Some+readings+-+famous+poems+and+other+short+texts

I've collected here a few short pieces of famous writing, on the theory that you might be able to work in that you've read them: [|A Modest Proposal by Johnathon Swift] A famous dramatic monologue (poem) by Robert Browning. Question for you - what happened to his last duchess? [|My Last Duchess] A Poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge which he apparently wrote while under the influence of opium [|Kubla Khan] A short story by one of the first writers of horror, Edgar Allen Poe: [|The Tell-Tale Heart] New Zealand's own Katherine Mansfield: [|At the Bay] A story by James Joyce, who some say wrote the best novel of the twentieth century (I don't agree!): [|The Dead] Explore this site - a good way to start is with the 'popular poems' on the home page: [|Famous Poets and Poems]
 * Jonathan Swift's** satirical essay from 1729, where he suggests that the Irish eat their own children.