ReadingList:
SeniorComprehensive
Examination
EnglishLiterature
Renaissance
Skelton
Anglo-Saxon
xBeowulf
xTheDreamof theRood
*TheBattleof Maldon
*ln originallanguage
or dialect.
Upona DeadMan'sHead
Mannerly
Margery
Wfiatt
They FleeFrom Me
M i n c O w n J o h nP o i n s
Middle Ages
Surrey
Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales
xGeneralPrologue
xKnight'sPrologueand Tale
*M iller ' sP ro l o g u e
a n dT a l e
xWife of Bath'sPrologue
xTheNun'sPriest'sTale
My Friend,the Thingsthat Do Attain
Love,That Doth Reignand Live within My Thought
SidneY
A strophi and
l
S tel l a
An Apologyfor Poetry
Dyer
GawainPoet
My Mi nd to Me a K i ngdomIs
x S irG awai na n dth e Gre e nK n i e h t
xPatience
xPurity
Langland
x P ier sP low ma nP
: ro l o g u e
MarlOwe
The Passionate
Shepherd
to His Love
DoctorFaustus
Nashe
Drama
Litany in Time of Plague
Everyman
The SecondShepherd's
Play
Campion
WhenThou GoestHometo Shadesof Undersround
Malory
*Morte Darthur:the Passinsof Arthur
More
Utopia
x l n o r i g i n a ll a n g u a g eo r d i a l e c t .
Fox
Acts and Monuments:Deathof Ridleyand Latimer
Hooker
Polity:Prefaceand Book I
Lawsof Ecclesiastical
Spenser
(" C ary-Mori son
ode" )
V ol pone
BartholomewFair
Racon
Essays:Of Marriageand SingleLife, Of Friendship,Of
Travel,Of Studies,Of Truth
of Learning,Book One
The Advancement
T he F air ieQ u e e n eBo
: o k sI a n d II
Epithalantion
Overbury
Shakespeare
A Pedant.A
A Courtier,A FineGentleman.
Characters:
P uri tan,A Jesui t,A n E xcel l entA ctor
S o n n e t sl ?: , 1 8 ,2 9 . 5 5 . 7 1 , J 3 ,1 0 4 ,1 0 6 .I I 6 . 1 2 9 ,
1 3 0 "1 4 4
Har nlet
King Lear
O t hello
Macbeth
Ric har dI I
Ric har dI I I
Henrythe Fourth,PartOne
Love'sLabour'sLost
M uc hA do A b o u tN o th i n g
The Tempest
SeventeenthCenturv
Donne
The Good-Morrow
The Canonization
A V aledic ti o nF: o rb i d d i n gM o u rn i n g
T he S unRi s i n g
A ir andA ng e l s
T he Relic
E legyX I X ( On h i s M i s tre s s ' Go i nto
g Be d )
G ood F r ida y ,1 6 1 3 ,R i d i n gWe s tw a rd
Hy m nt o G o d M y C o d , i n My Si c k n e s s
SermonXV ("The lastenemythat shallbe destroyedis
death")
Earle
An Antiquary,A Gallant,An
Microcosmography:
tJpstartKnight
I{errick
Prayerto Ben Jonson
His Grange,or PrivateWealth
U ponJul i a' sC l othes
The CountryLife
Lovelace
To Althea,fiom Prison
To Lucasta,Goingto the Wars
Carew
Elegyon the Deathof Donne
Herbert
'l'he
Ternple:The ChurchPorch.The Altar. Easter
Wings,The Agony,Jordan( I ), The Collar.The Pulley,
D i sci pl i ne,Love(3)
Jonson
Denham
To Penshurst
T o t he M emo ryo f M y B e l o v e dMa s te rW i l l i am
Shakespeare
T o t he M em o ryo f Si r L u c i u sC a rya n dS i r H . Mori son
C oopersH i l l
Marvell
J
To His Coy Mistress
Upon AppletonHouse
The Garden
The Mower AgainstGardens
Lancelot Andrewes
WhitehallSermon("A cold comingthey had of it")
Hudibras:CantoI
Bunvan
J
The Pilgrim'sProgress
Rochester
t
laylorASatireAgainstMankind
Holy Dy ing :S e c ts1 -3
The hnperfectEnjoyment
To the Postboy
A rri mi si ato C hl oe
Burton
Etheredge
The Anatomyof Melancholy:DemocritusJuniorto the
Reader;The Causesof Melancholy,Sect.2, PartI.
