British Poetry Geoffrey Chaucer(1343-1400) The Canterbury Tales(Excerpts) The Popular Ballads Lord Randall Sir Patrick Spens Robin Hood and the Widow's Three Sons Edmund Spenser(1552-1599) Sonnet 54 Sonnet 70 Sonnet 75 William Shakespeare(1564-1616) Sonnet 18 Sonnet 29 Sonnet 73 Sonnet 116 John Donne(1572-1631 ) Song [“Go,and Catch a Falling Star”] Holy Sonnet 10(“Death,Be Not Proud”) Holy Sonnet 14(“Batter My Heart”) John Milton(1608-1674) On His Blindness Paradise Lost(Excerpts) Alexander Pope(1688-1744) An Essay on Criticism(Excerpts) William Blake(1757-1827) The Chimney Sweeper London The Sick Rose Robert Burns(1759-1796) A Red,Red Rose Scots,Wha Hae For A'That and A' That William Wordsworth(1770-1850) She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways Composed upon Westminster Bridge September 3,1802 The Solitary Reaper I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud Samuel Taylor Coleridge(1772-1834) Kubla Khan George Gordon Byron(1788-1824) She Walks in Beauty Song for the Luddites So We'll Go No More A-Roving When a Man Hath No Freedom to Fight for at Home Percy Bysshe Shelley(1792-1822) Ozymandias Ode to the West Wind To-[Music,When Soft Voices Die] John Keats(1795-1821) On First Looking into Chapman's Homer Ode to a Nightingale Ode on a Grecian Urn To Autumn Robert Browning(1812-1889) My Last Duchess Home-Thoughts from Abroad William Butler Yeats(1865-1939) The Lake Isle of Innisfree When You Are Old The Second Coming Sailing to Byzantium Leda and the Swan T. S. Eliot(1888-1965) The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Preludes Dylan Thomas(1914-1953) The Force That through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower Fern Hill Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night Philip Larkin(1922-1985) Church Going Talking in Bed High Windows Ted Hughes(1930-1998) Wind Theology River American Poetry References