MIDDLE AGES (to ca. 1485)

Old English:

• Beowulf

Middle English:

• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
• Sir Thomas Malory - Le Morte D'Arthur - Selections
• Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales
  • The General Prologue
  • The Miller's Prologue and Tale
  • The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale
  • The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale
• Margery Kempe - The Book of Margery Kempe - Selections

THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY (1485-1603)

• Sir Philip Sidney -
  • The Defence of Poesy
  • Astrophil and Stella
• Edmund Spenser -
  • The Faerie Queen - Selections
  • Amoretti
• Aemilia Lanyer - Eve's Apology in Defense of Women
• William Shakespeare:
  • Sonnets
  • The Tragedy of King Lear

THE EARLY SEVENTEENTH CENTURY (1603-1660)

• John Donne - Poetry - All selections
• Andrew Marvell - Poetry - All Selections
• John Milton - Paradise Lost - Selections

THE RESTORATION and THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY (1660- 1785)

• Daniel Defoe - Moll Flanders
• Alexander Pope - Eloisa to Abelard
• James Boswell - The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Selections