Reading list

Please note you are responsible for all the readings found on this list.  We may not be able to cover each one in our class discussions or journals, BUT this only means the potential for them to be on either the Unit test or Final are higher. :) So be safe and read them all, Trust ME, totally worth the read! 

Required text for the course is:  https://digital.wwnorton.com/englishlit10core 

 

These links were used to put the course together BEFORE I had a text. But you are welcome to use them. Some readings can only be found here, yet some can only be found within your textbook; this means you must purchase the textbook via Norton online Core text.

Thanks. 

 

 

The Middle Ages

• Bede and Caedmone Hymn  
•  Beowulf  

 

Sir Gawain And The Green Knight  

 

Geoffrey Chaucer 

• The Canterbury Tales 
• The General Prologue and Tale  
• The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale 
• The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale (here only) 
• The Parson's Tale   (here only) 

 

Julian of Norwich  (here only)

• Julian of Norwich  chapter 3

 

Margery Kempe (here only) 

• Book 1.1 
• Book 1.11 

 

Sir Thomas Malory

• Morte Darthur  

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The Sixteenth Century/ The Early Seventeenth Century

 

 

Sir Thomas Wyatt The Elder

• Farewell, Love 

 

Elizabeth I

• On Monsieur's Departure  
• Speech to the Troops at Tilbury  

 

Edmund Spencer

• The Faerie Queen   Study guide for Faerie Queen  from Calpoly EDU

 

Sir Walter Raleigh

• Farewell, False love 

 

Sir Philip Sidney

• The Defense of Poesy  

 

Christopher Marlowe 

• Doctor Faustus   ( Your first paper will be over this play) 

 

William Shakespeare

Sonnets

• sonnet 18  
• sonnet 19  
• 20
• 29
• 30    
• sonnet 87  
• sonnet 116 
• sonnet 130 

 

Twelfth Night : Entire Play Provided by MIT Edu 

 

John Donne

• The Flea 
• Air and Angels (here only)
• The Ecstasy (here only)

 

Ben Jonson

• On my first daughter 

 

John Milton

• Paradise Lost

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The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century

 

John Dryden 

• An Essay of Dramatic Poesy (here only) 

 

John Locke  (here only) chap 2 & 3 only

• An Essay Concerning Human Understanding 

 

Mary Astell (here only)

• From Some Reflections upon Marriage 

 

Jonathan Swift

• Gulliver's Travels   (A study Guide to Gulliver's Travels)
• A Modest Proposal  

 

Alexander Pope

• AN Essay on Criticism   (pt one)
• The Rape of the Lock   (canto one)

 

Thomas Gray

• Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat  

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The Romantics

 

Anna Letitia Barbauld

• The Rights of Women 

Charlotte Smith **

• To Sleep 

 

Mary Wollstonecraft

• A Vindication of the Rights of Woman  (synopsis) <--know an overview of this work (parts are highlighted)

 

William Wordsworth 

• We Are Seven 
• Lines Written in Early Spring 
• I travelled amoung unknown men  
• I wandered lonely as a cloud 
• My heart leaps up  
• The world is too much with us 
• Surprised by Joy 

 

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

• The Rime of the Ancient Mariner 
• Kubla Khan 
• Christabel 
• Dejection: An Ode 

 

 

George Gordan, Lord Byron

• She walks in Beauty 
• So we'll go no more a roving  (only here)
• Childe Herald's Pilgrimage   (know an overview)
• Don Juan 

 

 

Percy Bysshe Shelley

• To Wordsworth 
• Mont Blanc 
• Ode to the West Wind 
• To a Sky-Lark 

 

Felicia Dorthea Hemans **

• England's Dead 
• An Hour of Romance 

 

John Keats

• When I have fears that I may cease to be 
• Ode on Melancholy 

 

Mary Wollstoncraft Shelly

• The Mortal Immortal (here only) 

 

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Victorian Writers

 

John Stuart Mill 

• The Subjection Of Women 

 

Elizabeth Barrett Browning 

• Sonnets from the Portuguese 

 

Alfred Lord Tennyson 

• The Lady of Shalott  
• The Charge of the Light Brigade  

 

Robert Browning 

• My Last Duchess

 

 

Matthew Arnold  

• Dover Beach 

 

 

Christian Rossetti 

• Dead before Death (here only) 
• Winter: My Secret (here only)

 

Gerald Manley Hopkins

• The Starlight Night 595
• Pied Beauty 597

 

Oscar Wilde 

• The Importance of Being Earnest   (Your 2nd paper will be over this play. )

 

Rudyard Kipling

• The Man Who Would be King 943
• The Widow at Windsor 968 

 

 

 

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The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

 

Thomas Hardy

• The Darkling Thrush 
• The Ruined Maid 
• Ah, Are you Digging on My Grave? (here only)  

 

Joseph Conrad

• Heart of Darkness  (know an overview of this reading)

 

Wilfred Owen 

• Dulce Et Decorum Est 

 

 

William Butler Yeats

• When You are Old 
• Adam's Curse 

 

E.M. Forester

• The Other Boat 249 <-- know an overview of this work.

 

Virginia Woolf

• Modern Fiction  (know an overview of both of these readings) 
• From A Room of One's Own 

 

 

James Joyce

• The Dead (James Joyce) 

 

 

D.H. Lawrence

• The Horse Dealer's Daughter  (here only) 
• Why the Novel Matters (here only) 

 

 

T.S. Eliot

• The Hollow Men (here only) 
• Journey of the Magi  (here only) 

 

Katherine Mansfield

• The Garden Party  

 

Stevie Smith 

• Not Waving but Drowning 

 

George Orwell

• Shooting an Elephant  (links to the Orwell Foundation)

 

W.H. Auden

• Stop All the Clocks    <-- My Favorite (here only) 

 

Dylan Thomas

• Do Not GO Gentle into That Good Night 

 

Seamus Heaney

• Digging Seamus Heaney 1095

 

Margaret Atwood

• Death by Landscape (know an overview of this reading)
• The Handmaid's Tale  (know an overview of this reading)