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Unit 1 Genres and Techniques of Literature

Selection / Author	Page
The Oral Tradition: "Robin Hood and Allen a Dale" / Anonymous	6
Poetry: "The Naming of Cats" / T. S. Eliot	22
Fiction: "The Rocking-Horse Winner" / D. H. Lawrence	32
Drama: The Rising of the Moon / Lady Augusta Gregory	51
Nonfiction: Speech to the Troops at Tilbury, August, 1588 / Queen Elizabeth I	66

Unit 2 The Anglo-Saxon Period (449-1066)

Selection / Author	Page
"The Conversion of King Edwin" / Saint Bede the Venerable	95
"The Story of Caedmon," including "Caedmon's Hymn" / Saint Bede the Venerable	95
"The Wife's Lament" / Anonymous, translated by Marcelle Thibauxa>	101
Anglo-Saxon Riddles / Anonymous, translated by George K. Anderson	107
from Beowulf / Anonymous, verse translation by Burton Raffel	112

Unit 3 The Medieval Period (1066-1485)

Selection / Author	Page
"Sir Patrick Spens" and "The Great Silkie of Shule Skerrie" / Anonymous	168
"Ubi Sunt Qui ante Nos Fuerunt?" and "I Sing of a Maiden" / Anonymous	175
"The Honeysuckle: Chevrefoil" / Marie de France	182
from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight / The Pearl Poet	187
from Le Morte d'Arthur / Sir Thomas Malory	199
from The Book of Margery Kempe / Margery Kempe	211
from The Canterbury Tales: "The Prologue" and "The Pardoner's Tale" / Geoffrey Chaucer	216
from Everyman / Anonymous	243
from The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha / Miguel de Cervantes	254

Unit 4 The English Renaissance (1485-1660)

Selection / Author	Page
"Whoso List to Hunt" / Sir Thomas Wyatt	288
Sonnet 31 ("With how sad steps . . .") / Sir Philip Sidney	292
from The Faerie Queen / Edmund Spenser	296
"The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" / Christopher Marlowe	301
"The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd" / Sir Walter Raleigh	306
"The Doubt of Future Foes" / Queen Elizabeth I	310
"When Thou Must Home to Shades of Underground" / Thomas Campion	314
Sonnet 18 ("Shall I compare thee . . ."), Sonnet 29 ("When, in disgrace . . ."), Sonnet 13 ("My mistress' eyes . . .") / William Shakespeare	318
"Song, to Celia" / Ben Jonson	326
from Ecclesiastes, Chapter 3, Verses 1-8 / The King James Bible	330
from Utopia, Book 2: "The Geography of Utopia" and "Their Gold and Silver" / Sir Thomas More	334
from the Canzoniere / Petrarch	342

Unit 5 Renaissance Drama (1485-1660)

Selection / Author	Page
The Tragedy of Macbeth / William Shakespeare Act 1	374
The Tragedy of Macbeth / William Shakespeare Act 2	396
The Tragedy of Macbeth / William Shakespeare Act 3	410
The Tragedy of Macbeth / William Shakespeare Act 4	428
The Tragedy of Macbeth / William Shakespeare Act 5	447
from Faustus / Christopher Marlowe	464
from The Analects / Confucius	474

Unit 6 The Early Seventeenth Century (1625-1675)

Selection / Author	Page
Song, Holy Sonnet 10, Meditation 17 / John Donne	496
"Easter Wings" / George Herbert	507
from Paradise Lost and "On His Blindness" / John Milton	511
from The Pilgrim's Progress / John Bunyan	524
"To Althea, from Prison" / Richard Lovelace	533
"To His Coy Mistress" / Andrew Marvell	538
from The Rubaiyat / Omar Khayy‡m	544

Unit 7 The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century (1660-1785)

Selection / Author	Page
"The Introduction" / Anne Finch	572
"A Song for St. Cecilia's Day" / John Dryden	578
"Pressed by the Moon, Mute Arbitress of Tides" / Charlotte Smith	584
from The Diary of Samuel Pepys / Samuel Pepys	588
from Gulliver's Travels / Jonathan Swift	598
from Oroonoko / Aphra Behn	607
Couplets from An Essay on Criticism / Alexander Pope	614
from A Dictionary of the English Language and "A Brief to Free a Slave" / Samuel Johnson	619
from The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. / James Boswell	627
from Candide / Franois Marie Arouet de Voltairea>	634

