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Faculty Committee
Julie Carlson, Alan Liu, Kay Young
Reading List
It is assumed that students taking the first qualifying examination
in the Romantics and Victorian field will be familiar not
only with the following primary texts but also with the principal
critical and interpretive issues concerning these texts and
the period at large. Students are thus encouraged to read
widely in the relevant secondary literature. Selections marked
by an asterisk (*) must be read
in the sixth edition of the Norton Anthology of English
Literature. Those marked with a cross (+)
can be found in a booklet available for purchase at the desk
of the Staff Graduate Adviser.
Romantic
Romantic Poets and Dramatists
William Blake
- Songs of Innocence and of Experience
- America, a Prophecy or Europe, a Prophecy
- (Note: While it is appropriate to concentrate on the texts
of Blake's poems, some familiarity with the "illuminated"
or illustrated versions is necessary)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- "Eolian Harp," "Fears in Solitude," "France: An Ode,"
"Frost at Midnight," "This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison," "Rime
of the Ancient Mariner," "Kubla Khan," "Christabel," "Dejection:
An Ode," "Ne Plus Ultra"
- Biographia Literaria, chaps. 1-4; 13-19
William Wordsworth
- from Lyrical Ballads: "Simon Lee," "We Are Seven,"
"The Thorn," "The Last of the Flock," "The Idiot Boy," "Expostulation
and Reply," "The Tables Turned," "Tintern Abbey," "The Brothers,"
the "Lucy" poems ("Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known,"
"A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal," "Song: She Dwelt Among the
Untrodden Ways," "Three Years She Dwelt in Sun and Shower"),
"Lucy Gray," "Poor Susan" "The Two April Mornings," "Nutting,"
"The Old Cumberland Beggar," "Michael" Preface to Lyrical
Ballads (1802 version)
- "Resolution and Independence," "Composed Upon Westminster
Bridge," "Immortality Ode," "The Solitary Reaper," "Ode
to Duty" "Elegiac Stanzas," "Surprized By Joy"
- The Prelude (1805 version)
Dorothy Wordsworth
- From The Grasmere Journal (+)
Percy Bysshe Shelley
- "Mont Blanc," "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty"
- "Stanzas written in Dejection--December 1818, Near Naples,"
"Ode to the West Wind"
- "Lift Not the Painted Veil"
- "Adonais"
- "The Triumph of Life"
- A Defence of Poetry
- The Cenci
John Keats
- "On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer," "Sleep and Poetry,"
"Eve of St. Agnes," "La Belle Dame sans Merci," "Ode to
Psyche," "Ode to a Nightingale," "Ode on a Grecian Urn,"
"Ode on Melancholy," "Ode on Indolence," "Lamia," "To Autumn,"
The Fall of Hyperion
- Selected letters in Norton Anthology (*)
George Gordon, Lord Byron
- "She Walks in Beauty"
- "Oh! Snatch'd Away in Beauty's Bloom"
- Don Juan
Felicia Hemans
- "The Lady of the Castle, "The Graves of a Household,"
"To the Poet Wordsworth," "The Homes of England," "Stanzas
to the Memory of the Late King" (reader) (+)
Joanna Baillie
Charlotte Turner Smith
- Sonnet I ("The partial Muse has from my earliest hours"),
Sonnet XLIV ("Written in the churchyard at Middleton in
Susses"), Sonnet XLVII ("To fancy"), Sonnet LVII ("To dependence"),
Sonnet LIX ("Written September 1791, during a remarkable
thunder storm, in which the moon was perfectly clear, while
the tempest gathered in various directions near the earth")
(+)
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
- "Sappho's Song," "The Proud Ladye, "Love's Last Lesson,"
"The Lost Pleiad" (+)
John Clare
- Poems in Norton Anthology(*) ("Mouse's Nest," "I Am,"
"Clock a Clay," "Song [I Peeled Bits of Straw]," "Song [Secret
Love]," "An Invite to Eternity," "A Vision"); plus "To the
Snipe," "Remembrances," "Autumn," "The Peasant Poet" (reader)
(+)
Romantic Novelists
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Jane Austen, Emma
Sir Walter Scott, Waverley
Romantic Prose
Mary Wollstonecraft
Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Introduction and Chaps.
