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
Epic:
- John Milton (1608—74), from Paradise Lost (1667):[1]
Book 1, lines 1—270; Book 4, lines 1—775, and Book 9, entire
Novels:
- Jane Austen (1775—1817), Emma (1815), ed. George Justice, 4th edn (Norton Critical Edition, 2012) ISBN-13: 978-0393927641
- Virginia Woolf (1882—1941), Mrs Dalloway (1925)
- Margaret Atwood (1939—), Hag-Seed: The Tempest Retold (2016), Vintage paperback 2017, ISBN 978-0099594024
Non-fiction prose:
- Virginia Woolf (1882—1941), A Room of One’s Own (1929), Penguin Modern Classics.
Short fiction:
- James Joyce (1882—1941), ‘The Dead’
Plays:
- William Shakespeare (1564—1616), The Tempest (c. 1611), ed. Peter Hulme and William H. Sherman (Norton Critical Edition, 2004) ISBN-13: 978-0393978193[2]
- 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, 10)
- George Herbert (1593—1633), ‘Prayer (I)’
- Andrew Marvell (1621—78), ‘To His Coy Mistress’
- Aphra Behn (1640—89), ‘The Disappointment’
- John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester (1649—80), ‘The Imperfect Enjoyment’
- William Wordsworth (1770—1850), ‘The world is too much with us’; ‘The Thorn’.
- John Keats (1795—1821), ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’
- William Butler Yeats (1865—1939), ‘Easter, 1916’
- 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), ‘In Memory of W. B. Yeats’, ‘The Shield of Achilles’
- Seamus Heaney (1939—2013), ‘The Grauballe Man’, ‘Punishment
- Carol Ann Duffy (1955—), ‘Prayer’ (Literature Online database, ProQuest) http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2003&xri:pqil:res_ver=0.2&res_id=xri:lion&rft_id=xri:lion:ft:po:Z200593189:2
- Michael Longley (1939—), ‘Ceasefire’ (1994) https://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/20century/topic_3_05/ceasefire.htm
Secondary material (obligatory reading):
- John Leonard, Introduction to John Milton, Paradise Lost, Penguin Classics: http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2003&xri:pqil:res_ver=0.2&res_id=xri:lion&rft_id=xri:lion:ft:ref:R4433625:0&rft.accountid=14699
- Sarah Shute, gen. ed., KnowledgeNotes ? Student Guides (Literature Online database, ProQuest) on John Milton’s Paradise Lost, sections relevant to Book 1, lines 1—270, Book 4, lines 1—775, and Book 9 (entire) (NB: this electronic resource, to which the University subscribes for all UiO users, is accessible through the UiO network: http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2003&xri:pqil:res_ver=0.2&res_id=xri:lion&rft_id=xri:lion:ft:ref:EALKN120:0
- Stephen Greenblatt et al., eds., Norton Anthology of English Literature, various volume formats, 9th edn (New York: Norton, 2012). Editorial introductions to the seven periods [ca. 150 pp.] and headnotes to the individual authors on the course syllabus.
Vol. I: The Sixteenth Century (1485—1603) (pp. 531—561)
The Early Seventeenth Century (1603—1660) (pp. 1341—1367)
The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century (1600—1785) (pp. 2177—2205)
Vol. II:The Romantic Period (pp. 3—27)
The Victorian Age (pp. 1017—1041)
The Twentieth Century and After (pp. 1887—1910)
[1] Milton’s Paradise Lost, with good editorial annotation, is included in the Norton Anthology. But students who want the best available explanatory notes should acquire a copy Alastair Fowler’s Longman annotated text, 2nd edition 1997 (paperback), revised 2007. This is far and away the best edition of the poem.
[2] 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 various scholarly editions in the Arden, Cambridge, Oxford, and Penguin series.