Reading list - Four year compilation
Middle Ages
Hymn ~ Caedmon
Beowulf
The Canterbury Tales(excerpts) ~ Chaucer
Decameron (excerpts) ~ Giovanni Boccaccio
Early Modern (Renaissance)
Book of Common Prayer (excerpts)
Agamemnon ~ Seneca
Addictus (excerpts) ~ Plautus
The Prince (excerpts) ~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Romeo and Juliet ~ Shakespeare
Hamlet ~ Shakespeare
Doctor Faustus (excerpts) ~ Christopher Marlow
The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia ~ Sir Philip Sidney
Jacobean Literature
The Alchemist ~ Benjamin Jonson
The Knight of the Burning Pestle ~ Beaumont and Fletcher
Homer (excerpts, translated) ~ George Chapman
The Duchess of Malfi (excerpts) ~ John Webster
King Leir (excerpts) ~ Thomas Kyd
The King James Bible (excerpts)
An Anatomy of the World ~ John Donne
Caroline and Cromwellian literature
Leviathan ~ Thomas Hobbes
Areopagitica ~ John Milton
The Compleat Angler (excerpts) ~ Izaak Walton
To His Coy Mistress ~ Andrew Marvell
Restoration Literature
Treatises on Government ~ John Locke
The Pilgrim's Progress (excerpts) ~ John Bunyan
Oroonoko (excerpts) ~ Aphra Behn
Fables Ancient and Modern (excerpts) ~ John Dryden
The Country Wife (excerpts) ~ William Wycherley
Augustan Literature
Dunciad ~ Alexander Pope
Moral Essays ~ Alexander Pope
Night Thoughts ~ Edward Young
Moll Flanders ~ Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe (excerpts) ~ Daniel Defoe
Gulliver's Travels (excerpts) ~ Jonathan Swift
A modest Proposal ~ Jonathan Swift
Romanticism
Rime of the Ancient Mariner ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Lyrical Ballads (excerpts) ~ William Wordsworth
Don Juan (Excerpts) ~ George Byron
Prometheus Unbound (excerpts) ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Frankenstein ~ Mary Shelley
Endymion (excerpts) ~ John Keats
Ode on a Grecian Urn ~ John Keats
Ivanhoe ~ Sir Walter Scott
Pride and Prejudice (excerpts) ~ Jane Austin
Emma ~ Jane Austin
The Telltale Heart ~ Edgar Allan Poe
The Pit and the Pendulum ~ Edgar Allan Poe
The Hunchback of Notre Dame ~ Victor Hugo
Victorian Literature
Jane Eyre ~ Charlotte Bronte
Vanity Fair ~ William Makepeace Thackeray
The Pickwick Papers ~ Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist (excerpts) ~ Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities ~ Charles Dickens
The Kraken ~ Alfred Tennyson
The Lady of Shallot ~ Alfred Tennyson
The Pied Piper of Hamelin ~ Robert Browning
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ~ Lewis Carol
Modernist Literature
Ulysses ~ James Joyce
Heart of Darkness ~ Joseph Conrad
The Secret Rose ~ William Butler Yeats
A Haunted House and other short stories (excerpts) ~ Virginia Woolf
Officers and Gentlemen ~ Evelyn Waugh
The Waste Land ~ T. S. Eliot
The Hollow Men ~ T. S. Eliot
For Whom the Bell Tolls ~ Ernest Hemingway
The Road Not Taken ~ Robert Frost
Mending Wall ~ Robert Frost
A cold spring ~ Elizabeth Bishop
Hymn ~ Caedmon
Beowulf
The Canterbury Tales(excerpts) ~ Chaucer
Decameron (excerpts) ~ Giovanni Boccaccio
Early Modern (Renaissance)
Book of Common Prayer (excerpts)
Agamemnon ~ Seneca
Addictus (excerpts) ~ Plautus
The Prince (excerpts) ~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Romeo and Juliet ~ Shakespeare
Hamlet ~ Shakespeare
Doctor Faustus (excerpts) ~ Christopher Marlow
The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia ~ Sir Philip Sidney
Jacobean Literature
The Alchemist ~ Benjamin Jonson
The Knight of the Burning Pestle ~ Beaumont and Fletcher
Homer (excerpts, translated) ~ George Chapman
The Duchess of Malfi (excerpts) ~ John Webster
King Leir (excerpts) ~ Thomas Kyd
The King James Bible (excerpts)
An Anatomy of the World ~ John Donne
Caroline and Cromwellian literature
Leviathan ~ Thomas Hobbes
Areopagitica ~ John Milton
The Compleat Angler (excerpts) ~ Izaak Walton
To His Coy Mistress ~ Andrew Marvell
Restoration Literature
Treatises on Government ~ John Locke
The Pilgrim's Progress (excerpts) ~ John Bunyan
Oroonoko (excerpts) ~ Aphra Behn
Fables Ancient and Modern (excerpts) ~ John Dryden
The Country Wife (excerpts) ~ William Wycherley
Augustan Literature
Dunciad ~ Alexander Pope
Moral Essays ~ Alexander Pope
Night Thoughts ~ Edward Young
Moll Flanders ~ Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe (excerpts) ~ Daniel Defoe
Gulliver's Travels (excerpts) ~ Jonathan Swift
A modest Proposal ~ Jonathan Swift
Romanticism
Rime of the Ancient Mariner ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Lyrical Ballads (excerpts) ~ William Wordsworth
Don Juan (Excerpts) ~ George Byron
Prometheus Unbound (excerpts) ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Frankenstein ~ Mary Shelley
Endymion (excerpts) ~ John Keats
Ode on a Grecian Urn ~ John Keats
Ivanhoe ~ Sir Walter Scott
Pride and Prejudice (excerpts) ~ Jane Austin
Emma ~ Jane Austin
The Telltale Heart ~ Edgar Allan Poe
The Pit and the Pendulum ~ Edgar Allan Poe
The Hunchback of Notre Dame ~ Victor Hugo
Victorian Literature
Jane Eyre ~ Charlotte Bronte
Vanity Fair ~ William Makepeace Thackeray
The Pickwick Papers ~ Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist (excerpts) ~ Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities ~ Charles Dickens
The Kraken ~ Alfred Tennyson
The Lady of Shallot ~ Alfred Tennyson
The Pied Piper of Hamelin ~ Robert Browning
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ~ Lewis Carol
Modernist Literature
Ulysses ~ James Joyce
Heart of Darkness ~ Joseph Conrad
The Secret Rose ~ William Butler Yeats
A Haunted House and other short stories (excerpts) ~ Virginia Woolf
Officers and Gentlemen ~ Evelyn Waugh
The Waste Land ~ T. S. Eliot
The Hollow Men ~ T. S. Eliot
For Whom the Bell Tolls ~ Ernest Hemingway
The Road Not Taken ~ Robert Frost
Mending Wall ~ Robert Frost
A cold spring ~ Elizabeth Bishop