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IntroductionJudging a Book by Its Cover 2

1sect

ion Understanding the

Author’s Craft

John McCraeT 13 In Flanders Fields (1915) 34

Robert HerrickT 14 Upon His Departure Hence (1648) 37

Blackberry-Picking (1966)

The Ballad: Geordie(anon., Scotland c. 1554, England c. 1610)

The Ballad: Lord Ullin’s Daughter

(1795, pub. 1809)

The Villanelle: Do not go gentle into

that goodnight (1952)

The Sonnet: Sonnet LX (1609)

The Sonnet: Browning, Sonnet 43 (1850)

The Sonnet: Sonnet CXXX (1609)

Say It Right 40

Learning about DramaOscar Wilde

T 22 The Importance of Being Earnest

(1895) (from Act I) 44

Wiliam Shakespeare

Romeo and Juliet (1596) (from Act I, scene 5)

T 24 Romeo and Juliet (1596)

(from Act II, scene 2) 56

Twelfth Night, or What you will (1601)

(from Act I, scenes 1 and 2)

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Learning about Fiction

T 1 Caline (1897) 7

Ripe Figs (1897)

T 3 Eveline (1904)

(in Dubliners, 1914) (first extract) 12

T 4 Eveline (1904)

(in Dubliners, 1914) (second extract) 18

An Encounter (1905) (in Dubliners, 1914)

Flight (1957)

T 7 Paddy Clarke

ha ha ha (1993) (first extract) 19

T 8 Paddy Clarke

ha ha ha (1993) (second extract) 24

Paddy Clarke ha ha ha (1993) (third extract)

The Catcher in the Rye (1951)

(from Chapter 2)

The Catcher in the Rye (1951)

(from Chapter 22)

Say It Right 27

Learning about PoetryLangston Hughes

T 12 Dreams (1932) 30

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Renaissance Drama and PoetryWilliam Shakespeare

Macbeth (1606)

T 39 (from Act II, scene 2) 85

T 40 (from Act V, scene 1) 89

T 41 (from Act V, scene 5) 92

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

(1599-1600?)

T 42 (from Act I, scene 2, lines 129-159) 97

T 43 (from Act I, scene 5, lines 1-40) 99

T 44 (from Act III, scene 1, lines 56-88) 101

T 45 (from Act III, scene 4, lines 53-71and 88-110) 103

Richard III (1593)

(from Act I, scene 2)

Julius Caesar (1599-1600)

(from Act III, scene 2)

T 48 Sonnet XVIII (1609) 107

Investigating • Research Documents 109Say It Right 113

John DonneThe Flea (1633)

Sonnet X (1633)

The Rise of the NovelDaniele Defoe

Robinson Crusoe (1719)

T 51 (from Chapter 7, I Build My Fortress) 116

T 52 (from Chapter 8, Part 1, The Journal) 118

T 53 (from Chapter 25, We March Out

Against the Cannibals) 120

(from Chapter 19, I Call Him Friday)



(from Act II, scene 2)


(from Act III, scene 4)

Dylan Thomas

Verse Drama: Under Milk Wood.

A Play for Voices (1954)

Say It Right 62

Learning about Theme and MessageSujata Bhatt

Search for My Tongue (1988)

Rudyard KiplingLispeth (1866)

The Story of Muhammad Din (1886)

Grace NicholsHurricane Hits England (1996)

Brian FrielTranslations (1980)

(from Act II, scene 1)

In Brief 66

Middle English Poetry

Geoffrey ChaucerThe Canterbury Tales (1386?-95?)

