This discussion guide includes questions and activities for the following selections:
- 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