Early English Literature

Introduction to the Course 

Unit I: The Early Medieval Period 
The Story of Caedmon from The Venerable Bede’s Ecclesiastical History 
The Dream of the Rood 
The Wife’s Lament 
Beowulf 

Unit II: The Later Medieval Period 
The Lay of Sir Launfal (Lanval), Marie de France 
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 
     Fytte the First 
     Fytte the Second 
     Fytte the Third 
     Fytte the Fourth 
A Book of Showings to the Anchoress Julian of Norwich, Chapters 5 and 7 
The Canterbury Tales 
     General Prologue 
The Wakefield Second Shepherd’s Play 
     Scene 1 
     Scene 2 
     Scene 3 
     Scene 4 
     Scene 5 
     Scene 6 
     Scene 7 
     Scene 8 
Morte d’Arthur, Sir Thomas Mallory 

Unit III: The Sixteenth Century 
Poems by Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder 
      “The Long Love ThaT in My ThoughT DoTh harbor” 
      “Whoso List to Hunt” 
      “They Flee From Me” 
      “Stand Whoso List” 
Poem by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey 
      “Love that Doth Reign and Live Within My Thought” 
Poem by Queen Elizabeth I 
      “The Doubt of Future Foes” 
      “On Monsieur’s Departure” 
     Speech to the Troops at Tilbury 
Sonnets by Edmund Spenser 
     Amoretti-Sonnets 1, 54, 64, 67 
Sonnets by Sir Philip Sidney 
     Astrophil and Stella—Sonnets 1, 31, 74, 108
Poems by Mary Sidney Herbert 
     To the Angel Spirit of the Most Excellent Sir Phillip Sidney 
     Psalm 52 
The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus 
The Sonnets By William Shakesphere 
The Merchant of Venice 
     Act I Scene I 
     Act I Scene II 
     Act I Scene III 
     Act II Scene I 
     Act II Scene II 
     Act II Scene III 
     Act II Scene IV 
     Act II Scene V 
     Act II Scene VI 
     Act II Scene VII 
     Act II Scene VIII 
     Act II Scene IX 
     Act III Scene I 
     Act III Scene II 
     Act III Scene III 
     Act III Scene IV 
     Act III Scene V 
     Act IV Scene I 
     Act IV Scene II 
     Act V Scene I 

Unit IV: The Early 17^th  Century 
Poems by John Donne 
     The Flea 
     The Good Morrow 
     The Sun Rising 
     The Indifferent 
     A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning 
     The Relic 
     Elegy 19: To His Mistress Going to Bed 
     Satire 3      Holy Sonnet: Death, Be Not Proud 
     Holy Sonnet: Batter My Heart, Three-Personed God 
     Meditation XVII 
Poem by Amelia Lanyer 
     Eve’s Apology in Defense of Woman 
Poems by Ben Jonson 
     To My Book 
     On My First Daughter 
     On My First Son 
     Inviting A Friend To Supper 
Sonnets by Mary Worth 
     Pamphilia to Amphilanthus—Sonnet 1 
     Pamphilia to Amphilanthus—Sonnet 16 
     Pamphilia to Amphilanthus—Sonnet 68 
     Pamphilia to Amphilanthus—Sonnet 77 
Poems by Andrew Marvell 
     To His Coy Mistress 
     The Mower to the Glow-Worms 
     The Garden 
Poems by John Milton 
     L’Allegro 
     IL Pensoroso 
     Lycidas 
     How Soon Hath Time 
     When I Consider How My Light is Spent 
     Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint