COMPULSORY READING LIST

FOR THE SECOND YEAR STUDENTS

IN BRITISH LITERATURE

POETRY II/3.

I. The Anglo-Saxons

1. Beowulf2. The Seafarer3. The Wanderer4. Judith5. Caedmon’s Hymn6. The Dream of the Rood

II. The Middle Ages

7. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight8. G. Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales9. Lord Randall10. Edward, Edward11. Get up and Bar the Door12. Robin Hood13. The Cockoo Song14. Seperated Lovers15. The Piers Plowman

III. The Renaissance

17. Sir Thomas Wyatt: Whoso List to HuntThey Flee from Me

18. Edmund Spenser: Amoretti: Sonnets 30 and 75The Faerie Queene

19. W. Shakespeare: Sonnets20. Christopher Marlowe: The Passionate Shepherd to His Love21. Sir Walter Raleigh: The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd22. Robert Herrick: To the Virgins to Make Much of Time23. Andrew Marvell: To His Coy Mistress24. John Donne: Song

Valediction: Forbidding MourningDeath Be Not Proud

25. Ben Jonson: On My First SonTo Celia

26. Sir John Suckling: Why So Pale and Wan, Fond Lover?27. Richard Lovelace: To Lucasta on Going to the Wars

To Althea, from Prison28. John Milton: Paradise Lost29. The King James’ Bible: Psalms

IV. Restoration and the 18th Century

30. Alexander Pope: The Rape of the Lock31. O. Goldsmith: The Deserted Village32. Thomas Gray: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

V. Romanticism

33. Robert Burns: To a Mouse, To a LouseThe Cotters Saturday Night

34. William Blake: The Chimney SweeperThe Black BoyThe Sick RoseThe TygerThe LambThe Poison Tree

35. William Wordsworth: Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern AbbeyShe Dwelt among Untrodden WaysTo a SkylarkThe DaffodilsComposed upon Westminster BridgeThe World is Too Much with Us

36. Samuel Taylor Coleridge:The Rime of the Ancient MarinerThis Lime Tree Bower My PrisonKubla Khan

37. George Gordon Lord Byron: The Destruction of SennacheribShe Walks is BeautyDon JuanChilde Harold’s Pilgrimage

38. Percy Bysshe Shelley: OzymandiasOde to the West WindTo a Skylark

39. John Keats: Ode to a NightingaleOde on a Grecian UrnOn First Looking into Chapman’s HomerLa Belle Dame Sans Merci

VI. The Victorian Period

40. Alfred Lord Tennyson: Tears, Idle TearsThe Eagle. A FragmentFlower in the Crannied WallThe Lady of ShalottIn Memoriam A.H.H.UlyssesCrossing the BarIdylls of the King

41. Robert Browning: My Last DuchessPorphyria’s Lover

42. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Sonnet 4343. Gerard Manley Hopkins: Spring and Fall: To a Young Child

Pied Beauty

44. Matthew Arnold: Dover Beach45. Thomas Hardy: The Darkling Thrush

Channel FiringAh, Are You Digging on My Grave?

46. Alfred Edward Housman: When I was one-and-twentyTo and Athlete Dying YoungIs My Team Ploughing?

47. Rudyard Kipling: If - by heart

VII. The Twentieth Century

48. Siegfried Sassoon: The Rear Guard49. Wilfred Owen: Dulce Et Decorum Est50. Thomas Sterns Eliot: Preludes

The Hollow MenThe Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock

51. Ted Hughes: Hawk Roosting52. William Butler Yeats: The Lake Isle of Innisfree

The Wild Swans at Coole53. Dylam Thomas: Fern Hill

Do not Go Gentle into That Good Night54. Margaret Ashwood: Mushrooms55. Rita Dove: Sisters56. Stevie Smith: Not Waving but Drowning57. Wysten Hugh Auden: Musee des Beaux Arts

The Unknown Citizen58. Seamus Heaney: Digging59. Derek Walcot: The Virgins60. Maurice Kenny: Going Home61. Wole Soyinka: Telephone Conversation