English Department
Tamkang University
Reading List for MA Students in English
Nineteenth Century English Literature
Harold Bloom, The Visionary Company
William Blake
Poetical Sketches
“How sweet I roam’d from field to field”
“Mad Song”
“To Spring”
“To Summer”
“To Autumn”
“To Winter”
“To Morning”
“To the Evening Star”
“To the Muses”
Songs of Innocence
Introduction to Songs of Innocence
“The Chimney Sweeper”
“The Divine Image”
“The Ecchoing Green”
“The Holy Thursday”
“The Lamb”
“The Little Black Boy”
“The Shepherd”
Songs of Experience
Introduction to Songs of Experience
“Ah, Sun-flower”
“The Chimney Sweeper”
“Earth’s Answer”
“The Holy Thursday”
“The Human Abstract”
“London”
“The Sick Rose”
“To Tirzah
“The Tyger”
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Auguries of Innocence
The Book of Ahania
The Book of Thel
The Book of Urizen
“The Crystal Cabinet”
Vala, The Four Zoas
The Ghost of Abel
Jerusalem
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
“The Mental Traveller”
“Milton, a Poem”
“My Spectre around Me Night & Day”
Visions of the Daughters of Albion
Robert Burns
“Green grows the rashes”
“To a Mouse”
“To a Louse”
“Auld Lang Syne”
“Tam o’Shanter: A Tale”
“A Red, Red Rose”
Mary Wollstonecraft
“A Vindication of the Rights of Women”
William Wordsworth
Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1802)
Lyrical Ballads & Lucy poems
“Lucy Gray”
“Michael”
“Nutting”
“The Old Cumberland Beggar”
“Tintern Abbey”
“The Nightingale : A Conversation Poem” (by S. T. Coleridge)
The Prelude, or Growth of a Poet’s Mind (on Norton)
“Animal Tranquility and Decay”
“The Borderers”
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“The Excursion”
“Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg”
“Laodamia”
“Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood”
“Ode to Duty”
“Peele Castle” (Elegiac Stanzas)
“Peter Bell”
“Resolution and Independence”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
“Kubla Khan”
Biographia Literaria
Anima Poetae
Christabel
“Dejection: An Ode”
“The Eolian Harp”
“France, An Ode”
“Frost at Midnight”
“Limbo”
“Ne Plus Ultra”
“To Nature”
“To William Wordsworth”
Charles Lamb
“A Letter to Wordsworth”
“The Two Races of Men”
Thomas De Quincey
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
George Gordon, Lord Byron
Poems
“She Walks in Beauty”
“I watched thee when the foe was at our side”
“Ode to a Lady”
“On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year”
“Stanzas to the Po”
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Manfred
Don Juan
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
Percy Bysshe Shelley
“Mont Blanc”
“Ozymandias”
“Ode to the West Wind”
Prometheus Unbound
“To a Sky-Lark”
A Defense of Poetry
Adonais
Alastor
The Cenci
Epipsychidion
“Hymn to Intellectual Beauty”
“Lines Written in the Bay of Lerici”
“Oh! There are spirits of the air”
Peter Bell the Third
The Sensitive Plant
“To Wordsworth”
The Triumph of Life
“The Two Spirits: An Allegory”
“When the Lamp Is Shattered”
The Witch of Atlas
“The Zucca”
John Keats
Endymion
“Bright Star”
“La Belle Dame sans Merci”
“Ode to a Nightingale”
“Ode to a Grecian Urn”
“Ode on Melancholy”
Lamia
“To Autumn”
“Ode on Indolence”
“Ode to Psyche”
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“To Autumn”
The Eve of St. Agnes
Sleep and Poetry
Thomas Carlyle
Sartor Resartus
John Stuart Mill
“What Is Poetry?”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
“The Lady of Shalott”
“The Lotos-Eaters”
“Ulysses”
“Tithonus”
“Break, Break, Break”
From In Memoriam A. H. H.
“The Charge of the Light Brigade”
“The Coming of Arthur”
“The Passing of Arthur”
“Crossing the Bar”
Charles Dickens
Great Expectations (1861)
Our Mutual Friend (1865)
Robert Browning
“Porphyria’s Lover”
“Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister”
“My Last Duchess”
“A Tocca of Galuppi’s”
“Love among the Ruins”
“Fra Lippo Lippi”
“An Epistle Containing the Strange Medical Experience of Karshish, the Arab
Physician”
Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre (1847)
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Emily Brontë
Wuthering Heights (1847)
John Ruskin
Modern Painters
George Eliot
The Mill on the Floss (1860)
Matthew Arnold
“The Forsaken Mermaid”
“The Buried Life”
“The Scholar Gypsy”
“Dover Beach”
From The Function of Criticism at Present Time
Culture and Anarchy (Norton)
Gerard Manley Hopkins
“God’s Grandeur”
“The Starlight Night”
“Spring”
“The Windhover”
“Pied Beauty”
Oscar Wilde
The Importance of Being Earnest
Bernard Shaw
Mrs. Warren’s Profession (1893)
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