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Major Texts of Poetry

British Poetry From Old English Period to Romantic Age

  1. Sir Gawain & The Green Knight
  2. Beowulf
  3. Geofrey Chaucer- Canterbury Tales
  4. Philip Sidney – Astrophil and Stella
  5. Edmund Spenser- The Faerie Queene
  6. John Donne- Death, be not Proud
  7. John Donne- A Valediction Forbidden Mourning
  8. John Donne- The Flea
  9. John Donne- Sunne Rising
  10. John Donne- The Canonization **
  11. Andrew Marvell- To His Coy Mistress
  12. Andrew Marvell- The Coronet
  13. John Milton- Paradise Lost **
  14. John Milton- Lycidas
  15. John Milton- On His Blindness
  16. Alexander Pope- The Rape of the Lock
  17. Alexander Pope- An Essay on Criticism
  18. Alexander Pope- Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
  19. Alexander Pope- An Essay on Man
  20. Thomas Gray- Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
  21. William Blake- London
  22. William Blake- A Poison Tree
  23. William Blake- The Tyger
  24. William Blake- The Garden of Love
  25. William Wordsworth- Dafodils, or ‘I wandered lonely as a cloud’
  26. William Wordsworth- The World is too much with us
  27. William Wordsworth- Tintern Abbey
  28. William Wordsworth- The Prelude
  29. William Wordsworth- Ode to Duty
  30. William Wordsworth- London
  31. Samuel Taylor Coleridge- Rime of Ancient Mariner
  32. Samuel Taylor Coleridge- Kubla Khan
  33. Samuel Taylor Coleridge- Christabel
  34. Samuel Taylor Coleridge- Frost at Midnight
  35. Lord Byron- Don Juan
  36. John Keats- Ode to a Nightingale
  37. John Keats- Ode on a Grecian Urn
  38. John Keats- Ode on Melancholy
  39. John Keats- Ode to Autumn
  40. P B Shelley- Ozymandias
  41. P B Shelley- To a Skylark
  42. P B Shelley- Ode to the West Wind

British Poetry Victorian Age to Post Modern Age

  1. Lord Alfred Tennyson- Ulysses
  2. Lord Alfred Tennyson- Break, break, break
  3. Lord Alfred Tennyson- Lotus Eaters
  4. Robert Browning- My Last Duchess
  5. Robert Browning- Porphyria’s Lover
  6. Robert Browning- Fra Lippo Lippi
  7. Robert Browning- Andrea del Sarto
  8. Christina Rossetti- Goblin Market
  9. G M Hopkins- The Windhover
  10. G M Hopkins- Pied Beauty
  11. G M Hopkins- Felix Randal
  12. Matthew Arnold- Dover Beach
  13. Matthew Arnold- Scholar Gypsy
  14. Matthew Arnold- Thyrsis
  15. W B Yeats- Second Coming
  16. W B Yeats- Leda & Swan
  17. W B Yeats- Sailing to Byzantium
  18. W B Yeats- Easter
  19. W B Yeats- Among School Children
  20. W H Auden- Musée des Beaux Arts
  21. W H Auden- In Memory of W.B. Yeats
  22. W H Auden- September ,
  23. T S Eliot- The Wasteland
  24. T S Eliot- Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock
  25. Wilfred Owen- Strange Meeting
  26. Wilfred Owen- Anthem for Doomed Youth
  27. Seamus Heaney- Digging
  28. Ted Hughes- Hawk Roosting
  29. Ted Hughes- Thistles
  30. Ted Hughes- Thought Fox
  31. Philip Larkin- Aubade
  32. Philip Larkin- Whitsun Wedding
  33. Philip Larkin- Toads

American Poetry

  1. Walt Whitman- When Lilacs last in the dooryard bloomed
  2. Walt Whitman- Song of Myself
  3. Walt Whitman- Passage to India
  4. Emily Dickinson- I felt a Funeral, in my Brain
  5. Emily Dickinson- Hope’ is the thing with feathers
  6. Emily Dickinson- Because I could not stop for Death
  7. Robert Frost- After Apple-Picking
  8. Robert Frost- The Road Not taken
  9. Robert Frost- Birches
  10. Robert Frost- Stopping by Woods on a snowy evening
  11. Sylvia Plath- Ariel
  12. Sylvia Plath- Lady Lazarus
  13. Sylvia Plath- Daddy
  14.  Allen Ginsberg- Howl
  15. Allen Ginsberg- A Supermarket in California
  16. Wallace Stevens- The Emperor of Ice-Cream
  17. Wallace Stevens- Sunday Morning
  18. Wallace Stevens- Anecdote of the Jar

Post Colonial Poetry

  1. Langston Hughes- Harlem
  2. Langston Hughes- I, Too, Sing America
  3. Langston Hughes- The Weary Blues
  4. A.D Hope- Australia
  5. Derek Walcott- Omeros
  6. Derek Walcott- Far Cry from Africa
  7. Pablo Neruda- Tonight I Can Write the Saddest Lines
  8. Pablo Neruda- The Way Spain Was
  9. Maya Angelou- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Indian Poetry

  1. Toru Dutt- Our Casuarina Tree
  2. Sarojini Naidu- Palanquin Bearers
  3. Kamala Das- Introduction
  4. Kamala Das- My Grandmother’s House
  5. Kamala Das- The Dance of the Eunuchs
  6. Nissim Ezekiel- Night of the Scorpion
  7. Nissim Ezekiel- Enterprise
  8. A.K. Ramanujan- Obituary
  9. A.K. Ramanujan- Love Poem for a Wife
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