• Beowulf (epic poem)Burton Raffel, translator
• The Pardoner's Tale (poem)Geoffrey Chaucer
• The Wife of Bath’s Tale (poem)Geoffrey Chaucer
• Macbeth (drama)William Shakespeare
• A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning (poem)John Donne
• Paradise Lost (epic poem)John Milton
• A Modest Proposal (essay)Jonathan Swift
• Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (poem)Thomas Gray
• Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey (poem)William Wordsworth
• The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (poem)Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Ode on a Grecian Urn (poem)John Keats

Nature and Art in Romantic Poetry (poems)

• To a MouseRobert Burns
• The TygerWilliam Blake
• Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802William Wordsworth
• The World Is Too Much with UsWilliam Wordsworth
• OzymandiasPercy Bysshe Shelley
• To a SkylarkPercy Bysshe Shelley
• On First Looking into Chapman’s HomerJohn Keats
• When I Have Fears That I May Cease to BeJohn Keats
• Ode to a NightingaleJohn Keats
• The Lady of Shalott (poem) Alfred, Lord Tennyson
• Malachi’s Cove (short story) Anthony Trollope
• The Rocking-Horse Winner (short story) D. H. Lawrence
• Araby (short story) James Joyce
• Shooting an Elephant (essay) George Orwell
• B. Wordsworth (short story) V. S. Naipaul