Introduction to Literary Studies
List of works to choose from for the Oral Presentation
Poems
Sir Thomas Wyatt: ‘The Long Love That in My Thought
Doth Harbour’; ‘Farewell, Love’
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey: ‘Love, That Doth Reign
and Live Within My Thought’; ‘The Soote Season’
Sir Philip Sidney: ‘Astrophil and Stella’ 1, 39
Edmund Spenser: ‘Amoretti’ 75
William Shakespeare: Sonnets 60, 129
John Donne: ‘The Flea’
Ben Jonson: ‘Song to Celia’
Robert Herrick: ‘To the Virgins, to Make Much of
Time’; ‘To Daffadils’
Andrew Marvell: ‘To his Coy Mistress’
Thomas Gray: ‘Elegy Written in Country Churchyard’
William Blake: ‘Infant Joy’, ‘Infant Sorrow’, ‘Holy
Thursday’
William Wordsworth: ‘Lines Composed a Few Miles
above Tintern Abbey on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye
during a Tour’, ‘To the Cuckoo’, ‘The Solitary Reaper’,
‘A Night-Piece’
Samuel Taylor Colerdige: ‘Kubla Khan’, ‘The Rime of
the Ancient Mariner’, ‘Frost at Midnight’.
Lord Byron: ‘The Vision of Judgement’
Percy Bysshe Shelley: ‘Ozymandias’, ‘Ode to the West
Wind’, ‘To a Skylark’
John Keats: ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’, ‘On First Looking
into Chapman’s Homer’, ‘Ode to a Nightingale’
Alfred Lord Tennyson: ‘Ulysses, ‘The Lotos-Eaters’.
Robert Browning: ‘Love Among the Ruins’
Thomas Hardy: ‘Hap’, ‘The Convergence of the Twain’,
‘Neutral Tones’, ‘The Self-Unseeing’, ‘At Castle
Boterel’.
William Butler Yeats: ‘Leda and the Swan’, ‘Easter
1916’, ‘Byzantium’, ‘The Lake Isle of Innisfree’, ‘The
Wild Swans at Coole’, ‘The Second Coming’, ‘No
Second Troy’; ‘Among School Children’; ‘The Tower’;
‘Meditations in Time of Civil War’; ‘The Circus
Animals’ Desertion’
T. S. Eliot: ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’, ‘The
Waste Land’
W. H. Auden: ‘A Summer Night’, ‘In Memory of
William Butler Yeats’
Louis MacNeice: ‘The Sunlight on the Garden’,
‘Carrickfergus’; ‘Belfast’
Dylan Thomas: ‘Poem in October’, ‘Fern Hill’
Philip Larkin: ‘To my Wife’, ‘The Importance of
Elsewhere’, ‘Mr. Bleaney’, ‘Church-going’
Ted Hughes: ‘Crow’s First Lesson’
Seamus Heaney: ‘Digging’, ‘Bogland’, ‘The Tollund
Man’, ‘Bog Queen’, ‘The Grauballe Man’, ‘Punishment’,
‘Kinship’, ‘Casualty’, ‘Tollund’
Michael Longley: ‘Peace’, ‘Swans Mating’, ‘Wounds’,
‘The West’, ‘Landscape’
Derek Mahon: ‘The Snow Party’, ‘A Disused Shed in
Co. Wexford’, ‘A Postcard from Berlin’, ‘Glengormley’,
‘Afterlives’; ‘Spring in Belfast’
John Montague: ‘Like Dolmens Round My Childhood’;
‘A Lost Tradition’; ‘A Grafted Tongue’, ‘The Cage’; ‘The
Water Carrier’
Brendan Kennelly: ‘Dublin: A Portrait’; ‘My Dark
Fathers’; ‘The Celtic Twilight’
Ciaran Carson: ‘Belfast Confetti’; ‘Turn Again’
Tom Paulin: ‘Fivemiletown’; ‘Desertmartin’; ‘In the
Lost Province’
Paul Muldoon: ‘Why Bronwlee Left’; ‘The Electric
People’
Plays
Everyman
Thomas Kyd: The Spanish Tragedy
Christopher Marlowe: Doctor Faustus
Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Shakespeare: Much Ado About Nothing
Shakespeare: The Taming of the Shrew
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Shakespeare: Othello
Shakespeare: Richard III
Shakespeare: King Lear
Shakespeare: Macbeth
Shakespeare: The Tempest
Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare: Julius Caesar
Shakespeare: The Winter’s Tale
Ben Jonson: Volpone
John Gay: The Beggar’s Opera
G. B. Shaw: Pygmalion
G. B. Shaw: Saint Joan
G. B. Shaw: Mrs Warren’s Profession
Sean O’Casey: Juno and the Paycock
J. M. Synge: The Playboy of the Western World
W. B. Yeats: The Countess Cathleen
T. S. Eliot: Murder in the Cathedral
T. S. Eliot: The Cocktail Party
Samuel Beckett: Endgame
Harold Pinter: The Caretaker
Tom Stoppard: Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
Tom Stoppard: Dogg’s Hamlet, Cahoot’s Macbeth
Tom Stoppard: Travesties
Brian Friel: Translations
Brian Friel: Making History
Thomas Kilroy: The O’Neill
Tom Murphy: The Gigli Concert
Tom Murphy: The Patriot Game
Stewart Parker: Pentecost
Frank McGuiness: Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching
Towards the Somme
Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman
Eugene O’Neill: Long Day’s Journey into Night
Tenessee Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire
Novels
Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe: Moll Flanders
Jonathan Swift: Gulliver’s Travels
Samuel Richardson: Pamela
Henry Fielding: Tom Jones
Henry Fielding: Joseph Andrews
Laurence Sterne: The Life and Opinions of Tristram
Shandy, Gentleman
Tobias Smollett: Humphry Clinker
Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice
Sir Walter Scott: Ivanhoe
Maria Edgeworth: Castle Rackrent
Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens: Great Expectations
William Makepeace Thackeray: Vanity Fair
Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre
Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights
George Eliot: Midddlemarch
George Eliot: Adam Bede
Thomas Hardy: Tess of the d’Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy: Jude the Obscure
Thomas Hardy: Far from the Madding Crowd
Robert Louis Stevenson: Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll
and Mr Hyde
Rudyard Kipling: Kim
Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Henry James: The Portrait of a Lady
Henry James: The Ambassadors
E. M. Forster: A Passage to India
E. M. Forster: Where Angels Fear to Tread
E. M. Forster: A Room with a View
Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad: Nostromo
James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Virginia Woolf: Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf: Orlando
Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf: The Waves
H. Lawrence: Sons and Lovers
D. H. Lawrence: Women in Love
H. G. Wells: The Time Machine
H. G. Wells: Tono-Bungay
Arnold Bennett: The Old Wives’ Tale
Evelyn Waugh: Brideshead Revisited
Kingsley Amis: Lucky Jim
Alan Sillitoe: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
John Braine: Room at the Top
John Braine: Life at the Top
John Wain: Hurry on Down
Aldous Huxley: Brave New World
George Orwell: Nineteen-Eighty-Four
George Orwell: Animal Farm
Samuel Beckett: Molloy
Samuel Beckett: Malone dies
Samuel Beckett: The Unnamable
Lawrence Durrell: Justine
Lawrence Durrell: Balthazar
Lawrence Durrell: Mountolive
John Fowles: The French Lieutenant’s Woman
John Fowles: The Collector
Doris Lessing: The Grass is Singing
William Golding: Rites of Passage
William Golding: Close Quarters
William Golding: Fire Down Below
William Golding: The Spire
David Lodge: Small World
Malcolm Bradbury: The History Man
B.S. Johnson: The Unfortunates
Kazuo Ishiguro: A Pale view of Hills
Kazuo Ishiguro: An Artist of the Floating World
Kazuo Ishiguro: When We Were Orphans
Salman Rushdie: Midnight’s Children
John Banville: Kepler
John Banville: Birchwood
John Banville: Doctor Copernicus
John Banville: Eclipse
John McGahern: Amongst Women
Colm Tóibín: The Heather Blazing
Colm Tóibín: The Story of the Night
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Colm Tóibín: The Blackwater Lightship
Roddy Doyle: The Commitments
Roddy Doyle: A Star Called Henry
Roddy Doyle: Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
Roddy Doyle: The Woman Who Walked into Doors
Roddy Doyle: The Van
Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter
Hermann Melville: Moby Dick
Mark Twain: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath
Ernest Hemingway: A Farewell to Arms
Jack Kerouac: On the Road
J. D. Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye
F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby