Includes bibliographical references.

v. 1. From Beowulf to Sheridan. Old English. Beowulf -- Shorter old English poems. Deor ; A wife's lament ; Wanderer ; Seafarer ; The dream of the rood ; Brunanburg ; Maldon.

v. 1. From Beowulf to Sheridan. Middle English. Middle English lyrics. Sumer is icumen in -- Lenten ys come with love -- Alysoun -- With longyng Y am lad -- Wynter wakenth al my care -- I syng of a myden -- Adam lay i-bowndyn -- Timor mortis -- From Piers Plowman. Prologue ; The field full of folk ; The seven deadly sins -- Sir Gawain and the green knight -- from The Canterbury tales. The general prologue ; The words between the host and the miller ; The wife of Bath's prologue ; The words between the summoner and the friar ; The friar's prologue and tale ; The words of the Franklin to the squire and of the host to the franklin ; The franklin's prologue and tale ; The words of the host to the physician and the pardoner ; The pardoner's prologue and tale ; from The prioress's tale. The words of the host to Chaucer ; The nun's priest's prologue and tale / Geoffrey Chaucer.

v. 1. From Beowulf to Sheridan. Middle English. Medieval drama. The second shepherds' play.

v. 1. From Beowulf to Sheridan. Middle English. from Le morte d'arthur : book XXI / Thomas Malory -- The popular ballads. The Douglas tragedy ; Edward ; Babylon, or, The bonnie banks o' Fordie ; Hind horn ; The three ravens ; Kemp Owyne ; Sir Patrick Spence ; Child waters ; Sweet William's ghost ; Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard ; Bonny Barbara Allan ; Robin Hood and Allen a Dale ; Robin Hood's death ; Chevy Chase ; Mary Hamilton ; Get up and bar the door.

v. 1. From Beowulf to Sheridan. The Renaissance. The English Bible. 2 Samuel 11, 12 ; Job 1-3, 12-14, 38-42 ; Psalms 8, 19, 24, 90 ; Ecclesiastes 11, 12 ; The song of Solomon 1-4 ; Matthew 5:1-12, 6 ; I Corinthians 13 -- Forget not yet ; The lover compareth his state to a ship in perilous storm tossed on the sea ; A renouncing of love ; The lover complaineth the unkindness of his love ; The lover showeth how he is forsaken of such as he sometime enjoyed / Thomas Wyatt -- Description of spring, wherein each thing renews, save only the lover ; Vow to love faithfully howsoever he be rewarded ; How no age is content with his own estate, and how the age of children is the happiest, if they had skill to understand it / Henry Howard -- Cupid and my campaspe ; What bird so sings? ; from Euphues, the anatomy of wit / John Lyly -- From Astrophel and Stella. 1, 3, 14, 15, 31, 41, 74, 90 / Philip Sidney -- Leave me, o love ; From The defense of poesy / Philip Sidney.

