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This is a more up-to-date and likely more readable version of 'what I have read for my comprehensive exams.' 6 days to go before the first one!
I'll grade them on how much I liked them / how useful they are (so, like, 4/2, for example)
OLD ENGLISH
Aelfric - The Life of St Edmund 5/5
Beowulf 4/5
Old English Short Narrative Poems (The Wanderer, the Wife's Lament, the Dream of the Rood, the Seafarer) 3/5
MEDIEVAL
Selections from The York Plays 3/4
The Book of John Mandeville 2/2
Chaucer - The Canterbury Tales (well, the good parts) 4/4
Julian of Norwich - Revelations of Divine Love (long text) 3/4
Margery Kempe - The Book of Margery Kempe (nutter) 4/4
William Langland - The Vision of Piers Plowman 2/4
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (by the elusive 'pearl poet') 4/5
Mankind 4/4
TUDOR
Aemelia Lanyer - selections from Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum 3/4
John Lyly - Gallathea 4/4
Spenser - The Faerie Queene 3/4
Sidney - Astrophil and Stella 3/3
Marlowe - Dr Faustus 2/3
Marlowe - The Jew of Malta 2/4
Sir Thomas More - Utopia 3/2
Shakespeare - A Midsummer Night's Dream 4/5
Shakespeare - Richard III 3/2
Thomas Wyatt - various poems 2/2
17th CENTURY
John Donne - various poems 5/5
Ben Jonson - various poems 3/3
Ben Jonson - Volpone 4/4
John Webster - The Duchess of Malfi 4/4
Margaret Cavendish - The Blazing World 3/5
Marvell - various poems 2/3
John Milton - Paradise Lost 2/4
Milton - Lycidas 1/3
Milton - Aeropagitica 2/3
-------------THE GREAT LISTWALL DIVIDE--------------------
18th CENTURY
Daniel Defoe - Moll Flanders 3/5
Samuel Richardson - Pamela 2/5
Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels 4/2
Samuel Johnson - Rasselas 4/4
Gray - various poems 2/3
ROMANTICS
Mary Wollstonecraft - Vindication of the Rights of Women (is this a 'Romantic text'?) 4/5
Blake - The Marriage of Heaven and Hell 4/4
Wordsworth - various poems 2/3
John Keats - various poems 2/2
Mary Shelley - Frankenstein 4/5
19th CENTURY
Herman Melville - Moby Dick 3/5
George Eliot - Middlemarch 5/5
Emily Dickenson - various poems 4/3
Henry James - The Portrait of a Lady 5/5
Mark Twain - Huckleberry Finn 4/4
Oscar Wilde - The Importance of Being Earnest 5/5
MODERNIST
Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness (technically Victorian?) 3/4
Virginia Woolf - Mrs Dalloway 5/5
Gertrude Stein - Tender Buttons 2/4
George Bernard Shaw - Major Barbara 4/2
James Joyce - Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 3/3
TS Eliot - various poems (incl. The Wasteland) 3/3
WB Yeats - various poems 4/3
YEAH WHATEVER
Arthur Miller - Death of a Salesman 4/5
Samuel Beckett - Waiting for Godot 5/5
Tennessee WIlliams - Streetcar Named Desire 5/5
Ralph Ellison - Invisible Man 5/5
Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart 3/4
Salman Rushdie - Shame 5/5
Anne Carson - Autobiography of Red 5/5
60 textual units. 60!
I'll grade them on how much I liked them / how useful they are (so, like, 4/2, for example)
OLD ENGLISH
Aelfric - The Life of St Edmund 5/5
Beowulf 4/5
Old English Short Narrative Poems (The Wanderer, the Wife's Lament, the Dream of the Rood, the Seafarer) 3/5
MEDIEVAL
Selections from The York Plays 3/4
The Book of John Mandeville 2/2
Chaucer - The Canterbury Tales (well, the good parts) 4/4
Julian of Norwich - Revelations of Divine Love (long text) 3/4
Margery Kempe - The Book of Margery Kempe (nutter) 4/4
William Langland - The Vision of Piers Plowman 2/4
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (by the elusive 'pearl poet') 4/5
Mankind 4/4
TUDOR
Aemelia Lanyer - selections from Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum 3/4
John Lyly - Gallathea 4/4
Spenser - The Faerie Queene 3/4
Sidney - Astrophil and Stella 3/3
Marlowe - Dr Faustus 2/3
Marlowe - The Jew of Malta 2/4
Sir Thomas More - Utopia 3/2
Shakespeare - A Midsummer Night's Dream 4/5
Shakespeare - Richard III 3/2
Thomas Wyatt - various poems 2/2
17th CENTURY
John Donne - various poems 5/5
Ben Jonson - various poems 3/3
Ben Jonson - Volpone 4/4
John Webster - The Duchess of Malfi 4/4
Margaret Cavendish - The Blazing World 3/5
Marvell - various poems 2/3
John Milton - Paradise Lost 2/4
Milton - Lycidas 1/3
Milton - Aeropagitica 2/3
-------------THE GREAT LISTWALL DIVIDE--------------------
18th CENTURY
Daniel Defoe - Moll Flanders 3/5
Samuel Richardson - Pamela 2/5
Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels 4/2
Samuel Johnson - Rasselas 4/4
Gray - various poems 2/3
ROMANTICS
Mary Wollstonecraft - Vindication of the Rights of Women (is this a 'Romantic text'?) 4/5
Blake - The Marriage of Heaven and Hell 4/4
Wordsworth - various poems 2/3
John Keats - various poems 2/2
Mary Shelley - Frankenstein 4/5
19th CENTURY
Herman Melville - Moby Dick 3/5
George Eliot - Middlemarch 5/5
Emily Dickenson - various poems 4/3
Henry James - The Portrait of a Lady 5/5
Mark Twain - Huckleberry Finn 4/4
Oscar Wilde - The Importance of Being Earnest 5/5
MODERNIST
Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness (technically Victorian?) 3/4
Virginia Woolf - Mrs Dalloway 5/5
Gertrude Stein - Tender Buttons 2/4
George Bernard Shaw - Major Barbara 4/2
James Joyce - Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 3/3
TS Eliot - various poems (incl. The Wasteland) 3/3
WB Yeats - various poems 4/3
YEAH WHATEVER
Arthur Miller - Death of a Salesman 4/5
Samuel Beckett - Waiting for Godot 5/5
Tennessee WIlliams - Streetcar Named Desire 5/5
Ralph Ellison - Invisible Man 5/5
Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart 3/4
Salman Rushdie - Shame 5/5
Anne Carson - Autobiography of Red 5/5
60 textual units. 60!