British Literature II PCM Reading List

Associate Adjunct Professor Becky Villarreal

The Victorian Period | The Twentieth Century Moderns

from The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 8th edition, Package 2 or 7th edition, Volume 2

The Romantic Period (1785-1830) :

Introduction to the Romantic Period

William Blake (1757-1827) : "To Autumn"; from Songs of Innocence: "The Lamb"; "The Little Black Boy"; "The Chimney Sweeper"; "The Tyger"; " "The Garden of Love"; "London"; "I asked a thief" (audio)

Robert Burns (1759-1796) : "To a Mouse"; "A Red, Red Rose"

Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797): A Vindication of the Rights of Woman"

William Wordsworth (1770-1850): "Strange fits of passion have I known"; "She Dwelt among the untrodden ways"; "Three years she grew"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) : "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"; "Kubla Khan"

George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824) :"She walks in beauty"; "When we two parted"; Don Juan, Canto I

P. B. Shelley (1792-1822) : "Ode to the West Wind"; "England in 1819"

John Keats (1795-1821) : "When I have fears that I may cease to be"; "Ode on a Grecian Urn;"; "To Autumn" ; "La Belle Dame Sans Merci"

Jane Austen (1775-1817) : Sense and Sensibility (you might want to buy the book!)

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851): Frankenstein (you might want to buy the book!)

Victorian Age (1830–1901)

Introduction to the Victorian Age

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) : "The Cry of the Children"; "How do I Love Thee"

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) : "Mariana"; "Ulysses" (audio); "The Woman's Cause is Man's"

Charles Dickens (1812-1870) : "A Visit to Newgate"

Robert Browning (1812-1889) : "Porphyria's Lover"; "My Last Duchess"; "The Bishop Orders His Tomb"

Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) : "Song"; "After Death"

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889): "God's Grandeur"; "Spring"; "Pied Beauty"; "Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord"

Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) : "Jabberwocky"; "The Walrus and the Carpenter"

Modernism and Post-Modernism (20th Century)

Introduction to the Twentienth Century and After

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939):"Down by the Salley Gardens" (audio); "When You are Old"; "Leda and the Swan"

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) : "A Room of One's Own"

James Joyce (1882-1941) : "Araby"

D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930): "Piano"; "The Snake"; "The Horse Dealer's Daughter"

W. H. Auden (1907-1973) :"Musee des Beux Arts" (audio); "In Memory of Yeats"

Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) :"The Hunchback in the Park"; "Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night" (audio)

Doris Lessing (b. 1919) :"To Room Nineteen"

Derek Walcott (b. 1930) : "A Far Cry from Africa"; "the Glory Trumpeter" (audio #4); "Midsummer"

Note: All readings are required and will be covered in the quizzes, bulletin board assignments, and Midterm Exam.

  

William Blake 

Mary Wollstonecraft

 
Jane Austen
  
 
Emily Bronte
 

Robert Browning
Charles Dickens

George Eliot
D. H. Lawrence
  
Oscar Wilde
 

Virginia Woolf
Derek Walcott

 

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Created by Becky Villarreal, Austin Community College 2003