Primary texts in Norton Anthology, 2 vols, 9th edn, except where otherwise indicated. The Literature Online database, ProQuest is available to all students through the University subscription.
* In Norton Anthology, 9th edn
Poetry
Long poems
- Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale’ from The Canterbury Tales (date uncertain; mid-1390s) *
- Anonymous, Gawain and the Green Knight (late fourteenth century), translated by Simon Armitage, Norton 2008 (ISBN-10: 0393334155, ISBN-13: 978-0393334159)
- John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667) *, Book 1, lines 1—270, and Book 4, entire
Sonnets
- William Shakespeare, sonnet 138
- John Donne, ‘Batter my heart, three-person’d God’ (Holy Sonnet 14) (1633)*
- William Wordsworth, ‘The world is too much with us’ (1807) *
- Michael Field (Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper), ‘Eros’ (1908) *
- Carol Ann Duffy, ‘Prayer’ (1992)
Other poems
- John Donne, ‘The Sun Rising’*
- William Wordsworth, ‘The Thorn’ (1798) *
- John Keats, ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’ (1820) *
- Mina Loy, ‘Songs to Joannes’ (1915-1917) *
- William Butler Yeats, ‘Easter 1916 (1921)*
- Wilfred Owen, ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ (1920) *
- W. H. Auden, ‘The Shield of Achilles’ (1952)*
- Philip Larkin, ‘MCMXIV’ (1964)*
- Stevie Smith, ‘Pretty’ (1966)*
- Seamus Heaney, ‘The Grauballe Man’, ‘Punishment’ (1975) *
Short stories
- Elizabeth Bowen, ‘Mysterious K?r’ (1944) (PDF upload on Fronter)
- James Joyce, ‘The Dead’ (1914) *
Plays
- William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar (1599), , ed. S. P. Cerasano (Norton Critical Edition, 2012) ISBN-10: 039393263X ISBN-13: 978-0393932638
- Tom Stoppard, Arcadia (1993) *
Novels
- Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1813), ed. Donald J. Gray, 3rd revised edn (Norton Critical Edition, 2000) ISBN-10: 0393976041, ISBN-13: 978-0393976045
- Charlotte Bront?, Jane Eyre (1847), ed. Richard J. Dunn (Norton Critical Edition, 2000(Norton Critical Edition, 2000), ISBN-10: 0393975428, ISBN-13: 978-0393975420
- Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway (1925)*
Suggested reading:
- Dominic Rainsford, Studying Literature in English (London: Routledge, 2014), ISBN: 978-0415699235 [for purchase] [178 pp.]