19th-Century Reading List - English

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Period: 19th Century

-- William Blake (1757-1827)

• The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790)
• London (1791)
• The Sick Rose (1794)
• The Tyger (1794)
• Mock On Mock Voltaire Rousseau (1800)

-- William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

• Preface to Lyrical Ballads
• Tintern Abbey (1888)
• Resolution and Independence
• Yew Trees
• Elegiac Stanzas (Peele Castle)
• Sonnet: Westminister Bridge
• Sonnet: The World is Too Much with Us
• The Prelude
• Ode: Intimations of Immortality

-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)

• This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison (1800)
• Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798)
• Kubla Kahn (1798)
• Frost at Midnight (1798)
• Dejection: An Ode
• Biographia Literaria

-- Lord Byron (1788-1824)

• Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
• Don Juan

-- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

• Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
• England in 1819
• Ode to the West Wind
• Adonais
• A Defense of Poetry

-- John Keats (1795-1821)

• On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer
• The Elgin Marbles
• The Eve of St Agnes
• Bright Star
• Ode on a Grecian Urn
• To Autumn

-- Charles Lamb (1775-1834)

• Christ's Hospital Five-and-Thirty Years Ago
• Old China

-- William Hazlitt (1778-1830)

• My First Acquaintance with Poets

-- Thomas de Quincey (1785-1859)

• Confessions of an English Opium Eater: Preliminary Confessions

-- Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)

• The Heart of Midlothian (1818)

-- Jane Austen (1775-1817)

• Pride and Prejudice (1813)
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• Emma (1815)
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-- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)

• Past and Present

-- John Henry Newman (1801-1890)

• Apologia Pro Sua Vita (1865)

-- John Ruskin (1819-1900)

• The Stones of Venice: v.2, ch 6 (The Nature of Gothic)
• The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century

-- John Stuart Mill (1806–1873)

• On Liberty (1869)
• Autobiography

-- Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)

• Ulysses
• In Memoriam
• Maud
• The Charge of the Light Brigade
• Idylls of the King

-- Robert Browning (1812-1889) -- (collected works)

• Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came
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• Caliban Upon Setebos
• The Bishop Orders His Tomb
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• My Last Duchess
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• Fra Lippo Lippi
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• Andrea del Sarto
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-- Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

• Our Mutual Friend
• Little Dorrit
• Bleak House

-- George Eliot -- Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880)

• Adam Bede
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• Middlemarch

-- William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863)

• Vanity Fair

-- Anthony Trollope (1815-1882)

• The Way We Live Now

-- Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)

• Jude the Obscure
• Channel Firing
• New Year's Eve

-- Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)

• Dover Beach
• The Buried Life
• Stanzas on the Grande Chartreuse
• Culture and Anarchy

-- Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)

• The Blessed Damozel (1850)
• The House of Life (1870)

-- Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) -- (collected works)

• Goblin Market
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-- Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909)

• In the Orchard
• Hymn to Proserpine
• Dolores

-- Walter Pater (1839-1894)

• The Renaissance: Winckelmann and Conclusion (1873)

-- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

• The Importance of Being Earnest
• The Picture of Dorian Gray

-- George Gissing (1857-1903)

• New Grub Street (1891)

-- Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)

• The Windhover
• Duns Scotus' Oxford
• Spring and Fall

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