Introduction John Milton,‘Lycidas,’; Ben Jonson, ‘On My First Sonne’
1.William Shakespeare, from Sonnets
2.Thomas Gray, ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’
3.William Wordsworth, ‘The Solitary Reaper’
4.John Keats, ‘Ode to a Nightingale’
5.P.B. Shelley, ‘To a Skylark’
6.Walt Whitman, ‘O Captain! My Captain!’
7.Alfred, Lord Tennyson, ‘Crossing the Bar’
8.Thomas Hardy, ‘The Voice’
9.Thomas Hardy, ‘After a Journey’
10.William Butler Yeats, ‘Easter 1914’
11. W.H. Auden, ‘In Memory of W.B.Yeats’
12. Philip Larkin ‘Mr Bleaney’
13. Andrew Motion, 'The Dancing Hippo'