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1 English and Scottish Popular Ballads
Lord Randal
The Wife of Ushers Well
The Three Ravens
Sir Patrick Spens
Robin Hood and the Widows Three Sons
2 Edmund Spenser
Amoretti
Sonnet 15
Sonnet 54
Sonnet 70
Sonnet 75
Prothalamium
3 Christopher Marlowe
Doctor Faustus
4 William Shakespeare
Songs from the Plays
When Daisies Pied
Tell Me Where Is Fancy Bred
Sigh No More, Ladies
Under the Greenwood Tree
Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind
Oh Mistress Mine
Take, Oh, Take Those Lips Away
Fear No More the Heat o the Sun
Full Fathom Five
Where the Bee Sucks, There Suck I
Who Is Silvia?
When Daffodils Begin to Peer
Sonnets
XVIII (Shall I compare thee to a summers day?)
XXIX (When, in disgrace with Fortune and mens eyes)
XXX (When to the sessions of sweet silent thought)
LXV (Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor bound less sea)
The Merchant of Venice
Julius Casar
Hamlet
Macbeth
5 Ben Jonson
Song to Celia
To the Memory of ... Mr. William Shakespeare
Volpone
6 The English Bible
The Old Testament:
Genesis, Ch. I
The Song of Solomon
The New Testament:
The Gospel According to St. John, Ch. I
1 Corinthians, Ch. XIII
Francis Bacon
Essays
Of Marriage and Single Life
Of Great Place
Of Wisdom for a Mans Self
Of Beauty
Of Studies
8 John Donne
Song (Go and catch a falling star}
The Canonization
A Valediction: Of Weeping ...
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
Holy Sonnet VII (At the round earths imagined corners, blow)
9 Andrew Marvell
To His Coy Mistress
The Garden
10 John Milton
To Mr. Cyriack Skinner upon His Blindness
Paradise Lost
Areopagitica
11John Bunyan
The Pilgrims Progress
12 John Dryden
An Essay of Dramatic Poesy
Preface to Fables
Alexanders Feast
Absalom and Aehitophel
13 Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe
14 Jonathan Swift
Gullivers Travels
A Modest Proposal
15 William Congreve
The Way of the World
16 Joseph Addison
Sunday In the Country
17 John Gay
The Beggars Opera
18 Alexander Pope
An Essay on Criticism
Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
19 Samuel Johnson
Letter to Lord Chesterfield.
Preface to .4 Dictionary of the English Language
The Lives of the Poets
20 Samuel Richardson
Clarlssa Harlowe
21Henry Fielding
Andrews
Joseph
22 Laurence Sterne
A Sentimental Journey
23 Thomas Gray
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
24 Oliver Goldsmith
A Visit to Westminster Abbey
25 Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The School for Scandal
26 Edward Gibbon
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
27 William Blake
Songs of Innocence
Laughing Song
Songs of Experience
Holy Thursday
The Chimney Sweeper
The Tiger
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