A List of Books for Postgraduates in the Area of English Literature
I. Classics of Literary Theory
Plato: Ion, Republic (Book II, III, & X)
Aristotle: Poetics
Horace: Art of Poetry
Longinus: On the Sublime
Pope: An Essay on Criticism
Johnson: Preface to SK
Wordsworth: Preface to Edition (II) of Lyrical Ballads
T.S. Eliot: Tradition and the Individual Talent
II. The Literary Writings (before 18thcentury)
[Drama]
The Craft Cycle: The Shepherds (Wakefield)
A Morality play: Everyman
Marlowe: Tamburlaine the Great, The Trivial History of Doctor Faustus, Edward II
Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice, Henry IV (I, II), Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra
Johnson: Volpone, or the Fox
[Poetry]
Beowulf
The Wanderers
The Battle of Maldon
Sir Girwain and the Green Knight
Langland: Piers, the Plowman
Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales (General Prologue, The Wife of bath’s, The Knight’s Tale)
Milton: L’Allegro, ILPenseroso, Paradise Lost (Book One)
[Prose]
Bacon: Essays
Bunyan: The Pilgrim’s Progress
Boswell: The Life of Samuel Johnson
T.S. Eliot: The Waste Land
James Joyce: Ulysses
III. Literary History
William J. Long: English Literature (1919)
A.L. Morton: A People’s History of England (1979)
IV. Recitation of 20 short pieces of poems: not shorter than 14 lines
V. Special Field
Thomas Hardy: Far From the Madding Crowd, The return of the Native, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Tess of the D’urbervilles, Jude the Obscure, Woodlanders
I. Classics of Literary Theory
Plato: Ion, Republic (Book II, III, & X)
Aristotle: Poetics
Horace: Art of Poetry
Longinus: On the Sublime
Pope: An Essay on Criticism
Johnson: Preface to SK
Wordsworth: Preface to Edition (II) of Lyrical Ballads
T.S. Eliot: Tradition and the Individual Talent
II. The Literary Writings (before 18thcentury)
[Drama]
The Craft Cycle: The Shepherds (Wakefield)
A Morality play: Everyman
Marlowe: Tamburlaine the Great, The Trivial History of Doctor Faustus, Edward II
Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice, Henry IV (I, II), Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra
Johnson: Volpone, or the Fox
[Poetry]
Beowulf
The Wanderers
The Battle of Maldon
Sir Girwain and the Green Knight
Langland: Piers, the Plowman
Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales (General Prologue, The Wife of bath’s, The Knight’s Tale)
Milton: L’Allegro, ILPenseroso, Paradise Lost (Book One)
[Prose]
Bacon: Essays
Bunyan: The Pilgrim’s Progress
Boswell: The Life of Samuel Johnson
T.S. Eliot: The Waste Land
James Joyce: Ulysses
III. Literary History
William J. Long: English Literature (1919)
A.L. Morton: A People’s History of England (1979)
IV. Recitation of 20 short pieces of poems: not shorter than 14 lines
V. Special Field
Thomas Hardy: Far From the Madding Crowd, The return of the Native, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Tess of the D’urbervilles, Jude the Obscure, Woodlanders
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