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BA

Year 1.

English Literature from the Renaissance to the Restoration (1540 – 1660)

Margaret Cavendish poetry

Shakespeare – 12, 18, 19, 55, 73 (the time sonnets)

Sir Philip Sidney – Sonnet 5, 15, 31 and 29 from Astrophil and Stella.

Shakespeare – sonnets 97, 107, 116, 129

Mary Worth – Sonnets from Pamphilia to Amphilanthus and from A Crown of Sonnets Dedicated to Love

Ben Johnson – Volpone

Shakespeare – Macbeth

Shakespeare – Twelfth Night

Christopher Marlowe – The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus

Richard Lovelace – The Grasshopper (1682)

Andrew Marvell – To His Coy Mistress (1703)

Andrew Marvell – An Horatian Ode (1712) / Upon Appleton House.

Katherine Philips – Upon the double murder of king Charles

Edmund Spenser – The Faerie Queene

John Milton – Paradise Lost

Sir Thomas Wyatt - The Long love that in my thought doth harbor / They flee from me / The lover soweth how / My lute, awake!

Henry Howard – Love, that doth reign

Christopher Marlowe – The passionate shepherd to his love

Sir Walter Raleigh – The Nymph’s reply to the shepherd

John Donne – The Flea / The Good Morrow / The Sun Rising / A Valediction: Of Weeping / A Valediction: Forbidden Mourning / Holy Sonnets 10, 14 /

Katherine Philips - Friendhip’s Mystery, to my Dearest Lucasia  / To Mrs. M.A. at Parting

George Herbert – Church Monuments / Denial / The Collar / Love (3)

Shakespeare – Sonnet 130

John Milton – Methought I saw my late espoused Saint?

Cultural Backgrounds

Ovid – Metamorphoses

The Bible

Edmund Spenser – Sonnet XXVIII

H.D. – Persuit

Eavan Boland – Daphne with her Thighs in Bark

Thom Gunn – Arachne

W.H. Auden - Muse’ee des Beaux Arts

Anne Sexton – To a Friend Whose Work has Come to Triumph

D.M. Thomas – Orpheus in Hell

Margaret Atwood – Three poems, Orpheus, Eurydice, Orpheus

Seamus Heaney – The Underground

Denise Levertov – The Jacob’s Ladder

Christina Rosetti  – Vanity of Vanities

Wilfred Owen – The Parable of the Old Man and he Young

George Herbert – The Bunch of Grapes

Denise Levertov – To the Snake

Ted Huges – Theology

W.B. Yeats – A Prayer for my Son

T.S. Eliot – Journey of the Magi

John Donne – Holy Sonnet 7

Christina Rosetti – Up-Hill

Philip Larkin – Church Going

John Donne – Good Friday

George Herbert – Easter

Henry Vaughan – Regeneration

Edith Sitwell – Still Falls the Rain

W.B. Yeats – The Second Coming (1919)

Henry Vaughan – The World

Homer  – The Iliad

Homer  – The Odyssey

Virgil  – The Aneid

English Literature (1550 – 1700)

Samuel Richardson – Clarissa

Jonathan Swift – Gulliver’s Travels

Aphra Behn – Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave

John Dryden – Absalom and Chitophel

John Dryden – MacFlecknoe

Alexander Pope – The Rape of the Lock

Milton – Paradise Lost

Daniel Defoe – Robinson Crusoe

Henry Fielding – Tom Jones

O. Goldsmith – The Deserted Village

Laurence Sterne – A Sentimental Journey

Ann Finch, Countess of Winchilsea – The Spleen

Pope – Rape of the Locke

Bunyan – Pilgrim's Progress

Year 2.

                        

British Romantic Literature

William Blake – Songs of Innocence and Experience

William Godwin – Caleb Williams

Mary Wollstonecraft – Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark /William Godwin – Memoirs of the Author of the Rights of Woman

William Wordsworth – Book First and the extracts from Book Fifth, Eleventh, Twelfth, Thirteenth and Fourteenth of The Prelude

Samuel Taylor Colderidge – This Lime Tree Bower My Prison / The Rime of the Ancient Mariner / Kubla Khan / Frost at Midnight / Dejection: An Ode.

