The Norton Anthology of English Literature

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A: The Middle Ages

ANGLO-SAXON LITERATURE

BEDE (ca. 673–735) and CÆDMON’S HYMN
- An Ecclesiastical History of the English People
THE DREAM OF THE ROOD
BEOWULF
JUDITH
KING ALFRED (849–899)
- Pastoral Care
THE WANDERER
THE WIFE’S LAMENT

ANGLO-NORMAN LITERATURE

THE ANGLO-SAXON CHRONICLE

Legendary histories of britain

GEOFFREY OF MONMOUTH
- The History of the Kings of Britain
WACE
- Le Roman de Brut
LAYAMON
- Brut

Celtic contexts

EXILE OF THE SONS OF UISLIU
THOMAS OF ENGLAND
- Le Roman de Tristran
MARIE DE FRANCE
- Lanval
- Chevrefoil

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ANCRENE RIWLE
- Rule for Anchoresses

MIDDLE ENGLISH LITERATURE IN THE FOURTEENTH AND FIFTEENTH CENTURIES

SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT (ca. 1375–1400)
GEOFFREY CHAUCER (ca. 1343–1400)
- The canterbury tales
- lyrics and occasional verse
  - Troilus’s Song
  - Truth
  - To His Scribe Adam
  - Complaint to His Purse
JOHN GOWER (ca. 1330–1408)
- The Lover’s Confession
WILLIAM LANGLAND (ca. 1330–1387)
- The Vision of Piers Plowman
WILLIAM LANGLAND
- The Vision of Piers Plowman
MIDDLE ENGLISH INCARNATION AND CRUCIFIXION LYRICS
- What is he, this lordling, that cometh from the fight
- Ye That Pasen by the Weye
- Sunset on Calvary
- I sing of a Maiden
- The Corpus Christi Carol
JULIAN OF NORWICH (1342–ca. 1416)
- A Book of Showings to the Anchoress Julian of Norwich
MARGERY KEMPE (ca. 1373–1438)
- The Book of Margery Kempe
THE YORK PLAY OF THE CRUCIFIXION (ca. 1425)
MYSTERY PLAYS
- The Wakefield Second Shepherds’ Play
MIDDLE ENGLISH LYRICS
- The Cuckoo Song
- Alison
- My Lief Is Faren in Londe
- Western Wind
- I Am of Ireland
- Adam Lay Bound
SIR THOMAS MALORY (ca. 1405–1471)
- Morte Darthur
ROBERT HENRYSON (ca. 1425–ca. 1500)
- The Cock and the Fox
EVERYMAN (after 1485)

B: The Sixteenth Century and the Early Seventeenth Century

The Sixteenth Century (1485–1603)

JOHN SKELTON (ca. 1460–1529)
- Mannerly Margery Milk and Ale
- With lullay, lullay, like a child
- The Tunning of Elinour Rumming
SIR THOMAS MORE (1478–1535)
- Utopia
- The History of King Richard III
SIR THOMAS WYATT THE ELDER (1503–1542)
- The long love that in my thought doth harbor
- Whoso list to hunt
- Farewell, Love
- I find no peace
- My galley
- Divers doth use
- What vaileth truth?
- Madam, withouten many words
- They flee from me
- The Lover Showeth How He Is Forsaken of Such as He
- My lute, awake!
- Forget not yet
- Blame not my lute
- Stand whoso list
- Who list his wealth and ease retain
- Mine own John Poins
HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF SURREY (1517–1547)
- The soote season
- Love, that doth reign and live within my thought
- Alas! so all things now do hold their peace
- Th’Assyrians’ king, in peace with foul desire
- So cruel prison how could betide
- Wyatt resteth here, that quick could never rest
- O happy dames, that may embrace
- Martial, the things for do attain
- The Fourth Book of Virgil

Faith in conflict

THE ENGLISH BIBLE
- Tyndale’s Translation
- The Geneva Bible
- The Douay-Rheims Version
- The Authorized (King James) Version
WILLIAM TYNDALE
- The Obedience of a Christian Man
THOMAS MORE
- A Dialogue Concerning Heresies
JOHN CALVIN
- The Institution of Christian Religion
ANNE ASKEW
- The First Examination of Anne Askew
JOHN FOXE
- Acts and Monuments
BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER
- The Form of Solemnization of Matrimony
BOOK OF HOMILIES
- An Homily Against Disobedience and Willful Rebellion
RICHARD HOOKER
- Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity
ROBERT SOUTHWELL
- The Burning Babe
ROGER ASCHAM (1515–1568)
- The Schoolmaster
SIR THOMAS HOBY (1530–1566)
- Castiglione’s The Courtier

women in power

MARY I (MARY TUDOR)
- Letter to Henry VIII
- An Ambassadorial Dispatch to the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V: The Coronation of Mary I
- The Oration of Queen Mary in the Guildhall, on the First of February, 1554
LADY JANE GREY
- Roger Ascham’s Schoolmaster
- A Letter of the Lady Jane to M.H.
- A Letter of the Lady Jane, Sent unto her father
- A Prayer of the Lady Jane
- A Second Letter to Her Father
- Foxe’s Acts and Monuments
MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS
- Casket Letter Number 2
- A Letter to Elizabeth I, May 17, 1568
- Narrative of the Execution of the Queen of Scots
ELIZABETH I
- Verses Written with a Diamond
- The Passage of Our Most Dread Sovereign Lady Queen Elizabeth through the City of London to Westminster on the Day before Her Coronation
- Speech to the House of Commons, January 28, 1563 From A Speech to a Joint Delegation of Lords and Commons, November 5, 1566
- A Letter to Mary, Queen of Scots, February 24, 1567
- The doubt of future foes
- On Monsieur’s Departure
- A Letter to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, February 10, 1586
- A Letter to Sir Amyas Paulet, August 1586
- A Letter to King James VI of Scotland, February 14, 1587
- Verse Exchange between Elizabeth and Sir Walter Ralegh
- Speech to the Troops at Tilbury
- The “Golden Speech”

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ARTHUR GOLDING (1536–1605)
- Ovid’s Metamorphoses 704 [The Four Ages]
EDMUND SPENSER (1552–1599)
- The Shepheardes Calender
- The Faerie Queene
- Amoretti
- Epithalamion
SIR WALTER RALEGH (1552–1618)
- The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd What is our life?
- [Sir Walter Ralegh to His Son]
- The Lie
- Farewell, false love
- Methought I saw the grave where Laura lay
- Nature, that washed her hands in milk
- [The Author’s Epitaph, Made by Himself]
- The discovery of the large, rich, and beautiful Empire of Guiana
- The History of the World