(Love of Learning,or OvermuchStudy)
The Man of Mode
Browne
Hydriotaphia:
Chaptersl-5
Walton
Life of JohnDonne
Milton
Paradise
Lost
Lycidas
SamsonAgonistes
L' A llegr o
Il penseroso
SonnetXV (PiedmontMassacre)
S onnetX V I (On H i s B l i n d n e s s )
Areopagetica
Of Education
Cowley
Farquhar
The Beaux'stratesm
Wycherley
The countrv wif'e
congreve
The wav of the world
DrYden
A nnusMi rabi l i s
To the Memoryof Anne Killegrew
ReligioLaici
A bsal omandA chi tophel
To My Kinsman,JohnDriden
Essayof DramaticPoetry
All for Love
Addisonand Steele
Discourses:
Of Solitude,Of Obscurity,Of Myself
The S pectator.N os. 2, 12, 42, 58, 61-62, | 1 2,
Restorationand lSth Centurv
122,160,291,411-421
Butler
Defoe
4
RobinsonCrusoe
Moll Flanders
Pope
Eloisato Abelard
TheRapeof theLock
Epistleto Burlington
Epistleto a Lady
Epistle
to Arbuthnot
Gray
EtonCollege
Ode
ElegyWrittenin a CountryChurchyard
Goldsmith
TheCitizenof theWorld:Letters
9-12
SheStoops
to Conquer
TheVicarof Wakefield
TheDeserted
Villaee
Swift
Sheridan
A ModestProposal
Travels
Gulliver's
A Description
of a CityShower
Verses
on theDeathof Dr. Swift
GaY
Trivia:BookOne
TheBeggar's
Opera
Richardson
The Schoolfor Scandal
Cowper
TheTask:BookFour
TheCast-Away
Gibbon
pamela
Autobiography
DeclineandFallof theRomanEmpire:Chapters
XV,
XXIV
Fielding
Burke
TomJone,
Letterto a NobleLord
Sterne
Boswell
TristramShandy
Tour to the Hebrides
Smollett
Johnson
Humphrycrinker
The Vanity of Humanwishes
Rasselas
The R ambl er:N os.5. 32,50,60. I 85, ?00,207. 208
The l dl er:N os.3 1.32.72.103
On the Deathof Dr. Levet
Ches t er f ie l d
Lettersto His Son
Burney
Collins
E vel i na
Odeto Fear
Ode on the PopularSuperstitions
of the Highlands
Burns
A Defenseof Poetry
To a Mouse
Epistleto Lapraik
Addressto the Unco Guid
Holy W illie ' sP ra y e r
Keats
Blake
The Marriageof Heavenand Hell
London
The Sick Rose
The Tyger
M oc k on M o c k v o l ta i reR o u s s e a u
On First LookingInto Chapman's
Homer
The E l gi nMarbl es
The Eve of St. Agnes
Bright Star
Ode on a GrecianUrn
To Autumn
Lamb
chri st' s H ospi tal Fi ve-and-Thi rtyyears A go
Old China
Romantics
Hazhtt
Wordsworth
My FirstAcquaintance
with Poets
Prefaceto Lyrical Ballads
TinternAbbey
Resolutionand Independence
Yew Trees
ElegiacStanzas(peeleCastle)
Sonnet:Westminister
Bridge
Sonnet:The World is Too Much with Us
T he P r elud eB: o o k s ,l , 6 , 8 , I l , 1 3
Ode: Intimationsof Immortalitv
De Quincey
Confessions
of an EnglishOpium Eater:Preliminary
Confessions
S cott
The Hearlof Midlothian
Coleridge
Austen
This Lime-TreeBower My Prison
Rimeof the AncientMariner
Kubla Kahn
Frostat Midnight
Dejection:An Ode
BiographiaLiteraria:Chaptersl-5, 8, 14
Victorian
Byron
Carlyle
ChildeHaro l d ' sPi l g ri m a g eC: a n to s1 ,3 ,4
Don J uan:C a n to sl -5
P astand P resent
pride and prejudice
Emma
Newman
Shelley
ApologiaPro SuaVita: Chapters2-5
Hymn to IntellectualBeauty
E nglandin l 8 l 9
Ode to the WestWind
Adonais
R uski n
6
The Stonesof Venice: v .2, ch. 6 (TheNatureof
G ot hic )
The Storm-Cloudof the NineteenthCentury
Judethe obscure
C hannelFi ri ng
New Year'sEve
Mill
Arnold
On Liberty
Autobiography
Tennyson
Dover Beach
The BuriedLife
Stanzason the GrandeChartreuse
Cultureand Anarchy:Chaptersl-5
Ulysses
DanteGabrialRossetti
I n M em or ia n r
M aud
T he Char g eo f th e L i g h t Bri g a d e
I dy llsof t he Ki n g :th e Pa s s i n o
g f Arth u r
The B l essedD arnozel
The H ouse of Li fe: S onnets4. 49.I1_13
Browning
ChildeRolandto the Dark Tower Car.ne
CalibanUpon Setebos
'rhe
Bishoporders His Tomb
My LastDuchess
F r a Lippo L i p p i
Andreadel Sarto
ChristinaRossetti
Goblin Market
Swinburne
