JOHN CLARE “I Am” “Song’s Eternity” “Clock-o’-Clay” “The Mores” “The Skylark” Nest” SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE “Frost at Midnight” “To a Nightingale” “The Eolian Harp” “Dejection: An Ode” “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” (1817 version) “Christabel” “Kubla Khan” Biographia Literaria, Chapters 13 and 14 Thomas De Quincey Confessions of an English Eater WILLIAM GODWIN Caleb Williams FELICIA HEMANS “Casabianca” “Woman and Fame” “Evening Prayer at a Girl’s School” “The Graves of a Household” “The Bride of the Greek Isle” “Properzia “Joan of Arc in Rheims” MARIA EDGEWORTH Belinda JOHN KEATS “The Eve of St. Agnes” “Hyperion” “The Fall of Hyperion” “Ode to Psyche” “Ode to a Nightingale” “Ode on a Grecian Urn” “On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again”
“On Seeing the Elgin Marbles” “Bright Star, Would I Were as Steadfast as Thou Art” Letters 22 Nov. 1817 to Benjamin Bailey 21-27 December 1817 to George and Tom Keats 3 May 1818 to J. H. Reynolds 25-27 June 1818 to Tom 27 October 1818 to Richard Woodhouse 21 April 1819 to George and Georgiana Keats 21-22 September 1819 to Richard Woodhouse 16 August 1820 to Percy Bysshe Shelley. MARY PRINCE The History of Mary Prince MARY ROBINSON Sappho and Phaon, Sonnets 4, 7, 11, 12, 18, 30, 37 “The Haunted Beach” “A London Summer Morning” “The Camp” “The Poet’s Garret” “The Old Beggar” “To the Poet Coleridge” WALTER SCOTT Waverley MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Frankenstein BYSSHE SHELLEY “Ode to the West Wind” “Mont Blanc” Prometheus Unbound Adonais “To Wordsworth” “Sonnet: Lift not the painted veil” “Ode to Liberty” “Sonnet: England in 1819” A Defence of Poetry CHARLOTTE SMITH Elegiac Sonnets: I, XI, XXVII, XXXV, XXXIX, XLIII, XLIV, XLVII, LVII, LIX, LXV, LXX, LXXIV, LXXXIV, XCI
“Beachy Head” MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT A Vindication of the Rights of DOROTHY WORDSWORTH “Floating Island” WILLIAM WORDSWORTH written a few miles above Tintern Abbey” “We are Seven” “Nutting” “Michael” “Ode: Intimations of Immortality” “The Solitary Reaper” The Prelude (1805) Books 1, 6, 10, 11, 13 “London, 1802” “Composed Upon Westminster Bridge” Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1800) VICTORIAN MATTHEW ARNOLD “Dover Beach” Culture and Anarchy, Chapter 1 “Sweetness and Light “; Chapter 4 “Hebraism and Hellenism” “The Function of Criticism at the Present Time” CHARLOTTE BRONTË Jane Eyre EMILY BRONTË Wuthering Heights ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING “The Cry of the Children” “The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point” “A Musical Instrument” Sonnets from the Portuguese 21, 22, 28, 43 ROBERT BROWNING Pippa Passes “Love the Ruins”
“Fra Lippo Lippi” “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came” “My Last Duchess” “The Bishop Orders his Tomb at Saint Praxed’s Church” “Porphyria’s Lover” THOMAS CARLYLE of the Times” Sartor Resartus: “The Everlasting No,” “Centre of Indifference,” “The Everlasting Yea,” “Natural Supernaturalism” CHARLES DICKENS Great Expectations GEORGE ELIOT Middlemarch MICHAEL FIELD “It was deep in Elms” “To Christina Rossetti” “Fellowship” “Eros” “Maids, not to you my mind doth change” “A Girl” “Unbosoming” ELIZABETH GASKELL Mary Barton THOMAS HARDY Tess of the D’Urbervilles GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS “Spelt from Sibyl’s Leaves” “Carrion Comfort” “No there is none . . . “ “I wake and feel the fell of dark . . .” “The Windover” JOHN STUART MILL On Liberty, Chapter 2 “Of the Liberty of Thought & Discussion” The Subjection of Women, Chapter 1
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI Goblin Market “When I am dead, my dearest” “In the Artist’s Studio” “A Birthday” “Sleeping at Last” DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI “Jenny” From The House of Life: “A sonnet is a moment’s monument” “Nuptial Sleep” 19 “Silent Noon 77 “Soul’s Beauty” 78 “Body’s Beauty” 97 “A Superscription” 101 “The One Hope” JOHN RUSKIN The Stones of Venice, “The Nature of Gothic” ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE “Hymn to Proserpine” “The Garden of Proserpine” “The Leper” ALFRED TENNYSON “The Lady of Shalott” “Ulysses” “Tithonus” “The Lotos-Eaters” In Memoriam, “Strong Son of God,” 1-15, 21-35, 56-59, 78, 95, 104-109, 119, Epilogue WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY Vanity Fair OSCAR WILDE The Importance of Being Earnest