Old English (7th-11th centuries)

The Wanderer; (prose translation, at espacio virtual)

The Dream of the Rood; (prose translation by Charles W. Kennedy, at espacio virtual)

The Battle of Maldon; (verse translation by W. Berridge, at espacio virtual)

Beowulf; (Liuzza, R.M. Beowulf: A New Verse Translation.  Broadview Press Ltd., Peterborough,
Canada, 2000)

Middle English (14th-15th centuries)

The Canterbury Tales (General Prologue) by Chaucer; (any edition in Middle English; preferably
from The Norton Anthology of English Literature, vol 1)

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; (Marie Borroff’s verse translation; preferably from The
Norton Anthology of English Literature, vol 1)

The Book of Margery Kempe (The birth of her first child and her first vision); (any edition in
Middle English; preferably from The Norton Anthology of English Literature, vol 1)

Early Modern (16th-17th centuries)

Hamlet by Shakespeare; (any of the two editions by the Arden Shakespeare)

Sonnets 12, 17, 18 by Shakespeare; (any edition)

The Faerie Queene (Book I, Canto I) by Spenser; (any edition; preferably from The Norton
Anthology of English Literature, vol 1)

Utopia (Book II) by Thomas More; (any edition in English; preferably from The Norton
Anthology of English Literature, vol 1)

Paradise Lost (Book 3, lines 1-55) by Milton; (any edition; preferably from The Norton
Anthology of English Literature, vol 1)