Select readings in English and American literature

english literature

1 william shakespeare

sonnet 18

the merechant of venice(act iv,scene i)

2 john milton

to cyriack skinner

paradiwe lost(excerpt from book iv)

3 daniel defoe

robinson crusoe(chapters 7,8＆9)

4 jonathan swift

gulliver's travels(part iv,chapters 6＆8)

5 henry fielding

joseph andrews(chapter 12)

6 robert burns

a red,red rose

on the seas and far away

two stirical epigrams

7 william blake

love's secret

london

.i heard an angel singing

8 william wordsworth

she dwelt among the untrodden ways

the solitary reaper

composed upon westminster bridge

9 jane austen

prede and prejudice(chapters 1＆2)

10 george gordon,lord byron

she walks in beauty

to the ocean

and i will war

sonnet on chillon

11 percy bysshe shelley

love's philosophy

life may chaneg,but it may fly not

a dirge

song to the men of england

ode to the west wind

12 john keats

song

on the grasshopper and cricket

to autumn

13 charles dickens

david copperfield(chapter 11)

14 william makepeacd thackeray

vanity fair(chapter 6)

15 emily bronte

wuthering heights(chapter 15)

16 thomas hardy

tess of the d'urbervilles(chapters 13,55＆56)

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american literature