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English Poetry and Drama
- 1A.E. Housman (1859-1936) - A Shropshire Lad
- 2Alexander Pope (1688-1744) - The Rape of the Lock, Essay on Man, Essay on Criticism
- 3Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) - In Memoriam A.H.H., The Charge of the Light Brigade
- 4Alice Oswald (b. 1966) - Dart, Memorial
- 5Andrew Marvell (1621-1678) - To His Coy Mistress, The Garden
- 6Ben Jonson (1572-1637) - Volpone, The Alchemist, To Penshurst
- 7Carol Ann Duffy (b. 1955) - The World’s Wife, Rapture
- 8Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) - Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night, Fern Hill
- 9Edmund Spenser (1552-1599) - The Faerie Queene, Amoretti
- 10Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) - Sonnets from the Portuguese, Aurora Leigh
- 11Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343-1400) - The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde
- 12Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) - The Windhover, Pied Beauty
- 13Hamlet
- 14John Donne (1572-1631) - Holy Sonnets, The Flea
- 15John Dryden (1631-1700) - Absalom and Achitophel, Annus Mirabilis
- 16John Keats (1795-1821) - Endymion, Ode to a Nightingale
- 17Lord Byron (1788-1824) - Don Juan, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
- 18Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) - Dover Beach, The Scholar-Gipsy
- 19Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) - Prometheus Unbound, Ozymandias
- 20Philip Larkin (1922-1985) - The Whitsun Weddings, Aubade
- 21Robert Browning (1812-1889) - My Last Duchess, The Ring and the Book
- 22Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) - Death of a Naturalist, North
- 23Simon Armitage (b. 1963) - Kid, Seeing Stars
- 24Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542) - Various Sonnets
- 25T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) - The Waste Land, Four Quartets
- 26The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
- 27The Lives of the Poets: A Selection
- 28The Whitsun Weddings - Philip Larkin
- 29Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) - Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Jude the Obscure (plus poetry)
- 30Two Plays (Sun & Moon Classics) - Mac Wellman
- 31William Blake (1757-1827) - Songs of Innocence and of Experience, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
- 32William Blake and the Age of Revolution
- 33William Shakespeare (1564-1616) - Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear, Othello, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Sonnets
- 34William Wordsworth - Lyrical Ballads
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