Introduction
Enjoying Poetry
Enjoying Drama
Enjoying Fiction
Enjoying Essay
Part OneBritish Literature
Poetry
Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day
The Flea
The Definition of Love
A Red, Red Rose
My Heart’s in the Highlands
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting
the Banks of the Wye During a Tour. July 13, 1798
The Tyger
The Lamb
Frost at Midnight
My Last Duchess
How Do I Love Thee?
When You Are Old
The Second Coming
Ulysses
Hawk Roosting
40—Love
Drama
Hamlet: Prince of Denmark
The Importance of Being Earnest
Pygmalion
Fiction
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Horse Dealer’s Daughter
The Garden Party
Dubliners
Essay
Of Studies
A Modest Proposal
To the Right Honorable the Earl of Chesterfield
The Idea of a University
Tradition and the Individual Talent
Part TwoAmerican Literature
Poetry
To a Waterfowl
Annabel Lee
Beat! Beat! Drums!
Because I Could Not Stop for Death
Hope Is the Thing with Feathers
I’m Nobody
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
The Road Not Taken
Anecdote of the Jar
The Red Wheelbarrow
In a Station of the Metro
Journey of the Magi
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I, Too
Dreams
Drama
A Streetcar Named Desire
Death of a Salesman
True West
Fiction
The TellTale Heart
The Egg
Rip Van Winkle
A Clean, WellLighted Place
A Rose for Emily
Essay
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Nature excerpt
Walden
Once More to the Lake
Bibliography