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Common Sense on English Literature
Author(Comment)Works England’s national epic The Song of Beowulf(3182lines)
Geoffrey Chaucer—“father of English
poetry”
The Canterbury tales General Prologue;Popular Ballads; Robin Hood and Allin-a-Dale;
Get Up and Bar the Door;
Sir Parrick Spens
Humanist Thomas More(Renaissance)Utopia Edmund Spenser(1552-1599)The Fairy Queen
William Shakespeare(1564-1616)
37plays,154sonnets
The4great tragedies:Hamlet,King Lear,Macbeth&Othello
The Comedy of Errors,
Love’s Labour’s Lost,
A Midsummer Night’s Dream,
The Merchant of Venice,(Shylock,evil; Portia,judge)
Much Ado About Nothing
The Merry Wives of Windsor
As You Like It,
All’s Well That Ends Well
Timon of Athens,
The Winter’s Tale,
The Tempest
Francis Bacon(1561—1626)Philosophical works:Advancement of Learning
Literary works(Of Truth;Of Studies; Of death;Of Revenge,Of Friendship)Maxims of the Law; Reading on the Statute of Uses(the largest and most important of his professional works.
John Milton(1608—1774)Paradise Lost(12books)
Paradise Regained
Sonnet:On His Blindness
Sonnet:On His Deceased Wife John Bunyan(1628—1688)The Pilgrim’s Progress Daniel Defoe(1661—1731)Robinson Crusoe(1719) Johnathan Swift(1667—1745)Gulliver’s Travels;A Modest Proposal Joseph Addison(1672—1719)The Tatler;The Spectator Henry Fielding(1707—1754)The History of Tom Jones,a Foundling
Thomas Gray(1716—1771)Elegy Written in a Country
Churchyard(the best poem in Emglish)
Oliver Goldsmith(1728-1774),a versatile author
The Vicar of Wakefield(novel) She Stoops to Conquer(comedy) The Citizen of the World(essays) The Traveler&The Deserted
Village(two poems)
Richard Brinsley Sheridan(1751-1816)The School for Scandal
The Rivals(comedy)The critic(Farce)
William Blake(1757-1827),the most independent and the most original romantic poet of the18th century
The Songs of Experience
The Songs of Innocence London;The Chimney Sweeper
Robert Burns(1759-1796),whose poetry is bone of the bone and flesh of the flesh of the Scottish common people My heart’s In the Highland John Anderson,My Jo
A Red,Red Rose
To A Mouse
William Wordsworth(1770-1850)
Romancist Lyrical Ballads:
Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey;The Prelude;
The Excursion;The Solitary Reaper; She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways;
I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud
George Gordon,Lord Byron
(1788-1824)Don Juan(satire masterpiece) She Walks in Beauty Childe Harold’s Pigrimage Manfred,Cain(dramas)
Percy Bysshe Shelley(1792-1822)Ode to the West Wind
To a Sky-lark;Ozymandias;
Men of England
Prometheus Unbound John Keats(1795-1821)Ode to a Nightingale
Ode on a Grecian Urn
On First Looking into Chapman’s
To Autumn;Bright Star;
Homer(sonnet) Walter Scott(1771-1832)Ivanhoe;Rob Roy
Jane Austen(1775-1817)Pride and Prejudice
Charles Lamb(1775-1834)Tales From Shakespeare
(Last)Essays of Elia—
Dissertation on Roast Pig
Dream-Children:a Reverie
Poor Relation
Oliver Twist;Little Dorrit;
Charles Dickens(1812-1870)
Pickwick Papers Great Expectation A Tale of Two Cities;
Hard Times David Copperfield; The Old Curiosity Shop
William Makepeace Thackeray
(1811-1863)
Vanity Fair(Novel Without a Hero) George Eliot(1819-1880)Adam Bede Charlotte Bronte(1816-1855)Jane Eyre
Emily Bronte(1818-1848)Wuthering Heights
Thomas Hood(1799-1845)The Song of the Shirt;
The Bridge of Sighs Alfred,Lord Tennyson(1809-1892)Ulysses;Break,Break,Break;
Crossing The Bar Robert Browning(1812-1889)My Last Duchess;
Home-Thoughts,from Abroad Elizabeth Barrett Browning
(1806-1861)
