Unit 1: Historical Background of the Augustan Period
1. SalientFeatures of the Augustan Age
2. The Neo-Classical School of Poetry
3. The Periodical Essays of the Eighteenth Century
4. The Four Wheels of the English Novel
Coffee House Activity: From Reading About Coffee Houses to Creating One in the Classroom
Unit 2: Poetry
1. A Description of the Morning by Jonathan Swift
2. An Essay On Man by Alexander Pope (Click here for a shorter version)
3. An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray
4. A Red Red Rose by Robert Burns
