British Literature
Beowulf
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
The Tain
Marie de France: Lais
Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales, Troilius and Criseyde
John Gower: Confessio Amantis
Edmund Spenser: The Faerie Queene, Sonnets 2, 3, 5, 6, 10,1 4, 15, 18, 21, 23, 25, 26, 30, 32, 33, 34, 38, 41, 43, 44, 45, 46, 48, 53, 54, 56, 60, 62, 63, 66, 67, 69, 71, 72, 74, 75, 78, 83, 85, 88
Margery Kempe: The Book of Margery Kempe
William Shakespeare: As You Like It, King Lear, Much Ado About Nothing, Othello, The Taming of the Shrew; and Sonnets 18, 20, 55, 73, 116, 130, 144
Christopher Marlowe: Dr. Faustus, "The Passionate Shepherd to his Love"
Sir Walter Raleigh: "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd"
Ben Jonson: Volpone and the Alchemist
Robert Herrick: "Delight in Disorder," "The Vine," "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time"
John Donne: Holy Sonnets, "Satire 3," "The Canonization," "A Valediction Forbidding Mourning," "The Flea," "The Bait"
John Ford: 'Tis Pity She's a Whore
John Wilmot: "The Imperfect Enjoyment," "The Disabled Debauchee," "Love and Life"
John Wilmot: "The Imperfect Enjoyment," "The Disabled Debauchee," "Love and Life"
John Milton: Paradise
Lost "How Soon Hath Time," "To
the Lord General Cromwell,”" "Methought I Saw"
George Herbert: "The
Altar," "Redemption," "The Collar," "The Pulley," "Love(3)"
Andrew Marvell: "To
His Coy Mistress"
Samuel Johnson: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia
Jonathan Swift: Gulliver’s
Travels
Aphra Behn: Oroonoko, The Rover
William Congreve: The
Way of the World
Henry Fielding: Tom Jones
Alexander Pope: The
Rape of Lock
Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice
Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights
William Wordsworth: "The Prelude," "Tintern Abbey,"
"The World is Too Much with Us," "Mutability," "Scorn Not the Sonnet," "Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802," "September 1st,
1802," "London, 1802," "She dwelt among untrodden ways"
John Keats: "Ode
on Indolence," "Ode to Psyche," "Ode to a Nightingale," "Ode on a Grecian Urn," "Ode on Melancholy," "To Autumn," "On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer," "The Eve of St. Agnes," "Bright Star," "La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad," "Lamia"
Lord Byron: The
Giauur, Don Juan
Alfred Lord Tennyson: "The Lady of Shallot," "Ulysses," "Tithomus," "Locksley Hall"
Robert Browning: "Porphyria’s Lover," "Soliloquy to the
Spanish Cloister," "My Last Duchess," "The Bishop Orders His Tomb," "A Toccata
of Galuppi’s," "Andrea del Sarto"
Charlotte Brontë: Jane
Eyre
Percy Shelley: Defense of Poetry
Christina Rossetti: "Goblin Market," "In an Artist’s
Studio," "Promises Like Pie-Crust," "After Death," "Cobwebs," "At
Triad"
William Butler Yeats: "Leda
and the Swan," "The Second Coming," "Among School Children," "Sailing to
Byzantium," "No Second Troy," "Easter 1916," "Lapis Lazuli," "The Circus Animals’ Desertion"
Gerard Manley
Hopkins: "God’s
Grandeur," "The Windhover," "Pied Beauty," "Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord"
Charles Dickens: Dombey
and Son, Hard Times, Great Expectations
Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest,
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Joseph Conrad: Heart
of Darkness
E.M. Forster: Howard’s
End, Passage to India
Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway
James Joyce: A
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Dubliners
T.S. Eliot: "The
Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
John Millington Synge: Playboy