The wider world

FROBISHER’S VOYAGES TO THE ARCTIC, 1576–78
- A true discourse of the late voyages of discovery
DRAKE’S CIRCUMNAVIGATION OF THE GLOBE, 1577–80
- The famous voyage of Sir Francis Drake into the South Sea
AMADAS AND BARLOWE’S VOYAGE TO VIRGINIA, 1584
- The first voyage made to Virginia
HARIOT’S REPORT ON VIRGINIA, 1585
- A brief and true report of the new-found land of Virginia

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JOHN LYLY (1554–1606) Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit
- [Euphues Introduced]
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY (1554–1586)
- The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia
- The Defense of Poesy
- Astrophil and Stella
FULKE GREVILLE, LORD BROOKE (1554–1628)
- Caelica
MARY (SIDNEY) HERBERT, COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE (1562–1621)
- Psalm 52
- Psalm 139
SAMUEL DANIEL (1562–1619) Delia
- Delia
MICHAEL DRAYTON (1563–1631) Idea
- Idea
- Ode. To the Virginian Voyage
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE (1564–1593)
- Hero and Leander
- The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
- Doctor Faustus
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564–1616)
- Sonnets
  - Sonnet 1 (“From fairest creatures we desire increase”)
  - Sonnet 3 (“Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest”)
  - Sonnet 12 (“When I do count the clock that tells the time”)
  - Sonnet 15 (“When I consider every thing that grows”)
  - Sonnet 18 (“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”)
  - Sonnet 19 (“Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion’s paws”)
  - Sonnet 20 (“A woman’s face with Nature’s own hand painted”)
  - Sonnet 23 (“As an unperfect actor on the stage”)
  - Sonnet 29 (“When, in disgrace with Fortune and men’s eyes”)
  - Sonnet 30 (“When to the sessions of sweet silent thought”)
  - Sonnet 33 (“Full many a glorious morning have I seen”)
  - Sonnet 35 (“No more be grieved at that which thou hast done”)
  - Sonnet 55 (“Not marble, nor the gilded monuments”)
  - Sonnet 60 (“Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore”)
  - Sonnet 62 (“Sin of self-love possesseth all mine eye”)
  - Sonnet 65 (“Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea”)
  - Sonnet 71 (“No longer mourn for me when I am dead”)
  - Sonnet 73 (“That time of year thou mayst in me behold”)
  - Sonnet 74 (“But be contented; when that fell arrest”)
  - Sonnet 80 (“O, how I faint when I of you do write”)
  - Sonnet 85 (“My tongue-tied muse in manners holds her still”)
  - Sonnet 87 (“Farewell: thou art too dear for my possessing”)
  - Sonnet 93 (“So shall I live supposing thou art true”)
  - Sonnet 94 (“They that have power to hurt and will do none”)
  - Sonnet 97 (“How like a winter hath my absence been”)
  - Sonnet 98 (“From you have I been absent in the spring”)
  - Sonnet 105 (“Let not my love be called idolatry”)
  - Sonnet 106 (“When in the chronicle of wasted time”)
  - Sonnet 107 (“Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul”)
  - Sonnet 110 (“Alas, ’tis true I have gone here and there”)
  - Sonnet 116 (“Let me not to the marriage of true minds”)
  - Sonnet 126 (“O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power”)
  - Sonnet 127 (“In the old age black was not counted fair”)
  - Sonnet 128 (“How oft when thou, my music, music play’st”)
  - Sonnet 129 (“Th’ expense of spirit in a waste of shame”)
  - Sonnet 130 (“My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun”)
  - Sonnet 135 (“Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy Will”)
  - Sonnet 138 (“When my love swears that she is made of truth”)
  - Sonnet 144 (“Two loves I have of comfort and despair”)
  - Sonnet 146 (“Poor soul, the center of my sinful earth”)
  - Sonnet 147 (“My love is as a fever, longing still”)
  - Sonnet 152 (“In loving thee thou know’st I am forsworn”)
- Twelfth Night
- King Lear
  - The History of King Lear
  - The Tragedy of King Lear
THOMAS CAMPION (1567–1620)
- My sweetest Lesbia
- I care not for these ladies
- When to her lute Corinna sings
- Now winter nights enlarge
- There is a garden in her face
- Fain would I wed
THOMAS NASHE (1567–1601)
- A Litany in Time of Plague
RICHARD BARNFIELD (1574–1627)
- Cynthia

The Early Seventeenth Century (1603–1660)

JOHN DONNE (1572–1631)
- songs and sonnets
  - The Flea
  - The Good-Morrow
  - Song (“Go and catch a falling star”)
  - The Undertaking
  - The Sun Rising
  - The Indifferent
  - The Canonization
  - Song (“Sweetest love, I do not go”)
  - Air and Angels
  - Break of Day
  - A Valediction: Of Weeping
  - Love’s Alchemy
  - A Nocturnal upon Saint Lucy’s Day, Being the Shortest Day
  - The Bait
  - The Apparition
  - A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
  - The Ecstasy
  - The Funeral
  - The Blossom
  - The Relic
  - A Lecture upon the Shadow
- Elegy 16. On His Mistress
- Elegy 19. To His Mistress Going to Bed
- Satire 3
- Sappho to Philaenis
- An Anatomy of the World: The First Anniversary
- Holy Sonnets
  - Holy Sonnet 1 (“Thou hast made me, and shall thy work decay?”)
  - Holy Sonnet 5 (“I am a little world made cunningly”)
  - Holy Sonnet 7 (“At the round earth’s imagined corners, blow”)
  - Holy Sonnet 9 (“If poisonous minerals, and if that tree”)
  - Holy Sonnet 10 (“Death, be not proud, though some have calle`d thee”)
  - Holy Sonnet 11 (“Spit in my face, you Jews”)
  - Holy Sonnet 13 (“What if this present were the world’s last night?”)
  - Holy Sonnet 14 (“Batter my heart, three-personed God; for you”)
  - Holy Sonnet 17 (“Since she whom I loved hath paid her last debt”)
  - Holy Sonnet 18 (“Show me, dear Christ, thy spouse so bright and clear”)
  - Holy Sonnet 19 (“Oh, to vex me, contraries meet in one”)
- Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward
- A Hymn to Christ, at the Author’s Last Going into Germany
- Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness
- A Hymn to God the Father
- Biathanatos
- Devotions upon Emergent Occasions
- Death’s Duel
IZAAK WALTON (1593–1683)
- The Life of Dr. John Donne
AEMILIA LANYER (1569–1645)
- Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum
- The Description of Cookeham
BEN JONSON (1572–1637)
- The Masque of Blackness
- Volpone, or The Fox
- epigrams
  - To My Book
  - On Something, That Walks Somewhere To William Camden
  - On My First Daughter
  - To John Donne On Giles and Joan
  - On My First Son
  - On Lucy, Countess of Bedford
  - To Lucy, Countess of Bedford, with Mr. Donne’s Satires
  - To Sir Thomas Roe
  - Inviting a Friend to Supper
  - On Gut
  - Epitaph on S. P., a Child of Queen Elizabeth’s Chapel
- the forest
  - To Penshurst
  - Song: To Celia
  - To Heaven
- underwood
  - A Celebration of Charis in Ten Lyric Pieces: 4. Her Triumph
  - A Sonnet to the Noble Lady, the Lady Mary Wroth
  - My Picture Left in Scotland
  - To the Immortal Memory and Friendship of That Noble Pair, Sir Lucius Cary and Sir H. Morison
- Slow, Slow, Fresh Fount
- Queen and Huntress
- Still to Be Neat
- To the Memory of My Beloved, The Author, Mr. William Shakespeare
- Ode to Himself
- Timber, or Discoveries
MARY WROTH (1587–1651?)
- The Countess of Montgomery’s Urania
- Pamphilia to Amphilanthus
JOHN WEBSTER (1580?–1625?)
- The Duchess of Malfi
ELIZABETH CARY (1585?–1639)
- The Tragedy of Mariam, the Fair Queen of Jewry
JOSEPH SWETNAM
- The Arraignment of Lewd, Idle, Froward, and Unconstant Women
RACHEL SPEGHT
- A Muzzle for Melastomus

