Holt Elements of Literature Sixth Course - British Literature
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The Anglo Saxon Period
Collection 1
Excerpts from Beowulf
Epic 2 - The Arrival of the Hero
Epic 4 - The Battle with Grendel
The Head of Humbaba
Spotlight on: Anglo-Saxon Riddles
The English Language: Old English
Writer's Workshop: Analyzing a Literary Work
Language Workshop: Analyzing Groups
The Seafarer
The Middle Ages
Collection 2
from The Canterbury Tales
The Prologue: Middle English an example of Middle English
Reading Skills and Strategies: Analyzing Word Parts
Federigo's Falcon by Giovanni Boccaccio
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
The Death of Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory
Spotlight on: The Weaving of Women's Tales
The English Language: Middle English
The Writer's Workshop: Expository Writing: A Comparison-Contrast Essay
Language Workshop: Agreement
The Renaissance
Collection 3
Whoso List to Hunt - Sir Thomas Wyatt
from Amoretti: Sonnets 30 and 75 - Edmund Spenser
Spotlight on: The Faerie Queene
Shakespeare Sonnets
Shakespeare Sonnets Introduction
Lyric Poems
Marlowe: The Passionate Shepherd
andSelections by John Donne
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
On My First Son/ Song to Celia :Ben Jonson
Lyric Poems
by Suckling and Lovelace
Collection 4 Shakespeare: The Tragedy of Macbeth
Collection 5
Of Studies/Axioms: Sir Francis Bacon
Spotlight on: Elizabeth I
Introduction: The King James Bible
The Parable of the Good Samaritan
The Fall of Satan: John Milton
Restoration and the 18th Century Introduction
The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century Collection 6
John Swift: From Gulliver's Travels
from Part 1: A Voyage to Lilliput
from Part 2: A Voyage to Brobdingnag
A Modest Proposal Poems by Alexander Pope
Voltaire Collection 7 from the Diary of Samuel Pepys from A Journal of The Plague Year
Selections From Samuel Johnson
from a Dictionary of the English Language
from the Life of Samuel Johnson James Boswell
from Faust, Part 1 Goethe
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard Thomas Gray
The Romantic Period
Introduction
The Romantic Period
Collection 8
To a Mouse by Robert Burns Poems
By William Blake Poems
By William Wordsworth
Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey
from Ode: Intimations of Immortality
I Have Visited Again by Alexander Pushkin
Kubla Kahn by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Collection 9 Poems
By Lord Byron
The Destruction of Sennacherib
from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto IV Poems by Percey Bysshe Shelley
Jade Flower Place by Tu Fu Poems
By John Keats
On First Looking into Chapman's
Homer
The Victorian Period
Introduction
Collection 10
Poems by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Eagle: a Fragment and Flower in a Crannied Wall
Poems by Robert Browning
Sonnet 43 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Collection 11
Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold
Poems by Thomas Hardy
Ah, Are You Digging on my Grave?
Spotlight on Victorian Novelists
Poems by A. E. Housman
The Mark of the Beast by Rudyard Kipling
How Much Land Does a Man Need? by Leo Tolstoy
The Twentieth Century
Introduction
Collection 12
The Rear-Guard by Siegfried Sassoon
Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen
La Guitarra by Federico Garcia Lorca (and translations)
Lots' Wife by Anna Akhmatova
The Destructors by Graham Greene
Ted Hughes
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Freedom to Breathe / The Bonfire and the Ants
Thoughts of Hanoi by Nguyen Thi Vinh
In the Shadow of War by Ben Okri
Collection 13
William Butler Yeats
Araby by James Joyce
D. H. Lawrence:
The Demon Lover by Elizabeth Bowen
Poems by Dylan Thomas
Fern HillDo Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
B. Wordsworth by V. S. Naipaul
Mushrooms by Margaret Atwood
Collection 14
The Doll's House by Katherine Mansfield
Not Waving but Drowning by Stevie Smith
My Oedipus Complex by Frank O'Conner
W. H. Auden
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
Games at Twilight by Anita Desai
Digging / the Grauballe Man by Seamus Heaney
Collection 15
Shakepeare's Sister by Virginia Woolf
The Cairo Rooftop by Naguib Mahfouz
Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell
No Witchcraft for Sale by Doris Lessing
Once Upon a Time by Nadine Gordimer
The Virgins by Derek Walcott
Marriage is a Private Affair by Chinua Achebe
Telephone Conversation by Wole Soyinka: Telephone Conversation