæmon lover ; Johnie Armstrong ; Our goodman ; Get up and bar the door --
The brome Abraham and Isaac --
Everyman.
v. 1. From the Old English period through the Age of Reason. The Renaissance and the Elizabethans. Poetry. Anonymous lyrics. The lover in winter plaineth for the spring ; Back and side, go bare, go bare ; Hey nonny no! --
The lover compareth his state to a ship ; The lover having dreamed, complaineth ; Description of the contrarious passions in a lover ; A renouncing of love ; Forget not yet / Sir Thomas Wyatt --
Description of spring ; Complaint of a lover rebuked ; Vow to love faithfully ; On the death of Sir Thomas Wyatt, the elder ; The means to attain a happy life ; from his translation of Virgil's Aeneid / Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey --
from The shepherd's calendar. April / Edmund Spenser --
from The faerie queene. A letter of the authors ; from the first book / Edmund Spenser --
from Amoretti 1, 34, 72, 75, 79 ; Epithalamion ; Prothalamion / Edmund Spenser --
When I was fair and young / Queen Elizabeth --
My mind to me a kingdom is / Sir Edward Dyer --
Apelles' song / John Lyly --
from Astrophel and Stella 1, 31, 39, ; Song (My true love hath my heart, and I have his) ; Love is dead ; The nightingale ; A farewell ; Eleventh song / Sir Philip Sidney --
Farewell to arms / George Peele --
Song (Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content) / Robert Greene --
from Menaphon. Sephestia's song to her child / Robert Green --
from Delia 35, 45, 46 / Samuel Daniel --
from Idea 1, 12, 61; Ode to the Virginian voyage ; Ode to the Cambro-Britains / Michael Drayton --
The passionate shepherd to his love / Christopher Marlowe --
The nymph's reply to the shepherd ; A vision upon this conceipt of the faerie queene ; The lie ; The author's epitaph / Sir Walter Ralegh --
Litany in time of plague ; Spring, the sweet spring / Thomas Nashe --
My sweetest Lesbia ; Follow thy fair sun ; When to her lute Corinna sings ; Turn back, you wanton flyer ; When thou must home ; Now winter nights enlarge ; Cherry ripe / Thomas Campion --
Content / Thomas Dekker --
To sleep / John Fletcher --
Two dirges / John Webster --
Songs from the plays. When icicles hang by the wall ; Who is Silvia? ; Over hill, over dale ; Tell me, where is fancy bred ; Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more ; Under the greenwood tree ; Blow, blow, thou winter wind ; It was a lover and his lass ; O mistress mine, where are you roaming? ; Come away, come away, Death ; Take, o, take those lips away ; Hark, hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings ; Fear no more the heat o' the sun ; Full fathom five thy father lies ; Where the bee sucks, there suck I / William Shakespeare --
from The sonnets 12, 15, 17, 18, 25, 29, 30, 33, 54, 55, 60, 64, 65, 66, 71, 73, 76, 97, 98, 99, 104, 106, 107, 110, 116, 128, 130, 146 / William Shakespeare --
Slow, slow, fresh fount ; Hymn to Diana ; Come, my Celia, let us prove ; To Celia ; Simplex munditiis ; Epitaph on Elizabeth L.H. ; It is not growing like a tree ; To the memory of my beloved master, William Shakespeare / Ben Jonson.
v. 1. From the Old English period through the Age of Reason. The Renaissance and the Elizabethans. Prose. from Utopia / Sir Thomas More --
from The schoolmaster / Roger Ascham --
from Euphues, the anatomy of wit. A remedy for love / John Lyly --
from Euphues and his England. On Queen Elizabeth / John Lyly --
from The defence of poesie / Sir Philip Sidney --
from The last fight of the revenge ; from The history of the world / Sir Walter Ralegh --
from A notable discovery of Cosenage. The art of cony-catching / Robert Greene --
from The gull's hornbook. How a gallant should behave himself in a playhouse / Thomas Dekker --
from Essays. Of truth ; Of revenge ; Of adversity ; Of parents and children ; Of marriage and single life ; Of love ; Of great place ; Of innovations ; Of seeming wise ; Of riches ; Of youth and age ; Of studies / Sir Francis Bacon --
from The new Atlantis / Sir Francis Bacon.
