All texts in Norton Anthology, 2 vols, 9th 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 (1816), 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’
Plays:
- William Shakespeare (1564—1616), Julius Caesar, ed. S. P. Cerasano (Norton Critical Edition, 2012)
- Tom Stoppard (1937—), Arcadia (1993)
Prose:
- Seamus Heaney (1939—2013), ‘Crediting Poetry’, Nobel Prize lecture (1995)
- http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1995/heaney-lecture.html
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’)
- John Dryden (1631—1700), ‘A Song for St Cecilia’s Day’
- Aphra Behn (c. 1640—89), ‘The Disappointment’
- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647—80), ‘The Imperfect Enjoyment’
- 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’)
- John Keats (1795—1821), ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’
- Alfred Tennyson (1809—92), ‘Ulysses’
- Robert Browning (1812—89), ‘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—2013), ‘The Grauballe Man’, ‘Punishment’
- Carol Ann Duffy (1955—), ‘Prayer’
- Kathleen Jamie (1962—), ‘The Queen of Sheba’
- http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/2012/07/pca_20120714_1505.mp3
(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 (but not obligatory) secondary literature:
- James Fenton, An Introduction to English Poetry (Penguin, 2002)
- Jeremy Hawthorn, Studying the Novel, 5th edn (Hodder Arnold, 2005)