This list is a sample of what you might be asked to read during graduate school! Most of the texts you would read during through classes.
British Literature
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Chaucer Thomas More Wyatt and Surrey Spenser Marlowe Sidney Shakespeare Donne Bacon Jonson Webster Marvell Seventeenth-Century Lyric Poetry Milton Dryden Etherege or Wycherley Rochester Congreve Behn Gay Early Eighteenth-century Novel Swift Pope Addison Sheridan or Goldsmith Johnson Boswell Later Eighteenth-Century Poetry Later Eighteenth-Century Novel Blake Wordsworth Coleridge Byron Shelley Keats Lamb Austen Bronte, E. Bronte, C. Dickens Thackeray Eliot, George Hardy Tennyson Browning Arnold Modern British Fiction: Conrad Joyce Lawerence
Shaw Irish Renaissance Modern Hritish and Irish Poetry Eliot, T. S.
Modern And Contmporary British and Irish Drama Beckett Pinter Stoppard
Contemporary British and Canadian Fiction: |
Beowulf
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight The Second Shepherd’s Play "The General Prologue," Knight’s Tale, Miller’s Tale, Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale, Franklin’s Tale, Pardoner’s Prologue and Tale, Nun’s Priest’s Tale from Canterbury Tales. Utopia Selected poetry The Faerie Queen, Book I; The Shepheardes Calendar; Amoretti Hero and Leander and one play An Apology for Poesy; Astrophel and Stella Hamlet, King Lear, and other plays and sonnets The First Anniversary; poems from Songs and Sonnets and The Holy Sonnets One of his Essays; The Advancement of Learning or The New Atlantis One play; selected poetry The Duchess of Malfi or The White Devil "The Garden," "To His Coy Mistress" and the ode to Cromwell Poems by two of the following: Herrick, Herbert, Vaughan, Traherne, Carew, Suckling, Crashaw "L’Allegro," "Il Penseroso," "Lycidas," Paradise Lost Absolom and Achitophel, Mac Flecknoe, All for Love, and "An Essay of Dramatic Poesie" The Man of Mode or The Country Wife or The Plain Dealer "A Satyr Against Reason and Mankind" The Way of The World Oroonoko or The Rover The Begger’s Opera Defoe, Robinson Crusoe or Moll Flanders; Richardson, Pamela or Clarissa; Fielding, Joseph Andrews or Tom Jones Gulliver’s Travels, "A Modest Proposal" The Rape of the Lock; Moral Epistles 1 and 3; Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot The Spectator The Rivals or The School for Scandal or She Stoops to Conquer "The Vanity of Human Wishes," "Preface to Shakespeare," and Rasselas Life of Samuel Johnson Thomson, "Winter" from The Seasons; Gray, "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"; Collins, "Ode on the Poetical Character"; Goldsmith, "The Deserted Village" Sterne, Tristram Shandy, and one of the following: Smollett, Humphry Clinker; Burney, Evelina; or a Gothic novel (e.g. Walpole, Lewis, Radcliffe) The Book of Thel or The Marriage of Heaven and Hell or Visions of the Daughters of Albion "Preface" to Lyrical Ballads; Prelude, "Tintern Abbey"; "Ode: Intimations of Immortality" poems Childe Harold’s Pilgramage, Canto III; Don Juan, Cantos I-IV "Mont Blanc," "Adonais," selections from Prometheus Unbound, "A Defense of Poetry" "The Eve of St. Agnes," the five major odes "Old China" Pride and Prejudice or Emma Wuthering Hieghts Jane Eyre David Copperfield or Great Expectations or Bleak House Vanity Fair or Henry Esmond Middlemarch Return of the Native or Tess of the
D’Urbervilles or Jude the Obscure Selections from In Memoriam Six poems "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time," Sweetness and Light" from Culture and Anarchy A novel by one of the following: Huxley, Greene, Cary, Forester, Durrel, Orwell Lord Jim or The Heart of Darkness and "The Secret Sharer" Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man or Ulysses Women in Love or Sons and Lovers Mrs. Dalloway or To the Lighthouse Two of the following: Man and Superman, Major Barbara, and one other play One play by O’Casey of Synge Poems by Hopkins, Auden, Hardy, Thomas Larkin "Tradition and Individual Talent," The Waste Land, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," and one play Poems and one play Waiting for Godot and one other play The Homecoming or one other play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
