English Literature Exam Guide

Samuel Pepys, from The Diary, Daniel Defoe, from A Journal of the Plague Year, Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel: A Poem, John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, “A Satire on Charles II,” “A Satire against Reason and Mankind,”\ “The Disabled Debauchee,” “The Imperfect Enjoyment,” p. 299 Aphra Behn, “The Disapp...

Samuel Pepys, from The Diary, Daniel Defoe, from A Journal of the Plague Year, Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel: A Poem, John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, “A Satire on Charles II,” “A Satire against Reason and Mankind,”\ “The Disabled Debauchee,” “The Imperfect Enjoyment,” p. 299 Aphra Behn, “The Disappointment,” “On a Juniper Tree, Cut Down to Make Busks,” “To the Fair Clarinda,” p. 200 Behn, Oroonoko: or, The Royal Slave. A True History William Wycherley, The Country Wife, John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: from Book 2, “Of Ideas,” Chapter 1, p. 159; from Book 2, Chapter 23 Mary Astell, from A Serious Proposal to the Ladies, and from Reflections upon Marriage, Anne Finch, Countess of Winchelsea, from The Spleen: A Pindaric Poem, “The Introduction, “A Letter to Daphnis, April 2, 1685,” “The Unequal Fetters,” “A Nocturnal Reverie,” Jonathan Swift, “A Description of a City Shower,” The Lady’s Dressing Room,” p. 379 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, “Saturday; The Small Pox,” “The Reasons that Induced Dr. S. to Write a Poem Called the Lady’s Dressing Room,” “Epistle from Mrs. Y[onge] to Her Husband,” “A Plain Account of the Inoculating of the Smallpox by a Turkey Merchant,” Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock: An Heroi-Comical Poem in Five Cantos “Epistle 2. To a Lady,” Richard Steele, The Spectator No. 11 [Inkle and Yarico] (13 March 1711), Samuel Johnson, from The Idler [On Native Americans] (3 November 1759), Samson Occom, A Short Narrative of My Life “Temperance Hannabal” ; “Account of the Montaux Indians, on Long Island” “The Most Remarkable and Strange State Situation and Appearence of Indian Tribes in this Great Continent” Thomas Gray, “On the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes,” “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard,” William Cowper, “The Castaway,” “The Retired Cat,” Stephen Duck, “The Thresher’s Labour,” Mary Collier, “The Woman’s Labour: To Mr. Stephen Duck,” James Thomson, “Rule, Britannia,” Hannah More, “Slavery: A Poem,” Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, “Chapter 1,” “Chapter 2,” “Chapter 3” Phillis Wheatley, “On Being Brought from Africa to America,” “To the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, “A Farewell to America: To Mrs. S. W.,” Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal