Primary texts in Norton Anthology, 2 vols, 10th edn, except where otherwise indicated. The Literature Online (ProQuest) database is available to all students through the University subscription
Prose
- Thomas Malory, Morte Darthur, ‘The Death of Arthur’ and ‘The Deaths of Lancelot and Guinevere’
- Sir Thomas More, Utopia
- John Milton, from Aereopagitica
- Samuel Richardson, Clarissa (preface, available on Canvas)
- Frances Burney, Evelina (preface, available on Canvas)
- William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads (extracts from preface)
- George Eliot, from ‘Silly Novels by Lady Novelists’
- Blast, ‘Long Live the Vortex’
- Virginia Woolf, ‘A Room of One’s Own’
- Ngugi Wa Thiong’o, ‘Decolonising the Mind’
- Philip Sidney, ‘The Defence of Poesy’
- Percy Shelley, from ‘A Defence of Poetry’
- Salman Rushdie, ‘Is Nothing Sacred?’ (available on Canvas)
- Zadie Smith, ‘The Waiter’s Wife’
Novels
- Charles Dickens, Hard Times (Oxford University Press, ISBN 0199536279)
- Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (Norton Critical Edition, ISBN 0393964523)
- Jane Austen, Persuasion (Oxford University Press, ISBN 0199535558)
- Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
Poetry
- Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘To His Scribe Adam’
- Old English Riddles (available on Canvas)
- Anon, ‘The Wanderer’
- Thomas Wyatt, ‘Whoso List to Hunt’
- William Shakespeare, Sonnet 18
- John Donne, Holy Sonnet 14
- John Donne, ‘The Flea’
- William Wordsworth, ‘Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey’
- John Keats, ‘Ode to a Nightingale’
- Percy Shelley, ‘Ozymandias’
- Gerard Manley Hopkins, ‘The Windhover’ and ‘As Kingfishers Catch Fire’
- Christina Rossetti, ‘Goblin Market’
- Wilfred Owen, ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’
- T. E. Hulme, ‘Autumn’
- T. S. Eliot, ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’
- Seamus Heaney, ‘The Grauballe Man’
- Carol Ann Duffy, ‘Prayer’ (Literature Online), ‘Anne Hathaway’ (available on Canvas), ‘Medusa’
- Tony Harrison, ‘National Trust’ (Literature Online)
- M. Nourbese Philip, ‘Discourse on the Logic of Language’
Drama
- Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
- William Shakespeare, The Tempest (Norton Critical Edition, ISBN 0393978192)
- Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
Obligatory secondary reading
- Dominic Rainsford, Studying Literature in English (Taylor & Francis, ISBN 0415699231)