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Contents
Preface
Introduction to the Teacher
Introduction to the Student
Overview — History and the World of English Literature
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UNIT 1: THE ANGLO-SAXON PERIOD
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HISTORICAL FOCUS: THE ANGLO-SAXONS
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LITERARY FOCUS: EPICS
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ELEGIAC POETRY
A Brief History of the English Language
Author Unknown
Author Unknown
Author Unknown
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Anglo-Saxon Riddles
The Ruin
Beowulf
Poetry
Elegiac Poetry
Elegiac Epic/Excerpts
UNIT 2: THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD
THE
Geoffrey Chaucer
Author Unknown
Author Unknown
Author Unknown
Sir Thomas Malory
UNIT 3: THE RENAISSANCE
1066-1485
HISTORICAL FOCUS: THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD
LITERARY FOCUS: FROM
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ORAL TRADITION
TO THE
AND THE
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ELIZABETHAN AGE 1485-1616
HISTORICAL FOCUS: THE RENAISSANCE
AND THE
LITERARY FOCUS: THE RISE
AND
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
WRITTEN WORD
Prologue to The Canterbury Tales
Epic/Excerpts
The Pardoner’s Tale
Narrative Poetry
Sir Patrick Spens
Folk Ballad
The Wife of Usher’s Well
Folk Ballad
Robin Hood and the Golden Arrow
Folk Ballad
Le Morte d'Arthur
Prose Narrative/Excerpts
OF
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DRAMA
ELIZABETHAN AGE
POETIC FORMS
Sonnet 94
The Tragedy of Macbeth
Introduction
Act I
Act II
Act III
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Sonnet
Drama
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Sir Francis Bacon
Sir Walter Raleigh
Thomas Dekker
Robert Greene
Act IV
Act V
Of Regiment of Health
Essay
A Historie of the World
Essay/Excerpt
“Content” from the comedy Patient Grisell
Song
Song
Poetry
UNIT 4: CAVALIERS, PURITANS,
HISTORICAL FOCUS: CROMWELL,
LITERARY FOCUS: THE AGE
Robert Herrick
George Herbert
John Donne
John Milton
Samuel Pepys
Daniel Defoe
Alexander Pope
Jonathan Swift
Joseph Addison
James Boswell
Samuel Johnson
OF
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AUGUSTANS
THE
RESTORATION,
John Keats
HANOVERS
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1795-1837
OF
LITERARY FOCUS: THE WORLD
Robert Burns
Robert Burns
Robert Burns
Robert Southey
William Blake
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth
George Gordon, Lord Byron
AND THE
To Daffodils
Poetry
Virtue
Poetry
Death Be Not Proud
Sonnet
On His Having Arrived at the Age of 23
Sonnet
The Diary of Samuel Pepys’
Diary/Selected Excerpts
Robinson Crusoe — Chapters 5 and 9 Novel/Excerpt
An Essay on Criticism
Poetry/Selected Stanzas
Gulliver's Travels
Novel/Excerpt
The Spectator, No. 85
Journalistic Essay
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
Biography/Excerpt
Letter to Lord Chesterfield
Epistle
HISTORICAL FOCUS: THE AGE
Thomas Gray
Thomas Gray
1616-1795
REASON
UNIT 5: THE ROMANTIC ERA
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REVOLUTION
OF
EMOTION
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard Elegiac Poetry
On a Favourite Cat, Drowned
in a Tub of Gold Fishes
Poetry
A Man's A Man For A’ That
Poetry
To a Louse
Poetry
To a Mouse
Poetry
His Books
Poetry
A Poison Tree
Poetry
Work Without Hope
Sonnet
Composed Upon Westminster Bridge
Sonnet
England, 1802
Sonnet
Lines Written in Early Spring
Poetry
Apostrophe to the Ocean from
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
Poetry/Selected Stanzas
To Autumn
Ode
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Charles Lamb
