Classical Readings of English Literature

　　Part I The Middle Ages (to ca 1485)
　　Unit I Beowulf
　　Background Knowledge: The Anglo-Saxon Period (450-1066)
　　 Beowulf
　　 Beowulf' s Fight with Grendel
　　 Beowulf' s Funeral
　　Unit 2 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
　　Background Knowledge: The Norman Period (1066-1350)
　　 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
　　 Part I
　　Unit 3 Ballads
　　Background Knowledge: The 15th Century (1400-1485)
　　 Sir Patrick Spens
　　 Robin Hood Rescuing Three Squires
　　Unit 4 Geoffrey Chaucer (ca 1343-1400)
　　 The Canterbury Tales
　　 The General Prologue
　　Part II The Sixteenth Century
　　 (1485-1603)
　　Unit 5 Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)
　　 The Faerie Queene
　　 Book I Canto IV
　　Unit 6 Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)
　　 The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
　　 Prologue...
　　 Act I Scene I
　　 Scene II
　　 Scene III
　　Unit 7 William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
　　 Sonnet 18
　　 Sonnet 29
　　 Sonnet 66
　　 Romeo and Juliet
　　 Act II Scene II Capulet's Orchard
　　 Julius Caesar
　　 Act III Scene II The Forum
　　 Hamlet
　　 Act I Scene II A Room of State in the Castle
　　 Act III Scene I
　　Part III The Seventeenth Century
　　 (1603-1688)
　　Unit 8 Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
　　 Of Marriage and Single Life
　　 Of Great Place
　　 Of Studies
　　Unit 9 Metaphysical Poets
　　John Donne (1572-1631)
　　 The Flea
　　 The Sun Rising
　　 A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
　　 Sonnet 10 (From Holy Sonnets)
　　Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)
　　 To His Coy Mistress
　　George Herbert (1593-1633)
　　 Virtue
　　Unit 10 John Milton (1608-1674)
　　 Paradise Lost
　　 Book I The Argument
　　 When I Consider How My Light Is Spent
　　Unit 11 John Bunyan (1628-1688)
　　 The Pilgrim's Progress
　　 Christian Sets out for the Celestial City
　　 The River of Death and the Celestial City
　　 The Conclusion
　　Part IV The Eighteenth Century
　　 (1688-1798)
　　Unit 12 Daniel Defoe (1660-1731)
　　 Robinson Crusoe
　　 Chapter IV First Weeks on the Island
　　Unit 13 Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
　　 A Modest Proposal
　　 Gulliver's Travels
　　 Part I A Voyage to Lilliput
　　Unit 14 Joseph Addison (1672-1719) and
　　 Richard Steele (1672-1729)
　　 The Royal Exchange
　　 The Cries of London
　　Unit 15 Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
　　 An Essay on Man
　　 Epistle 1. Of the Nature and State of Man with Respect to
　　 the Universe
　　Unit 16 Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
　　 To the Right Honourable the Earl of Chesterfield
　　 The Preface to Shakespeare
　　 Shakespeare's Excellence. General Nature
　　 Unit 17 Henry Fielding (1707-1754)
　　 The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
　　 Book I Chapter II]
　　 Book I Chapter IV
　　Unit 18 Thomas Gray (1716-1771)
　　 Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
　　Unit 19 William Blake (1757-1827)
　　From Songs of innocence, 1789
　　 The Lamb
　　 The Chimney Sweeper
　　 Holy Thursday
　　From Songs of Experience, 1794
　　 Holy Thursday
　　 The Chimney Sweeper
　　 The Tyger
　　 London
　　Unit 20 Robert Burns (1759-1796)
　　 Scots, Wha Hae
　　 For A' That and A' That
　　 My Heart's in the Highlands
　　 A Red, Red Rose
　　 Auld Lang Syne
　　Bibliography