Forms of inquiry

SIR FRANCIS BACON (1561-1626)
- essays
  - Of Truth
  - Of Marriage and Single Life
  - Of Great Place
  - Of Superstition
  - Of Plantations
  - Of Negotiating
  - Of Masques and Triumphs
  - Of Studies [1597 version]
  - Of Studies [1625 version]
- The Advancement of Learning
- Novum Organum
- The New Atlantis
ROBERT BURTON (1577–1640)
- The Anatomy of Melancholy
SIR THOMAS BROWNE (1605–1682)
- Religio Medici
- Hydriotaphia, or Urn-Burial
THOMAS HOBBES (1588–1679)
- Leviathan
GEORGE HERBERT (1593–1633)
- the temple
  - The Altar
  - Redemption
  - Easter
  - Easter Wings
  - Affliction (1)
  - Prayer (1)
  - Jordan (1)
  - Church Monuments 1612
  - The Windows
  - Denial
  - Virtue
  - Man
  - Jordan (2)
  - Time
  - The Bunch of Grapes 1617
  - The Pilgrimage
  - The Holdfast
  - The Collar
  - The Pulley
  - The Flower
  - The Forerunners 1622
  - Discipline
  - Death
  - Love (3)
HENRY VAUGHAN (1621–1695)
- poems
  - A Song to Amoret
  - silex scintillans
    - Regeneration
    - The Retreat
    - Silence, and Stealth of Days!
    - Corruption
    - Unprofitableness
    - The World
    - They Are All Gone into the World of Light! 1634
    - Cock-Crowing
    - The Night
    - The Waterfall
RICHARD CRASHAW (ca. 1613–1649)
- the delights of the muses 1640
  - Music’s Duel
- steps to the temple
  - To the Infant Martyrs
  - I Am the Door
  - On the Wounds of Our Crucified Lord 1644 Luke 11.[27]
- carmen deo nostro
  - In the Holy Nativity of Our Lord God: A Hymn Sung as by the Shepherds
  - To the Noblest & Best of Ladies, the Countess of Denbigh
  - The Flaming Heart
ROBERT HERRICK (1591–1674)
- hesperides
  - The Argument of His Book 1654
  - Upon the Loss of His Mistresses 1655
  - The Vine
  - Dreams
  - Delight in Disorder
  - His Farewell to Sack
  - Corinna’s Going A-Maying
  - To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time 1659
  - The Hock-Cart, or Harvest Home 1660
  - How Roses Came Red
  - Upon the Nipples of Julia’s Breast 1661
  - Upon Jack and Jill. Epigram
  - To Marigolds
  - His Prayer to Ben Jonson
  - The Bad Season Makes the Poet Sad 1663
  - The Night-Piece, to Julia
  - Upon His Verses
  - His Return to London
  - Upon Julia’s Clothes
  - Upon Prue, His Maid
  - To His Book’s End
- noble numbers
  - To His Conscience 1665
  - Another Grace for a Child
THOMAS CAREW (1595–1640)
- An Elegy upon the Death of the Dean of Paul’s, Dr. John Donne 1666
- To Ben Jonson
- A Song (“Ask me no more where Jove bestows”) 1670 To Saxham
- A Rapture
SIR JOHN SUCKLING (1609–1642)
- Song (“Why so pale and wan, fond lover?”)
- fragmenta aurea
  - Loving and Beloved
  - A Ballad upon a Wedding
- the last remains of sir john suckling 1681
  - Out upon It!
RICHARD LOVELACE (1618–1657)
- lucasta
  - To Lucasta, Going to the Wars 1682
  - The Grasshopper
  - To Althea, from Prison
- Love Made in the First Age. To Chloris
EDMUND WALLER (1606–1687)
- The Story of Phoebus and Daphne Applied Song (“Go, lovely rose!”)
ABRAHAM COWLEY (1618–1667)
- Ode: Of Wit
KATHERINE PHILIPS (1632–1664)
- A Married State
- Upon the Double Murder of King Charles
- Friendship’s Mystery, To My Dearest Lucasia 1692
- To Mrs. M. A. at Parting
- On the Death of My First and Dearest Child, Hector Philips
ANDREW MARVELL (1621–1678)
- poems
  - The Coronet
  - Bermudas
  - A Dialogue Between the Soul and Body
  - The Nymph Complaining for the Death of Her Fawn 1700
  - To His Coy Mistress
  - The Definition of Love
  - The Picture of Little T. C. in a Prospect of Flowers 1705
  - The Mower Against Gardens
  - Damon the Mower
  - The Mower to the Glowworms
  - The Mower’s Song
  - The Garden
  - An Horatian Ode
  - Upon Appleton House

Crisis of authority

Reporting the News
- The Moderate, No. 28, 16–23 January
  - [The Trial of King Charles I, the first day]
- A Perfect Diurnal of Some Passages in Parliament, No. 288
  - [The Execution of Charles I]
Political Writing
- ROBERT FILMER
  - Patriarcha
- JOHN MILTON
  - The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates
- GERRARD WINSTANLEY
  - A New Year’s Gift Sent to the Parliament and Army
Writing the Self
- LUCY HUTCHINSON
  - Memoirs of the Life of Colonel John Hutchinson
    - [Charles I and Henrietta Maria]
- EDWARD HYDE, EARL OF CLARENDON
  - The History of the Rebellion
    - [The Character of Oliver Cromwell]
- LADY ANNE HALKETT
  - The Memoirs
    - [Springing the Duke]
- DOROTHY WAUGH
  - A Relation Concerning Dorothy Waugh’s Cruel Usage by the Mayor of Carlisle

