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When I take an English Literature class, what books can I expect to read?
Which British authors are usually covered in a college level literature class? In a college level literature class, will I read books I have already covered in high school?
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A general survey of English literature will generally start with Beowulf or Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, which are likely to have been on many High School reading lists. Chaucer's Cantebury Tales may be next, and you may actually ge to read the notorius "Miller's Tale" in college, while I'm not sure how many HS teachers tackle that one.
You may not read many entire books, but study excerpts in order to familiarize you with the style and development of each author, to show thei unique contribtutions to writing. I hope that you find as much enjoyment from studying the great authors as I have, as I have read several books by each author below, and in many cases I have read all of their works. Then again, I am old and have many years of reading behind me.
If you are covering novels, poetry, and short stories, the list will get rather long, but here is a sample of what you might see:
William Shakespear: Plays and sonnets
William Blake: Poetry (Peoms of Antithesis)
John Milton: Poetry
Alexander Pope Poetry (great chain of being concept)
John Donne: Poetry
Shelley, Keats, Byron (Ozymandius, Ode to a Grecian Urn, She Walks in Beauty)
Samuel Johnson
Christopher Marlowe
Ben Jonson
Philp Sindey
Edmund Spenser
John Locke
John Bunyan
Johnathan Swift
Henry Fielding
Ann Radcliff
William Wordsworth
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Mary Shelley
Sir Walter Scott
Jane Austen
Charles Dickens
Emily Bronte
Anne Bronte
Alfred Tenyson
Robert Browning
Elizabeth Barret Browning
Lewis Carroll
Robert Louis Stevenson
Joseph Conrad
You may not read many entire books, but study excerpts in order to familiarize you with the style and development of each author, to show thei unique contribtutions to writing. I hope that you find as much enjoyment from studying the great authors as I have, as I have read several books by each author below, and in many cases I have read all of their works. Then again, I am old and have many years of reading behind me.
If you are covering novels, poetry, and short stories, the list will get rather long, but here is a sample of what you might see:
William Shakespear: Plays and sonnets
William Blake: Poetry (Peoms of Antithesis)
John Milton: Poetry
Alexander Pope Poetry (great chain of being concept)
John Donne: Poetry
Shelley, Keats, Byron (Ozymandius, Ode to a Grecian Urn, She Walks in Beauty)
Samuel Johnson
Christopher Marlowe
Ben Jonson
Philp Sindey
Edmund Spenser
John Locke
John Bunyan
Johnathan Swift
Henry Fielding
Ann Radcliff
William Wordsworth
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Mary Shelley
Sir Walter Scott
Jane Austen
Charles Dickens
Emily Bronte
Anne Bronte
Alfred Tenyson
Robert Browning
Elizabeth Barret Browning
Lewis Carroll
Robert Louis Stevenson
Joseph Conrad
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