Ben's List

{Twelfth Grade English Edition}

The Passionate Shepherd to His Love - Marlowe

The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd - Raleigh

#130: My Mistress' Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun  - Shakespeare

Utopia - Sir Thomas Moore

A Valediction Forbidding Mourning - Donne

Death Be Not Proud - Donne

Batter My Heart - Donne

Meditation 17 - Donne

Of Studies - Sir Francis Bacon

On My First Son - Ben Johnson

Areopagitica - Milton

When I Consider How my Light is Spent - Milton

The Spectator 249 -Addison

A Modest Proposal - Jonathan Swift

School for Scandal - Richard Sheridan

Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Coleridge

The Poison Tree - Blake

Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey - Wordsworth

The World Is Too Much With Us - Wordsworth

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: "Storm in the Alps" - Byron

England in 1819 - Shelley

On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer - Keats

When I Have Fears - Keats

Vindication on the Rights of Women - Wollstonecraft

The Lady of Shallot - Tennyson

The Memoriam - Tennyson

Home Thoughts, From Abroad - Robert Browning

My Last Duchess - Browning

Preludes - T.S. Eliot

The Door in the Wall - H.G. Wells

The Rocking Horse Winner - D.H. Lawrence

Across the Bridge - Graham Greene

The Garden Party - Katherine Mansfield

Shooting an Elephant - Orwell

A Room of Her Own - Virginia Woolf

Paradise Lost - Milton

The Ballad of Reading Gaol - Wilde

Miss Youghal's Sais - Kipling

When I finished my senior year I was throwing away paper. My friend, Ben, caught me throwing away my English notes. He was obviously aghast. All those poems; whoosh. All those notes; gone. 

So to keep him from freaking out, I wrote this list of things that would be worth revisiting in later years. Some I did revisit, in the one college English course I shall ever take. (At least, that's the plan.) I think I should revisit a few more.

More recently, I had the opportunity of landing back in my old English classroom. Shalyn, another relanded alumni, requested Ben's List. So here it is for anyone who wants it. And for good measure, a picture of me and Shalyn revisiting Miss Young and causing (not too much) trouble.