British Poetry
Geoffrey Chaucer(1343-1400)
The Canterbury Tales(Excerpts)
The Popular Ballads
Lord Randall
Sir Patrick Spens
Robin Hood and the Widow's Three Sons
Edmund Spenser(1552-1599)
Sonnet 54
Sonnet 70
Sonnet 75
William Shakespeare(1564-1616)
Sonnet 18
Sonnet 29
Sonnet 73
Sonnet 116
John Donne(1572-1631 )
Song [“Go,and Catch a Falling Star”]
Holy Sonnet 10(“Death,Be Not Proud”)
Holy Sonnet 14(“Batter My Heart”)
John Milton(1608-1674)
On His Blindness
Paradise Lost(Excerpts)
Alexander Pope(1688-1744)
An Essay on Criticism(Excerpts)
William Blake(1757-1827)
The Chimney Sweeper
London
The Sick Rose
Robert Burns(1759-1796)
A Red,Red Rose
Scots,Wha Hae
For A'That and A' That
William Wordsworth(1770-1850)
She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways
Composed upon Westminster Bridge September 3,1802
The Solitary Reaper
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
Samuel Taylor Coleridge(1772-1834)
Kubla Khan
George Gordon Byron(1788-1824)
She Walks in Beauty
Song for the Luddites
So We'll Go No More A-Roving
When a Man Hath No Freedom to Fight for at Home
Percy Bysshe Shelley(1792-1822)
Ozymandias
Ode to the West Wind
To-[Music,When Soft Voices Die]
John Keats(1795-1821)
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
Ode to a Nightingale
Ode on a Grecian Urn
To Autumn
Robert Browning(1812-1889)
My Last Duchess
Home-Thoughts from Abroad
William Butler Yeats(1865-1939)
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
When You Are Old
The Second Coming
Sailing to Byzantium
Leda and the Swan
T. S. Eliot(1888-1965)
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Preludes
Dylan Thomas(1914-1953)
The Force That through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower
Fern Hill
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
Philip Larkin(1922-1985)
Church Going
Talking in Bed
High Windows
Ted Hughes(1930-1998)
Wind
Theology
River
American Poetry
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