"Me, Myself, and I"... the New Yorker on Montaigne — a 2009 article that functions as a really nice introduction to this Renaissance man...
Alexander Pope's Essay on Criticism — Here's a neoclassical approach to literature
Aphra Behn "The Disappointment" — This Renaissance woman writes a poem that I guarantee will amuse and surprise you.
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Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels — Enlightenment satire. Swift was a pal of Pope's, and certainly inspired by Voltaire.
Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness — A great modernist novel
Mahler's 8th symphony — Romanticism! Oh, my oh.
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein — A great work of Romanticism
MLA Style Guide — Formatting your MLA paper.
Montaigne "An Apology for Raimond Sebond" — One of Montaigne's great "Essais".
Montaigne "Of Cannibals" — Montaigne met a tribesman from Brazil, conversed, and thought about the differences between cultures...
Montaigne "Of Vanity" — Possibly his most famous "Essai".
Poetry by John Donne — Check out "Batter My Heart..." and "Death be not Proud" and "The Flea", among many others...
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
T.S. Eliot Poetry — He reads two of his famous poems aloud, and Anthony Hopkins reads a third...
Tempest characters — Same character chart, on a webpage
The Book of Job — King James version
Understand feminist criticism — (if you hated the ewoks...)
Voltaire's Candide — A crucial text from the Enlightenment
William Butler Yeats' A Drinking Song — How does modernism contrast with Romanticism? See Ode on a Grecian Urn.
William Shakespeare's The Tempest
William Wordsworth's Ode on a Grecian Urn — Classic romanticism