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THOMAS TRAHERNE (1637–1674)
- Centuries of Meditation
- Wonder
- On Leaping over the Moon
MARGARET CAVENDISH (1623–1673)
- poems and fancies
  - The Poetess’s Hasty Resolution 1774
  - The Hunting of the Hare
  - A True Relation of My Birth, Breeding, and Life
  - The Description of a New World, Called The Blazing World
JOHN MILTON (1608–1674)
- poems
  - On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity
  - On Shakespeare
  - L’Allegro
  - Il Penseroso
  - Lycidas
  - The Reason of Church Government Urged Against Prelaty
  - Areopagitica
- sonnets
  - How Soon Hath Time
  - On the New Forcers of Conscience Under the Long Parliament
  - To the Lord General Cromwell, May
  - When I Consider How My Light Is Spent
  - On the Late Massacre in Piedmont
  - Methought I Saw My Late Espouse`d Saint
- Paradise Lost

C: The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century (1660–1785)

JOHN DRYDEN (1631–1700)
- Annus Mirabilis
- Song from Marriage à la Mode
- Absalom and Achitophel: A Poem
- Mac Flecknoe
- To the Memory of Mr. Oldham
- A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day
- Epigram on Milton
- Alexander’s Feast
- criticism
  - An Essay of Dramatic Poesy
  - The Author’s Apology for Heroic Poetry and Heroic License
  - A Discourse Concerning the Original and Progress of Satire
  - The Preface to Fables Ancient and Modern
SAMUEL PEPYS (1633–1703)
- The Diary
JOHN BUNYAN (1628–1688)
- The Pilgrim’s Progress
JOHN LOCKE (1632–1704)
- An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
SIR ISAAC NEWTON (1642–1727)
- A Letter of Mr. Isaac Newton
SAMUEL BUTLER (1612–1680)
- Hudibras
JOHN WILMOT, SECOND EARL OF ROCHESTER (1647–1680)
- The Disabled Debauchee
- The Imperfect Enjoyment
- Upon Nothing
- A Satire against Reason and Mankind
APHRA BEHN (1640?–1689)
- The Disappointment
- Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave
WILLIAM CONGREVE (1670–1729)
- The Way of the World
MARY ASTELL (1666–1731)
- Some Reflections upon Marriage
DANIEL DEFOE (ca. 1660–1731)
- Roxana
ANNE FINCH, COUNTESS OF WINCHILSEA (1661–1720)
- The Introduction
- A Nocturnal Reverie
MATTHEW PRIOR (1664–1721)
- An Epitaph
- A Better Answer
JONATHAN SWIFT (1667–1745)
- A Description of a City Shower
- Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift
- A Tale of a Tub
- Gulliver’s Travels
- A Modest Proposal
JOSEPH ADDISON (1672–1719) and SIR RICHARD STEELE (1672–1729)
- the periodical essay: manners, society, gender
  - Steele: [The Spectator’s Club] (Spectator 2)
  - Addison: [The Aims of the Spectator] (Spectator 10)
  - Steele: [Inkle and Yarico] (Spectator 11)
  - Addison: [The Royal Exchange] (Spectator 69)
- the periodical essay: ideas
  - Addison: [Wit: True, False, Mixed] (Spectator 62)
  - Addison: [Paradise Lost: General Critical Remarks] (Spectator 267)
  - Addison: [The Pleasures of the Imagination] (Spectator 411)
  - Addison: [On the Scale of Being] (Spectator 519)
ALEXANDER POPE (1688–1744)
- An Essay on Criticism
- The Rape of the Lock
- Eloisa to Abelard
- An Essay on Man
- Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
- The Dunciad: Book the Fourth
ELIZA HAYWOOD (1693?–1756)
- Fantomina; or, Love in a Maze
LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU (1689–1762)
- The Lover: A Ballad
- Epistle from Mrs. Yonge to Her Husband

Debating women: arguments in verse

JONATHAN SWIFT
- The Lady’s Dressing Room
LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU
- The Reasons That Induced Dr. Swift to Write a Poem Called the Lady’s Dressing Room
ALEXANDER POPE
- Impromptu to Lady Winchelsea
ANNE FINCH, COUNTESS OF WINCHILSEA
- The Answer (To Pope’s Impromptu)
ALEXANDER POPE
- Epistle 2. To a Lady
ANNE INGRAM, VISCOUNTESS IRWIN
- An Epistle to Mr. Pope
MARY LEAPOR
- An Essay on Woman
- An Epistle to a Lady

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JOHN GAY (1685–1732)
- The Beggar’s Opera
WILLIAM HOGARTH (1697–1764)
- Marriage A-la-Mode
SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709–1784)
- The Vanity of Human Wishes
- On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet
- Rambler No. 5 [On Spring]
- Idler No. 31 [On Idleness]
- The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia
- Rambler No. 4 [On Fiction]
- Rambler No. 60 [Biography]
- A Dictionary of the English Language
- The Preface to Shakespeare
- lives of the poets
  - Cowley
  - Milton
  - Pope
JAMES BOSWELL (1740–1795)
- Boswell on the Grand Tour
- The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
FRANCES BURNEY (1752–1840)
- The Journal and Letters
- [“Down with her, Burney!”]

Liberty

JOHN LOCKE
- Two Treatises of Government
MARY ASTELL
- A Preface, in Answer to Some Objections to Reflections upon Marriage
ANTHONY ASHLEY COOPER, THIRD EARL OF SHAFTESBURY
- Sensus Communis: An Essay on the Freedom of Wit and Humor
JAMES THOMSON
- Ode: Rule, Britannia
DAVID HUME
- Of the Liberty of the Press
EDMUND BURKE
- Speech on the Conciliation with the American Colonies
SAMUEL JOHNSON
- [A Brief to Free a Slave]
OLAUDAH EQUIANO
- The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself

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JAMES THOMSON (1700–1748)
- The Seasons
THOMAS GRAY (1716–1771)
- Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College
- Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat
- Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
WILLIAM COLLINS (1721–1759)
- Ode on the Poetical Character
- Ode to Evening
CHRISTOPHER SMART (1722–1771)
- Jubilate Agno
OLIVER GOLDSMITH (ca. 1730–1774)
- The Deserted Village
GEORGE CRABBE (1754–1832)
- The Village
WILLIAM COWPER (1731–1800)
- The Task
- The Castaway
POPULAR BALLADS
- Lord Randall
- Bonny Barbara Allan
- The Wife of Usher’s Well
- The Three Ravens
- Sir Patrick Spens
- The Bonny Earl of Murray

