English 244 - Survey of English Literature II
Reading List

INSTRUCTOR:
Dianne M. Daily
Associate Professor of English
Humanities and Social Sciences Division
Northern Virginia Community College
Alexandria Campus
OFFICE:
Room 252 - Bisdorf Building
(703) 933-3973
Office Hours: On Main Page

Contact Information: On Main Page


READINGS:
ALWAYS READ INTRODUCTIONS TO THE PERIOD, AUTHOR, and WORK
Specific Assignments and Due Dates Will be Discussed in Class

THE ROMANTIC PERIOD (1785-1830)

  • William Blake
    • Songs of Innocence and of Experience
    • The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
  • William Wordsworth
    • Lyrical Ballads - Selections
    • Preface to Lyrical Ballads
    • Lucy Poems
    • The Ruined Cottage
    • Ode: Intimations of Immortality
    • Sonnets
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    • Rime of the Ancient Mariner
    • Kubla Khan
    • Christabel
    • Dejection: An Ode
  • George Gordon, Lord Byron
    • She Walks in Beauty
    • Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
    • Don Juan
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley
    • Ozimandias
    • Ode to the West Wind
    • The Cloud
    • To a Skylark
    • Prometheus Unbound
    • A Defence of Poetry
  • John Keats
    • The Eve of St. Agnes
    • La Belle Dame sans Merci
    • Ode to a Nightingale
    • Ode on a Grecian Urn
    • Ode on Melancholy
  • Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice
  • Mary Wollstonecraft - Vindication of the Rights of Women - Selections
  • Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus

THE VICTORIAN AGE (1830-1901)

  • Alfred, Lord Tennyson
    • The Lady of Shallot
    • Ulysses
    • In Memoriam A.H.H. - Selections
  • Robert Browning
    • My Last Duchess
    • Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came
  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    • The Cry of the Children
    • To George Sand: A Recognition
    • Sonnets from the Portuguese
    • Aurora Leigh
  • Matthew Arnold
    • The Buried Life
    • The Scholar Gypsy
    • Dover Beach
  • Christina Rossetti
    • Song ("When I am dead, my dearest")
    • Goblin Market
  • Algernon Charles Swinburne
    • The Garden of Proserpine
    • Ave Atque Vale
  • Gerard Manley Hopkins
    • God's Grandeur
    • The Starlight Night
    • Spring
    • Pied Beauty
    • Spring and Fall [Carrion Comfort]

THE NINETIES

  • Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray - intro
  • Bernard Shaw - Mrs. Warren's Profession

THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

  • William Butler Yeats
    • When you are Old
    • The Wild Swans at Coole
    • Easter 1916
    • The Second Coming
    • Sailing to Byzantium
    • Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop
  • Virginia Woolf - A Room of One's Own
  • James Joyce
    • Araby
    • The Dead
  • D.H. Lawrence - Odor of Chrysanthemums
  • Katherine Mansfield - The Daughers of the Late Colonel
  • Dylan Thomas
    • Fern Hill
    • Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night


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