Second Semester Essay Texts
Swift, Jonathan. “A Modest Proposal.” Prentice Hall: The British Tradition. Essay.
The Truman Show. Dir. Pete Weir. Perf. Jim Carrey. Paramount Pictures, 1998.
Keats, John. “Ode to a Nightingale.” Poem.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “Brockley Coomb.” Poem.
Arnold, Matthew. “Dover Beach.” Poem.
Lord Byron. “My Soul is Dark” Poem.
Lord Byron. “She Walks in Beauty.” Poem.
Blake, William. “The Chimney Sweeper.” Poem.
Shelley, Percy. “The Moon.” Poem.
Keats, John. “To Autumn.” Poem.
Keats, John. “When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be.” Poem.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “Work Without Hope.” Poem.
Shakespeare, William. Hamlet. Play.
Shakespeare, William. No Fear: Shakespeare: Hamlet. Trans. John Crowther. New York: SparkNotes, 2003. Print.
William Shakespeare's Hamlet. Dir. Kenneth Branagh. By Kenneth Branagh and Patrick Doyle. Prod. David Barron. Perf. Kenneth Branagh, Julie Christie, and Derek Jacobi. Columbia Pictures, 1996. Film.
The Lion King. Perf. Matthew Broderick, James Earl Jones, Jeremy Irons. Disney Pictures, 1994. Film.
Wollstonecraft, Mary. “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.” Prentice Hall: The British Tradition. Essay.
“Woman’s Wrongs, and How to Redress Them.” Massachusetts Ploughman and New England Journal of Agriculture. November 30, 1850. Essay.
Woolf, Virginia. “The New Dress” 1924. Short Story.
Owen, Wilfred. “Dulce et Decorum” 1918. Poem.
Owen, Wilfred. “Anthem for Doomed Youth.” Prentice Hall: The British Tradition. Poem.
Brooke, Rupert. “The Soldier” Prentice Hall: The British Tradition. Poem.
Tennyson, Alfred. “The Charge of the Light Brigade” 1854. Poem.
Credence Clearwater Revival. “Fortunate Son.” 1969. Song.
Desai, Anita. “A Devoted Son.” Prentice Hall: The British Tradition. Short Story.
Orwell, George. “Shooting an Elephant.” Prentice Hall: The British Tradition. Essay.
Lessing, Doris. “No Witchcraft for Sale.” Prentice Hall: The British Tradition. Short Story.
“I Shot an Arrow into the Air.” The Twilight Zone. Prod. Rod Serling. 1962. Television.
“To Serve Man.” The Twilight Zone. Prod. Rod Serling. 1962. Television.
Golding, William. Lord of the Flies. 1954. New York: Penguin, 2006. Novel.
Thomas, Dylan. “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night.” Prentice Hall: The British Tradition. Poem.
Henley, William Ernest. “Invictus.” 1888. Poem.
Invictus. Dir. Clint Eastwood. Perf. Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon. Warner Bros. Pictures, 2009. Film.