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Common Sense on English LiteratureAuthor (Comment)WorksEnglands national epicThe Song of Beowulf(3182 lines)Geoffrey Chaucer “father of English poetry”The Canterbury talesGeneral Prologue; Popular Ballads;Robin Hood and Allin-a-Dale;Get Up and Bar the Door;Sir Parrick SpensHumanist Thomas More (Renaissance)UtopiaEdmund Spenser(1552-1599)The Fairy QueenWilliam Shakespeare (1564-1616)37 plays, 154 sonnetsThe 4 great tragedies: Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth & OthelloThe Comedy of Errors, Loves Labours Lost,A Midsummer Nights Dream,The Merchant of Venice,(Shylock, evil; Portia, judge)Much Ado About NothingThe Merry Wives of WindsorAs You Like It,Alls Well That Ends WellTimon of Athens,The Winters Tale,The TempestFrancis Bacon(15611626) Philosophical works:Advancement of LearningLiterary 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(16081774) Paradise Lost(12 books) Paradise RegainedSonnet: On His BlindnessSonnet: On His Deceased WifeJohn Bunyan(16281688) The Pilgrims ProgressDaniel Defoe(16611731) Robinson Crusoe(1719)Johnathan Swift(16671745) Gullivers Travels; A Modest ProposalJoseph Addison (16721719) The Tatler; The SpectatorHenry Fielding(17071754) The History of Tom Jones,a FoundlingThomas Gray (17161771) 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 ScandalThe Rivals (comedy) The critic(Farce)William Blake(1757-1827), the most independent and the most original romantic poet of the 18th centuryThe Songs of ExperienceThe Songs of InnocenceLondon; The Chimney SweeperRobert Burns(1759-1796), whose poetry is bone of the bone and flesh of the flesh of the Scottish common peopleMy hearts In the HighlandJohn Anderson, My JoA Red, Red RoseTo A MouseWilliam Wordsworth(1770-1850) RomancistLyrical 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 CloudGeorge Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824)Don Juan (satire masterpiece)She Walks in BeautyChilde Harolds PigrimageManfred, Cain (dramas)Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)Ode to the West WindTo a Sky-lark; Ozymandias;Men of EnglandPrometheus UnboundJohn Keats (1795-1821)Ode to a NightingaleOde on a Grecian UrnOn First Looking into Chapmans To Autumn; Bright Star;Homer (sonnet)Walter Scott (1771-1832)Ivanhoe; Rob RoyJane Austen(1775-1817)Pride and PrejudiceCharles Lamb (1775-1834)Tales From Shakespeare(Last) Essays of EliaDissertation on Roast PigDream-Children: a ReveriePoor RelationCharles Dickens (1812-1870)Oliver Twist; Little Dorrit;Pickwick PapersGreat ExpectationA Tale of Two Cities;Hard Times David Copperfield;The Old Curiosity ShopWilliam Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863)Vanity Fair(Novel Without a Hero)George Eliot(1819-1880)Adam BedeCharlotte Bronte (1816-1855)Jane EyreEmily Bronte (1818-1848)Wuthering HeightsThomas Hood (1799-1845)The Song of the Shirt;The Bridge of SighsAlfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)Ulysses; Break, Break, Break;Crossing The BarRobert Browning (1812-1889)My Last Duchess;Home-Thoughts, from AbroadElizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)Sonnets from the PortugueseThomas Hardy (1840-1928)Tess of the DUrbervillesJude the ObscureThe Return of the NativeThe Mayor of CasterbridgeJohn Galsworthy (1867-1933)The Forsyte SagaThe Man of PropertyOscar Wilde (1854-1900)Aestheticism. Art for Arts Sake The Portrait of Dorian GrayComedies: Lady Windermeres Fan; A Woman of No Importance;An Ideal Husband; The Important of Being EarnestGeorge Bernard Shaw(1856-1950)Arms and the ManMrs. Warrens ProfessionD.H. Lawrence (1885-1930)Lady Chatterlays Lover; The Rainbow; Sons and LoversVirginia Woolf (1882-1941)Mrs. Dalloway; Jacobs Room;To the Lighthouse; The Waves; The Common ReaderJames Joyce (1882-1941)Araby; Dubliners; UlyssesCommon Sense on American LiteratureAuthor (Comment)WorksCaptain 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 CountryWilliam BradfordThe History of Plymouth PlantationJohn WinthropThe History of New England; JournalBenjamin Franklin (1706-1790)Poor Richards AlmanacAutobiography; Collected WorksThomas Paine(1737-1809) (Great Commoner of Mankind)American Crisis; The Age of ReasonThomas Jefferson (1743-1826) The Declaration of IndependencePhilip Freneau (1752-1832) Father of American PoetryThe Wild Honey SuckleThe Indian Burying GroundTo a Caty-DidWashington Irving (1783-1859)The Authors Account of HimselfThe Legend of Sleepy HollowJames Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)Leatherstocking Tales: The Deerslayer, The Last Mohicans, The Pathfinder, The Pioneers; The PrarieWilliam Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)Thanatopsis； To a WaterfrowlEdgar Allen Poe (1809-1849)To Helen; The Raven; Annabel Lee;The Fall of the House of UsherTales of the Grotesque and ArabesqueRalph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)Nature; Self-Reliance;The American scholar; The Divinity School Address;Representative Men; English TraitsHenry David Thoreau (1817-1862)Walden; Civil DisobedienceNathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)The Scarlet LetterHerman Melville (1819-1891)Moby-DickHenry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)A Psalm of Life; The Slaves dream; My Lost Youth; The Song of HiawathaWalt WhitmanSong of Myself; I sit and Look Out;Beat! Beat! Drums!Emily DickinsonI taste a liquor never brewed; I felt a Funeral, in my brain;A Bird came down the WalkI died for Beautybut was scarceI heard a fly buzzwhen I diedBecause I could not stop for Death Harriet Beecher StoweUncle Toms CabinMark TwainThe Adventures of Tom SawyerThe Adventures of Huckleberry FinnO. HenryThe Cop and the AnthemHenry JamesThe Portrait of A ladyJack LondonThe sea Wolf; Martin EdenTheodore DreiserSister CarrieEzra PoundA Virginal;