1. Authors, Works, & Time Periods
English Literature
Authors, Works, & Time Periods

2. Anglo-Saxon period (449-1066)
Introduction (p. 8-17)
Beowulf
“The Seafarer”
Big Ideas:
The Epic Warrior
The Power of Faith
The World of Romance

3. Middle Ages (1066-1485) Introduction (p. 8-17)
Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Arthurian Legend
Big Ideas:
The Epic Warrior
The Power of Faith
The World of Romance

4. Renaissance (1485-1650) Introduction (p. 236-244)
“Speech to the Troops at Tilbury” & “On Monsieur’s Departure,” Queen Elizabeth I
“The Passionate Shepherd to His Love,” Christopher Marlowe
“The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd,” Sir Walter Raleigh
“Of Studies,” Francis Bacon
Macbeth, William Shakespeare
“A Valediction Forbidding Mourning,” John Donne
Sonnets:
“Sonnet 30” & “Sonnet 75,” Edmund Spencer
“Sonnet 31” & “Sonnet 39,” Sir Philip Sidney
“Sonnet 116” & “Sonnet 130,” William Shakespeare
Big Ideas:
Humanists and Courtiers
A Bard for the Ages
The Sacred and the Secular

5. Puritanism to the Enlightenment (1640-1780)
Introduction (p )
“A Modest Proposal” & “Gulliver’s Travels,” Jonathan Swift
Pilgrim’s Progress, John Bunyan
Big Ideas:
Civil War, Commonwealth, & Restoration
Enlightenment & Neoclassicism

6. Romanticism (1750-1837) Introduction (p. 692-700)
“The Lamb,” “The Tyger,” “London,” “Songs of Innocence,” & “Songs of Experience,” William Blake
“Lines Composed Above Tintern Abbey,” William Wordsworth
“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” Samuel Coleridge
“Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage,” Lord Byron
“Ode on a Grecian Urn,” Percey Blythe Shelley
“Ode to the West Wind,” John Keats
Big Ideas:
The Stirrings of Romanticism
Nature & the Imagination
The Quest for Truth & Beauty

7. The Victorian Age (1837-1901) Introduction (p. 908-921)
“Crossing the Bar” & “Ulysses,” Alfred Lord Tennyson
“Sonnet 43,” Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“My Last Duchess,” Robert Browning
“Dover Beach,” Matthew Arnold
Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
“The Man He Killed” & “Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?” Thomas Hardy
“To An Athlete Dying Young,” A.E. Housman
Big Ideas:
Optimism & the Belief in Progress
Realism & Naturalism

8. The Modern Age (1901-1950) Introduction (p. 1028-1042)
1984, “Wartime Diary,” & “Shooting an Elephant,” George Orwell
“Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night,” Dylan Thomas
“Be Ye Men of Valor,” Winston Churchill
“The Rocking-Horse Winner,” D.H. Lawrence
“A Cup of Tea,” Katherine Mansfield
“Sailing to Byzantium” & “A Second Coming,” William Butler Yeats
Big Ideas:
Class, Colonialism, and the Great War
Modernism
World War II & Aftermath