v. 1. From Beowulf to Sheridan. The Renaissance. Western wind, when will thou blow? ; Back and side go bare ; My love in her attire ; Weep you no more, sad fountains ; Sweet Cupid, ripen her desire ; There is a lady sweet and kind / Anonymous -- The lowest trees have tops ; My mind to me a kingdom is / Edward Dyer -- Fair is my love ; Ah, were she pitiful ; Sephestia's song to her child ; The shepherd's wife's song ; Sweet are the thoughts ; Philomela's ode / Robert Greene -- His golden locks time hath to silver turned / George Peele -- Spring, the sweet spring ; Adieu, farewell Earth's bliss / Thomas Nashe -- Our passions are most like ; Go, soul, the body's guest ; Give me my scallop-shell of quiet ; Even such is time ; The last fight of the Revenge at sea / Walter Raleigh -- From The faery queen. A letter-- to-- Sir Walter Raleigh ; from Book I, Cantos I through XII / Edmund Spenser -- From Amoretti. 1, 70, 75, 82 / Edmund Spenser -- Epithalamion / Edmund Spenser -- from Hero and Leander ; Doctor Faustus / Christopher Marlowe -- From Delia. 6, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 50, 54, 55 / Damuel Daniel -- From Musophilus ; Are they shadows? / Samuel Daniel -- From the Sonnets. 15, 18, 23, 25, 29, 30, 32, 33, 55, 60, 64, 65, 66, 71, 73, 76, 90, 97, 98, 106, 109, 11, 116, 130, 146 / William Shakespeare -- Songs from the plays. Who is Sylvia? ; When daisies pied ; When icicles hang ; Sigh no more, ladies ; Under the greenwood tree ; Blow, blow ; It was a lover and his lass ; O mistress mine ; When that I was and a little tiny boy ; Hark, hark! The lark ; Fear no more ; When daffodils begin to peer ; Come unto these yellow sands ; Full fadom five ; Where the bee sucks / William Shakespeare -- From Idea. To the reader of these sonnets ; 3, 4, 9, 20, 24, 25, 37, 42, 44, 49, 57, 60, 61 / Michael Drayton -- Ode to the Virginian voyage ; Ballad of Agincourt / Michael Drayton -- Art thou poor? ; Golden slumbers / Thomas Dekker -- My sweetest Lesbia ; I care not for these ladies ; Follow thy fair sun ; When to her lute ; The man of life upright ; Rose-cheeked Laura ; Now winter nights enlarge ; Thrice toss these oaken ashes ; Never love ; There is a garden in her face / Thomas Campion.

v. 1. From Beowulf to Sheridan. The seventeenth century. From Essays, or, Counsels civil and moral. Of truth ; Of adversity ; Of parents and children ; Of marriage and single life ; Of love ; Of great place ; Of wisdom for a man's self ; Of discourse ; Of riches ; Of custom and education ; Of negotiating ; Of studies / Francis Bacon -- From The advancement of learning / Francis Bacon -- The good morrow ; Go and catch a falling star ; The indifferent ; The canonization ; Lovers' infiniteness ; Sweetest love, I do not go ; A valediction forbidding mourning ; The dream ; The ecstasy ; The funeral ; Absence / John Donne -- From Holy sonnets. 5, 7, 10 / John Donne -- A hymn to God the Father / John Donne.

v. 1. From Beowulf to Sheridan. The seventeenth century. The honest man / Joseph Hall -- An affectate traveler ; An excellent actor / Thomas Overbury -- A young man ; A vulgar-spirited man ; A downright scholar / John Earle -- The good schoolmaster / Thomas Fuller -- To Doctor Empiric ; On my first son ; Inviting a friend to supper ; Epitaph on S.P., a child of Queen Eliabeth's chapel ; Song : to Celia (1) ; Song : to Celia (2) ; Charis : her triumph ; It is not growing like a tree ; To the memory of my beloved, the author, Mr. William Shakespeare ; Slow, slow, fresh fount ; Still to be neat ; To a friend : an epigram of Inigo Jones ; from Timber, or, Discoveries made upon men and matter / Ben Jonson -- Dramatic prologues. Prologue to Every man in his humor ; from The induction to Every man out of his humor ; Prologue to Volpone, or, The fox / Ben Jonson -- Call for the robin redbreast ; All the flowers of the spring ; The Duchess of Malfi / John Webster -- The argument of his book ; To the sour reader ; When he would have his verses read ; Upon the loss of his mistresses ; Cherry-ripe ; Delight in disorder ; To Dianeme ; Corinna's going a-maying ; To the virgins, to make much of time ; His poetry his pillar ; To Anthea, who may command him anything ; Upon a child that died ; To daffodils ; Meat without mirth ; His prayer to Ben Jonson ; The night-piece, to Julia ; Not every day fit for verse ; A ternary of littles, upon a pipkin of jelly sent to a lady ; Upon Julia's clothes ; Upon Prue, his maid ; An ode for him (Ben Jonson) ; His litany, to the Holy Spirit ; A thanksgiving to God, for His house ; Another grace for a child ; To keep a true Lent / Robert Herrick.

