Syllabus/achievement requirements

*All texts in Norton Anthology, 2 vols, 8th edn, except where otherwise indicated. LION is the Literature Online Database (Chadwyck-Healey), to which all students have access through the University subscription.*

Secondary/textbook material, obligatory reading:

• Stephen Greenblatt et al., eds., Norton Anthology of English Literature, 2 vols, 8th edn (NY: Norton, 2006). Editorial Introductions to the six post-medieval periods. [Ca. 130 pp.]
• Vol. I: ‘The Sixteenth Century (1485—1603)’ (pp. 485—511); ‘The Early Seventeenth Century (1603—1660)’ (pp. 1235—57); ‘The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century (1600—1785)’ (pp. 2057—80)
• Vol. II: ‘The Romantic Period’ (pp. 1—22); ‘The Victorian Age’ (pp. 979—99); ‘The Twentieth Century and After’ (pp. 1827—47)

Novels: obligatory reading (in the editions specified)

• Jane Austen (1775—1817), Emma ed. George Justice, 4th edn (Norton Critical Edition, 2011)- Charles Dickens (1812—70), Great Expectations (ed. Edgar Rosenberg, Norton Critical Edition, 1999)
• Virginia Woolf (1882—1941), Mrs Dalloway (1925), ed. David Bradshaw (Oxford World’s Classics, 2000)

Short fiction:

• James Joyce (1882—1941), ‘The Dead’ Katherine Mansfield (1888—1923), ‘The Garden Party’
• Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923),`The Garden Party´

Plays:

• William Shakespeare (1564—1616), Julius Caesar, ed. S. P. Cerasano (Norton Critical Edition, 2012)
• Tom Stoppard (1937—), Arcadia (1993)

Poems:

• William Shakespeare (1564—1616), sonnet 18 (‘Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?’)
• John Donne (1572—1631), ‘The Sun Rising’; ‘Death be not proud’ (Holy Sonnets, X)
• John Milton (1608—74), ‘When I consider how my light is spent’ (´On His Blindness´)
• William Wordsworth (1770—1850), ‘The world is too much with us’; ‘I wandered lonely as a cloud’
• John Clare (1793—1864), ‘Decay’ (‘Amidst the happiest joy a shade of grief’) (LION) Literature online link
• John Keats (1795—1821), ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’
• Robert Browning (1812-1889), ‘My Last Duchess’
• William Butler Yeats (1865—1939), ‘Leda and the Swan’
• T. S. Eliot (1888—1965), ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’
• Wilfred Owen (1893—1918), ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’
• W. H. Auden (1907—73), ‘The Shield of Achilles’
• Philip Larkin (1922—1985), ‘MCMXIV’
• Seamus Heaney (1939—), ‘Punishment’
• Carol Ann Duffy (1955—), ‘Prayer’ (LION)Literature online link
• Kathleen Jamie (1962—), ‘The Queen of Sheba’(LION) Literature Online link

Podcast

(NB: Shakespeare must be read in a single-play edition—not in the many Collected Works available. The more ambitious students are encouraged to explore the scholarly edtitions in the Arden, Cambridge, Oxford, and Penguin series.)

[Recommended secondary literature (NB not obligatory):

• James Fenton, An Introduction to English Poetry (Penguin, 2002)
• Jeremy Hawthorn, Studying the Novel, 5th edn (Hodder Arnold, 2005)]