Geoffrey Chaucer(ca.1343-1400) 1
The Canterbury Tales 2
Francis Bacon(1561-1626) 8
Of Marriage and Single Life 9
William Shakespeare(1564-1616) 12
Julius Caesar 13
Sonnet 18 19
John Donne(1572-1631) 22
Holy Sonnet 10 23
John Milton(1608-1674) 25
On His Blindness 26
Daniel Defoe(1660-1731) 29
Moll Flanders 30
Jonathan Swift(1667-1745) 38
Gulliver's Travels 39
Alexander Pope(1688-1744) 46
The Rape of the Lock 47
Samuel Richardson(1689-1761) 54
Clarissa Harlowe 55
Samuel Johnson(1709-1784) 61
To the Right Honorable the Earl of Chesterfield 62
William Blake(1757-1827) 65
London 66
William Wordsworth(1770-1850) 69
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud 70
Jane Austen(1775-1817) 73
Pride and Prejudice 74
George Gordon Byron(1788-1824) 80
She Walks in Beauty 81
John Keats(1795-1821) 84
Ode on a Grecian Urn 85
William Makepeace Thackeray(1811-1863) 89
Vanity Fair 90
Charles Dickens(1812-1870) 98
David Copperfield 99
Robert Browning(1812-1889) 109
My Last Duchess 110
Charlotte Bronte(1816-1855) 114
Jane Eyre 115
Thomas Hardy(1840-1928) 126
Tess of the D'Urbervilles 127
Oscar Wilde(1854-1900) 135
The Importance of Being Earnest 136
William Butler Yeats(1865-1939) 143
An Irish Airman Foresees His Death 144
The Second Coming 144
Virginia Woolf(1882-1941) 148
A Room of One's Own 149
D.H.Lawrence(1885-1930) 156
Lady Chatterley's Lover 157
Samuel Beckett(1906-1989) 165
Waiting for Godot 166
W.H.Auden (1907-1973) 174
As I Walked Out One Evening 175
Doris Lessing(1919-2013) 179
To Room Nineteen 180
Philip Larkin(1922-1985) 186
High Windows 187
This Be the Verse 188
V.S.Naipaul(1932-) 191
One Out of Many 192