Syllabus/achievement requirements

Novels + extracts from novels

  • Ann Radcliffe, extract from The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794)*
  • Matthew Lewis, The Monk (1796) – Oxford World’s Classics Edition
  • Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
  • Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
  • Thomas De Quincey, extracts from Confessions of an English Opium Eater

Non-fiction prose works

  • Edmund Burke, extract from Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)*
  • Mary Wollstonecraft, extract from A Vindication on the Rights of Men (1790)*
  • Thomas Paine, extract from Rights of Man (1791)*
  • Mary Wollstonecraft, extract from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)*
  • William Wordsworth, extracts from ‘Preface to the Lyrical Ballads’ (1802)*

Poems

  • Anna Letitia Barbauld, ‘The Rights of Woman’ (1792-5)*
  • William Blake, ‘The Tyger’ and ‘The Lamb’ (1794 and 1789)*
  • William Wordsworth, ‘London, 1802’ (1802)*
  • Charlotte Smith, ‘The Swallow’ (1807)*
  • William Wordsworth, ‘Composed Upon Westminster Bridge’ (1807)*
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ‘Kubla Khan’ (1797-8; published 1816)*
  • Percy Shelley, ‘To Wordsworth’ (1818)*
  • John Keats, ‘Sonnet on the Sonnet’ (c.1818) – available through Literature Online
  • John Keats, ‘To Autumn’ (1820)*

+ The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 10th edition, vol. D, ‘The Romantic Period’

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