D: The Romantic Period

ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD (1743–1825)
- The Mouse’s Petition
- An Inventory of the Furniture in Dr. Priestley’s Study
- A Summer Evening’s Meditation
- Epistle to William Wilberforce, Esq. on the Rejection of the Bill for Abolishing the Slave Trade
- The Rights of Woman
- To a Little Invisible Being Who Is Expected Soon to Become Visible
- Washing-Day
CHARLOTTE SMITH (1749–1806)
- elegiac sonnets
  - Written at the Close of Spring
  - To Sleep
  - To Night
  - Written in the Church-Yard at Middleton in Sussex
  - On Being Cautioned against Walking on an Headland Overlooking the Sea, Because It Was Frequented by a Lunatic
  - The Sea View
  - The Emigrants
  - Beachy Head
MARY ROBINSON (1757?–1800)
- January, 1795
- London’s Summer Morning
- The Camp
- The Poor Singing Dame
- The Haunted Beach
- To the Poet Coleridge
WILLIAM BLAKE (1757–1827)
- All Religions Are One
- There Is No Natural Religion [a]
- There Is No Natural Religion [b]
- Songs of Innocence
- Songs of Experience
- The Book of Thel
- Visions of the Daughters of Albion
- The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
- A Song of Liberty
- blake’s notebook
  - Mock on, Mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau
  - Never pain to tell thy love
  - I aske`d a thief
- And did those feet
- From A Vision of the Last Judgment
- Two Letters on Sight and Vision
ROBERT BURNS (1759–1796)
- Green grow the rashes
- Holy Willie’s Prayer
- To a Mouse
- To a Louse
- Auld Lang Syne
- Afton Water
- Tam o’ Shanter: A Tale
- Such a parcel of rogues in a nation
- Robert Bruce’s March to Bannockburn
- A Red, Red Rose
- Song: For a’ that and a’ that

The revolution controversy and the “spirit of the age”

RICHARD PRICE
- A Discourse on the Love of Our Country
EDMUND BURKE
- Reflections on the Revolution in France
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT
- A Vindication of the Rights of Men
THOMAS PAINE
- Rights of Man

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MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT (1759–1797)
- A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
- Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark
JOANNA BAILLIE (1762–1851)
- A Winter’s Day
- A Mother to Her Waking Infant
- Up! quit thy bower
- Song: Woo’d and married and a’
- Address to a Steam Vessel
MARIA EDGEWORTH (1768–1849)
- The Irish Incognito
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (1770–1850)
- lyrical ballads
  - Simon Lee
  - We Are Seven
  - Lines Written in Early Spring
  - Expostulation and Reply
  - The Tables Turned
  - The Thorn
  - Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey
  - Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1802)
- Strange fits of passion have I known
- She dwelt among the untrodden ways
- Three years she grew
- A slumber did my spirit seal
- I travelled among unknown men
- Lucy Gray
- Nutting
- The Ruined Cottage
- Michael
- Resolution and Independence
- I wandered lonely as a cloud
- My heart leaps up
- Ode: Intimations of Immortality
- Ode to Duty
- The Solitary Reaper
- Elegiac Stanzas
- sonnets
  - Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802
  - It is a beauteous evening
  - To Toussaint l’Ouverture
  - September 1st, 1802
  - London, 1802
  - The world is too much with us
  - Surprised by joy
  - Mutability
  - Steamboats, Viaducts, and Railways
- Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg
- The Prelude, or Growth of a Poet’s Mind
  - Book First. Introduction, Childhood, and School-time
  - Book Second. School-time continued
  - Book Third. Residence at Cambridge
  - Book Fourth. Summer Vacation
  - Book Fifth. Books
  - Book Sixth. Cambridge, and the Alps
  - Book Seventh. Residence in London
  - Book Eighth. Retrospect, Love of Nature leading to Love of Man
  - Book Ninth. Residence in France
  - Book Tenth. France continued
  - Book Eleventh. France, concluded
  - Book Twelfth. Imagination and Taste, how impaired and restored
  - Book Thirteenth. Subject concluded
  - Book Fourteenth. Conclusion
DOROTHY WORDSWORTH (1771–1855)
- The Alfoxden Journal
- The Grasmere Journals
- Grasmere—A Fragment
- Thoughts on My Sick-Bed
SIR WALTER SCOTT (1771–1832)
- The Lay of the Last Minstrel: Introduction
- Proud Maisie
- redgauntlet
  - Wandering Willie’s Tale
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE (1772–1834)
- The Eolian Harp
- This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison
- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
- Kubla Khan
- Christabel
- Frost at Midnight
- Dejection: An Ode
- The Pains of Sleep
- To William Wordsworth
- Epitaph
- Biographia Literaria
- Lectures on Shakespeare
- The Statesman’s Manual
CHARLES LAMB (1775–1834)
- On the Tragedies of Shakespeare, Considered with Reference to Their Fitness for Stage Representation
- Christ’s Hospital Five-and-Thirty Years Ago
- Detached Thoughts on Books and Reading
- Old China
JANE AUSTEN (1775–1817)
- Love and Friendship: A Novel in a Series of Letters
- Plan of a Novel, According to Hints from Various Quarters
WILLIAM HAZLITT (1778–1830)
- On Gusto
- My First Acquaintance with Poets
THOMAS DE QUINCEY (1785–1859)
- Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
- On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth
- Alexander Pope

The gothic and the development of a mass readership

HORACE WALPOLE
- From The Castle of Otranto
ANNA LETITIA AIKIN (later BARBAULD) and JOHN AIKIN
- On the Pleasure Derived from Objects of Terror; with Sir Bertrand, a Fragment
WILLIAM BECKFORD
- Vathek
ANN RADCLIFFE
- The Romance of the Forest
- The Mysteries of Udolpho
MATTHEW GREGORY LEWIS
- The Monk
ANONYMOUS
- Terrorist Novel Writing
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
- Review of The Monk by Matthew Lewis
- Biographia Literaria