T 34 (from The General Prologue, lines 1-27) 71

T 35 (from The General Prologue,lines 446-478 – The Wife of Bath) 72

T 36 (from The Wife of Bath’s Prologue,lines 199-214) 74

T 37 (from The Wife of Bath’s Tale,lines 1029-1051) 76

(from The General Prologue,

lines 118-162 – The Prioress)


2sect

ion From the Beginnings

to the 1700s7th century - 1780

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T 64 I wandered lonely as a cloud (1804) 151

I travelled among unknown men (1801)

Samuel Taylor ColeridgeThe Rime of the Ancient

Mariner (1798)

T 66 (from Part I) 153(from Part II, Part IV and Part VII)

Christabel (pub. 1816)

(from Part I)


Second Generation Romantic PoetsPercy Bysshe Shelley

T 69 Ozymandias (1818) 165

T 70 A Song: “Men of England” (1820) 167

John KeatsT 71 Ode on a Grecian Urn (1819) 170

T 72 When I have fears that I may

cease to be (1818) 173

To Autumn (1819)


Novelists of the Romantic AgeJane Austen

Pride and Prejudice (1813)

(from Chapter One)

T 75 (from Chapter Thirty-Four) 184

Laurence SterneThe Life and Opinions of Tristram

Shandy, Gentleman (1759-67)

(from Volume IV, Chapter XIV)

(from Volume VI, Chapter XL)

Say It Right • Round Up from the

Beginnings to the 1700s 126

Extension • Linking Literatures

The Influence of Petrarch 1330-1650 128

Francesco PetrarcaSonetto CCXCII (1366-74) 129

T 57 William ShakespeareSonnet LXXIII (1609) 129

Pierre de RonsardSonnet VI – Je vois envoie un

bouquet que ma main (1555) 130

In Brief 136

Pre-Romanticism

Elegy Written in a Country

Churchyard (1751)

Early RomanticismWilliam Blake

T 59 The Ecchoing Green (1789) 140

The Chimney Sweeper (1789)

T 61 The Garden of Love (1794) 142

T 62 London (1794) 143


First Generation Romantic PoetsWilliam Wordsworth

T 63 Composed upon Westminster

Bridge (1802) 149

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ion The Romantic Age

1780-1830

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Learning about Poetry VII

Northanger Abbey (1818)

(from Chapter VI and VII)

Mary ShelleyFrankenstein or the Modern

Prometheus (1818)

T 77 (from Chapter XVI) 188


Say It Right • Round Up to the

Romantic Age 199


European Romanticism 201

Giacomo LeopardiAlla luna (1819) 202

T 78 William WordsworthWho but is pleased to watch

the moon on high (1846) 202

In Brief 206

The BrontësCharlotte Brontë

Jane Eyre (1847)

T 79 (from Volume 1, Chapter 5) 211



(from Volume 2, Chapter 10)

Emily BrontëWuthering Heights (1847)

T 83 (from Chapter X) 219

(from Chapter IX)

Anne BrontëThe Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)

(from Chapter 2)


Mainstream Victorian NovelsCharles Dickens

David Copperfield (1849-50)

T 86 (from Chapter 11) 229

Hard Times (1854)

T 87 (from Chapter One) 232T 88 (from Chapter Five) 237

Oliver Twist (1837-38)

(from Chapter 2)


Kidnapped (1886)

(from Chapter XXII: The Flight in the

Heather: the Moor)

The Coming of the Modern AgeThomas Hardy

Tess of the D’Urbervilles (1891)

T 91 (from Chapter XXXIII) 245

T 92 (from Chapter LVIII) 249

The Withered Arm (1888)

(from Part I: A Lorn Milkmaid)

(from Part II: The Young Wife)

(from Part III: A Vision)

(from Part IV: A Suggestion)

(from Part V: Conjuror Trendle)

(from Part VI: A Second Attempt)

(from Part IX: A Rencounter)

Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)

T 100 (from Chapter II) 251

(from Chapter X)

T 102 (from Chapter XX) 254

Investigating • Research Documents 256

T 103 Thomas Hardy The Walk (1912) 256

Say It Right 263

Say It Right • Round Up to the 1800s 265


Symbolism 267

Charles BaudelaireCorrespondances 269

Giovanni PascoliIl gelsomino notturno 270

William Butler YeatsThe Symbolism di Poetry 271

4sect

ion The 1800s

1830-1900

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5sect

ion The First Part

of the 20th Century 1901-1945

In Brief 274

Modern Fiction

Sons and Lovers (1913)

(from Part II, Chapter 7 – second extract)

James JoyceDubliners (1914)

T 105 (from The Dead – first extract) 278T 106 (from The Dead – second extract) 282

