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What have I read for my comprehensive exam? Here follows the list of what I've read. Texts in italics are ones I read previously in my life which I have not re-read, but which I have reviewed/will review.
List I
Aelfric: The Life of St Edmund
Beowulf
The Book of John Mandeville
Cavendish, Margaret: The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing World
Chaucer, Geoffrey: Troilus and Criseyde; The Canterbury Tales
Donne, John: Songs and Sonnets: “The Good-morrow”; “The Undertaking”; “The Canonization”; “Air and Angels”; “Break of Day”; “The Anniversary”; “Twickenham Garden”; “Love’s Growth”; “Love’s Alchemy”; “The Flea”; “A Nocturnal upon St Lucy’s Day, being the shortest day”; “A Valediction: forbidding mourning”; “The Ecstasy”; “The Funeral”; “The Relic”; “The Sun Rising”; Elegy 19 (“Come, Madam, come”); Holy Sonnets 10, 14, 18
Julian of Norwich: Revelations of Divine Love
Langland, William: The Vision of Piers Plowman
Lanyer, Aemilia, from Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum: To the Doubtful Reader; To the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty; To the Virtuous Reader; “Eve’s Apology in Defense of Women”; “The Description of Cookham”
Mankind
Margery Kempe: The Book of Margery Kempe
Marlowe, Christopher: The Jew of Malta; Dr. Faustus
Marvell, Andrew: “The Definition of Love”; “To His Coy Mistress”; “The Coronet”; “An Horatian Ode . . .”; “The Picture of Little T.C. . .”; “The Nymph Complaining for the Death of Her Fawn”; “Upon Appleton House”; “The Garden”; “On a Drop of Dew”; “Dialogue between Soul and Body”; Mower Poems (4); “Bermudas”
Milton, John: “Lycidas”; Paradise Lost; Areopagitica
More, Sir Thomas: Utopia
Old English shorter narrative poetry (anonymous):“The Seafarer”; “The Wife’s Lament”; “The Dream of the Rood”
Shakespeare, William: Richard III; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Hamlet; The Winter’s Tale
Sidney, Sir Philip: Astrophil and Stella
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Wroth, Mary: Pamphilia to Amphilanthus: “When night’s black mantle”; “Am I thus conquered?”; Song (“Sweetest love, return again”); “Take heed mine eyes”; “False hope which feeds but to destroy”; “My pain, still smothered in my grievèd breast”; Song (“Love a child is ever crying”); “In this strange labyrinth”; “My muse now happy”
Wyatt, Sir Thomas: “They flee from me”; “My Galley”; “Divers doth use”; “What vaileth truth”; “The long love...”; “Whoso list to hunt”
York Plays: The Fall of the Angels; Joseph’s Trouble about Mary; Christ Before Pilate I (The Dream of Pilate’s Wife); The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment
List II
Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart
Beckett, Samuel. Waiting for Godot
Blake, William. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Carson, Anne. Autobiography of Red
Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness
Defoe, Daniel. Moll Flanders
Dickinson, Emily. 258, 288, 341, 465, 510, 632, 650, 712, 754, 986, 1129
Eliot, George. Middlemarch
Eliot, T.S. "The Love-Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," The Waste Land, Four Quartets
Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man
Gray, Thomas. "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College," "Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat," "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"
James, Henry. The Portrait of a Lady
Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Keats, John. "The Eve of St. Agnes," "Ode to a Nightingale," "Ode on a Grecian Urn," "To Autumn"
Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick
Miller, Arthur. Death of a Salesman
Richardson, Samuel. Pamela
Rushdie, Salman. Shame
Shaw, George Bernard. Major Barbara
Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein
Stein, Gertrude. Tender Buttons (part 1--"Objects")
Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver's Travels
Twain, Mark. Huckleberry Finn
Wilde, Oscar. The Importance of Being Earnest
Williams, Tennessee. A Streetcar Named Desire
Wollstonecraft, Mary. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Woolf, Virginia. Mrs. Dalloway
Wordsworth, William. "Tintern Abbey," "Ode: Intimations of Immortality," "The 1799 Two-Part Prelude"
