English Literature

This is a curriculum of English language literature designed to cover up to six years of secondary study, with further readings listed for exploration.

You will notice that this curriculum mostly focuses on prose over poetry, which has its own curricula; poets who are represented for the most part will refer to their dramatic works or other work as men of letters.

Obviously, the structure is merely a suggestion.

Medieval Era

Lower Secondary:

Upper Secondary:

Beowulf Bede Geoffrey of Monmouth Alfred the Great William of Malmesbury John of Salisbury Thomas Malory Chaucer

Reformation

Lower Secondary:

Upper Secondary:

Thomas More Richard Hooker Thomas Cranmer Francis Bacon Richard Burton Thomas Nashe Ben Jonson John Bunyan Izaak Walton Shakespeare Samuel Pepys John Evelyn John Milton Richard Baxter John Owen

Restoration & Enlightenment

Lower Secondary:

Upper Secondary:

Daniel Defoe Jonathan Swift Addison & Steele Henry Fielding Laurence Sterne Tobias Smollett Oliver Goldsmith Horace Walpole James Boswell Edward Gibbon John Locke Thomas Hobbes David Hume Adam Smith

Romantic & Early Victorian

Lower Secondary:

Upper Secondary:

Edmund Burke Mary Wollstonecraft Jane Austen Sir Walter Scott Charles Dickens William Makepeace Thackeray The Brontë Sisters George Eliot Samuel Taylor Coleridge William Hazlitt

Later Victorian

Lower Secondary:

Upper Secondary:

Thomas Hardy Anthony Trollope Charles Darwin Robert Louis Stevenson H. Rider Haggard Rudyard Kipling John Henry Newman Thomas Carlyle John Stuart Mill Thomas Macaulay John Ruskin William Morris George MacDonald Henry James

Modern

Lower Secondary:

Upper Secondary:

Joseph Conrad H.G. Wells D. H. Lawrence E. M. Forster Virginia Woolf Aldous Huxley Graham Greene Evelyn Waugh George Orwell P.G. Wodehouse Roald Dahl Auden T.S. Eliot C. S. Lewis J. R. R. Tolkien Kingsley Amis Anthony Burgess