Part I  Poetry

  Chapter One  Glossary of Poetic Terms

    1. Terms Concerning Poetry

    2. Classification of English Poetry

  Chapter Two  Poetry Appreciation

    1. William Shakespeare ( 1564-1616): "Sonnet 18"

    2. John Milton (1608-1674): "Paradise Lost"

    3. William Wordsworth (1770-1850): "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

    4. Percy Bysshe Shelley (l 792-1822): "Ode to the West Wind"

    5. John Keats (1795-1821): "Ode to a Nightingale

    6. Robert Browning (1812-1889): "My Last Duchess

    7. T. S. Eliot (1888-1965): "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prnfrock"

    8. Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849): "The Raven

    9. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882):"A Psalm of Life"

    10. Walt Whitman (l 819-1892): "Song of Myself

    11. Emily Dickinson (1830-1886): "Because I Could Not Stop for Death"; "I Heard a Fly Buzz--When I Died"

    12. Ezra Pound (1885-1972): "'In a Station of the Metro"

    13. Robert Frost (1874-1963): "Mending Wall";"The Road Not Taken"-

    14. Langston Hughes (1902-1967): "Negro";"Mother to Son

Part II  Fiction

  Chapter Three  Terms Concerning Fiction

    1. Fiction

    2. The Elements of Fiction

  Chapter Four  Fiction Appreciation

    1. Daniel Defoe (1660-1731): Robinson Crusoe

    2. Jonathan Swift (1667-1745): Gulliver "s Travels

    3. Charles Dickens (1812-1870): Great Expectations

    4. Emily Bronte (1818-1848): Wuthering Heights

    5. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928): Tess of the D 'Urbervilles.

    6. Virginia Woolf (1882-1941): Mrs Dalloway

    7. D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930): Sons and Lovers

    8. William Golding (1911-1993): Lord of the Flies

    9. Washington Irving (1783-1859): "Rip Van Winkle".

    10. Nathaniel Hawthorne (1806-1846): The Scarlet Letter.

    11. Mark Twain (1835-1910): The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    12. Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945): Sister Carrie

    13. F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940): The Great Gatsby

    14. Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961): "A Clean,Well-lighted Place

    15. William Faulkner (1897-1962): "A Rose for Emily"

    16. Joseph Heller (1923-1999): Catch-22

Part III  Drama

  Chapter Five  Terms Concerning Drama

  Chapter Six  Drama Appreciation

    1. William Shakespeare (1564-1616): The Merchant of Venice; Hamlet

    2. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900): The Importance of Being Earnest

    3. George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950): Major Barbara'"

    4. Samuel Beckett (1906-1989): Waiting for Godot

    5. Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (1888-1953):Long Day's Journey into Night

    6. Tennessee Williams (1911-1983): The Glass Menagerie'

    7. Arthur Miller (1915-2005): Death of a Salesman

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