English Literature, From Chaucer to McEwan

The Middle Ages
- G. Chaucer: Canterbury Tales (General Prologue)

The 16th Century
- Sir T. Wyatt: "Who so list to hunt, I know where is an hind"
- E. Spenser: "One day I wrote her name upon the strand"
- Sir Ph. Sidney: "With how sad steps, o Moon, thou climb'st the skies"
- W. Shakespeare: "When forty winters shall besiege thy brow", "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?", "Let me not to the marriage of true minds"
- T. Kyd: The Spanish Tragedy
- Ch. Marlowe: D. Faustus
- Th. Morus: Utopia
- F. Bacon: Essays (Of Studies)

The 17th Century
- J. Donne: The Good-morrow, "Batter my heart, three person'd God"
- G. Herbert: Easter-wings
- J. Milton: Paradise Lost
- A. Marvell: To his Coy Mistress
- J. Dryden: Absalom and Achitophel
- W. Shakespeare: Richard II, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, King Lear, The Tempest
- B. Jonson: Volpone
- S. Pepys: The Diary.

The 18th Century
- A. Pope: The Rape of the Lock, An Essay on Man
- J. Thomson: The Seasons (Spring)
- Th. Gray: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
- Th. Percy: Sir Patrick Spence
- D. Defoe: Robinson Crusoe
- J. Swift: Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver
- A. A. Cooper / Earl of Shaftesbury: Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times
- S. Richardson: Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded
- H. Fielding: The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
- L. Sterne: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
- J. Macpherson: The Works of Ossian
- A. Radcliffe: The Mysteries of Udolpho.

The 19th Century
- W. Blake: The Tyger
- W. Wordsworth: Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802, "I wandered lonely as a cloud"
- S. T. Coleridge: Kubla Khan
- G. G. N. Lord Byron: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
- P. B. Shelley: Ode to the West Wind
- J. Keats: On First Looking into Chapman's Homer, To