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| The Age of Chaucer | |
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Geoffrey Chaucer - The Canterbury Tales |
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Extract from The Miller's Tale |
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Extract from The Franklin's Tale |
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William Langland - The Book Concerning Piers Plowm |
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The 'Gawain' poet - Sir Gawain and the Green Knigh |
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John Gower - Confessio Amantis |
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| The End of Chivalry | |
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John Lydgate - The Duplicity of Women, mid 15th ce |
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Anon - I Sing of a Maiden, early 15th century |
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Anon - Carol of Agincourt, circa 1415 |
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Anon - Black-smutted Smiths, mid 15th century |
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Sir Thomas Malory - Le Morte d'Arthur from The Dea |
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John Skelton - Lullaby |
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Sir Thomas Wyatt - They flee from me... |
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Sir Thomas More - Utopia |
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Thomas Cranmer - The Book of Common Prayer |
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The Triumphs of Oriana |
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Sir Walter Ralegh - As You Came from the Holy Land |
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Edmund Spenser - The Faerie Queene, 1589 |
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Sir Philip Sidney - Astrophel and Stella, 1582 |
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William Shakespeare - The Sonnets, 1609 |
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Three Sonnets - Shall I compare thee... / The expe |
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Christopher Marlowe - The Passionate Shepherd to h |
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Ben Jonson - To Celia: Drink to Me Only |
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John Donne - Busie Old Foole, Unrulie Sunne |
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A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning |
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Holy Sonnets |
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Elizabethan Drama |
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Christopher Marlow - Dr Faustus |
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William Shakespeare |
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| The Triumphs of Oriana | |
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Henry IV Part I |
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A Midsummer Night's Dream |
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King Lear |
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The Authorised Version of the Bible - The Song of |
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Francis Bacon - What is Truth? |
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John Donne - Sermons |
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| Puritan's Progress | |
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Richard Lovelace - To Lucasta, Going to the Wars |
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George Herbert - Love |
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Henry Vaughan - The Retreate |
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Robert Herrick - To Daffodils |
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Richard Lovelace - To Althea, from Prison |
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John Milton |
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Paradise Lost |
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Andrew Marvell - The Definition of Love |
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To His Coy Mistress |
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John Bunyan |
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The Pilgrim's Progress |
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| Restoration | |
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Daniel Defoe |
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Moll Flanders |
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John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester - A Song of a Young |
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John Dryden - Song for St Cecilia's Day |
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William Congreve - The Way of the World |
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The Augustan Age - Alexander Pope |
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The Rape of the Lock |
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Essay on Man |
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Jonathan Swift |
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Gulliver's Travels |
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Samuel Johnson |
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Preface to Shakespeare |
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Henry Fielding |
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The Adventures of Joseph Andrews and his Friend, M |
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| The Augustan Age | |
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Thomas Gray - Elegy Written in a Country Church-Ya |
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| Romantic Revolution | |
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William Blake - Auguries of Innocence |
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Mock on, Mock on Voltaire, Rousseau |
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William Wordsworth - Lines Composed a Few Miles Ab |
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Kubla Khan |
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The Gothic Novel - Mary Shelley Frankenstein |
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Jane Austen |
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Emma |
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Percy Bysshe Shelley |
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Ode to the West Wind |
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George Gordon, Lord Byron - Fragment |
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John Keats - Ode on Melancholy / Ode to a Nighting |
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| Faith and Doubt - The Victorian Age | |
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson - Be near me when my light i |
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Charles Dickens - Hard Times / Great Expectations |
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Children's literature - The Detective Novel |
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The Brontes: Charlotte Bronte; Ann Bronte: Emily B |
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Matthew Arnold - Dover Beach |
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George Eliot - Middlemarch |
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson - In Memoriam, Tears, Idle T |
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Christina Rossetti - A Pause |
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Robert Browning - My Last Duchess |
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Rudyard Kipling - Recessional |
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Thomas Hardy - Neutral Tones / Tess of the d'Urber |
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Gerard Manley Hopkins - No wrost, there is none |
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Alfred Edward Housman |
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| The Age of Anxiety | |
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Into my Heart an air that kills (A Shropshire Lad) |
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Henry James |
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Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness |
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Herbert George Wells - The War of the Worlds |
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David Herbert Lawrence - Odour of Chrysanthemums |
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Wilfred Owen - Futility |
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William Butler Yeats - The Second Coming, Collecte |
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James Joyce - Dubliners / Finnegans Wake |
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Virginia Woolf - To the Lighthouse |
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Evelyn Waugh - Decline and Fall |
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George Orwell - Coming Up for Air |
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T.S. Eliot |
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Wystan Hugh Auden - Lay your sleeping head, my lov |
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| Post-War, Post-Modern | |
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Cecil Day-Lewis |
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Keith Douglas - How to Kill |
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Dylan Thomas - A Refusal to Mourn the Death, By Fi |
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Ivy Compton-Burnett / Jean Rhys / Doris Lessing |
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Muriel Spark - Memento Mori / Iris Murdoch / Graha |
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William Golding - The Spire / Angus Wilson / Anth |
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Kingsley Amis - Lucky Jim |
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Philip Larkin - Coming |
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Sir John Betjeman - The Metropolitan Railway: Bake |
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Ted Hughes - Thrushes |
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James Graham Ballard - Empire of the Sun |
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Carol Ann Duffy - Pilate's Wife |
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Epilogue |
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