or one other play One of the following: Vinegar Tom, Cloud 9, Top Girls A novel by one of the following: Lessing, Martin Amis, Angela Carter, Rushdie, Atwood |
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American Poetry
Early American Prose Franklin Irving Cooper Poe Emerson Thoreau Douglass Jacobs Hawthorne Melville Whitman Dickinson Nineteenth-Century Poetry Nineteenth-Century Fiction
James Twain Chesnutt
African-American Literature: Nonfiction Fiction Poetry
Dubois Modern Fiction: Faulkner Hurston Hemingway Wright Ellison
Modern Poetry: Pound Frost Stevens
Modern Drama O’Neill Glaspell Williams, Tennessee Miller
Contemporary Drama: Contemporary Poetry: Contemporary Fiction
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Three
poems each: Bradstreet, Taylor, Wheatley, Freneau
One of the following: Edwards, "Sinners in the
Hands of an Angry God" and "A Divine and Supernatural Light"; Byrd, The
History of the Dividing Line; Mather, The Wonders of the
Invisible World and Magnalia Christi Americana; Jefferson, Autobiography
and Notes on the State of Virginia Autobiography "Rip Van Winkle" and "Legend of Sleepy Hollow" The Pioneers or one other novel "The Philosophy of Composition" and
"Twice-Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne: A Review"; three poems and
three short stories "Nature" and two essays from the following:
"The American Scholar," "Self-Reliance," "The Divinty School Address,"
and "The Poet" Walden The Narrative of Fredrick Douglass Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl The Scarlet Letter and four tales Moby Dick and Billy Budd or "Benito Cereno" "Song of Myself," "Preface" to 1855 Edition of
Leaves of Grass, "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking"
Poems Two poems by one of the following: Bryant,
Longfellow, Whittier, Homes, Lowell Two of the following: Howells, The Rise of Silas Lapham or A Hazard of New Fortunes; Crane, The Red Badge of Courage or Maggie; Norris, McTeague; Dreiser, Sister Carrie; Wharten, The House of Mirth; or, in lieu of one novel, these four short stories: Gilman, "The Yellow Wallpaper," Jewett, "The White Heron," Freeman, "A New England Nun," Wharton, "Roman Fever." "The Art of Fiction"; Portrait of a Lady or The Ambassadors; "The Beast in the Jungle" or "The Real Thing" The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The Conjure Woman or The Marrow of Tradition The Awakening One of the following: Ellison, Shadow and Act; Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son; Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X Two of the following: Larsen, Quicksand or Passing; Baldwin, Go Tell it on the Mountain or Another Country; Walker, Meridian or The Color Purple Poems by one of the following: Brooks, Lorde, Giovanni, Baraka Six poems by Hughes Two of the following: Hughes, Mulatto; Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun; Baraka, Dutchman; Shange, for colored girls or Spell #7; Wilson, The Piano Lesson The Souls of Black Folks Two of the following: Steinback, The Grapes of Wrath; Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio; Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby; Cather, My Antonia or Death Comes for the Archbishop; Dos Passos, The Big Money or Manhattan Transfer; Salinger, Franny and Zooey; one novel or five stories by Bellow; one novel or five stories by Porter One of the following: The Sound and the Fury, As I lay Dying, Absalom, Absalom, Light in August Their Eyes Were Watching God One of the following: The Sun Also Rises, For Whom the Bell Tolls, A Farewell to Arms Native Son The Invisible Man Four Stories Poems by Robinson, Masters, Moore, H. Crane, Cummings Poems Poems Poems Poems Long Day’s Journey into Night, plus one other play Trifles A Streetcar Named Desire or one other play Death of a Salesman or one other play Zoo Story or Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? One play by two: Sheperd, Mamet, Fornes,
hwang, Kushner Three poems each: Jarrell, Roethke, Lowell,
Bishop, Plath, Ginsberg, Rich, Sexton, Levertov One novel or five stories by two of the
following; Nabokov, Welty, Updike, Cheever, Heller, Erdrich, Kingston,
Barth, Barthelme, Oates, Momaday Beloved or Song of Solomon |
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maintained by Dr. Taimi Olsen, English
Program, Tusculum College
updated 11/01/2002