Books, Authors and Poets British Literature Old English through the Middle Ages (to ca. 1485) The 16th Century Renaissance (1485-1603) including William Shakespeare The Early 17th Century Renaissance (1603-1660) The Restoration and the 18th Century (1660-1785) The Romantic Period (1785-1830) including Jane Austen The Victorian Age (1830-1901) The Early 20th Century (1900-1945) American and Other World Literature Early American Literature (to ca. 1800) The Early 19th Century: Romanticism and Transcendentalism The Late 19th Century: Realism and Naturalism The Early 20th Century (1900-1945) Greek Classics Reference Materials and Dictionaries/Thesaurus Objectivist Philosophy and Other Rational Resources Books, Authors, and Poets The following is a representation of the great literary figures and works I studied in college and graduate school. I focused on the works prior to the 1950s. This site links to works in the public domain in the United States. British Literature Old English through the Middle Ages (to ca. 1485) Beowulf - Anonymous (trans. by Francis B. Gummere) Gilgamesh - Anonymous (trans. by Maureen Gallery Kovacs) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - Anonymous (ed. by J.R.R. Tolkien and E.V. Gordon) Geoffrey Chaucer Canterbury Tales The 16th Century Renaissance (1485-1603) Christopher Marlowe Complete Works Sir Philip Sidney Astrophel and Stella Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene Sir Thomas Wyatt Whoso List to Hunt William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Shakespeare Favorite Sonnet: 130 ("My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun") Favorite Play: Othello British Library: Shakespeare in Quarto eNotes: Shakespeare Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet The Oregon Shakespeare Festival Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Shakespearean Insulter Shakespeare Online Shakespeare Resource Center The Early 17th Century Renaissance (1603-1660) John Donne The Canonization The Flea The Good-morrow George Herbert Jordan (1) Ben Jonson Andrew Marvell To his Coy Mistress John Milton Paradise Lost John Webster The Duchess of Malfi The Restoration and the 18th Century (1660-1785) James Boswell Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe Moll Flanders John Dryden Alexander's Feast A Song for St. Cecilia's Day To the Memory of Mr. Oldham Henry Fielding Tom Jones Thomas Gray Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat (Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes) Samuel Johnson Alexander Pope Jonathan Swift Gulliver's Travels A Modest Proposal The Romantic Period (1785-1830) William Blake Robert Burns Lord Byron Don Juan Samuel Taylor Coleridge Christabel Kubla Khan The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (text of 1834) John Keats Ode to a Grecian Urn Ann Radcliffe Mary Shelley My article on ThoughtCo.: A Famous Mother/Daughter Pair: Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley Frankenstein Percy Bysshe Shelley Mary Wollstonecraft A Vindication of the Rights of Woman William Wordsworth Jane Austen (1775-1817) Austen.com The Republic of Pemberley Emma Lady Susan Mansfield Park Northanger Abbey Persuasion Pride and Prejudice Sense and Sensibility The Watsons Love and Freindship The Three Sisters The Victorian Age (1830-1901) Matthew Arnold Dover Beach The Brontës Anne Brontë Agnes Grey The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre Emily Brontë Wuthering Heights Elizabeth Barrett Browning Sonnet 43 ("How do I love thee? Let me count the ways") from the Portuguese Robert Browning Thomas Carlyle Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol Great Expectations Tale of Two Cities George Eliot Thomas Hardy Last Words To A Dumb Friend The Return of the Native Tess of the D'Urbervilles Rudyard Kipling Christina Rossetti On the Death of a Cat Goblin Market Algernon Charles Swinburne To A Cat Lord Alfred Tennyson The Lady of Shalott (1842) The Lotos-eaters William Makepeace Thackeray Vanity Fair Anthony Trollope Oscar Wilde An Ideal Husband The Importance of Being Earnest The Picture of Dorian Gray The Early 20th Century (1900-1945) W. H. Auden Joseph Conrad The Joseph Conrad Society (UK) Heart Of Darkness Lord Jim