British Literature: Specialty List
1. Everyman and The Second Shepherd’s Play
2. More, Utopia
3. Spenser: The Faerie Queene (Book 1)
4. Cavalier and Metaphysical poets bundle: Jonson, “On My First Daughter,” “On My First
Son,” “Inviting a Friend to Supper,” “To Penshurst,” “Still to Be Neat,” “Ode to
Himself”; Donne, “The Flea,” “The Good-Morrow,” “Go and Catch a Falling Star,” “The
Canonization,” “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning,” “The Ecstasy,” Holy Sonnets # 1,
5, 10, 14, & 18, “Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward”
5. Marlowe, Doctor Faustus
6. Milton, “Areopagitica”
7. Wycherley, The Country Wife
8. Behn, Oroonoko
9. Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress
10. Defoe, Moll Flanders
11. Swift, Gulliver’s Travels
12. Pope, An Essay on Man (Part 1)
13. Sheridan, The School for Scandal
14. Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Chapter 4) and Mill, On Liberty
15. Shelley, Frankenstein
16. Romantic poets bundle: Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell; Coleridge, “Rime of
the Ancient Mariner,” “Kubla Khan,” “Frost at Midnight,” “The Eolean Harp”; Shelley,
“Ode to the West Wind,” Prometheus Unbound (Act 1); Keats, “Ode on a Grecian Urn,”
“Ode to a Nightingale,” “The Eve of St. Agnes,” “La Belle Dame Sans Merci,” “Bright
star, would I were steadfast as thou art,” “On Seeing the Elgin Marbles”
17. Byron, Manfred
18. Bronte, Jane Eyre
19. Elliot, Middlemarch
20. Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
21. Woolf, A Room of One’s Own and Orwell, “Politics and the English Language”
22. 20th-century poetry bundle: Hopkins, “God’s Grandeur,” “The Windhover,” “Pied
Beauty”; Hardy, “The Convergence of the Twain,” “Hap”; Thomas, “Fern Hill,” “Do
Not Go Gentle into that Good Night”; Heaney, “Digging,” “Casualty”; Stevie Smith,
“Not Waving But Drowning,” “Thoughts About the Person from Porlock,” “Our Bog is
Dood”; Larkin, “Church Going,” “The Whitsun Weddings,” “High Windows,”
“Aubade”; Walcott, “A Far Cry from Africa,” “Crusoe’s Island”
23. Munro, The Beggar Maid
24. Martel, The Life of Pi (novel and film)
25. Bennett, The History Boys (play and film)