Overview : the Middle Ages
The Old English elegies : The wanderer and The wife's lament
The Anglo-Saxon chronicle and French legendary histories
The medieval beast fable : Marie de France, Geoffrey Chaucer's The nun's priest's tale, and Robert Henryson's The cock and the fox
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury tales
William Langland, Piers Plowman
Allegory in the morality play and its literary legacy
Mystery plays : The Wakefield second shepherd's play
Sir Thomas Malory, Morte Darthur
Overview : the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries
The Bible and prayer book
Robert Southwell, 'The burning babe'
Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus
John Webster, The duchess of Malfi
Andrew Marvell, 'Upon Appleton House'
Overview : the Restoration and the eighteenth century
William Congreve, The way of the world
Joseph Addison and Sir Richard Steele
Alexander Pope, Essay on man
James Boswell, Life of Johnson
Oliver Goldsmith, 'The deserted village'
Apocalyptic and the idea of Jerusalem
William Blake, Songs of innocence and experience
William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lyrical ballads
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 'The rime of the ancient mariner'
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Overview : the Victorian period
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Alfred Lord Tennyson, In memoriam
Francis Thompson, 'The hound of heaven'
Overview : the twentieth century
Joseph Conrad, Heart of darkness
Edith Sitwell, 'Still falls the rain'
W. H. Auden, 'Horae canonicae'
Edna O'Brien, Sister Imelda
The story line of the Bible
The relationship between the Old Testament and the New Testament
Christian history and theology
