Reading Assignments: British Poets

Assignment #1

Wordsworth:

Daffodils 53

The Rainbow 60

The Solitary Reaper 60-61

Surprised by Joy 67

Tintern Abbey 74-75

Assignment #2

Byron:

There’s Not a Joy 125-126

So, We’ll Go No More A-Roving 126

Darkness 131-133

Assignment #3

Shelley:

Ozymandias 166-167

Ode to the West Wind 169-171

Keats:

La Belle Dame Sans Merci 188-189

A Thing of Beauty 201

Assignment #4

Tennyson:

The Lotus-Eaters 221-222

Tears, Idle Tears 227

The Eagle 230

Strong Son of God, Immortal Love 230-231

Dark House 232

If One Should Bring Me This Report 232-233

Yet We Trust  235

Assignment #5

Browning:

Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister 259-261

Hopkins:

God’s Grandeur 349

The Windhover: 351