v. 1. From Beowulf to Sheridan. The seventeenth century. Virtue ; Dullness ; The collar ; The pulley ; The elixir ; Love / George Herbert -- On Mr. G. Herbert's book, entitled The temple of sacred poems, sent to a gentlewoman ; A hymn in the name and honor of the admirable St. Teresa ; from The flaming heart ; In the holy nativity of our Lord God / Richard Crashaw -- The retreat ; Peace ; Corruption ; The world ; Man ; They are all gone ; The revival / Henry Vaughan.

v. 1. From Beowulf to Sheridan. The seventeenth century. The character of a happy life ; On his mistress, the Queen of Bohemia ; On the death of Sir Albert Morton's wife / Henry Wotton -- from Antonio's revenge : the prologue / John Marston -- Mr. Francis Beaumont's leatter to Ben Jonson / Francis Beaumont -- Orpheus with his lute ; Care-charming sleep ; Drink today ; O fair sweet face / John Fletcher -- Pack, clouds, away ; Ye little birds ; The author to his book / Thomas Heywood -- A momento for morality ; Yet if his majesty / anonymous -- Shall I, wasting? ; A love sonnet / George Wither -- Persuasions to enjoy ; Ingrateful beauty threatened ; Disdain returned ; Upon a ribbon ; A song / Thomas Carew -- The lark now leaves his wat'ry nest / William D'Avenant -- To Mr. Henry Lawes ; On a girdle ; Go, lovely rose ; Of the last verses in the book / Edmund Waller -- Why so pale and wan? ; The constant lover / John Suckling -- from Hudibras / Samuel Butler -- To Althea, from prison ; To Lucasta, going to the wars ; To Lucasta, going beyond the seas / Richard Lovelace -- The wish ; On the death of Mr. Crashaw ; from Anacreontics : II. Drinking / Abraham Cowley -- An Horation ode upon Cromwell's return from Ireland ; Bermudas ; To his coy mistress ; The definition of love ; The garden / Andrew Marvell -- Song / Charles Sackville -- Not, Celia ; Love still has something of the sea / Charles Sedley -- Absent from thee ; Love and life ; The king's epitaph ; A satire against mankind / John Wilmot -- from The complete angler / Izaak Walton -- from Religo Medici ; from Hydriotaphia : urn burial / Thomas Browne -- L'Allegro ; Il Penseroso ; Lycidas ; How soon hath time ; To the Lord General Cromwell, May, 1652 ; On his blindness ; To Cyriack Skinner ; On the late massacre in Piemont ; On his deceased wife ; from Aeropagitica / John Milton -- from Paradise lost. Book I ; Book II ; from Book IX ; from Book XII / John Milton -- from the Diary / Samuel Pepys -- from Abasolom and Achitophel ; Macflecknoe ; A song for St. Cecilia's day ; To the memory of Mr. Oldham ; The secular masque ; from An essay of dramatic poesy ; from the Preface to the Fables / John Dryden -- The way of the world / Wililam Congreve.

v. 1. From Beowulf to Sheridan. The eighteenth century. from A journal of the plague year / Daniel Defoe -- from The tatler. On dueling ; On the passion of love / Richard Steele -- from The spectator. On Mr. Spectator ; On the Spectator Club ; On the Spectator's uses ; On Nicolini and the lions ; On a country Sunday ; On genius ; On dying for love ; On the pleasures of the imagination, 1 ; On the pleasures of the imagination, 2 ; On gardens ; On the means of faith ; On natural religion / Joseph Addison -- from The guardian. On story telling / Richard Steele -- from Thoughts on various subjects / Jonathan Swift -- from Gulliver's travels. Part I, A voyage to Lilliput ; from Part IV, A voyage to the Houyhnhnms / Jonathan Swift -- A modest proposal ; Verses on the death of Dr. Swift ; from On poetry : a rhapsody / Jonathan Swift -- from An essay on criticism ; The rape of the lock ; from An essay on man ; from Moral essays : epistle IV, of the use of riches ; An epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot / Alexander Pope -- from Trivia, or, The art of walking / John Gay -- Songs from The beggar's opera. Through all the employments of life ; Were I laid on Greenland's coast ; Youth's the season / John Gay -- from The seasons ; from The castle of indolence / James Thomson.

