Death, Loss, and Mourning: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Themed Custom Text
Broadview anthologies include many readings suitable for courses focused on the representation of death, loss, and mourning in literature. If you are teaching a course in this area, we invite you to pick and choose among the available readings to assemble a custom text that suits your course needs.
Please note: This list is meant to provide options for instructors assembling custom texts, and it is not intended to be used in its entirety.
Selections from other Broadview books can also be added to your custom text. This includes material from other Broadview anthologies, as well as selections from any of our more than 400 stand-alone editions, from Paradise Lost to In Memoriam, and from King Lear to The Turn of the Screw. You can add selections from these other books by navigating through the titles listed under the “Books” tab at top. If the selection or book you wish to add is not listed there (or if you’d rather work directly with a person to assemble your custom text), please contact our Custom Text Coordinator at custom@broadviewpress.com.
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Y Gododdin
Anonymous
7 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.84
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Exeter Book Elegies
Anonymous
10 pages @ $0.12/page
$1.20
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The Dream of the Rood
Anonymous
4 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.48
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From Middle English Lyrics, “Erthe tok of erthe erthe with woh”
Anonymous
1 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.12
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From Middle English Lyrics, “Farewell this world, I take my leve forever,” & “To dy, to dy. What haue I”
Anonymous
1 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.12
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Sir Orfeo
Anonymous
12 pages @ $0.12/page
$1.44
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Chaucer, The Pardoner’s Tale
Geoffrey Chaucer
13 pages @ $0.12/page
$1.56
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Chaucer, The Prioress’s Tale
Geoffrey Chaucer
7 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.84
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from The York Corpus Christi Play: The Slaughter of the Innocents, The Crucifixion
Anonymous
7 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.84
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Everyman
Anonymous
14 pages @ $0.12/page
$1.68
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Sir Thomas Malory, from Morte DArthu, Book 8, The Death of King Arthur
Sir Thomas Malory
42 pages @ $0.12/page
$5.04
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William Dunbar, “I that in heill wes”
William Dunbar
4 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.48
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Thomas More, A Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation
Thomas More
8 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.96
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Thomas More, The Tower Correspondence
Thomas More
7 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.84
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Thomas More, In Context: Thomas More
Joseph Black et al.
1 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.12
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The Martyrdom of Anne Askew: from Anne Askew, “The First Examination of Anne Askew” & from John Foxe, Acts and Monuments of These Latter and Perilous Days & others
Anne Askew
1 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.12
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The Order for the Burial of the Dead
Joseph Black, et al. (editors)
1 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.12
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Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, “Wyatt Resteth Here”
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
1 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.12
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King James I, “An Epitaph on Sir Philip Sidney”
King James I
1 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.12
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Francis Bacon, “Of Death”
Francis Bacon
2 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.24
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Robert Southwell, “A Vale of Tears,” “Mary Magdalen’s Complaint at Christ’s Death”
Robert Southwell
3 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.36
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William Shakespeare, King Lear
William Shakespeare
81 pages @ $0.12/page
$9.72
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Ben Jonson, “On My First Daughter,” and “On My First Son,”
Ben Jonson
1 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.12
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Ben Jonson, “To the Memory of My Beloved, The Author, Mr William Shakespeare, And What He Hath Left Us”
Ben Jonson
2 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.24
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Anne Bradstreet, various poems
Anne Bradstreet
12 pages @ $0.12/page
$1.44
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Katherine Philips, “On the Death of My First and Dearest Child, Hector Philips”
Katherine Philips
1 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.12
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Thomas Carew, “An Elegy upon the Death of the Dean of St. Paul’s, Dr. John Donne”
Thomas Carew
2 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.24
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John Milton, “Methought I saw my late espoused saint”
John Milton
1 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.12
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John Milton, Lycidas
John Milton
4 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.48
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Daniel Defoe, “A True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal the Next Day after her Death”
Daniel Defoe
5 pages @ $0.12/page
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Jonathan Swift, “Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift, D.S.P.D.”