Jane Austen – Emma

Percy Bysshe Shelley: To Wordsworth / Mont Blanc / Hymn to Intellectual Beauty / Ozymandias / Ode to the West Wind / The Cloud / To A Sky-Lark / Selections from A Defence of Poetry

Thomas Love Peacock – Nightmare Abbey

John Keaton: When I have Fears that I May Cease to Be / The Even of Saint Agnes / Bright Stars, would I were stedfast as thou art / La Belle Dame sans merci: A Ballad / Ode to a Nightingale / Ode on a Grecian Urn / Ode to Melancholy / To Autumn.

Lord Byron – Don Juan

James Hogg – Confessions of a Justified Sinner

Charles Dickens – Oliver Twist

British Literature (1840-1910)

Charlotte Bronte – Jane Eyre

Charles Dickens – Great Expectations

Robert Browning – Friar Lippo Lippi

Lewis Carroll – Alice in Wonderland

Christina Rosetti – Goblin Market / Winter: My Secret / In an Artist’s Studio.

George Eliot – The Mill on the Floss

Robert Louis Stevenson – The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Thomas Hardy – Tess of the D’Urbervilles

Oscar Wilde – The Importance of Being Earnest

Arthur Conan Doyle – The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

Rudyard Kipling – Kim

Year 3.

Contemporary Literatures in English

Thomas Pynchon –The Crying of Lot 49.

Jean Rhys – Wide Sargasso Sea.

John Fowles – The French Lieutenant’s Woman

Salman Rushdie – Midnight’s Children

A.S. Byatt – Possession

Derek Walcott – Omeros.

Seamus Heaney – Seeing Things.

J.M. Coetzee – Disgrace.

Zadie Smith – White Teeth.

Jhumpa Lahiri – The Namesake

Ian McEwan – Saturday

Don DeLillo – Falling Man.

MA

Year 1.

Lord of the Rings

George Bernard Shaw – Saint Joan

Sir Walter Scott – Ivanhoe

Alfred, Lord Tennyson – Idylls of the King

Matthew Lewis – The Monk

Arthurian Poets: Matthew Arnold and William Morris

William Blake – The Marriage of Heaven and Hell /A Song of Liberty

William Morris – The Wood Beyond the World

Mark Twain – A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

J.R.R. Tolkien – The Lord of the Rings

J.R.R. Tolkien – The Tolkien Reader, On Fairy-Stories,

Romantic Wanderers

Lord Byron – The Major Works

Mary Shelley – The Last Man

Nathaniel Hawthorne – The Marble Faun

Frederick Marryat – The Phantom Ship

Charles Maturin –Melmoth, the Wanderer

Herman Melville – Israel Potter 

Edwardian Fiction

Samuel Butler – The Way of All Flesh (1903)

H.G. Wells – The First Men in the Moon (1901)

Arnold Bennett – Anna of the Five Towns (1902)

Joseph Conrad – Nostromo (1904)

H.G. Wells – Kipps (1905)

John Galsworthy – The Man of Property (1906)

Joseph Conrad – The Secret Agency (1907)

E.M. Forster – A Room with a View (1908)

H.G. Wells – Ann Veronica (1909)

E.M. Forster – Howards End (1910)

Arnold Bennett – The Card (1911)

D.H. Lawrence – The White Peacock (1911)

Max Beerbohm – Zuleika Dobson (1911)

Gender Troubles in the Early Modern Period

Sylvia Bowerbank & Sara Mendelsohn – Paper Bodies; A Margaret Cavendish Reader

Kirsten McDermott ed. – Masques of Difference

John Fletcher – The Woman’s Prize, or The Tamer Tamed

John Ford – Tis Pity She’s a Whore 

Christopher Marlowe – Edward II

William Shakespeare – The Taming of the Shrew

William Shakespeare – The Tempest

Marina Warner – Indigo, or, Mapping the Waters

Year 2.

Anglo-American Apocalyptic Fictions

J.G. Ballard – The Drowned World
Harlan Ellison – The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World

Stephen King – The Mist 

Cormac McCarthy – The Road

Richard Matheson – I am Legend

Mary Shelley – The Last Man

Neville Shute – On the Beach

John Wyndham – The Day of the Triffids