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Apr 10, 750
Beowulf
Translated by Burton Raffel -
Jan 1, 1000
Sir Thomas Malory
" from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" and " from Morte d' Arthur" -
Jan 1, 1170
Geoffrey Chaucer
" from The Canterbury Tales: The Prologue, " from The Pardoner's Tale" " The Wife of Baths Tale" -
Period: Jan 1, 1485 to
Celebrating Humanity
The works from this unit came from the English Renaissance. Also seen in this unit are the authors and their works that came from Britain. -
Jan 1, 1518
Sir Thomas More
" from Utopia" -
May 10, 1572
Ben Johnson
" On My First Son" and " Song: To Celia " -
Jan 1, 1575
Christopher Marlowe
" The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" -
Jan 1, 1580
Sir Phillip Sidney
Sonnet 31and 39 -
Sir Walter Raleigh
" The Nymphs Reply" -
Edmund Spenser
His entire sonnet collection, inlcuding Sonnets 1, 35, and 75. -
Robert Herrick
" To the Virgins to Make Much of Time" -
Shakespeare
Shakespeare's sonnet collection including sonnets, 29,106,116, and 130. -
MacBeth
" MacBeth" by William Shakespeare -
Sir John Suckling
" Song" -
The King James Bible
A bible that was the " Cornerstone of European culture." Psalm 23 was an important psalm that is still well-known today. Also " from The Sermon on the Mount" and " The Parable of the Progigal Son" are two well-known stories from the bible. -
John Donne
" Holy Sonnet 10" and " Meditation 17" -
Period: to
A Turbulent Time
This unit covers a period of time in Englsih history that was very troublesome. The literature in this time period was created to explore the changes in people and the world. -
Alexander Pope
" from The Rape of the Lock" -
Jonathan Swift
" from Gulliver's Travels" -
Jonathan Swift
" A Modest Proposal" -
Thomas Gray
" Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" -
William Blake
" The Lamb" " The Tyger" " The Chimney Sweeper" -
Robert Burns
" To a Mouse" -
Percy Bysshe Shelley
" Ode to the West Wind" " To a Skylark" " Ozymandias" -
William Wordsworth
" Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" " from The Prelude" " London, 1802" -
Period: to
Rebels and Dreamers
In this time period authors started write about the individual itself rather than the world that the individual was in. -
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
" The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" " Kubla Khan" -
George Gordon, Lord Byron
" She Walks in Beauty" " from Don Juan" -
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
" Frankenstein" -
John Keats
" Ode to a Nightingale" -
Period: to
Progress and Decline
The works in Unit 5 uncover the the power struggle in the Victorian Era. This time span was one of great growth and prosperation but also suffered a severe decline in world power. -
Charlotte Bronte
" from Jane Eyre" -
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
" from In Memoriam, A.H.H. " and " The Lady of Shalott" -
Charles Dickens
" Hard Times" -
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sonnet 43 -
Matthew Arnold
" Dover Beach" -
Robert Browning
" My Last Duchess" -
William Butler Yeats
" When You Are Old" " The Second Coming" and " Sailing to Byzantium" -
A.E. Houseman
" To an Athlete Dying Young" and " When I Was One-and-Twenty" -
Period: to
A Time of Rapid Change
In this unit, one discovers the power of people from all around the world. -
Rupert Brooke
" The Soldier" -
James Joyce
" Araby" -
D.H. Lawrence
" The Rocking Horse Winner" -
T.S. Elliot
" The Hollow Men" -
George Orwell
" Shooting an Elephant" -
Dylan Thomas
" Do Not Go Gentle into The Good Night" -
Stevie Smith
" Not Waving but Drowning" -
The Seafarer
Translated by Burton Raffel -
The Wanderer
Translated by Charles W. Kennedy -
The Wifes Lament
Translated by Ann Stanford -
Period: to Jan 1, 1485
From Legend to History
In unit one the main purpose is to present the foundations for " The British Tradition". Throughout the unit, the literature that the early settlers brought to British Literature is presented.