1-4, 9, 12-13
William Hazlitt
"Character of Mr. Burke," "Self-Love and Benevolence," "My
First Acquaintance with Poets," "On Gusto," "On Poetry in
General," "Shakespeare," "Macbeth," "Othello,"
"Coriolanus"
Edmund Burke
Reflections on the Revolution in France (+)
Victorian
Novels
William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair
Emily Brontė, Wuthering Heights
Charlotte Brontė, Jane Eyre
Charles Dickens, Bleak House
Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Barton
George Eliot, Middlemarch
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
Joseph Conrad, "Preface" to The Nigger of the 'Narcissus',
Heart of Darkness
Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Olive Schreiner, Story of an Aftican Farm
Poets
Alfred Tennyson
- In Memoriam A.H.H.
- "The Lady of Shalott"
- "The Lotus-Eaters"
- "Ulysses"
- "Tithonus"
- "The Passing of Arthur" from Idylls of the King
- "Locksley Hall"
- "The Charge of the Light Brigade"
Robert Browning
- "My Last Duchess"
- "The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church"
- "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came"
- "Fra Lippo Lippi"
- "Porphyria's Lover"
- "Youth and Art"
- "Caliban upon Setebos"
Matthew Arnold
- "In Harmony with Nature"
- "The Forsaken Merman"
- "The Buried Life"
- "Philomela"
- "The Scholar Gypsy"
- "Dover Beach"
- "Stanzas from the Grand Chartreuse"
- "Thyrsis"
George Meredith
Emily Brontė
- "I'm happiest When Most Away"
- "The Night Wind"
- "The Prisoner. A Fragment"
- "No Coward Soul is Mine"
- "Remembrance"
- "Stars"
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- "The Blessed Damozel"
- "The Sonnet,"
- "Lovesight," and "The One Hope" from The House of Life
Christina Rossetti
- "After Death"
- "A Triad"
- "In an Artist's Studio"
- "Goblin Market"
- "Winter: My Secret"
- "Cardinal Newman"
- "Sleeping at Last"
Elisabeth Barrett Browning
- Aurora Leigh, selections (*)
William Morris
- "The Defense of Guenevere"
Algernon Charles Swinburne
- "I Will Go Back to the Great Sweet Mother"
- "Hymn to Proserpine"
Gerard Manley Hopkins
- "God's Grandeur"
- "The Windhover"
- "Pied Beauty"
- "Spring and Fall"
- "Felix Randal"
- "Carrion Comfort"
- "Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord"
- Wreck of the Deutschland
Victorian Prose
- Harriet Martineau, Autobiography
- George Eliot, "Margaret Fuller and Mary Wollstonecraft"
- Thomas Carlyle, "Characteristics"(*); from Past and
Present: "Democracy"(*) and "Captains of Industry"(*)
- John Henry Cardinal Newman, The Idea of a University
(*) and Apologia Pro Vita Sua (*)
- John Stuart Mill, "What is Poetry?", On Liberty
(from Chap. 3) (*), The Subjection of Women (from
Chap. 1) (*), Autobiography (from Chap. 5) (*)
- John Ruskin, "The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century"
- Eliza Lynn Linton, "The Girl of the Period" (+)
- Francisw Power Cobbe, "What Shall We Do with Our Old Maids"
(+)
- Matthew Arnold, from "The Function of Criticism at the
Present Time" (*), Culture and Anarchy (from Chaps.
1, 2, 5) (*), from "The Study of Poetry" (*)
- Walter Pater, from The Renaissance (*): Preface,
"La Giocanda," Conclusion
- Charles Darwin, Selections from The Descent of Man
and On the Origin of Species (+)
last revised 6/99 |
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