Unit 8 The Romantic Era (1785-1832)

Selection / Author	Page
"Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" / Thomas Gray	664
"Auld Lang Syne" and "John Anderson, My Jo" / Robert Burns	673
"The Lamb," "The Tyger," and "London" / William Blake	680
from Preface to Lyrical Ballads, "The World Is Too Much with Us," and "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey" / William Wordsworth	689
"Kubla Khan" / Samuel Taylor Coleridge	704
"Ozymandias" and "Ode to the West Wind" / Percy Bysshe Shelley	710
"She Walks in Beauty" and from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage / George Gordon, Lord Byron	720
"When I Have Fears" and "Ode on a Grecian Urn" / John Keats	728
from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman / Mary Wollstonecraft	736
from the Introduction to Frankenstein / Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley	742
Poems from The Narrow Road to the Deep North/ Matsuo Basho	749

Unit 9 The Victorian Age (1832-1900)

Selection / Author	Page
"The Lady of Shalott," "Ulysses," and from In Memoriam / Alfred, Lord Tennyson	776
"My Last Duchess" and "Andrea del Sarto" / Robert Browning	799
"Dover Beach" / Matthew Arnold	813
"The Man He Killed," "Channel Firing," and "The Darkling Thrush" / Thomas Hardy	819
Sonnet 43 ("How do I love thee . . .") / Elizabeth Barrett Browning	828
"Pied Beauty," "God's Grandeur," and "Spring and Fall: To a Young Child" / Gerard Manley Hopkins	832
"Promises Like Pie-Crust" and "A Birthday" / Christina Rossetti	840
"To an Athlete Dying Young" / A. E. Housman	847
"The Signalman" / Charles Dickens	850
from Through the Looking Glass / Lewis Carroll	863
from Madame Bovary / Gustave Flaubert	873

Unit 10 Twentieth Century to Contemporary Poetry (1900-the present)

Selection / Author	Page
"The Lake Isle of Innisfree," "Adam's Curse," and "The Second Coming" / William Butler Yeats	906
"Preludes" / T. S. Eliot	916
"Snake" / D. H. Lawrence	921
"The Soldier" / Rupert Brooke	928
"Dulce et Decorum Est" / Wilfred Owen	932
"Rough" / Stephen Spender	937
"Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" / Dylan Thomas	941
"Who's Who" and "Musee des Beaux Arts" / W. H. Audena>	945
"Not Waving but Drowning" / Stevie Smith	952
"Thistles" / Ted Hughes	956
"Follower" and "A Call" / Seamus Heaney	960
"Bread" / Margaret Atwood	966
"Naked Girl and Mirror" / Judith Wright	971
"Map of the New World" / Derek Walcott	977

Unit 11 Twentieth-Century to Contemporary Prose (1900-the present)

Selection / Author	Page
from A Room of One's Own / Virginia Woolf	993
from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man / James Joyce	1000
"Shooting an Elephant" / George Orwell	1010
"The Garden-Party" / Katherine Mansfield	1019
"The Lagoon" / Joseph Conrad	1033
"Heat" / Jean Rhys	1046
"A Sunrise on the Veld" / Doris Lessing	1051
"Red Dress—1946" / Alice Munro	1061
from Angela's Ashes / Frank McCourt	1073
from Nectar in a Sieve / Kamala Markandaya	1082

Unit 12 Twentieth-Century to Contemporary Drama (1900-the present)

Selection / Author	Page
Pygmalion Act 1 / Bernard Shaw	1100
Pygmalion Act 2 / Bernard Shaw	1111
Pygmalion Act 3 / Bernard Shaw	1131
Pygmalion Act 4 / Bernard Shaw	1143
Pygmalion Act 5 / Bernard Shaw	1150
"The Story of Pygmalion" from the Metamorphoses / Ovid	1167