Anonymous

Beowulf (ca. 750)

Early National Poetry

Anonymous

Everyman (after 1485)

The Early Religious Drama

Anonymous

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (ca. 1375 - 1400)

"Pearl," "Cleanness," "Patience" and "Sir Gawayne"
Metrical Romances, 1200-1500

Anonymous

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (890 ca. - 1150 ca.)

Alfred and the Old English Prose of his Reign
The Chronicle
The Ballads and Poems in The Chronicle

Anonymous

The York Plays (15th Century)

The Early Religious Drama

Anonymous

The Second Shepherds' Play (ca. 1425)

Towneley Mysteries

Addison, Joseph (1672 - 1717)

Selected Poetry (excerpts)*

Steele and Addison

Arnold, Matthew (1822 - 1888)

The Function of Criticism at the Present Time

Matthew Arnold, Arthur Hugh Clough, James Thomson

Ascham, Roger (1515 - 1568)

The Scholemaster

Roger Ascham

Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907-1973)

Austen, Jane (1775 - 1817)

Emma
Lady Susan
Mansfield Park
Northanger Abbey
Persuasion
Pride and Prejudice
Sense and Sensibility

Jane Austen

Beauchamp, Kathleen
see Katherine Mansfield

Beckett, Samuel (1906 - 1989)

Waiting for Godot (excerpt from Act 2)*
Selected Poems*

Bacon, Francis (1561 - 1626)

Essays

Francis Bacon
Bacon's Essays

Bell, Acton see Brontė, Anne

Bell, Ellis see Brontė, Emily

Bell, Currer see Brontė, Charlotte

Blair, Eric Arthur see Orwell, George

Blake, William (1757 - 1827)

Poetical Sketches
Songs of Innocence and of Experience

Blake

Brontė, Anne (1820 - 1849)

Agnes Gray
Poems
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

The Brontės

Brontė, Charlotte (1816 - 1855)

Jane Eyre
Poems

The Brontės

Brontė, Emily (1818 - 1848)

Poems
Wuthering Heights

The Brontės

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (1806 - 1861)

Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Browning, Robert (1812 - 1889)

Selected Poetry*

Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Brooke, Rupert (1887 - 1915)

Bunyan, John (1628 - 1688)

The Pilgrim's Progress

John Bunyan. Andrew Marvell

Burns, Robert (1759 - 1796)

Poems and Songs of Robert Burns

Burns

Butler, Samuel (1835 - 1902)

Erewhon

Butler

George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788 - 1824)

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (Cantos III; IV)*
Don Juan
The Giaour
Lara (Canto I)*

Byron
The Prosody of the Nineteenth Century. Byron

Carlyle, Thomas (1795 - 1881)

The French Revolution

Carlyle

Carroll, Lewis (1832 - 1898)
[Charles Lutwidge Dodgson]

Alice in Wonderland
Through the Looking Glass

Lewis Carroll

Chaucer, Geoffrey (ca. 1343 - 1400)

Troilus and Criseide
The Canterbury Tales

Chaucer
Chaucer and His Successors

Chesterton, Gilbert Keith (1874 - 1936)

The Wisdom of Father Brown (Chapter 1, The Absence of Mr Grass)*
The Innocence of Father Brown (The Blue Cross)*
Manalive (Part 1, Chapter 1)*

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772 - 1834)

Selected Poetry*
Biographia Literaria (excerpts from Chapters I, II, X, XI,XII, XVIII and Chapter XIV)*
Lyrical Ballads

Coleridge
Coleridge's Christabel

Collins, Wilkie William (1824 - 1889)

The Moonstone
The Woman in White

Wilkie Collins

Collins, William (1721 - 1759)

Selected Poetry*

Young, Collins and Lesser Poets of the Age of Johnson

Cooper, James Fenimore (1789 - 1851)

The Last of the Mohicans

Fiction. Brown, Cooper
Books for Children

Congreve, William (1650 - 1729)

The Double-Dealer
The Way of the World

The Restoration Drama

Conrad, Joseph (1857 - 1924)
[Jozef Teodor Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowski]

Almayer's Folly
Amy Foster
A Personal Record
Heart of Darkness
The Secret Agent
The Secret Sharer
The Shadow Line
Youth

Darwin, Charles (1809 - 1882)

On the Origins of Species

Darwin
The Literature of Science
The Origin of Species

Defoe, Daniel (1660 - 1731)

A Journal of the Plague Year
Moll Flanders
Robinson Crusoe
The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
Tour Through Eastern Counties of England

Defoe-The Newspaper and the Novel

De Quincey, Thomas (1785 - 1859)

Confessions of an English Opium Eater

De Quincey's Mastery in Ornate Prose

Dickens, Charles (1812 - 1870)

