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Unit 2 : Middle English Literature Middle English Poetry William langland - The Vision of Piers the Ploughman Sir Thomas Malory - Morte d’Arthur Middle English Drama John Heywood - The Four Ps & The Play of the Weather Middle English Prose Richard Rolle - The Form of Perfe...

Unit 2 : Middle English Literature Middle English Poetry William langland - The Vision of Piers the Ploughman Sir Thomas Malory - Morte d’Arthur Middle English Drama John Heywood - The Four Ps & The Play of the Weather Middle English Prose Richard Rolle - The Form of Perfect Living Geoffrey Chaucer - The Canterbury Tales o Translation of Roman de la Rose o Troylus and Criseyde o The Legend of Good Women UNIT 3: ELIZABETHAN POETRY AND PROSE Elizabethan Poetry Shakespeare - The Sonnets - Venus and Adonis & Lucrece (poems) - Coriolanus, Julius Caesar & Antony & Cleopatra (tragedies) Edmund Spenser - The Shepherd’s Calendar - The Faerie Queene Lyric Poetry Sir Philip Sydney - Astrophel and Stella Elizabethan Prose Sir Thomas North - Plutarch’s Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans (translation) Richard Hayklut - The Principal Navigations, Voyages, and Discoveries of the English Nation John Lyly - Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit Thomas Nashe - The Unfortunate Traveler; or The Life of Jacke Wilton Francis Bacon - Essays William Tyndale - First authorised version of the Bible - Tyndale translated New testament from Greek and part of New Testament from Hebrew Miles Coverdale - Complete translation of the Bible Ben Jonson - Timber or Discoveries UNIT 4: ELIZABETHAN DRAMA Drama before Shakespeare Nicholas Udall - Ralph Roister Doister - Gammer Gurton’s Needle John Lyly - Campaspe - Endymion Thomas Norton & Thomas Sackville - Gordobuc Thomas Kyd - The Spanish Tragedy Christopher Marlowe - Tamburlaine The Great - Dr. Faustus - The Jew of Malta - Edward the Second Ben Jonson - Every Man in His Humour - Sejanus - Volpone the Fox - Every Man out of His Humour - The Alchemist - Bartholomew Fair - Masques John Webster - The White Devil - The Duchess of Malfi Francis Beaumont & John Fletcher - The King of the Burning Pestle - The Maid’s Tragedy UNIT 5: EARLY 17TH CENTURY LITERATURE John Milton - Poems o Comus o Arcade o Lycidas - Prose o Areopagitica, A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing - 3 greatest poems o Paradise lost o Paradise Regained o Samson Agonistes Lyric Poets Richard Lovelace - To Althea, from Prison - To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars Edmund Waller - His Majesty’s Escape Sir John Denham - Cowper’s Hill Prose Writers John Earle - Microcosmographie Sir Thomas Browne - Religio Medici - Vulgar Errors Izaak Walton - Biography of John Donne - Complete Angler UNIT 6: THE RESTORATION Tragic Drama John Dryden - The Conquest of Granada - Aurengzebe - All for Love, based on Antony & Cleopatra George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham - The Rehearsal Comedy of Manners Sir George Etheredge - The Man of Mode William Congreve - The Old Bachelor  - The Way of the World Richard Brinsley Sheridan - The Rivals - The School for Scandal - The Critic Restoration Prose John Dryden - Essay on Dramatic Poesie - The Pilgrim’s Progress - The Holy War John Locke - Essay on the Human Understanding Samuel Pepys - Diary John Evelyn - Diary UNIT 7: ENGLISH POETRY 1660-1798 John Dryden - Annus Mirabilis - Absolom and Achitophel - MacFlecknoe - Translations: o Latin: satires by Juvenal, whole Virgil, parts of Horace and Ovid o Greek: parts of Theocritus and Homer Alexander Pope - Essay on Criticism - The Rape of the Lock - Essay on Man - Translations of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey Oliver Goldsmith - The Traveller - The Deserted Village Lyrical Poets Robert Burns - Mary Morison - John Anderson - The Banks of Doon The Churchyard School Edward Young - Night Thoughts Robert Blair - The Grave Thomas Gray - Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard - Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College William Blake - Songs of Innocence - Songs of Experience - The Tyger UNIT 8 : 18TH CENTURY PROSE The Rise of the Novel Daniel Defoe - Journal of the Plague Year - Robinson Crusoe Richard Steele & Joseph Addison - The Tatler - The Spectator Jonathan Swift - Gulliver’s Travels - A Tale of a Tub - A Modest Proposal Samuel Johnson - Dictionary  - Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia Samuel Richardson - Pamela - Clarissa Harlowe Henry Fielding - Joseph Andrews - Tom Jones Tobias Smollett - The Adventures of Roderick Random - The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle - The Expedition of Humphry Clinker Laurence Sterne - The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman - A Sentimental Journey through France & Italy Oliver Goldsmith - The Vicar of Wakefield Horace Walpole - The Castle of Otranto William Beckford - Vathek, an Arabian tale Ann Radcliffe - The Mysteries of Udolpho Matthew Lewis - The Monk UNIT 9 : 19TH CENTURY POETRY The lake poets William Wordsworth - Lyrical Ballads (collection of poems) o “Lines Written above Tintern Abbey”, “Westminster Bridge”, “London, 1802”, “The Daffodils” and “The Solitary” Samuel Taylor Coleridge  - Lyrical Ballads o “The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner” - “Christabel” & “Kubla Khan”, unfinished Robert Southey - The Inchcape Rock - After Blenheim The Satanic Poets George Gordon, Lord Byron - Childe Harold - The Corsair and Lara - Don Juan Percy Bysshe Shelley - The Cenci - Prometheus Unbound - Adonais - To a Skylark - Ode to the West Wind John Keats - Endymion - Lamia - The Eve of Saint Agnes - Hyperion, unfinished Victorian Poetry Alfred Lord Tennyson - Poems, Chiefly Lyrical - The Lotos Eaters - Mort d’Arthur - The Lady of Shalott Dante Gabriel Rossetti - The Blessed Damozel - The House of Life Christina Georgina Rossetti - Goblin Market Algernon Charles Swinburne  - Poems and Ballads - Tristram of Lyonesse Rudyard Kipling - Mandalay - The White Man’s Burden Unit 10 & 11: 19th Century Novel Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility - Pride and Prejudice - Mansfield Park - Emma - Northanger Abbey - Persuasion Mary Shelley - Frankenstein - The last man Sir Walter Scott - Waverley - Guy Mannering - The Antiquary - Ivanhoe - Quentin Durward Thomas de Quincey - Confessions of an English Opium-Eater - Reminiscences of the English lake Poets - On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts Lewis Carroll - Alice in Wonderland - Through the Looking-Glass Charles Dickens - A tale of Two Cities - Oliver Twist - Nicholas Nickleby - A Christmas Carol  - David Copperfield - Hard Times - Great Expectations William Makepiece Thackeray - Vanity Fair - Henry Esmond - The Virginians Charlotte Brontë - Jane Eyre - Shirley - Vilette - The Professor Emily Brontë - Wuthering Heights Anne Brontë - Agnes Grey - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall George Eliot - Adam Bede - The Mill on the Floss - Daniel Deronda Elizabeth Gaskell - Ruth - Mary Barton - North and South William Wilkie Collins - The Moonstone - The Woman in White Anthony Trollope - Barchester Towers - Framley Parsonage Joseph Conrad - Almayer’s Folly - Lord Jim  - The Secret Agent - Heart of Darkness Robert Louis Stevenson - Treasure Island - Kidnapped - The Black Arrow - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Thomas Hardy - Far from the Madding Crowd - The Mayor of Casterbridge - Tess of the d’Ubervilles - Jude the Obscure Unit 12: 20th Century Drama Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray - Lady Windermere’s Fan - The Importance of Being Earnest - An Ideal Husband George Bernard Shaw - Arms and the Man - Man and Superman - Major Barbara - Saint Joan - Pygmalion T S Eliot - The Family Reunion - The Cocktail Party Sean O’Casey - The Shadow of a Gunman - Juno and the Paycock - The Plough and the Stars John Millington Synge - The Playboy of the Western World - Deirdre of the Sorrows Harold Pinter - The Birthday Party - The Caretaker - The Homecoming Samuel Beckett - Waiting for Godot - Endgame Tom Stoppard - Rosencrantz & Guildernstern Are Dead - Jumpers - Travesties Alan Ayckbourn - Absurd Person Singular - The Norman Conquests - Absent Friends Unit 13: 20th Century Prose Rudyard Kypling - The Jungle Book - Kim E. M. Forster - Howard’s End - A Room with a View - A Passage to India - Maurice Science Fiction H. G. Wells - The Time Machine - The War of the Worlds - The First Men on the Moon Arthur C. Clarke - The City and the Stars (1957) - 2001: A Space Odyssey D. H. Lawrence  - Sons and Lovers - The Rainbow - Women in Love - Lady Chatterley’s Lover James Joyce - Dubliners - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - Ulysses - Finnegan’s Wake Virginia Woolf - Mrs Dalloway - To the Lighthouse - Orlando - The Waves Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange - The Wanting Seed Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited - The Loved One Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - A Study in Scarlet - The Hound of the Baskervilles Agatha Christie - Murder on the Orient Express - Death on the Nile George Orwell - Burmese Days - 1984 - Homage to Catalonia - Animal Farm Doris Lessing - The Grass is Singing - Children of Violence - The Golden Notebook Unit 14: 20th Century Poetry William Butler Yeats - The Green Helmet - The Wild Swans at Cook Thomas Hardy - Wessex Poems - Satires of Circumstance - Moments of Vision - Human Shows, Far Fantasies Gerard Manley Hopkins - The Windhover W H Auden - Look, Stranger! - For the Time Being T S Eliot - The love Song of J Alfred Prufrock” - Prufrock and Other Observations - The Waste Land - Ash Wednesday Dylan Thomas - Eighteen Poems - Twenty-five Poems - Deaths and Entrances Philip Larkin - The Less Deceived - The Whitsun Weddings - High Windows Seamus Heaney - Door into the Dark - Wintering Out - North - Sweeney Astray