v. 1. From the Old English period through the Age of Reason. The Renaissance and the Elizabethans. Translations. from The diall of princes ; Book IV, Chapter VIII
What company the courtier should keep ;
from Plutrarch's life of Caesar / Sir Thomas North --
from The odyssey of Homer / George Chapman --
from Montaigne's essays. The author to the reader ; That our intention judgeth our actions ; The profit of one man is the domage of another ; A saying of Caesar ; Of age / John Florio --
The King James Bible. The Garden of Eden ; The story of Abraham and Isaac ; The story of Ruth --
The King James Bible. from The psalms I, VIII, XXIII, XXIV, CXXI, CXXX ; from The song of Solomon ; from Ecclesiastes ; The parable of the talents.
v. 1. From the Old English period through the Age of Reason. The Renaissance and the Elizabethans. Drama. The tragical history of Doctor Faustus / Christopher Marlowe --
The shoemaker's holiday / Thomas Dekker --
Othello / William Shakespeare.
v. 1. From the Old English period through the Age of Reason. Cavalier and Puritan. Poetry. Love's deity ; Sweetest love, I do not go ; Song (Go and catch a falling star) ; Lovers' infiniteness ; The canonization ; The funeral ; Death ; A valediction forbidding mourning ; A hymn to God the Father / John Donne --
Virtue ; The pulley ; The collar / George Herbert --
On the Blessed Virgin's bashfulness ; Upon the body of our blessed Lord, naked and bloody ; The tear / Richard Crashaw --
The world ; The retreat ; Departed friends / Henry Vaughan --
Shadows in the water / Thomas Traherne --
Shall I, wasting in despair ; I loved a lass / George Wither --
On the countess dowager of Pembroke / William Browne --
The argument of his book ; Corinna's going a-Maying ; To the virgins, to make much of time ; Upon Julia's clothes ; Upon Mistress Susanna Southwell her feet ; An ode for Ben Jonson ; To daffodils ; Night piece, to Julia ; Upon the loss of his mistresses ; Delight in disorder ; His prayer for absolution ; A grace for a child ; A thanksgiving to God for his house ; To keep a true lent ; His litany to the Holy Spirit / Robert Herrick --
Ingrateful beauty threatened ; Persuasions to joy : a song ; An epitaph ; The unfading beauty ; Song (Would you know what's soft?) / Thomas Carew --
Go, lovely rose ; On a girdle / Edmund Waller --
A doubt of martyrdom ; The constant lover ; Why so pale and wan, fond lover? / Sir John Suckling --
To Lucasta, going to the wars ; To Althea, from prison / Richard Lovelace --
The wish ; The thief / Abraham Cowley --
from Anacreonitics. The grasshopper ; Drinking / Abraham Cowley --
On a drop of dew ; The garden ; To his coy mistress / Andrew Marvell.
v. 1. From the Old English period through the Age of Reason. Cavalier and Puritan. Prose. from Characters of virtues and vices. The wise man ; The hypocrite / Joseph Hall --
from Characters. A wise man ; A fair and happy milkmaid / Sir Thomas Overbury --
from Microcosmography. A child ; A downright scholar ; A mere young gentleman of the university ; A vulgar-spirited man ; A pretender to learning / John Earle --
from The compleat angler. The epistle to the reader ; Chapter IV
on the nature and breeding of the trout /
Isaak Walton --
from Religio Medici ; from Hydriotaphia / Sir Thomas Browne --
from The worthies of England. Sir Walter Ralegh ; Ben Jonson ; William Shakespeare / Thomas Fuller --
from Holy dying / Jeremy Taylor --
from Grace Abounding to the chief of sinners / John Bunyan --
On his having arrived at the age of twenty-three ; L'allegro ; Il penseroso ; Lycidas ; On his blindness ; To Cyriack Skinner ; On the late massacre in Piedmont ; On his deceased wife / John Milton --
from Paradise lost. Book I ; Book II / John Milton --
from Areopagitica ; from The tenure of kings and magistrates ; Samson Agonistes / John Milton.
v. 1. From the Old English period through the Age of Reason. The Restoration. Poetry. from Absalom and Achitophel. Part I / John Dryden --
Mac Flecknoe ; A song for St. Cecilia's Day, November 22, 1687 ; Alexander's feast ; Ah! how sweet it is to love / John Dryden --
Song written at sea / Charles Sackville, Lord Buckhurst --
Not Celia that I juster am / Sir Charles Sedley --
I cannot change as others do ; The king's epitaph / John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester.
v. 1. From the Old English period through the Age of Reason. The Restoration. Prose. from The diary. Bringing in the king ; Coronation of Charles II ; The great fire of London / Samuel Pepys --
from An essay of dramatic poesy ; Preface to the fables / John Dryden.
v. 1. From the Old English period through the Age of Reason. The Restoration. Drama. The way of the world / William Congreve.
v. 1. From the Old English period through the Age of Reason. The Age of Reason. The age of Pope, poetry. An essay on criticism ; The rape of the lock ; Eloisa at Abelard / Alexander Pope --
from An essay on man. The design ; Epistle I
of the nature and state of man ;
from Epistle II / Alexander Pope --
Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot ; Conclusion to The Duncaid ; Occasional couplets / Alexander Pope --
A description of a city shower / Jonathan Swift --
from Trivia. from Of walking the streets by day. The morning ; Of narrow streets ; The pell mell celebrated ; The pleasure of walking through an alley ; The dangers of football / John Gay --
from Trivia. from Of walking the streets by night. The evening ; Of pick-pockets ; of ballad-singers ; Of crossing the street ; Of watchmen / John Gay --
from fables. The fox at the point of death ; The hare and many friends / John Gay --
Songs. Over the hills and far away ; Love in her eyes sits playing / John Gay.
v. 1. From the Old English period through the Age of Reason. The Age of Reason. The age of Pope, prose. from A journal of the plague year / Daniel Defoe --
from The Bickerstaff papers. Predictions for the year 1708 ; The accomplishment of the first of Mr. Bickerstaff's predictions / Jonathan Swift --
from Gulliver's travels. A voyage to Lilliput ; from A voyage to the country of the Houyhnhnms / Jonathan Swift --
A modest proposal / Jonathan Swift --
from The tatler. On duelling ; The trumpet club ; Character of the upholsterer ; Ned softly the poet ; Character of Sir Timothy Tittle / Joseph Addison and Sir Richard Steele --
from The spectator. The uses of the spectator ; Westminster Abbey ; The vision of Mirza ; Dissection of a beau's head ; Dissection of a coquette's heart ; The fine lady's journal / Joseph Addison and Sir Richard Steele.
v. 1. From the Old English period through the Age of Reason. The Age of Reason. The age of Johnson, prose. from The rambler. The private life of an author ; A young lady's perplexities / Samuel Johnson --
from The idler. The decay of friendship / Samuel Johnson --
Definitions from The dictionary ; from Rasselas / Samuel Johnson --
from The lives of the English poets. from Milton ; from Pope ; from Gray / Samuel Johnson --
from The life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. / James Boswell --
from The citizen of the world. The bookseller ; The character of an important trifler ; The character of the trifler continued ; The London shop-keeper / Oliver Goldsmith --
from Reflections on the revolution in France / Edmund Burke.
v. 1. From the Old English period through the Age of Reason. The Age of Reason. The age of Johnson, letters. To his son / Philip Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield --
To the Earl of Chesterfield ; To James Macpherson / Samuel Johnson --
To William Johnson Temple / James Boswell --
To Thomas Chatterton ; To Miss Mary Berry ; To the Countess of Upper Ossory / Horace Walpole.
v. 1. From the Old English period through the Age of Reason. The Age of Reason. The age of Johnson, poetry. from London ; from The vanity of human wishes ; Hermit Hoar, in solemn cell / Samuel Johnson --
The deserted village / Oliver Goldsmith --
from The vicar of Wakefield. When lovely woman stoops to folly / Oliver Goldsmith --
from She stoops to conquer / Oliver Goldsmith.
v. 1. From the Old English period through the Age of Reason. The Age of Reason. The Age of Johnson, drama. The school for scandal / Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
v. 1. From the Old English period through the Age of Reason. The backgrounds of English literature. from The elder edda. The short lay of Sigurd --
from The song of Roland --
Troubadour poetry. Troubadour song / Bernart of Ventadorn --
Troubadour alba / Anonymous --
from The divine comedy / Dante Alighieri --
from The romance of the rose / Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meung --
from The decameron ; from Il filostrato / Giovanni Boccaccio --
The history of Reynard the fox --
from Letters to classical authors ; from Canzoniere / Petrarch --
Idylls / Theocritus --
Eclogue IV
Pollio /
Virgil --
from Orlando furioso / Ariosto --
from Jerusalem delivered / Tasso --
from The prince / Niccolo Machiavelli --
from Hecatommithi / Giovanbattista Giraldi Cinthio.
