Glencoe World Geography

Unit 4: Europe

Literature Connections

Glencoe Literature: The Reader's Choice
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from the Aeneid by Virgil
"Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?" by Thomas Hardy
An Ancient Gesture by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Antigone by Sophocles
from the Apology: from the Dialogues by Plato
Araby by James Joyce
Arthur Becomes King, from The Once and Future King by T. H. White
At Last It's Come by Sulpicia
Be Ye Men of Valor by Winston Churchill
from Beowulf by Anonymous
The Bet by Anton Chekhov
Better to Live, Licinius by Horace
A Birthday by Christina Rossetti
Bisclavret: The Lay of the Werewolf by Marie de France
Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind by William Shakespeare
The Blue Jar by Isak Dinesen
Bonny Barbara Allan by Anonymous
from The Book of Margery Kempe by Margery Kempe
The Burning of Rome: from the Annals by Tacitus
from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allen Poe
from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage by George Gordon, Lord Byron
A Child's Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas
The Constant Lover by Sir John Suckling
Counting the Beats by Robert Graves
Crossing the Bar by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
A Cup of Tea by Katherine Mansfield
The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy
Death Be Not Proud by John Donne
from the Decameron: Federigo's Falcon by Giovanni Boccaccio
The Demon Lover by Elizabeth Bowen
from The Diary of Fanny Burney by Fanny Burney
from The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys
from A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas
The Dog and the Wolf by Aesop
A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold
Dreamers by Siegfried Sassoon
The Duke's Children by Frank O'Connor
Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen
from The Ecclesiastical History of the English People by the Venerable Bede
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray
Encounter by Czeslaw Milosz
Epigrams by Alexander Pope
from An Essay of Dramatic Poesy by John Dryden
from An Essay on Man by Alexander Pope
from Everyman by Anonymous
Eve's Apology by Aemilia Lanyer
The False Gems by Guy de Maupassant
Fear No More the Heat o' the Sun by William Shakespeare
Fern Hill by Dylan Thomas
Follower by Seamus Heaney
For My Mother Said by Sappho
For the Sake of a Single Poem by Rainer Maria Rilke
The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower by Dylan Thomas
Gaston by William Saroyan
Gather Not Gold and Precious Stones by Edith Södergran
from Genesis, from the King James Bible
Get Up and Bar the Door by Anonymous
from Gilgamesh by Anonymous
The Guitar by Federico García Lorca
from Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
The Happy Man's Shirt retold by Italo Calvino
from The Histories by Herodotus
The Hollow Men by T. S. Eliot
How Soon Hath Time by John Milton
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth
from the Iliad by Homer
from In Memoriam A. H. H. by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In My Eyes He Matches the Gods by Sappho
In the terrible night by Fernando Pessoa
from the Inferno: from the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
The Interlopers by Saki
from The Introduction to Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
An Irish Airman Foresees His Death by William Butler Yeats
It Is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free by William Wordsworth
Ithaka by C. P. Cavafy
Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll
John Anderson, My Jo by Robert Burns
from A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe
from The Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth by Dorothy Wordsworth
Julius Caesar: Act 1 by William Shakespeare
La Belle Dame sans Merci by John Keats
The Lagoon by Joseph Conrad
The Lake Isle of Innisfree by William Butler Yeats
The Lamb by William Blake
Laura: from Canzoniere by Petrarch
from Le Morte d'Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory
Letter to Her Daughter by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Letter to Lord Chesterfield by Samuel Johnson
from The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell
Lines Composed A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth
The Lorelei by Heinich Heine
Lot's Wife by Wislawa Szymborska
The Lover Showeth How He Is Forsaken by Sir Thomas Wyatt
Mammie's Form at the Post Office by E. A. Markham
The Man He Killed by Thomas Hardy
The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe
Meditation 17 by John Donne