v. 1. From Beowulf to Sheridan. The eighteenth century. To a child of quality five years old, the author forty ; Written in the beginning of Mezeray's History of France ; The female phaeton / Matthew Prior -- Our God, our help / Isaac Watts -- My Peggy is a young thing / Allan Ramsay -- Sally in our alley / Henry Carey -- Verses on the prospect of planting arts and learning in America / George Berkeley -- The Vicar of Bray / anonymous -- Love divine / Charles Wesley -- Ode written in the beginning of the year 1746 ; Ode to evening / William Collins -- Letters to his son / Philip Dormer Stanhope -- Ode on a distant prospect of Eton College ; Hymn to adversity ; On the death of a favorite cat ; Elegy written in a country churchyard ; The bard ; Letters / Thomas Gray -- from A song to David ; from Rejoice in the lamb / Christopher Smart -- Prologue spoken by Mr. Garrick at the opening of the theater in Drury Lane, 1747 ; The vanity of human wishes / Samuel Johnson -- from The rambler. 4, the novel ; 5, spring / Samuel Johnson -- Letter to Chesterfield / Samuel Johnson -- from The history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia. Chapter 10 / Samuel Johnson -- from the Preface to Shakespeare / Samuel Johnson -- from The lives of the most eminent English poets. Pope / Samuel Johnson -- from The life of Samuel Johnson / James Boswell -- from The citizen of the world. 4, 54, 55, 86 / Oliver Goldsmith -- An elegy on the death of a mad dog ; The deserted village ; from Retaliation / Oliver Goldsmith -- from the Speech on conciliation with the colonies ; from Reflections on the revolution in France / Edmund Burke -- On opening a place for social prayer ; The shrubbery ; The diverting history of John Gilpin ; from The task ; On the receipt of my mother's picture out of Norfolk ; To Mary ; The castaway ; Letters / William Cowper -- The school for scandal / Richard Brinsley Sheridan -- An ABC of prosody / by Karl Shapiro.

v. 2. From Blake to the present day. The Romantic period. from Poetical sketches. Song (How sweet I roam'd) ; Song (My silks and fine array) ; Mad song ; To the muses / William Blake -- from Songs of innocence. Introduction ; The lamb ; Infant joy ; The little black boy ; A cradle song ; The chimney sweeper / William Blake -- from Songs of experience. The tyger ; The clod and the pebble ; A poison tree ; Ah, sun-flower ; The garden of love ; A little boy lost ; Infant sorrow ; London ; The chimney sweeper / William Blake -- Poems from manuscripts. Never seek to tell thy love ; A cradle song ; Eternity ; Auguries of innocence / William Blake -- from Milton / William Blake -- Mary Morison ; Green grow the rashes, O ; Holy Willie's prayer ; Epistle to J. Lapraik ; To a mouse ; The cotter's Saturday night ; Address to the Deil ; Address to the unco guid, or, The rigidly righteous ; To a louse ; To a mountain daisy ; O, my luve is like a red, red rose ; Of a' the airts ; Auld lang syne ; Sweet Afton ; Willie brewed a peck o' maut ; Tam o' Shanter ; Ye flowery banks ; Ae fond kiss ; Scots, wha hae ; For a' that ; O, wert thou in the cauld blast / Robert Burns -- Lines written in early spring ; Expostulation and reply ; The tables turned ; Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey ; Strange fits of passion have I known ; She dwelt among the untrodden ways ; I travelled among unknown men ; Three years she grew in sun and shower ; A slumber did my spirit seal ; Lucy Gray, or, Solitude ; The fountain ; Michael ; My heart leaps up ; Resolution and independence ; To the cuckoo ; She was a phantom of delight ; I wandered lonely as a cloud ; Ode : intimations of immortality from recollections of early childhood ; Ode to duty ; The solitary reaper ; Stepping westward ; Elegiac stanzas ; Character of a happy warrior ; Upon Westminster Bridge ; By the sea-side, near Calais ; It is a beauteous evening ; On the extinction of the Venetian Republic ; To Toussaint L'Ouverture ; Near Dover ; London, September 1802 ; London, 1802 ; It is not to be thought of ; The world is too much with us ; Most sweet it is ; Preface to the second edition of Lyrical ballads / William Wordsworth -- from The prelude. from Book First ; from Book Third ; from Book Fourth ; from Book Fifth ; from Book Ninth ; from Book Eleventh / William Wordsworth.