v. 1. From the Old English period through the Age of Reason. The backgrounds of English literature. Greek and Roman lyrists. Ode to Aphrodite ; Peer of the gods ; One girl ; The silver moon ; Mother, I cannot mind my wheel / Sappho --
from The Greek anthology. No matter ; My star ; A garland for Heliodora ; Heraclitus ; Anonymous epigrams ; Lucian --
The dead sparrow ; Love is all ; On the burial of his brother / Catullus --
from Odes I and II / Horace.
v. 1. From the Old English period through the Age of Reason. The backgrounds of English literature. from The characters / Theophrastus --
from The legends of the Jews --
from The iliad / Homer --
Œdipus the king / Sophocles --
from The poetics / Aristotle --
The art of poetry / Horace --
The misanthrope / Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, called Molière --
from The art of poetry / Nicholas Boileua Despréaux --
The bore / Horace --
Satire III / Juvenal --
from The ridiculous precious ladies / Molière.
v. 2. From the forerunners of romanticism to the present. The forerunners of romanticism. Poetry. from The seasons. from Winter ; from Summer / James Thomson --
Rule, Britannia ; from The castle of indolence / James Thomson --
Ode on a distant prospect of Eton College ; Ode on the death of a favorite cat ; Elegy written in a country churchyard ; The progress of poesy ; The bard / Thomas Gray --
Dirge in Cymbeline ; Ode to simplicity ; The passions ; Ode to evening ; Ode written in the beginning of the year 1746 / William Collins --
from Olney hymns. Walking with God / William Cowper --
from The task. Book IV
The winter evening /
William Cowper --
On the receipt of my mother's picture ; To Mary ; The castaway / William Cowper --
from Fingal : an ancient epic poem. Ossian / James Macpherson --
from Ælla : a tragycal enterlude. Mynstrelles songe / Thomas Chatterton --
The accounte of W. Canynge's feast / Thomas Chatterton --
from The village. Book I / George Crabbe --
Mary Morison ; My nanie, o ; Green grow the rashes / Robert Burns --
from The jolly beggars. Jolly mortals, fill your glasses / Robert Burns --
The cotter's Saturday night ; To a mouse ; Epistle to John Lapraik ; To a mountain daisy ; Auld lang syne ; Of a' the airts the wind can blaw ; Sweet afton ; John Anderson, my Jo, John ; Tam Glen ; Willie brewed a peck o' maut ; The bans o' Doon ; Tam O'Shanter ; Ae fond kiss ; Highland Mary ; Scots, wha hae ; A man's a man for a' that ; O wert thou in the cauld blast ; A red, red rose ; Last May a braw wooer / Robert Burns --
from Poetical sketches. Song (How sweet I roamed) ; Song (My silks and fine array) ; Mad song ; To the muses / William Blake --
from Songs of innocence. Introduction ; The lamb ; Infant joy ; A cradle song ; Laughing song ; The little black boy / William Blake --
from Songs of experience. The clod and the pebble ; The tiger ; Ah, sunflower ; A poison tree ; A little boy lost ; Cradle song ; Holy Thursday ; The garden of love ; London ; The chimney-sweeper ; Nurse's song / William Blake --
from The marriage of heaven and hell. Proverbs of hell / William Blake --
A song of liberty ; from Auguries of innocence ; Stanzas from Milton / William Blake.
v. 2. From the forerunners of romanticism to the present. The forerunners of romanticism. Prose. from The crisis ; from The rights of man ; from The age of reason / Thomas Paine --
from An enquiry concerning political justice / William Godwin.
v. 2. From the forerunners of romanticism to the present. The forerunners of romanticism. Letters. To Richard West (December, 1736) ; To Richard West (April 1742) ; To Horace Walpole ; To Richard Hurde / Thomas Gray --
To the Reverend William Unwin (October, 1779) ; To the Reverend William Unwin (October, 1784) ; To Joseph Johnson ; To Lady Hesketh / William Cowper.
