Introduction
Enjoying Poetry 
Enjoying Drama 
Enjoying Fiction 
Enjoying Essay 
Part OneBritish Literature
Poetry 
Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day 
The Flea 
The Definition of Love 
A Red, Red Rose 
My Heart’s in the Highlands 
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud 
Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting 
the Banks of the Wye During a Tour. July 13, 1798                                                                                                                
Introduction
Enjoying Poetry 
Enjoying Drama 
Enjoying Fiction 
Enjoying Essay 
Part OneBritish Literature
Poetry 
Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day 
The Flea 
The Definition of Love 
A Red, Red Rose 
My Heart’s in the Highlands 
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud 
Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting 
the Banks of the Wye During a Tour. July 13, 1798 
The Tyger 
The Lamb 
Frost at Midnight 
My Last Duchess 
How Do I Love Thee? 
When You Are Old 
The Second Coming 
Ulysses 
Hawk Roosting 
40—Love 
Drama 
Hamlet: Prince of Denmark 
The Importance of Being Earnest 
Pygmalion 
Fiction 
The Picture of Dorian Gray 
The Horse Dealer’s Daughter 
The Garden Party 
Dubliners 
Essay 
Of Studies 
A Modest Proposal 
To the Right Honorable the Earl of Chesterfield 
The Idea of a University 
Tradition and the Individual Talent 
Part TwoAmerican Literature
Poetry 
To a Waterfowl 
Annabel Lee 
Beat! Beat! Drums! 
Because I Could Not Stop for Death 
Hope Is the Thing with Feathers 
I’m Nobody 
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening 
The Road Not Taken 
Anecdote of the Jar 
The Red Wheelbarrow 
In a Station of the Metro 
Journey of the Magi 
l(a 
in Just— 
I, Too 
Dreams 
Drama 
A Streetcar Named Desire 
Death of a Salesman 
True West 
Fiction 
The TellTale Heart 
The Egg 
Rip Van Winkle 
A Clean, WellLighted Place 
A Rose for Emily 
Essay 
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God 
Nature (excerpt) 
Walden 
Once More to the Lake 
Bibliography