READING LIST FOR MA STUDENTS

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1 READING LIST FOR MA STUDENTS The English section expects you to read widely in English during your studies. Making your own personal reading list is a way to plan, structure and make sense of the reading you do in class and on your won. The Reading List proposed by the Section groups exemplary texts by century or period and genre (fiction, poetry, drama), allowing you to situate your reading within the bigger picture of Anglophone literature. The groups on the Reading List are quantitative. That is, they prescribe a certain number of entries for each group and a certain number of works for each entry. Thus, group 23, The Short Story, contains three entries (in this case authors) and three stories for each author. The authors and texts in the various groups are suggestions and not requirements. Your own personal list may therefore substitute other authors or texts in the same category. To construct a coherent Reading List, you may wish to explore connections, parallels and contrasts among the various groups. If you elect to do your 6-hour written examination in a literary subject, whether medieval, modern or American, you will be required to present a Reading list comprising twelve groups (instead of the maximum of nine for the BA). If you did your BA at Lausanne, you may simply add more groups to the list you presented for your 3 rd year BA exam. If you did your BA elsewhere, your reading list may of course include texts you have read as part of your BA. As for the BA, your list must include group 10: Shakespeare, group 18, Romantic poetry, and at least one further group of texts from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. In the modern periods (ie Elizabethan onwards), your Reading List may include Anglophone writers of any origin (English, Scottish, Irish, South African, Caribbean, American, Australian, etc.). Medieval 1. Old English Heroic Poetry Beowulf 2. Old English: The Shorter Poems (3 entries) The Battle of Maldon The Wanderer, The Seafarer Caedmon s Hymn, The Dream of the Rood Genesis B The Wife s Lament, The Ruin, The Husband s Message, Wulf and Eadwacer 3. Early Middle English Literature (1 entry) The Owl and the Nightingale The Arthurian Section of Lawman s Brut ( ) Ancrene Wisse The Harley Lyrics

2 4. Chaucer (1 entry) Canterbury Tales: General Prologue, the Physician s and Pardoner s Tales Canterbury Tales: The Miller s, Reeve s, Merchant s and Shipman s Tales Canterbury Tales: The Wife of Bath s Prologue and Tale, the Clerk s and Franklin s Tales The Parlement of Foules, the Nun s Priest s Tale from the Canterbury Tales 5. Medieval Romance (1 entry) Havelok, Amys and Amylion Sir Orfeo; Malory s Morte D Arthur, Books 1, 20 and 21 Sir Tryamour 6. Fourteenth-Century Literature (1 entry) Piers Plowman, Prologue and Passus 1 7 Pearl Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Cleanness and Patience John Gower, Confessio Amantis, Books 1 to 4 7. Religious Literature (1 entry) Julian of Norwich, A Revelation of Love The Book of Margery Kempe Richard Rolle, The English Writings Walter Hilton, The Scale of Perfection The Cloud of Unknowing 8. Medieval Drama (2 entries) Chester, The Fall of Lucifer; York, The Fall of Man, The Last Judgment Chester, Noah; Brome, Abraham and Isaac Towneley, The Second Shepherds Play Everyman 9. Fifteenth-Century Literature (1 entry) Thomas Hoccleve, La Male Regle de T. Hoccleve, My Compleinte, A Dialoge John Lydgate, Troy Book, Prologue, Book One and Epilogue Robert Henryson, The Testament of Cresseid, The Preiching of the Swallow Elizabethan and 17th century 10. Shakespeare (3 plays plus Sonnet list) Sonnets 15, 18, 29, 30, 55, 73, 116, 129, 138, Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama (2 entries) Marlowe, Dr. Faustus Jonson, The Alchemist Webster, The Duchess of Malfi

3 12. Renaissance Poetry (3 entries) Wyatt, Madam, Withouten Many Words, Whoso List to Hunt, My Lute, Awake, They Flee from Me Donne, Go and Catch a Falling Star, The Canonization, Valediction Forbidding Mourning, The Sun Rising Jonson, To Penshurst, To the Memory of... Wm. Shakespeare, On My First Son Herbert, The Collar, Love (3), The Flower, Death 13. Milton (1 entry) Comus, Lycidas, How Soon Hath Time, When I Consider, Samson Agonistes Paradise Lost Restoration and the 18th century 14. Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Comedy (3 entries) Wycherley, The Country Wife Congreve, The Way of the World Gay, The Beggar s Opera Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer Sheridan, School for Scandal 15. Eighteenth-Century Poetry (1 entry) Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel (I), MacFlecknoe Pope, Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, Essay on Criticism, Rape of the Lock Pope, The Dunciad Johnson, The Vanity of Human Wishes, London 16. Eighteenth-Century Prose (1 entry) Swift, A Tale of a Tub, Battle of the Books Swift, A Modest Proposal, Gulliver s Travels Addison and Steele, selected Tatler and Spectator essays Johnson, Preface to Dictionary, Preface to Shakespeare, Lives of the Poets (Cowley, Milton) Boswell, The Life of Johnson Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France; Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Women 17. Eighteenth-Century Novel (1 entry) Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders Richardson, Clarissa Fielding, Joseph Andrews, Tom Jones Sterne, Tristram Shandy, A Sentimental Journey Burney, Evelina, Cecilia Walpole, The Castle of Otranto; Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho

4 19th and 20th centuries 18. Romantic Poetry (5 entries) Blake, London, The Tyger, The Clod & the Pebble, Holy Thursday Wordsworth, Tintern Abbey, Ode: Intimations of Immortality, Composed upon Westminster Bridge, 1799 Prelude Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Frost at Midnight, Dejection: an ode Byron, Prisoner of Chillon, Stanzas to the Po, Don Juan Canto 1 Keats, On First Looking into Chapman s Homer, Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode to a Nightingale, To Autumn Shelley, The Triumph of Life, Adonais, Ode to the West Wind, The World s Great Age Begins Anew (Chorus from Hellas ) 19. Nineteenth-Century Prose (1 entry) Hazlitt, De Quincey and Lamb (selections) Arnold, Wordsworth, The Study of Poetry, Literature and Science Mill, What is Poetry? On Liberty, Autobiography Carlyle, The French Revolution (selections) Ruskin, Modern Painters, The Stones of Venice (selections) Emerson, Nature, Self-Reliance, The Oversoul, Experience Thoreau, Walden 20. Victorian Poetry (3 entries) Tennyson, The Lady of Shalott, Ulysses, Morte d Arthur, Maud Browning, My Last Duchess, Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came, Love Among the Ruins Elizabeth Barrett Browning, How do I love thee? Mother and Poet, A Year s Spinning Arnold, Dover Beach, The Buried Life Hopkins, God s Grandeur, The Windhover, Spring and Fall, - Terrible Sonnets 21. Nineteenth-Century American Poetry (3 entries) Poe, The Raven, To Helen, The City in the Sea, Annabel Lee Emily Dickinson, There s a certain Slant of light, After great pain, I started early, Because I could not stop for Death, As imperceptibly as Grief Whitman, Song of Myself (selections, for instance 1 5 & 52), When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed, Crossing Brooklyn Ferry 22. Nineteenth-Century Novel (2 entries) Scott, Waverley Austen, Pride and Prejudice Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter Melville, Moby Dick Thackeray, Vanity Fair Dickens, Great Expectations

5 George Eliot, Middlemarch Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn Henry James, Portrait of a Lady Hardy, Tess of the D Urbervilles 23. The Short Story (3 entries) Poe, Ligeia, The Purloined Letter The Fall of the House of Usher Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown, Rappaccini s Daughter, The Minister s Black Veil James, The Figure in the Carpet, The Real Thing, The Beast in the Jungle Joyce, The Sisters, Araby, The Dead Mansfield, Daughters of the Late Colonel, Bliss, Je ne Parle pas Français Lawrence, Odour of Chrysanthemums, The Horse-Dealer s Daughter, The Prussian Officer Faulkner, The Bear, Barn Burning, A Rose for Emily Hemingway, The Snows of Kilimanjaro, Big Two-Hearted River, Cat in the Rain 24. Modern Poetry (3 entries) Eliot, The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock, The Waste Land, The Hollow Men Pound, I Make a Pact With You, Walt Whitman, In a Station of the Metro, Hugh Selwyn Mauberley Yeats, Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop, Leda and the Swan, Sailing to Byzantium Frost, Stopping By Woods, Once by the Pacific, Design Stevens, Sunday Morning, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, The Idea of Order at Key West Williams, Spring and All, Burning the Christmas Greens, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus Auden, In Memory of W. B. Yeats, Musée des Beaux Arts, The Shield of Achilles 25. Twentieth-Century Novel (3 entries) Conrad, Heart of Darkness Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Lawrence, Sons and Lovers Woolf, To the Lighthouse Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby Beckett, Malone Dies Morrison, Song of Solomon Rushdie, Midnight s Children Carter, Wise Children Byatt, Possession 26. Modern Drama (3 entries) Miller, Death of a Salesman, The Crucible Albee, Who s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Zoo Story Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, Lady Windermere s Fan

6 Beckett, Waiting For Godot, Endgame Pinter, The Caretaker, The Homecoming Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Travesties 27. Post-war Poetry (3 entries) Plath, Daddy, Lady Lazarus, Edge Berryman, Homage to Mistress Bradstreet, Dream Songs 1, 14 Lowell, The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket, For the Union Dead, Night Sweat Merrill, Lost in Translation, An Urban Convalescence, Mirabell s Books of Number (selection) Larkin, Church Going, MCMXIV, High Windows Walcott, A Far Cry from Africa, The Glory Trumpeter, Omeros (selection) Hill, September Song, Mercian Hymns 6 & 7 Heaney, Station Island, Digging, Punishment, Exile Runes 28. Open Category (3 entries) Works not classifiable under the above headings, such as science or detective fiction, autobiographies, literary theory, screenplays, etc. (List last revised November 2005)