A Christmas Carol
David Copperfield
Great Expectations
Hard Times
Oliver Twist
Pictures from Italy
The Chimes
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
The Old Curiosity Shop
The Pickwick Papers

Dickens

Donne, John (1572 - 1631)

Selected Poetry*

John Donne
The Progress of Science

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan (1859 - 1930)

Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Beyond the City
Round the Red Lamp

Dryden, John (1631 - 1700)

Absalom and Achitophel
An Essay on Dramatic Poesie

Dryden
Dryden and the Heroic Couplet
Perceptive Prosody: Jonson and Dryden
The Style of Dryden and its Conversational Character
Evidence of Dryden, Rapin and Rymer
Dryden's Influence on English Style; the "Preface to the Fables"

Eliot, George (1819 - 1880)
[Mary Ann Evans]

Middlemarch
Silas Marner
Adam Bede

The Political and Social Novel

Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888 - 1965)

Selected Poems*
The Waste Land
Tradition and the Individual Talent

Evans, Mary Ann see Eliot, George

Fielding, Henry (1707 - 1754)

The History of Tom Jones

Fielding and Smollett

Forster, Edward Morgan (1879 - 1970)

Gay, John (1685 - 1732)

The Beggar's Opera

John Gay and His Early Literary Efforts
The Beggar's Opera

Goldsmith, Oliver (1730 - 1774)

The Deserted Village
The Vicar of Wakefield

Oliver Goldsmith

Graves, Robert (1895 - 1985)

Gray, Thomas (1716 - 1771)

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

Gray

Grimald, Nicholas (1519 - 1562)

Tottel's Miscellany

Nicholas Grimald
The New English Poetry

Hardy, Thomas (1840 - 1928)

A Pair of Blue Eyes
Far from the Madding Crowd
Jude the Obscure
Selected Poems*
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
The Mayor of Casterbridge
The Return of the Native
The Woodlanders

Hazlitt, William (1778 - 1830)

Characters of Shakespear's Plays

Hazlitt

Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804 - 1864)

The House of the Seven Gables

Hawthorne
Books for Children

Herbert, George (1593 - 1633)

Selected Poetry*

George Herbert
A Priest to the Temple

Herrick, Robert (1591 - 1674)

Selected Poems*

Robert Herrick

Hobbes, Thomas (1588 - 1679)

Leviathan

The Aesthetics of Hobbes
Hobbes and Contemporary Philosophy

Hopkins, Gerard Manley (1844 - 1889)

Housman, Alfred Edward (1859 - 1936)

Hughes, Ted (1930 - )

Huxley, Aldous (1894 - 1963)

James, Henry (1843 - 1916)

Daisy Miller
The Ambassadors
The American
The Aspern Papers
The Jolly Corner
The Pupil
The Turn of the Screw

Henry James
The Short Story

Johnson, Samuel (1709 - 1784)

Mr. Johnson's Preface to His Edition of Shakespear's Plays

Johnson and Boswell

Jonson, Ben (1572 - 1637)

Volpone

Ben Jonson
Ben Jonson's Masques
Jacobean and Caroline Criticism

Joyce, James (1882 - 1941)

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (excerpts - Stephen's Epiphany; Stephen's Poem)*
The Dead
Ulysses (Proteus)*

Keats, John (1795 - 1821)

Selected Poetry*

Keats
The Prosody of the Nineteenth Century

Kinglake, Alexander William (1809 - 1891)

Eothen

Kinglake's Invasion of the Crimea

Kingsley, Charles (1819 - 1875)

The Ancien Regime

The Political and Social Novel

Kipling, Rudyard (1865 - 1936)

Lamb, Charles (1775 - 1834) and Mary (1764 - 1847)

Tales from Shakespeare

Lamb
Charles and Mary Lamb

Langland, William (1331? - 1400?)

Piers Plowman - version 1 (Prologue+Passus 1-7)
Piers Plowman - version 2 (Prologue+Passus 1-20)

"Piers the Plowman" and its Sequence
Piers Plowman

Lawrence, David Herbert (1885 - 1930)

Lady Chatterley's Lover
Poetry of the Present
Selected Poems
Sons and Lovers

Lear, Edward (1812 - 1888)

Edward Lear

Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775 - 1818)

The Monk

Matthew Gregory Lewis: The Monk

Lyly, John (1554 - 1606)

Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (Euphues Introduced, Cassander's Letter to Callimachus)*
Gallathea

John Lyly
The Plays of the University Wits

Locke, John (1632 - 1704)

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

John Locke
Political Economists of the Seventeenth Century: Sir William Petty and Locke

London, Jack (1876 - 1916)