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GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON (1788–1824)
- Written after Swimming from Sestos to Abydos
- She walks in beauty
- They say that Hope is happiness
- When we two parted
- Stanzas for Music
- Darkness
- So, we’ll go no more a roving
- childe harold’s pilgrimage
- Manfred
- don juan
- Stanzas Written on the Road between Florence and Pisa
- letters
  - To Thomas Moore (Jan. 28, 1817)
  - To Douglas Kinnaird (Oct. 26, 1819)
  - To Percy Bysshe Shelley (Apr. 26, 1821)
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (1792–1822)
- Mutability
- To Wordsworth
- Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude
- Mont Blanc
- Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
- Ozymandias
- Stanzas Written in Dejection—December 1818, near Naples
- A Song: “Men of England”
- England in 1819
- To Sidmouth and Castlereagh
- To William Shelley
- Ode to the West Wind
- Prometheus Unbound
- The Cloud
- To a Sky-Lark
- To Night
- To ——— [Music, when soft voices die]
- O World, O Life, O Time
- Chorus from Hellas
- Adonais
- When the lamp is shattered
- To Jane (The keen stars were twinkling)
- A Defence of Poetry
JOHN CLARE (1793–1864)
- The Nightingale’s Nest
- Pastoral Poesy
- [Mouse’s Nest]
- A Vision
- I Am
- An Invite to Eternity
- Clock a Clay
- The Peasant Poet
- Song [I hid my love]
- Song [I peeled bits o’ straws]
- Autobiographical Fragments
FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS (1793–1835)
- England’s Dead
- The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in New England
- Casabianca
- The Homes of England
- Corinne at the Capitol
- A Spirit’s Return
JOHN KEATS (1795–1821)
- On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer
- Sleep and Poetry
- On Seeing the Elgin Marbles
- Endymion: A Poetic Romance
- On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again
- When I have fears that I may cease to be
- To Homer
- The Eve of St. Agnes
- Why did I laugh tonight? No voice will tell
- Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art
- La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad
- Sonnet to Sleep
- Ode to Psyche
- Ode to a Nightingale
- Ode on a Grecian Urn
- Ode on Melancholy
- Ode on Indolence
- Lamia
- To Autumn
- The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream
- This living hand, now warm and capable
- letters
  - To Benjamin Bailey (Nov. 22, 1817)
  - To George and Thomas Keats (Dec. 21, 27 [?], 1817)
  - To John Hamilton Reynolds (Feb. 3, 1818)
  - To John Taylor (Feb. 27, 1818)
  - To John Hamilton Reynolds (May 3, 1818)
  - To Richard Woodhouse (Oct. 27, 1818)
  - To George and Georgiana Keats (Feb. 14–May 3, 1819)
  - To Fanny Brawne (July 25, 1819)
  - To Percy Bysshe Shelley (Aug. 16, 1820)
  - To Charles Brown (Nov. 30, 1820)
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY (1797–1851)
- The Last Man: Introduction
- The Mortal Immortal
LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON (1802–1838)
- The Proud Ladye
- Love’s Last Lesson
- Revenge
- The Little Shroud

E: The Victorian Age (1830–1901)

THOMAS CARLYLE (1795–1881)
- Sartor Resartus
- Past and Present
JOHN HENRY CARDINAL NEWMAN (1801–1890)
- The Idea of a University
JOHN STUART MILL (1806–1873)
- What Is Poetry?
- On Liberty
- The Subjection of Women
- Autobiography
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING (1806–1861)
- The Cry of the Children
- To George Sand: A Desire
- To George Sand: A Recognition
- Sonnets from the Portuguese
- The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point
- Aurora Leigh
- Mother and Poet
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON (1809–1892)
- Mariana
- The Lady of Shalott
- The Lotos-Eaters
- Ulysses
- Tithonus
- Break, Break, Break
- The Epic [Morte d’Arthur]
- Locksley Hall
- the princess
  - Tears, Idle Tears
  - Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal
  - [“The woman’s cause is man’s”]
- In Memoriam A. H. H.
- The Charge of the Light Brigade
- idylls of the king
  - The Coming of Arthur
  - The Passing of Arthur
  - Crossing the Bar
EDWARD FITZGERALD (1809–1883)
- Ruba´iya´ t of Omar Khayya´m
ELIZABETH GASKELL (1810–1865)
- The Old Nurse’s Story
CHARLES DICKENS (1812–1870)
- A Visit to Newgate
ROBERT BROWNING (1812–1889)
- Porphyria’s Lover
- Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister
- My Last Duchess
- The Lost Leader
- How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix
- The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed’s Church
- A Toccata of Galuppi’s
- Love among the Ruins
- “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”
- Fra Lippo Lippi
- Andrea del Sarto
- A Grammarian’s Funeral
- An Epistle Containing the Strange Medical Experience of Karshish, the Arab Physician
- Caliban upon Setebos
- Abt Vogler
- Rabbi Ben Ezra
EMILY BRONTË (1818–1848)
- I’m happiest when most away
- The Night-Wind
- Remembrance
- Stars
- The Prisoner. A Fragment
- No coward soul is mine
JOHN RUSKIN (1819–1900)
- Modern Painters
- The Stones of Venice
GEORGE ELIOT (1819–1880)
- Margaret Fuller and Mary Wollstonecraft
- Silly Novels by Lady Novelists
MATTHEW ARNOLD (1822–1888) 0000
- Isolation. To Marguerite
- To Marguerite—Continued
- The Buried Life
- Memorial Verses
- Lines Written in Kensington Gardens
- The Scholar Gypsy
- Dover Beach
- Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse
- Preface to Poems (1853)
- The Function of Criticism at the Present Time
- Culture and Anarchy
- The Study of Poetry
- Literature and Science
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY (1825–1895)
- Science and Culture
- Agnosticism and Christianity
GEORGE MEREDITH (1828–1909)
- Modern Love
DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI (1828–1882)
- The Blessed Damozel
- My Sister’s Sleep
- Jenny
- The House of Life
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI (1830–1894)
- Song (“She sat and sang alway”)
- Song (“When I am dead, my dearest”)
- After Death
- Dead before Death
- Cobwebs
- A Triad
- In an Artist’s Studio
- A Birthday
- An Apple-Gathering
- Winter: My Secret
- Up-Hill
- Goblin Market
- “No, Thank You, John”
- Promises Like Pie-Crust
- In Progress
- A Life’s Parallels
- Later Life
- Cardinal Newman
- Sleeping at Last
WILLIAM MORRIS (1834–1896)
- The Defence of Guenevere
- How I Became a Socialist
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE (1837–1909)
- Hymn to Proserpine
- Hermaphroditus
- Ave atque Vale
WALTER PATER (1839–1894)
- Studies in the History of the Renaissance
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS (1844–1889)
- God’s Grandeur
- The Starlight Night
- As Kingfishers Catch Fire
- Spring
- The Windhover
- Pied Beauty
- Hurrahing in Harvest
- Binsey Poplars
- Duns Scotus’s Oxford
- Felix Randal
- Spring and Fall: to a young child
- [Carrion Comfort]
- No worst, there is none
- I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day
- That Nature Is a Heraclitean Fire
- Thou art indeed just, Lord
- Journal

