Part I The Middle Ages (to ca 1485)Unit I BeowulfBackground Knowledge: The Anglo-Saxon Period (450-1066)   Beowulf        Beowulf' s Fight with Grende Part I The Middle Ages (to ca 1485)Unit I BeowulfBackground Knowledge: The Anglo-Saxon Period (450-1066) Beowulf Beowulf' s Fight with Grendel Beowulf' s FuneralUnit 2 Sir Gawain and the Green KnightBackground Knowledge: The Norman Period (1066-1350) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Part IUnit 3 BalladsBackground Knowledge: The 15th Century (1400-1485) Sir Patrick Spens Robin Hood Rescuing Three SquiresUnit 4 Geoffrey Chaucer (ca 1343-1400) The Canterbury Tales The General ProloguePart II The Sixteenth Century (1485-1603)Unit 5 Edmund Spenser (1552-1599) The Faerie Queene Book I Canto IVUnit 6 Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus Prologue... Act I Scene I Scene II Scene IIIUnit 7 William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Sonnet 18 Sonnet 29 Sonnet 66 Romeo and Juliet Act II Scene II Capulet's Orchard Julius Caesar Act III Scene II The Forum Hamlet Act I Scene II A Room of State in the Castle Act III Scene IPart III The Seventeenth Century (1603-1688)Unit 8 Francis Bacon (1561-1626) Of Marriage and Single Life Of Great Place Of StudiesUnit 9 Metaphysical PoetsJohn Donne (1572-1631) The Flea The Sun Rising A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning Sonnet 10 (From Holy Sonnets)Andrew Marvell (1621-1678) To His Coy MistressGeorge Herbert (1593-1633) VirtueUnit 10 John Milton (1608-1674) Paradise Lost Book I The Argument When I Consider How My Light Is SpentUnit 11 John Bunyan (1628-1688) The Pilgrim's Progress Christian Sets out for the Celestial City The River of Death and the Celestial City The ConclusionPart IV The Eighteenth Century (1688-1798)Unit 12 Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) Robinson Crusoe Chapter IV First Weeks on the IslandUnit 13 Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) A Modest Proposal Gulliver's Travels Part I A Voyage to LilliputUnit 14 Joseph Addison (1672-1719) and Richard Steele (1672-1729) The Royal Exchange The Cries of LondonUnit 15 Alexander Pope (1688-1744) An Essay on Man Epistle 1. Of the Nature and State of Man with Respect to the UniverseUnit 16 Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) To the Right Honourable the Earl of Chesterfield The Preface to Shakespeare Shakespeare's Excellence. General Nature Unit 17 Henry Fielding (1707-1754) The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling Book I Chapter II] Book I Chapter IVUnit 18 Thomas Gray (1716-1771) Elegy Written in a Country ChurchyardUnit 19 William Blake (1757-1827)From Songs of innocence, 1789 The Lamb The Chimney Sweeper Holy ThursdayFrom Songs of Experience, 1794 Holy Thursday The Chimney Sweeper The Tyger LondonUnit 20 Robert Burns (1759-1796) Scots, Wha Hae For A' That and A' That My Heart's in the Highlands A Red, Red Rose Auld Lang SyneBibliography