Adventure
Burning Daylight
The Call of the Wild

Jack London

MacNeice, Louis (1907 - 1963)

Malory, Sir Thomas (ca. 1405 - 1471)

The Introduction of Printing into England and the Early Work of the Press
Malory's Morte d'Arthur

Katherine Mansfield (1888 - 1923)
[Kathleen Beauchamp]

Marlowe, Christopher (1564 - 1593)

Dr. Faustus
Hero and Leander
Massacre at Paris
The Jew of Malta

Marlowe and Kyd

Marvell, Andrew (1621 - 1678)

Selected Poetry*

Andrew Marvell
Andrew Marvell: His Poems, Satires and Prose Works

Maugham, William Somerset (1874 - 1965)

Of Human Bondage (I - X)*
The Moon and Sixpence (Chapter 1)*

Meynell, Alice (1850-1922)

Hearts of Controversy
Poems

Meredith, George (1828 - 1909)

A Reading of Life and Other Poems
The Egoist

George Meredith

Mill, John Stuart (1806 - 1873)

What is Poetry?

Philosophers. John Stuart Mill
Education. John Stuart Mill

Milton, John (1608 - 1674)

Aeropagitica
Comus
Paradise Lost
Paradise Regained
Poetical Works
Samson Agonistes

Milton
Jacobean and Caroline Criticism
Milton's Metrical Development

More, Sir Thomas (1478 - 1535)

Utopia

Englishmen and the Classical Renascence. Sir Thomas More

Morris, William (1834 - 1896)

The Dream of John Ball and A King's Lesson
Selected Poetry*

The Rossettis, William Morris, Swinburne

MacNeice, Louis (1907 - 1963)

Malory, Sir Thomas (ca. 1405 - 1471)

The Introduction of Printing into England and the Early Work of the Press
Malory's Morte d'Arthur

Katherine Mansfield (1888 - 1923)
[Kathleen Beauchamp]

Marlowe, Christopher (1564 - 1593)

Dr. Faustus
Hero and Leander
Massacre at Paris
The Jew of Malta

Marlowe and Kyd

Marvell, Andrew (1621 - 1678)

Selected Poetry*

Andrew Marvell
Andrew Marvell: His Poems, Satires and Prose Works

Maugham, William Somerset (1874 - 1965)

Of Human Bondage (I - X)*
The Moon and Sixpence (Chapter 1)*

Meynell, Alice (1850-1922)

Hearts of Controversy
Poems

Meredith, George (1828 - 1909)

A Reading of Life and Other Poems
The Egoist

George Meredith

Mill, John Stuart (1806 - 1873)

What is Poetry?

Philosophers. John Stuart Mill
Education. John Stuart Mill

Milton, John (1608 - 1674)

Aeropagitica
Comus
Paradise Lost
Paradise Regained
Poetical Works
Samson Agonistes

Milton
Jacobean and Caroline Criticism
Milton's Metrical Development

More, Sir Thomas (1478 - 1535)

Utopia

Englishmen and the Classical Renascence. Sir Thomas More

Morris, William (1834 - 1896)

The Dream of John Ball and A King's Lesson
Selected Poetry*

The Rossettis, William Morris, Swinburne

Orwell, George (1903 - 1950)
[Eric Arthur Blair]

Animal Farm (Chapter X)*
Politics and the English Language
1984 (Chapter I; Appendix - The Principles of Newspeak)*

Owen, Wilfred (1893 - 1918)

Poems

Paine, Thomas (1737 - 1809)

Common Sense

Thomas Paine: The Rights of Man; The Age of Reason
American Political Writing, 1760-1789

Pater, Walter (1839 - 1894)

Coleridge (1865,1880)
Wordsworth (1874)
Style (1888)

Critical and Miscellaneous Prose. Walter Pater

Peacock, Thomas Love (1785 - 1866)

Headlong Hall
Maid Marian
Nightmare Abbey
Poems from "Melincourt"*
The Four Ages of Poetry

The Growth of the Later Novel. Thomas Love Peacock

Pinter, Harold (1930 - )

Poe, Edgar Allan (1809 - 1849)

The Cask of Amontillado
The Masque of the Red Death
The Raven

Poe
The Short Story. Poe; Realism

Pope, Alexander (1688 - 1744)

An Essay on Man (excerpts)*
The Rape of the Lock

Pope

Radcliffe, Ann (1764 - 1822)

Ann Radcliffe

Reade, Charles (1814 - 1884)

The Cloister and the Hearth

Charles Reade
The Cloister and the Hearth

Richardson, Samuel (1689 - 1761)

Clarissa*

Richardson

Rosenberg, Isaac (1890 - 1918)

Ruskin, John (1819 - 1900)

