Lecture topics; course & seminar bibliography

Anglo-Saxon Poetry: Beowulf; Deors Lament; The Wanderer; The Seafarer

Geoffrey Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales
William Shakespeare. Sonnets
John Donne. The Sun Rises, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, Holy Sonnets
John Milton. Paradise Lost
Alexander Pope. Essay on Man; Essay on Criticism; The Dunciad
William Blake. Songs of Innocence; Songs of Experience
William Wordsworth. The Prelude, Intimations of immortality, I wandered
lonely as a cloud, My heart leaps up
S. T. Coleridge. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Frost at Midnight
George Gordon Byron. Childe Harold, Don Juan
Percy Bysshe Shelley. Ode to Intellectual Beauty, Mont Blanc, Ode to the West
Wind, Song to the Men of England
John Keats. Ode to a Grecian Urn, To Autumn
Alfred Tennyson: The Lady of Shalott, The Splendour Falls, In Memoriam
W. B. Yeats: The Two Trees, Adams Curse, The Second Coming, Sailing to
Byzantium, Leda and the Swan
T. S. Eliot: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Gerontion, The Waste Land,
The Hollow Men, Little Gidding
Philip Larkin: Church Going, Lines on a Young Ladys Photograph Album, An
Arundel Tomb

Critical bibliography
The New Pelican Guide to English Literature
The Penguin History of English Literature
The Oxford History of English Literature
The Cambridge Companion to English Literature
Austin, Frances, The Language of the Metaphysical Poets (Basingstake, 1992).
Baron, Michael, Language and Relationships in Wordsworths Writing (London,
1995).
Beer, John, Coleridges Poetic Intelligence (London, 1977).
Danielson, Dennis, The Cambridge Companion to Milton (Cambridge, 1989).
Godde, Malcolm, Lapidge, Michael (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Old
English Literature (Cambridge, 1991).
Muir, Kenneth, Shakespares Sonnets (London, 1979).
Roe, Nicholas (ed.), Keats and History (Cambridge, 1995).
Sanders, Andrew. The Short Oxford History of English Literature
Watson, J. R., English Poetry of the Romantic Period 1789-1830 (London,
1992).
Ackroyd, Peter, T.S. Eliot (London, 1984)
Corcoran, Neil, English Poetry since 1940 (London, 1993)
Macrae, Alasdair, W. B. Yeats: A Literary Life (London, 1995)
Martin, R. B., Tennyson: the Inquiet Heart (Oxford, 1980).
Sanders, Andrew. The Short Oxford History of English Literature
Sinfield, Alan, Literature, Politics and Culture in Postwar Britain (London,
1989)
Spender, Stephen, The Struggle of the Modern (London, 1963)
Vansittart, Peter, In the Fifties (London, 1995)
Waugh, Patricia, Harvest of the Sixties: English Literature and its Background
1960-1990 (Oxford, 1995)