of the Western World
Seamus Heaney: "Digging," "Bogland," "The Tollund Man"
Phillip Larkin: "Church
Going," "Aubade"
W.H. Auden: "As I Walked Out One Evening," "Stop
All the Clocks," "Lay Your Sleeping Head, My Love," "Musee des Beaux Arts," "September 1, 1939," "The More Loving One"
George Orwell: Down
and Out in Paris and London
Jean Rhys: Wide
Sargasso Sea
Tom Stoppard: The
Real Thing, Arcadia
Caryl Churchill: Top
Girls, Cloud Nine
Carol Ann Duffy: "Stealing," "Warming her Pearls," "Nostalgia," "Medusa," "Mrs. Lazarus," "Mrs. Faust"
Andrea Levy: Small
Island
Doris Lessing: To Room Nineteen
A.S. Byatt: Possession
Zadie Smith: On Beauty
American Literature
Christopher Columbus: Letter to Luis de Santangel Regarding the First Voyage (Feb. 15, 1493)
John Winthrop: "A Model of Christian Charity"
Edward Taylor: "The
Preface"
J. Hector St. John de
Crèvecoeur: Letters from an American Farmer
Catharine Sedgwick: Hope
Leslie: Or, Early Times in Massachusetts
Anne Bradstreet: "The Author to Her Books," "Before the
Birth of One of Her Children," "To My Dear and Loving Husband," "A Letter to
Her Husband, Absent Upon Public Employment," "Prologue," "Upon the Burning of
Our House"
Olaudah Equiano: "The
Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the
African. Written by Himself"
Phillis Wheatley: "On
Being Brought from Africa to America," "On Imagination," "On Virtue," "On the Death of Rev. Mr. George
Whitefield," "To the University of Cambridge, in New England," "To the Right
and Honorable William, Earl of Dartsmouth"
Benjamin Franklin: The
Autobiography
Edgar Allan Poe: "Murders in the Rue Morgue," "Annabel
Lee," "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Raven," "The Black Cat," "Ligeia," "The Fall
of the House of Usher," "William Wilson"
Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Blithedale Romance, The Scarlet Letter, "The Custom House"
Ralph Waldo Emerson: "Self-Reliance," "The Poet," "Divinity School
Address"
Frederick Douglass: Narrative
of the Life of a Slave
Margaret Fuller: Woman in the Nineteenth Century
Henry David Thoreau: "Resistance
to Civil Government," Walden
Harriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle
Tom’s Cabin
Herman Melville: “Benito Cereno,” “Bartleby, the
Scrivener,” “Billy Budd”
Nancy Prince: A
Black Woman’s Odyssey through Russia and Jamaica: The Narrative of Nancy Prince
Walt Whitman: "Song
of Myself (1881 ed.)," "Crossing
Brooklyn Ferry," "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking," from Leaves of Grass "The
Dalliance of the Eagles," "This Compost," "To a Foil’d European Revolutionaire"
Mark Twain: Huckleberry Finn
Emily Dickinson: "After
great pain, a formal feeling comes," "We grow accustomed to the Dark," "I had
been hungry, all the Years," "I started early – took my dog -," "Because I
could not stop for Death-," "Water,
is taught by thirst," "These are the days when Birds come back-," "I’m 'wife' –
I’ve finished that-," "Some keep the Sabbath going to Church-," "One need not
be a Chamber – to be Haunted-," "This was a Poet – It is That," "I cannot live
with You," "I dwell in Possibility," "He fumbles at your Soul," "A still –
Volcano – Life -," "Undue Significance a starving man attaches," "'Nature' is
what we see-," "Ah, Teneriffe!," "My Life had stood – a Loaded Gun -," "She
rose to His Requirement – dropt," "Tell all the Truth but tell it slant-," "I
taste a liquor never brewed-," "The Soul selects her own Society-," "I heard a
Fly buzz – when I died-," "I Like a look of Agony," "I felt a Funeral, in my
Brain," "The World is not Conclusion," "It was not Death, for I stood up," "Much Madness is divinest Sense"