v. 2. From Blake to the present day. The Romantic period. Kubla Khan ; The rime of the ancient mariner ; Christabel ; Frost at midnight ; France : an ode ; Dejection : an ode ; Youth and age ; Work without hope / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- from Biographica literaria. from Chapter I ; from Chapter IV ; Chapter XIV ; Chapter XV / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- The old familiar faces ; On the tragedies of Shakspeare [i.e. Shakespeare] ; New Year's Eve ; Mrs. Battle's opinions on whist ; Dream-children ; Old China ; Poor relations ; The superannuated man ; Letters / Charles Lamb -- from Lectures on the English poets. from Lecture VIII, On the living poets / William Hazlitt -- On reason and imagination ; On going a journey ; from The fight ; from My first acquaintance with poets / William Hazlitt -- from Confessions of an English opium-eater ; On the knocking at the gate in Macbeth / Thomas de Quincey -- from Suspiria de produndis. Levana and our ladies of sorrow / Thomas de Quincey -- Literature of knowledge and literature of power / Thomas de Quincey -- from English bards, and Scotch reviewers ; Maid of Athens, ere we part ; from The corsair ; She walks in beauty ; The destruction of Sennacherib ; When we two parted ; Stanzas for music ; Fare thee well ; Sonnet on Chillon ; The prisoner of Chillon / George Gordon, Lord Byron -- from Childe Harold's pilgrimage. Canto III ; from Canto IV / George Gordon, Lord Byron -- So we'll go no more a-roving ; To Thomas Moore / George Gordon, Lord Byron -- from Don Juan. from Canto the First ; from Canto the Second ; from Canto the Third ; from Canto the Fourth / George Gordon, Lord Byron -- Stanzas written on the road between Florence and Pisa ; On this day I complete my thirty-sixth year ; Letters / George Gordon, Lord Byron.

v. 2. From Blake to the present day. The romantic period. Mutability (We are as clouds) ; Hymn to intellectual beauty ; Ozymandias ; Stanzas written in dejection, near Naples ; Song to the men of England ; England in 1819 ; The masque of anarchy ; Ode to the West wind ; The Indian serenade ; Love's philosophy / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Songs from Prometheus unbound. My soul is an enchanted boat ; This is the day / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- The cloud ; To a skylark ; Adonais / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Choruses from Hellas. Worlds on worlds ; The world's greatest age / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Time ; To night ; Song (Rarely, rarely, comest thou) ; Mutability (The flower that smiles to-day) ; A lament ; To ____ (Music, when soft voices die) ; Sonnet : political greatness ; To ____ (One word is too often profaned) ; A dirge ; Lines : when the lamp is shattered ; from A defence of poetry / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- On first looking into Chapman's Homer ; On seeing the Elgin marbles ; On the sea ; from Endymion ; On sitting down to read King Lear again ; When I have fears ; Lines on the Mermaid Tavern ; Ode (Bards of passion) ; The eve of St. Agnes ; La belle dame sans merci ; Bright star ; Ode to a nightingale ; Ode on a Grecian urn ; Ode on melancholy ; To autumn ; Letters / John Keats.