Yeats, William Butler. "The Lake Isle of Innisfree," "Adam's Curse," "In Memory of Major Robert Gregory," "Easter 1916," "The Second Coming," "Leda and the Swan," "Among School Children," "Lapis Lazuli," "The Circus-Animals Desertion"
List I
Aelfric: The Life of St Edmund
Beowulf
The Book of John Mandeville
Cavendish, Margaret: The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing World
Chaucer, Geoffrey: Troilus and Criseyde; The Canterbury Tales
Donne, John: Songs and Sonnets: “The Good-morrow”; “The Undertaking”; “The Canonization”; “Air and Angels”; “Break of Day”; “The Anniversary”; “Twickenham Garden”; “Love’s Growth”; “Love’s Alchemy”; “The Flea”; “A Nocturnal upon St Lucy’s Day, being the shortest day”; “A Valediction: forbidding mourning”; “The Ecstasy”; “The Funeral”; “The Relic”; “The Sun Rising”; Elegy 19 (“Come, Madam, come”); Holy Sonnets 10, 14, 18
Julian of Norwich: Revelations of Divine Love
Langland, William: The Vision of Piers Plowman
Lanyer, Aemilia, from Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum: To the Doubtful Reader; To the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty; To the Virtuous Reader; “Eve’s Apology in Defense of Women”; “The Description of Cookham”
Mankind
Margery Kempe: The Book of Margery Kempe
Marlowe, Christopher: The Jew of Malta; Dr. Faustus
Marvell, Andrew: “The Definition of Love”; “To His Coy Mistress”; “The Coronet”; “An Horatian Ode . . .”; “The Picture of Little T.C. . .”; “The Nymph Complaining for the Death of Her Fawn”; “Upon Appleton House”; “The Garden”; “On a Drop of Dew”; “Dialogue between Soul and Body”; Mower Poems (4); “Bermudas”
Milton, John: “Lycidas”; Paradise Lost; Areopagitica
More, Sir Thomas: Utopia
Old English shorter narrative poetry (anonymous):“The Seafarer”; “The Wife’s Lament”; “The Dream of the Rood”
Shakespeare, William: Richard III; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Hamlet; The Winter’s Tale
Sidney, Sir Philip: Astrophil and Stella
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Wroth, Mary: Pamphilia to Amphilanthus: “When night’s black mantle”; “Am I thus conquered?”; Song (“Sweetest love, return again”); “Take heed mine eyes”; “False hope which feeds but to destroy”; “My pain, still smothered in my grievèd breast”; Song (“Love a child is ever crying”); “In this strange labyrinth”; “My muse now happy”
Wyatt, Sir Thomas: “They flee from me”; “My Galley”; “Divers doth use”; “What vaileth truth”; “The long love...”; “Whoso list to hunt”
York Plays: The Fall of the Angels; Joseph’s Trouble about Mary; Christ Before Pilate I (The Dream of Pilate’s Wife); The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment
List II
Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart
Beckett, Samuel. Waiting for Godot
Blake, William. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Carson, Anne. Autobiography of Red
Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness
Defoe, Daniel. Moll Flanders
Dickinson, Emily. 258, 288, 341, 465, 510, 632, 650, 712, 754, 986, 1129
Eliot, George. Middlemarch
Eliot, T.S. "The Love-Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," The Waste Land, Four Quartets
Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man
Gray, Thomas. "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College," "Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat," "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"
James, Henry. The Portrait of a Lady
Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Keats, John. "The Eve of St. Agnes," "Ode to a Nightingale," "Ode on a Grecian Urn," "To Autumn"
Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick
Miller, Arthur. Death of a Salesman
Richardson, Samuel. Pamela
Rushdie, Salman. Shame
Shaw, George Bernard. Major Barbara
Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein
Stein, Gertrude. Tender Buttons (part 1--"Objects")
Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver's Travels
Twain, Mark. Huckleberry Finn
Wilde, Oscar. The Importance of Being Earnest
Williams, Tennessee. A Streetcar Named Desire
Wollstonecraft, Mary. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Woolf, Virginia. Mrs. Dalloway
Wordsworth, William. "Tintern Abbey," "Ode: Intimations of Immortality," "The 1799 Two-Part Prelude"
Yeats, William Butler. "The Lake Isle of Innisfree," "Adam's Curse," "In Memory of Major Robert Gregory," "Easter 1916," "The Second Coming," "Leda and the Swan," "Among School Children," "Lapis Lazuli," "The Circus-Animals Desertion"