Unit 1 Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400)
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Text A The Canterbury Tales The General Prologue (An Excerpt)
Text B The Canterbury Tales The Miller’s Prologue and Tale (An Excerpt)
Unit 2 Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)
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Text A The Faerie Queene Book I, Canto I (An Exerpt)
Text B Amoretti
Unit 3 Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
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Text A Of Studies
Text B Of Marriage and Single Life
Unit 4 William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
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Text A HamletAct III, Scene 1, Lines 1-102
Text B Sonnet 18
Unit 5 John Milton (1608-1674)
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Text A Paradise LostAn Excerpt of Book 1 (1674 version)
Text B When I Consider How My Light Is Spent
Unit 6 Daniel Defoe (1660-1731)
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Text A Robinson CrusoeChapter IX A Boat
Text B Robinson CrusoeAn Excerpt from Chapter XIV
Unit 7 Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
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Text A Gulliver’s TravelsPart I A Voyage to LilliputChapter I
Text B
Gulliver’s TravelsPart Four: A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms
Chapter VII
Unit 8 William Blake (1757-1827)
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Text A London
Text B The Tyger
Unit 9 William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
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Text A I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
Text B The Solitary Reaper
Unit 10 Jane Austen (1775-1817)
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Text A Pride and PrejudiceChapter I
Text B Sense and SensibilityChapter I
Unit 11 Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
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Text A Ode to the West WindⅠ
Text B To a Skylark
Unit 12 John Keats (1795-1821)
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Text A Ode to a Nightingale
Text B Ode on a Grecian Urn
Unit 13 Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
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Text A David CopperfieldChapter II am Born
Text B Oliver Twist orThe Parish Boy’s ProgressChapter I
Unit 14 Charlotte Bront? (1816-1855)
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Text A Jane EyerAn AutobiographyChapter I 169
Text B Jane EyerAn AutobiographyChapter XXIII
Unit 15 Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
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Text A Tess of the d’UrbervillesA Pure WomanChapter V
Text B Tess of the d’UrbervillesA Pure WomanChapter LVIII
Unit 16 Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
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Text A
The Importance of Being EarnestA Trivial Comedy for Serious PeopleAct I (Excerpts)
Text B
The Importance of Being EarnestA Trivial Comedy for Serious PeopleAct I (Excerpt)