v. 2. From Blake to the present day. The romantic period. Lochinvar ; Harp of the North ; Soldier, rest ; Coronach ; Jock of Hazeldean ; Pibroch of Donuil Dhu ; Proud Maisie ; Bonny Dundee / Walter Scott -- Mother, I cannot ; Ah what avails ; Dirce ; Away, my verse ; Past ruin'd Ilion ; When Helen first ; Yes, I write verses ; To Browning ; Iphigeneia and Agamemnon ; Twenty years hence ; Dying speech of an old philosopher ; To age ; To my ninth decad ; Well I remember / Walter Savage Landor -- The Battle of Blenheim ; The inchcape rock ; My days among the dead / Robert Southey -- Ye mariners of England / Thomas Campbell -- The harp that once through Tara's halls ; Believe me, if all those endearing young charms ; The time I've lost in wooing ; Oft, in the stilly night / Thomas Moore -- Preston Mills / Ebenezer Elliott -- Abou Ben Adhem ; The fish, the man, and the spirit ; Rondeau / Leigh Hunt -- The song of the shirt / Thomas Hood -- Song (How many times do I love thee, dear?) ; Threnody ; Song (Old Adam, the carrion crow) ; Dream-pedlary ; The phantom-wooer ; A beautiful night / Thomas Lovell Beddoes.

v. 2. From Blake to the present day. The Victorian period. from Sartor resartus. Book II, Chapter 7, The everlasting no ; Book II, Chapter 9, The everlasting yea / Thomas Carlyle -- from On heroes, hero-worship, and the heroic in history. From Lecture I, The hero as divinity ; From Lecture V, The hero as a man of letters / Thomas Carlyle -- From Past and present. Book II, Chapter 2, St. Edmundsbury ; Book II, Chapter 4, Abbot Hugo ; Book II, Chapter 8, The election ; Book III, Chapter 2, Gospel of Mammonism ; Book III, Chapter 5, The English ; Book III, Chapter 11, Labour ; Book III, Chapter 13, Democracy ; Book IV, from Chapter 3, The one institution ; Book IV, Chapter 4, Captains of industry / Thomas Carlyle.

v. 2. From Blake to the present day. The Victorian period. From Southey's colloquies ; From Francis Bacon ; From The history of England ; Letter on democracy / Thomas Babington Macaulay -- From Apologia pro vita sua. Note A, Liberalism / John Henry Newman -- From The idea of a university. From Discourse V, Knowledge its own end ; From Discourse VI, Knowledge viewed in relation to learning ; From Discourse VII, Knowledge viewed in relation to professional skill / John Henry Newman -- From Autobiography. From Chapter 4, Youthful propagandism ; From Chapter 5, A crisis in my mental history, one stage onward / John Stuart Mill -- The spirit of the age, no. 1 / John Stuart Mill -- From On liberty. from Chapter I, Introductory ; From Chapter 2, Of the liberty of thought and discussion ; Chapter 3, Of individuality, as one of the elements of well-being / John Stuart Mill -- From Praeterita. From Chapter 1, The springs of Wandel ; From Chapter 2, Herne-Hill almond blossoms / John Ruskin -- From Modern painters, volume III. From Chapter 1, Of the received opinions touching the Grand Style ; From Chapter 3, Of the real nature of greatness of style ; From Chapter 17, The moral of landscape / John Ruskin -- From The stones of Venice, volume II. From Chapter 6, The nature of Gothic / John Ruskin -- From The crown of wild olive. Lecture II, Traffic / John Ruskin -- Autobiography ; Science and culture / Thomas Henry Huxley -- From Darwiniana. From The origin of the species / Thomas Henry Huxley -- From Essays upon some controverted questions. Prologue / Thomas Henry Huxley.

