The novels and poems below were found at the Open Syllabus website. Open Syllabus has collected lists of books & other readings assigned in over 6 million classes at 4,700 colleges in the U.S. and many other countries. I’ve used the Open Syllabus “Galaxy” visualization to create the list below of books & poems used in many English Literature college courses covering the 19th and early 20th centuries. All works listed below have links to free online copies at the Internet Archive.
Course Books & Poems for English Literature of the 19th & Early 20th Centuries
Emma. Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice. Jane Austen
Jane Eyre. Charlotte Brontë
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Wuthering Heights. Emily Brontë
My Last Duchess. Robert Browning
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Robinson Crusoe. Daniel Defoe
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A Tale of Two Cities. Charles Dickens
The Dead. James Joyce
Ode to a Nightingale. John Keats
Tess of the d’Urbervilles. Thomas Hardy
Frankenstein. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Robert Louis Stevenson
The Playboy of the Western World. J. M. Synge
The Lady of Shalott. Alfred Tennyson Tennyson
The Importance of Being Earnest. Oscar Wilde
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The Picture of Dorian Gray. Oscar Wilde
Tintern Abbey. William Wordsworth
The Lake Isle of Innisfree. William Butler Yeats
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