Must-Know Poetry

This is a list of poems/ verse works that you must ABSOLUTELY BE FAMILIAR WITH and be able to recognize snap! just like that (if not rattle off by heart).
  1. Beowulf
  2. Piers Plowman
  3. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
  4. The Canterbury Tales
  5. The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd
  6. Since There's No Help, Come Let Us Kiss and Part
  7. The Faerie Queene
  8. Amoretti and Epithalamium
  9. The Passionate Shepherd to his Love
  10. The Rape of the Lock
  11. Essay on Criticism
  12. Mac Flecknoe
  13. Epigram on Milton
  14. Paradise Lost
  15. To The Memory of My Beloved Master William Shakespeare
  16. To The Virgins, To Make Much of Time
  17. An Elegy Upon the Death of the Dean of St. Paul's, John Donne
  18. The Sun Rising
  19. The Bait
  20. The Flea
  21. The "Julia" poems
  22. The "Mower" poems
  23. The "Lucy" poems
  24. To His Coy Mistress
  25. On Mr. Milton's Paradise Lost
  26. Tintern Abbey
  27. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
  28. Dover Beach
  29. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
  30. On Donne's Poetry
  31. Kubla Khan
  32. Frost at Midnight
  33. Ode on a Grecian Urn
  34. Ode on Melancholy
  35. On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
  36. Ode to Autumn
  37. Ode to a Nightingale
  38. She Walks in Beauty
  39. Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats
  40. Ode to the West Wind
  41. Ozymandias
  42. To A Skylark
  43. London
  44. The Lamb
  45. The Tyger
  46. Mock On, Mock On, Voltaire, Rousseau
  47. Ulysses
  48. Break, Break, Break
  49. In Memoriam A.H.H.
  50. The Lotus Eaters
  51. The Windhover
  52. Pied Beauty
  53. Sonnets from Portuguese - "How Do I Love Thee...?"
  54. The Lake Isle of Innisfree
  55. The Second Coming
  56. Sailing to Byzantium
  57. Stanza VI from "Among School Children"
  58. Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
  59. Fern Hill
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