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M A N Y V O I C E S L I T E R A T U R E

BRITISH LITERATURE:

Perfection Learning®

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CONTENTS IN BRIEFO O P

UNIT ONEThe Anglo-Saxon Period: 449–1066

UNIT TWOThe Middle Ages: 1066–1485

UNIT THREEThe Renaissance: 1485–1660

UNIT FOURThe Restoration and the Enlightenment: 1660–1798

UNIT FIVEThe Romantic Period: 1798–1832

UNIT SIXThe Victorian Age: 1832–1901

UNIT SEVENThe Modern Era: 1901–Present

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To the Student . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

UNIT ONE The Anglo-Saxon Period: 449–1066Eye on an Era: Political, Cultural, and Literary Milestones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16A Teen of the Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21Understanding the Anglo-Saxon Period: Compare and Contrast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23Burton Raffel, translator “Grendel” epic poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

“The Coming of Beowulf” epic poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28“The Battle with Grendel” epic poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36Burton Raffel, translator “Grendel’s Mother” epic poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

“The Battle with Grendel’s Mother” epic poem . . . . . . . . 38After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45Burton Raffel, translator “The Battle with the Dragon” epic poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

“The Death of Beowulf” epic poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61Ann Stanford, translator “The Seafarer” poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

“The Wanderer” poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66“The Wife’s Lament” poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Connecting Eras: Compare and Contrast“Beowulf: A Hero for Our Times” by Paul Vallely newspaper article . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

TABLE OF CONTENTSO O P P

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UNIT TWO The Middle Ages: 1066–1485Eye on an Era: Political, Cultural, and Literary Milestones 86A Teen of the Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91Understanding the Middle Ages: Cause and Effect . . . . . . . 92

Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93Geoffrey Chaucer *from the Prologue of The Canterbury Tales poem . . . . . . 94

After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147Geoffrey Chaucer *The Canterbury Tales: “The Pardoner’s Tale” poem . . . . 1 48

After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales: Prologue from “The Wife of Bath’s Tale” poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

The Canterbury Tales: “The Wife of Bath’s Tale” poem . . 170After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187Author Unknown *“Lord Randal” ballad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

*“Get Up and Bar the Door” ballad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197The Pearl Poet *from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight poem . . . . . . . . . 198

After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218

Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219Sir Thomas Malory from Le Morte d’Arthur epic tale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230

Connecting Eras: Cause and Effectfrom Guenevere, Queen of the North Country by Rosalind Miles novel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230

UNIT THREE The Renaissance: 1485–1660Eye on an Era: Political, Cultural, and Literary Milestones 242A Teen of the Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247Understanding the Renaissance: Generalize . . . . . . . . . . 248

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Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249Sir Thomas Wyatt *“Whoso List to Hunt” poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250Edmund Spenser *“Sonnet 30” poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252

After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254

Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256Christopher Marlowe “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” lyric poem . . . . 257Sir Walter Raleigh “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” lyric poem . . . . . 258

After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260

Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262William Shakespeare Sonnet 29 poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

Sonnet 116 poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264Sonnet 130 poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266

MACBETH by William ShakespeareShakespeare’s London . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268Understanding Macbeth: Infer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272

Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273*Act I, Scene I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274*Act I, Scene II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278*Act I, Scene III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286*Act I, Scene IV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300*Act I, Scene V . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306*Act I, Scene VI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312*Act I, Scene VII . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316

After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324

Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326*Act II, Scene I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328*Act II, Scene II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334*Act II, Scene III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342*Act II, Scene IV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358

After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364

Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366Act III, Scene I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367Act III, Scene II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374Act III, Scene III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377

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Act III, Scene IV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379Act III, Scene V . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387Act III, Scene VI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389

After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391

Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393Act IV, Scene I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394Act IV, Scene II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402Act IV, Scene III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407

After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418

Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420Act V, Scene I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421Act V, Scene II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425Act V, Scene III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427Act V, Scene IV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430Act V, Scene V . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432Act V, Scene VI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435Act V, Scene VII. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436Act V, Scene VIII . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438

After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442

Connecting Eras: Inferfrom The Third Witch by Rebecca Reisert novel . . . . . . . 444

Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449John Donne *“A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” poem . . . . . . . 450

*“Meditation 17” poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454“Holy Sonnet 10” poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458

After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459

Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461Ben Jonson *“On My First Son” poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462

*“Song: To Celia” poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466

Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468Robert Herrick *“To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time” poem . . . . . . 470Andrew Marvell *“To His Coy Mistress” poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472Richard Lovelace *“To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars” poem . . . . . . . . . . 476

After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478

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Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 480John Milton *“How Soon Hath Time” poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482

*“When I Consider How My Light Is Spent” poem . . . . 484*from Paradise Lost epic poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 486

After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504

Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506King James Bible Psalm 23 scripture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507

The Parable of the Prodigal Son scripture . . . . . . . . . . . 508After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 510

Connecting Eras: Generalizefrom Milton in America by Peter Ackroyd novel . . . . . . . 512

UNIT FOUR The Restoration and the Enlightenment: 1660–1798

Eye on an Era: Political, Cultural, and Literary Milestones 520A Teen of the Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525Understanding the Restoration and the Enlightenment: Classify . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 526

Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527Samuel Pepys from The Diary of Samuel Pepys diary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 528

After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 534

Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535Alexander Pope *“An Essay on Man” essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 536

*The Rape of the Lock: Cantos III and V poem . . . . . . . . 538After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 550

Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 551Jonathan Swift from Gulliver’s Travels novel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 552

*“A Modest Proposal” essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 556After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 586

Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587James Boswell from The Life of Samuel Johnson biography . . . . . . . . . . . . 588

After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 596

Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 597Thomas Gray “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” poem . . . . . . 598

After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 603

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Exploring the Classics: Daniel Defoe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 604Connecting Eras: Classify

The Tribes of Britain by David Miles: Reviewed by Bryan Appleyard book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 605

UNIT FIVE The Romantic Period: 1798–1832Eye on an Era: Political, Cultural, and Literary Milestones 612A Teen of the Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 617Understanding the Romantic Period: Synthesize . . . . . . . 618

Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 619Robert Burns “To a Mouse” poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 620

After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 623

Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 625William Blake “The Lamb” from Songs of Innocence poem . . . . . . . . . . 626

“The Tyger” from Songs of Experience poem . . . . . . . . . . 627“The Chimney Sweeper” from Songs of Innocence poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 628“The Chimney Sweeper” from Songs of Experience poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 629

After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 630

Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 632William Wordsworth “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey” poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 633

“Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802” poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 639“The World Is Too Much with Us” poem . . . . . . . . . . . . 640“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . 641

After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 642

Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 644Samuel Taylor Coleridge “Kubla Khan” poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 645

“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” poem . . . . . . . . . . 647After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 670

Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 672George Gordon, Lord Byron “She Walks in Beauty” poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 673

from Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 674After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 677

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Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 679Percy Bysshe Shelley “Ozymandias” poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 680

“Ode to the West Wind” poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 681“To a Skylark” poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 685

After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 689

Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 690John Keats “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer” poem . . . . 691

“When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be” poem . . . 692“Ode on a Grecian Urn” poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 693“Ode to a Nightingale” poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 696

After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 700

Exploring the Classics: Mary Shelley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 702Connecting Eras: Synthesize

“The Zen of Eminem” by Zadie Smith magazine interview 704

UNIT SIX The Victorian Age: 1832–1901Eye on an Era: Political, Cultural, and Literary Milestones 714A Teen of the Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 719Understanding the Victorian Age: Analyze . . . . . . . . . . . 720

Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 721Alfred, Lord Tennyson “The Lady of Shalott” poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 722

“Ulysses” poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 728from In Memoriam, A. H. H. poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 731“Crossing the Bar” poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 733

After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 734

Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 735Robert Browning “My Last Duchess” poem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 736Elizabeth Barrett Browning “Sonnet 43” poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 738

After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 739

Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 740Gerard Manley Hopkins “Pied Beauty” poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 741

“Spring and Fall” poem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 742After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 743

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Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 744Anthony Trollope “Malachi’s Cove” short story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 745

After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 766

Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 767Elizabeth Gaskell “Christmas Storms and Sunshine” short story . . . . . . . . 768

After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 780

Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 781Matthew Arnold “Dover Beach” poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 782

After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 784

Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 785A. E. Housman “To an Athlete Dying Young” poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 786

“When I Was One-and-Twenty” poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . 788After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 789

Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 790Thomas Hardy “The Darkling Thrush” poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 791

“Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?” poem . . . . . . . . . 793After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 795

Exploring the Classics: Oscar Wilde, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 796Connecting Eras: Analyze

“Mrs. Gaskell” by Virginia Woolf book review . . . . . . . . 798

UNIT SEVEN The Modern Era: 1901–PresentEye on an Era: Political, Cultural, and Literary Milestones 806A Teen of the Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 811Understanding the Modern Era: Evaluate . . . . . . . . . . . . 812

Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 813William Butler Yeats “The Second Coming” poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 814

“Sailing to Byzantium” poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 815“When You Are Old” poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 817

After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 818

Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 819D. H. Lawrence “The Rocking-Horse Winner” short story . . . . . . . . . . . 820

After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 836

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Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 838James Joyce “Araby” short story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 839

After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 846

Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 848Katherine Mansfield “A Cup of Tea” short story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 849

After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 858

Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 860Virginia Woolf from A Room of One’s Own essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 861

After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 870

Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 872T. S. Eliot “Preludes” poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 873

“The Hollow Men” poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 876After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 880

Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 881W. H. Auden “Musée des Beaux Arts” poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 882

After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 884

Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 885Dylan Thomas “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” poem . . . . . 886

“Fern Hill” poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 887After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 890

Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 891Graham Greene “A Shocking Accident” short story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 892

After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 899

Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 901Wilfred Owen “Dulce et Decorum Est” poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 902Rupert Brooke “The Soldier” poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 904Siegfried Sassoon “Dreamers” poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 905

After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 906

Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 908George Orwell “Shooting an Elephant” essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 909

After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 917

Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 919Winston Churchill “Be Ye Men of Valor” (May 19, 1940) speech . . . . . . . . . 920

After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 924

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Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 925Seamus Heaney “Digging” poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 926Ted Hughes “The Horses” poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 928

After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 930

Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 931Stevie Smith “The Frog Prince” poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 932

“Not Waving but Drowning” poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 934After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 935

Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 936Doris Lessing “A Sunrise on the Veld” short story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 937

After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 946

Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 948Nadine Gordimer “The Train from Rhodesia” short story . . . . . . . . . . . . . 949

After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 955

Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 957V. S. Naipaul “B. Wordsworth” short story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 958

After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 965

Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 966Derek Walcott from Midsummer poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 967Margaret Atwood “Elegy for the Giant Tortoises” poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 969

After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 970

Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 972Anita Desai “A Devoted Son” short story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 973

After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 983

Exploring the Classics: Samuel Beckett, Chinua Achebe . 984Connecting Eras: Evaluate

“Remember the Ship” and “Windrush Child” by John Agard poems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 986

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