v. 2. From Blake to the present day. The Victorian period. Song ; Mariana ; Tithonus ; The sea-fairies ; The Lady of Shalott ; The poet ; You ask me, why, though ill at ease ; Sir Galahad ; To ____, with the following poem ; The palace of art ; Oenone ; Ulysses ; The lotos-eaters ; Locksley Hall ; The vision of sin ; Break, break, break ; Sweet and low ; The splendor falls on castle walls ; Tears, idle tears ; Home they brought her warrior dead ; Ask me no more ; Now sleeps the crimson petal ; Come down, o maid ; The eagle / Alfred Lord Tennyson -- From In memoriam. Prologue, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 11, 27, 28, 30, 50, 54, 56, 78, 82, 96, 104, 105, 106, 116, 118, 120, 123, 124, 130, 131 ; Epilogue / Alfred Lord Tennyson -- From Idylls of the king. Dedication ; Lancelot and Elaine / Alfred Lord Tennyson -- Crossing the bar / Alfred Lord Tennyson.

v. 2. From Blake to the present day. The Victorian period. My last duchess ; Count Gismond ; Soliloquy of the Spanish cloister ; Porphyria's lover ; "How they brought the good news from Ghent to Aix" ; Home-thoughts, from abroad ; Home-thoughts, from the sea ; The bishop orders his tomb at Saint Praxed's Church ; The laboratory ; Meeting at night ; Parting at morning ; Love among the ruins ; Up at a villa, down in the city ; Fra Lippo Lippi ; A toccata of Galuppi's ; My star ; Respectability ; The last ride together ; Andrea del Sarto ; Memorabilia ; Two in the Campagna ; A grammarian's funeral ; Prospice ; Adam, Lilith, and Eve ; Epilogue to Asolando / Robert Browning.

v. 2. From Blake to the present day. The Victorian period. Quiet work ; To a friend ; Shakespeare ; In harmony with nature ; The forsaken merman ; Memorial verses ; Self-dependence ; A Summer night ; The buried life ; Morality ; Sohrab and Rustum ; Requiescat ; The scholar-gypsy ; Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse ; Isolation : to Marguerite ; The better part ; Dover Beach ; The last word ; Preface to Poems, 1853 / Matthew Arnold -- From Essays in criticism, first series. From The function of criticism at the present time / Matthew Arnold -- From Culture and anarchy. Chapter I, Sweetness and light / Matthew Arnold.

v. 2. From Blake to the present day. The Victorian period. The blessed damozel ; My sister's sleep ; The ballad of dead ladies ; Sister Helen / Dante Gabriel Rossetti -- From The house of life. Sonnet 4, 19, 24, 51, 56, 69, 77, 78, 86, 97, 101 / Dante Gabriel Rossetti -- The woodspurge / Dante Gabriel Rossetti -- An apology ; The haystack in the floods ; The defence of Guenevere ; The eve of Crécy ; The blue closet ; From Address on the collection of paintings of the English pre-Raphaelite school in the city of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, October 24, 1891 ; From The art of the people / William Morris -- Choruses from Atalanta in Calydon. When the hounds of spring are on winter's traces ; Before the beginning of years / Algernon Charles Swinburne -- Hymn to Proserpine ; The garden of Proserpine ; A ballad of François Villon ; Hertha ; To Walt Whitman in America / Algernon Charles Swinburne.

v. 2. From Blake to the present day. The Victorian period. From The Renaissance : studies in art and poetry. Preface ; From The School of Giorgione ; Conclusion / Walter Horatio Pater -- God's grandeur ; Spring ; The windhover ; Pied beauty ; Henry Purcell ; Felix Randal ; Spring and fall ; Spelt from Sibyl's leaves ; Carrion comfort ; No worst, there is none ; I wake and feel the fell of dark ; My own heart let me more have pity on ; Thou art indeed just, Lord ; To R.B. / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Hap ; The sleep-worker ; To an unborn pauper child ; A broken appointment ; In tenebris ; The darkling thrush ; Channel firing ; The convergence of the twain ; The going ; The voice ; "Regret not me" ; The oxen ; Nobody comes / Thomas Hardy -- Pulvis et umbra ; The lantern-bearers ; Sing me a song ; Requiem / Robert Louis Stevenson.

