1. The Origins and the Middle Ages |
01 – Anonymous, The Unquiet Grave |
02 – Anonymous, The birth of Robin Hood |
03 – Geoffrey Chaucer, The Knight from The Canterbury Tales |
04 – Geoffrey Chaucer, The Monk from The Canterbury Tales |
05 – Geoffrey Chaucer, The Doctor from The Canterbury Tales |
06 – Geoffrey Chaucer, The Poor Parson from The Canterbury Tales |
2. The Renaissance and the Puritan Age |
07 – William Shakespeare, Devouring Time |
08 – William Shakespeare, Let me not to the marriage of true minds |
09 – William Shakespeare, a synopsis of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Fairyland from A Midsummer Night’s Dream |
10 – William Shakespeare, An ass-head from A Midsummer Night’s Dream |
11 – William Shakespeare, a synopsis of Much Ado About Nothing and A merry war from Much Ado About Nothing |
12 – William Shakespeare, the history plays, a synopsis of Richard III and Richard’s discontent from Richard III |
13 – William Shakespeare, My kingdom for a horse from Richard III |
14 – William Shakespeare, a synopsis of Julius Caesar and Brutus’s speech from Julius Caesar |
15 – William Shakespeare, Antony’s oration from Julius Caesar |
16 – William Shakespeare, Am I a coward? from Hamlet |
17 – John Donne, Present in Absence |
18 – John Donne, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning |
19 – John Milton, a synopsis of Areopagitica and The Freedom of Press from Areopagitica |
3. The Restoration and the Augustan Age |
20 – Alexander Pope, the mock-eroic poem and Belinda’s toilet from The Rape of the Lock |
21 – Samuel Richardson, his life and works, a synopsis of Pamela and The rich despise the poor from Pamela |
22 – Henry Fielding, his life and works, a synopsis of Jonathan Wild the Great and The birth of our hero from Jonathan Wild the Great |
23 – Henry Fielding, A great man from Jonathan Wild the Great |
24 – Laurence Sterne, his life and works, a synopsis of Tristram Shandy and When they begot me from Tristram Shandy |
25 – Daniel Defoe, a synopsis of Moll Flanders and Moll becomes a thief from Moll Flanders |
4. The Romantic Age |
26 – Thomas Gray, his life and works, a synopsis of An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard and An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard |
27 – William Blake, Infant Joy from Songs of Innocence |
28 – William Blake, Infant Sorrow from Songs of Experience |
29 – Mary Shelley, Walton and Frankenstein from Frankenstein |
30 – William Wordsworth, She dwelt among the untrodden ways |
31 – William Wordsworth, Tintern Abbey |
32 – Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Death and Life-in-Death from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner |
33 – Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The water-snakes from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner |
34 – Samuel Taylor Coleridge, a synopsis of Kubla Khan, or a Vision in a Dream and Kubla Khan |
35 – George Gordon Byron, She Walks in Beauty |
36 – George Gordon Byron, a synopsis of Don Juan and Don Alfonso and Donna Julia from Don Juan |
37 – Percy Bysshe Shelley, England in 1819 |
38 – Percy Bysshe Shelley, To a Skylark |
39 – John Keats, To Autumn |
40 – John Keats, Ode on Melancholy |
41 – Jane Austen, a synopsis of Sense and Sensibility and An excellent match from Sense and Sensibility |
42 – Jane Austen, Willoughby and Marianne from Sense and Sensibility |
43 – Jane Austen, a synopsis of Northanger Abbey and The mysterious cabinet from Northanger Abbey |
44 – Sir Walter Scott, his life and works, a synopsis of Waverley and Waverley and the wounded man from Waverley |
45 – Edgar Allan Poe, The Black Cat |
46 – Edgar Allan Poe, Annabel Lee |