Virginia Woolf Radio Recording
Listen to this delightful 1937 BBC recording of English author Virginia Woolf talking about words. Her love for words clearly comes through — be sure to notice her use of personification and metaphor. Just...
Category: E4-Resources
British Literature Videos
Each module has a page with links from the British Literature study guide, and those pages will have the most complete listings of all the helpful resources you’ll use for that module. However, I...
No Coward Soul is Mine by Emily Brontë
“No Coward Soul is Mine” by Emily Bronte was first published in Poems of Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell in 1846. Although the Bronte sisters had published this poetry collection in the hope of...
Honors Texts for British Literature
Honors Texts for British Literature (E4) The Honors Track for British Literature is outlined in the study guide and involves additional reading and writing and an optional exam. Another way you can use the honors texts is if you’ve...
Wuthering Heights Family Trees
Wuthering Heights Family Trees from Sara Selby Wuthering Heights can prove difficult for the first-time reader. Because names are repeated for characters in different generations, confusion is understandable. A pedigree developed by Charles Percy...
Hareton Earnshaw Lineage in Wuthering Heights
A Wuthering Heights Family Tree from Sara Selby Hareton Earnshaw’s Lineage:
Linton Heathcliff Lineage in Wuthering Heights
A Wuthering Heights Family Tree from Sara Selby Linton Heathcliff’s Lineage:
Catherine Linton Lineage in Wuthering Heights
A Wuthering Heights Family Tree from Sara Selby Catherine Linton’s Lineage:
Linton Line of Descent in Wuthering Heights
A Wuthering Heights Family Tree from Sara Selby The Linton Line of Descent:
Earnshaw Line of Descent in Wuthering Heights
A Wuthering Heights Family Tree from Sara Selby The Earnshaw Line of Descent:
Texts for British Literature
English IV: British Literature, A Survey Course What does British Literature cover? British Literature is a college-preparatory chronological literary survey course. Focus works, including novels, short stories, poems, and drama, have been selected for...
Lord Byron Poetry
George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824) was a Romantic writer who lead a dramatic life filled with passion, poetry, praise, and pitfalls. He traveled widely, wrote with intense emotion, and became famous after the publication...
Darkness by George Gordon Lord Byron
Darkness (1816) by George Gordon Lord Byron The year [1816] that the poem was written was known as the Year Without a Summer– this is because Mount Tambora had erupted in the Dutch East...
She Walks in Beauty by George Gordon, Lord Byron
She Walks in Beauty by George Gordon, Lord Byron I She walks in beauty—like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies, And all that’s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect...
Prometheus by George Gordon Lord Byron
Prometheus by George Gordon, Lord Byron Titan! to whose immortal eyes The sufferings of mortality, Seen in their sad reality, Were not as things that gods despise; What was thy pity’s recompense? A silent...
William Blake Poetry
William Blake Poetry William Blake (1757-1827) was a British Romantic poet and painter. He is most well known for his Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience; his own engravings illustrated these and many...
The Ecchoing Green by William Blake
“The Ecchoing Green” was first published in 1789 as part of William Blake’s Songs of Innocence. This happy poem depicts children playing in the green space of a town, evoking happy memories for the older...
A Divine Image by William Blake
A Divine Image by William Blake Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face; Terror the human form divine, And Secresy the human dress. The human dress is forged iron, The human...
Earth’s Answer by William Blake
EARTH’S ANSWER from Songs of Experience by William Blake Earth raised up her head From the darkness dread and drear, Her light fled, Stony, dread, And her locks covered...
Songs of Experience Introduction by William Blake
SONGS OF EXPERIENCE by William Blake INTRODUCTION Hear the voice of the Bard, Who present, past, and future, sees; Whose ears have heard The Holy Word That walked among the ancient tree; Calling the...
Songs of Innocence Introduction by William Blake
Songs of Innocence by William Blake INTRODUCTION Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me: “Pipe a song about...
Charles Lamb Index
Charles Lamb and his sister Mary Lamb wrote shorter versions of many classic tales, some of which are assigned in EIL as introductions to the full-length original classics.
Chaucer Study Questions by Dr. Wheeler
Here is an index to the Chaucer study questions by Dr. L. Kip Wheeler which are referenced in British Literature (EIL4). Dr. Wheeler is an English professor at Carson-Newman College in Tennessee. Study Questions...
Part 2 Wheeler Chaucer Study Questions
201 Study Questions for Chaucer’s General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales (second half) by Dr. L Kip Wheeler Vocabulary: the bodily humors, church summoner, pardoner, pardon (or indulgence), pilgrimage, reeve, relic Introduction: Lecture or...
Wheeler’s Chaucer Study Questions, Part 1
Study Questions for Chaucer’s General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales (first half) by Dr. L Kip Wheeler Vocabulary: frame narrative, ambiguity, bourgeoisie, satire, stereotype, relic, unreliable narrator, guild, Great Vowel Shift, Middle English, Epicureanism....
Victorian and Modern Comparison by Melba Cuddy-Keane
Comparison of Victorian and Modern Novel Characteristics by Dr. Melba Cuddy-Keane An exercise in relational definition: Early comparisons between the Victorian novel and the modernist novel set up the following binaries: (Also compare the later...
My Last Duchess by Robert Browning
My Last Duchess by Robert Browning [This poem comes from Browning’s Shorter Poems, edited by Franklin Baker, published in 1917 and now in the public domain. Mr. Baker’s introductory and line notes are included...
Caliban upon Setebos by Robert Browning
CALIBAN UPON SETEBOS OR, NATURAL THEOLOGY IN THE ISLAND by Robert Browning from Browning’s Shorter Poems: Selected and Edited by Franklin Baker, Professor of English in Teachers College, Columbia University. Fourth edition, The Macmillan...
Dr. Drake’s Chaucer Study Questions
Geoffery Chaucer Study Questions by Dr. Alfred J. Drake “General Prologue” to Canterbury Tales 1. What is the basic purpose of the “General Prologue?” 2. Study lines 1-18. What seem to be the motives...
T S Eliot Poetry
Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965) was a great Modernist poet who converted to Christianity mid-way through his career. He was a contemporary of Joseph Conrad, George Bernard Shaw, and Virginia Woolf, to name just a...