E.M. Forster Howard's End A Passage to India A Room with a View Aldous Huxley Brave New World James Joyce Ulysses D.H. Lawrence Sons and Lovers George Orwell 1984 Animal Farm George Bernard Shaw The Philanderer Pygmalion Dylan Thomas Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night Fern Hill J.R.R. Tolkien The Tolkien Society The Nit Picker's Guide to the Lord of the Rings H.G. Wells The H.G. Wells Society The Time Machine The War of the Worlds Virginia Woolf The International Virginia Woolf Society William Butler Yeats American and Other World Literature Early American Literature (to ca. 1800) Anne Bradstreet Benjamin Franklin Thomas Jefferson More on his writings Jefferson Digital Archive Thomas Paine Common Sense The Early 19th Century: Romanticism and Transcendentalism James Fenimore Cooper The Last of the Mohicans Emily Dickinson The Complete Poems Ralph Waldo Emerson Works Frederick Douglass Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter The House of the Seven Gables Victor Hugo The Hunchback of Notre Dame Les Miserables The Man Who Laughs Washington Irving Rip Van Winkle & The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Herman Melville Moby Dick Edgar Allan Poe My article on ThoughtCo.: Romanticism & the Supernatural in Edgar Allan Poe's "Ligeia" More about Poe: The Poe Decoder The Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore The Complete Works Henry Thoreau Walden The Thoreau Reader Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass The Late 19th Century: Realism and Naturalism Louisa May Alcott Little Women Anton Chekhov The Three Sisters Kate Chopin More on Kate Chopin Kate Chopin: A Re-Awakening The Awakening Bayou Folk A Night in Acadie Stephen Crane The Red Badge of Courage Henry James Daisy Miller The Portrait of a Lady The Turn of the Screw Washington Square The Wings of the Dove Jack London The Call of the Wild Mark Twain The Adventures of Tom Sawyer The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Sketches A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Huckleberry Finn Life on the Mississippi The Prince and the Pauper Laura Ingalls Wilder The Laura Ingalls Wilder Memorial Society More on Laura Ingalls Wilder Little House on the Prairie Definitive Guide The Early 20th Century (1900-1945) Willa Cather Willa Cather Foundation My Antonia and Other Works E.E. Cummings T.S. Eliot The Waste Land William Faulkner As I Lay Dying F. Scott Fitzgerald Anne Frank The Diary of a Young Girl Robert Frost The Road Not Taken Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway His Life and Works Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum Timeless Hemingway O. Henry The Gift of the Magi Katherine Mansfield L.M. Montgomery More on L.M. Montgomery Anne of Green Gables Movies Her autobiography The Alpine Path: The Story of My Career Anne of Green Gables Anne of Avonlea Anne of the Island Anne of Windy Poplars Anne's House of Dreams Anne of Ingleside Rainbow Valley Rilla of Ingleside Other books by L.M. Montgomery Dorothy Parker Katherine Anne Porter Ezra Pound Gertrude Stein John Steinbeck Edith Wharton My graduate paper: Mythological Versions of May and Ellen: a Reading of Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence The Age of Innocence Ethan Frome The House of Mirth Summer Richard Wright Native Son Black Boy Greek Classics Aristophanes Plays Aristotle Writings Euripides Medea - trans. by E. P. Coleridge Medea - ed. by David Kovacs Other Plays Homer More on Homer The Iliad - trans. by Samuel Butler The Odyssey - trans. by Samuel Butler The Odyssey - trans. by George Chapman Sophocles Antigone - trans. by R. C. Jebb Other Plays Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War - trans. by Richard Crawley Virgil The Aeneid - trans. by John Dryden Other Works Reference Materials 16th Century Renaissance English Literature (1485-1603) About.com Classic Literature About.com Contemporary Literature About.com Poetry ABE - Advanced Book Exchange Amazon.com Anthology of Middle English Literature (1350-1485) Barnes and Noble Bibliomania Bill's Library - An excellent selection of online magazines BookBrowse BookCrossing - Find books in the wild! 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