They flee from me / Sir Thomas Wyatt, Essay by Richard Howard
The lie / Sir Walter Raleigh, Essay by Joseph Bennett
Epithalamion / Edmund Spenser, Essay by Walter James Miller
Loving in truth / Sir Philip Sidnery, Essay by Walter James Miller
The phoenix and the turtle / William Shakespeare, Essay by William Empson
Sonnets / William Shakespeare, Essays by Robert Gorham Davis, William Empson
Speeches from the plays of William Shakespeare, Essay by Walter James Miller
To Celia / Ben Jonson, essay by Earle Birney
An anatomie of the world / John Donne, Essay by Robert M. Bender
The canonization / John Donne, Essay by Edwin Honig
A valediction: forbidding mourning / John Donne, Essay by I. a. Richards
The extasie / John Donne / Essay by I.A. Richards
Holy sonnets / John Donne / Essay by A. Alvarez
Hymne to God my God in my sicknesse / John Donne, Essay by Louis L. Martz
To the virgin, to make much of time / Robert Herrick, Essay by Anthony Ostroff
The collar / George Herbert, Essay by Dudley Fitts
Song / Thomas Carew, Essay by Mark Van Doren
On the morning of Christ's nativity / John Milton, Essay by Jackson Mathews
Lycidas / John Milton, Essay by Richard P. Adams
Il Pensereso / John Milton, Essay / Richard Wilbur
The teare / Richard Crashaw, Essay by Dudley Fitts
To his coy mistress / Andrew Marvell, Essay by William Empson
The world / Henry Vaughan, Essay by R.A. Durr
A song for St. Cecilia' day / John Dryden, Essay by David Daichees
A satire against mankind / John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, Essay by Robert M. Bender
Verses on the death of Dr. Swift, D.S.P.D. / Jonathan Swift, Essay by Jacques Barzun
The rape of the lock / Alexander Pope, Essay by A.J.M. Smith
The vanity of human wishes / Samuel Johnson, Essay by Donald Davie
Elegy written in a country churchyard / Thomas Gray, Essay by Cleanth Brooks
Ode to evening / William Colins, Essay by David Daiches.
A song to David / Christopher Smart, Essay by James Dickey
The deserted village / Oliver Goldsmith, Essay by Charles Tomlinson
Auguries of innocense / William Blake, Essay by Kathleen Raine
The tyger / William Blake, Essay by Roy P. Basler
The mental traveller / William Blake, Essay by Northrop Frye
A man's a man for A / William Blake, Essay by Paul Goodman
Ode: intimations of immortality / William Wordsworth, Essay by Lionel Trilling
I wandered lonely as a cloud / William Wordsworth, Essay by Louis Coxe
Lines composed a few miles about Tintern Abbey / William Wordsworth, Essay by Richard Eberhart
Resolution and independence / William Wordsworth, Essay by Geoffrey Grigson
Kubla Khan: or, A vision in a dream / Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Essay by Kenneth Burke
The rime of the ancient mariner / Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Essay by E.M.W. Tillyard
Dejection: an ode / Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Essay by Sir aherbert Read
The vision of judgment / George Gordon, Lord Byron, Essay by Peter Quennell
Adonais / Percy Bysshe Shelley, Essay by Edwin Honig, Carlos Baker
The triumph of life / Percy Bysshe Shelley, Essay by Kenneth Burke
Ode to a nightingale / John Keats, Essay by Cleanth Brooks
La Belle dame sans merci / John Keats, Essay by Robert Graves
The eve of St. Agnes / John Keats, Essay by William Stafford
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam of Naishapur / Edward Fitzgerald, Essay by C.M. Bowra
The two voices / Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Essay by George Barker
Tears, idle tears / Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Essay by Cleanth Brooks
Rabbi Ben Ezra/ Robert Browning, Essay by Roy P. Basler
My last duchess / Robert Browning, Essay by Edwin Honig
Remembrance / Emily Bronte, Essay by Reed Whittemore
Memories of President Lincoln: when lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd / Walt Whitman, Essay by Geoffrey Grigson
I sing the body electric / Walt Whitman, Essay by Mark Strand
Dover Beach / Matthew Arnold, Essay by James Dickey.
The scholar-gipsy / Matthew Arnold, Essay by Arthur Mizener
The blessed Damozel / Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Essay by David Daiches
The convent threshold / Christina Rosetti, Essay by William Stafford
Death / Emily Dickinson, Essay by D.S. Savage
The hunting of the snark / Charles L. Dodgson, Essay by Richard Howard
Two choruses from Atalanta in Calydon / Algernon Charles Swinburne, Essay by Bonamy Dobree
The darkling thrush / Thomas Hardy, Essay by John Berryman
The wreck of the Deutschland / Gerard Manley Hopkins, Essay by Chad Walsh
The hound of heaven / Francis Thompson, Essay by James Dickey
Selections from A. Shropshire lad / A.E. Housman, Essay by A.J.M. Smith
Sailing to Byzantium / William Butler Yeats, Essay by Elder Olson
A prayer for my daughter / William Butler Yeats, Sarah Youngblood
The second coming / William Butler Yeats, Essay by Richard P. Blackmur
Nineteen hundred and nineteen / William Butler Yeats, Essay by Robin Skelton
A dialogue of self and soul / William Butler Yeats, Essay by Reed Whittemore
Richard Cory / Edwin Arlington Robinson, Essay by Mark Strand
Two tramps in mud time / Robert Frost, Essay by Robert Penn Warren
Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / Robert Frost, Essay by James Wright
Directive / Robert Frost, Essay by Philip Booth
Sunday morning / Wallace Stevens, Essay by John Crowe Ransom
The yachts / William Carlos Williams, Essay by James Dickey
The ship of death / D.H. Lawrence, Essay by Edwin Honig
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley / Ezra Pound, Essay by William Van O'Connor
The transfiguration / Edwin Muir, Essay by Anne Ridler
Spenser's Ireland / Marianne Moore, Essay by Josephine Miles
The waste land / T.S. Eliot.