British Literature II PCM Reading List

Associate Adjunct Professor Becky Villarreal

The Victorian Period | The Twentieth Century Moderns

from The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 8th edition, Package 2 or 7th edition, Volume 2

The Romantic Period (1785-1830) :

Introduction to the Romantic Period

William Blake (1757-1827) : "To Autumn"; from Songs of Innocence: "The Lamb"; "The Little Black Boy"; "The Chimney Sweeper"; "The Tyger"; " "The Garden of Love"; "London"; "I asked a thief" (audio)

Robert Burns (1759-1796) : "To a Mouse"; "A Red, Red Rose"

Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) A Vindication of the Rights of Woman"

William Wordsworth (1770-1850) "Strange fits of passion have I known"; "She Dwelt among the untrodden ways"; "Three years she grew"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) : "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"; "Kubla Khan"

George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824) "She walks in beauty"; "When we two parted"

P. B. Shelley (1792-1822) : "Ode to the West Wind"

John Keats (1795-1821) : "When I have fears that I may cease to be"; "Ode on a Grecian Urn;" "Ode to a Nightingale"; "To Autumn" ; "La Belle Dame Sans Merci"

Jane Austen (1775-1817) : Sense and Sensibility (you might want to buy the book!)

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851): Frankenstein

Victorian Age (1830–1901)

Introduction to the Victorian Age

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) : "The Cry of the Children"; "Aurora Leigh"; "How do I Love Thee"

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) : "Mariana"; "Ulysses" (audio); "The Woman's Cause is Man's"

Charles Dickens (1812-1870) : "A Visit to Newgate"

Robert Browning (1812-1889) : "Porphyria's Lover"; "My Last Duchess"; "The Bishop Orders His Tomb"

Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) "Song"; "After Death"; "An Apple-Gathering"

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) "God's Grandeur"; "Spring"; "Pied Beauty"; "Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord"

Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) : "Jabberwocky"; "The White Knight's Song"; "The Walrus and the Carpenter"

Modernism and Post-Modernism (20th Century)

Introduction to the Twentienth Century and After

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)"Down by the Salley Gardens" (audio); "When You are Old"; "Leda and the Swan"

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) "A Room of One's Own"

James Joyce (1882-1941) "Araby"

D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930): "Love on the Farm"; "Piano"; "The Snake"; "The Horse Dealer's Daughter"

W. H. Auden (1907-1973) "Musee des Beux Arts" (audio); "Lullaby"; "In Memory of Yeats"; "The Shield of Achilles"

Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) "The Hunchback in the Park"; "Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night" (audio)

Doris Lessing (b. 1919) "To Room Nineteen"

Derek Walcott (b. 1930) : "A Far Cry from Africa"; "the Glory Trumpeter" (audio #4); "Midsummer"; "A Lesson for this Sunday" (audio)

  

William Blake 

Mary Wollstonecraft

 
Jane Austen
  
 
Emily Bronte
 

Robert Browning
Charles Dickens

George Eliot
D. H. Lawrence
  
Oscar Wilde
 

Virginia Woolf
Derek Walcott

Note: All readings are required and will be covered in the quizzes, bulletin board assignments, and Midterm Exam.

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Created by Becky Villarreal, Austin Community College 2003