In the Orchard
Hymn to proserpine
Dolores
Dickens
Pater
Our Mutual Friend
Lit t leDor r i t
B leakHous e
The R enai ssance:
W i nckel mann
andC oncl usi on
Wilde
GeorgeEliot
Adam Bede
M iddlem ar c h
The lmpoftanceof BeingEarnest
The pictureof DorianGray
Gissing
Thackeray
NewGrubStreet
Vanity Fair
Twentieth Century
Trollope
T he W ay We L i v e N o w
Hardy
Yeats
The Roseof the World
The Fascination
of What'sDifficult
The W i l d S w ansat C ool e
E a s t elr9 l 6
7
The SecondComing
SailingtoByzantium
Ledaandthe Swan
A m ongS c h o o C
l h i l d re n
CrazyJane
Talksto the Bishop
Lapis Lazuli
The CircusAnimals'Desertion
To the Lighthouse
A Roomof One'sOwn
Hopkins
Ford
T he W indho v e r
DunsS c ot u s ' O x fo rd
Springand Fall
The Good S ol di er
Conr ad
D ecl i neand Fal l
Nostromo
Auden
Shaw
Major Barbara
SaintJoan
Letterto Lord Byron
MuseedesBeauxArts
In Praiseof Limestone
In Memoryof W .B . Y eats
Joyce
American Literature
Dubliners:Araby,Clay, Ivy Day in the Committee
Room,The Dead
UlYsses
Colonial
Lawrence
women in Love
E liot
The Love Songof J. Alfred Prufrock
The WasteLand
J our neyof t h e M a g i
FourQuartets:Little Gidding
Traditionandthe IndividualTalenr
B ec k et t
Endgame
waiting for Godot
Forster
HowardsEnd
Waush
Bradford
Of P l yrnouthP l antati on:B ooks 1-2
Bradstreet
The Fl eshandthe S pi ri t
To H er H usband,
A bsentU pon P ubl i cE mpl oyment
Uponthe Burningof Our House
Beforethe Birth of One of Her Children
Taylor
Medi tati ons
16,??,38
U pona W aspC hi l l dw i th C ol d
Huswifery
cotton Mather
Woolf
Magnal i aC hri stiA meri cana:
N ehemi asA meri c anus:
8
The Life of JohnWinthrop
Edwards
Nature
Divinity SchoolAddress
Self-Reliance
Sinnersin the Handsof an Angry God
Thoreau
Letterto Dr. BenjaminColman
Walden
ThomasC arl yl eand H i s W orks
r, ,.
tranKlln
.
AuroDrograpny
The Way to Wealth
Hawthorne
The ScarletLetter
crevecoeur
l;Jffi,f,n1Til,:lT:,,
Let t er sf r om a n A m e ri c a nF a n n e r:L e tte rs3 . 4,7.9. 12
P oe
Revolutionand Early Republic
Jefferson
The PurloinedLetter
The Caskof Amontillado
The Fal lof the H ouseof U sher
Whitman
Not eson t he S ta teo f V i rg i n i a :Q u e ri e s5 .1 4 , 19
John & Abigail Adams
L e t t e r s1: 6 S e p t1 7 7 4 ; 9O c t o b e r1 7 7 4 ; 1 6O c t o b e r
1715.23
J u l y1 7 7 5 . 3J u l y1 7 7 6 , 2 1
J u l y1 7 7 6 ; 3
A ugus t177 6
paine
common Sense
The co'trast
Irving
Rip v an win k re
Emerson
Mel vi l l e
Moby-Dick
Bartleby,the Scrivener
Benitocereno
Dickinson
Tyler
American
Songof Myself
out of the CradleEndlesslyRocking
W hoeverY ou A re H ol di ngMe N ow i n H and
WhenLilacsLastin the DooryardBloom'd
Renaissance to Modern
I neverlostas muchbut twice
How manytimestheselow feet staggered
The Soul selectsher own Sociefv
This is my letterto the World
It was not Death,for I stoodup
pai n--has
an E l ementof B l ank
A narrowFellow in the Grass
A Word madeFleshis seldom
Mv life closedtwice beforeits close
Twain
9
Huckleberry
Finn
Cummings
Howells
BuffaloBill's
theCambridge
ladies
i singof Olafgladandbig
anyone
livedin a prettyhowtown
A ModernInstance
James
Hemingway
TheAmbassadors
TheSunAlsoRises
Wharton
Fitzgerald
TheHouseof Mirth
TheGreatGatsby
Norris
Faulkner
Vandover
andtheBrute
A Rosefor Emily
A I
Aoams
The Educationof HenryAdams
Modern
Frost
M endingWa l l
After Apple-Picking
The RoadNot Taken
Stoppingby Woodson a SnowyEvening
Onceby the Pacific
Des ign
Provide,Provide
The Gift Outright
Pound
In a Stationof the Metro
C a n t o s1: . 9 , 1 7 .4 5
Stevens
The SnowMan
SundayMorning
Anecdoteof the Jar
T hir t eenW a y so f L o o k i n g a taB l a c k b i rd
The ldeaof Orderat Key West
Light in August