v. 2. From the forerunners of romanticism to the present. The Romantic age. Poetry. We are seven ; Lines written in early spring ; Expostulation and reply ; The tables turned ; Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey / William Wordsworth --
Lucy poems. Strange fits of passion have I known ; She dwelt among the untrodden ways ; I traveled among unknown men ; Three years she grew in sun and shower ; A slumber did my spirit seal / William Wordsworth --
from The prelude. from Book I ; from Book IX ; from Book XI / William Wordsworth --
Michael ; My heart leaps up when I behold ; Resolution and independence ; Composed by the seaside near Calais, August 1802 ; It is a beauteous evening, calm and free ; Near Dover, September, 1802 ; On the extinction of the Venetion republic ; To Toussaint L'Ouverture ; Composed upon Westminster Bridge ; Written in London, 1802 ; London, 1802 ; Yew trees ; At the grave of Burns ; Stepping westward ; The solitary reaper ; Yarrow unvisited ; She was a phantom of delight ; I wandered lonely as a cloud ; The world is too much with us ; Ode : Intimations of immortality ; Thought of a Briton on the subjugations of Switzerland ; Yarrow visited ; from The river Duddon V, XX, XXVI, XXXIV ; Mutability ; Inside the King's College Chapel, Cambridge ; To a sky-lark ; Yarrow revisited ; The Trosachs / William Wordsworth --
The rime of the ancient mariner ; Kubla Khan ; Frost at midnight ; Christabel ; France : an ode ; Dejection : an ode ; Youth and age ; Work without hope / Samuel Taylor Coleridge --
from The lay of the last minstrel. Rosabelle / Sir Walter Scott --
from Marmion. Lochinvar / Sir Walter Scott --
Hunting song / Sir Walter Scott --
from The lady of the lake. Harp of the north ; Soldier, rest! thy warfare o'er ; Boat song ; Coronach / Sir Walter Scott --
from Rokeby. Edmund's song / Sir Walter Scott --
Pibroch of Donald Dhu ; Harlaw ; Jock of Hazeldean ; Proud Maisie / Sir Walter Scott --
When we two parted ; from English bards and Scotch reviewers ; Maid of Athens, ere we part ; She walks in beauty ; The destruction of Sennacherib ; Stanzas for music (There's not a joy) ; Stazas for music (There be none of beauty's daughters) / George Gordon, Lord Byron --
from Childe Harold's pilgrimage. from Canto III / George Gordon, Lord Byron --
Sonnet on Chillon ; The prisoner of Chillon ; To Thomas Moore ; So we'll go no more a roving / George Gordon, Lord Byron --
from Don Juan. Dedication ; from Canto III / George Gordon, Lord Byron --
When a man hath no freedom ; Stanzas written on the road between Florence and Pisa ; On this day I complete my thirty-sixth year / George Gordon, Lord Byron --
Hymn to intellectual beauty ; Alastor ; Ozymandias ; Stanzas written in dejection near Naples ; Song to the men of England ; England in 1819 ; Ode to the west wind ; The Indian serenade ; Love's philosophy / Percy Bysshe Shelley --
from Prometheus unbound. Act IV / Percy Bysshe Shelley --
The cloud ; To a skylark ; from Epipsychidion ; To night ; To (music, when soft voices die) ; A lament ; Time ; Adonais ; The final chorus from Hellas ; To
(One word is too often profaned) ;
Mutability ; Lines : When the lamp is shattered ; A dirge / Percy Bysshe Shelley --
On first looking into Chapman's Homer ; To my brothers ; On the grasshopper and cricket ; To one who has been long in city pent ; from Endymion ; On seeing the Elgin marbles ; When I have fears that I may cease to be ; Robin hood ; Lines on the mermaid tavern ; Fancy ; To sleep ; The eve of St. Agnes ; Bards of passion and of mirth ; Ode on a Grecian urn ; Ode to a nightingale ; Ode on a melancholy ; To autumn ; La belle dame sans merci ; Lamia ; Bright star! would I were steadfast as thou art / John Keats --
Iphigencia and Agamemnon ; Rose Aylmer ; One year ago ; Yes; I write verses ; To Robert Browning ; Introduction to The last fruit off an old tree / Walter Savage Landor --
Believe me, if all those endearing young charms ; 'Tis the last rose of summer ; The time I've lost in wooing ; The harp that once through Tara's halls ; Oh, breathe not his name / Thomas Moore --
To the grasshopper and the cricket ; Abou Ben Adhem ; Jenny kiss'd me / (James Henry) Leigh Hunt --
Silence ; I remember, I remember ; The song of the shirt ; The bridge of sighs / Thomas Hood.
