Alfred Tennyson - The Lady of Shalott Morte d’Authur Ulysses
Alexander Pope - the Rape of the Lock
Christopher Marlowe -The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
Charles Dickens- Dombey and Son, Oliver Twist, David Copperfield,
Great Expectations, Hard Times, A Tale of Two Cities, Bleak House Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders
Edmund Spenser - Faerie Queene and the Spenserian stanza
Francis Bacon- Essays“Of Studies”
Geoffrey Chaucer - The Canterbury Tales and the heroic couplet
George Gorgon Byron - the Byronic hero; Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Don Juan
John Donne - Metaphy sical Poetry
John Milton - Paradise Lost
John Bunyan - The Pilgrim’s Progress
John Keats - “Ode to a Nightin gale”
Jonathan Swift - Gulliver’s Travels, “A Modest Proposal”
James Joyce - Ulysses
Percy Bysshe Shelley - Queen Mab, Prometheus Unbound, “Ode to the West Wind”Robert Burns - “A Red, Red Rose”“Auld Lang Syne”
Robert Browning- the dramatic monologue Pauline My last duchess
Samuel Joh nson -Letter to the Right Honourable The Earl of Chesterfield.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan
The Bronte sisters- Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights
Thomas Hardy- the Wessex novels; Tess of the D’urbervilles, Jude the Obscure T. S. Eliot - The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock The Waste Land William Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Ex perience, “The Tyger”
William Wordsworth - Lyrical Ballads, “The Solitary Reaper”, “Tintern Abbey”, “I
Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”
William Thackeray - Vanity Fair
William Shakespeare - Major tragedies: Hamlet; Othello; King Lear; Macbeth
Major comedies: A Midsummer Night’s Dream; The Merchant of
Venice; As You Like It; The Twelfth Night
Sonnet 18
Literary Terms:
Alliteration: repetition of the same sound or sounds at the beginning of two or more words that are next to or close to each other.
Iambic pentameter: poetic meters of five iambs or feet. Iambic means the stress is on the second syllable.
Heroic couplet: a pair of rhyming iambic pentameter lines.
Blank verse: unrhymed poetic lines in iambic pentameters.
Sonnet: a lyric poem consisting of a single stanza of fourteen iambic pentameter lines linked by an intricate rhyme scheme. Italian or Petrarchan sonnet is composed of an octave and a sestet (rhyming abbaabba cdecde). Shakespearean sonnet consists of three quatrains and a couplet
(rhyming abab cdcd efef gg).
Assonance: repetition of related vowel sounds
Ode: a long lyric poem that is serious in subject and treatment, elevated in style and elaborate in its stanzaic structure.
Spenserian stanza: a nine-line stanza of eight lines in iambic pentameter plus an iambic hexameter. The rhyme scheme is abab bcbc c.
Romance: a tale in verse, embodying the life and adventures of knights.
Ballad: a narrative poem that tells a story.
Ballad meter: a quatrain in alternate four- and three-stress lines; usually only the second and fourth lines rhyme.
Allegory: a story or description in which the characters and events symbolize some deeper underlying meaning, and serve to spread moral teaching.。