King of Golden River
Sesame and Lilies

Ruskin; Modern Painters
Education. John Ruskin

Rossetti, Christina (1830 - 1894)

Goblin Market

The Rossettis, William Morris, Swinburne

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)

The House of Life

The Rossettis, William Morris, Swinburne

Sasson, Siegfried (1886 - 1967)

Scott, Sir Walter (1771 - 1832)

The Bride of Lammermoor
My Aunt's Margaret's Mirror
Ivanhoe
The Black Dwarf

Walter Scott
Historians, Biographers and Political Orators. Scott

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

Shakespeare: Life and Plays
Shakespeare: Poems
Plays of Uncertain Authorship Attributed to Shakespeare
The Text of Shakespeare
Shakespeare on the Continent

Shaw, George Bernard (1856 - 1950)

Mrs. Warren's Profession (Apology)*

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft (1797 - 1851)

Frankenstein

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: Frankenstein

Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792 - 1822)

Alastor
Prometheus Unbound
Queen Mab
Rosalind and Helen: a Modern Eclogue
The Cenci

Shelley
The Prosody of the Nineteenth Century. Shelley

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751 - 1816)

The School for Scandal

Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Richard Brinsley Sheridan: The Rivals
The Sheridans

Sidney, Sir Philip (1554 - 1586)

A Defence of Poesie and Poems

Sir Philip Sidney's Apologie for Poetrie

Spenser, Edmund (1552 - 1599)

Amoretti (Sonnets 3,22,67,68,74,75,79)*
The Faerie Queene

The Poetry of Spenser
Spenser's Amoretti
The Shepheards Calender
Spenser and His French Masters

Sterne, Laurence (1713 - 1768)

A Sentimental Journey
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy

Sterne, and the Novel of His Times

Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850 - 1894)

The Black Arrow

The Master of Ballantrae

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Treasure Island

Critical and Miscellaneous Prose. R.L. Stevenson

Stoker, Bram (1845 - 1912)

Dracula

Stoppard, Tom (1937- )

Arcadia (Act I, Scene I)*

Stowe, Harriet Beecher (1812 - 1896)

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Uncle Tom's Cabin
Books for Children
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Essayists. Mrs. Stowe
The Fugitive Slave Law; Uncle Tom's Cabin

Surrey, Henry Howard, Earl of (1517 - 1547)

Tottel's Miscellany

Tottel's Miscellany
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
"Poulter's measure"
Wyatt and Surrey

Swift, Jonathan (1667 - 1745)

A Modest Proposal
The Battle of the Books
Gulliver's Travels

Swift

Tennyson, Lord Alfred (1809 - 1892)

Idylls of the King
In Memoriam A.H.H.
The Princess
Selected Poetry*

The Tennysons

Thackeray, William Makepeace (1811 - 1863)

Catherine: A Story
Some Roundabout Papers
The Rose and the Ring
Vanity Fair

Thackeray

Thomas, Dylan (1914 - 1953)

Selected Poems*

Thomas, Edward (1878 - 1917)

Selected Poetry*

Tottel, Richard (1530? - 1594?) (editor)

Tottel's Miscellany

The New English Poetry

Trollope, Anthony (1815 - 1888)

The Warden
Hunting Sketches

Anthony Trollope; The Barchester Series

Twain, Mark (1835 - 1910)
[Samuel L. Clemens]

A Connecticut Yankee in King's Arthur Court
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain
Travellers and Explorers, 1846-1900. Mark Twain

Walpole, Horace (1717 - 1797)

The Castle of Otranto

Horace Walpole's Castle of Otranto and Clara Reeve's Old English Baron

Webster, John (1580? - 1625?)

The Duchess of Malfi

Tourneur and Webster

Wilde, Oscar (1854 - 1900)

An Ideal Husband
A House of Pomegranates
A Woman of No Importance
De Profundis (excerpt)*
Lady Windermere's Fan
Lord Savile's Crime and Other Stories
Selected Prose
The Duchess of Padua
The Importance of Being Earnest
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Soul of Man

Oscar Wilde

Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759 - 1797)

Maria or the Wrongs of Woman

Political Writers and Speakers. William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft

Woolf, Virginia (1882 - 1941)

Night and Day (Chapter 1)*
Selected Short Stories*
The Voyage Out (Chapter 1)*

Wordsworth, William (1770 - 1850)

Selected Poetry*
The Prelude
Lyrical Ballads

William Wordsworth
Education. Wordsworth

Wyatt, Sir Thomas, the Elder (1503 - 1542)

Tottel's Miscellany

The New English Poetry
Wyatt and Surrey

Yeats, William Butler (1865 - 1939)

Selected Poems*