v. 2. From the forerunners of romanticism to the present. The Romantic age. Prose. Preface to Lyrical ballads / William Wordsworth --
from Recollections of a tour made in Scotland, A.D. 1803 / Dorothy Wordsworth --
from Biographia literaria. from Chapter I ; from Chapter XIV ; from Chapter XVIII / Samuel Taylor Coleridge --
from A defense of poetry / Percy Bysshe Shelley --
from The letters. To Benjamin Robert Haydon ; To Percy Bysshe Shelley ; To Charles Brown (2 letters) / John Keats --
Christ's Hospital five and thirty years ago ; Dream-children : a reverie ; A dissertation upon roast pig ; Old China ; Poor relations / Charles Lamb --
Letters. To Thomas Manning ; To Samuel Taylor Coleridge / Charles Lamb --
from Imaginary conversations. Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn / Walter Savage Landor --
from The pentameron. The dreams of Boccaccio and Petrarch / Walter Savage Landor --
On going a journey ; On familiar style / William Hazlitt --
from Suspiria de profundis. Levana and our ladies of sorrow / Thomas de Quincey --
from The English mail-coach. The vision of sudden death / Thomas de Quincey.
v. 2. From the forerunners of romanticism to the present. The Victorian age. Poetry. The lady of Shalott ; Œnone ; The palace of art ; The lotos-eaters ; Morte d'Arthur ; Ulysses ; Locksley hall ; Break, break, break / Alfred, Lord Tennyson --
Songs from The princess. Sweet and low ; The splendor falls ; Tears, idle tears ; Home they brought her warrior dead ; Ask me no more ; Now sleeps the crimson petal ; Come down, o maid / Alfred, Lord Tennyson --
from In memoriam A.H.H. ; The charge of the light brigade / Alfred, Lord Tennyson --
from Maud. Come into the garden, Maud / Alfred, Lord Tennyson --
Milton ; The higher pantheism ; Flower in the crannied wall ; The revenge ; Rizpah ; Locksley hall sixty years after ; By an evolutionist ; Crossing the bar / Alfred, Lord Tennyson --
Cavalier tunes. Marching along ; Give a rouse ; Boot and saddle / Robert Browning --
My last duchess ; Incident of the French camp ; Soliloquy of the Spanish cloister ; How they brought the good news from Ghent to Aix ; The lost leader ; Home-thoughts, from abroad ; Home thoughts from the sea ; Meeting at night ; Parting at morning ; The bishop orders his tomb at St. Praxed's church / Robert Browning --
Garden fancies. (I) The flower's name ; (II) Sibrandus Schafnaburgensis / Robert Browning --
Memorabilia ; The last ride together ; "Childe Roland to the dark tower came" ; Fra Lippo Lippi ; Andrea del Sarto ; Saul ; Love among the ruins ; Up at a villa
down in the city ;
A toccata of Galuppi's ; Pippa's song ; Misconceptions ; Two in the campagna ; Rabbi Ben Ezra ; Prospice ; Why I am a liberal ; Summum bonum ; Epilogue to Asolando ; Now ; In a balcony / Robert Browning --
The cry of the children ; from Sonnets from the Portuguese 1, 3, 4, 7, 14, 22, 26, 28, 35, 43 ; A musical instrument / Elizabeth Barrett Browning --
The pillar of the cloud ; from The dream of Gerontius / John Henry Newman --
The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám / Edward Fitzgerald --
The night is darkening ; Fall, leaves ; A little while ; The old stoic ; Plead for me ; Remembrance ; The visionary ; The prisoner ; No coward soul is mine / Emily Brontë --
Qua cursum ventus ; With whom is no variableness ; Say not the struggle naught availeth ; Qui laborat, orat ; The latest decalogue ; All is well ; In a London square ; Life is struggle / Arthur Hugh Clough --
The forsaken merman ; To a friend ; Shakespeare ; Lines written in Kensington gardens ; To Marguerite ; A summer night ; Self-dependence ; The buried life ; Philomela ; Requiscat ; The scholar-gipsy ; Thyrsis ; Dover Beach ; Growing old ; The austerity of poetry ; Rugby chapel ; The last word / Matthew Arnold --
The blessed damozel ; Sister Helen / Dante Gabriel Rossetti --
from The house of life. The sonnet ; (4) Love-sight ; (19) Silent noon ; (55) Stillborn love ; (63) Inclusiveness ; (65) Known in vain ; (71-3) The choice ; (85) Vain virtues ; (86) Lost days ; (97) A superscription ; (101) The one hope / Dante Gabriel Rossetti --
The cloud confines / Dante Gabriel Rossetti --
Song (When I am dead, my dearest) ; Dream land ; After death ; Rest ; Remember ; A birthday ; Mirage ; Up-hill ; The lowest place ; The first day ; In an artist's studio / Christina Rossetti --
The haystack in the floods ; The defence of Guenevere / William Morris --
from The earthly paradise. An apology ; L'envoi / William Morris --
The day is coming ; Meeting in winter / William Morris --
Choruses from Atalanta in Calydon. When the hounds of spring ; Before the beginning of years ; We have seen thee, o love / Algernon Charles Swinburne --
Itylus ; A match ; Hymn to Proserpine ; A ballad of burdens ; The garden of Proserpine ; Ave atque vale ; Hertha ; To Walt Whitman in America ; A ballad of Francois Villon ; Nephelidia ; A child's future / Algernon Charles Swinburne.