Light verse

EDWARD LEAR (1812–1888)
- Limerick (“There was an Old Man who supposed”)
- The Jumblies
LEWIS CARROLL (1832–1898)
- Jabberwocky
- [Humpty Dumpty’s Explication of “Jabberwocky”]
- The White Knight’s Song
W. S. GILBERT (1836–1911)
- When I, Good Friends, Was Called to the Bar
- If You’re Anxious for to Shine in the High Aesthetic Line

Victorian issues

EVOLUTION
- Charles Darwin: The Origin of Species
- Charles Darwin: The Descent of Man
- Leonard Huxley: The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley
- Sir Edmund Gosse: From Father and Son
INDUSTRIALISM: PROGRESS OR DECLINE?
- Thomas Babington Macaulay
  - A Review of Southey’s Colloquies
- The Children’s Employment Commission
  - From First Report of the Commissioners, Mines
- Friedrich Engels
  - The Great Towns
- Charles Kingsley
  - Alton Locke
- Charles Dickens
  - Hard Times
- Anonymous
  - Poverty Knock
- Henry Mayhew
  - London Labour and the London Poor
- Annie Besant
  - The “White Slavery” of London Match Workers
- Ada Nield Chew
  - A Living Wage for Factory Girls at Crewe
THE “WOMAN QUESTION”: THE VICTORIAN DEBATE ABOUT GENDER
- Sarah Stickney Ellis
  - The Women of England: Their Social Duties and Domestic Habits
- Coventry Patmore
  - The Angel in the House
- John Ruskin
  - Of Queens’ Gardens
- Harriet Martineau
  - Autobiography
- Anonymous
  - The Great Social Evil
- Dinah Maria Mulock
  - A Woman’s Thoughts about Women
- Florence Nightingale
  - Cassandra
- Mona Caird
  - Marriage
- Walter Besant
  - The Queen’s Reign
EMPIRE AND NATIONAL IDENTITY
- Thomas Babington Macaulay
  - Minute on Indian Education
- William Howard Russell
  - My Diary in India, In the Year 1858–9
- Eliza Cook
  - The Englishman
- Charles Mackay
  - Songs from “The Emigrants”
- Anonymous
  - [Proclamation of an Irish Republic]
- Matthew Arnold
  - From On the Study of Celtic Literature
- James Anthony Froude
  - From The English in the West Indies
- John Jacob Thomas
  - Froudacity
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
  - Opening of the Indian and Colonial Exhibition by the Queen
- T. N. Mukharji
  - A Visit to Europe II
- Joseph Chamberlain
  - The True Conception of Empire
- J. A. Hobson
  - Imperialism: A Study

Late victorians

MICHAEL FIELD (Katherine Bradley: 1846–1914; and Edith Cooper: 1862–1913)
- [Maids, not to you my mind doth change]
- [A girl]
- Unbosoming
- [It was deep April, and the morn]
- To Christina Rossetti
- Nests in Elms
- Eros
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY (1849–1903)
- In Hospital
- Invictus
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850–1894)
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
OSCAR WILDE (1854–1900)
- Impression du Matin
- The Harlot’s House
- The Critic as Artist
- Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray
- The Importance of Being Earnest
- De Profundis
BERNARD SHAW (1856–1950)
- Mrs Warren’s Profession
MARY ELIZABETH COLERIDGE (1861–1907)
- The Other Side of a Mirror
- The Witch
RUDYARD KIPLING (1865–1936)
- The Man Who Would Be King
- Danny Deever
- The Widow at Windsor
- Recessional
- The White Man’s Burden
- If—
ERNEST DOWSON (1867–1900)
- Cynara
- They Are Not Long

F: The Twentieth Century and After

THOMAS HARDY (1840–1928)
- On the Western Circuit
- Hap
- Neutral Tones
- I Look into My Glass
- A Broken Appointment
- Drummer Hodge
- The Darkling Thrush
- The Ruined Maid
- A Trampwoman’s Tragedy
- One We Knew
- She Hears the Storm
- Channel Firing
- The Convergence of the Twain
- Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?
- Under the Waterfall
- The Walk
- The Voice
- The Workbox
- During Wind and Rain
- In Time of ‘The Breaking of Nations’
- He Never Expected Much
JOSEPH CONRAD (1857–1924)
- Preface to The Nigger of the “Narcissus”
- Heart of Darkness
A. E. HOUSMAN (1859–1936)
- Loveliest of Trees
- When I Was One-and-Twenty
- To an Athlete Dying Young
- Terence, This Is Stupid Stuff
- The Chestnut Casts His Flambeaux
- Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries

Voices from world war I

RUPERT BROOKE (1887–1915)
- The Soldier
EDWARD THOMAS (1878–1917)
- Adlestrop
- Tears
- The Owl
- Rain
- The Cherry Trees
- As the Team’s Head Brass
SIEGFRIED SASSOON (1886–1967)
- ‘They’
- The Rear-Guard
- The General
- Glory of Women
- Everyone Sang
- On Passing the New Menin Gate
- Memoirs of an Infantry Officer
IVOR GURNEY (1890–1937)
- To His Love
- The Silent One
ISAAC ROSENBERG (1890–1918)
- Break of Day in the Trenches
- Louse Hunting
- Returning, We Hear the Larks
- Dead Man’s Dump
WILFRED OWEN (1893–1918)
- Anthem for Doomed Youth
- Apologia Pro Poemate Meo
- Miners
- Dulce Et Decorum Est
- Strange Meeting
- Futility
- S.I.W.
- Disabled
- Owen’s Letters to His Mother
- Preface
MAY WEDDERBURN CANNAN (1893–1973)
- Rouen
- Grey Ghosts and Voices
ROBERT GRAVES (1895–1985)
- Goodbye to All That
- The Dead Fox Hunter
- Recalling War
DAVID JONES (1895–1974)
- in parenthesis

Modernist manifestos

T. E. HULME
- Romanticism and Classicism (w. 1911–12)
F. S. FLINT AND EZRA POUND
- Imagisme; A Few Don’ts by an Imagiste (1913)
AN IMAGIST CLUSTER
- T. E. Hulme
  - Autumn
- Ezra Pound
  - In a Station of the Metro
- H. D.
  - Oread
  - Sea Rose
Blast (1914)
- Long Live the Vortex!
- Blast 6
MINA LOY
- Feminist Manifesto (w. 1914)