Sir Walter Scott
Jane Austen
Ode to the West Wind
Dream-Children
The Tapestried Chamber
Sense and Sensibility — Chapter 2
UNIT 6: THE VICTORIAN ERA
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1837-1901
HISTORICAL FOCUS: THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
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LITERARY FOCUS: THE CHANGING WORLD
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Robert Browning
Robert Browning
Charlotte Brontë
Charles Dickens
Anthony Trollope
Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll
Lytton Strachey
Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy
Arthur Morrison
Matthew Arnold
The Cry of the Children
Poetry/Selected Stanzas
Ulysses
Poetry
The Passing of Arthur from
Idylls of the King
Epic/Selected Stanzas
Crossing the Bar
Poetry
The Lost Leader
Poetry
How They Brought the Good News
From Ghent to Aix (16—)
Literary Ballad
Villette — Chapter 8
Novel/Excerpt
Hard Times — Chapters 1 and 2
Novel/Excerpt
Returning Home
Short Story
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Novel/Selected Excerpts
Hiawatha’s Photographing
Poetic Parody
Florence Nightingale
from Eminent Victorians
Biography/Excerpts
The Three Strangers
Novella
The Darkling Thrush
Poetry
Behind the Shade
Short Story
Quiet Work
Poetry
UNIT 7: THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Ode
Essay
Short Story
Novel/Excerpt
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1901-THE PRESENT
HISTORICAL FOCUS: THE MODERN WORLD
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LITERARY FOCUS: THE CHANGING LITERARY PERSPECTIVE
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J.M. Barrie
John Galsworthy
John Galsworthy
Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad
Thomas Hardy
The Inconsiderate Waiter
Timber
Strife
Act I
Act II
Act III
Youth
Il Conde
The Convergence of the Twain
Short Story
Short Story
Drama
Novella
Short Story
Poetry
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Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
A. E. Housman
Rupert Brooke
Wilfred Owen
Siegfried Sassoon
William Butler Yeats
Saki
Frank O’Connor
Frank O’Connor
Padraic Fallon
Padraic Fallon
H. G. Wells
Charles Grosvenor Osgood
Virginia Woolf
D. H. Lawrence
Katherine Mansfield
Richmal Crompton
Evelyn Waugh
Winston Churchill
Alistair MacLean
Daphne Du Maurier
Dylan Thomas
Dylan Thomas
Joan Ure
Ginny Swart
Nadine Gordimer
Mary Postgate
Short Story
Danny Deever
Literary Ballad
To an Athlete Dying Young
Poetry
The Soldier
Poetry
Anthem for Doomed Youth
Poetry
Everyone Sang
Poetry
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
Poetry
The Hounds of Fate
Short Story
The Drunkard
Short Story
The Majesty of the Law
Short Story
Something in a Boat
Short Story
A Hedge Schoolmaster
Poetry
The Door in the Wall
Short Story
Introduction to the Abridged Version
of Boswell's Life of Johnson
Essay/Excerpts
The Death of the Moth
Essay
The Snake
Poetry
The Garden Party
Short Story
William and the Young Man
Short Story
An Englishman's Home
Short Story
The War on Russia
Oration
City of Benares
Journalistic Essay
The Birds
Novella
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Poetry
Reminiscences of Childhood
Essay
New Journey Forth
Short Story
Top Chef, Negotiable
Short Story
The Train From Rhodesia
Short Story
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UNIT 8: APPLYING LANGUAGE SKILLS
HANDBOOK OF VOCABULARY ENRICHMENT
HANDBOOK OF LITERARY TERMS
HANDBOOK OF WRITING TECHNIQUES
BASIC MANUAL OF STYLE
REGENTS REVIEW
GLOSSARY
INDEX OF WRITING TASKS
INDEX OF FOCAL THEMES
INDEX OF AUTHORS AND LITERARY WORKS
PHOTO CREDITS
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