v. 2. From the forerunners of romanticism to the present. The Victorian age. Prose. from Sartor resartus. Book II, chapter VII
The everlasting no ;
Book II, chapter VIII
The center of indifference ;
Book II, chapter IX
The everlasting yea ;
Book III, chapter VIII
Natural supernaturalism /
Thomas Carlyle --
from The French Revolution. Charlotte Corday / Thomas Carlyle --
from Past and present. Book III, chapter XI
Labor ;
Book III, chapter XIII
Democracy /
Thomas Carlyle --
Boswell / Thomas Carlyle --
Boswell ; from Milton / Thomas Babington Macaulay --
from The idea of a university. Discourse V
Liberal knowledge its own end /
John Henry Newman --
from Apologia pro vita sua. Chapter V
The infallibility of the Church /
John Henry Newman --
Turnbridge toys / William Makepeace Thackeray --
from Modern painters. Some sea pictures of Turner / John Ruskin --
from The stones of Venice. St. Mark's / John Ruskin --
from The mystery of life and its arts / John Ruskin --
Preface to Essays in criticism ; The function of criticism at the present time / Matthew Arnold --
from Culture and anarchy. Sweetness and light / Matthew Arnold --
Literature and science / Matthew Arnold --
from The descent of man / Charles Darwin --
On the physical basis of life ; On a piece of chalk ; Science and culture / Thomas Henry Huxley.
v. 2. From the forerunners of romanticism to the present. The later Victorian age. Poetry. from Modern love 1, 2, 16, 43, 47, 48, 49, 50 ; Love in the valley ; The lark ascending ; Lucifer in starlight ; Phoebus with Admetus ; Melampus ; The appeasement of Demeter / George Meredith --
from The city of dreadful night ; Give a man a horse he can ride ; art / James Thomson --
Ode (We are the music makers) / Arthur O'Shaughnessy --
Heaven-haven ; God's grandeur ; The windhover ; Pied beauty ; Felix Randal ; the leaden echo and the golden echo ; Carrion comfort ; No worst, there is none ; I wake and feel / Gerard Manley Hopkins --
from In hospital. Before ; Apparition ; Invictus / William Ernest Henley --
I.M. : Margaritae Sorori ; A bowl of roses ; To W. A. ; England my England / William Ernest Henley --
The hound of heaven / Francis Thompson --
To one in Bedlam ; Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno cynarae ; Sapientia lunae ; Villanelle of Marguerites / Ernest Dowson --
The ballad of Reading gaol / Oscar Wilde --
Hap ; Rome ; A Christmas ghost-story ; The darkling thrush / Thomas Hardy --
At Casterbridge fair. (1) The ballad-singer ; (2) Former beauties ; (3) After the club dance ; (4) The market-girl ; (5) The inquiry ; (6) A wife waits ; (7) After the fair / Thomas Hardy --
The conformers ; At the draper's ; Ah, are you digging on my grave ; In time of "the breaking of nations" ; Afterwards / Thomas Hardy --
Danny Deever ; Tommy ; Fuzzy-wuzzy ; Gunga din ; Mandalay ; Recessional ; The white man's burden / Rudyard Kipling --
from A Shropshire lad. Loveliest of trees, the cherry now ; Reveille ; Oh, see how thick the goldcup flowers ; Farewell to barn and stack and tree ; When I was one-and-twenty ; To an athlete dying young ; Bredon Hill ; White in the moon ; Far in a western brookland ; With rue my heart is laden / Alfred Edward Housman --
from Last poems. Could man be drunk forever ; The laws of God, the laws of man ; When first my way to fair I took / Alfred Edward Housman --
from More poems. Dedication (They say my verse is sad) ; I to my perils ; To stand up straight ; Stars, I have seen them fall ; With seed the sowers scatter / Alfred Edward Housman --
from My brother, A. E. Housman. The stars have not dealt me ; Infant innocence / Alfred Edward Housman --
The jumblies ; The owl and the pussy-cat / Humorous and Satirical Verse Edward Lear --
Ballad (The auld wife sat at her ivied door) / Charles Stuart Calverley --
from Alice in wonderland. The crocodile ; The mock turtle's song (A quadrille) / Charles Lutwidge Dodson (Lewis Carroll) --
from Through the looking-glass. Jabberwocky ; The white knight's song / Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) --
from Sylvie and Bruno. The gardener's song / Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) --
from Bab ballads. Etiquette ; The lost Mr. Blake / William Schwenk Gilbert --
from Patience. The aesthete / William Schwenk Gilbert --
from Iolanthe. The contemplative sentry / William Schwenk Gilbert --
from The mikado. They'll none of 'em be missed / William Schwenk Gilbert --
A sonnet (Two voices are there) ; To R.K. / James Kenneth Stephen.