Sonnets from the Portuguese
Thomas Hardy(1840-1928)
Tess of the D’Urbervilles Jude the Obscure The Return of the Native The Mayor of Casterbridge
John Galsworthy(1867-1933)The Forsyte Saga
The Man of Property
Oscar Wilde(1854-1900) Aestheticism.Art for Art’s Sake
The Portrait of Dorian Gray Comedies:Lady Windermere’s Fan;
A Woman of No Importance;
An Ideal Husband;
The Important of Being Earnest
George Bernard Shaw(1856-1950)Arms and the Man
Mrs.Warren’s Profession
wrence(1885-1930)Lady Chatterlay’s Lover;
The Rainbow;Sons and Lovers Virginia Woolf(1882-1941)Mrs.Dalloway;Jacob’s Room;
To the Lighthouse;The Waves;
The Common Reader James Joyce(1882-1941)Araby;Dubliners;Ulysses
Common Sense on American Literature Author(Comment)Works
Captain John Smith(the first American writer)A True Relation of Such Occurrences and Accidents of Note as Hath Happened in Virginia Since the First Planting of That Colony;A Map of Virginia:with a Description of the Country
William Bradford The History of Plymouth Plantation John Winthrop The History of New England;Journal Benjamin Franklin(1706-1790)Poor Richard’s Almanac
Autobiography;Collected Works Thomas Paine(1737-1809)
(Great Commoner of Mankind)
American Crisis;The Age of Reason Thomas Jefferson(1743-1826)The Declaration of Independence
Philip Freneau(1752-1832)Father of American Poetry The Wild Honey Suckle The Indian Burying Ground To a Caty-Did
Washington Irving(1783-1859)The Author’s Account of Himself
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow James Fenimore Cooper(1789-1851)Leatherstocking Tales:The Deerslayer,
The Last Mohicans,The Pathfinder,
The Pioneers;The Prarie
William Cullen Bryant(1794-1878)Thanatopsis；To a Waterfrowl
Edgar Allen Poe(1809-1849)To Helen;The Raven;Annabel Lee; The Fall of the House of Usher Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque
Ralph Waldo Emerson(1803-1882)Nature;Self-Reliance;
The American scholar;
The Divinity School Address; Representative Men;English Traits
Henry David Thoreau(1817-1862)Walden;Civil Disobedience Nathaniel Hawthorne(1804-1864)The Scarlet Letter Herman Melville(1819-1891)Moby-Dick
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)A Psalm of Life;The Slave’s dream; My Lost Youth;The Song of Hiawatha
Walt Whitman Song of Myself;I sit and Look Out;
Beat!Beat!Drums!
Emily Dickinson I taste a liquor never brewed;
I felt a Funeral,in my brain;
A Bird came down the Walk—
I died for Beauty—but was scarce
I heard a fly buzz—when I died
Because I could not stop for Death Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Mark Twain The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn O.Henry The Cop and the Anthem
Henry James The Portrait of A lady
Jack London The sea Wolf;Martin Eden Theodore Dreiser Sister Carrie
Ezra Pound A Virginal;Salutation the second;
A Pact;In a Station of the Metro The River-Merchant’s Wife;A Letter
Edwin Arlington Robinson The House on the Hill;
Richard Cory;Miniver Cheevy Robert Frost After Apple-Picking
The Road Not Taken;
Departmental;Design;
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy
Evening;The Most of It
Carl Sandburg Chicago;The Harbor;Fog; Cool Tombs;Flash Crimson; The People,yes
Wallace Stevens Peter Quince at the Clavier Anecdote of the Jar
The Emperor of Ice-Cream
Thomas Stearns Eliot The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock Journey of the Magi
A Penny for the Old Guy
F.Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby Ernest Hemingway A Farewell to Arms John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath William Faulkner A Rose for Emily。