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WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS (1865–1939)
- The Stolen Child
- Down by the Salley Gardens
- The Rose of the World
- The Lake Isle of Innisfree
- The Sorrow of Love
- When You Are Old
- Who Goes with Fergus?
- The Man Who Dreamed of Faeryland
- Adam’s Curse
- No Second Troy
- The Fascination of What’s Difficult
- A Coat
- September 1913
- Easter, 1916
- The Wild Swans at Coole
- In Memory of Major Robert Gregory
- The Second Coming
- A Prayer for My Daughter
- Leda and the Swan
- Sailing to Byzantium
- Among School Children
- A Dialogue of Self and Soul
- Byzantium
- Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop
- Lapis Lazuli
- Under Ben Bulben
- Man and the Echo
- The Circus Animals’ Desertion
- Introduction [A General Introduction for My Work]
E. M. FORSTER (1879–1970)
- The Other Boat
VIRGINIA WOOLF (1882–1941)
- The Mark on the Wall
- Modern Fiction
- A Room of One’s Own
- Professions for Women
- A Sketch of the Past
JAMES JOYCE (1882–1941)
- Araby
- The Dead
- Ulysses
- Finnegans Wake
D. H. LAWRENCE (1885–1930)
- Odour of Chrysanthemums
- The Horse Dealer’s Daughter
- Why the Novel Matters
- Love on the Farm
- Piano
- Tortoise Shout
- Bavarian Gentians
- Snake
- Cypresses
- How Beastly the Bourgeois Is
- The Ship of Death
T. S. ELIOT (1888–1965)
- The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
- Sweeney among the Nightingales
- The Waste Land
- The Hollow Men
- Journey of the Magi
- four quartets
- Tradition and the Individual Talent
- The Metaphysical Poets
KATHERINE MANSFIELD (1888–1923)
- The Daughters of the Late Colonel
- The Garden Party
JEAN RHYS (1890–1979)
- The Day They Burned the Books
- Let Them Call It Jazz
STEVIE SMITH (1902–1971)
- Sunt Leones
- Our Bog Is Dood
- Not Waving but Drowning
- Thoughts About the Person from Porlock
- Pretty
GEORGE ORWELL (1903–1950)
- Shooting an Elephant
- Politics and the English Language
SAMUEL BECKETT (1906–1989)
- Endgame
W. H. AUDEN (1907–1973)
- Petition
- On This Island
- Lullaby
- Spain
- As I Walked Out One Evening
- Muse´e des Beaux Arts
- In Memory of W. B. Yeats
- The Unknown Citizen
- September 1, 1939
- In Praise of Limestone
- The Shield of Achilles
- [Poetry as Memorable Speech]
LOUIS MacNEICE (1907–1963)
- Sunday Morning
- The Sunlight on the Garden
- Bagpipe Music
- Star-Gazer
DYLAN THOMAS (1914–1953)
- The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower
- The Hunchback in the Park
- Poem in October
- Fern Hill
- Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night

Voices from world war II

EDITH SITWELL (1887–1964)
- Still Falls the Rain
HENRY REED (1914–1986)
- Lessons of the War
KEITH DOUGLAS (1920–1944)
- Gallantry
- Vergissmeinnicht
- Aristocrats
CHARLES CAUSLEY (1917–2003)
- At the British War Cemetery, Bayeux
- Armistice Day

Nation and language

CLAUDE McKAY (1890–1948)
- Old England
- If We Must Die
HUGH MacDIARMID (1892–1978)
- [The Splendid Variety of Languages and Dialects]
- A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle
- In Memoriam James Joyce
- Another Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries
LOUISE BENNETT (b. 1919)
- Jamaica Language
- Dry-Foot Bwoy
- Colonization in Reverse
- Jamaica Oman
BRIAN FRIEL (b. 1929)
- Translations
KAMAU BRATHWAITE (b. 1930)
- [Nation Language]
- Calypso
WOLE SOYINKA (b. 1934)
- Telephone Conversation
TONY HARRISON (b. 1937)
- Heredity
- National Trust
- Book Ends
- Long Distance
- Turns
- Marked with D.
NGU˜ GI˜ WA THIONG’O (b. 1938)
- Decolonising the Mind
SALMAN RUSHDIE (b. 1947)
- [English Is an Indian Literary Language]
JOHN AGARD (b. 1949)
- Listen Mr Oxford Don

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DORIS LESSING (b. 1919)
- To Room Nineteen
PHILIP LARKIN (1922–1985)
- Church Going
- MCMXIV
- Talking in Bed
- Ambulances
- High Windows
- Sad Steps
- Homage to a Government
- The Explosion
- This Be The Verse
- Aubade
NADINE GORDIMER (b. 1923)
- The Moment before the Gun Went Off
A. K. RAMANUJAN (1929–1993)
- Self-Portrait
- Elements of Composition
- Foundlings in the Yukon
THOM GUNN (1929–2004)
- Black Jackets
- My Sad Captains
- From the Wave
- Still Life
- The Missing
DEREK WALCOTT (b. 1930)
- A Far Cry from Africa
- The Schooner Flight
- The Season of Phastasmal Peace
- omeros
TED HUGHES (1930–1998)
- Wind
- Relic
- Pike
- Out
- Theology
- Crow’s Last Stand
- Daffodils
HAROLD PINTER (b. 1930)
- The Dumb Waiter
CHINUA ACHEBE (b. 1930)
- Things Fall Apart
- An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
ALICE MUNRO (b. 1931)
- Walker Brothers Cowboy
GEOFFREY HILL (b. 1932)
- In Memory of Jane Fraser
- Requiem for the Plantagenet Kings
- September Song
- Mercian Hymns
- An Apology for the Revival of Christian Architecture in England
V. S. NAIPAUL (b. 1932)
- One Out of Many
TOM STOPPARD (b. 1937)
- Arcadia
LES MURRAY (b. 1938)
- Morse
- On Removing Spiderweb
- Corniche
SEAMUS HEANEY (b. 1939)
- Digging
- The Forge
- The Grauballe Man
- Punishment
- Casualty
- The Skunk
- Station Island
- Clearances
- The Sharping Stone
J. M. COETZEE (b. 1940)
- Waiting for the Barbarians
EAVAN BOLAND (b. 1944)
- Fond Memory
- That the Science of Cartography Is Limited
- The Dolls Museum in Dublin
- The Lost Land
SALMAN RUSHDIE (b. 1947)
- The Prophet’s Hair
ANNE CARSON (b. 1950)
- The Glass Essay
- Epitaph: Zion
PAUL MULDOON (b. 1951)
- Meeting the British
- Gathering Mushrooms
- Milkweed and Monarch
- The Grand Conversation
CAROL ANN DUFFY (b. 1955)
- Warming Her Pearls
- Medusa
- Mrs Lazarus

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