ENG 236A: History of English Literature
British Literature: the Middle Ages to the 18th C.
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The Middle Ages
Anglo-Saxon Poetry
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The Dream of the Rood
The Wanderer
Judith
The Wife's Lament
Beowulf
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Beowulf Translations
Beowulf, Part 1
Beowulf, Part 2
Sir Launfal (a.k.a. Lanval)
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Sir Launfal Translations
Lanval (by Marie de France)
Sir Gawain & the Green Knight
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Sir Gawain Translations
Sir Gawain, Part 1
Sir Gawain, Part 2
The Canterbury Tales
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The Canterbury Tales in Translation
General Prologue
The Miller's Tale
The Wife of Bath's Tale
Chaucer's Retraction
The 16th C.
16th-Century Lyric
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Writings of Queen Elizabeth I
Pairing Poems
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The Hunt
Love's Season
The Ship
The Sand & the Shore
Sonnet Sequences
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Sir Philip Sidney's Sonnets
Shakespeare's Sonnets
The Faerie Queene
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Book 1: Four Stanzas & Cantos 1, 2, 4, 5
Book 1: Cantos 7, 8, & 10-12
The 17th C.
17th-Century Lyric
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Carpe Diem Poems
The Nymph & the Shepherd
Metaphysical Poems
Female Perspectives
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Katherine Phillips
Margaret Cavendish
Paradise Lost
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Books 1 & 4
Books 7-9
Books 11 & 12
The Restoration & 18th C.
18th-C. Satire
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A Modest Proposal
The Art of Satire
Gulliver's Travels
The Rape of the Lock
18th-C. Poetry
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Laboring-Class Poets
Elegiac Poems
Poems about Relationships
Poems about Sexuality
Poems on Women
Poems about a Lady's Dressing Room
Oroonoko
Olaudah Equiano
Narrative Prose
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From Pamela
The Female Husband
A Mastectomy
Cook, March 1774
The English Stage
Medieval Drama
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Everyman
The Second Shepherd's Play
Elizabethan Drama
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Dr. Faustus
William Shakespeare
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Johnson on Shakespeare
Othello, Acts 1-3
Othello, Acts 4 & 5
Othello Blog
Restoration Drama
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Collier on the Immorality & Profaneness of the English Stage
The Country Wife
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Acts 1-3
Acts 4 & 5
The Rover
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Acts 1-3
Acts 4 & 5