Nihil sub sole novum

Shakespeare, General
The Authority with Joseph Pierce – William Shakespeare
Catholic Education Resource Center – Desires Run Not Before Honor

Shakespeare, Sonnets
Shakespeare’s Sonnets read by John Gielgud, incomplete / #asonnetaday for any missing sonnets
The Imaginative Conservative – Shakespeare’s Sonnets: The Secret to Immortality
Hardcore Literature Podcast – How to Read a Shakespearean Sonnet

Shakespeare, The Tempest
Catholic Education Resource Center – “Shakespeare’s The Tempest”
The Imaginative Conservative – “Liberal Education and Politics: The Case of “The Tempest”
EWTN’s Great Books Every Catholic Should Know – “Saints and Sinners”
Shakespeare Play by Play – The Tempest
Course Hero – The Tempes
The Newberry’s Digital Collections for the Classroom – Shakespeare’s The Tempest and Utopias of the European Renaissance

Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
The Imaginative Conservative – “Shakespeare vs. The Puritans: The Malevolence of Malvolio”
The Imaginative Conservative – “Minding Malvolio: Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night”

Shakespeare, Othello
The Imaginative Conservative – “Othello” in a Nutshell ~ The Imaginative Conservative 
The Imaginative Conservative – “Othello” and the Devil Inside

Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
The Imaginative Conservative – Eros and Economics in “The Merchant of Venice”
The Imaginative Conservative – Shakespeare vs. The Puritans: Shylock and Usury
The Imaginative Conservative – Shakespeare’s “Merchant of Venice”: A Comedy of Errors?
Catholic Education Resource Center – Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice 

Don Quixote
The Imaginative Conservative – “Don Quixote and Imaginative Places”
The Imaginative Conservative – “Chasing Lions: Don Quixote in Pursuit of the Beautiful”
The Imaginative Conservative – “Adventures of the Mind”
The Institute of Catholic Culture – DUSTING OFF DON QUIXOTE – The Unconquerable Catholicism of Cervantes
Thomas Aquinas College – Don Quixote and the Glory of the Life to Come: Why We Study Cervantes
Hardcore Literature – Which Translation of Don Quixote is the Best?
Hardcore Literature – How to Read Don Quixote by Cervantes (10 Tips)
Hardcore Literature – Let’s Appreciate the Artwork of Don Quixote Together
Catholic Education Resource Center – “Don Quixote in a Nutshell”
Catholic Education Resource Center – “Don Quixote and the Via Dolorosa”
EWTN’s Great Books Every Catholic Should Know – “Holy Fools and Unholy Falls”
The Newberry’s Digital Collections for the Classroom – The World of Don Quixote
One Catholic Life Review

Poetry
An Anthology of Catholic Poets
The Catholic Anthology
The Authority with Joseph Pierce – Richard Crashaw, John Milton, John Dryden

Anthologies
Crowned Masterpieces
World’s Greatest Books

French Literature
Portraits of the seventeenth century, historic and literary

Cyrano de Bergerac, Excerpt
Hardcore Literature – How to Read the Plays of Molière (French Theatre Appreciation)

American Literature
Annenberger Learner – American Passages: A Literary Survey, especially 2. Exploring Borderlands and 3. Utopian Promise
The Newberry’s Digital Collections for the Classroom – Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko: Slavery and Race in the Atlantic World (Aphra Ben was Catholic and English, and this is about South Americ), excerpt

Poetry, Anthologies
Medieval Hymns and Sequences
The Hymns of the Breviaries and Missals
Early Christian Hymns
Latin poetry in verse translation, from the beginnings to the Renaissance
Medieval Latin Lyrics

Poetry, Analyses
Way of the Fathers with Mike Aquilina – Prudentius, Poet Laureate of the Western Fathers
Way of the Fathers with Mike Aquilina – The Pastoral Poems of Paulinus of Nola
Way of the Fathers with Mike Aquilina – Ephrem, Symbolist
Way of the Fathers with Mike Aquilina – Romanus the Melodist: Through Hymns, with Hymns, in Hymns
Institute of Catholic Culture – “St. Ephrem’s “Hymns on Paradise”
Institute of Catholic Culture – “DREAM OF THE ROOD: A Poetic Vision of the Cross of Christ”
Cambridge University Library – Singing Boethius’ Lost Songs

Saint Augustine’s Confessions
The Imaginative Conservative – Saint Augustine’s “Confessions”: An Introduction
The Imaginative Conservative – “Augustine’s ‘Confessions’ Unpacked”
Mystagogy Podcast – 4 Episodes on Saint Augustine’s Confessions
Institute of Catholic Culture – Book Club with Anthony Esolen
Institute of Catholic Culture – “A RESTLESS HEART: The Confessions of Saint Augustine”
Institute of Catholic Culture- “THE CONFESSIONS OF SAINT AUGUSTINE”
Way of the Fathers with Mike Aquilina – Augustine (Part 1): Youth and Conversion ; Augustine (Part 2): A Mob-Made Bishop Makes His Mark ; Augustine (Part 3): Last Days and the End of an Age 
Selection in The World’s Greatest Books

The Rule of Benedict
Way of the Fathers with Mike Aquilina – Benedict of Nursia: The Elusive Man Behind the Rule

Other Works that Could Be Read
Life of Saint Martin by Sulpicius Severus
could not find any sort of analysis that is both scholarly and Catholic

Boethius’s Consolation of Philosophy
Institute of Catholic Culture – Book Club
The Imaginative Conservative – “Christian Platonism in Boethius’ “Consolation of Philosophy”
The Imaginative Conservative – “Boethius on Allegory”
The Imaginative Conservative – “Boethius on Fortune’s Wheel”

Beowulf (this could also go in Year 2)
The Authority with Joseph Pearce
Essays on Beowulf at the Imaginative Conservative