Christopher Marlowe, Dr Faustus
William Wordsworth, Home At Grasmere
Alexander Pope, The Rape Of The Lock
Virginia Woolf, To The Lighthouse
An Introduction To Genre
The Literature of the Uncanny
Shakespeare Sonnets
Contemporary Writing
Byatt, Elementals
Garland, The Beach
FURTHER WARNING: The earliest of these essays tended to neglect cohesive paragraph structure, some footnotes were made in brief form, etcetera. Basically, they're the kind of "warm-up" essays you might expect from a introductory year.