| Term | Definition |
| The Vicar of Wakefield | Oliver Goldsmith |
| She Stoops to Conquer | Oliver Goldsmith |
| "The Deserted Village" | Oliver Goldsmith |
| The Good-Natur'd Man | Oliver Goldsmith |
| A Modest Proposal | Jonathan Swift |
| Gulliver's Travels | Jonathan Swift |
| "Auld Lang Syne" | Robert Burns |
| "A Red, Red Rose" | Robert Burns |
| "To a Louse" | Robert Burns |
| "To a Mouse" | Robert Burns |
| "A Man's A Man For A' That" | Robert Burns |
| Ivanhoe | Sir Walter Scott |
| Rob Roy | Sir Walter Scott |
| The Lady of the Lake | Sir Walter Scott |
| Waverley | Sir Walter Scott |
| Kidnapped | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| A Child's Garden of Verses | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Treasure Island | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Phantastes | George MacDonald |
| The Princess and the Goblin | George MacDonald |
| At the Back of the North Wind | George MacDonald |
| Lilith | George MacDonald |
| Peter Pan | J. M. Barrie |
| Lyrical Ballads | William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| The Prelude | William Wordsworth |
| "Lines Composed A Few Miles above Tintern Abbey" | William Wordsworth |
| "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" | William Wordsworth |
| "The world is too much with us" | William Wordsworth |
| The Rime of the Ancient Mariner | Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| Kubla Khan | Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience | William Blake |
| "Jerusalem" | William Blake |
| Visions of the Daughters of Albion | William Blake |
| Troilus and Criysede | Geoffrey Chaucer |
| Le Morte d'Arthur | Sir Thomas Malory |
| The Faerie Queene | Edmund Spenser |
| Astrophel | Edmund Spenser |
| Volpone, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair | Ben Jonson |
| "To Celia" | Ben Jonson |
| "On My First Sonne" | Ben Jonson |
| "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" | Christopher Marlowe |
| Hero and Leander | Christopher Marlowe |
| Tamburlaine | Christopher Marlowe |
| The Jew of Malta | Christopher Marlowe |
| Doctor Faustus | Christopher Marlowe |
| Holy Sonnets | John Donne |
| The Pilgrim's Progress | John Bunyan |
| "The Rape of the Lock" | Alexander Pope |
| "An Essay on Man" | Alexander Pope |
| Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe |
| Moll Flanders | Daniel Defoe |
| A Journal of the Plague Year | Daniel Defoe |
| Tom Jones | Henry Fielding |
| Shamela | Henry Fielding |
| Pamela | Samuel Richardson |
| Joseph Andrews | Henry Fielding |
| The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy, Gentleman | Laurence Sterne |
| Our Mutual Friend | Charles Dickens |
| Bleak House | Charles Dickens |
| The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit | Charles Dickens |
| Jane Eyre | Charlotte Brontë |
| Wuthering Heights | Emily Brontë |
| Agnes Grey | Anne Brontë |
| Vilette | Charlotte Brontë |
| Vanity Fair | William Makepeace Thackeray |
| Barchester Towers | Anthony Trollope |
| The Way We Live Now | Anthony Trollope |
| The Chronicles of Barsetshire | Anthony Trollope |
| Middlemarch | George Eliot |
| The Mill on the Floss | George Eliot |
| Silas Marner | George Eliot |
| Adam Bede | George Eliot |
| Daniel Deronda | George Eliot |
| Far From the Madding Crowd | Thomas Hardy |
| The Return of the Native | Thomas Hardy |
| The Mayor of Casterbridge | Thomas Hardy |
| Tess of the d'Urbervilles | Thomas Hardy |
| Jude the Obscure | Thomas Hardy |
| "Dover Beach" | Matthew Arnold |
| Wessex Poems | Thomas Hardy |
| Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll |
| Through the Looking Glass | Lewis Carroll |
| "The Charge of the Light Brigade" | Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| "The Lady of Shalott" | Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| "Idylls of the King" | Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| "Ulysses" | Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| "In Memoriam A.H.H." | Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| "Porphyria's Lover" | Robert Browning |
| "Love Among the Ruins" | Robert Browning |
| "The Pied Piper of Hamelin" | Robert Browning |
| Sonnets from the Portuguese | Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| A Book of Nonsense | Edward Lear |
| The Owl and the Pussycat | Edward Lear |
| The Importance of Being Earnest | Oscar Wilde |
| An Ideal Husband | Oscar Wilde |
| A Picture of Dorian Grey | Oscar Wilde |
| De Profundis | Oscar Wilde |
| "The Second Coming" | William Butler Yeats |
| Pygmalion | George Bernard Shaw |
| Androcles and the Lion | George Bernard Shaw |
| Ulysses | James Joyce |
| Finnegan's Wake | James Joyce |
| Dubliners | James Joyce |
| A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | James Joyce |
| The Jungle Book | Ruyard Kipling |
| Just So Stories | Ruyard Kipling |
| Kim | Ruyard Kipling |
| Gunga Din | Ruyard Kipling |
| "If-" | Ruyard Kipling |
| "The White Man's Burden" | Ruyard Kipling |
| "Riki Tiki Tavi" | Ruyard Kipling |
| "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" | T. S. Eliot |
| The Waste Land | T. S. Eliot |
| The Hollow Men | T. S. Eliot |
| Ash Wednesday | T. S. Eliot |
| "In a Station of the Metro" | Ezra Pound |
| "The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter" | Ezra Pound |
| Cantos | Ezra Pound |
| "Dulce et Decorum Est" | Wilfred Owen |
| "Anthem for Doomed Youth" | Wilfred Owen |
| "The Soldier" | Rupert Brooke |
| "Suicide in the Trenches" | Siegfried Sassoon |
| Sons and Lovers | D. H. Lawrence |
| Women in Love | D. H. Lawrence |
| Lady Chatterley's Lover | D. H. Lawrence |
| The Rainbow | D. H. Lawrence |
| Mrs. Dalloway | Virginia Woolf |
| To a Lighthouse | Virginia Woolf |
| A Room of One's Own | Virginia Woolf |
| Orlando | Virginia Woolf |
| The Waves | Virginia Woolf |
| The Forsythe Saga | John Galsworthy |
| "Shooting an Elephant" | George Orwell |
| Down and Out in Paris and London | George Orwell |
| "A Hanging" | George Orwell |
| The Road to Wigan Pier | George Orwell |
| Homage to Catalonia | George Orwell |
| "The Iron Man" | Ted Hughes |
| Tales from Ovid | Ted Hughes |
| "Slough" | John Betjeman |
| Beowulf (translation) | Seamus Heaney |
| Brideshead Revisited | Evelyn Waugh |
| Rites of Passage | William Golding |
| Lord of the Flies | William Golding |
| A Clockwork Orange | Anthony Burgess |
| Lucky Jim | Kingsley Amis |
| In a Free State | V. S. Naipaul |
| A Bend in the River | V. S. Naipaul |
| The Comedians | Graham Greene |
| The Power and the Glory | Graham Greene |
| Our Man in Havana | Graham Greene |
| Under the Net | Iris Murdoch |
| Look Back in Anger | John Osborne |
| Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead | Tom Stoppard |
| "Endymion" | John Keats |
| "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" | John Keats |
| "Ode on a Grecian Urn" | John Keats |
| "Ode on Melancholy" | John Keats |
| "Ode to a Nightengale" | John Keats |
| "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" | John Keats |
| "Ozymandias" | Percy Shelley |
| "To a Skylark" | Percy Shelley |
| "Ode to the West Wind" | Percy Shelley |
| "The Masque of Anarchy" | Percy Shelley |
| Prometheus Unbound | Percy Shelley |
| The Necessity of Atheism | Percy Shelley |