chapter 1 ancient european literature homer (flourished 9th or 8th century bc?) iliad sophocles (496?--406bc) oedipus the king chapter 2 european literature of the middle ages dante alighieri (1265--1321) the divine comedy giovanni boccaccio (1313--1375) the decameron geoffrey chaucer (1340?--1400) the canterbury tales english ballads get up and bar the door chapter 3 european literature of the renaissance francesco petrarch (1304---1374) the eyes that drew from me miguel de cervantes (1547--1616) don quixote william shakespeare (1564--1616) hamlet sonnet 18 sonnet 29 francis bacon (1561--1626) of studies chapter 4 seventeenth-century european literature john donne (1572--1631) the flea john milton (1608--1674) paradise lost moliere (1622--1673) tartuffe, or, the imposter chapter 5 eighteenth-century european literature daniel defoe (]660?--]73 ]) robinson crusoe jonathan swift (1667--1745) a modest proposal johann wolfgang yon goethe (1749--1832) the sorrows of young werther chapter 6 euro-american poetry of the romantic period william blake (1757--1827) the chimney sweeper (ii) robert burns (1759--1796) a red, red rose my heart's in the highlands william wordsworth (1770--1850) she dwelt among the untrodden ways the solitary reaper i wandered lonely as a cloud george gordon byron (1788--1824) she walks in beauty percy bysshe shelley (1792--1822) ode to the west wind john keats (1795--1821) ode to a nightingale edgar allan poe (1809--1849) to helen walt whitman (1819--1892) 0 captain/my captain/ emily dickinson (1830--1886) success i died for beauty i'm nobody chapter 7 euro-american fiction and drama of the nineteenth century jane austen (1775--1817) pride and prejudice charles dickens (1812--1870) great expectations charlotte bronte (1816--1855) jane eyre emily bronte (1818--1848) wuthering heights thomas hardy (1840--1928) tess of the d 'urbervilles george bernard shaw (1856--1950) pygmalion washington irving (1783--1859) rip van winkle nathaniel hawthorne (1804--1864) the scarlet letter mark twain (1835--1910) a matter of honor stendhal (1783--1842) the red and the black honore de balzac (1799--1850) father goriot victor hugo (1802--1885) les miserables gustave flaubert (1821--1880) madame bovary guy de maupassant (1850--1893) bel ami fyodor mikhailovich dostoevsky (1821--1881) crime and punishment lev tolstoy (1828--1910) anna karenina anton pavlovich chekhov (1860--1904) a chameleon henrik ibsen (1828--1906) a doll "s house chapter 8 euro-american literature of the twentieth century james joyce (1882--1941) ulysses virginia woolf (1882--1941) the mark on the wall david herbert lawrence (1885--1930) women in love samuel beckett (1906--1989) waiting for godot william golding (1911--1993) lord of the flies angela carter (1940--1992) the tiger's bride david lodge (1935--) small world william butler yeats (1865--1939) the second coming ezra pound (1885--1972) in a station of the metro e. e. cummings (1894--1962) in just- richard connell (1893--1949) the most dangerous game william faulkner (1897--1962) a rose for emily ernest hemingway (1899--1961) hills like white elephants toni morrison (1931--) song of solomon marcel proust (1871--1922) remembrance of things past mikhail aleksandrovich sholokhov (1905--1984) the fate of a man glinter wilhelm grass (1927--) the tin drum franz kafka (1883--1924) the metamorphosis elfriede jelinek (1946--) the piano teacher jorge luis borges (1899--1986) the garden of forking paths gabriel garcia marquez (1927--) one hundred years of solitude bibliography