Ulysses (1921) T 107 (from the final episode, Penelope) 287

Virginia WoolfMrs Dalloway (1925)

T 108 (from the first part of the novel) 291

To the Lighthouse (1927)

(from the first part of the novel)


Modern PoetryWilliam Butler Yeats

T 110 The Wild Swans at Coole

(w. 1916, pub. 1917) 304T 111 Sailing to Byzantium

(w. 1926, pub. 1927) 307

Thomas Stearns EliotThe Love Song of J. Alfred

Prufrock (1915)

T 112 (lines 1-69, 111-131) 310

The Waste Land (1922)

(from Part I: The Burial of the Dead,

lines 60-75)


First World War WritersRupert Brooke

T 114 V. The Soldier (w. 1914, pub. 1915) 325

Fragment (w. 1915, pub. 1918)

Siegfried SassoonT 116 Suicide in the Trenches

(w. 1917, pub. 1918) 327

T 117 Survivors (w. 1917, pub. 1918) 329


Political WritersWystan Hugh Auden

Spain 1937 (1937)

T 119 Refugee Blues (1939) 338

George OrwellNineteen Eighty-Four (1948)

T 120 (from Part I, Chapter 1) 342T 121 (from Part III, Chapter 2) 343

Animal Farm (1945)

(from Chapter One)

(from Chapter Two)

(from Chapter Ten)


Say It Right • Round Up to the First

Part of the 20th Century 354


World War I 356

Giuseppe UngarettiVeglia (1915) 358

T 125 Wilfred OwenFutility (1918) 358

Ernst Toller Eine Jugend in

Deutschland (1933) 359

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6sect

ion From 1946

to the Present Day 1946-2010

Harold PinterThe Dumb Waiter (1957)

T 129 (first extract) 376T 130 (second extract) 378

The Caretaker (1960)

(Act 1)


Contemporary PoetryPhilip Larkin

T 132 An Arundel Tomb (w. 1956, pub. 1964) 389

Sad Steps (w. 1968, pub. 1974)

This Be the Verse (1974)

Ted HughesT 135 Perfect Light (1998) 392


New Novelists

Doctor Fischer of Geneva

or the Bomb Party (1980)

(from Chapter 16)

Ian McEwanAtonement (2001)

T 137 (from Part One, Chapter 13) 401

T 138 (from Part Three) 404

T 139 (from London 1999) 406


Say It Right • Round Up from 1946

to the Present Day 413


Multiculturalism in the Western World 415

T 140 Grace NicholsIsland Man (1984) 417

Ndjock NganaMok/Prigione (1994) 418

Faïza GuèneKiffe kiffe demain (2004) 418

In Brief 364

Modern and Contemporary DramaSamuel Beckett

Waiting for Godot (1952; 1954)

T 126 (from Act II) 370

Endgame (1957)

(from Act I)

Look Back in Anger (1956)

(from Act II)

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I Hear America Singing (1855)

Mannahatta (1860)

To Pile like Thunder (1873)

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876)

(from Chapter 1)

The Grapes of Wrath (1939)

(from Chapter Five)

(from Chapter Twenty-Five)

Death of a Salesman (1949)

(from Act One)

(from Act Two)

Morning Song (1961, 1965)

T 150 Anne SextonThe Truth the Dead Know (1962)

T 151 Sylvia PlathPoppies in July (1962)

Things Fall Apart (1958)

(from Chapter 15)

(from Chapter 25)

The Famished Road (1991)

(from Chapters One and Two)

Half of a Yellow Sun (2006)

(from Chapter 12)

Not My Business (1999)

Who’s Who (1994)

The British (serves 60 million) (2000)

Brick Lane (2003)

(from Chapter Two)

The Kite Runner (2003)

(Chapter Eleven)

7sect

ion Literatures

in English

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(7th century - 1780)

The Historical Context

The Social Context

The Cultural Context

The Development of British Literature

(1780-1830)


The Social Context



Culture and Literature in America

(1830-1900)


The Social Context




(1901-1945)


The Social Context


The Development of British and Irish Literature


(1946-2010)


The Social Context




New Literatures in English

Glossary of Literary Terms 423

Index of Names 431

Sources of Literary Texts 436

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