A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift
The Monkey's Paw by W. W. Jacobs
Most Beautiful of All the Stars by Sappho
Musée des Beaux Arts by W. H. Auden
My Heart Leaps Up by William Wordsworth
My Last Duchess by Robert Browning
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
Naming of Parts by Henry Reed
The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant
from Night by Elie Wiesel
Not Waving but Drowning by Stevie Smith
The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd by Sir Walter Raleigh
The Oak and the Reed by Jean de la Fontaine
Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats
Ode to the West Wind by Percy Bysshe Shelley
from the Odyssey by Homer
Oedipus the King by Sophocles
Of Studies by Sir Francis Bacon
On Her Loving Two Equally by Aphra Behn
On Monsieur's Departure by Elizabeth I
On My First Son by Ben Jonson
The Open Window by Saki
from Out Of Africa: The Iguana by Isak Dinesen
The Panther by Rainer Maria Rilke
from Paradise Lost by John Milton
The Passing of Arthur, from Idylls of the King by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Passionate Shepherd To His Love by Christopher Marlowe
People Who Want to Sue Me by Evelyn Waugh
Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins
from The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe
Pizza in Warsaw, Torte in Prague by Slavenka Drakulic
Poems of Catullus by Catullus
A Poison Tree by William Blake
Porphyria's Lover by Robert Browning
Preludes by T. S. Eliot
Pretty by Stevie Smith
Psalm 23, from the King James Bible
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
Rainforest by Judith Wright
The Raven and the Fox by Aesop
A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Ring by Isak Dinesen
The Rocking-Horse Winner by D. H. Lawrence
from A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
Russia 1812: from the Expiation by Victor Hugo
Sailing to Byzantium by William Butler Yeats
The Saleswoman by Colette
The Seafarer by Anonymous
The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats
Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day? by William Shakespeare
She Walks in Beauty by George Gordon, Lord Byron
A Shocking Accident by Graham Greene
Silent Noon by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Anonymous
Sir Patrick Spens by Anonymous
Siren Song by Margaret Atwood
The Soldier by Rupert Brooke
Some Say Thronging Calvary by Sappho
Song by John Donne
from the Song of Roland translated by Frederick Goldin
Song: To Celia by Ben Jonson
Sonnet 43 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sonnet 8 by Louise Labé
Sonnet 239 by Michelangelo
Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 73 by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 31 by Sir Philip Sidney
Sonnet 39 by Sir Philip Sidney
Sonnet 30 by Edmund Spenser
Sonnet 75 by Edmund Spenser
from The Spectator by Joseph Addison and Sir Richard Steele
Spring and Fall: To a Young Child by Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Story of Pyramus and Thisbe from the Metamorphoses by Ovid
That's All by Harold Pinter
Their Lonely Betters by W. H. Auden
Through the Tunnel by Doris Lessing
To a Mouse by Robert Burns
To a Skylark by Percy Bysshe Shelley
To Althea, from Prison by Richard Lovelace
To an Athlete Dying Young by A. E. Housman
To Autumn by John Keats
To Helen by Edgar Allan Poe
To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell
To Lucasta, Going to the Wars by Richard Lovelace
To The Virgins, to Make Much of Time by Robert Herrick
Tobermory by Saki
The Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare
The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
The Trojans by Constantine Cavafy
Two Memories of Sido: from Earthly Paradise by Colette
Two Sheep by Janet Frame
The Tyger by William Blake
Ulysses by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning by John Donne
from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
from The Voyage of Christopher Columbus by Christopher Columbus
Waiting for the Barbarians by Constantine P. Cavafy
War by Luigi Pirandello
Well, I Have Lost You; and I Lost You Fairly by Ena St. Vincent Millay
What I Expected by Stephen Spender
When I Consider How My Light Is Spent by John Milton
When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be by John Keats
When I was One-and-Twenty by A. E. Housman
When You Are Old by William Butler Yeats
Whoso List to Hunt by Sir Thomas Wyatt
Why So Pale and Wan, Fond Lover? by Sir John Suckling
The Wild Swans at Coole by William Butler Yeats
Wind by Ted Hughes
The World Is Too Much with Us by William Wordsworth
The World, My Friends, My Enemies, You, and the Earth by Nazim Hikmet