Jonathan Swift
9 pages @ $0.12/page
$1.08
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Samuel Johnson, “On the Death of Dr. Robert Levett”
Samuel Johnson
1 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.12
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Thomas Gray, All Selections
Thomas Gray
6 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.72
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Popular Ballads
Joseph Black et al.
12 pages @ $0.12/page
$1.44
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William Cowper, “On the Loss of the Royal George”
William Cowper
2 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.24
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Phillis Wheatley, “On the Death of the Reverend Mr. George Whitefield,” “A Funeral Poem on the Death of C.E., An Infant of Twelve Months”
Phillis Wheatley
1 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.12
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Anna Laetitia Barbauld, “On the Death of the Princess Charlotte”
Anna Laetitia Barbauld
2 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.24
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Hannah More, “Inscription on a Cenotaph in a Garden, Erected to a Deceased Friend”
Hannah More
1 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.12
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William Wordsworth, “We Are Seven” & “The Thorn”
William Wordsworth
6 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.72
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William Wordsworth, “She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways” “A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal” “Lucy Grey”
William Wordsworth
2 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.24
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William Wordsworth, Michael
William Wordsworth
8 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.96
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William Wordsworth, The Ruined Cottage
William Wordsworth
8 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.96
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Epitaph”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.12
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Felicia Hemans, “The Image in Lava,” “The Grave of a Poetess”
Felicia Hemans
3 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.36
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Felicia Hemans, “Indian Woman’s Death Song”
Felicia Hemans
2 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.24
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John Keats, “This Living Hand”
John Keats
1 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.12
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John Keats, Letter: To Charles Brown, 30 Nov 1820
John Keats
2 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.24
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John Keats, In Context: The Death of Keats
John Keats
1 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.12
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Letitia Elizabeth Landon, “The Little Shroud”
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
1 pages @ $0.12/page
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Morte d’Arthur,”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
5 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.60
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In Memoriam A. H. H.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
46 pages @ $0.12/page
$5.52
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“Crossing the Bar”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
1 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.12
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Arthur Hugh Clough, Seven Sonnets on the Thought of Death
Arthur Hugh Clough
20 pages @ $0.12/page
$2.40
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Matthew Arnold, “Dover Beach”
Matthew Arnold
1 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.12
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Christina Rossetti, “Remember” “After Death” “Echo”
Christina Rossetti
2 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.24
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Christina Rossetti, “Song” “Dead Before Death”
Christina Rossetti
1 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.12
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Christina Rossetti, “Sleeping at Last”
Christina Rossetti
1 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.12
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Rudyard Kipling, The Story of Muhammad Din
Rudyard Kipling
3 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.36
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Thomas Hardy, “The Convergence of the Twain,” “The Voice,” “Transformations”
Thomas Hardy
3 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.36
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A.E. Housman, “To an Athlete Dying Young”
A.E. Housman
1 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.12
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A.E. Housman, “Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries”
A.E. Housman
1 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.12
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Siegfried Sassoon, All Selections (poetry)
Siegfried Sassoon
2 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.24
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Rupert Brooke, All Selections
Rupert Brooke
2 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.24
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Isaac Rosenberg, All Selections
Isaac Rosenberg
4 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.48
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Wilfred Owen, All Selections
Wilfred Owen
13 pages @ $0.12/page
$1.56
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John McCrae, “In Flanders Fields”
John McCrae
3 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.36
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William Butler Yeats, “An Irish Airman Foresees his Death,”
William Butler Yeats
2 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.24
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William Butler Yeats, “In Memory of Major Robert Gregory”
William Butler Yeats
3 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.36
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James Joyce, “The Dead”
James Joyce
22 pages @ $0.12/page
$2.64
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Katherine Mansfield, “The Garden Party”
Katherine Mansfield
8 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.96
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Robert Service, “The Cremation of Sam McGee”
Robert Service
4 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.48
