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Week 2
The Restoration Period (1625-1700)
- Cavalier Poetry: Robert Herrick’s “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time” (1648)
- Prose: from John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress (1678)
Week 3
The 18th Century – The Age of Reason (1700-1745)
- Alexander Pope’s “The Rape of the Lock” (1712)
Week 6
The Age of Sensibility (the Age of Johnson) (1745-1785)
- Samuel Johnson: from A Dictionary of the English Language
Week 7
Graveyard Poets
• Thomas Gray: “Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat”
“Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”Week 8
The Age of Romantics (1798-1837)
- William Blake: from Songs of Innocence and Experience
- William Wordsworth: from Lyrical Ballads
Week 11
The Pre-Raphaelite Poets:
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Orchard Pit
- William Morris’ “The Defence of Guenevere”
Week 12
The Twentieth Century English Literature
- War Poetry: Wilfred Owen’s “Dulce et Decorum Est”
- William Butler Yeats’ “Easter 1916”