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William Shakespeare
The Poem Overview
Sonnet (LXIV)
Sonnet (XVIII)
The Play Overview
Romeo and Juliet (Excerpt)
Questions for Discussion or Writing
John Milton
The Poem Overview
On the Late Massacre in Piedmont
On His Blindness
Questions for Discussion or Writing
William Blake
The Poem Overview
The Tiger
London
Questions for Discussion or Writing
William Wordsworth
The Poem Overview
London, 1802
The Daffodils
Questions for Discussion or Writing
Jane Austen
The Story Overview
Emma (Excerpt)
Questions for Discussion or Writing
George Gordon Byron
The Poem Overview
Song for the Luddites
She Walks in Beauty, Like the Night
Questions for Discussion or Writing
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Poem Overview
Ozymandias
Song to the Men of England
Questions for Discussion or Writing
John Keats
The Poem Overview
On the Grasshopper and Cricket
Song
Questions for Discussion or Writing
Charles Dickens
The Story Overview
A Tale of Two Cities (Excerpts)
Questions for Discussion or Writing
Charlotte Bronte
The Story Overview
Jane Eyre (Excerpts)
Questions for Discussion or Writing
Alfred Tennyson
The Poem Overview
Break, Break, Break
The Eagle
Questions for Discussion or Writing
Matthew Arnold
The Poem Overview
Dover Beach
Questions for Discussion or Writing
Thomas Hardy
The Story Overview
Tess of the D' Urbervilles (Excerpts)
The Poem Overview
Neutral Tones
During Wind and Rain
Questions for Discussion or Writing
George Bernard Shaw
The Play Overview
Major Barbara
Questions for Discussion or Writing
William Butler Yeats
The Poem Overview
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
The Wild Swans at Coole
Questions for Discussion or Writing
Edward Morgan Forster
The Story Overview
Howards End (Excerpt)
Questions for Discussion or Writing
Virginia Woolf
The Story Overview
To the Lighthouse (Excerpt)
Questions for Discussion or Writing
James Joyce
The Book Overview
The Boarding House
Questions for Discussion or Writing
Katherine Mansfield
The Story Overview
Frau Brechenmacher Attends a Wedding
Questions for Discussion or Writing
David Herbert Lawrence
The Story Overview
The Rainbow (Excerpt)
Questions for Discussion or Writing
Thomas Steams Eliot
The Poem Overview
Morning at the Window
Preludes
Questions for Discussion or Writing
Wystan Hugh Auden
The Poem Overview
Musee des Beaux Arts
Our Bias
Questions for Discussion or Writing
Bertrand Russell
A Free Man's Worship
Questions for Discussion or Writing
Samuel Beckett
The Story Overview
Murphy (Excerpt)
Questions for Discussion or Writing
William Golding
The Story Overview
Lord of the Flies (Excerpt)
Questions for Discussion or Writing
Dylan Thomas
The Poem Overview
The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flowers
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
Questions for Discussion or Writing
Ted Hughes
The River in March
Questions for Discussion or Writing
Doris Lessing
The Story Overview
A Road to the Big City
Questions for Discussion or Writing
Kingsley Amis
The Story Overview
Lucky Jim (Excerpt)
Questions for Discussion or Writing
John Osborne
The Play Overview
Look Back in Anger (Excerpt)
Questions for Discussion or Writing
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