Chapter One Glossary of Poetic Terms
1. Terms Concerning Poetry
2. Classification of English Poetry
Chapter Two Poetry Appreciation
1. William Shakespeare ( 1564-1616): "Sonnet 18"
2. John Milton (1608-1674): "Paradise Lost"
3. William Wordsworth (1770-1850): "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
4. Percy Bysshe Shelley (l 792-1822): "Ode to the West Wind"
5. John Keats (1795-1821): "Ode to a Nightingale
6. Robert Browning (1812-1889): "My Last Duchess
7. T. S. Eliot (1888-1965): "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prnfrock"
8. Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849): "The Raven
9. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882):"A Psalm of Life"
10. Walt Whitman (l 819-1892): "Song of Myself
11. Emily Dickinson (1830-1886): "Because I Could Not Stop for Death"; "I Heard a Fly Buzz--When I Died"
12. Ezra Pound (1885-1972): "'In a Station of the Metro"
13. Robert Frost (1874-1963): "Mending Wall";"The Road Not Taken"-
14. Langston Hughes (1902-1967): "Negro";"Mother to Son
Part II Fiction
Chapter Three Terms Concerning Fiction
1. Fiction
2. The Elements of Fiction
Chapter Four Fiction Appreciation
1. Daniel Defoe (1660-1731): Robinson Crusoe
2. Jonathan Swift (1667-1745): Gulliver "s Travels
3. Charles Dickens (1812-1870): Great Expectations
4. Emily Bronte (1818-1848): Wuthering Heights
5. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928): Tess of the D 'Urbervilles.
6. Virginia Woolf (1882-1941): Mrs Dalloway
7. D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930): Sons and Lovers
8. William Golding (1911-1993): Lord of the Flies
9. Washington Irving (1783-1859): "Rip Van Winkle".
10. Nathaniel Hawthorne (1806-1846): The Scarlet Letter.
11. Mark Twain (1835-1910): The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
12. Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945): Sister Carrie
13. F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940): The Great Gatsby
14. Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961): "A Clean,Well-lighted Place
15. William Faulkner (1897-1962): "A Rose for Emily"
16. Joseph Heller (1923-1999): Catch-22
Part III Drama
Chapter Five Terms Concerning Drama
Chapter Six Drama Appreciation
1. William Shakespeare (1564-1616): The Merchant of Venice; Hamlet
2. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900): The Importance of Being Earnest
3. George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950): Major Barbara'"
4. Samuel Beckett (1906-1989): Waiting for Godot
5. Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (1888-1953):Long Day's Journey into Night
6. Tennessee Williams (1911-1983): The Glass Menagerie'
7. Arthur Miller (1915-2005): Death of a Salesman
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