Chapter One The English Renaissance (1500-1625) Introduction to the Background William Shakespeare Sonnet 18 The Merchant of Venice Chapter Two The Seventeenth Century (1625-1700) Introduction to the Background John Donne A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning Sonnet 10 John Milton Paradise Lost Chapter Three The Eighteenth Century (1700-1798) Introduction to the Background Daniel Defoe The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe Robert Burns Selected Poems William Blake Selected Poems Chapter Four The Romantic Period (1798-1832) Introduction to the Background William Wordsworth Selected Poems Percy Bysshe Shelley Ode to the West Wind John Keats Ode to a Nightingale Jane Austen Emma Chapter Five The Victorian Age (1832-1901) Introduction to the Background Charles Dickens Oliver Twist William Makepeace Thackeray Vanity Fair Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights Thomas Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles The Darkling Thrush Chapter Six The Twentieth Century (1900) Introduction to the Background Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness William Butler Yeats The Second Coming Thomas Stearns Eliot The Love Song bf J. Alfred Prufrock James Joyce A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man D. H. Lawrence Women in Love Katherine Mansfield The Garden Party Virginia Woolf Mrs Dalloway Edward Morgan Forster A Passage to India Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot William Golding Lord of the Flies John Fowles The French Lieutenant's Woman Doris Lessing A Road to the Big City Key References
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