v. 2. From the forerunners of romanticism to the present. The later Victorian age. Prose. from The idea of comedy / George Meredith --
from Erewhon / Samuel Butler --
Conclusion to Studies in the history of the Renaissance ; The child in the house ; Style / Walter Pater --
A gossip on romance ; Pulvis et Umbra / Robert Louis Stevenson --
The lagoon / Joseph Conrad.
v. 2. From the forerunners of romanticism to the present. The later Victorian age. Drama. The importance of being earnest / Oscar Wilde.
v. 2. From the forerunners of romanticism to the present. The twentieth century. Poetry. Nightingales ; On a dead child / Robert Bridges --
The stolen child ; Down by the salley gardens ; The rose of the world ; When you are old ; The lake isle of Innisfree ; The lover tells of the rose in his heart ; Song of wandering Aengus ; The wild swans at Coole ; An Irish airman forsees his death ; Sailing to Byzantium ; Leda and the swan / William Buttler Yeats --
Time, you old gipsy man ; Eve ; The bull / Ralph Hodgson --
Sea fever ; The west wind ; Cargoes ; Roses are beauty, but I never see ; I never see the red rose crown the year / John Masefield --
Greater love ; Strange meeting ; Anthem for doomed youth / Wilfred Owen --
The riddle ; Over the heather the wet wind blows ; Song for the new year / Wystan Hugh Auden --
Moving through the silent crowd ; The express ; The pylons ; Not palaces, an era's crown ; Ultima ratio regum / Stephen Spender.
v. 2. From the forerunners of romanticism to the present. The twentieth century. Prose. A piece of chalk ; On lying in bed / Gilbert Keith Chesterton --
A clergyman / Sir Max Beerbohm --
The machine stops / Edward Morgan Forster --
The Prussian officer / David Herbert Lawrence --
Florence Nightingale / Lytton Strachey --
from Ulysses / James Joyce --
The fly / Katherine Mansfield --
Miss Ormerod / Virginia Woolf --
Wordsworth in the tropics / Aldous Huxley.
v. 2. From the forerunners of romanticism to the present. The twentieth century. Drama. The playboy of the western world / John Millington Synge --
The corn is green / Emlyn Williams.
v. 2. From the forerunners of romanticism to the present. The backgrounds of English literature. from The book of a thousand nights and a night --
Olympian ode I / Pindar --
from A discourse on inequality ; from Émile ; from The new Eloisa / Jean-Jacques Rousseau --
from The sorrows of young Werther / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe --
from The robbers / Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller --
from The ruins of empires / Constantin François Chasse-Boeuf, Count Volney --
A lament for bion / Moschus --
from Iphigenia in Aulis / Euripides --
from Lives of the most eminent painters, sculptors, and architects. The Florentine painter, Fra Filippo Lippi ; The most excellent Florentine painter Andrea del Sarto / Giorgio Vasari --
The ballad of dead ladies ; The epitaph in form of a ballad : which Villon made for himself and his comrades, expecting to be hanged along with them / François Villon --
On a dead lady / Alfred de Musset --
The albatross ; To beauty ; The litanies of Satan / Charles Baudelaire --
from On the sufferings of the world / Arthur Schopenhauer --
Tears fall within mine heart ; Colloque sentimental ; Spleen / Paul Verlaine --
from his Letters / Gustave Flaubert.
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