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Unit I: History of British Poetry from the beginnings to the Twentieth Century. 1. Chaucer’s contribution to British Poetry. 2. The Elizabethan Sonnet Tradition. 3. The Metaphysical School of Poets. 4. Eighteenth century Satire. Romantic Poetry. Victorian Poetry. Pre-Raphaelite Poetry. Modern Poetry. Unit II: British Poetry: Fourteenth to Seventeenth Centuries. 1. Geoffrey Chaucer: The Nun’s Priest’s Tale. 2. William Shakespeare: Sonnet Nos. 29 & 130. 3. Edmund Spenser: “Amoretti” No.78. 4. John Donne: “The Canonization”. Unit III: British Poetry: Seventeenth to Eighteenth Centuries. 78 1. John Milton: Paradise Lost, Book 1. 2. John Dryden: Mac Flecknoe. Unit IV: British Poetry: The Romantics and the Victorians. 1. William Wordsworth: “The Daffodils”. 2. Percy Bysshe Shelley: “To a Skylark”. 3. John Keats: “Ode on a Grecian Urn”. 4. Alfred Tennyson: “The Lotos-Eaters”. 5. Robert Browning: “My Last Duchess”. 6. Christina Rossetti: “When I am dead, my dearest”. Unit V: British Poetry: The Twentieth Century. 1. W.B. Yeats: “The Second Coming”. 2. T.S. Eliot: “The Hollow Men”. 3. W. H. Auden: “The Unknown Citizen”. 4. Wilfred Owen: “Strange Meeting”. 5. Dylan Thomas: “Fern Hil