1. The Origins and the Middle Ages |
01 – Anonymous, The hero comes to Heorot from Beowulf |
02 – Anonymous, Beowulf’s funeral from Beowulf |
03 – Anonymous, Geordie |
04 – Anonymous, Elfin Knight |
05 – Geoffrey Chaucer, The Knight from The Canterbury Tales |
06 – Geoffrey Chaucer, The Monk from The Canterbury Tales |
07 – Geoffrey Chaucer, The Doctor from The Canterbury Tales |
08 – Geoffrey Chaucer, The Poor Parson from The Canterbury Tales |
2. The Renaissance and the Puritan Age |
09 – William Shakespeare, Let me not to the marriage of true minds |
10 – William Shakespeare, My mistress’ eyes |
11 – William Shakespeare, a synopsis of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Fairyland from A Midsummer Night’s Dream |
12 – William Shakespeare, An ass-head from A Midsummer Night’s Dream |
13 – William Shakespeare, a synopsis of Julius Caesar and Brutus’s speech from Julius Caesar |
14 – William Shakespeare, Antony’s oration from Julius Caesar |
15 – William Shakespeare, Am I a coward? from Hamlet |
16 – William Shakespeare, The three witches from Macbeth |
17 – William Shakespeare, Prospero renounces his magic powers from The Tempest |
18 – John Donne, Batter my heart |
19 – John Donne, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning |
20 – 20 John Milton, his life and works, a synopsis of Paradise Lost and Satan’s speech from Paradise Lost |
3. The Restoration and the Augustan Age |
21 – Daniel Defoe, a synopsis of Moll Flanders and Moll becomes a thief from Moll Flanders |
22 – Jonathan Swift, The inventory from Gulliver’s Travels |
4. The Romantic Age |
23 – William Blake, Infant Joy |
24 – William Blake, Infant Sorrow |
25 – William Wordsworth, A certain colouring of imagination from the ‘Preface’ to Lyrical Ballads |
26 – William Wordsworth, She dwelt among the untrodden ways |
27 – Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Death and Life-in-Death from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner |
28 – John Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn |
29 – Jane Austen, Darcy proposes to Elizabeth from Pride and Prejudice |
30 – Jane Austen, a synopsis of Sense and Sensibility and An excellent match from Sense and Sensibility |
31 – Jane Austen, Willoughby and Marianne from Sense and Sensibility |
32 – Edgar Allan Poe, his life and works, and The Black Cat |
5. The Victorian Age |
33 – Charles Dickens, a synopsis of A Christmas Carol and Scrooge’s transformation from A Christmas Carol |
34 – Charles Dickens, Ignorance and want from A Christmas Carol |
35 – Charles Dickens, a synopsis of David Copperfield and Shall I ever forget those lessons? from David Copperfield |
36 – Charles Dickens, Murdstone and Grinby’s warehouse from David Copperfield |
37 – Charlotte Brontë, Punishment from Jane Eyre |
38 – Charlotte Brontë, A dramatic incident from Jane Eyre |
39 – Emily Brontë, Catherine’s ghost from Wuthering Heights |
40 – Thomas Hardy, Tess’s execution from Tess of the D’Urbervilles |
41 – Robert Louis Stevenson, Story of the door from The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde |
42 – Rudyard Kipling, his life and works, and The mission of the coloniser from The White Man’s Burden |
43 – Oscar Wilde, A new hedonism from The Picture of Dorian Gray |
44 – Oscar Wilde, a synopsis of The Importance of Being Earnest and The vital importance of being Earnest from The Importance of Being Earnest |
45 – George Bernard Shaw, his life and works, a synopsis of Mrs Warren’s Profession and Mother and daughter from Mrs Warren’s Profession |
46 – Herman Melville, Moby Dick from Moby-Dick |
47 – Walt Whitman, I Hear America Singing |
6. The Modern Age |
48 – Siegfried Sassoon, his life and works, and Glory of Women |
49 – Isaac Rosenberg, his life and works, and Break of Day in the Trenches |
50 – William Butler Yeats, The Lake Isle of Innisfree |
51 – William Butler Yeats, Sailing to Byzantium |
52 – Thomas Stearns Eliot, a synopsis of The Hollow Men and This is the dead land from The Hollow Men |
53 – Wystan Hugh Auden, Musée des Beaux Arts |
54 – Wystan Hugh Auden, Funeral Blues |
55 – David Herbert Lawrence, his life and works, a synopsis of Sons and Lovers and The wind-swept ash-tree from Sons and Lovers |
56 – James Joyce, Gabriel’s epiphany from Dubliners |
57 – James Joyce, a synopsis of Ulysses and The funeral from Ulysses |
58 – James Joyce, I said yes I will from Ulysses |
59 – Virginia Woolf, a synopsis of To the Lighthouse and My dear, stand still from To the Lighthouse |
60 – Virginia Woolf, Lily Briscoe from To the Lighthouse |
61 – Aldous Huxley, his life and works, a synopsis of Brave New World and The Conditioning Centre from Brave New World |
62 – Aldous Huxley, Mustapha Mond from Brave New World |
63 – George Orwell, a synopsis of Animal Farm and Old Major’s speech from Animal Farm |
64 – George Orwell, The execution from Animal Farm |
65 – Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Boats against the current from The Great Gatsby |
66 – Langston Hughes, his life and works, and I, too, sing America |
67 – Langston Hughes, The Negro Speaks of Rivers |
68 – John Steinbeck, Tom Joad’s speech from The Grapes of Wrath |
7. The Present Age |
69 – Ted Hughes, his life and works, and Hawk Roosting |
70 – Doris Lessing, her life and works, a synopsis of The Sweetest Dream and AIDS, a curse on us from The Sweetest Dream |
71 – Ian McEwan, a synopsis of Atonement and Briony’s crime from Atonement |
72 – Ian McEwan, Easily torn, not easily mended from Atonement |
73 – Kazuo Ishiguro, his life and works, a synopsis of The Remains of the Day and An odd incident from The Remains of the Day |
74 – John Osborne, his life and works, a synopsis of Look Back in Anger and Jimmy’s anger from Look Back in Anger |
75 – Harold Pinter, his life and works, a synopsis of The Caretaker and Looking for a room from The Caretaker |