Part I ENGLISH LITERATURE Unit 1 Beowulf Beowulf(Excerpts from the translation by Donaldson) Unit 2 Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales(Excerpts from the "General Prologue") Unit 3 William Shakespeare The Tragedy of Othello,the Moor of Venice(Act V,Scene ii) Unit 4 John Milton Paradise Lost(Excerpts from Book IX) Unit 5 Jonathan Swift A Modest Proposal Unit 6 Samuel Johnson A Letter to the Right Honourable the Earl of Chesterfield A Preface to the Dictionary(Selections) Unit 7 William Blake Poems from The Songs of Innocence Holy Thursday The Lamb The Chimney Sweeper Poems from The Songs of Experience Holy Thursday The Tyger London Unit 8 William Wordsworth Poems from Lyrical Ballads with a Few Other Poems To My Sister Expostulation and Reply The Tables Turned The Sofitary Reaper Unit 9 Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Unit 10 JaneAusten Pride and Prejudice(Chapters I and II) Unit 11 Charles Dickens David Copperfield(An excerpt from Chapter XXIX) Unit 12 Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights(Chapter XV) Unit 13 Thomas Hardy Tess of the d'Urbervilles(Chapters LV and LVI;Chapter LVIII) Unit 14 William Butler Yeats The Lake Isle of Innisfree To a Child Dancing in the Wind To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Nothing A Prayer for Old Age Unit 15 James A.A.Joyce The Boarding House Unit 16 D.H.Lawrence Sons and Lovers(An excerpt from Chapter VIII) Unit 17 George Bernard Shaw Saint Joan(An excerpt from Scene VI)
Part II AMERICAN LITERATURE Unit 1 Washington Irving Rip Van Winkle(Excerpts) Unit 2 David Henry Thoreau Solitude(Excerpts) Unit 3 Edgar Allan Poe The Raven Unit 4 Nathaniel Hawthorne Young Goodman Brown Unit 5 Herman Melville The Mast-Head Unit 6 Walt Whitman One's-Self I Sing 0 Captain! My Captain! Song of Myseff Unit 7 Emily Dickinson I'm Nobody "Hope" Is the Thing with Feathers Success I Died for Beauty Unit 8 Jack London Love of Life Unit 9 Mark Twain The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn(Chapter XXXI) Unit 10 Theodore Dreiser Sister Carrie(Excerpts from Chapter XLVII) Unit 11 F.Scott Fitzgerald The Long Way Out Unit 12 William Faulkner A Rose for Emily Unit 13 Ernest Hemingway Soldier's Home Unit 14 Twentieth Century American Poets Robert Lee Frost The Road Not Taken Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Ezra Pound In a Station of the Metro A Pact Salutation The Garden Langston Hughes Dreams A Dream Deferred Dream Variations The Negro Speaks of River Allen Ginsberg America Unit 15 Arthur Miller The Death of a Salesman(Excerpts from Act II)