v. 2. From Blake to the present day. The Victorian period. A musical instrument ; On a portrait of Wordsworth ; Grief / Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- from Sonnets from the Portuguese. 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 14, 20, 22, 26, 35, 43 / Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- The latest decalogue ; Is it true, ye gods ; "Old things need not be therefore true" ; To spend uncounted years of pain ; Qui laborat, orat ; That there are powers above us I admit ; From Seven sonnets, 4 ; Say not the struggle naught availeth / Arthur Hugh Clough -- The rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám of Naishápúr / Edward FitzGerald -- from Modern love. 1, 16, 17, 43, 47, 50 / George Meredith -- Lucifer in starlight ; Hard weather / George Meredith -- Song ; Up-hill ; A better resurrection ; A birthday ; Life and death ; Sleeping at last / Christina Georgina Rossetti -- The hound of Heaven / Francis Thompson -- From In hospital. 1, 4, 7, 28 / William Ernest Henley -- Invictus ; I.M. Margaritae Sorori ; Space and dread and the dark / William Ernest Henley -- From Barrack-room ballads : dedication ; The ballad of East and West ; "Fuzzy-wuzzy" ; Tommy ; Recessional ; The white man's burden / Rudyard Kipling.

v. 2. From Blake to the present day. The modern period. The falling of the leaves ; An Irish airman forsees his death ; The fisherman ; Easter, 1916 ; The second coming ; Sailing to Byzantium ; Among school children ; Coole and Ballylee, 1931 ; At Algeciras : a meditation upon death ; Lapis lazuli ; An acre of grass ; John Kinsella's lament for Mrs. Mary Moore ; The symbolism of poetry / William Butler Yeats -- The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock ; Preludes ; A cooking egg ; Sweeney among the nightingales ; The waste land ; The hollow men ; Animula ; Landscapes ; Tradition and individual talent ; The metaphysical poets / Thomas Stearns [T.S.] Eliot -- Love on the farm ; Baby running barefoot ; Aware ; A winter's tale ; Troth with the dead ; The North country ; A snowy day in school ; Ballad of another Ophelia ; Reading a letter ; Nostalgia ; The shadow of death ; Song of a man who has come through ; Bat ; Snake ; The English are so nice / David Herbert [D.H.] Lawrence -- Pur ; Too dear, too vague ; A summer night 1933 ; In memory of W.B. Yeats ; Our bias / Wystan Hugh [W.H.] Auden -- From In time of war. 16, 17, 18, 23, 27 / Wystan Hugh [W.H.] Auden -- As I walked out one evening ; Spain 1937 ; Casino ; The unknown citizen ; From The sea and the mirror : preface / Wystan Hugh [W.H.] Auden.

v. 2. From Blake to the present day. The modern period. From far, from eve and morning ; Far in a western brookland ; I promise nothing : friends will part ; Diffugere nives : Horace, Odes IV, 7 ; Crossing alone the nighted ferry / Alfred Edward [A.E.] Housman -- Town and country ; Menelaus and Helen ; The jolly company / Rupert Brooke -- The bottle ; Winter dusk ; Nod ; Alone / Walter de la Mare -- Strange meeting ; Miners ; Anthem for doomed youth ; Futility / Wilfred Owen -- He will watch the hawk with an indifferent eye ; In railway halls, on pavements near the traffic ; The double shame ; Seascape / Stephen Spender -- Sunday morning ; London rain ; Explorations ; Hiatus / Louis MacNeice -- Fern Hill ; The hand that signed the paper felled a city ; The hunchback in the park / Dylan Thomas.

v. 2. From Blake to the present day. The modern period. A group of critical essays. Romanticism and classicism / Thomas Ernest Hulme -- The discovery of poetry / Herbert Read -- Science and poetry / Ivor Armstrong Richards -- Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown / Virginia Woolf.

v. 2. From Blake to the present day. The modern period. A group of short stories. The dead / James Joyce -- The road from Colonus / Edward Morgan Forster -- Odour of chrysanthemums / David Herbert [D.H.] Lawrence -- Green tunnels / Aldous Huxley -- Private Jones / Alun Lewis.