Early British Literature
1 Chaucer, Canterbury Tales (excerpts): "The General Prologue," "The
Knight's Tale," "The Miller's Prologue and Tale," "The
Wife of Bath Prologue and Tale," "The Pardoner's Prologue
and Tale," "The Nun's Priest's Prologue and Tale"
2 Four Elizabethan Plays: Shakespeare, King
Lear and Measure
for Measure; Jonson, Bartholomew Fair; Webster, The White Devil
British Literature from the Seventeenth Century to the Present
3 John Milton, Paradise Lost
4 George Herbert, The Temple
5 Aphra Behn, Oroonoko
6 Alexander Pope, "The Rape of the Lock"
7 Ann Radcliffe, The Italian
8 Poems in Conversation: "Tintern Abbey," the 1799
Prelude, "Resolution
and Independence" and "Ode: Intimations of Immortality" (William
Wordsworth ); "Frost at Midnight" and "Dejection:
an Ode" (Samuel
Taylor Coleridge)
9 George Eliot, Middlemarch
10 Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh
11 William Butler Yeats, The Tower
12 Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
American Literature from the Seventeenth Century to the Present
13 Mary Rowlandson, The Sovereignty and Goodness of God
14 Phillis Wheatley, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral
15 Emily Dickinson, Final Harvest
16 Herman Melville, The Piazza Tales
17 Henry James, The Ambassadors
18 Marianne Moore, Selected Poems (1935) (a separate section
in the Complete Poems)
19 Alain Locke, The New Negro (anthology)
20 The Adrienne Kennedy Reader
21 Frank O’Hara, Selected Poems
Canadian and Native American Literature
22 bpNichol, The Martyrology Books 1-2
23 Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony
24 William Apess, A Son of the Forest
Criticism, Theory and Poetics
25 Allen Grossman, Summa Lyrica (included in The Sighted Singer)
26 Walter Benjamin, Illuminations
27 Catherine Belsey, The Subject of Tragedy
28 Edward Said, Orientalism
29 Jane Tompkins, Sensational Designs
30 Judith Butler, Gender Trouble
Adopted Spring 2004 for use beginning Fall 2004
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