Henry James: The
American, "The Real Thing," Portrait
of a Lady, The Turn of the Screw, "Daisy Miller"
Edith Wharton: The House of Mirth, The Age of Innocence
Zitkala-Sa: American
Indian Stories
Willa Cather: My
Ántonia, A Lost Lady
Kate Chopin: The
Awakening
Wallace Stevens: "Sunday
Morning," "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird," "The Emperor of Ice Cream," "Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock," "Anecdote of the Jar," "The Idea of Order at Key West," "Of Modern Poetry," "Study of Two Pears"
F. Scott Fitzgerald: The
Great Gatsby, Tender is the Night
T.S. Eliot: "The Hollow Men," "Tradition and the
Individual Talent," "Four Quartets," The
Wasteland, "Sweeney Erect"
William Carlos Williams: "Raleigh
Was Right"
William Faulkner: Absalom, Absalom!, As I Lay Dying, "A Rose for Emily"
Ernest Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises, In Our Times, "A Clean, Well, Lighted
Place," "Hills Like White Elephants"
Zora Neal Hurston: Their
Eyes Were Watching God
John Steinbeck: The
Grapes of Wrath
Lorraine Hansberry: A
Raisin in the Sun
Arthur Miller: Death
of a Salesman
Richard Wright: Black Boy, Uncle Tom’s Children, Native Son
Tennessee Williams: A
Streetcar Named Desire
Alice Walker: The
Color Purple
Cathy Song: "The Youngest Daughter," "Beauty and
Sadness," "Lost Sister," "Girl Powdering Her Neck," "The White Porch"
Alice Notley: The
Descent of Alette
Toni Morrison: Beloved
Ralph Ellison: Invisible
Man
Americo Paredes: With
a Pistol in His Hand
Robert Hass: "Meditation at Luganitas"
Carolyn Kizer: "Thrall," "The Intruder," "Semele
Recycled"
Sylvia Plath: Ariel
Adrienne Rich: "Diving into the Wreck," "Aunt
Jennifer’s Tigers," "Grandmothers," "Living in Sin"
Maxine Hong Kingston: China
Men
August Wilson: Fences,
The Piano Lesson
Cormac McCarthy: The Road
Percival Everett: Erasure
David Henry Hwang: M.
Butterfly
Linda Hogan: Solar
Storms
Kathy Acker: Don
Quixote
Leslie Marmon Silko: Ceremony
Fae Myenne Ng: Bone
Jhumpa Lahiri: The Lowland, Unaccustomed Earth
World Literature
Homer: The Iliad, The Odyssey
Virgil: The
Aeneid
Miguel de Cervantes: Don
Quixote
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: 100
Years of Solitude
J.M. Coetzee: Waiting
for the Barbarians
Ousmane Sembene: God’s
Bits of Wood
Salman Rushdie: Midnight’s Children
Jose Saramago: Blindness
Patricia Powell: The
Pagoda
Raja Roa: Kanthapura
Literary Criticism
Terry Eagleton: Literary Theory: An Introduction
Friedrich Nietzsche: “On
Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense”
Sigmund Freud: Civilization
and Its Discontents, “The Uncanny”
Virginia Woolf: A
Room of One’s Own
Henry James: “The
Art of Fiction”
Jacques Derrida: Acts
of Literature
Fredric Jameson: The
Political Unconscious
Homi Bhabha: The Location of Culture
Gayle Rubin: “The Traffic in Women: Notes on the
‘Political Economy’ of Sex”
Roland Barthes: “The
Death of the Author”
Julia Kristeva: The
Powers of Horror
Judith Butler: “Performative Acts and Gender
Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory,” “Subversive
Bodily Acts”
Edward Said: Orientalism
Sandra Gilbert
& Susan Gubar: The Madwoman in the Attic
Michel Foucault: from
History of Sexuality 2
Toni Morisson: Playing
in the Dark
Gayatri Chakravory Spivak: An Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalization
Henry Louis Gates: The Signifying Monkey
bell hooks: Yearning:
Race, Gender and Cultural Politics
Lentricchia
& McLaughlin: Critical Terms for Literary Study 2nd
ed.
Louis Tyson: Critical Theory Today
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