English 2323 British Literature II

 

 

The Romantics

Anna Letitia Barbauld

• The Rights of Women 48

 

Charlotte Smith 

• To Sleep 56

 

Mary Wallstonecraft

• A Vindication of the Rights of Woman 221   <--know an overview of this work 

 

William Wordsworth 

• We Are Seven 288
• Lines Written in Early Spring 289
• She dwelt amoung the untrodden ways 316
• I travelled amoung unknown men 318
• The Ruined Cottage 320
• I wandered lonely as a cloud 345
• My heart leaps up 346
• Ode: Intimations of Immortality 346
• The world is too much with us 358
• Surprised by Joy 358

 

Dorothy Wordsworth 

• Thoughts on my Sick-bed 422 

 

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

• The Rime of the Ancient Mariner 448
• Kubla Khan 464
• Christabel 467
• Dejection: An Ode 484

 

Anne Radcliffe

• From The Romance of the Forest 524 (synopsis) <-- know an overview of this work. 

 

Charles Lamb

• Detached thoughts on Books and Reading 542 (synopsis) <--know an overview of this work 

 

Jane Austen

• Love and Friendship: A novel in a Series of Letters 553

 

George Gordan, Lord Byron

• She walks in Beauty 613
• So we'll go no more a roving  616
• Childe Herald's Pilgrimage 616
• Don Juan 668

 

William Godwin: 

• Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness  743 <--know an overview of this work 

 

Percy Bysshe Shelley

• To Wordsworth 767
• Mont Blanc 784
• Ode to the West Wind 806
• To a Sky-Lark 849

 

Felicia Dorthea Hemans

• England's Dead 903
• An Hour of Romance 913

 

John Keats

• When I have fears that I may cease to be 960
• On Fame 974
• Ode to a Nightingale 977
• Ode on Melancholy 981
• Letters: To Fanny Brawne 1027
• Letters: To Persy Shelley 1028

 

Mary Wollstoncraft Shelly

• The Mortal Immortal 1036

 

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Victorian Writers

 

John Stuart Mill

• On Liberty 81  <--overview of this text is needed.
• The Subjection Of Women 90    Mill John Stuart The subjection of women.pdf  <--PDF version.

 

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

• To George Sand: A Desire 114
• Sonnets from the Portuguese 115 

 

Alfred Lord Tennyson 

• The Lady of Shalott 147
• Ulysses 156
• From The Epic (Morte d'Arthur) 161 (synopsis) 
• The Charge of the Light Brigade 221
• Crossing the bar 245

 

Robert Browning 

• My Last Duchess 328

 

Emily Bronte

• I'm happiest when most away 375
• Remembrance 376 

 

Matthew Arnold

• To Marguerite -Continued 420
• The Buried Life 421
• Dover Beach 433

 

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

• My Sister's Sleep 522
• Jenny 524

 

Christian Rossetti

• After Death  537
• Dead before Death 537 
• Winter: My Secret 540

 

Gerald Manley Hopkins

• The Starlight Night 595
• Pied Beauty 597

 

Oscar Wilde

• The Harlot's House 812
• The Importance of Being Earnest  823  (Your  paper will be over this play. )

 

Rudyard Kipling

• The Man Who Would be King 943
• The Widow at Windsor 968 

 

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The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

 

Thomas Hardy

• The Darkling Thrush 53
• The Ruined Maid 54
• Ah, Are you Digging on My Grave? 62

 

Joseph Conrad

• Heart of Darkness 71

 

A. E. Houseman

• Loveliest of Trees 132
• When I was One-and Twenty 132
• To an Athlete Dying Young 133
• Stop All the Clocks 

 

Rupert Brooke

• The Soldier 139 

 

Siegfried Sassoon

• They 149
• Glory of Women 151

 

Isaac Rosenberg

• Break of Day in the Trenches 156

Wilfred Owen

• Dulce Et Decorum Est 164

 

Robert Graves

• Goodbye to All That 173 

 

William Butler Yeats

• When You are Old 216
• Adam's Curse 218

 

E.M. Forester

• The Other Boat 249 <-- know an overview of this work.

 

Virginia Woolf

• Mrs. Dalloway 282 <--know an overview of this work 

 

James Joyce

• The Dead (James Joyce) 411
• Ulysses 602

 

D.H. Lawrence

• The Horse Dealer's Daughter 626
• Why the Novel Matters 637
• Piano 643

 

T.S. Eliot

• The Hollow Men 673
• Journey of the Magi 676

 

Katherine Mansfield

• The Daughters of the Late Colonel 698

 

Stevie Smith

• Our Bog is Dood 730
• Not Waving but Drowning 731

 

George Orwell

• Shooting an Elephant 735 (links to the Orwell Foundation)

 

W.H. Auden

• Lullaby 809
• As I walked Out One Evening 813
• The Unknown Citizen 818
• Stop All the Clocks    <-- My Favorite

 

Dylan Thomas

• Do Not GO Gentle into That Good Night 833

 

Seamus Heaney

• Digging Seamus Heaney 1095

 

Margaret Atwood 

• Death by Landscape  1111 
• The Handmaid's Tale.   <-- Full text.  Know an overview of this text.