英美文学Reading list.docVIP

MA Reading list In English and American Literature Primary Works English Literature Beowulf (modern English version) Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales (modern English version): “General Monologue,” “The Knight’s Tale,” “The Miller’s Tale,” “The Pardoner’s Tale,” “The Wife of Bath’s Tale,” “The Franklin’s tale,” “The Merchant’s Tale” Christopher Marlowe, The Tragic History of the Life and Death of Dr. Faustus William Shakespeare, King Lear, Hamlet, and some of his sonnets John Donne, “The Flea,” “A Valediction: Forbidding Morning,” and some other metaphysical poems John Milton, Samson Agonistes, Alexander Pope, “An Essay on Criticism” Daniel Defoe, The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe Henry Fielding, Pamela Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal William Blake, Songs of Experience William Wordsworth, “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey” “Resolution and Independence,” “Preface to Lyrical Ballads” S.T. Coleridge, “The Rime of Ancient Mariner” Percy B. Shelley, “Ode to the West Wind” John Keats, “Ode on a Grecian Urn” Robert Browning, “My Last Duchess” Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights Charles Dickens, David Copperfield George Elliot, The Mill on the Floss Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles William B. Yeats, “Easter 1916,” “The Second Coming,” “Sailing to Byzantium,” “Byzantium” Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim James Joyce, Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man D. H. Lawrence, Women in Love Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway E. M. Forster, A Passage to India Samuel Beckett, Waiting For Godot William Golding, Lord of the Flies American Literature Jonathan Edwards, “Sinners in the hands of Angry God” Thomas Jefferson, “The Declaration of Independence” Washington Irving, “Rip Van Winkle,” “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Nature,” “The American Scholar,” “Self-Reliance” Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Young Goodman Brown