Chapter One The English Renaissance (1500-1625)Introduction to the BackgroundWilliam ShakespeareSonnet 18The Merchant of VeniceChapter Two The Seventeenth Century (1625-1700)Introduction to the BackgroundJohn DonneA Valediction: Forbidding MourningSonnet 10John MiltonParadise LostChapter Three The Eighteenth Century (1700-1798)Introduction to the BackgroundDaniel DefoeThe Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson CrusoeRobert BurnsSelected PoemsWilliam BlakeSelected PoemsChapter Four The Romantic Period (1798-1832)Introduction to the BackgroundWilliam WordsworthSelected PoemsPercy Bysshe ShelleyOde to the West WindJohn KeatsOde to a NightingaleJane AustenEmmaChapter Five The Victorian Age (1832-1901)Introduction to the BackgroundCharles DickensOliver TwistWilliam Makepeace ThackerayVanity FairEmily BronteWuthering HeightsThomas HardyTess of the D~UrbervillesThe Darkling ThrushChapter Six The Twentieth Century (1900)Introduction to the BackgroundJoseph ConradHeart of DarknessWilliam Butler YeatsThe Second ComingThomas Stearns EliotThe Love Song bf J. Alfred PrufrockJames JoyceA Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManD. H. LawrenceWomen in LoveKatherine MansfieldThe Garden PartyVirginia WoolfMrs DallowayEdward Morgan ForsterA Passage to IndiaSamuel BeckettWaiting for GodotWilliam GoldingLord of the FliesJohn FowlesThe French Lieutenant's WomanDoris LessingA Road to the Big CityKeyReferences